Chris Nehls

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

“My analysis of the network's FEC disbursements reveals that, at most, $11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees.” open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

Great job, Manfred

I tell this story not infrequently, but my Soderbergh fan friends and I went to the brief theatrical release of 'Behind the Candelabra'. No-one else there but two old ladies sitting behind us. We are, perhaps, 15 minutes into the film when one of them cries out, scandalised "LIBERACE WAS GAY?!?!"

John Roberts is David Brent going back to get his guitar to sing the colorblind song to the company

Aggressive goose meme: who is specifically protected by the 14th and 15th amendments, muthafucker?

So this appears to be a legal move on the President’s part, if not necessarily a wise or subtle one.

At some point, the country is gonna need to collectively deal with the fact that George W. Bush paved the roads that Trump is driving tanks down today

“we are fighting fascism by passing the bipartisan infrastructure bill” is the lie you tell yourself because you cannot live with the truth that you are unwilling to take the risks associated with actually fighting fascism

Dont worry, I bet we can vote away the void monster that will consume us all

The more important question is how many of these places don’t suck. Four if I’m generous

This is not a David Stearns subskeet, as he is killing it

Baseball GM

Gilbert Arenas is like a Cassavetes character

The antitrust war inside MAGA

Unbelievably corrupt things are happening over at the Trump DOJ when it comes to antitrust.

Gail Slater, Trump's anti-monopoly czar, is under pressure because she objected to the HPE-Juniper merger, hashed out between officials and company executives over cocktails. unherd.com/2025/07/the-...

Sounds like the White House overruled Vought’s effort to block all NIH funding, which implies that Vought did not clear it through the White House first. Given that even GOP Senators are pushing for the money to be spent, that would be an extraordinary power grab.

SWAGGY V

I had the surreal experience of talking to Andre Dawson for 20 minutes about being a Mets nemesis in the 80s and I could have had the same convo with Ryno. Old NL East was something

It wasn’t about GenX’ers, right?

The Athletic started to enshitify this summer like, thanks NYT.

The guy was quoted yesterday saying they’re just covering for Trump.

But is it?

Chad Bradford lives

It sure I’ve ever seen a 1b face plant with his cleats facing the plate

Devers is a total disaster at first

Really good summary, esp the part about a desire for executive power being the glue holding the GOP coalition together, which is scary as hell

Rewatched MIAMI VICE, which I saw in the theater and remembered like two scenes and yeah, there’s a reason for that

So Brando was in JULIUS CAESAR in ‘53 so this isn’t random, but I watch a lot of movies with a similarly aged kid and this is insane

We have civilian control of the military but not the police

The lesson of Hungary is this: We cannot claim to care about democracy only when it costs nothing. President Trump, like Mr. Orban, no doubt believes that everyone can be bought. America’s elites are proving him right.”