"It’s horrifying. Surely it’s not too much to ask Democratic members of Congress to make cooperation on any issue—whether procedural or substantive, whether an appropriation or a confirmation—contingent on getting at the truth of what happened here, and on some accountability for this atrocity."

Netflix currently approaching Platner to see if he’d like a special

I just had the time of my life with Mitch McConnell, he's just out of frame looking great!

LOL "Crypto might seem the ultimate Donald Trump business: Add a Trump name of no intrinsic value to something that already has no intrinsic value." www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

Ugh my anxiety, truly putting the PANIC in Hispanic.

Thank you to whoever paid the bribe to the right person at FIFA to get Balogun reinstated.

I met Mike Wallace back in the late aughts at a dinner party in Park Slope. Even back then he remarked about the impending restriction that mortality would likely place on his finishing more history writing Gotham was the definitive tome everywhere in bookstores www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...

WAMU-HD2 Bluegrass Country State of the Union, The Craig Harris Show, spinning Springsteen’s Streets of Minneapolis this July 3 a little while ago near the top of the show

The WSJ Editorial Board pulls an Ahab with “fraud” in ObamaCare playing the part of Moby Dick Only this Moby Dick is more like everything in the sea, including confusion and mistakes along with fraudulent behavior www.wsj.com/opinion/obam...

With all the discussion about Trump v. Cook and Slaughter, I’m surprised that nobody has returned to the Article I power of Congress to regulate the currency Seems like that would set up success here. That’s not an executive branch power

This tale is shocking, and I hope the ACLU, Congress, and state attorneys general all get involved

Now that interest rates are high again, like they were around 2000 when Bobby Bonilla struck the deal and became a bank for the Mets, it no longer looks quite as much of a highway robbery as it did during the period of low interest rates

The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios

The Defense Secretary is incompetent: his political edicts hampered military readiness. He needs to go, yesterday. Imagine if somebody had impeded Washington’s compulsory variolation of his troops in 1777. Absolutely ignominious behavior by Hegseth. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/u...

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

This is brilliant

This is epic, a must-read for college instructors. The starting goalkeeper is an economics BA graduate of Harvard who worked on econometric models of penalty kicks and other sports inputs and outcomes

I think he just asked her how her 50th Reunion and P-Rade went? No? Oh. Well, let me just do a tiger locomotive and get out of here Tiger Tiger Tiger Sis sis sis Boom boom boom Bah! Seventy six! Seventy six! Seventy six!

Watch Ken Burns’s The American Revolution on PBS and be astounded at what the founders withstood and accomplished. With all their angels and devils and chaos and humanity What a gift, to see how imperfect we have always been as a nation, and how we have continued to push ahead toward better things

In Nigeria, Yagana Bulama lost her newborn baby due to malnutrition caused by US food aid cuts. She had already buried three babies www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

We're killing FEMA and USAID and replacing it with mercurial and paternalistic gift giving.

@annkillion.bsky.social on KQED right now!

Word from Mendocino: this was big

If you did feel the earthquake, fill out the USGS survey! They're really helpful for research. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

My wife was on the Bay Bridge Western span headed into SF when the warning hit. Surely everyone’s phone went off. Thankfully no fender benders we know of. Scary

“[Parenthood] is siblings bickering over who can look out of which window and who started it and who you love the most even though you love all of them the same but at the moment you don’t like any of them in the slightest.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/p...

Wow. I might have considered buying a 2027 Slate pickup if I had no children or if they were androids I guess youtu.be/iVeYjxQPdz4?...

“It’s true that Republicans have been deferential to the president to a point. That doesn’t seem to have done any good,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas). “That is, if you support the president, that doesn’t mean he’s going to support you.”  www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Clearest writeup of the issues with the study design, which exist. Does that mean such studies shouldn’t be published in CDC’s MMWR? That’s subjective, and it is a change in longstanding policy to block them as Bhattacharya did. Who elected him? www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

The Grand Union Flag. I remember seeing it in some exhibits in Revolutionary War interpretive centers, but it takes a back seat to Betsy Ross’s Stars and Stripes www.doncio.navy.mil/chips/Articl...

He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles? Come the fuck on.

Just want everyone to know I made this joke *before* we all learned Trump signed the surrender agreement at Versailles.

This Saturday at San Francisco’s 16th Street BART Plaza, the city will celebrate the installation of two spheres painted by artists with tribal designs and images as part of the burgeoning American Indian Cultural District. nbcbay.com/T5w5H2X

“The finding comes as ICE is eliminating its requirement to report deaths that occur within 30 days of people being released from its custody, and as the Trump administration continues to detain large numbers of migrants." Abolish ICE. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Twitter before Elon Musk turned it into a Nazi bar where he feels home. The energy was incredible and it literally permanently changed the course of my scientific career for the better.

This op-ed from Davis Malpass is a shockingly empty exhortation to drop knowledge and embrace lower rates for no clear reason. Then he glued on something about shrinking the balance sheet. Altogether unconvincing. Parrot-like www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

The only good thing one can say about Vance here is that he appears to have listened to advisors When Vance runs for president in 2028, the media needs to ask him about early 2026, after CBP murdered Alex Pretti and spurred Vance reportedly to argue for invoking the Insurrection Act

Since Trump is putting his name on everything in Washington, I hereby christen this algal disaster at the Reflecting Pool "Trump's Swamp." Though we the taxpayers paid for it.

Reforming the Fed’s forward guidance habits would not be high on my list. The WSJ Editorial Board risks sounding like they want to Make Monetary Policy Great Again by returning us to conventions that no central bank follows in 2026 www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Rename the Williamsburg Bridge After Sonny Rollins www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

‘“Measles running rampant, public health destroyed, a trillion dollars ripped from Medicaid, inadequate physician payment, stupid immigration rules,” Fryhofer told AMA members in promising to call out Kennedy and the Trump administration on all of it.’ www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Nice quote of @economeager.bsky.social here about no serious reckoning yet in microfinance www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

Pretty sure even the worst democratic strategist can’t screw up the gift of “I love the inflation” 😳😳😳

Before the war, wage growth had been outpacing inflation consistently since 2023. Now real earnings are down 0.7 percent over the past year (0.8 percent for production and nonsupervisory workers).

Same way any American sees it. Great love for the Israeli people, head scratching about the current PM and cabinet. And exactly why are you asking me about *Israel* and not any other U.S. ally? Does it rhyme with “grant my phlegm a prism?”

It's wild how the exhaustion of the OASDI and HI trust funds is just around the corner, now at the end of the next President's term, in 2032. It's been forecast as about then for a long time, and true to form, we aren't doing anything about it until we absolutely have to www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

So … don’t raise rates, and reduce the balance sheet simultaneously And Jay Powell is the “stupidest” one?

Abolish ICE.

Horror and success, wow. Note to selves: either reform health insurance so that losing an employer provided plan doesn’t do this to older parents, or don’t leave employment. Or don’t have kids www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

ahh this is better, here's Bruce & Roseanne Cash on Woody's "Deportee," always a favorite of Bruce's, introduced by "this is happening NOW" and the woman who made a t-shirt with that for the tour was very smart: youtu.be/1STO9ZFwjkQ?...