Always hopeful to see @starsandstripes.bsky.social opening with understated (but still making it past the censors) shade.

Chuck Schumer seems willing, if not giddy, to let Trump burn down America in exchange for the state theater of punishing pro-Palestinian speech.

Notably, this tax only applies to "net investment income," ie income derived from investments (capital gains, dividends, interest etc). Unless they're amending other parts of the code, it's not taxing the donations to the endowment which are invested.

Klion spot on. The old institutional conduits for progressive (or even simply contra-cynical) politics is dead. They're not going to be there in the coming dark phase.

digging on how Nate Silver's support for Shapiro being "highly charismatic" is Jonathan Chait.

2/3 of the cops directly engaging with a vulnerable population as part of a new show of force campaign right at the start of summer will be fresh out of the academy. I see no totally predictable SNAFUs here.