Seth H

The media keeps noting how unpopular the "war" is with the American people. They neglect to note how unpopular the American people are with Trump.

@laist.com needs a pledge free stream (in the app?) for sustaining members

I'm reading Ungers' bio of Lafayette. In the second half about the French Revolution. It's like watching a horror movie as the main characters do stupid things and you yell at the screen. Don't propose a constituent assembly! Don't lead that mob to versailles! Don't move the king to Paris!

I can’t imagine having a job that required me to carefully listen to Trumps’ speeches.

I wish news outlets that must know better (the economist, npr, etc) would stop reporting on DJI.

France should complain to Trump that “Emilia Pérez” did not win best picture at the 2025 academy awards.

The financial instability of The NewsHour is a civic crisis. PBS’s flagship nightly news broadcast can’t fund a weekend broadcast or keep its last bureau — Phoenix — open.

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

If SCOTUS is going to remove the independence of agencies run by commissions, congress should start stripping them of rule making powers. Establish some of the rules in law, and delegate the rest to the states.

It seems over 50 people work at the Nixon foundation. Who takes a job at the Nixon foundation? Wtf?

Legal question: if the tariffs are thrown out, and they order payments refunded, does Trump also have to return the personal gifts he extorted from foreign governments?

I don’t understand why the house (and senate) need to vote on the Epstein stuff. Trump can just release it, right?

Unpopular opinion: “clean” CRs should always pass. The only valid issue to force a shutdown over is a law to prevent all future shutdowns with default funding.

I’m assuming 2025 tax year refunds will be paid in Tump Coin.

We should: Grow the house, to like 5,000 members Mandate multi-member districts of 5-10 members Require district boundaries be one or more whole counties (or burrows!) Require STV for the voting

"Lotteries and ritual stoning are integral parts of American life. Whether or not the lottery actually increases the yearly harvest, rural working-class Americans think it does. Let me be blunt: liberals who want to abolish ritual murder are the reason that Donald Trump won."

What do people (in particular, reporters) think the difference is between the words “center” and”epicenter”?

TV show pitch Genre: police procedural A short balding man who can smell the future joins a small rural police department to solve crimes.

IMO, both parties should always be willing to approve a “clean” CR

@governor.ca.gov Sinclair has several stations in CA. Surely they can’t be in full compliance with all state laws, can they?

@schumer.senate.gov how big a bag of magic beans will you accept to fund the government this time?

Do we really even need the FCC? Except at state borders, can’t the states regulate broadcast TV and radio? Do California and Alabama need the same rules?

Todays word of the day: enervating

Is RFK Jr the first former cocaine dealer to be a cabinet secretary, or was that someone under Bush 2?

What determines if food tastes good? If your head was somehow transplanted onto a pig body, would pig feed seem disgusting?

I’m surprised Trump has not renamed the Republican Party as the MAGA party.

Important piece debunking myths about SB 79: “Taken together, Park’s arguments lean heavily on fear, distortion, and NIMBY reflexes. Wildfires, tsunamis, ‘one-size-fits-all’ rhetoric, claims of protecting equity, and the bogeyman of developers all obscure the facts of SB 79.”

They should really release the Epstein tax returns. How did he build such a large fortune?

Assuming the funding cut goes ahead (seems like a safe bet), is anyone keeping a list of NPR stations that need help? I would be willing to join an extra station as a member to help out.

A reminder: Median is not a synonym for average

Is it illegal for the president to “bribe” a member of congress to vote for his bill? I suspect not.

A recent talk by Kotkin, talks about Trump and "the American lead world order", always an interesting speaker www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtgW...

They get into power by making you fear minorities, they stay in power by making your fear them.

Stable geniuses. Stable geniuses.

I take some consolation in the belief that during his bromance chats with Putin, Trump is getting tips on how to arrange for musk to “fall out a window” once he is no longer useful.

@jessicabriedl.bsky.social just listened to you on freakonomics, very interesting. In talking about tax rates (comparing amounts paid by different income level, and to Europe) you did not seem to include state and local taxes. Does that really make sense? Why?

How long until Tesla gets exempted from the import tariffs?

When talking about security for Ukraine, remember: The US already gave them a security guarantee, and both Obama and Biden failed to honor it.

I guess the 2028 maga primary campaign has started, with Vance in the lead.

Why do none of Trumps cabinet secretaries have the same ridiculous spray tan? Are they not loyal to the Don?

I suspect a fair amount of medical terms are gibberish they made up to screw with us.

The line: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law” Cuts both ways.

Canada should steal the Stanley cup

Does Trump understand that Greenland is not actually the same size as Africa?

Could California make it a crime (under state law) to defy a federal court order in a case with California as a party?