Bees and touch me nots this evening.

This is good, very, very good.

"And now we won't even know what we've lost" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

This story is the predictable overlap of all @wired.com's reporting on the danger posed by Big Balls and all @stevevladeck.bsky.social's reporting on the dangers of SCOTUS' refusal to stay Trump's abuse of power.

What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%

What comes to mind when I see Trump's masked-up proud boy immigration police.

OPINION: "Public media prioritizes education and civic enlightenment. It gives citizens important tools for navigating complex issues to make informed decisions—whether those decisions are about whom to vote for or about public policy itself," Sam Martin writes.

How is Trump giving permission to Iran to bomb our base not getting coverage? talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

NEW: The senators are calling for a federal watchdog to investigate the Trump administration’s killing of hundreds of VA contracts. Among their concerns: ProPublica revealed DOGE used AI to mark contracts as “munchable.” By @ericumansky.bsky.social‬ & @vernalcoleman.bsky.social‬

Political violence in all forms is anathema to democracy. Threats against elected officials have been on the rise, as we found in our study of local and state officeholders last year. 2/3 www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

This was the focus of a piece I wrote last month. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I feel like I’ve been hit in the head with a giant wrench. I actually don’t fully believe what I just watched is real.

Boo-Boo passing through 🐻

Mark Carney, "We have what the world wants, we have the values the world respects" "To build big, to build bold, to build together"

Donald Trump is lying. Independent analysts say 14 MILLION PEOPLE will lose their health insurance under the "big, beautiful bill"—all to subsidize Jeff Bezos' next $500 million yacht.

There's always a tweet.

In modern America unemployed Elmo would go to Times Square or Hollywood Boulevard to take pictures with tourists who would shun him in favor of the clearly stoned fake Elmos until he got abducted by a one-legged Batman

Palate cleanse. Spring has finally arrived in the north country.

This is one hell of an exchange. This is argument in the 2nd circuit about returning Ozturk - the student in ICE detention for writing an op-ed - to Vermont from Louisiana. You can follow along here: bsky.app/profile/josh...)

I joined Ali Velshi of MSNBC this morning and Ali’s first question was about the President’s jarring answer “I don’t know” to the question “Don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?”

Spring 🙂

Wow

This is how you accurately write a headline. Rolling Stone gets it.

The level of criminal conduct here is hard to imagine www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Harvard 3, Columbia 0 This is turning into a rout www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Turn it up 🐸

In recognition of the 30th anniversary of the attack on federal employees and children at the federal building in Oklahoma City by a domestic terrorist, I strongly recommend this podcast series on the assault, its militia movement roots, and its influence on current-day white nationalism by the BBC.

We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

4/5/2025- The Economy www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ap...

This is nonsense

the American electorate is famous for being on the wrong side of history and not caring; it’s how Nixon got reelected in a landslide. So what we’re going through now shouldn’t come as too much a surprise. That doesn’t make it any easier to swallow morally or politically

This morning Commerce Secretary Lutnik was twisting himself into a pretzel trying to keep up with the lies and contradictions he was spewing about Trump’s tariff “policy.” Like watching a guy walking 20 cats on leashes through a bird-filled briar patch.

Uh-huh.

EXCLUSIVE: This just happened onstage in front of 6,000 Bostonians at the Dropkick Murphys concert. "This is America, no kings here!" @dropkickmurphys.com nails it again!!

NEW: A growing right-wing movement is trying to overturn Supreme Court precedents that protect the media’s ability to investigate politicians and other powerful people. It might succeed. An inside look, adapted from my forthcoming book MURDER THE TRUTH. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/m...