hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.

Just so I can be a better NBA fan, I think I need to move to the Pacific time zone. By 10pm every night, all games are over and you could've watched so many of them

This crazy man #IndianaPacers #PacersNation #NBA

That article about the Bulls wanting to be last year’s Pacers is even funnier when they are getting mauled by the 4-18 Pacers

Pascal Siakam up to 36 points, tying his season high. He's been awesome tonight. Making shots from all over the floor and has 11 boards to go with it. His Pacers-high in points is 37.

@howardbeck.bsky.social love your insight and commitment to… our shared values. You hated the NBA Cup. You probably still do. I think The Pacers prove you wrong. They used that pressure to help create a finals run. I don’t think it’s being discussed, I’m right. The added competition helped them.

Underrated truth. The series was decided in game 4 in the 4th quarter, not the 3rd, when the Pacers gave away an 8 point lead and Ty couldn’t score against 1 on 1 with Chet Holmgren Also, Josh Tivin’s terrible foul calls all game

It's too easy to be distracted by the economic story of the day. The more important story is of our system fraying: The rule of law is decaying, Bribery spreading, crony capitalism normalized. It won’t show up in next quarter’s data, but when our kids try to build their lives.

There is no defense for how little they tried to offer Myles. Especially because lesser bigs than him are getting considerable deals as well.

@cherylrofer.bsky.social 1/2 I saw your LGM post this week. You and Heather Cox Richardson write my news summaries every week and I appreciate it. I think that what’s clear abt Mike Johnson and the House is not about Epstein. Anything passed by the House can be filibustered or vetoed

Thanks to John Roberts & his desire to make America a one party country (when that 1 party is a minority), I get to find out what it’s like to live under Jim Crow. The very thing the Court broke up in Baker v Carr & Reynolds v Sims, John Roberts’s Orbanist desires will give me. Braun/Indiana

Because Alex Thompson is a Fox News wannabe

The Fever and Pacers have have quite the post-season runs this year. #WNBA #NBA #Pacers #Fever

So many of us came so very unwillingly to this place of viewing the Supreme Court as unworthy of being viewed as a judicial body. Unworthy of veneration, unworthy of respect. So profoundly reluctantly. But, good lord have they earned it.

RT @NBAonNBC: Can’t believe the Pacers won all these games. 😳

Something in the water in Indy, man. Both the Pacers and Fever do not fucking quit

Uncoverd Controversy: Craze Fan (Tyrese Haliburton - Indiana Pacers) #CC22 #CaitlinClark #NowYouKnow #FeverRising #IndianaFever #WNBA #TyreseHaliburton #IndianaPacers #NBA

In the 2000s and 2010s, Jon Stewart would bring foreign comedians on The Daily Show who weren't allowed to appear on television in their home countries due to dictatorial censorship. We have now almost completely reversed that situation.

It's just before 6 AM in Moscow. Him, Tim Pool, and Anna Kasparian are all about to jump on the morning sync.

•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller •MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions” •FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people

When Zach Lowe criticizes an NBA player and then says “I should say I’m a huge fan of him” does anyone buy that he’s a huge fan?

Karl Marx certainly wasn't right about everything. But man did he have some keen insights into people's motivations. Class interests are a hell of a drug.

Klein coup’d a President and Kirk enabled a felon to become president

/3 Moreover, Klein’s identification with fellow pundits seems selective. Klein could have identified with, for instance, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social, whom Kirk called to be deported for his views — something that did not disqualify Kirk from “doing politics in the right way,” in Klein’s eyes.

/2 This approach sees speaking and writing and politics as just widget-making, morally neutral, banal. Hey; that guy repairs air conditioners and so do I; we’re much alike. By contrast Klein doesn’t seem to identify with the people Kirk reviled and despised and degraded.

This is a less obvious point made abt today’s exclusive punditry class, ie they’re on the same class of ppl, hanging with the same billionaires and seeing each other as the same. Marx would have a field day with these people and any revolution lines them up with their billionaire organ grinders

Where Tony East controversially tries to eliminate the greatest moment of the 2025 run by adopting FIBA rules and letting Mitchell Robinson swat Tyrese’s game tying shot out of bounds and thus save the Knicks! Why Tony?

I thought this would be lame, but it was more than fun, reliving games of the past where Terrence Ross could trip and fall and the ball would go in

#Fever #WNBA

Killed by a memelord then immediately forgotten by the man he built it all for. Died as he lived: pointlessly.

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

lol fuck off

How many people gonna die because some women laughed at these guys‘ dicks

“I wasn’t sure what number you wanted me to go with.” — Zuck, 100% pathetically bitch-made by a man who said he should be thrown in jail for life, appeasing an administration who says his wife’s family isn’t American, loving how RFK is dismantling every public health advancement that CZI ever made.

Does American law derive from the statutes, Congress, and ultimately the Constitution? Or does it derive from presidential command, with the law, Congress, and Constitution merely inserting some procedural stumbling blocks that the executive must maneuver around? In practice, increasingly the latter

I sometimes wonder if Pete Hegseth is ever sober enough to think that he disgraces the seat George C. Marshall once sat in and feels his souls shrivel contemplating the titanic gap between Marshall's achievements for his country and Pete Hegseth's sad embarrassment of a career and character.

Someone who writes for the Post was mad when I called it a Trump rag earlier this week, but, I’m sorry. Facts is facts.

Every right wing chud who is super duper establishment has this weird idea that they are a rebel when they behave like their racist great-grandpa with a crew cut. It is amusing.

Now Spicy P and I both have a UNB Alumni pin and a doctorate. Congratulations Dr. Siakam!

Caitlin Cooper's low key disdain for Myles Turner even caused her to analyze a literal pointless event. I mean, you still get the ball twice to open quarters either way. She will be happier this yr when slight Isaiah Jackson (for an NBA center) is tossed around like a rag doll on the interior

You can’t “love” the sport of basketball and not know anything about the WNBA. You love men’s basketball. And that’s ok. You’re just missing out 🤷🏾‍♀️

I wish I could invest in this as well. They’re obviously getting overthrown

I tried this with an adjunct history professor on X and he blocked me for explaining what the law meant

This has nothing to do with what they deserve. I am telling you what is happening and likely to happen. If you don't want me to explain what is happening and likely to happen, unfollow.

Where is the Left in the US flooding my timeline with “Genocide Don” and “Holocaust Vance”? It’s almost like, for the second time in less than a decade, foreign accounts on Twitter were able to shape Left wing thought and keep that home on election day

@erikloomis.bsky.social Maybe watch Jamelle a little and feel slightly better.

she said that “black” with a hard r

i was told that trump’s modest improvement with black and hispanic men meant that racism had nothing to do with MAGA. oh well.