“Note: To activate the account, you enter willingly into an agreement with Robinhood Securities, LLC, which serves as the trustee for Trump Accounts.” 🇺🇸

He really is the luckiest man to have ever lived

I added it up for all the other sickos out there: The Senate has endured 2 days, 18 hours, and 12 minutes of vote-a-rama this Congress.

Idly reminiscing about this dumb take from one Mr. Nick Bilton.

Now the Post is spinning off the weather guys? What are we doing here.

IYKYK

The WSJ sent a push notification on this, I guess sending subscribers to their fainting couches? Oh no not my passive income being taxed, though at rates much lower than earned income!

This is the dumbest timeline

I find it strange the things that backbench members of Congress do to humiliate themselves in order to win re-election when it seems that former members are having a much better time.

This is an excellent column about how the Senate has evolved in the last ~ decade.

New from @senatebudget.bsky.social : as of the end of April, ICE and CBP still have $100 billion left over and completely unused from the “Big Beautiful Bill.” Congressional Republicans are in the midst of trying to provide another $69 billion to ICE and CBP despite this.

🚨🚨NEW DATA from @SenateBudget: Republicans are moving to give ICE and Border Patrol $70 BILLION, but the agencies are already sitting on $100 BILLION. All while families are struggling to afford the basics. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

I feel like someone once got a lot of heat for saying "Well, when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal," but I suppose that train has sailed.

🚨🚨HUGE UPDATE: Senate Democrats forced Republicans to rewrite parts of their ICE and Border Patrol funding bill to add critical protections for children in DHS custody. It’s a win for the rule of law as Democrats continue fighting every provision in this harmful legislation.

Team Waste, Fraud, and Abuse strikes again

[absolute cinema]

It sucks how we’ll all have to live with his shitty decisions well after he’s gone. “Hains Point, the tip of the peninsula popular with early-morning birdwatchers and weekend barbecuers, would be incorporated into the new course and seemingly inaccessible to anyone not playing golf.”

There is no greater indignity than when your cell phone carrier sneakily changes its pricing structure, raises your rates, hopes you don't notice, and then forces you to argue with a chatbot to switch plans just to get back to what you already had but at the old rate. Enshittification personified.

This is the most relatable thing a professional athlete has done since LeBron missed time with sciatica pain

AI is good now 🤖

The House GOP's legislative branch appropriations bill cuts GAO by 25% and "includes language that would bar GAO from bringing lawsuits under the 1974 budget law restricting presidential impoundments, unless specifically authorized by Congress." The pro-waste, fraud, and abuse party strikes again.

Omg please please please they’re going to Spelunker’s for a Double Cavern Burger

Pennsylvania Ave. SE. Turn your back to the Capitol and… 🌈

I feel like the "we're a republic, not a democracy" crowd is really leaning into the "not a democracy" part

Did DOGE Cut the deficit? ❌ Eliminate waste fraud and abuse? ❌ Needlessly put federal workers "in trauma"? ✅

Using publicly available data, @senatebudget.bsky.social staff calculated how much funding remains unobligated from last year's reconciliation bill. At the end of March: - Of $74.9 billion provided to ICE, $63.2 billion remains. - Of $64.7 billion provided to CBP, $40 billion remains.

Is it cooked? ✅ Scheme ❌ Pasta

Me next weekend in the 15th St. bike lane:

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Graham: "With this budget resolution, we are moving forward — not backward"

Stop what you're doing and check out this beak-less alpha kea, Bruce

Big “Republicans buy sneakers too” energy

While House Republicans block the rest of DHS funding, ICE and CBP have PLENTY of unspent money left from last year’s reconciliation bill. Great new analysis from Kevin.

Ah yes, tax cuts, the big political winner. "Some studies have shown that people who received a new tax benefit credited the additional funds to the person who helped them file their taxes, rather than the political party that passed the law."

The day after Amazon lets me know they're bricking my Kindle, it stops being able to hold a charge. Curse you, Bezos!

oh. "The IRS reductions from funding and layoffs have likely resulted in about $861 billion in decreased revenue. The layoffs from actions like DOGE alone have likely resulted in $597.8 billion in decreased revenue over the 2026-2035."

Real average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory workers are up just 0.1 percent year-over-year. Not great!

Find someone who loves you as much as Spotify thinks I love Band of Horses.

“A Shaming of the Shoes” – Incredible

Because many of you have asked! wabastore.square.site/product/-don...

Baseball players, they're just like us: short.

"The federal government is poised to destroy, as early as April 23, protected bike lanes that run through the National Mall." Here's @waba.org's memo in support of a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from going after DC bike lanes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Annual #OpeningDay must-watch. #PeopleWillComeRay

lol

“Waste, fraud, abuse!” scream the wasteful, fraudulent abusers

The "private event" is a fundraiser featuring Trump. Closing the busiest Metro station for a private political fundraiser is gross.

Not great, Bob. "The deal is an extraordinary transfer of taxpayer dollars to a foreign company for the purposes of boosting the production of fossil fuels, a main driver of climate change, while throttling offshore wind power."