Two things I have been pretty sure of: Repealing Glass-Steagall was a mistake and mainstream-blessed sports gambling will end badly. www.wsj.com/sports/baske...

What a lede (!): “When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn't be concerned. But that is far from the reality many citizens have experienced. …”

DIMON, on Tricolor: ".. my antenna goes up when things like that happen. .. I probably shouldn't say this, but when you see one cockroach, you will probably see more. And so everyone should be forewarned." (via Vital Knowledge) $JPM

Republicans have had 15 years to come up with an Obamacare replacement plan. They still haven’t

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Staggering detail. Remarkable piece of work. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to illegal immigrants.

> @deanbaker13.bsky.social

kudos to @adamserwer.bsky.social who wrote the piece that gets at the core of what's been happening over the last ten months. regular people are standing up, at real risk. elites are folding like cheap umbrellas www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“.. Tesla’s European Union sales in August decreased by 37% year over year ..” @barrons.com $TSLA www.barrons.com/articles/tes...

Ken CHESEBRO, an architect of Trump's bid to remain in power despite losing the 2020 election, has been suspended from practicing law in D.C. (he'd already been disbarred/suspended in several states) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My neighbor in Orlando mentioned this EXACT concern to me last night!

70 years ago.

The Republican Congress is going to try to rewrite the history of RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. “We didn’t know” “Nobody told us” “He promised he wouldn’t…” This thread will be about the warnings from thousands of scientists and HCW who loudly and publicly opposed his confirmation.

Vaccines are truly one of the most incredible things in all of human history. We founds ways to literally defeat communicable deadly diseases at almost no cost and at no harm to ourselves. And grifters are working to undermine that and get people killed.

The New York Mets are calling up right-hander Jonah Tong, one of the top pitching prospects in baseball, sources tell ESPN. #LGM

Re: Lisa Cook - so far, all the administration has are allegations. There is as yet no evidence of guilt. And there is as yet no reason to think this rises to the level of "for cause." At the moment it is a naked attack on the Fed. Trump is rolling the dice that the courts will roll over.

If Trump were operating in the best interests of America's businesses, his move to fire Lisa Cook would cause stocks to shrug, or maybe rise. But they're saying: This is dangerous. This move serves Trump, but not America. Our economy is at risk when the President undermines the Fed.

Do not forget. It’s about control of the Fed. This is a very dark day.

Memphis saw 2,501 violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2024, more than double Washington’s 926. The murder rate in Memphis was 41 per 100,000 residents, compared to 26 for D.C….

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on reports that Trump plans to deploy the military in his state

“This is a new attempt of the administration to gain more control over the Fed,” said Claudia Sahm, “They’re pulling as many different levers as they can find to get that control.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

To highlight a pretty egregious example- This isn’t even a month old concerning someone seen as an ally of the President & w/ a healthy record of several other crimes. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/k...

I want a presidential candidate who promises to construct Union memorials and statues all over the country. And yeah, North and South. Blanket Virginia with statues of Thomas, who actually chose the right side. Hell, put one of Sherman in the middle of Peachtree Park.

“It’s a signal that identity, not ability or achievement, determines who stays in uniform and who gets a fair shot.” Forget about merit or achievement. The Trump-Hegseth military is all in for identity politics. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Watching every Mets game since July. youtu.be/pXgXviYAgPg?...

Rule of law is critical to a healthy business environment and economic growth. Every minute companies waste trying to appease, or avoid angering, a fickle president is time they don’t spend improving their operations or figuring out how to appeal to customers. www.axios.com/2025/08/15/w...

Sorry folks, but rolling out the red carpet for a war criminal is a staggering insult to civilized people, and Ukraine in particular. There is ZERO need for it other than to satisfy the narcissistic ego of a sociopath.

President Trump made false and misleading claims about crime in Washington, D.C., during a news conference on Monday as he announced that the administration would take federal control of the police. Here’s a fact-check. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...

Ron Darling conducting an absolute master class on the mentality of pitching right now during Mets-Braves. #LGM

Never realized so many of my friends and relatives in Bensonhurst were practicing ‘state capitalism’ all those years. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

Trump only got 56% of the vote in Texas this last election. Romney got 57% GWBush got 59% and 61% Reagan got 63% in 1984 Nixon got 66% in 1972 LBJ got 63% in 1964 FDR got 88%, 87%, 80%, 71% In the Solid South era, Dems routinely did >70%. None demanded the prize that Our Special Boy wants

Happy to skip this and go back to fake trade deals….

The destruction of everything decent in the United States continues. National suicide.

wow 500 million gallons! that sounds like a lot of water, I wonder how much Texas uses a year

Gotta pay for that ballroom, no?

Louisiana had more total firearm deaths (1,222) in 2022 than New York State (1,044). Louisiana is a much smaller state.

Wait a sec. Last year NYC had 171 firearms deaths on a population of 8.3 million. Louisiana had 1,266 deaths on a pop of 4.6 million, which is on the order of 12 times as many. You are twelve times as likely to be killed by a bullet in Louisiana than in NYC.

Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn’t in the Epstein files, I’ll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I’ll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards

Crisis pregnancy centers have long served as the surveillance apparatus of the anti-abortion movement. With both CPCs, which have always preyed on immigrant women, and ICE increasingly awash with gov. funding, I wrote about the rising threats to immigrant communities & how everything is connected:

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills: "Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.

I’d like a word with the sadist who invented ‘camp visiting day’. Does anyone leave happy?

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

Ahead of major votes on crypto bills this week, crypto PAC Fairshake announced it has $141 million in cash on hand. The group has already announced their intention to play in the midterms.

Two-thirds of the DOJ unit defending Trump policies in court have quit - www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May)

The question to ask the FBI on the Epstein scandal is not whether or not there is a “client list” or “files.” It’s about the video we know the FBI confiscated from Epstein’s homes. The question is this: Are there any men other than Epstein in the videos, and if so, who are they?