Joshua Smith@smithmachine
Long-time readers will know that with my boring-ass name, I get a lot of misdirected email.
Still, of all the days to get some rando’s receipt from the Cheesecake Factory…
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Joshua Smith
@smithmachine
Currently: Policy Director, @SenateBudget / @SenJeffMerkley. When I grow up: Major League Baseball-Playing Supreme Court Justice.
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- Joshua Smith@smithmachine"Obviously it stinks for those attending." This is college football in a nutshell in 2026: Scheduling a rivaly game at 10 am local, not caring about the players or the fans or the alumni. The true "customer" is a rando who didn't go to a football school but likes watching on TV.Stewart Mandel @slmandelObviously it stinks for those attending. BUT for TV exposure, you'd much rather be in that slot than opposite Miami-Notre Dame in primetime.100120
Obviously it stinks for those attending. BUT for TV exposure, you'd much rather be in that slot than opposite Miami-Notre Dame in primetime.192143251.1K- Joshua Smith@smithmachinePosty @smithmachineThe thing is, the College Football Overlords are right! The game has never been more profitable, never had such high TV ratings. So what if century-old rivalries go away? So what if West Coast schools are in the Atlantic Coast Conference? So what if games are at 10am or 10pm? 🤑10072
- Joshua Smith@smithmachinePosty @smithmachineOnly 13,000 fans went to Stanford-NC State. Scheduling a game with a school with so little culteral/geographical overlap (rather than, say, UCLA) that didn't end until 11 on a Friday night? "Obviously it stinks for those attending." At least the TV guys got what they wanted.00045
- Joshua Smith@smithmachineLosing to Stanford will do that. 🌲 🤓Nicole Auerbach @NicoleAuerbachNEWS: North Carolina State announces that Dave Doeren has been fired.00069
NEWS: North Carolina State announces that Dave Doeren has been fired.187345892.6K- Joshua Smith@smithmachineJoshua SmithRT @SaveEastPo: Good article today from the NYT. I have still yet to hear one good reason why we should get rid of a broad, multi purpose space to satisfy one thing and one thing only. It defies imagination and what PUBLIC space is meant to be.026001
- Joshua Smith@smithmachineJoshua SmithRT @ArthurDelaneyHP: [president dumps huge pile of White House debris on East Potomac Park] The President: behold Trash IslandAaron Rupar @atruparTrump: "Trash Island,' Washington, D.C., the nickname for the broken and dilapidated Golf Course that is the subject of frivolous litigation in the United States Court System, before a judge that seems not to want Greatness for our Capital or our Nation (but who knows?), has been badly managed for so many decades that it is a completely nonviable and unsafe Project. Our Plan, developed to the Highest Levels and Standards of Golf, will turn Trash Island into an Island of Beauty and Success! It will be one of the Most Wonderful and Spectacular Golf Courses anywhere in the World. The United States Department of the Interior, and its Experts, are so proud of what has been designed that any delay would be sad, both for them and the Public, which is anxiously waiting for something that is really special! President DONALD J. TRUMP"01902.1K
Trump: "Trash Island,' Washington, D.C., the nickname for the broken and dilapidated Golf Course that is the subject of frivolous litigation in the United States Court System, before a judge that seems not to want Greatness for our Capital or our Nation (but who knows?), has been badly managed for so many decades that it is a completely nonviable and unsafe Project. Our Plan, developed to the Highest Levels and Standards of Golf, will turn Trash Island into an Island of Beauty and Success! It will be one of the Most Wonderful and Spectacular Golf Courses anywhere in the World. The United States Department of the Interior, and its Experts, are so proud of what has been designed that any delay would be sad, both for them and the Public, which is anxiously waiting for something that is really special! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
13611659889.9K- Joshua Smith@smithmachineTearing down the East Wing and ruining the Reflecting Pool are bad, but symbolically so. This makes the experience of living in DC as a normal person – turning a place for cycling, fishing, birding, picnicking, and cheap golf into a playground for the rich – materially worse.Andrew Leyden @PenguinSixTrump announces plans for the redeveloped East Potomac Park golf course.102251.3K17.1K
Trump announces plans for the redeveloped East Potomac Park golf course.
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- Joshua Smith@smithmachineThe most recent non-Trump violaiton of the Impoundment Control Act was in 2006 under W.Joshua Smith @smithmachineThis makes nine (9!) seperate times in less than two years that the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office has determined the President has illegally withheld Congressinally appropriated funds.010126
- Joshua Smith@smithmachinePosty @smithmachineThis makes nine (9!) seperate times in less than two years that the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office has determined the President has illegally withheld Congressinally appropriated funds.08221.7K
- Joshua Smith@smithmachineThe President broke the law by illegally withholding funds to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.126333
- Joshua Smith@smithmachinePosty @smithmachineThe President also broke the law by illegally witholding funds from EPA's Community Change Grants program, part of the Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants Program, and illegally terminating the grants.10185
- Joshua Smith@smithmachineEvery $1 spent on flood adaptation saves $1.80 in federal disaster recovery costs. Seems like a good investment imoU.S. CBO @USCBOCBO examines how spending for flood adaptations today might affect the federal government's potential costs for disaster relief later, and what households are likely to pay for flood insurance that is subsidized by the federal government.012120
- Joshua Smith@smithmachineThis is a load-bearing "provided that." “I applaud this administration,” [Mark Iwry, a former senior Treasury official] said, “provided these measures are implemented responsibly, in good faith, and free of conflicts of interest, corruption, and ulterior motives.”Richard Rubin @RichardRubinDCNew from us: Last week's Trump Accounts changes mean that millions of kids will get individual stocks that they can't reject and can't sell for five years.006582
Richard Rubin@RichardRubinDCNew from us: Last week's Trump Accounts changes mean that millions of kids will get individual stocks that they can't reject and can't sell for five years.7256049.6K- Joshua Smith@smithmachineJFC
DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilmThe official launch video for the new Warner Bros/Paramount merged company — Skydance.001124 
The official launch video for the new Warner Bros/Paramount merged company — Skydance.5881.8K15.3K1.9M- Joshua Smith@smithmachineCome on now. This can't be real.Sadie Gurman @sgurmanDOJ is reviewing whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the Watergate break-in committed misconduct, according to people familiar with the matter, more than half a century after that scandal led to Nixon’s resignation. W @PhilipWegmann002430
Sadie Gurman@sgurmanDOJ is reviewing whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the Watergate break-in committed misconduct, according to people familiar with the matter, more than half a century after that scandal led to Nixon’s resignation. W @PhilipWegmann2053011K630K- Joshua Smith@smithmachineJoshua SmithRT @sn_handler: News in Punchbowl News Midday: Merkley and Murray will try to UC a bill later today that would block the White House’s pocket rescission01101
- Joshua Smith@smithmachineJoshua SmithRT @elwasson: The non-binding document on super intelligence says Trump is president of the “Unites” StatesRapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities0501
U.S. CBO@USCBOCBO examines how spending for flood adaptations today might affect the federal government's potential costs for disaster relief later, and what households are likely to pay for flood insurance that is subsidized by the federal government.0141.2K
Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities
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