hurricaneeric.bsky.social

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

... so the idea that Trump could do even MORE damage while the fed gov is unmanned AND wanting to keep traumatized fed employees (including those just reinstated) paid makes sense to me, but I feel like I haven't heard Schumer make that case. Do other Dems not agree with this take or ... ?

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

I’ll just put this here.

Jesus, this pull quote is SO on point...

Goldman on Musk: "Notable, somehow none of his $13 billion of government contracts he has determined to be waste, fraud, and abuse."

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” - Elon Musk Empathy - the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. “Christ walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction.” - Timothy J Keller What do you call someone who is, by definition, anti Christ?

🔵 This week's comic - Star Wars re-booted: Luke meets the Rebel Alliance, 2025! - 🌠 Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including longtime member Ahoy Polloi and new member Robin Hudson. ( bit.ly/theInnerHive ) And of course thanks to Jedi Master @markhamillofficial.bsky.social - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the United States government isn’t a tech startup. Also of note: 90% of startups fail.

Gabbard. What the fuck? Seriously, what the fuck? This was such an easy, no-risk "no," she has no constituency to court... Jesus ...

The first phase of the rapid-fire effort by Elon Musk and President Donald Trump to make cuts appears driven more by an ideological assault on federal agencies than a good-faith effort to save taxpayer dollars, two veteran Republican budget experts said reut.rs/4jZiqyf

Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. @qjurecic.bsky.social discusses the potential constitutional crisis that the Trump Administration could trigger. open.spotify.com/episode/5Qv8... youtu.be/Ak8hLat0_-Q?...

It’s no secret that Chair Powell and I disagree on a lot, but today we agreed: without the CFPB, there is no federal regulator making sure giants banks don't cheat you.

Normalizing Indian Hate Makes Me a Good Father and Husband www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nor...

If you are in or near Washington DC, this is the place to be. Tomorrow/Monday.

Willem Dafoe and Catherine O'Hara--together and last!

Curtesy of The Onion

And here it is: NYT reports that internal emails show that DOGE officials gaining access to Treasury data wanted to use it to pause USAID payments. This underscores the arguments I made in the piece/thread below about why Treasury's defense of Musk's access is such a sham.

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

Rather than "no evidence of," perhaps media could switch to "but since he lies about fucking everything, we know this is bullshit, too." @jamellebouie.net , @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com , @maddow.msnbc.com maybe run this suggestion over the transom?

only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy The state went a record 98 of 116 days providing up to 10 hours of electricity with renewables alone. grist.org/energy/calif... #California #Renewable #Energy #Solar

Do The Rentals deserve Grandaddy's cred?

... and underneath the sheer terror and horror, there's just the fucking EMBARRASSMENT that this is our government. (But mostly the terror and horror.)