Yikes. Another injury?

Great day for rooftop deck maintenance (Don't worry. Project 2025 said it was okay.)

*struggling to maintain poker face* www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Every time this stuff happens, my thought process begins to consider what kind of justice will be required in 3 years for these people.

iphone stickers seem to be made for this kind of thing

I don't know how to computer, but Macaulay Culkin getting stung by bees in 'My Girl'

Rose 🌹!

"Internal documents suggest that lay-offs and voluntary early-retirement programmes have already reduced ORD’s 1,600-person staff by one-third." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The best definition of a libertarian I can come up with is one who treats as self-evident many things that are not

Could you imagine something like ethanol subsidies existing if we didn't have the US Senate

When you line them all up, the Trump administration's economic policies are starting to look like a dementia-addled National Industrial Recovery Act

You know, Cato Institute has convinced me. Ezra Klein isn't "liberal" at all. www.cato.org/free-society...

Emmett Otter's Jug-Band Christmas 🤘

My 5 yo was disappointed that I didn't wear a tie for her parent teacher conference today 🙄

This is sad www.popsci.com/environment/...

jfc

Orlando Pride really deserve better fan support. So disappointing.

Oof. Michigan has almost been 4-3, one way or the other. And the swing vote was huge.

Friday Night Shites

This is dumb. Why do I read this crap? lawliberty.org/forum/nondel...

"OPM Director Scott Kupor said in a statement that the questions are optional." 😂 subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Serious question: what incentive do congressional Republicans have to negotiate the end of the shutdown if the Trump administration is just going to keep doing whatever it wants to anyway?

Not that we should frame our policymaking in these terms, but if we really wanted to "out-compete China," we'd drastically reduce economic inequality through progressive taxation, lavishly support education and basic scientific research, rapidly decarbonize our economy, and liberalize immigration.

How great would it be if it's Tuberville who is ultimately responsible for bringing down the filibuster?

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Relatable

“How can I be even louder in my beliefs and in my love?” Ali Riley's career in professional soccer has come to an end, but she's ready to keep using her voice to make the NWSL and women's soccer better. www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...

There is literally one person on earth who is jealous of Orban, and we all know who it is

In the New York Times, @samuelmoyn.bsky.social argues that we need to make congress great again.

The week in review: Matthew Dimick on antitrust and the logic of capitalism, and @gshans.bsky.social on protecting legal clinics from political interference. Plus, the best of LPE from around the web, including new fellowships, reports, interviews, and articles 🧵👇

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

New: I took a closer look at the Supreme Court justices’ financial and familial ties to the oil industry for @prospect.org as Exxon and Suncor are once again asking the Court to shut down state climate liability cases. I found more than I was expecting.

"Knee-jerk leftists got [x] right" is the funniest thing I will ever read

As long as you don't think about what it means, "nutritious livers" is such a beautiful phrase

The Abundance movement's portrayal of progressives is the product of an echo chamber of centrist think tanks with an axe to grind whose big win was persuading pundits to their side as the vehicle to persuade politicians. Abundance suffers from a poverty of good-faith engagement with the critiques.

You absolutely have to hand it to Republicans. Cancelling a shit-ton of flights is a pretty aggressive climate policy.

I'm by no means an expert on these things, but my post mortem on Pelosi's career is that she did the "hard things" really well and memorably biffed on some political layups.

I will say, contrary to how progressives are often portrayed, they have made extraordinarily good faith efforts to engage with the critiques of them by the Abundance movement. For which, no doubt, they will receive no fucking credit whatsoever. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

This is an important case. IMO it's clear that this question violates the civil service law (and raises a constitutional issue under Rutan). “Identify one or two relevant executive orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.” 1/2

Every billionaire is a policy failure. Every trillionaire is treason.

How principled apnews.com/article/trum...

The press: These are challenging times. We must abandon the status quo in search of bold,visionary leadership. New York: *elects Mamdani* The press: Hahaha. No, not like that.

I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

My latest on how the Obamacare subsidies at the center of the government shutdown also impact hospitals' resilience to climate change. www.eenews.net/articles/hos...

Not an Antideficiency Act violation or what? subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

It's Constitutional Crisis Eve. Not Constitutional Crisis Steve.

a man was just found not guilty by jury lollification