Meet the 2025 U.S. Presidential Scholars #AcademicSky #HigherEd www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Just a reminder that while Mikie Sherill is in the news for being the victim of a MAGA release of her personal information: she was serving honorably in the Navy to protect Americans, while #OpioidJack Ciattarelli was making his personal fortune marketing opioids that were killing Americans.

The Rashomon graph:

That fågelkokatthundar nightstand that I bought from Ikea is apparently a national security threat. Who knew?

Shades of Crédit Mobilier of America en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A...

Those pro Palestine folk are never beating the allegations they’re an ops.. Heckling Kamala & Obama while leaving Trump alone.. even though that fool was in nyc 2 days ago..

"Gentlemen ('cuz we purged all the women), we're about to brief you on operation Stop Talking About Epstein"

The Trumpian War on Comedy about to go "kinetic".

I so want to be true, but it's not.

"Argentina has taken important strides toward stabilization." Which is why we need to step in to stabilize Argentina. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #Econsky

Politicians shouldn’t choose who provides our information. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/t...

Pretty sure this means the end result was higher costs, disruption of service, negative morale among federal workers, no net gain.

Dirigisme is the polite term for the economic aspects of fascism. Whatever you call it, markets are distorted and function less efficiently. #Econsky www.cnbc.com/2025/09/24/l...

Dept of WTF? Now? "I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form." Dept of just WTF: "In any event, I wish both Countries well. We will continue to supply weapons to NATO for NATO to do what they want with them."

New RFK's CDC senior staff watching RFK, Trump, and Oz give Tylenol press conference:

Captagon Commandos - These ICE agents are dangerous, unprofessional and just plain nuts.

This is nuts.

The Trump administration takes a pause from its daily pity party to throw a petty party.

“There is a connection between…contemporary tragedies and the fire-eaters of the pre-Civil War period: similar rhetoric.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/beware-tod...

As predicted #econsky

Walk this way

All that was missing from the spectacle in Arizona was the torchlight parade that was in many of their hearts.

Gift Article More Kennedy Quackery on the way wapo.st/4nkMdCO

Gotta love the PDOC in the upper right.

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

This is a REALLY GOOD piece on the challenges of today's attention economy. Lefty pundits suffer from the same problems and would do well to read it.

Who would have thought that the thug was also a grifter?

"To be clear, we’re not anti-soap. But given the skyrocketing rate of chronic illness in this country, isn’t it worth investigating if soap plays a role?"

The chain of actions is important here: It was Carr -> Nexstar -> Disney It is Nexstar that is seeking FCC approval for its $6.2 B acquisition of Tegna that cancelled its affiliates showing of Kimmel AFTER Carr made his podcast threats; It was a top down, not bottom up, cancellation

Gift Article Great news comrades, the party will now evaluate all research before publication to ensure that it conforms to the needs of the party. (cue recording of 'Internationale') wapo.st/3VrOcca

Stephen Colbert is all in: He plays the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel suspended. You love to see it.

😂🤣😂

Still the mindset of a 2-bit hustler flogging "Trump steaks"

Holy shit 🔥 💀🏆

Boost!

Hello, 1999!

Are we the baddies? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

Jokes...they're talking about the boundaries of what are clearly meant as jokes about them, as the boundaries of free speech.

"We're going to cut government regulation" - DJT Um... (maybe just the written ones the One Big Unwritten Regulation will be enforced to the max) #Econsky www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/j...

"Fed cuts, Trump yells, stagflation rings the bells. Tariffs on, tariffs off, chaos makes the markets scoff. ICE raids, tech lost, foreign know-how pays the cost. Crony firms, startups burn, long-run damage is our turn." — Billy Joel's description of of my latest podcast slate.com/podcasts/wha...

If a Democrat calls Republicans “fascists,” he basically just signed their death warrants. If a Republican calls Democrats “Marxists,” or “the enemy from within,” or “vermin,” or “human scum,” he’s just trying to fire up the crowd.

Welcome to the gulag

Major health insurer group says members will continue to cover vaccines, a step that may ease anxiety over access www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/a...

I'm not saying that Britain's royals know what a fluffer does. But they know what a fluffer is, in principle.

This is very well done. The “debate me bro” grift explained.

Spy vs Spy installation at the castle

Stephen Miran hangs his hat on a supply-side miracle to argue for forecast of rapid growth and rapidly slowing PCE inflation #EconSky econbrowser.com/archives/202...

Gift Article At a meta level, the "Too Rich to Tax" arguments sound like the "Too Big to Fail" args. Both groups engage in "policy-making behavior." At least the TBTF arguments have systemic heft, and we create guardrails to reduce assertion of anticompetitive practices #Econsky on.ft.com/42xLgOQ

We understand completely