Do I trust the economic statistics?
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Do I trust the economic statistics?
"I don’t know if Donald Trump has a personal health problem. But I’m confident he has a political health care problem...Republicans have handed Democrats a powerful agenda: Undo the Medicaid cuts. Keep the health insurance tax credits. Provide vaccines." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
"When did we become a country where it's okay for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything – especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation – that we treat this as normal?" Gov. JB Pritzker
It’s corruption, plain and simple.
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Republicans control the Senate But with Roy Cooper in North Carolina, the emergence of @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social in Iowa and Sherrod Brown maybe returning in Ohio, the map looks a lot better If Democrats beat Susan Collins and @ossoff.bsky.social holds his seat, the balance of power will change
The next US Senator from Maine, Graham Platner.
Countries are telling the Trump regime to fuck off. They aren't taking calls. They aren't returning calls. They are cancelling scheduled meetings. No one respects Trump and the clowns he employs. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/j...
Got a text earlier today from a SEAL I fought alongside overseas and it started “Dan I’m finally off the Trump train…” His reasoning? The corruption. Crypto stuff I don’t care about at all… But there’s a lot of different ways someone can see the light.
Support for Trump amongst his youngest voters is already collapsing. And, trust me, we’re gonna keep dragging it down. 🫡
📌 Nice to see D.C. show up day after day. ✊🏼 Power to the people!
It’s still early, but pretty good turnout so far for Bernie Sanders and Graham Platner’s (running against Susan Collins) rally here in Maine today.
Literally the one thing the dude did that worked was the COVID vaccine and he is considering dumping it because of RFK.
It's his imagination and we're just lucky to be living in it.
Because nothing screams “qualified diplomat” like a guy whose entire foreign policy experience is yelling at women from his car. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/trump-pick...
Hey Sen. James Lankford, stop your Orwellian doublespeak. We're not "jumping to conclusions" – RFKjr is a dark tetrad. He knows nothing about human healthcare. He's systematically trying to cull the American public. Remove him from office. Immediately.
Remove the dams in the Columbia River Basin. Restore the river. Restore salmon populations (saving Orcas and otters in the process). Of course Trump reneged on the agreement. Go around him @governorferguson.bsky.social @murray.senate.gov
If we will never be a Socialist [sic] or Communist [sic] Country [sic], then why are you giving billions of dollars to farmers to make up for losses from your stupid tariffs (SOCIALISM) and having the US government own part of Intel (COMMUNISM)?
Spread the word !!
This federal judge understated the matter when she called “surprising” the government’s attempt “to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend.” She was right to issue a temporary restraining order. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
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Everyone parrots the line, “They’ll just replace Trump with another figurehead.” Bullsh*t. Later today in my latest JHN Newsletter I’ll break down why Trump is the one irreplaceable piece of this machine. When he’s gone...the whole thing starts to crack.
Scream this from the rooftops. Scream it again.
You've got 97 seconds to summarize the labor econ literature on how to obtain causal estimates of the returns to education. Go.
The irony of all this is that if he manages to take down the Sullivan precedent, one of the very first victims will be the right wing social media influencers who are basically his last group of political support these days. They will get buried in lawsuits.
ABC is still traumatized by the lawsuit they stupidly settled.
No big whoop, just Donald Trump pissing away three decades of U.S. diplomacy due to a fit of personal pique. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
Lawyers for the children say they're still on planes in El Paso. SOOKNANAN: "I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend. That's surprising." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Over 300 MILLION American citizen's files stolen by DOGE. Why can't 1 person with access steal the EPSTEIN Files? #LEAKtheEPSTEIN_Files
WOW, must see TV!
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BREAKING: Trump is "fine" and golfing amid health rumors, Trump says ending tariffs will be the downfall of America, Republicans are heckled across the country at town halls, extremists discuss using drones, and more. All the news you missed: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
I will be there and you should come too. We cannot let the Epstein story die.
Birmingham, Michigan SHOWED up to where Mike Johnson was staying. Looks like he isn't getting much sleep.....‼️ KEEP IT UP FOR AMERICA FOR FREEDOM FOR OUR CHILDREN and their children‼️ #democracywins
"Everyone who comes before the court deserves to be heard, respected, and treated equally." Judge Taylor's commitment to fair, independent, and impartial justice has guided her throughout her judicial career and it's why we need her on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
100 current and retired judges are backing Chris Taylor because they share her commitment to protecting the independence of our judiciary and defending the fundamental rights of every Wisconsinite. See the full list: www.chrisforjustice.com/endorsements
There's a clear choice in this race between Judge Chris Taylor, who has spent her career fighting for our rights and freedoms, and Justice Rebecca Bradley, who once again voted to strip Wisconsinites' rights away. Read Judge Taylor's reaction here ⬇️
You may already be aware of this. If so...it's good reinforcement: The President of Portugal branded Trump a RUSSIAN ASSET. Whether it’s true or not doesn’t even matter; what matters is this: world leaders see Trump as weak...compromised...and beneath respect.
She was a traitor then, is a traitor now and she will always be in the future.
One thing about never-Trump Republicans, during Trump II particularly: They understand that the world they knew is dead. They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).
Back-to-school reminder: The market rewards education Average earnings: High school dropout | ### ($35k) High school grad | ##### ($47k) College degree | ######### ($87k) Masters degree | ########### ($106k) Professional degree | ##################($184k)
Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here
“You have to let us break the law or we will be embarrassed” is not a good legal argument
Just out for an evening stroll in beautiful DC, wearing my Third Amendment T-shirt so the national guard knows they can’t come sit in my couch
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One of the most disillusioning things in my life was Obama talking about looking forward back and his DOJ not pursuing charges against bush and cheney. If those dudes were in prison right now I think we wouldn’t be here.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
Remember, whatever you might think of him, Donald Trump is a human being, and so if he truly is dead, the body will need to be weighted before dumping it unceremoniously off the side of an aircraft carrier.
Loser of a man.
"Kennedy might have prospered had he simply been content to continue slapping a MAHA coat of paint on the good work of the government’s actual scientists. Instead, he seems determined to rip the engine out while the car is hurtling down the interstate." www.thebulwark.com/p/camelot-fo...
Reading Trump's Mind. "I know that Bobby’s got his own base, with all those MAHA weirdos...So it’s a little tricky to dump him. But you know what? It was tricky to dump Elon. I dumped him. And he’s slinked away. Well, now it may be time to dump Bobby." www.thebulwark.com/p/camelot-fo...
Reading Trump's Mind. "This stuff at CDC and HHS isn’t getting me power, or glory, or money. And everything is in the service of Bobby. Not me. It’s like it was with Elon. He became the story, and it turned into not a good one. And I don’t like not-good stories." www.thebulwark.com/p/camelot-fo...
Johnson does not counterattack. He did not say Newsom was lying (he was not lying). Instead, he did what Hakeem Jeffries often does after a Republican lays into him. He retreated to a “reasonable man’s” position to show that his party is the party that really cares about crime. How did this happen?
Newsom did not accept as true anything Trump and the Republicans say about crime. He did not validate any of their lies. He did not concede any ground. Most of all, he did not, as historian Timothy Snyder often warns, surrender in advance. The result? Johnson retreated.
Most Democrats are not going to force Fox to ask high-level Republicans to respond to them. Even so, what Newsom is doing is replicable. Do not accept *in any way* the lies told by Trump and the Republicans, even when, or *especially when*, those lies come out of the mouths of independent voters.
@jasmineforus.bsky.social responds to JD Vance saying she didn’t belong in the room: “You say I don’t belong in this room, but I sit here because the people of Texas sent me. I earned every vote, and every second I speak here, I carry their voices —
Written order to come within 30 days (he issued it now bc the law is supposed to go into effect Monday. Rough holding is that it likely violates the 1A to compel companies issue disclosures related to DEI and ESG they don't think are true. Trump-appointed Judge Alan Albright.
RFK jr, a man with a laundry list of behavioral problems is running the HHS (including the CDC, NIH, FDA, CMS). If he wants to personally have cult-beliefs, that's on him – but we must not allow him to project his own pathological beliefs onto 345 million people of this country. This is not science.
DOGE has apparently created a cloud database of gov’t data & personal info about almost every American … used AI to mine it … and, evidently, exposed it to grave security vulnerabilities in the process. This isn’t dystopian fiction. This is happening in the United States.
Republican opinion or polling doesn't dictate science. The MSM must stop treating them like they do. Fire RFK jr. Now.
Jeeze, I guess, "Well, everybody's gonna die" wasn't such a great campaign slogan after all.
NEW: Judge Boasberg has GRANTED our preservation order for Musk's phone records in our FOIA case against DOGE. The request was made by the other plaintiff in the case - First Amendment Coalition - as they propounded the FOIA. You can read the ruling here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
We’re not done yet.
Not entirely sure the judge can do that but we will see.
Ernst apparently plans to spend more time talking about death.
They're now saying it out loud: The Administration's goal is to undo the political independence that Congress granted the Fed, so that the President can directly set rates.
Econo-podcast-chat-teach-ing -- this time with my friends at The Tent Pod -- on the economy, Fed independence , tariffs, official statistics, nationalizing Intel, and my Big Economic Solution. (Spoiler: Not that big, not that radical.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=teOI...
"so he's got the reins of power, but he's lost the battle of ideas."
Excellent question.
This!
Hearing that the whistleblower, Charles Borges, has now resigned. He was the SSA Chief Data Officer. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
🚨🚨🚨 This is why I take it to the streets every chance I get. THESE are official acts of the American government waging war on people who should have Constitutional rights. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THIS WILL EVENTUALLY TRICKLE TO YOU, your family?
“Some activists launched ‘No sleep for Ice’ rallies, with chants and music blaring through the night, in hopes of pressuring the hotels to kick agents out. Now, public records shared w/the Guardian show that the protests indeed sent federal agencies scrambling …” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
It’s really important to remember that Republicans are cruel and mean and ruthless as any bully, but also like any bully they are a bunch of piss-pants cowards who run crying to their favorite podcasts when they get mean looks in restaurants.
Was John Bolton hacked? A new report says yes. Check out my full video on Substack, and please consider subscribing! open.substack.com/pub/frankfig...
Case study: Erdogan replaced technocrats with loyalists and kept rates low when they needed to rise. Inflation soared to 86%, and is still painfully high. That’s the playbook Trump's floating. Keep the Fed independent if you want low inflation without the drama.
I know, I know, another podcast. But this one let me play professor: Dig in to the underlying economics of Trump's attempt to strong arm the Fed, how it undermines Fed independence, why it matters, what might happen, and how he's actually undermining his own goals. open.spotify.com/episode/7bzj...
"Justin, fact check this for us, because earlier today the President said there's no inflation." Lemme serve up a heaping pile of truth on a bed of context, and do so with a smile.
"I remember reading Nietzsche in college: 'When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks back into you.' Having the abyss look back into you seemed to me a bad thing, so I’ve tried ever since to avoid frequent abyss-looking... But we're heading towards it." www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...
Reading the new details about what went down at CDC, one thing jumps out at me: In standing up to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Director Monarez has shown the kind of backbone and integrity that often earns public servants a Profile in Courage Award— —awarded by the family of John F. Kennedy.
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Stuart Stevens: "In my first race, I had stumbled onto a truth as basic and immutable as the fact that water freezes below 32 degrees Fahrenheit: Race was the key in which much of American politics and certainly all of Southern politics was played."
Mass shootings are an American nightmare. But RFK Jr will kill more Americans than all the mass shooters combined. And Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. let it happen. It’s the greatest case of medical malpractice in history.
Chicagoans will rally and march on Labor Day starting at 11 a.m. at the Haymarket Memorial to protest Trump's threat of a military occupation of the city. It's time to speak out. Join us.
This is how the current regime wastes taxpayer dollars fighting crime in Washington, D.C. There's no need to have the active military, the National Guard, or ICE deployed nationwide to fight crime! Fund the police instead & stop trying to intimidate Americans! #Voices4Victory
Who in TF would take their child to a politician when they're sick? – let alone one who was addicted to heroin, who has a self-professed nematode in his brain, has a dead animal fetish, and who emotionally tortured his wife? RFKjr is a profound danger to the America. Get him out of the HHS. Now.
What problems are solved by the government becoming a passive investor in Intel? Some simple analytics: If the government truly remains a passive investor -- as it promises -- this simply shifts stock certificates from one safe, to another, and nothing else changes.
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...
Congrats to @marcelias.bsky.social!!!
Let me introduce Catelin Drey, or I should say Senator Catelin Drey. She just flipped a blood red Iowa Senate seat in her victory yesterday. We talk about this and more on Coffee With Texas Paul, LIVE at 11 am Eastern today. Join us!
Chief Justice Roberts says the rule of law is eroding like we've rarely seen. Maybe he should've thought of that before ruling the president is above the law. You don't get to burn the house down and act shocked it's on fire.
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Interesting that this happens on the same day Chuck Grassley posts that Trump’s tariffs are hurting Iowa farmers.
