William Finkel

@talibkweli.bsky.social is more at home on the stage of the Blue Note than I am on my own couch. Thanks for entertaining us!

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

We should treat lying to Congress as the felony it is & enforce the law

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They’re eating the cats! They’re eating the dogs!

When you don’t have a deal, but you announce a deal anyway, granting your pissed off counterparty additional leverage because it becomes even harder for you to credibly walk away from the table, that’s the art of the deal.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

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That's ok, they previously had an offensive coordinator which is a football coach's job. This is bound to be an upgrade.

Scott Pelley sits down with Marc Elias tonight on 60 Minutes.

Few lawyers are willing to speak publicly about President Trump’s actions against law firms. Fear is rippling through Washington. But, despite being a target, Marc Elias is still talking. Scott Pelley sits down with him tonight on 60 Minutes.

Got to be even harder to do all those jobs with his lips glued to Trump's kiester.

You have the coolest friends on here

@wearedelasoul.com "The Magic Number" greets me when I turn on MLB The Show; "Say No Go" is starting as I leave the gym. It feels like we're seeing how much we needed De La all those years when the library was unavailable...and I'm here for it!

Very narrowly lost the vote on this. This was a chance for the Senate to put American businesses, farmers, workers and producers first. Most Republicans chose Trump. I’m not done, I will keep at this until we repeal Trump’s disastrous tariffs.

Opinion | The DOGE staffers are not too young to run the government.

by Bill Belichick

So, we are really supposed to believe the way out of the tariff debacle is Trump negotiating new individual trade deals with hundreds of incredibly pissed off countries simultaneously?

Truly, how f--ling insane is that? THIS IS THE PLAN??????

I forget, how did Laura Loomer's work with Stannis Baratheon work out?

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

The claim that the destruction of essential civilizational institutions is being done in the name of the Jews is itself a form of antisemitism—cultural vandalism carried out in our name.

That, my friends, is rank bullshit.

Open letter by 700+ Jewish faculty in US on Trump's Columbia funding cuts, supposedly against antisemitism: "Not on our behalf. Harming US Universities does not protect Jewish people. Cutting funding for research does not protect Jewish people. Punishing researchers does not protect Jewish people."

This reminder about the role of the federal courts seems necessary given the opening line in defendants’ pending motion, expressing “the need to curtail ongoing improper encroachments of President Trump’s Executive Power playing out around the country.” Defs.’ Mot. at 1. This line, which sounds like a talking point from a member of Congress rather than a legal brief from the United States Department of Justice, has no citation to any legal authority for the simple reason that the notion expressed reflects a grave misapprehension of our constitutional order.

One small part of Beryl Howell's order rejecting DOJ's bid to force her to recuse.

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The problem with that "First they came for" poem is it makes a lot of unlikely assumptions. For example it assumes they would ever come for me

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

Remarkable resignation letter from the Justice Department's chief information officer in the immigration review division — a disabled veteran.

Obtained by @propublica.org's Brett Murphy:

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

Gov Hochul can fire the mayor. She should have done so when the scope and scale of his cascading congenital corruption career was laid out in federal indictments. She waited for him to go to trial. Now that injustice has taken its course she is the only reason he remains in office. Step up Hochul.

Since the FBI appears to be the only agency that is both still functioning and not headed by a lunatic, the Washington Field Office needs to open an investigation into the breach of the computer systems at Treasury, stat