Fed Chair Apprentice Tuesday, April 21, is a day Kevin Warsh has long awaited: his Senate confirmation hearing for Fed Chair.

There's nothing normal about this season of Fed Chair Apprentice, and it is far from over. My preview of Kevin Warsh's confirmation hearing. stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/fed-chair-...

Five Trump Scandals You’ve Probably Missed Swirling scandals—from the Pentagon to DHS to the IRS to the Labor Department—that represent basic betrayals of public office, trust, and confidence-in-leadership that should be the table stakes of go...

Washington can only pay attention to a scandal or two at a time, which means in the Trump age there are all sorts of should-be-big-deal scandals that don’t get the oxygen or media focus that they should.

I'll bet you've missed at least three of these: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-trump...

Not excusing her or their behavior at all. Just the contrast with, say, Hegseth or Patel, is glaring.

Her male colleagues seemed to be able to do these things with impunity. Can’t quite put my finger on what’s different.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Galloping towards theocracy

Oohhhhhhhhh

John McPhee had a wonderful piece about this some years ago. He agrees with everyone who says just get started. He points out the first draft can even be mostly whining about how you hate the topic!

I’ll stick with Classic Money, thanks

anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is

authorities dispersed protesters in 2020 so President Trump could have his photo taken with a Bible in front of a Washington church. Doug Mills/The New York Times By Ruth Graham April 17, 2026 President Trump has a complicated relationship with the Bible. He has often called it his favorite book, has posed with it for photographers outside a church and has sold his own edition for $60. But he has also struggled to name a favorite passage or even pick a favorite Testament between the two.

Shameful opening graf:
“President Trump has a complicated relationship with the Bible”
- NYT @ruthgraham.bsky.social

This piece further degrades “trust” in journalism.
-grotesque euphemism
-stenography
-sanewashing
-view-from-nowhere reporting.
-devoid of context of his unchristian actions

NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about.

This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.

Twenty years ago, the notion that people could elect a Black man named Barack Obama President of the United States and a Muslim named Zohran Mamdani Mayor of New York City would’ve seemed completely outlandish

Voters can sometimes surprise us in beautiful ways. Remember that during the midterms

Not sure I would put so much effort into justifying a block

You are a better person than I

Pink sweater in progress and an iPad displaying Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

Yes but you can bring it to the bar where you wait while your dog gets groomed (it’s 7 PM)

There’s science showing it’s calming

When you’re done you have something beautiful

And yes my Bookgroup is reading Mansfield Park. So sue me.

Wow. It’s really extraordinary that voyager 1 is still out there talking to us and doing its thing.

There are few more eloquent exemplars of the role of big science and government funding.

I am in awe.

a shoulders-up headshot of an ancient chinese crested. his body is mostly hairless, with thin wisps of white. but the fur of his face and ears is forming an enormous heart shape from having been blown out by a fan. he’s rocking the salt-and-pepper look of an ambitious Helena Bonham Carter role, with more black along his neck and a bold gray streak atop his noggin and along the edges of his ears. his left eye is one big cloudy blue cataract.

This is Ricky. He was a runner-up in a pet photographer's "My Fabulous Weirdo" competition. Unfortunately when you are this fabulous, it can be very hard for the weird to shine through. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: portraitsofdogs)

Unbelievable corruption right in front of our faces.

Agencies in talks with Trump, family to resolve $10B lawsuit over tax leaks President Trump and his family are suing federal agencies over leaks of their tax information. Court filings say they’re in talks to find a solution instead of heading to trial.

that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury...

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Man at City Council Meeting Makes Devastating Case Against Proposed Local Data Center A former programmer spoke up during a city council meeting in a small town in Ohio, making a well-articulated argument against data centers.

"We are being asked to drain our reservoirs so a chatbot can write a poem."

In evaluating legal arguments and advocacy of academics like Randy Barnett and Kurt Lash, consider that their statements about the Eastman disbarment reveals that they think lying to courts and the public is neither legally nor morally blameworthy. They think lying is fine; judge them accordingly.

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

Obscene

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It would be a lot cheaper than sending troops, plus it wouldn't incur thousands of US casualties.

Time to rewatch The Big Short

In NYC we do not pay separately for garbage and libraries. Not sure what you mean by social care.

There is a much larger discussion of course about total tax levels and whats included and what’s not.

I’m not opening that. Just insisting the discussion of annual real estate tax include all of it.

Thanks.

So, laughably low by NYC standards.

The higher UK annual excise tax on properties between £2 mil and $5 mil will not nearly make up the difference.