Only the best people.

Trump has ordered the Treasury to send him $10 billion in cash & $10 billion for a slush fund (on top of the $200 million in cash stolen from Venezuela for another slush fund), on top of $10+ billion gotten from foreign governments in exchange for favors, but do go on about not taking a salary ...

Counterpoint:

-No it isn't.
-And yes you are.

@schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
Dear Sen Schumer and Gillibrand, do not cave on the funding for DHS. Take money away from ICE/CPB from the 2025 BBB to fund TSA and FEMA. No more funding for concentration camps!

Corruption Perceptions Index 2025 The Corruption Perceptions Index 2025 ranks 182 countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. Find out the scores and read our analysis.

Just out: world corruption perceptions index.

The US ranks 29th. Between Bahamas and Brunei.

www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025

Not watching the game, but the halftime show was awesome.

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:

Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down

Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged

Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

NO KINGS: Eyes on ICE: Document and Record YouTube video by No Kings

Over 21K people on this #NoKings Eyes on ICE call. Check it out. www.youtube.com/live/4xBUa67...

If true, they don’t live in MPLS, they live in the suburbs.

Reminder #1142 that we have a toddler as president.

I know with all that is going on in the world, teaching Intro to US Government isn’t such a big deal. But I really wish I wasn’t teaching it.

Governor Hochul Announces Joint Public-Private Agreement to Ensure the Buffalo Bills Remain in New York State Governor Hochul and Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz today announced an agreement between New York State, Erie County and the NFL's Buffalo Bills franchise for a $1.4 billion new stadium in Orchar...

Buffalo, NY. www.governor.ny.gov/news/governo...

The unitary executive can set the curriculum at Harvard, order the owners to change the names of professional sports teams, throw his enemies in prison, close a Cabinet-level Department, but he is powerless to ask the sycophants he put in place in the FBI and DOJ to release the Epstein files.

I love soccer. But FIFA is a truly horrible organization.

Hey, hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

A deeply frustrating aspect of our current stupid trade war is that this eventuality has been perfectly predictable for years and Congress left the Chekhov's gun of tariff emergency powers just sitting there b/c neither party wants to disempower the presidency even a little bit

There are blockages in the gubernatorial pipeline which discourage women from running While more women than ever are running for – and winning – US state governorships, they still run at lower rates than men. In new research, William R. Wilkerson and Alana S. Jeydel look…

A public facing piece published this past summer by LSE US Politics and Policy blog, grounded in research on women governors done with @bwilker.bsky.social
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

I did the same training this week and thought the same thing. And remember the appearance of impropriety is enough to be an ethics violation!

Why aren’t more women on the gubernatorial ballot? Although women now occupy a record number of governorships and the number of women running for governor has increased significantly in the last four years, women still run for governor at lower rat...

Polisky

New article with @politicsprofasj.bsky.social, "Why aren’t more women on the gubernatorial ballot?" is now posted on the @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social website. Open access thanks to funding from SUNY Oneonta and Fresno City College. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Hack” is a gentle word for him.

4/4 Does anyone know of any likely explanations? Johnson said again this weekend he doesn't have a bank account. He says a person of modest means.

3/4 The federal government generally requires direct deposit, typically a bank account. (Maybe members are exempt from this?) He does report mortgages. It is tough to get a mortgage without bank statements. This is really strange.

2/4 The FDIC says 2.7% of households making $75k or more are unbanked. For white households above 75K, it is 0.3%. Aside from lack of money, the most common reasons for not having a bank account are a lack of faith in the banking system and a desire for privacy.

1/4 Mike Johnson's financial disclosure have made me wonder how common it is for someone who makes at least $174k (the salary of US House members) don't have a bank account. This 2021 FDIC study reports it is unusual. www.fdic.gov/analysis/hou...