I'm picturing Texas Chainsaw Massacre right now

In addition to shame, we need to bring back a little journalistic incredulity

Project 2025 in action

I can't think of a single major policy challenge we face that can be solved without inconvenience to wealthy/powerful people. The one exception seems to be racism, which is worth contemplating.

Katamari is older than I thought

There's no legal or economic justification either. And if they hadn't fired all the career civil service professionals, they'd know that.

Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.

My 9 yo's class has been learning about the Post Office this year and is looking to collect Valentines from all 50 states. These are the states we're missing so far. If you're from one of these states and want to help out, DM me and I'll get you the details. Thanks!

While Libertarians are busy trying to rehabilitate their reputation, bear in mind that they led the charge to repeal the Endangerment Finding

Schedule F has entered the chat

Can't get more "concise general statement" than nonexistent

In case you're wondering why both Congress and conservatives in the judiciary are trying, in their own way, to block citizen suits news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...

Wait til DOGE hears about this www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/c...

58 years later Sidney would have a memorable role in 'Beetlejuice.' Legend.

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis. It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake. The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0 www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

The history books will remember this one

For the Supreme Court, settled expectations are sometimes outcome determinative and sometimes not. Wonder where they'd come down on this one.

A not small portion of the Trump administration's policy agenda rests on "the composition of the Supreme Court is different now" for its main justification. That alone should outrage any constitution-loving American. legal-planet.org/2026/02/12/h...

The really nutty thing is that the entire justification for the revocation is grounded in (a misreading of) law, and has *nothing* to do with science. Beam me up.

So, has anyone out there actually seen the text of the endangerment finding rollback? Because they haven't put it out. And I'm told Zeldin might not even have signed it yet? on Signal at jchemnick.01

Which party wants to step forward with a credible plan for enabling an economy built on dual income households?

Some might call it karma when these dumb lawsuits backfire on the plaitiffs

Almost every day is a reminder that most people do not in fact know what a plethora is

putting aside that the framing here is simply false, the only overarching narrative these guys ever support is that fascists were simply forced to be fascist by the permissive liberal. freedom is the cause of fascism in their telling. nonsense stuff.

"[L]ayoffs to CDC staff who worked on smoking meant an important survey on youth smoking and vaping — normally out in the fall — was never released." So much for MAHA. www.wsls.com/news/politic...

Turning Point USA Announces Alternative Puerto Rico https://theonion.com/turning-point-usa-announces-alternative-puerto-rico/

I'm increasingly worried that a lot of Biden alums have learned the wrong lessons. And I'm increasingly worried that it's due to less than savory reasons.

They went to Jared

Looks like Trump’s revocation focuses on legal arguments, not the scientific findings, which even his team must know are unassailable. (I was working at the EPA when the endangerment finding was first issued.) More chaos on the horizon.

Not once does this story mention that the Supreme Court in 2007 rebuked the argument that EPA lacks authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. Let's not let SCOTUS off the hook here: it will need to decide whether to change course, because otherwise this is likely dead in the water.

Wanna watch a man drown and root for it?

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

Here are my stories about how the last Trump EPA didn't end but *saved* the endangerment finding I cite lots of #FOIA docs www.eenews.net/articles/tru... www.eenews.net/articles/ins... Of course, many of these people are now serving in this Trump admin — which just axed the finding #FOIA4eva

I rarely come down here, but am here today. And there are National Guard everywhere in the Metro. They all look so sad and bored. Is this really the best use of these young people’s lives?

"Our modern administrative state is built on four mutually reinforcing pillars: evidence-based decision-making, an independent professional civil service, economic analysis, and fidelity to the law. Its design was ...to prevent such action as today’s rescission of the endangerment finding."

Could this be our opportunity to construct something even better? Learn more about this decision in a statement from Center for Progressive Reform Policy Director and Interim Co-Executive Director @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social here: progressivereform.org/cpr-blog/epa...

This action "is a ringing alarm bell warning all of us of the extent to which this administration has succeeded in degrading our governing institutions in such a short period of time." My statement progressivereform.org/cpr-blog/epa...

Here's what EPA just put up on the endangerment finding repeal: www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

Trump: We are officially terminating the so called 'endangerment finding'

"Holmstead argued that withdrawal of the endangerment finding might actually force Congress to try to reach a bipartisan agreement on climate legislation...." 🤣 Bless his heart insideclimatenews.org/news/1102202...

If only there was an addition to the Constitution that addressed this. I might even make it prominent somehow.

If the Supreme Court overturns Massachusetts v. EPA, I don't see why a future Supreme Court couldn't overturn Citizens United. It's all just politics.

But the "success sequence" bsky.app/profile/jame...

How are the Kansas City Current avoiding the NWSL's salary cap? Creative, Chelsea-esque bookkeeping?

Impossible for me to fathom how a publication like the @washingtonpost.com could survive the revelation that propagandists in the administration literally feed it the stories and opinions they want it to print--and the Post just does it.

"We'll always have the dow is over 50,000"

I will welcome libertarians to join us off the sidelines, but on two conditions. (1) I will not tolerate any bullshit self-congratulations. (2) I expect a little introspection: What have you done wrong, what have you learned, how will you do better in the future.

Private tax collection should be a federal crime IMO. There is literally no reason for any level of government to outsource its most basic function.

Kinda unseemly that justices just just casually use their position as a cash grab now, and it's no bigs, no?