Ryan Fischer

They changed the rule for Ohtani (though I'm glad they did, because he is awesome).

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

Desaparecidos.

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

All these guys love cyberpunk novels and movies where people say things like "information is power," and they took the lesson to heart.

Tech oligarchs didn't takeover WaPo, the LA Times, CBS News, Twitter, etc. (maybe TikTok soon) because they love journalism, or even because they want to make money from them. I'm not really sure how to build a functioning alternative information environment (I guess BlueSky is something, for now).

Honestly in some ways this is the epitome of this administration. This is a government of podcasters and TV presenters led by a reality TV star who doesn't actually want to govern, he just wants to create *content*

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

1. Mariners
2. Blue Jays
3. Brewers
4. Tigers
5. Padres
6. Guardians
7. Reds
8. Phillies
9. Cubs
10. Yankees
11. Red Sox
12. Dodgers

Maybe everyone but the person who made it.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

I, for one, am beginning to suspect that the answer is "all of the shit."

William R.E.M.quist

Chotiner's tone when he asks these questions must be so perfectly calibrated.

The Simpsons old man sitting on a stump telling a story but all the kids have been replaced with headstones

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

Wikipedia is what the internet was meant to be and one of the few online places that hasn’t got worse. It’s a miracle

Comedy is legal again, I hear.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Certainly, wealth will all "trickle down" to help people meet those needs. It is a very new and way of thinking about political economy.

As an objective pundit, I think that culture and politics need cater to your fears rather than marginalize your voice because you, sir, are the real America.

A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.

It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines.

The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible.

Vaccines save lives. Period.

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.

Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

I don't understand why we should look at HHS in isolation from the rest of the administration. If you're some MAHA person who is worried about food dyes and thimerosal in a small percentage of vaccines, shouldn't you be even more worried about the EPA rolling back rules on PFAs in drinking water?

Privilege - used way more by Republicans

Trump bought more than $100 million in bonds since January, filings show The purchases could let the president make money off companies and local entities that could be affected by his agenda.

Trump has purchased at least $103 million worth of corporate and municipal bonds since he took office again, according to new filings from the Office of Government Ethics.
 
Trump made about 690 purchases from Jan. 21 through Aug. 1.
 
The active trading by a president of the U.S. is unprecedented.

They'd rather have authoritarianism than a small part of their wealth taxed (even though those taxes build a state and society that have allowed them to achieve unprecedented riches and wealth inequality).

An honest answer that should alarm all of us without 100s of millions of dollars or more!

They probably do.