Jim Ahrens

Popehat leaves the country and gets his Bluesky account suspended? Oh, my.

After Trump’s 60 Minutes tonight, will he sue CBS for editing it or for not editing it?

Dow is up close to 1%, NASDAQ down close to 1%. A lot of what you need to know about the bill just passed. Good for banks and old industries, bad for new technologies.

With the parliamentarian stripping out the Alaska/Hawaii SNAP/Medicaid exemption, senate passage likely comes down to Susan “Concerned” Collins. She has a chance for a McCain moment, though I doubt she will use it. Call her out. It is worth a try.

I am shocked to see no discussion of whether Iran has sufficient fissile material for a non-warhead device (or could produce enough with a small number of surviving centrifuges) or the possibility of its transferring enriched uranium to terrorist organizations.

I just tried to check my social security account. The my.ssa ID no longer works. I tried to make a LOGIN.GOV password, but it could not verify my cell #. I tried the ID.ME method, but it failed on my email. I called SSA, they told me I was the 14th caller today with my problem. DOGE: such E! AAArgh!