Scott Hollis

I have a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland for the same degree of achievement.

"The goal of these programs is to move families into real work," the Republicans say during the Republican shutdown, as the Republican-run House enters its sixth week of getting paid for not working and the Republican president blows millions on his god-awful Epstein Ballroom.

For One Day at Least, Long Live the King King Charles III shows us—but, really, congressional Republicans—what actual accountability looks like when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein.

"Johnson won’t swear in Grijalva. It is a reminder how much Trump doesn’t want those files released. It’s also a reminder that the Republican party is now a full co-conspirator in the coverup. Epstein has become a Republican problem, not simply a Trump problem."

www.thebulwark.com/p/for-one-da...

Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.

EXCLUSIVE: After Trump took over the Kennedy Center in Feb, he vowed to make it "hot" again. So, how's it doing? @jeremybmerrill.com and I used data from the center's ticketing website to find out. Ticket sales are lowest they've been since the pandemic.

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here

Humanoid robot:

They're calling him the most French man in history

Impressive. Cuz media are complicit.

Probably not good that the bubble has gone well past the “to big to fail” line and is now rapidly passing the “too big to actually even be bailed out when it fails” line

40% of the US economy is now held up by like four companies who are all boasting their successes on their involvement in the technology they claim will make half of all of the jobs in the country disappear. This is definitely fine.

Anyway, 40 million Americans are losing access to food in a little under 24 hours, but hey, congrats on that line going up

I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.

Zohran with his hand on his chest leaning into the passenger side window of a taxi, talking with the driver.

Zohran extending his hand to shake hands with a taxi driver through the window.

An airport worker showing Zohran something on his phone, both are smiling.

For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city.

So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.

Sam Newsome #Jazzsky

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

Every single report to shareholders from a large REIT includes something about how it's great that market-rate multifamily housing isn't getting built in high-cost coastal cities because the shortage is what allows them to rent gouge.

I suppose that "Truth is blinding" is a clever enough advertising tagline for the Oedipus production newly arriving on Broadway, but "A motherfucking great play" is, come on, sitting right there. Do I have to do everything?

AI sucks and so does Andrew Cuomo.

The person who oversees healthcare coverage for more than 160 million Americans is lying about healthcare coverage

Here's an example of how Trump's corruption factory works.

1. Coinbase put $46M into elections to help Trump allies.
2. Sends him a huge check for his inauguration.
3. Trump drops SEC lawsuit against Coinbase.
4. Trump demands big donation from Coinbase for ballroom.

Done.

Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.

Morality, decency, justice, and fairness just never enter these discussions. Nor does the possibility that effective leadership and advocacy can move the needle.

The year I was born, public approval of interracial marriage was 30 percent. Death penalty support has dropped 30 percent since 2000.

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

China bought 27 million metric tons of soybeans from US farmers in 2024. But somehow this “deal” to buy significantly less is a huge victory.

Instant deal breaker, anyone who is anything less than totally opposed to Musk is wrong, full stop.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

YouTube video by Vic Firth Dafnis Prieto | "Danzonish Potpourri"

#Jazzsky #Musicsky

President Trump could have spent the past year making hundreds of millions from crypto. Instead, he selflessly let his sons make hundreds of millions from crypto, limiting his own income to bribes, media shakedowns, and a free plane. Will the press acknowledge this sacrifice?

by Hugh Hewitt

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.