Today, in arsonists seeking credit for planning to extinguish the fires they started, Trump's "Great Healthcare Plan" calls for the funding of Cost-Sharing Reductions in ACA exchange plans. Anyone remember who defunded those CSR payments in the first place?

Without looking: Granbury? Gotta be Granbury.

What kinda dingdong pollster asks three questions for which Increase is the favorable result followed by one for which Decrease is favorable, and then puts them all on the same chart? At least a couple of these CFOs got confused on the "time spent" question. Shoulda gone with Better/Worse instead.

The relevant question may not be how Trump tries to cap rates via executive order or whatnot but what he does (or tries to do) when the credit card lenders don't comply. Send the FBI after executives? Direct the FDIC to stop covering their banks' deposits? Freeze assets?

The song accompanying the DHS post is by an artist called Pine Tree Riots. (The Pine Tree Riot refers to a pre-Revolution conflict associated with the An Appeal To Heaven nationalist flag notoriously flown at Samuel Alito's house.) From their Genius (neé lyricsgenius?) page:

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

The characterization appropriate for the moment isn't "Asserts...One Limit: Himself" but "Rejects Rule of Law."

First order of business is the Constitutional crisis. Then the corruption crisis. Step up or step aside.

Disagree. He's perfectly capable of finding it himself and wholly incapable of putting his phone down when it comes across his screen. Alcoholic's personality. No assistance needed.

Absolutely pitiful that elected Democrats won't condemn the Venezuela operation in and of itself without saying Trump should focus on affordability instead. No one believes the President can't do domestic and foreign policy simultaneously. It's a bad argument. Just call him a bloodthirsty maniac!

Which is why there's a hold on all State Department nominations until Trump and Rubio back down, right? At least one Senate Democrat is using actual available power to express that the administration's threats are not just dangerous but unacceptable?

A TV spot isn't going to stop Presidential lawbreaking or Congressional negligence, but it is very much a card. Condemn the majority's dereliction! Issue threats of future investigation! Lay groundwork to block appropriations! Make a pitch for your own party! You have the high ground—act like it.

With Golden forgoing reelection, how many sitting House Democrats could be plausibly described as "vulnerable" in this environment (besides those who've been drawn out of their districts)?

Open casting call for the Secret Service via TV spot during the Rose Bowl is a national humiliation.

Trump alone wants to throttle their countries' exports and feed them all to Putin while actively creating more global refugees and terrorists via mass starvation.

Saying that a legislator's embrace of anti-trans lawmaking via actual legislation supports the cause of "liberal democracy" is as flat wrong as saying the Fugitive Slave Act did the same. In this moment, the most charitable interpretation is support for separation of powers, just like WV v. EPA.

Weiskopf? More like Scheisskopf.

Which is wild, because impeachment made Daniel Goldman a Congressman and Adam Schiff a Senator, secured one and then several Republican guilty votes, and left McConnell et al. on the hook for "Imagine how much better things would be now if Republicans took their obligations seriously."

Crazy thing about this is if silver fell 77% next week, it'd still have nearly doubled in 2025.

Absolutely, positively wild that silver's return *since this post two weeks ago* has outpaced the S&P 500 YTD.

The right-wing counterpart to the omnicause is the omnithreat. Every observed deviation from good ol' down home traditional conservatism—public or private, individual or collective—must be a manifestation of Satan's mission to drown humanity in dark degeneracy.

If the people sent to CECOT were *all* the worst of the worst, as various WH reps have claimed, then Miller should be offering the 60 Minutes producers their choice of houseguest rather than a random selection. Pretty telling that Miller's defense is that some, not all, of those men are dangerous.

Imagine believing, despite all the available evidence, that Weiss's post hoc rationale for holding the segment was sincere and well-informed. Bad faith and motivated reasoning are a knockout combination for any critical pursuit, journalism included.

Would be a real shame if CNBC and the other business media let this pass without the appropriate critical commentary. This post is not the product of a remotely sound economic mind.

Disgraceful that "merely proposed" survived to publication here.

Oh come on, everyone knows swingy Hispanic voters in the Valley defected from Biden/Harris (but not so much from Cuellar and Gonzalez) over threats to Eagle Ford shale production rather than asylum and border policy.

Still waiting to see a reporter ask Trump or Vance why diesel prices now are higher nationwide than a year ago. Those figures come from the EIA.

Sandell mighta made those kicks if he weren't wearing 5-inch inseams

THE DONALD J. TRUMP AND THE JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OF ANAHEIM

Current conditions fell from November, but expectations rose. Exactly the opposite of what I would've expected.

Perhaps, as they often say, explicitly addressing racial disparities that arose from past discrimination is unjustly "punishing children for the sins of their parents." But then whom is allowing the status quo to continue punishing, and for what?

Democrats very much got outworked in the information wars during the campaign—and throughout Biden's term—but that conclusion elides that Republicans can only win media battles if voters afford them credibility, which Dems routinely shy away from assaulting with the necessary frequency and gravity.

His problem with Bouie/HCR is that they analogize current developments to historical events, arguing meaningful patterns exist. Silver, a statistician, thinks history is largely coincidence, and Bouie/HCR are overfitting the data, weaving a phantom narrative to advance their lefty ideology.

Implications are things for subordinates to navigate post hoc when they face the press. In the meantime, can't waste a moment to launch a contorted haters-become-waiters Post that reminds all the teevee faces to once again laud my singular comedic wit.

Schoolmates was wide open for the TD on that FG fake.

Please please please please please Frank Mrvan and Andre Carson issue a one-line joint press release: "So, President Trump, Hoosier daddy?"

Dan Sullivan oof buddy oooof

gooby pls

Well you see, a few of the birds I brought home have gone missing. Pretty odd timing—overheard my neighbor outside yesterday, inconsolable. Something about the outdoor cats he's been adopting from the shelter in town.

Has any Democrat in Congress taken the floor, read a handful of Trump's most absurd and unhinged social media posts into the record, and closed with a solemn "We hold these Truths to be self-evident" before yielding? That kind of snark seems right up leadership's alley.

So it's Crockett taking on Talarico for Senate, Veasey to Crockett's 30th, Julie Johnson and Allred vying for the new 33rd, surrender in the new 32nd (where Beto beat Cruz by a nose), and still nobody bigger than state Rep Gina Hinojosa challenging Abbott? Yeah, this is Disarray. Dysfunction, even.

Maybe they oughta tell Mike Crapo and Tim Scott too.

Meanwhile, children's hospital and public medical school naming donor Michael Dell just announced a $6.25B contribution toward Trump-branded $250 kiddie investment accounts instead of, say, stepping into the glaring medical research funding gap.

I'd much rather rally and build around Higher Standards—thematically and rhetorically—than the Strong Floor, No Ceiling mishmash. Higher Standards of Living Higher Standards of Competency Higher Standards of Ethical Conduct (And a reliable floor is solid, not strong.)

Tired: going for two down 8 Wired: going for two down 22 Pummeled by Penguins in the first half, Yale math provides the winning margin over Youngstown State in the Ivy League's first ever FCS playoff victory. Crazy comeback.

Gonna need more than an investigation announcement—some real courage and determination, actually—but Sen. Roger Wicker could probably prevent a whole lot of future harm and make a legacy for himself over the next week or so if he really wants to.

If I were on House Foreign Affairs like @juliejohnsontx.bsky.social, I might want to investigate whether denying refugee admissions from Afghanistan or expelling admitted Afghani refugees were discussed in Trump's surrender talks with the Taliban.

Gonna be fun when NVDA starts leasing/BNPLing GPUs to other companies using the lessees' other assets as collateral.

Welp, gonna miss Semien. Not so much his "I'm a Californian who moved to Texas" radio ads for Globe Life though. At least with Nimmo the Rangers lineup gets even more left-handed?

Mamdani met Trump not as a supplicant but as a champion. He knocked out Cuomo twice! Trump can't help but admire that the same way he admires Putin and Xi and Orban and MBS. OTOH, Democrats and foreign leaders who want federal funding or advanced weapons or tariff relief are bugs to be squashed.