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@ThatEricAlper My older sibling.

What did you start liking the older you got?

@PhilSustainable By that logic a building the size of the Empire State Building could be built in one year and 45 days. Modern labor laws be darned!

Manhattan’s population peaked in 1910 at 2.33 million residents. Today it’s only 1.7 million, so there’s easily room for 600,000 new Manhattanites today! Time to grow back

@chrisdefelice_ @MichaelaB_22 Every study done on the “public investment = jobs + tax revenue” has shown that states and localities never get the benefits they expect and the team owners laugh all the way to the bank.

@MichaelaB_22 Public investment into tons of jobs

@OldSchoolBoston @WCVB I moved to Boston in 1996 and every clock in every T station was sponsored by one of the three local stations.

@OldSchoolBoston @WCVB It is impossible to accurately convey to anyone under 30 how big local TV news used to be.

WCVB Newscenter 5 Boston 1988 @WCVB

@soxsabresfan @intothemystic22 The Sox (and B’s) own NESN. Part of the reason Henry and Lucchino slapped ads on every square inch of the ballpark was to show it on TV. They have no reason not to have a first rate production.

@intothemystic22 Just feel like it’s so different. NESN has to do a game basically everyday. AppleTV has a massive budget to do a single game a week (maybe 2 some weeks?) NESN could def be better but don’t feel like a level playing field to me.

Apple TV really does make you realize what a shit product NESN puts out.

@pat_hedger How are Shawmut Bank, Fleet, BayBank, and Bank of Boston doing after getting swallowed up by Bank of America because the feds didn’t enforce antitrust laws in the 90’s?

Bang-up job by the Biden DOJ.

@MorosKostas I’m sure you said the same thing about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, no?

So reckless if true. Him and Thomas need to be responsible and go enjoy a well-earned retirement. I don't want their legacy becoming conservative versions of RBG. On SCOTUS, once you are over 75 (maybe even 70), you should retire the next time your side has Senate and White House. Because it could be 4-8 years before the next chance, and at that age, decline or death can be sudden.

@BernieSanders The income tax was supposed to only be for the top 1% when the Sixteenth Amendment was proposed. What are 80% of Americans paying it annually?

If you paid $1 in federal income taxes this year, you paid more than: Walt Disney Citigroup CVS Kohl's Ticketmaster Tesla United Airlines GoDaddy Paypal Palantir Roku HP 3M PG&E Halliburton That’s absurd. We need real and progressive tax reform.

@Thomas_A_Berry This is why Elon should have never let people pay $20 for unlimited characters. Twitter/X isn’t a blog post forum. (Also, I notice you complain about the EPA but are silent about the adoption of Judge Bork’s “consumer welfare” reading of antitrust law.

The Supreme Court has long recognized a “nondelegation doctrine,” which holds that Congress must provide executive agencies with an “intelligible principle” to govern the exercise of delegated authority. During the Second World War, however, the doctrine entered a period of dormancy, as wartime decisions deferential to the political branches truncated its development. Congress has since avoided difficult policy choices by granting broad authority to agencies—undermining the separation of powers and diminishing individual liberty. The Court now has a chance to revive and clarify the doctrine in a case called RMS v. EPA. RMS, which does business as @choice_refrig, produces refrigerant blends for a multibillion-dollar domestic market. In 2020, Congress enacted the AIM Act, mandating an 85 percent reduction in certain refrigerants through a cap-and-trade program administered by the EPA. To implement the phasedown, the Act requires EPA to allocate production-and-consumption “allowances”—without which no person may lawfully produce or consume these refrigerants. Yet Congress provided no guidance on how EPA should distribute roughly 98 percent of those allowances. Choice challenged this arrangement as an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power. The D.C. Circuit rejected that challenge, and Choice has petitioned the Supreme Court for review. @CatoInstitute has now filed an amicus brief supporting Choice and urging the Court to grant the petition, co-authored with @bskorup and @AMXenos. Our brief argues that this is a straightforward nondelegation case. Article I vests legislative power in Congress, and Congress cannot evade that responsibility by giving EPA unbounded discretion to choose which firms may continue participating in a major industry. The Constitution requires Congress to make the hard policy choices itself. Under the AIM Act, however, EPA can pick winners and losers without any intelligible principle from Congress to constrain its choices. Our brief also explains why the D.C. Circuit erred. Rather than acknowledge that Congress failed to supply a limiting principle, the court attempted to save the statute by importing one from legislative history and a Clean Air Act provision that the AIM Act never references or incorporates. But the Constitution requires Congress—not an Article III court concocting a legislative judgment Congress never made—to cabin agency discretion. Allowing courts to perform that function does not solve the separation-of-powers problem; it compounds it. Finally, our brief identifies an important rule-of-law problem created by the decision below. When Congress leaves the law this open-ended, the operative rules are neither fixed nor predictable. A company like Choice Refrigerants can invest millions of dollars developing products, building market share, and planning for the future—only to find that a change in administration, or even a change in EPA leadership, has wiped out its market position because the agency chose to fill the statutory void differently. We urge the Court to grant the petition and make clear that Congress may not abdicate its legislative power.

@missmayn Ed Markey had been in Congress since 1977 and was not, as the Constitution requires, an inhabitant of Massachusetts when first elected to the Senate from Massachusetts.

if you’re 45-years-old or younger chuck schumer has been in congress longer than you’ve been alive.

@SenWarren What percentage of bills that you have introduced have passed and been enacted into law?

Right out in the open, Donald Trump is suing his own IRS to try to steal $10 BILLION taxpayer dollars. I just introduced a bill that would make this theft ILLEGAL.

@NicoleAuerbach 🤦‍♂️College football should not start before college classes.

Under the proposal, future FBS regular seasons would be standardized to 14 weeks, during which teams could schedule 12 games. The season would begin on the Thursday of what is now designated Week 0 and end on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. So, Week 0 would turn into Week 1.

@kyleumlang The man had at most two good years. Popularizing a gimmicky offense that wouldn’t work without sticky gloves is not HOF worthy, IMO. Especially not “let’s change the rules” worthy.

To be in the #CFB HoF, a coach must have won at least 60% of his games. Mike Leach won 59.6% before his death in 2022. The National Football Foundation will lower the winning pct to 59.5% starting with the 2027 ballot to address Leach’s special circumstance. Hell yeah!! 🫡 🏴‍☠️👻

@LinkofSunshine TY for teaching me something new. I always assumed it was for rich CEOs who didn’t want to drive.

@RichAndPowe7ful @uncledoomer Oops. Didn’t mean to yell there.

@RichAndPowe7ful @uncledoomer The OP graphic is off by a year. Gandolfini was 37 during THE PILOT.

sopranos actors birth years if the pilot was filmed today

@Nowooski @olagjeilo Kind of like the Seaport. I mean, saying it could have been better isn’t stating that what was there, dirt parking lots, was better than what we have now. Just that soulless office buildings kinda sucks.

@olagjeilo I’m not saying it’s worse than what was there previously, I’m saying it’s huge disappointment vs what could have been.

I was obsessed with the big dig as an urbanist teen and then remember the huge disappointment when I finally saw it in person. Great - you’ve replaced an elevated highway with huge surface streets and a kind of shitty landscaped median. It would have been way better if they put up buildings instead of the crappy ribbon park.

@bostonradio Allegedly

20 years ago today, April 16, 2006, Vito Spatafore was spotted in a NYC bar dressed like the biker from the Village People: leather vest, leather cap, and, yes, chaps. A full‑on costume change nobody at the Bing was quite ready for.

These two headlines on top of each other is insane.