I don’t know, there were thousands of people stuck in traffic around the stadium at kickoff….

Also alienating remaining season ticket holders…

Thousands of people are stuck in traffic.

Idaho considers an 'apocalyptic' choice for disabled people and families Difficult budget decisions in a number of states are threatening vital programs for disabled people at home and caregivers in the workforce.

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I get that on my laptop but not on my phone or tv. And, man, is it irritating.

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

VP Vance is falsely claiming the Trump Admin somehow has the “inherent” authority to just unilaterally withhold from MN mandatory federal #Medicaid funding to which the state is entitled.

Noncitizen voting is rare. So why is Washington so focused on it? Republicans are zeroing in on proof-of-citizenship requirements — even as critics warn federal support for election cybersecurity is quietly shrinking.

Good to see Politico point out that non-citizen voting isn't really a thing. Kind of remarkable not to mention the racist thinking behind claiming it is:
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

The Death of Direct File Tech for good not welcome in the Trump administration

Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Watch in the coming years for the drumbeat to turn SNAP into a block grant, and remember what happened to TANF.
Same pattern: add so many administrative burdens that states say it would be easier to just take cash, and then fail to deliver that cash to the poor.

Drive-By Truckers - Ramon Casiano YouTube video by AeroCrespo

Just a reminder that @drivebytruckers.bsky.social called out the rot in immigration enforcement a decade ago…

youtu.be/mbXUyHo3eVM

Isn’t that @johnrogers.bsky.social’s music?

What the hell was Entwistle then? Boris the Spider and the rest of his odd songs while also boasting amazing technical skill

The Means-Testing Industrial Complex As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.

An important piece from Luke Farrell on the "means-testing industrial complex," especially when work reporting requirements are being imposed on so many in Medicaid.
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As someone in the US, I get Paramount + for the Champions League football.

Another reminder that the largest cuts in Medicaid’s history were made by this Congress in part to fund a tripling of ICE/DHS budget.

These awards honor the best US civil servants. What ‘best’ means may be changing. Organizations that bestow awards for good governance are adjusting to the Trump administration’s staff cuts and criticism of traditional civil servant values.

This is a very grim measure of how bad things are: Every year, some amazing federal public employees receive awards. This year's winners were not asked to speak. The organizers "wanted to protect them from being singled out by Trump administration cost-cutters." www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...

Thinking about it a bit more, the night out that is said to have inspired Who Are You could be a good way to talk about the old guard’s reaction to punk, if there’s anything to that mythology.

I’d think a Who Are You episode that starts with Quadrophenia could be a refreshing 1 hour in length, giving you a bit of a breather in the late 70s. That said, among my Who fan friends we rank Quadrophenia with those three as the band’s peak.

Which types of welfare fraud are politely litigated between white collar lawyers, and which types of welfare fraud are used to justify an immigration purge and shutting off resources to the poor?

Life Under a Clicktatorship What happens to government when everything is content?

New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance.
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
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Director of NIH neurological disorders institute is ousted, adding to leadership churn Walter Koroshetz, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, will soon be leaving his role, STAT has learned. His departure

More on the continuing purges at #NIH. Now 13 out of 27 institute directors have been gotten rid of. This is not normal. @jonathanwosen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...

Think the XG is at least 2 by minute 35

Banned words list has real consequences.
A Head Start program operated by a tribe on a Native American reservation was told not to prioritize tribal kids, in clear violation of Head Start Act. The program director also can’t do training on trauma-informed instruction, or to support kids with autism.

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

I think it’s the way it claims to be rock and roll when there’s very little rock and roll in it to my ears

Episode 105: “Green Onions” by Booker T. and the MGs Episode 105 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Green Onions”, and how a company started by a Western Swing fiddle player ended up making the most important soul …

Rest in peace, mighty Steve Cropper.

If you want to hear more about the fantastic guitarist, songwriter and producer he was, he features in two episodes of the podcast.

Below you can listen to Episode 105: “Green Onions” by Booker T and the MGs.

This is the same quagmire Rs got stuck in during Trump I. Free market = better, European-style = bad, taxes = bad. The idea that people might just want the government to take care of something so they're not on the phone for months getting fucked over does not compute.

Commander White is one of the very few people involved in family separation from the inside who acquitted himself well. He raised alarm bells, pushed back, and got ORR to start tracking separations long before DHS did, so that it was possible later to reunite kids and know the scale.