A good ad on the DC Metro

I propose the EPTC to eradicate autism: Earned Pernil Tax Credit

Trump has so thoroughly molded the GOP in his image we are about to get “Cuba has good health care” in the National Review

These findings in the new Washington Post poll jump off the page: Trump is underwater by 19 points on his handling of the economy (40/59) and underwater by 30 points on his handling of tariffs. By contrast, the same poll found him at +14 net approval on the economy in Oct. 2020.

Measles is spreading in Utah and Arizona. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

#BLS has delayed the 2024 Consumer Expenditures Survey annual release. This is likely due to the severe understaffing in the agency. Staff losses and hiring freeze are taking their toll. www.bls.gov/cex/notices/... #econsky

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

A federal judge has thrown out President Trump's lawsuit against The New York Times. The suit, he says, "stands unmistakably and inexcusably athwart the requirements" of federal court rules. It is "decidedly improper and impermissible." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Hundreds of educators have been suspended nationwide over comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination. The mass firings have happened as Trump and his allies threaten to cut off funds to districts that don't investigate educators for comments about Charlie Kirk paydayreport.com/hundreds-of-...

Free speech for me, not for thee. Good encapsulation of where we are, by @sarahellison.bsky.social et al: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

Obama doing [something] with Solendra justifies anything Trump wants to do to businesses forever.

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way." Just another day at the FCC, where the chair is threatening a major network over some comments by a late-show host. And the network is ABC, which doesn't bode well. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/f...

Let's compare the weight of this evidence to that of the NYAG's civil suit against the Trump Org, shall we? abcnews.go.com/US/trump-off...

Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:

Vance: "There's no unity with people who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these terrorist sympathizers...Soros' OSF and the Ford Foundation...benefit from generous tax treatment...How do they reward us? By setting fire to the house built by the American family."

God help me I actually think the blind squirrel found a nut here. I’ve long thought that reporting 2X/yr might reduce short-termism in Corporate America and cut down needless speculation. They do it that way in Europe.

I bet he was a big, strong guy who worked with his hands and had a tear glinting from the corner of his eye

Elon sharing the name of 66 random not-famous people to his many millions of followers because this person said they said things she didn’t like about Charlie Kirk. I erased the names and employers from the screenshot but you can see their jobs. Nurses, teachers etc.

This seems much more salient than any attempt to map some kind of politics on any of these people.

Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.

I'd love for someone to explain to me, a layman 1. if QBR is a good measure of performance and 2. Why Love's WAS game's score is so low. He missed a bunch of throws but that seemed far from a middling game. @minakimes.bsky.social? @jumosq.bsky.social? @aaronnagler.bsky.social?

30% pass rush win rate for Micah Parsons tonight. (League average for edge is 16%; Parsons had a 25% PRWR last year in Dallas)

I know a lot is happening, but— Trump Media announced ETFs explicitly tied to his politics yesterday. Trump owns 115M DJT shares and, as president, wields huge influence over the sectors these ETFs will target.

Getting close to needing more firings at the BLS.

What does the murder of Charlie Kirk tell us about political violence in America? First, we have to separate political violence from violence against politicians. Second, we have to break down political violence into individual vs. organized violence. Third, we have to look at the instigators. 1/9

Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers

They could have done something like this in the Trump immunity case and given a chance for the special counsel to take Trump's federal election subversion charges to trial. Expediting cases is a choice

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Trump Admin’s smashing of the IRS may well be the biggest giveaway to corporations & the rich. (I know, a lot of competition) @jessedrucker.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

The Blinding of Samson (flipped), by Peter Paul Rubens, 1609-10, 📸 by @WmGlasheen

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

US health insurers are raising insurance premiums by the most in 15 years. Recall that Trump recently threatened 250% tariffs on pharmaceuticals. GOP lawmakers also chose not to extend the expanded premium tax credits that expire at the end of this year

I had assumed that the many pillars of our civil society were strong since there were decades-long — even centuries long — traditions upholding them. But actually, it’s the opposite. They were totally hollowed out, decadent, complacent and weak.

At a Park Slope pharmacy, an elderly woman came in, asked for a Covid booster. “I can give it to you,” the pharmacist said, “but without a prescription, it’ll be $200.” The woman nodded, and walked out.

Will definitely encourage investment in the US. “When they were arrested, the LG employees were on business trips with various visas or under a visa waiver program to provide technical guidance for building the battery factory, according to industry officials familiar with the project.”

POTUS and the VP come out in favor of war on a US city, and extrajudicial killing by the military of alleged criminals.

The New Right

Pulte was going to have a press conference yesterday, but abruptly canceled it ... right before stories by ProPublica and Reuters dropped accusing multiple cabinet secretaries and members of Pulte's family, respectively, of claiming dual primary residences. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/p...

Keep in mind that the deal to get Adams to quit was being put together by Steve Witkoff, who is also tasked with Ukraine and Gaza negotiations.

Oops. The Labor Secretary was going to be asked about my guys' story on Bloomberg (see it here: propublica.org/article/trum...) ...but she seems to have had to wash her hair or something.

1/ The documents are clear: Lee Zeldin and his wife have two principal-residence mortgages, for properties in Long Island and Washington, D.C. We’ve got the records 👇 Long Island: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... D.C.: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

JD Vance said the government had to deport undocumented immigrants because they increase demand for and thus prices of housing for citizens. What they’ve actually accomplished is to decimate construction of new supply, which will definitely increase prices for everyone