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."

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Note the passive construction here. [hot dog guy dot gif] Punchbowl: "Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) countered that Republicans’ electoral success depends on at least trying to find a path for the SAVE America Act because voters’ beliefs about a stolen election 'have already been fomented.'"

Honestly, props to Sen. Sheehy for reading Caro's "Master of the Senate" whilst presiding.

Never a dull moment in the Senate Budget Committee!

Changing the clocks is good, actually; it's good to maximize daylight during most people's waking hours

"Raising questions" is the absolute worst journalistic cliche because it usually means the exact opposite. Like here, no questions were "raised." In fact, any question was *answered*! If the question is "did they coordinate," the answer is an emphatic "no shit of course they did."

“I think President Trump really felt like he needed to pursue diplomacy, that he wanted to pursue diplomacy, that the military option was the last option,” Mr. Graham said... “He was very comfortable with the idea that he tried,” Mr. Graham said.

At least it’s nice out

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:

🚨NOT GOOD: Nonpartisan CBO confirms Trump’s policies, including Republicans' Big, Ugly Bill championed during last night’s State of the Union, will DRIVE UP the debt significantly—raising America's debt-to-GDP ratio to 175% of GDP by 2056.

@merkley.senate.gov is calling for CBO to probe the cost of Trump’s violent escalation of federal immigration enforcement. Last year, Republicans approved a dramatic increase in DHS funding, yet there is no comprehensive accounting of how these funds are being spent.

I, for one, am v excited about this show.

Incredibly credulous framing here. Republicans have changed Senate rules multiple times this Congress—remember the "current policy baseline"? Or repealing California's EV rules?—to avoid "overruling" the parliamentarian. But go off I guess

As a Budgeteer, I will give my professional opinion: lol. lmao even

lol

More like MA-HAHAHA am I right

Shoutout to my wife and her team for the launch of Red Line for Civil Rights, doing the essential work of monitoring the Justice Department’s ongoing dismantling of its Civil Rights Division.

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

“IRS Form 4547.” Ugh these people are so embarrassing.

Fun discovery: on an apples-to-apples basis, Trump's tariff taxes are larger than the tax increases in the House-passed version of Build Back Better in 2021. Of course, the distribution of Biden's tax hikes on corporations and millionaires are different from Trump's tariffs.

wtaf "The White House Office of Management and Budget, which Vought leads, is allocating $15 million of what remains of USAID operating expenses to cover the costs of his protection by the U.S. Marshals Service through the end of 2026."

🚨 NEW: CBO's 10-Year Economic Outlook confirms Trump and Republicans spent the past year making it hard for working families to get ahead while adding trillions of dollars to our national debt. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Connections got me today

Really great analysis of just how much money Republicans pumped into the deportation-industrial complex with last year's reconciliation bill. www.kevinmcnellis.com/posts/ice-cb...

Transparency is not optional. Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov is leading Senate Budget Dems in demanding answers from Pete Hegseth on why he classified his spending plans for the Big, Ugly Betrayal Bill.

G-d bless The One, The Only, The Truly Incredible Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band www.sfchronicle.com/super-bowl-l...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free