Sean Hoe Donahue

While he's digging into the cases there are a few decisions I'd like him to peruse -- Marbury, Barnette, Youngstown, RAV v St Paul, Payton v NY, etc

Fellow Columbia University grads, please consider signing this statement:

What is happening now is not just lawless; it also has no relationship to any serious notion of efficiency, whether governmental or private-sector.

A rational decision to cut (again, assuming legal authority) would have to rest upon a reasoned judgment that the cuts are themselves cost-beneficial. DOGE is not doing that (let alone in public with input from the public, those with subject-matter expertise, etc.).

Congress determined, with far more process and democratic legitimacy than the haphazard extra-statutory DOGE process, that the public benefits of these expenditures were greater than the costs.

Federal staff and grantees whose work ranges from caring for veterans to National Park maintenance, to basic scientific research, do things that offer public benefits that would have to be weighed before any *rational* decision to cut could be made, even assuming legal authority.

In some cases (like IRS employees) we can be certain that the dismissals will cost the government (and the public) far more than any savings in avoided salaries/benefits; in many others dismissals are very likely not worth it. Consider public health researchers, FAA staff, etc.

(and correspondingly, whether the firings/cuts provide cost the public more than they benefit it).

Beside manic disorderliness, sneering cruelty, and lack of statutory authority, an overarching flaw in DOGE/Trump's slashing of federal agencies and grants: they make no effort to determine whether the benefits these employees and programs provide exceed the costs ...

...they're eating the protections for the people who live there.

Graff, who wrote this, is a former editor of POLITICO.

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

Myrna Melgar won District 7. Now, the trick is managing constituents' competing concerns. Most constituents agree that Supervisor Melgar is good at the actual work of being a district supervisor — but getting buy-in on some hot-button issues presents another challenge.

A leader of the get [sensible things] done caucus. I may sometimes oppose organization, tidiness, efficiency and careful planning as household mgmt themes, but these remain critically important values in political leadership.

"Law is the scaffolding of our society--temporary, yet essential."

Awesome:

Crawford, 2-time WS champ with Giants, retires Longtime Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford announced his retirement from baseball after a 14-year career in which he won two titles in San Francisco.

A true champ.

I'd love to be included.

Start ups say a lot of things

31 California Farmworker Facts You Should Know - La Cooperativa Campesina de California Here are 31 farmworker facts that every Californian should know.

Thankful for those who produce our food. Let's treat them better, and surely not deport them.

How Myrna Melgar’s Salvadoran roots shaped career The reelected supe champions herself as a bridge-builder.

This person seems impressive. www.sfexaminer.com/news/politic...

A poli sci prof reader and I have been following the slow drop of Trump's numbers waiting for him to fall below 50%. You can estimate in advance whether he'll get there but plugging in where the remaining votes are and the percentage in those states and so forth. It looked like it was going ...