David Barth

Father, husband, economist, and concerned citizen.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

No president in American history has sold his foreign policy this openly. 

Days before Trump took office, a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates national security adviser paid $500,000,000 for a 49% stake in the Trump family crypto venture, World Liberty Financial.

Trump’s own financial disclosure released last month shows he personally pocketed $263,000,000 from that sale. It was one of the largest single chunks of his income for the year.

Now the payoff.

Last week Trump’s Commerce Department reclassified the UAE so its main AI company, controlled by the same royal who bought into his crypto firm, can freely buy the most advanced American chips. It moved the UAE out of a group that included China and into the group with our closest allies.

Industry analysts say the access is worth billions.

A foreign government put a quarter of a billion dollars in the President’s pocket. Then that same government got a favor from his administration worth billions. National security experts have already raised concerns about those chips being diverted to China.

Presidents used to put their assets in a blind trust so nobody could ever ask this question. Trump kept his and cashed the check.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.
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[David Barth @davebarth]

@JaquanBrisker Thanks for the memories Jaquan. You left it all on the field in the Rams game as we all saw. Mad respect and love from this fan.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Americans aren't American because of tombs, graveyards, blood and soil.

Celebrating the ideals of the Declaration of Independence is hard if you don’t believe in them.

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[David Barth @davebarth]

@RobertFreundLaw This is not the first case by this plaintiff over alleged illegal copying of these reports. See, eg, https://t.co/QGJAtA6HsS. The complaint already survived a motion to dismiss, too.

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

One of the hardest stories to convey to the general public is the damage being done by this overt politicizing of the military by Hegseth. There are a lot of soldiers who are quietly trying to speak out but struggle with going outside the chain of command.

[David Barth @davebarth]

@WhiteHouse Trump is a visionary. I can’t believe he successfully demanded that France let him sign the deal at the historically significant Palace of Versailles! This deal is one for the ages. But “MOU” doesn’t convey its significance. I would probably rename it the Treaty of Versailles II.

[Habeas Corpus Linguistics @HabCorpLinguist]

Crazy how Operation Warp Speed was both good policy and a complete vindication of libertarian criticism of the administrative state inhibiting healthcare and basically no one wants to claim it as a victory for their coalition.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!

[David Barth @davebarth]

I understand that the Kennedy Center put up a tarp so that the orange goblin wouldn’t see footage of his name being removed. Does anyone have footage of the name being installed, but being played in reverse? I would like to see it come off, and this is the next best alternative.

[David Barth @davebarth]

@gmfb This one is a gem

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[Chris “Law Dork” Geidner @chrisgeidner]

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

[Courtney Bublé @courtneybuble]

Wyden and Kennedy introduced a bill to modernize PACER

[David Barth @davebarth]

@Sherman1890 Looking forward to it! Thanks for making this available.

[Herbert hovenkamp @Sherman1890]

I am starting a substack newsletter, “The Monopoly Problem,” https://t.co/gNMYnObZMi. Please sign up for a free subscription and I will try to make it worth your while. I will post as often as my day job permits. Herb Hovenkamp

[David Barth @davebarth]

If removing Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center would render it financially nonviable, then adding his name to the Center did irreparable harm to it, because the Center was financially viable before Trump’s name was added to it.

[Roger Parloff @rparloff]

COO of [Trump-]Kennedy Center files declaration telling Judge Cooper that removal of Trump's name from the Center would render all trust-funded operations (that is, all programming) "financially nonviable."
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[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The anonymous artists responsible for satirical art installations aimed at the Trump administration struck again this week with a pop-up video game titled “Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell.” https://t.co/VpJ8cl8d8p

[David Barth @davebarth]

@RobertFreundLaw It also contains no blueberry in the (non-)yogurt.

[SusanTweets 💙🇺🇸 @susantweetsNY]

@srl @MollyJongFast Alito’s SCOTUS decision re. Voting Rights was based on incorrect information https://t.co/lleFjp1uXF

[Sam Levine @srl]

Scoop: The claims Samuel Alito, a supreme court justice, made about voter turnout in Louisiana in a landmark Voting Rights Act case were based on a misleading data analysis, a Guardian review has found. https://t.co/mlKR4k4IOA w/ Will Craft and Andrew Witherspoon