Rhoades Alderson

[Rhoades Alderson @Rhoades500]

The "Can Opener" bridge in Louisville KY has ripped the roof off of 7 trucks in 4 days. One already today! (a highway closure re-routes trucks and some wander)

[Louisville Can Opener @LouCanOpener]

Art

[Rhoades Alderson @Rhoades500]

So good. Reminds me of the great early '80s Sports Illustrated pieces

[George Simms @GeorgeRSimms]

Dispatch from the centre of the universe: New York @ObserverUK

https://t.co/cFx4ZsFd8n

[Rhoades Alderson @Rhoades500]

@VochLombardi great episode

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Rhoades Alderson @Rhoades500]

@brianstelter Unfortunately public commitments have been devalued almost to zero

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Feb. 10: Trump portfolio buys between $1 million and $5 million in stock in Dell.

Feb. 19: Trump at rally encourages supporters to "buy a Dell computer."

May 27: Pentagon awards $9.7 billion contract to Dell.

@maeganvaz https://t.co/f1HqeHqqtV

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Samuel Alito’s son has worked as a lawyer inside Trump’s Treasury Department since early last year. The administration hid it.

No public resume, no LinkedIn, no mention on the Treasury website, outdated bar listings. Four former officials confirmed it.

The public was never told.

Here is why that matters.

Philip Alito served as an attorney-adviser in Treasury’s general counsel office, briefed on department matters across the board, while the Supreme Court took up a case in which the Treasury Department was a named defendant.

The department never disclosed the connection in court.

Justice Alito did not recuse.

The federal recusal law is plain. A justice must step aside in any case where his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.

That is the test.

Not whether anyone can prove influence but whether a reasonable person looking at this would doubt it. A justice ruling on cases involving the very agency that employs his son fails that test on its face.

And Treasury sits at the center of many upcoming issues, including the fight over Trump’s $1.776 billion dollar fund to reward the January 6th rioters he pardoned. That fight could be headed to the Court too.

This is exactly why the honor system has failed.

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no enforceable code of conduct. I support withholding funding from the Court until the justices adopt a binding code with real recusal review.

Congress holds the power of the purse.

We should use it.

https://t.co/t2aZrXpaoU

[Rhoades Alderson @Rhoades500]

@jonmachota Is there any inside-the-Star conventional wisdom about why Joe Milton plays well in games that count while apparently being nerve wracking in practice and preseason? Just lucky that his good days happen on those random regular season Sundays?

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

At long last, the DNC's election autopsy has been released. Now how about we discuss all the ways we can get a listless Democratic Party back on track?

Fighting, never folding, against rising authoritarianism. Staying laser-focused on making life affordable for working families. Affirming strongly that we're the anti-war party. Taking a real stand to get dark money out of politics. Party leadership grounded in transparency & accountability helps too. Those are just a few back-of-the-napkin ideas.

Democrats need better leadership to meet the moment.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Even Trump appointees know how disgustingly corrupt this is, and it still has not received 10% of the coverage and attention it deserves as media moves on to other things.

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

One outbreak and the entire “sane” side of public health resorted back to the paternalism of telling us not to worry or “panic”, “this isn’t Covid”, etc.

They didn’t learn a thing. We didn’t appoint them to be our therapists or parents. Provide info, don’t dictate how to feel.

[Rhoades Alderson @Rhoades500]

@davehelman_ Devin Moore too

[Rhoades Alderson @Rhoades500]

@loebsleads nope

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

This is not some sort of fog of war situation w terrible options foisted upon us by external forces. This is a war of choice and now our country is threatening to commit genocide. It is time for all American patriots to speak up, unanimously, against this monstrous, insane war.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of March 12, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

[Rhoades Alderson @Rhoades500]

@Marcus_Mosher Have we discussed Leo Chenal enough?

[Rhoades Alderson @Rhoades500]

@TheAtlantic @imkahloon These are children. Please stop high-brow washing an adolescent gang of goons given unimaginable power. You all are too smart and hard working to be fitting them into your normal political writing templates. Write what you see the way it's really happening.

[Rhoades Alderson @Rhoades500]

@MrSomething23 Yeah, fair point. But even if you have a fearsome d line, that can be defended if there's no $ for the back 7. I'd rather have a cheaper crafty pass rush rotation that has another half second because we invested in LB, CB & S

[Rhoades Alderson @Rhoades500]

@Marcus_Mosher great 10-yd split too