Brent Snavely

Nouns and Verbs for today:

#Algonquin
#inherentAuthority
#regulate
#tariffs

Important question here -- what has the jury been eating for lunch?

Have they been ordering out for....sandwiches?

Have any Subway sandwiches been delivered to the courtroom?

Hot take: John Sauer had A LOT of caffeine this morning before this #SupremeCourt #tariff hearing.

Also, why does he sound like RFK Jr.?

And it is still there.

Today at Detroit Metro Airport.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker explains what he believes is Donald Trump's real goal in normalizing a military presence in U.S. cities by dressing ICE and Border Patrol agents in military gear.

Watch:

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.

Four Journalists Among Those Killed in Israeli Strikes on Gaza Hospital, Officials Say Gaza-based reporters said the four had worked for various international media outlets. The Israeli military confirmed its forces had struck the hospital area, without saying why.

Four Palestinian journalists, a rescue worker and several more people were killed on Monday after two Israeli strikes hit a hospital in southern Gaza on Monday, according to local officials. Israel confirmed its forces struck the hospital area, without saying why.

CDC workers in Georgia left to work through grief, anger after shooting After Friday's deadly shooting at the CDC in Atlanta, workers say they feel unsupported by federal officials.

"On Saturday, the AJC notes, Kennedy went on his personal social media account and shared photos of himself holding a big salmon from a fishing trip. Later in the day, following more complaints, his official account on X finally shared a message of support for CDC employees."

Breaking Quorum is an exceptional and extraordinary act of last resort. 

It is not a decision I take lightly. 

But Texas Democrats will stand up and protect democracy, even if it comes at a great cost.

Some thoughts

X is like Fox News
Blue Sky is like MSNBC
Threads is like People Magazine

X + Blue Sky = is far from a perfect balance but it helps

CNBC hosts are melting down right now.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after Congress pulls funding Congress recently voted to strip CPB of its federal funding.

Tragic. Shortsighted. Bad for our democracy.

PBS will shut down.

www.axios.com/2025/08/01/c...

If you are wondering where Kamchatka is, you didn't play Risk when you were a kid.

Risk players know Kamchatka is where you put lots of armies to block a U.S. invasion.

CBS to cancel "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" next season The network called it a financial decision.

Bizarre:

The show has been No.1 in the late-night slot for nine straight seasons, CBS said, adding that "the broadcast is a staple of the nation's zeitgeist."

www.axios.com/2025/07/17/c...

Among the waste uncovered by ProPublica and @cbsnews.com: Texas reimbursed anti-abortion groups $14 each time they handed out donated goods or materials, regardless of cost.

Thus, handing out one pamphlet reaped the same payment as a pack of diapers.

(Published July 2024)

ICE has been granted a $160B budget which is more than the Marines (Winslow)

Former leader of anti-vaccine group founded by RFK Jr. to present at first meeting of new CDC vaccine advisers | CNN A former leader of the anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense will present this week on thimerosal in flu vaccines at a meeting of the newly appointed vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Dise...

The former leader of an anti-vaccine group founded by RFK Jr. will present at the first meeting of the CDC's new vaccine advisory committee.

check out Marco's blink rate

Marco Rubio's blink rate is off the charts

I enjoy Eva Longoria's Searching for Spain show.

I really do...

I am really tired of CNN's 24/7 promotion of the show.

I really am...

Wow!

What a contrast:

On the one hand, one grandiose spectacle in the nation's capital, a panorama of propaganda put on by an aspiring autocrat.

On the other hand, thousands of assemblies of free citizens across the nation, authentic celebrations of the proposition that here the people rule.

Anti-Trump protests cap a week of free speech stress tests across America | CNN Business Virtually every flashpoint in American politics right now involves the First Amendment right to free speech and free expression.

My latest for CNN: "Anti-Trump protests cap a week of free speech stress tests across America"

Virtually every flashpoint in American politics right now involves the First Amendment right to free speech and free expression...

Judge says Trump acted illegally in dispatching National Guard in California The state claimed the president improperly deployed the Guard and Marines to Los Angeles without the governor’s consent or input amid immigration protests.

one more big story today:

Federal Judge rules that Trump acted improperly, and “must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith.”

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Florida officials warn ICE protesters: Violence could mean jail — or death Law enforcement reminded the state's residents that Florida is not California and threatened arrest and even death for protesters who become violent.

Florida sheriff:

"If you throw a brick, a fire bomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains, because we will kill you, graveyard dead."

www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

ah, yeah.
I am well aware of that tension (Have lived in Detroit for 25 years).
But I think you are conflating the exact city or town where somebody is born and where they largely launched and cultivated their careers -- among other factors.

And for some others, there are two others that come to mind that I am just not going to name.

Plus a group of at least a half-dozen that created techno