Does this work for "he caved"?

You heard it here first, two months ago! prospect.org/politics/202...

That is not a denial.

Crypto entrepreneurs struck gold in Wyoming, one of the world’s major tax havens. However, the workers in Wyoming have not hit the same motherlode. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reports from Anthony Scaramucci’s company, SALT’s blockchain symposium: trib.al/NVkMPw8

Calling Nexstar and Sinclair's bluff. ABC has cards to play with them too.

They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.

Time, Sept. 22: Trump could go after left-wing nonprofits' tax-exempt status. time.com/7319201/dona... @prospect.org, literally LAST JULY: Trump could go after left-wing nonprofits' tax-exempt status. prospect.org/power/2024-0... As always, read the Prospect, get the news first.

Libertarian George Mason goon Tyler Cowen's headline on this, "Not the best news from Argentina," is priceless www.ft.com/content/731a...

if you can bear it this is reads like a netflix show

Of the 2 developments in the conservative drive to control American culture, Trump moving to silence criticism in the media is almost less impactful than MAGA-aligned billionaires buying major media outlets & moving them to the right. Paul Starr with a great essay: prospect.org/power/2025-0...

The proposed 2% "Zucman Tax" on wealth in France is garnering huge crowds and overwhelming support. It's reveals the political durability of proposals to tax the rich, as Harold Meyerson writes. prospect.org/economy/2025...

Nurses in Iowa are up against a massive anti-union campaign from UnityPoint Health, which is spending $34,000 a day to stop the union. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story. prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

libertarianism doesn't work because eventually you run out of other people's money and have to borrow it from the US taxpayer

Last month Anthony Scaramucci's investment firm hosted an annual crypto conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. We sent @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social to it. She saw glammed-out cowboys, designer dogs, and party time in the Pax Cryptomanica. This is a must-read.

Disney is losing lots of subscriptions, but also needs federal approval for the NFL buying a 10% stake in ESPN and its purchase of Fubo, and if they bring back Kimmel Trump will reject those deals. Can't say I feel bad about their no-win situation.

The state Senate is clearly the barrier to redistricting in Maryland, but the state House of Delegates and the governor appear to be in favor—I think they could persuade the Senate. marylandmatters.org/2025/09/17/r...

The spectacle of DC being overrun while its sole representative in Congress is 88 and only participates in hearings and speeches by reading prepared remarks is pretty bad! And it's untenable, as challengers begin to assemble for Eleanor Holmes Norton. Here's @gurleygg.bsky.social with that story.

This scenario was an entire scandal in the George W. Bush administration that lasted for months, with hearings and the eventual resignation of the AG.

The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing yesterday where every Republican raised fears of an epidemic of fraud. This comes after they enthused over the mothballing of the CFPB, established to crack down on... an epidemic of fraud. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social:

Senate Democrats are now focused on the attempt to add prior authorization in traditional Medicare. We got a first look at the letter from @wyden.senate.gov to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services blasting the AI-fueled move to deny senior patient care. Bob Kuttner reports.

Gambling our way to prosperity has been a false hope for many cities proposing casinos as an economic development engine. The fight has come to Coney Island, where residents are putting up strong resistance to a $3 billion private equity-owned project. James Baratta reports:

One underdiscussed part of the shutdown fight is that Trump has created an impression that he controls the whole government, so if it shuts down and he has to blame Democrats for not giving him money he needs, it pops that entire aura. If the dictator can't run things people will blame the dictator.

Earlier this week I offered ideas for what a No Kings Budget could look like. In their counter-offer, Democrats actually picked up some of those ideas: banning rescissions for these appropriations, preventing program reductions, and restoring withheld funds. It's a start!

This could not be more correct. It's easier to censor media that is consolidated. Repeal the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

The Unfairness Doctrine

Only authoritarian states ban laughter. Here's Harold Meyerson on the Jimmy Kimmel firing, with cameos from Dalton Trumbo, Charlie Chaplin, George Carlin and the Marx Brothers. prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

Loyola Marymount just declared its faculty union doesn’t exist anymore. Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened before.

Trump administration wants to take over government in total but was backed off by Sam Alito's nonsense that the Fed is a magical agency that, while being structured exactly the same way as other independent agencies, is really really independent.

See this is very sharp, but it's the kind of thing that should populate the budget bill. Any illegal impoundment should result in the immediate elimination of the presidential travel budget, for example.

If DHS can violently attack journalists and citizen observers without any consequences, none of us are safe anywhere in the country. #protest #LAProtests #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists

CBO estimates that three changes in the Democrats' version of the government funding bill would increase health insurance coverage by 7 million Americans abd cost about $67 billion a year. www.cbo.gov/system/files...

Customs officials are so consumed with collecting tariffs that interdictions of products made with forced labor have fallen dramatically. When the writer reached out to CBP about it, they boosted the claimed number of blocked shipments. From our friends at The Capitol Forum:

From me: It was 20 years ago that Citigroup described America as a plutonomy, an economy by and for the rich. We now have stats to show this has gotten worse: the top 10% are doing 50% of the retail sales, and this masks the pain from below. prospect.org/economy/2025...

FWIW, state AGs can look into Nexstar-Tegna, too.

They can start by speaking out against the impending Paramount-Warner Brothers merger and demanding that state AGs challenge it

In 2023, 97 of the 100 highest rated shows were sports, the other 3 were 2 awards shows and the show they put on after the Super Bowl. Sports is now moving to streaming. It's over.

The last laugh, if there is one, is that while Disney will live on, there's not going to be a Nexstar or Sinclair pretty soon

ABC doesn't want to be in the linear television business anymore because linear television is on its way out. Any pretext to dump salaries and wind down programming, they will take. I've been saying this for years. Nobody is prepared.

Some bad things are going to happen alongside the end of television, but one side benefit is that the FCC might functionally cease to matter when it doesn't have as much to enforce

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

Orphan oil and gas wells and their impact on carbon pollution continues to be a scourge. Our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social report from New Mexico: prospect.org/environment/...

Food banks across the country are experiencing high volume as prices for groceries rise. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reports. prospect.org/health/2025-...

Not the Onion, the NYT. "New Group Wants to Stop Politicians From Listening to Groups (Except for This New Group)"

This is a dangerous time that recalls for me the Ari Fleischer "people should watch what they say" era after 9/11. @ryanlcooper.com writes about the pretextual use of Charlie Kirk's death to argue for restrictions on all speech that isn't pro-conservative. prospect.org/politics/202...

We did this really fun episode of Organized Money this week. It's our 50th episode of the show. It's about two gamer lawyers who got tired of being ripped off by Steam, the app store monopoly for PC gaming. So they built a law firm to take them on. (🧵) www.organizedmoney.fm/p/how-gamer-...

Illinois congressional candidate Reed Showalter hopes to use his expertise in anti-trust enforcement to take on monopolies in Washington if he wins in November. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/qWZMpUT

We got @delauro.house.gov to talk about Russ Vought's illegality and the upcoming budget fight. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

This is a magisterial look at resistance to Trump from a number of different angles by Bob Kuttner. Resistance in the courts, resistance to ICE, resistance in the streets, resistance at Target & Tesla showrooms, resistance from universities and law firms, and on and on. Ordinary people speaking out.

The law, if that matters anymore, says that TikTok must relinquish Chinese control over the algorithm. After nearly a year of delay, China is still going to control the algorithm. www.ft.com/content/550e...