Oh don’t worry, Trump will put a 1000% tariff on the Chinese stuff to protect any remaining US production, or just to make sure nobody can afford solar panels.

Didn’t take them 60 votes to ignore the parliamentarian and revoke the waivers that let California set its own emissions standards.

The Senate has overruled the guidance of the parliamentarian, a nonpartisan staffer who interprets the Senate’s rules, and voted 51 to 44 to overturn a waiver allowing California to set its own air pollution standards for cars that are stricter than national regulations. The Senate has only overruled its parliamentarian a handful of times in the 90-year history of the role.

The link goes to the comments instead of the body of the post.

Anyway, the decision comes with a huge catch:

While the ruling means that coverage of preventive health care is no longer under threat, the ruling clarifies that the health secretary has direct authority over the USPSTF. The clarification raises concern that the current secretary, Kennedy, could remove task force members and/or undo recommendations to suit his personal ideology, as he is now doing with the vaccine advisory board at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Preventative care is covered, but RFK Jr. has control over the group that recommends which preventative care should be covered.

Can the consideration be “this person makes poor financial decisions”?

Mother Jones has a full-text RSS feed. No pictures, but no ads either.

“Many respected constitutional experts argue that the War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional. I’m persuaded by that argument.”

I don’t think he was persuaded by the argument, I think he was hoping such an argument existed. Anything for daddy Trump.

Look, when a guy regularly tweets with caps lock you’ve got to lower your expectations.

The Navy’s is coming up in October and then the Marine Corps’ in November. Somebody better get it right!

The second problematic provision — found within Section 43201© of the House reconciliation bill — would impose a 10-year ban on the enforcement of all state and local laws that regulate artificial intelligence (AI), including rules for AI’s use in political campaigns and elections.

From what I’ve read about reconciliation bills, provisons need to be mainly about the budget rather than policy. What does banning AI regulation at lower levels of government have to do with the federal budget?

If you attack them the law is on their side even if they don’t identify themselves:

[18 U.S. Code] Section 111 makes it a crime to “forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with” federal officials engaged in their duties. But here’s the problem: You don’t even need to know they’re federal officials. You can be convicted for shoving someone you think is just someone yelling in your face, even just placing them in “reasonable fear of harm” without physical contact—if they turn out to be a plainclothes agent. That’s not hypothetical. That’s precedent, courtesy of the Supreme Court over 50 years ago.

Which means this: An undercover agent embedded in a protest, a public meeting, even a constituent town hall could claim to have been “impeded,” and the federal government can treat that moment as a federal crime. Under the current administration’s appetite for authoritarianism, that’s not a loophole, it’s a feature.

It would be funny if Skydance tried to renegotiate the deal or back out entirely, based on how all this nonsense has affected Paramount’s value.

When President Donald Trump and Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred met at the White House last month, they discussed one of the president’s passion projects — reinstating baseball star Pete Rose to make him eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

This week, that’s exactly what Manfred did.

When I heard Pete Rose was going to be eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame my immediate reaction was to joke that “Somehow this is Donald Trump’s fault”. I didn’t think I’d be right.

Tesla is far from alone in flashing the “death cross.” The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 both showed it as well on Monday, as the indexes continue to fluctuate in wild and somewhat unpredictable ways thanks to the endless uncertainty that the Trump administration has introduced to the market through its blanket tariffs and “will they, won’t they” exceptions that keep getting tacked on and taken off.

An individual stock hitting this point doesn’t really seem like that big a deal when indexes are getting there.

Oopsie, Trump’s tariffs based on a fake emergency may have created a real emergency.

Trump is aware of that, he’s given ICE access to that information to help track them down.

“How can I return him to the United States? Am I going to smuggle him? Of course I’m not going to do it,” Bukele said while sitting beside President Donald Trump. “The question is preposterous.”

Ideally you would return him because the president of the United States asked you to, but I suppose Trump doesn’t think the Supreme Court’s ruling that the US government needs to “facilitate” Garcia’s return requires such an extraordinary level of effort.

This guy may be volunteering to be another person who needs to be returned from El Salvador. The trip could go very badly for him.

It’s ridiculous that the US government is paying a foreign government to detain prisoners on its behalf and seems to be claiming it didn’t put anything in the contract about a way to get the prisoners back.

“Oops, we deported him at 4pm. Oh well.”

Why would they impeach him for something the Republicans on the Supreme Court will declare perfectly legal?