Bluesky has the (Oklahoma City Thunder hatred) juice

We’ve got a tiny tarp off in DC

I briefly thought about getting a "Bauer Outage" shirt the Yokohama BayStars were peddling in their team store for my best friend and immediately slapped myself. They sadly were out of Robert Gsellman jerseys in my size.

Nightmare pants color, Melo

Pro sports teams should be municipally owned

I saw Freedom Williams, aka what’s left of C+C Music Factory, perform at halftime at a Memphis Grizzlies game in 2008. #goldenage

Wahoowa. He and Doolittle

Yeah, but he’s not even close

Just trying to imagine scouting Murakami in person (granted in an off year), seeing his market not develop, and signing Jorge Polanco #mets Also, me as a GM: this guy has the same name as the jazz club guy who decided to write novels sitting in right field of Jingu let’s sign him

Everything you need to know about the House version of the bill that determines how Congress treats itself in FY27

Mitch McConnell's hot dog suit has people asking a lot of questions already answered by his hot dog suit

The Car Seat Headrest redo is friggin good

Notably, she did NOT do this in public, when Blanche was under oath, testifying at an Appropriations subcommittee hearing yesterday. She could've (she asked about oversight generally) but didn't.

Whoah. As @hoyer.house.gov is arguing to member COLA, court issues opinion that says (cursory look) 27th amendment stops approps from varying pay in the way it has for 15 years. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The electoral system isn't the only thing broken about Congress. They've also been starving themselves of institutional capacity in their own workforce. I sat down with @kevinrkosar.bsky.social, formerly of the Congressional Research Service, to discuss the dire problems with staffing on the Hill.

my policy proposal: police misconduct settlement payments come out of police pension funds

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

I hate you, sports

Where does this rank among Cleveland sports collapses all time, somewhere in the high 300s maybe

One of the West teams should hire Ty Lue to be the final ex coach boss

Dude on metro casually watching a video of a guy blasting away with a tec-9 full volume

GAO must be crushing it then. Oh wait, you want to cripple it

Insane

Are senators allowed to make claims for money they didn’t appropriate?

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

If you want to understand the systemic reasons Congress poorly resources itself, the crumbling Rayburn Building is a good place to start. Plus, a new section featuring congressional tech and data projects folks should know about - first up, @dwillis.bsky.social Congress Press

daaaamn london

Mets fans not gonna play

The photo that perfectly sums up the Beijing summit.

New (well, returned) dataset from me: U.S. House office expenses, with unique lawmaker IDs and member information added. Get your CSV downloads here: thescoop.org/house-expend... and code for producing them here: github.com/dwillis/hous...

Congress's ethics and accountability system doesn't work. They must rethink and rebuild an entirely new system. In the meantime, today we published 5 steps the House can take right now to address its ethics crisis. They are:

Indistinguishable from 1870s Redeemer rhetoric about "Negro misrule" and the like.

Harden is the J Mascis of basketball

Syndergaard is such a perfect avatar for the MAHA movement – a guy who probably cost himself several hundred million dollars via his persistent belief in quack medicine, most famously the time he refused an MRI while playing with a partially torn muscle then pitched again and fully tore it

Jeez, the Mets gave AJ Ewing Gregg Jeffries’ number. Bad karma

Great reporting on what’s in place now, which obviously isn’t working but is something reformers need to know.

I spent part of my childhood in Roxbury Township - we had a Nixon Elementary and I went to Eisenhower Middle. Nobody wants this but it’ll get unlimited $$$ for three years e no oversight

Obligatory Jersey guy PSA that Fountains of Wayne was a real place/store.

I dream of a day when the legal academy spends as much attention to congressional and other legislative reform, than they spend debating whom among us is properly critical of the Supreme Court. Reforming Congress is equally (or more) important than rethinking Supreme Court practice and authority.

TFW your human isn’t yelling the entire 4th q

Onions

Sorry, every time I see these Cleveland jerseys in the playoffs I think of Donyell Marshall clanking corner threes

Thomas Mann & Norman Ornstein -- two establishment institutionalists, the opposite of radicals -- hit the nail on the head way back in 2012. They were ignored & marginalized for it, but subsequent events have proven them 100% correct.

The politics of AI—in the sense of how this technology is viewed by ordinary people & how those views are taken up by political leaders & major institutions—is likely to mature & harden in ways that will yield mutually incompatible policy agendas & will ultimately reflect non-negotiable moral values

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

My neighbors hired a live band for a party. What’s your most hated song? They know it