Huge shout out to Lisa Desjardins who has been reporting tirelessly throughout the night, and has earned a very long nap. Thanks for the insights and updates.

Thank you Jim Abbott - you are an inspiration!

Such a great tweet. Thank you Dan Balz from a very grateful reader!

If you grew-up watching Sesame Street and learned American history through Ken Burns’s documentaries, you have PBS to thank. What a shame.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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For more than 50 years, Sesame Workshop has been proud to partner with PBS to bring learning and joy to children across America. Generations of children have benefitted from the public investment that has enabled PBS to do such important work, and the need remains. PBS, we’re so

Re: the idea that empathy or compassion is bad or even "toxic," a belief held by some Christians today. There is problem with that belief, and that problem comes from Jesus himself. Over and over in the Gospels, an important word is used to describe what Jesus feels whenever

Really interesting podcast this week. Super-valuable insight from the thread below: correlation between largest users of AI and propensity to switch/churn.

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If you hated Biden because you didn’t want an old guy in charge and prices were too high and the government was too involved in the private sector and there was chaos on the street oh boy I’ve got bad news.

America’s secret economic weapon has never been oil, tech, or cheap capital. It’s the rule-of-law premium: the trust that here, contracts mean something, courts are impartial, and power has guardrails. This administration is cashing it out.

Yes, the stake are large. Very large.

This cannot stand. If it does, our democracy is in grave peril.

This is the make or break moment for Powell's Federal Reserve.gov. If they do not defend Lisa Cook and treat her as still on the Board, the fight over the Fed as an independent agency will officially be over. see my Friday piece.

If Trump were operating in the best interests of America's businesses, his move to fire Lisa Cook would cause stocks to shrug, or maybe rise. But they're saying: This is dangerous. This move serves Trump, but not America. Our economy is at risk when the President undermines the

The attempted firing of Lisa Cook is plain and simple a damaging attack on the independence of the Federal Reserve, the rule of law, the integrity of our economic institutions: an assault on the exceptional economic brand that has benefited generations of Americans.

#5 for sure

Compromise suggestion: The President can redesign the Cracker Barrel logo, and the Fed can set interest rates.

Interesting thread - worth your time