Text of the House budget resolution it out! Three key takeaways: 1) No spending cuts (though Ag is flexible — it allows for SNAP cuts) 2) $10 BILLION to bribe states to voluntarily implement the SAVE Act 3) No instructions for the Senate, implying the House hasn’t yet gotten buy-in from them

🚨SpaceX bond yields rocket towards junk www.ft.com/content/3a02...

Thomas Massie: “It’s ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we’re yelling ‘election fraud’? We won all the damn elections.”

Mahmoud Khalil has filed a federal suit against the Trump administration and pro-Israel groups that worked to get activists like him deported.

And to think they try to claim that English isn't a tonal language.

MUST WATCH: This ten-year-old just asked James Talarico the best question 💙

just the most pathetic, amateur-hour nonsense

I've reshared it before, but it remains evergreen IMO for the mentality of successfully resisting authoritarianism Vigilance, but with a certain "yeah? you and what army?" skepticism

New Q&A: Is anthropology hopelessly politicized, more than any other humanistic field? That's the charge that's been flying around this summer, so I wanted to hear from Carolyn Rouse, the president of the American Anthropological Association. She had a lot to say. www.chronicle.com/article/is-a...

An unfathomable clean air act violation. I worked in this exact field for years, including in oil and gas, and i still can't get over how wanton and obvious this crime is. Just stunning

I think it’s pretty clear: he’s going to bitch and make public statements and command Senate Republicans to do something, then they will do nothing.

He has zero mechanism to act on his bullshit. The Senate isn’t going to expel two members.

With all the July model runs now in, it is very likely that 2026 will see the largest El Niño event since records began in the late 1800s – and potentially by a truly mind-blowing margin. The median estimate is now 3.6C, roughly 0.8C hotter than the prior record (2.75C). www.theclimatebrink....

SpaceX has now round-tripped back to its IPO price in less than 30 days. If you got in on the deal, you’re now flat. If you didn’t, you missed nothing. And if you bought the opening pop, welcome to The Muppet Show.

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Lol 20% of all cargo shipped. Good luck with that one.

Bill Browder is definitely not a conspiracy theorist. He’s the man who wrote the Magnitsky Act.

I think that people will be surprised by how much his colleagues like Graham. Pro tip (from @seanmtheriault.bsky.social’s story of Lloyd Benson’s funeral): if you’re in the area, attend his funeral and be a fly on the wall.

Americans with Graduate degrees (now 14.5% of the population) are far more liberal & vote far more consistently Democratic than those with only undergraduate degrees; & local graduate degrees are very strong predictors of geographic voting patterns journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Trump claiming graham’s dying words were “we’re all set for the SAVE America Act” is one of the funniest lies he’s ever told

My lasting image of Lindsey Graham will always be when he theatrically declared “Count me out. Enough is enough!” after January 6th — and then got back in with Trump more than ever before for Trump 2.0

A few other Lindsey Graham thoughts: 1) Early in the Obama Administration, they asked him to accompany Admin officials on some foreign policy trips. They saw him as a serious Republican policymaker despite lowishseniority. 2) He was probably the most prominent closeted gay man of his generation.

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

This timing would seemingly require a primary to occur on August 4—which would likely violate the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, which requires overseas voters (like soldiers) to get ballots 45 days before the election. I explained UOCAVA 3 years ago here:

Graham will be remembered for a lot of different things, but here’s one that you might not have heard: Graham was the original cosponsor of a major climate change bill with John Kerry in the 2000s and a forceful advocate for cap and trade until Republicans flipped hard right on the issue.

One of Trump’s most forthright supporters in the Senate, Lindsey Graham, has died.

ICYMI: I wrote about baseball's increasingly ubiquitous pitch movements charts. It's an explainer for both *How* and *Why* fans can engage with a new form of information presentation. bandwagon.ghost.io/is-this-a-pi...

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

You see this with Republican attacks on assisted reproduction too—the ostensibly pro-baby, pro-family movement wants only a certain kind of baby from a certain kind of family. It’s really pro-heterosexual-white-Christian-natalism. Pretty gross! slate.com/news-and-pol...

It is very strange for an ambitious politician to go to the media and tell tens of millions of voters that they are worthless pieces of shit.

Here's a little something that might interest a number of you in my network, part of a forum in the Journal of Public Policy: www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... Many thanks to editor Josh Ryan and the commentators Samuel Bagg, Tara Grillos, Agustin Markarian, and Mary Scudder!

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NEW: The Associated Press has called the Colorado GOP Gov primary for ministry leader Victor Marx. Here is my interview with Marx in May about his unsubstantiated claims, the number of people he's killed as a civilian, and the exorcisms he performs.

I'm sorry, but this is mind-boggling even for someone who looks at solar numbers all the time.

jesus christ

The rise of small donors is mostly making politics worse New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast/transcript with Ray La Raja & Zach Albert www.niskanencenter.org/the-rise-of-...

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

This is a red alert. There may be no MLB players next season who are older than me. My mortality was counting on Verlander to hang on until 50.

Sen. Bernie Sanders on the Maine U.S. Senate race: “I have spoken with Graham Platner about the best path forward for Maine. In light of these very serious allegations, I have recommended that he step aside.”

When candidates are named, Democrats are running 3-4 points ahead of the polling average in the marginal races (OH/AK/TX/IA/NE).

Pretty sure that any Dem can say “oligarchy” a lot.

Chuck Schumer and DSCC chair Kirsten Gillibrand now calling on Graham Platner to drop out: “Graham Platner needs to immediately withdraw.... The DSCC will not invest in the Maine Senate race if Platner remains on the ballot.”

Make the call, Bernie.

Appears to be the first major group to rescind its endorsement of Platner -->

Well sourced. Contemporaneously documented. A victim on the record with no ties to the Heritage Foundation. Just five years ago.

“.. The Florida for-sale market is flashing warning signs: 45% of listings have taken a price cut (6.6 pts above the national rate) “.. 1 in 10 homes are selling for less than the original owner paid.” - Parcl Labs

The universe does not approve of a pitcher being lifted in the middle of a perfect game:

Few know this but almost all the economic news coming out of China for the past half decade -- Domestic Growth Slowdown! EVs! Solar! Exports! China Shock 2.0 etc etc -- is about this dramatic policy driven gear-shift of the domestic economy out of the property sector.