My table for the new reconciliation money Two big takeaways: 1) tons of money for DHS with far *less* accountability or oversight than is typical 2) taken together with OBBBA, ICE can run at roughly quadruple capacity through 2029 even with no additional money, but CBP will run out next year

he had one overriding job, Get Trump, and he essentially refused to do it

Ezra Klein’s main contribution to American political discourse is to mislead his audience about prominent far right figures, sanitize and normalize them, tamping down opposition. Charlie Kirk did politics exactly right, be more like him. Elon Musk cares only about cars and space, admire him. Etc

"Trump bad" is not the story. The story is that every Republican administration for the last 50 fucking years has been a corrupt disaster and Democrats keep having to clean up after them. This narrative is obvious in the numbers, in the history, but voters don't know it because Dems won't tell it.

Re RFK Jr.s' (awful) comments on Medicaid funded long term care. We've shifted funding towards home care (and away from expensive institutions)--but family members are heavily subsidizing it. Relatively small payments to families is what makes this shift possible. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Karl Rove's advice was to always accuse your opponent of having your weakness, Republicans have really stuck to that

Brad and everyone like him are idiots and the sooner we treat them like idiots and not innocent hardworking decent people who were just confused the sooner we can get this country back on track.

This is very sad and I truly feel for these farmers. But let’s be clear about why anyone selects a candidate. It’s not to obtain some specific policy outcome. Brad voted for Trump bc he liked the way Trump made him feel (powerful) and bc all his buddies were voting for Trump, too.

(Flips over to "UpFront") "We are joined by former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to discuss the 2026 race." (Clicks off immediately) There is NOTHING that bad-faith grifter will say that is remotely true or insightful. @dennycarter.bsky.social @danshafer.bsky.social

he and ossoff are both pointing in the same direction: highly moralistic rhetoric about corruption as an existential threat — to prosperity, to democracy, and to the nation’s collective soul.

40% of the increased spending in March was due to higher gas prices, but Americans kept spending on other things too. Which means savings rate keeps falling, and it'll get even lower without tax refunds, and gas prices rising even more. jakehasablog.blogspot.com/2026/05/amer... #velshi #EconSky

If there's any job that can be, and should be, completely replaced by AI, it's "reporter who converts Republican lies into faux neutral newspeak." No good reason to pay any human for that.

Who knew that authoritarianism, persecution of foreigners, and the wanton torching of US soft power would be bad for the US hospitality industry?

It's very funny to me that Gmail has added what amounts to Word's grammar check feature from 2003 and is calling it AI.

Democrats need to accept that they're entering a new era of procedural Total War. This includes a big escalation in redistricting, but it's not limited to that. If Republicans don't like it, tough shit: They made this world, and they are the ones inflicting it on us. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

Having all the cards is, famously, not the goal in Uno.

And @eggerdc.bsky.social says Ds shouldn't "stop trying" for national detente and must "demand more" than total war. I agree! But there isn't a choice between 1) aggressive redistricting; and 2) seeking peace. Whole point is deescalation is always an option *if* it's mutual: bsky.app/profile/greg...

I'm being a petty little bitch about this again but the only thing I can think about after Florida changing its Congressional maps in less than 48 hours is how there was a years, literal YEARS long whinge from liberals about how Biden couldn't actually fire the head of the fucking Post Office.

BREAKING: House Republicans kept DHS shut down for over 70 days, cutting off funds for FEMA, TSA, the Coast Guard & more. They caved today after accomplishing nothing. They're playing games with your safety while making life harder and more expensive.

Like everybody keeps going on about the incredible insatiable demand for compute, but the reality is that the supply constraints are because two large failsons (Anthropic + OpenAI) are taking up most of Google/Meta/Microsoft's capacity.

The face of someone who’s devoted their life to service, science and space exploration needing to listen to some draft-dodging, out-of-shape bozo brag that he easily could’ve been an astronaut.

To be clear as day, this is, of course, absolutely intentional. It has happened with every Republican president of my lifetime (with the notable exception of HW Bush). It's what the GOP does. www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

Jesus Christ: I am ashamed of this guy.

several generations of goo goo liberals whose politics were Sorkin a decade ago find themselves much closer to Sherman today, having seen the institutions they took for granted crumble under the weight of corrupt men (very much including the bitch ass losers at the nyt)

Despite $4+ gas prices, US consumers are still driving and spending. So why do so many Americans say finances are getting worse? Because same Gallup poll shows biggest $$ concerns are paying for med emergency or retirement. Many are on the edge. jakehasablog.blogspot.com/2026/04/amer... #EconSky

if you want a book that takes this perspective on pretty directly (with a presidential focus), i wrote one just for you

Cannot stress enough that what's happening now and will accelerate over next few weeks is a big spike in fuel costs paid for by every American that will flow *directly* into insane, unprecedented profits for American oil companies. They're going to be the big winners of this.

When the Court upheld legislaures' ability to do *partisan* gerrymanders in 2019, Roberts went on and on about how partisan gerrymandering was unfortunate, but not illegal. Today's decision turns partisan gerrymandering into a complete defense of racial gerrymandering. It's really gross.

it’s simple. Dems need to 1. prepare retaliatory gerrymanders in every blue state now that the VRA has been overturned 2. pack the court (and prosecute Thomas/alito) in 2029 I will only even *consider* primary candidates who support both of the above going forward

The Post analyzed the video. A security officer fired on Cole Allen four times. He missed each time. The video does not show Allen firing. Assessing other video evidence, an expert told the Post that there were six shots in all. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

"He has led America into one of our worst strategic defeats in our history," says @pkrugman.bsky.social, but none of it would be possible without the "moral, intellectual, emotional collapse of the GOP." On the pod, Krugman is highly illuminating on Trump and Iran: newrepublic.com/article/2096...

Like the weak SPLC and Comey cases, the best way to think about this is an attempt to sync up law enforcement with the right-wing media narrative machine.

One of the ways in which everything is going wrong is that that mediating institution used to be ‘president of your rotary club’ and now it’s ‘charismatic person saying insane things online’

Can someone remind me, is that little dash before the final number good or bad for growth?

democrats: we're waiting for our good friends the republicans to wake up and turn on trump republicans: we're indicting james comey for an instagram pic and trying to get disney thrown off air cause jimmy kimmel talked shit about us

You can see this new indictment of James Comey as an outrage, which it is, or rather a patently illegitimate abuse of power. I see it as more evidence of his crashing out & collapse, more direct & absurd lashing out while he's unable or lacks the mental wherewithal to right his own political ship.

Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.

Trump seems to have written this, but any lawyer who signed it should be insta-fired. But what’s maddening is that for years our media has pretended Trump’s idiotic, borderline-illiterate writing style was a perfectly valid register for public communication. Why have we normalized this drivel?

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

this would be a huge loss if they paid taxes

Everyone should be exactly as sympathetic to Trump as he was to Mike Pence. Or Paul Pelosi. Or the innocent Iranians he threatened to genocide.

Data center construction in Wisconsin could lead to nearly $2 billion in tax writeoffs in coming years, and could cause major hole in next state budget. Fortunately, PSC just ruled Port Washington and Foxconn projects cannot move most costs to homeowners. jakehasablog.blogspot.com/2026/04/data...

The party whose entire messaging is now centered on building an outsize ballroom?

Hey @markpocan.bsky.social and @repgwenmoore.bsky.social - what is this garbage? Sure, affordability matters. But so does accountability. Do you want to win big this November, or not? Because this lame Beltway BS won't cut it. @wisdems.org @benwikler.bsky.social

I talked to Jamie Raskin about his explosive exchange with CNN's Dana Bash. "The media should understand that the survival of the free press is at stake right now," he tells me. "There is only one party in America trying to censor and control the press.” New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2095...

In Western Wis, Polaris got over $800,000 in taxpayer handouts from Walker Admin to stay open. It also used Walker/WisGOP tax writeoff that gives nearly $500 mil a year to manufacturers and Ag businesses. And Polaris is still closing the plant this Summer. jakehasablog.blogspot.com/2026/04/wisg...

Key: Censorship is happening in states red, blue, and purple. In K-12, it is happening in public and private schools, at every level, across disciplines, and in every district, including the most liberal (I worked in one of these).

this is the same type of posting they did when cracker barrel changed its logo

new "i am not a crook!" just dropped