Jacob Asher

Karp is pathetic and cowardly and deserves every bit of opprobrium the rest of the bar can bestow upon him.

This is not hard, people. Except for most media people.

Undefeated

We're on the Unfuck Stage of Trump's Abuse of Power - emptywheel The Supreme Court hearing on tariffs increases my optimism that at least five Justices will reverse the tariffs. A more interesting moment of the hearing, though, came when Amy Coney Barrett asked how...

We're on the Unfuck Stage of Trump's Abuse of Power

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Katyal is dazzling in his command and fluency on this case

MLR varies by size of employer in the commercial market. It's 80% for individual and small employers, and 85% for large employers. Premium refunds occur if health care costs don't meet minimums. self funded employers don't pay premiums and instead pay an administrative fee per member to plans.

Agree with many of your points but wonder why hospital pricing was not included as another driver. thanks

Food stamps? Hah! Let them eat gilded ballrooms…

Trump is refusing to use contingency funds to fund SNAP — even though his own administration’s guidance said he had the legal authority to do so.

But he’ll find a way to bail out Argentina, conduct extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean, and build a vanity ballroom.

Priorities.

Why is Big Business Caving to Trump? (with Andrew Ross Sorkin) — Pod Save America Why have CEOs been so eager to bend the knee? How are tariffs actually affecting the economy? Is the next major financial crisis already underway? New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin...

Superb discussion overcast.fm/+AA5dspjc2kI

Remember the first few months of this year, when all we talked about was DOGE and spending cuts and waste, and this administration gutted USAID?

And now they’re giving $40 billion (!) to Argentina.

Insane the amount of amnesia in this country and in our politics and media.

Opinion | It's time to stop promoting people on the basis of their gender or race.

by Bari Weiss and Clarence Thomas

Before Obamacare, insurers charged people with health issues thousands of dollars a month for insurance, or they wouldn't give them insurance at all. Republicans want to bring back that era.

Quote: Their outcomes, along with the Court’s actions in the last few years, carry the seeds of American tragedy. Roberts, often described as an institutionalist, has enabled the most hostile anti-institutionalist ever elected president. The leader of the nation’s judicial system has empowered the president who is the most disdainful in history of the decrees of judges, the provisos of the Constitution, and the workings of American democracy. The chief justice, attempting to thread the needle between principle and practicality, has opened the door to the possibility of the ultimate constitutional crisis: a president’s outright defiance of the Supreme Court.

Truly excellent new piece by Lincoln Caplan in @harvardmagazine.bsky.social on John Roberts, seen in full.

Careful, meticulous, devastating case on how "institutionalist" has enabled destruction of crucial institutions. Including his now discredited court.
www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

Just a reminder that this humanitarian catastrophe was brought to you by the votes (and the continuing silence) of white people who describe themselves as Christians.

Fact check: true

Will Ted Cruz Go to Prison for the Lies He Told as Part of the Jim Comey Indictment? - emptywheel According to the public record, Jim Comey didn't lie in an exchange with Ted Cruz on September 30, 2020. Ted Cruz did.

Will Ted Cruz Go to Prison for the Lies He Told as Part of the Jim Comey Indictment?

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Ha

-Perkins Coie (+ other firm that didn't back down).
-Harvard (after momentary false start)
-"Lower" fed judiciary. (Not Roger Taney "supreme" court.)
-Local grand juries.
-Govs like Pritzker and Newsom
-WSJ and NYT, when sued.
-Millions of protestors
-Now Jimmy Kimmel.

Our tapestry of resistance.

No evidence.
No science.
No solutions.
 
Just Trump peddling another dangerous lie — this time about Tylenol and autism — that sows chaos, scares parents, and puts our health at risk.

Per @nateturner:

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
—Hannah Arendt,

The S.E.C. Drops Efforts to Recoup Funds From Trump Clemency Recipients

Securities and Exchange Commission legalizes corruption and fraud. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Hollywood should simply say to ABC/Disney: no Kimmel, no Oscars.

Let ABC put on a show with host Ben Shapiro and glittering celebrities like Kevin Sorbo, Rob Schneider, Kid Rock, Jeannie Pirro, and Kimberly Guilfoyle.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. #FuckTrump #HesOnTheList #resist

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk’s record.

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Kash Patel Replaced by Startled Deer Informing Patel of his decision in a brief phone call, Trump reportedly said, “Sorry, Kash—we’re going deer.”

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There Is No Third Door The only alternative to "complicity" is withholding votes for lawbreaking.

There Is No Third Door
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Insurers might be the last "honest" industry in that they must abide by scientific reality so they don't lose money. All consumers will pay the costs of the GOP's stupidity.