Would these people contorting themselves into knots invite him over for dinner? Would they maintain a friendship with him? If not, why would you vote for him? If so ... uhh ...

NJ has plenty more tweaks to make, but the StayNJ adjustment is a step in the right direction. https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/week-in-insights-new-jersey-property-tax-tweak-is-positive-step

Shocked to discover this USMNT you're all talking about has absolutely nothing to do with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

A guy that was at Omaha Beach: “Giving a speech in the rain, huh? Well sir I may have misjudged your mettle.”

My least progressive view is that if I had to choose between saving the last koala and running my air conditioning for another hour I’d try to save you the pelt for your museums.

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

New in my Yale JREG column: the Shortcut Ledger — tracking rules that skip the proposal stage entirely (interim-final, direct-final, temporary). https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/recent-rulemakings-reviewed-june-2026/

Who is the fair for? Like if things went right, are they expecting tourists? DC residents?

It’s so hot here in DC that when I opened the door to let the bulldog outside, she took one step out of the air conditioning and turned around and came back inside

some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”

These incredibly detailed posts/renderings by Bartosz Ciechanowski never fail to consume an evening. https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/

Asteroid Threat xkcd.com/3265/

Totenberg’s explanation is that she heard there was a retirement announcement and immediately told her team to publish the story about Alito’s retirement. that makes no sense unless she’s sitting on information that he’s planning to retire.

Reads to me like 4-4 on the constitutional question of birthright citizenship, with Kavanaugh out in "this is just a statutory question" land. That seems ... precarious.

Re: Barbara birthright citizenship decision, Kavanaugh thinks of it as a statutory question under 8 USC 1401(a). Hard not to see the throughline between "let Congress do it if it wants to" and the FEC election funding floodgate decision.

You probably have other stuff to read, but I said some things about Loper Bright, transfer pricing, and Coca Cola this week. https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/coca-cola-transfer-pricing-fight-is-a-post-chevron-stress-test

If Nina Totenberg accidentally published her pre-write before she was supposed to and blew Alito's retirement announcement, I am going to die laughing at my desk

Seems like maybe the Alito news was a mistake by NPR.

Remember folks, if things go wrong in Barbara frustration is to be expected - but no posting of anything that gets law enforcement knocking on your door.

Made some tweaks to the read it later feature in Wallflower ("Commonplace Book"). Take a look when you have a chance and let me know your thoughts. https://thewallflower.app

Chief Justice Roberts just announced from the bench that *tomorrow* (Tuesday) will be the last day for opinion hand-downs this term. So we'll get birthright citizenship, the two transgender discrimination cases, and the big campaign finance case in some order at 10 ET tomorrow.

Welp. CTRL+F and "Humphrey’s Executor" in my slides for my leg/reg class. Editing time.

For the Federal Register nerds out there (you know who you are), I want to flag a great new resource that Andrew Leahey has put together to track developments in the register. He has a monthly report on Notice & Comment that provides helpful snapshots of activity: www.yalejreg.com/nc/recent-ru...

Don't want AI to take anyone's job, but to be fair they were making Fords before, too. This isn't the first bad decision.

When a reporter refers to someone as "glamorous," is that normative or descriptive?

More power then huh? https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/liquid-cooling-ai-factories/

In furtherance of my own personal use of both Mastodon and BlueSky as a source for things to read, I've added a "Commonplace Book" read later feature to Wallflower. https://thewallflower.app/read

This *sucks.* https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-taxes-foreclosure-64f3e722e9f28be39db11b087bc33ff4

I don't make a habit out of agreeing with Big Tech on matters of tax policy, but in this one particular situation OpenAI has a point. news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights...

Opened up more TestFlight slots for Wallflower - a Mastodon and Bluesky unified iOS/iPadOS/macOS and web app. https://testflight.apple.com/join/ffUv5HTs

Whenever I see IYKYK written, I mistake it for a reference to the zipper manufacturer YKK. We all have our crosses to bear.

I'll take this author's thesis a step further and argue OSes peaked with Windows 2000. https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-06-16/0/POSTING-en.html

Wallflower for iOS beta? Sure. https://testflight.apple.com/join/ffUv5HTs

Instacart made some significant changes to its TOS. https://tostracker.app/document/instacart/compare?v1=876915&v2=22&view=clauses

There's always a ... picture of Trump at a libertarian convention?

Please stop generating AI images of Musk in a space suit for your crummy articles about SpaceX's valuation. It's up there with using "Battle of the Bulge" when referring to weight loss. Straight cringe.

A report on the IRS sharing address information with ICE suggests that failing to prioritize taxpayer confidentiality is the real scandal, not interagency data sharing. https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/irs-sharing-taxpayer-info-with-ice-is-a-data-governance-issue

My latest Recent Rulemakings Reviewed, for the month of May, is up on Yale JREG Notice & Comment. https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/recent-rulemakings-reviewed-may-2026/

Beginning next July when the new EV fees and taxes kick in, an Oregonian driving a roughly 3,000-pound Kia Niro electric passenger vehicle could contribute about the same amount annually to the State Highway Fund as Amazon does for each of its 10,000-pound electric delivery vans.

Congress is overburdened, underresourced, and gridlocked. Americans are doubtful that government can solve the problems they care about — from affordability and health care to immigration and the environment. Our latest report offers eight proposals to reform Congress. bit.ly/4ev01Zg

An oil and gas expert I am not, but the island is a storage facility—right? Won’t Iran just, for lack of a better phrase, turn off the oil spigot on the other end? We are defying the homeowner and seizing the bucket that is being filled by his garden hose?

And on that note, I think I've had enough internet for today. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/farmer-donates-land-for-a-park-city-sells-it-for-data-center-development-usd10-gift-became-usd10m-for-city-government-with-usd30m-tax-expected-over-next-decade

I'm sorry, but the President of the United States insinuating that oil prices have been kept low because we're sneaking barrels out of Iran at night is *empirically* funny.

Testing posting images between Mastodon and Bluesky with Wallflower. My daughter's "Genius Hour" presentation on the NES. Her history lesson is my childhood. https://thewallflower.app

Random thought today, for purposes of limiting the number of throws over permitted for a pitcher - why not just call them balls? You can throw over 4 times if you want, but the hitter walks.

Trying to think of a clever name for the pane in Wallflower where you can combine a bunch of Mastodon or Bluesky lists into one stream. Leaning towards "Confluence."

Should have sorted out the "Loading..." bug that was plaguing folks on Wallflower tonight. Give it another shot (and be sure to try logging in via Bluesky if you have time) when you have a chance/are so inclined. https://thewallflower.app

Added BlueSky compatibility to Wallflower. All your Mastodon and BlueSky posts in one (quiet, restrained) place. https://thewallflower.app

"I basically feel nothing. Not even when my nephew Grady gets framed for murder, which happens constantly. Seriously, I have a criminal defense attorney on perpetual retainer who specializes in homicide for this sort of thing."