James Goodwin

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Last night on the roof for the year probably

Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown The president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are waging a war on leakers – but ‘this stuff only works if you let it get to you,’ says one Pentagon official.

“Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown”

New, for @zeteo.com tonight, via @andrewperez.bsky.social and me:

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Addendum: One reason you see a lot more of this flailing about to find new excuses for why Congress sucks that doesn't involve the GOP is that conservatives' old go-to excuse -- Chevron deference -- is no longer available.

Bass in your face

I'm cautiously optimistic I can get my kids hooked on this.

Don't know why this still happens -- because I know it shouldn't -- but every time I listen to Big Star I'm struck by how good they were

Why would environmentalists do this to us?!

I don't think I did that right

One left leaning foundation that won't fund progressive regulatory reform work; a second left leaning foundation that won't fund progressive regulatory reform work; a third left leaning foundation that won't fund progressive regulatory reform work

Former OMB associate director on personnel here: This is blatantly false and inexplicably undermines Congress's authority. Congress made extremely clear in 2019 that furloughed feds are to be paid, full stop, period. There is no question, except why the Speaker would make such a statement.

First, the 'Emergency.' Then, the Abuse of Power. - Center for Progressive Reform The Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7) on Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence released last week pushed the United States one step closer to a country where the right of freed...

"The Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7) on Countering Domestic Terrorism andOrganized Political Violence released last week pushed the U.S. one step closer to a country where the right of freedom of speech and peaceful protest no longer exists."

-Executive Director, Minor Sinclair

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Just another way that Trump is "worse" than Project 2025

Trump Agencies Lean Into Shortcuts for Public Comment Process Efforts to streamline rulemaking seem more haphazard than a widely adopted, systematic plan. But they still break with recognized best practices and sometimes appear to violate federal law, scholars s...

Good point from this article: Project 2025 specifically does not call for evading notice-and-comment procedures. To the contrary, it repeatedly recommends that they be used to advance its policy goals. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/trump...

will never get over the Washington Post Editorial Board recommending confirming Pam Bondi

I wish I loved anything as much as I hate Trump

I'm by no means an authority on this, but what they are telling us about AI sounds eerily like what they were telling us about natural gas ~25 years ago.

Less than a penny per ton...

I thought Unitary Executive Theory was all about increasing political accountability

love to have NWSL's broadcast partner CBS running a whole CarMax ad during a player substitution and proceed to miss an entire goal by KC Current

absolute amateur hour

Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.

This remains the key issue: The shutdown will not end unless and until a majority of the House will agree to whatever passes the Senate.

I love raising my kids in the city. We can take a short bus ride to the zoo or to see dinosaurs. No need to be tough on "crime." Though, I would love to see a crackdown on shitty driving.

Did Bebe trademark Bebe?

All time favorite

You might say a new legal literature* has been born

*2 draft essays from the past 6 days currently only available on SSRN, filled with footnotes that say "To be added later"

Apropos of nothing, The Jacobins would be a great sports team.

It's like a Caravaggio painting

Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

Yes, they are. "Each employee of the United States Government or of a District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations..." 31 USC 1341. It's not even close.

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