U.S. District Judge John Bates, appointed by G.W. Bush, awarded summary judgment to Jenner & Block, finding President Trump’s executive order against it unlawful, null and void: “This case arises from one of a series of executive orders targeting law firms that, in one way or another, did not bow to the current presidential administration’s […]
Getty’s Kevin Dietech snapped this picture of Republican Majority Leader Mike Johnson peering over his shoulder as he enters a meeting. Or what looks like a meeting. One of several authors writes it is a House Rules Committee Meeting. And probably about Trumps “Big Beautiful Bill.” “The Devastating Harms of House Republicans’ Big, ‘Beautiful’ Bill […]
Remember when RFK Jr. promised to have an answer to the cause of autism by September 2025? He’s already walking that back: “We will have some studies completed by September, and those studies will mainly be replication studies of studies that have already been done. We’re also deploying new teams of scientists, 15 groups of […]
Brief introduction to Overpayments to Medicare Advantage Plans . . . Ending Overpayment in Medicare Advantage – Center for American Progress Through the Medicare Advantage (MA) program, private insurers are expected to save money by reducing waste, avoiding overuse, and providing more coordinated care than is available through traditional Medicare. Research finds MA plans are significantly […]
Selling Out America, Jack Lessenberry Pundit I would follow while living in Michigan. It has been fun reading him then. Now Jack has his own site to which I subscribe. He puts some excellent commentary up. If you get a chance you may wish to follow him from time to time. ~~~~~~~ Anyone who thinks […]
In Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass,” Humpty-Dumpty says, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” Ever since Marbury v Madison, the Supreme Court has used similar logic with the Constitution. Now the Roberts SCOTUS has used this superpower to discover that the Constitution […]
Between 2022 and 2023, there were 1.5 million excess deaths in the US. These are people who would be alive if the US mortality rate were comparable to other industrialized nations. “The authors agree that further research is needed to fully understand the driving factors behind excess mortality, but suggest looking to other nations for […]
– by New Deal democrat Since new and existing home sales were released just one day apart, I figured I would report on both of them together; in particular because for well over a year I have been looking for, and tracking, the rebalancing of this market, where a lack of inventory of existing homes […]
In its decision in Trump et al. v Wilcox et al., the six right-wing extremists on the Roberts SCOTUS stripped independent federal agencies of their independence. In principle, the next president could restore independence to these agencies, but from now on, such decisions are tenuous at best: “With unitary executive theory, Congress cannot write robust […]
Who Would Pay the Biggest Price for Postal Privatization? – by Sarah Anderson Institute for Policy Studies as featured at Save the Post Office (Steve Hutkins) During his first term, President Trump appointed a task force on the future of the Postal Service that included the Treasury Secretary and the Directors of the Office of Management and […]