The first empirical evaluation of New York's congestion pricing has just been published. Spoiler: It worked really, really well🧵

I remember this episode of the West Wing! theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Having served in Congress, I can confidently say this information was classified at the time it was revealed to the journalist. If this had been presented to members of Congress, we could not have walked out of the SCIF with it. It’s bizarre to pretend otherwise.

informed minorities beat uninformed majorities. bill taking so long to figure this out that he’s been supporting pure corruption.

seems relevant

Alarmed countries calling the WH ≠ countries who are negotiating trade deals x.com/i/grok/share/3…

Marco Rubio, I implore you, please realize that as long as you continue to debase yourself, you have no real power—your only real shot of mattering is to call BS on all of this. On your own nightmare you’re living in. Just stop. You have free will. The world is watching.

Marco Rubio: “For years to come, there are many people on the right, in the media and voters at large, that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump.” (March 2016)

The El Salvador story is less about Abrego Garcia himself than about the right to due process. The assault on Harvard is less about the school itself (there are and will be others) but attempted federal control of private universities. The assault on law firms is less about

There are 4 buckets of probabilities. DOGE is: 1) competent and aligned with US 2) incompetent and aligned with US 3) competent and not aligned with US 4 incompetent and not aligned with US The only acceptable scenario is #1. However, that probability is approaching zero.

This report is almost exactly what an otherwise-healthy economy looks like *anticipating*--but not yet directly hurt by--tariffs. Consumer durables spending collapses. Services are fine for the moment. Businesses get in as many imports as they can and stock up their inventories.

Whether or not Trump (w/o consent of Congress btw) uses military action against Iran is not about whether he is for or against war or believes they may be close to a nuke. As always, it’ll be about what he can extract for himself. Or rather, since everyone knows the game with

Trump 2.0 is mostly the opposite of what MAGA thought they were voting for. 📈 Surveillance state 📈 War 📈 Deficits 📈 Corruption 📈 Lawfare 📈 Gas prices* 📈 Inflation* 📉 Economy (below expected GDP) 📉 States’ rights 📉 Personal freedom 📉 Epstein transparency But hey,

Trump cares about violence in DC? LOL! x.com/i/grok/share/l…

"This is unlike anything we've ever seen before." The Atlantic's David Frum on the "sick psychological dynamic of what President Trump is up to" with proceedings like the FBI raid on former national security advisor John Bolton. #Newsnight

In calling the interview "my" proffer of Maxwell, Blanche gives himself away. A codefendant interview isn't the prosecutor's proffer; it's the witness's. In calling it "my proffer," Blanche is admitting he did this interview so he could proffer Maxwell's testimony to help Trump.

Google Gemini #nanobanana test. Who knew it was so easy to go from rec player to US Open?

We all saw it. We all saw what Trump said. What he didn’t say. What his VP said about it. We all saw it. This was pretty black and white. Stop being stupid.

Duke might light some teams up this year—they can move the ball really well and the only reason this score got like this is the +5 turnover margin of 4 fumbles, all lost, and an INT that should have been a TD and was rare underthrow by Mensah (and this doesn’t include that

Indiana Jones!