why shouldn't he attend, CNN, go on now, explain the reason, we'd love to hear it

CNN@cnn.com · 12h ago

Twenty-five years after the mayor of New York City became the champion of America's grief and resilience at the time of the 9/11 attacks, families of those killed are split on whether the current mayor should attend the annual remembrance. https://cnn.it/4zkKYdc

Garcia.

A measure of the health of American democracy is whether a 'cancel thanksgiving' post from 2020 by a state legislator draws more attention that a vote by a Congressman not to accept the result of the elections that same year. After he boosted the Jan 6 event. wisconsinexaminer.com/2021/01/14/t...

Tiffany condemned attack, but spoke at rally with radio host calling for ‘war’

Rep. Tom Tiffany condemned Capitol violence, but appeared at a rally as radio host Vicki Mckenna called for "war."

wisconsinexaminer.com

What role do tech CEOs think they’ll have post-apocalypse? So you ride it out and survive, okay cool. As society is rebuilt do you seriously think the survivors are going to be like “well obviously you are all still trillionaires.” https://archive.is/u9PmA

This is a wonderful thread about a great scholar and lovely person, the late Elinor Ostrom.

Erik Nordman@eriknordman.bsky.social · yesterday

🎂Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom was born on this day in 1933! Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics for her research on "collaborative governance, especially the commons." She showed how communities of users could work together to sustain their shared resources. 1/9

As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.

Some real shot/chaser stuff with our numbers. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-jobs-july-2026-9.7299225

Cassidy's Paradox: If after every confirmation vote you retain ½ the integrity you possessed before that vote you will always have no integrity if you start off with none. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/u...

Bill Cassidy Will Back Todd Blanche as Attorney General, Salvaging His Confirmation

The Louisiana senator said that, despite reservations, he would back President Trump’s pick for attorney general, giving Republicans enough votes for a majority.

nytimes.com

If you are a lawyer barred in Minnesota, I will personally sponsor your admission to the District Minnesota (you need one other person as well) and teach you how to do habeas cases. It's going to be all hands on deck.

Mara Abolish I.C.E.@mauratwit.bsky.social · yesterday

A concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnesota next week. A concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnesota next week. A concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnesota next week. A concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnes

Someone should ask DOJ why pages 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 24, 26, and 51 were pulled out from the court-sequestered material, re-processed, and spliced back in. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Steele-Spreadsheet.pdf

If you exclude one specific scene, Mrs. Lincoln actually enjoyed the Ford's Theatre production of "Our American Cousin"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Kevin Hassett on Fox News argues that if you exclude the sectors that lost hundreds of thousands of jobs, "you actually had a number that was about plus 100,000" 🙃

Sen. Bill Cassidy: "I will vote for Mr. Blanche. I'll be criticized for this vote — what's new?"

Obviously the policies would still be heinous even if they worked exactly as planned, but…

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · yesterday

The core economic pitch for Trump's mass deportations was "fewer immigrants means more jobs for Americans. Unsurprisingly, that's just not happening Instead of rising, prime-age employment rates for native-born Americans fell to the lowest levels in more than four years in data released today

The core economic pitch for Trump's mass deportations was "fewer immigrants means more jobs for Americans. Unsurprisingly, that's just not happening Instead of rising, prime-age employment rates for native-born Americans fell to the lowest levels in more than four years in data released today

The “no” emails from Scholastica have started rolling in, but those aren’t the ones I’m looking for. Do they not know?

Social media and RSS feeds —> read it later —> personal podcast RSS feed https://thewallflower.app/about

Sometimes I think about doing a yes man type situation and just saying okay to every request that hits my inbox for a month. Or maybe a week. For a day. Just saying yes to everything for a day.

Surely, surely this is rock bottom. Surely.

Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 3d ago

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

Waiting for the folks that argued Trump was a response to the Obama presidency and HRC candidacy to make the case that the leftward tack of Democratic primaries is a response to MAGA policies. I guess it doesn’t work that way.

For the last ten years or so I’ve felt like the markets are best understood as a bunch of people saying “well, I don’t think things are going to get *better* than this anytime soon.” All a bit like boasting about consumer spending with a asteroid visibly growing in the sky behind you.

I’m not taking any carnivore diet people seriously if they don’t regularly pull over and eat roadkill.

Fellow academics: I know a Haitian PhD student who due to TPS termination needs another institutional affiliation not in the USA. Do you or someone you know have an avenue for them? If so, DM me.

As someone who has never seen any of them, it appears to me there is a new Spider-Man reboot roughly every three to six months.

“We must compromise with the stick, for we are powerless against it.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

A PSA to my fellow cis people who are (or want to believe they are) trans allies If you are getting pushback from trans people and your reaction is to be all “no! not me! I’m one of the good ones!” please remember that “being one of the good ones” is something you DO, not something you ARE

NYC second-home tax is good policy hampered by bad data. https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/new-york-citys-second-home-tax-is-good-policy-with-a-data-issue

New York City’s Second-Home Tax Is Good Policy With a Data Issue

Opinion: New York City's first pied-à-terre tax is a sound progressive idea, but the city should make the first two years a transparent implementation period to prevent an opaque or overinclusive rollout.

news.bloombergtax.com

I get why it may be the case with big name players, but why on earth do teams wait until the last minute of the trade deadline to swap one guy with negative WAR for another?

the next president has a duty to the country to prove that “tax immunity” is a completely made up thing that doesnt exist. they need to do this through intense prosecution to signal to future leaders what will happen if they try this

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.