ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting published this story today on the Portland Trail Blazers owner's role at Santander, which the state of Oregon has accused of predatory lending.
It reminded me of a chart (next post) from a story a few years ago ...
www.propublica.org/article/tom-...
The 2027 legislative session is the next opportunity to confront the structural problem created by H.R. 1, and lawmakers need to be more ambitious than they’ve been thus far, commentator Daniel Hauser writes. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/03/25/l...
Wouldn't it just be simpler and more honorable to impeach him, at long last? It's inaction by people like yourself that brought us to this point.
Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson •22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
This is so spot on
TL;DR points from the link:
* Between 2022 and 2023, care denials [from private HealthCare insurers] rose an average of 20.2 percent for commercial insurance claims and 55.7 percent for Medicare Advantage claims
* Insurance companies perform exactly one function that matters: pooling risk
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
I think the words you're looking for are "charged with multiple felonies." Saying "held accountable" feels awfully feeble in 2026.
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
Four GOP Senators.
At most four Repubs in the House.
Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.
Get ready to be disappointed
Shout out to all the Big Law Firms, certain Democrats, and all the elite institutions who were rushing to bend their knees back in January/February this year. We didn’t forget.
This is the meme I've been looking for.
How did I know Gluesenkamp's name would show up here?
Oh wow. Lying still has consequences sometimes? Who knew?
Wild that a Fed judge has to remind federal law enforcement that obeying the Constitution isn’t something they can call a “harm.”
Corporate America, universities, the press, the legal profession, and especially any Republicans who are not fully insane.
Hey, if we can just decide the Constitution means whatever we want it to mean, then I think California should be sending about 59 US Senators to Congress, AND I think an impeachment trial should be resolved by 12 randomly chosen Americans.
As the 1st part in a series about the failure of many liberals to grasp how repression works, I wrote up my recent reflections on a somewhat hidden underbelly of what we are seeing with ICE and other far-right attacks: emboldening predatory behavior. equalityalec.substack.com/p/something-...
Same here. Don't think I made it 100 pages in.
I feel like this transcends Cass to cover the elite-most law schools in general.
They are too closely tied to SCOTUS (getting cited there, placing students there, still hoping to GET there) to attack it w the vigor it demands.
But that take is still ABSOLUTELY WILD.
Patriot was amazing.
I wonder if the people running institutions like NYT and WaPo understand that once you get that shit stain on your brand, it's never coming off? Maybe they think we'll forget, but I will never forget how they laid down for this.
This exact thing from otherwise important news outlets is driving me insane. I left BBC News behind (after dropping WaPo and NYT) for exactly this reason.
HOLY SHIT. You need to read this in its entirety. Way too much to even begin to summarize but it's really, REALLY bad. It's just one agency, NLRB, but it's likely happening at others. We are under attack, seemingly from the inside. What's happening here should put folks in prison
Don't forget "fiscal responsibility"... Until it's time for more tax cuts for billionaires