Hunter is not completely right, but he's not completely wrong either!
This is a longer essay, but having spent my entire career at WaPo as an opinion editor and then a columnist -- I have quick thoughts! 1/n
I have been shouting with only moderate degrees of coherence about this very point so you should all read @mattglassman312.bsky.social's cogent written version.
The erosion of the division between mandatory and discretionary $$ is, in short, an extremely big deal.
It’s very cool to see traces of this in the current rules.
I... uh... wha... huh.
it is as if a group of smart people convened in a room with the explicit goal to build something that would sap every small and accidental joy out of normal human life
Eleanor Roosevelt’s new york state gun permit from August 5th 1957. She is elderly with a fur stole, listed as writer and lecturer
Eleanor Roosevelt’s gun permit (which she got it around the time the klan put a $25k bounty on her head). What a vibe
Map showing bird migration last night. It shows hotsposts in the Mid-Atlantic to Ohio Valely, in the Southeast and Southern Plains.
While you slept last night: ~100 million birds took to the skies 🐦
The Mid-Atlantic saw heavy traffic moving north/northeast, with migration hotspots from the Southeast to Ohio Valley and Southern Plains.
The overnight rush continues this weekend.
Details at cwg.live
Georgia’s election system is flirting with disarray, experts say, after the state legislature failed overnight to push back a deadline that requires Georgia to get rid of its current voting system, which uses QR codes, before the November midterm elections.
Trump is asking Congress for a $1.5 TRILLION military budget in fiscal year 2027. A massive increase. Pentagon funding hit $1 trillion last year between appropriations and party-line reconciliation legislation.
The military has failed to pass an audit for eight straight years.
What made “Cold War I” (1948–1963) a Cold War was, among other things, the expansion of great-power competition to a wide variety of domains, including music and architecture.
Maryland campaign finance expert James Appel has joined the long line of political figures accused of putting their hands in other people's pockets. And because he's from Annapolis, of course there's a boat involved.
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New memo by Trump's 36-year-old OLC chief, Elliot Gaiser, says Congress's Constitutional power to make laws necessary and proper to regulate how the U.S. government works is actually just a power to "assist" the president--so laws are valid if they increase Trump's power but not if they restrict it.
Did you know that there is one group of Americans who are not entitled to birthright citizenship?
People born American Samoa are classified instead simply as “U.S. nationals” — and as a result they cannot vote or run for office anywhere else in the country.
Much more here, for anyone curious:
Speak of the devil.
who up makin defense department shrimp linguine
Before Congress, Hanabusa made history as first woman president of either chamber of the HI legislature. Also notable: A dying Sen. Inouye wanted her to be his successor in 2012, but then-Gov. Abercrombie chose Brian Schatz (Hanabusa had a valuable House Armed Services seat at the time)
The ad-supported version of Office includes banners that are permanently visible at the side, as well as 15-second video ads that play every few hours, according to Beebom. Microsoft also forces users of this free version of Office to store documents in OneDrive, with support for local file storage disabled.
A version of Microsoft Word with banner ads and surprise video pop-ups that doesn't let you *save files to your computer*. Just the thought of this is painful www.theverge.com/news/618278/...
One of Gov. Wes Moore's budget cuts would eliminate a program that gives grants of up to $2K to families who care for a person w/developmental disabilities - and who otherwise receive no state support. Money is used for ramps, therapy, assistive tech, etc.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
The U.S. attorney in Washington says DOJ "will be vigilant in standing against entities" like the Associated Press, that "refuse to put America first."
The AP's transgression is, apparently, not adopting the president's preferred name for the Gulf of Mexico.
The story of Haishan Yang, a PhD student at UMinn, who allegedly used ChatGPT in his qualifying exams, got caught, was expelled.
The evidence against him is...substantial, and hard to refute.
Yang then filed a lawsuit against the profs, USING CHATGPT.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNon...
She was an icon. When I was in college she would sing at Mr. Henry’s. It was a college student break that allowed us to be inspired and dream. You’ve Got a Friend is one I still break out in today. Killing Me Softly With His Song is what I will always think of.
Reminder from the @steventdennis.bsky.social school of legislating: If Republicans had the votes for the budget bill, they'd be voting.
As a committees reporter, I regularly worked 10+hr days & through the night without overtime. To expect reporters to RTO only on certain days with too few benefits is exploitative and without reason. They've been successful WFH for years. Let them do their jobs flexibly @ Fiscal Note.
I'm going over election results, and shoutout to the candidate in CT-02 who got 0 votes as a write-in
I mean, how is that even possible? Do you write a name on the ballot and then vote for someone else anyway? Thinking about this feels like staring into the abyss
A screenshot from a presentation by the Congress.gov folks showing a changelog of the congress.gov API adding new endpoints for House roll call votes.
We will soon get an actual official API for House votes!
Long time coming (and Senate seems to lag as usual), but this is a big deal.
i spent a month investigating how republicans could cut off access to trans healthcare for most americans, and how democrats can likely stop them — but it’s unclear if they will.
tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides
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Pretty wild: Recount in Colorado House confirms incumbent Democratic Rep. Steph Vigil loses her seat to Republican Rebecca Keltie by *3* votes out of more than 43,000 counted.
That’s 50.00004% to 49.99996%.
Soon-Shiong does also plan to get directly involved with how the Times presents its news stories to readers. Speaking to Jennings as the latter hosted a radio show Wednesday, the • billionaire revealed that, behind the scenes, he is working on developing a "bias meter" powered by artificial intelligence that will be placed on both opinion and news stories. Soon-Shiong said that the hope is to roll out the new feature, which will use the technology to seemingly warn readers that his own reporters are biased, as early as next month. "Whether in news or opinion... you have a bias meter," Soon-Shiong explained to Jennings. "So that someone could understand as a reader that the source of the article has some level of bias. ... And then ... the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story, based on that story, and then give comments."
This, courtesy of the owner of the LA Times, is the worst “tech solution for journalism” idea since the CueCat.
187 votes!
South Korean citizens helped lawmakers scale the National Assembly walls so they could bypass military barricades and vote against martial law.