Federal troops in Chicago
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Federal troops in Chicago
30 years of work burned down to the ground in 8 months www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/t...
Promise you. Maine ALWAYS dissapoints. Population is declining for a good reason.
Worth a reminder union members were 50/50 split supporting Trump Unions have been in decline for a good reason.
NYT - Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who is 78, will not seek re-election next year. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/nyregion/jerrold-nadler-congress-retires.html
Lol
Ukraine taking it all on the chin has caused things to occur that was never thought of prior to 2022
"Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
This is, I swear to Christ, the lead story at the Atlantic Monthly right now
Can we all agree that the guy making Amazon Prime movie descriptions needs a raise? These movies are mostly hot garbage but sound super interesting.
Wise advice from the dude with other smart opinions bsky.app/profile/numb...
I am still searching this magical Democrat in America who ran on allowing more trans people into girls bathroom and allow more illegal to flood into the country. These guys invented a Democrat that does not even exist and then invented a Democrat base that does not even exist. It is really amazing.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Modi to Trump: GFY
Germany has already met its 2028 goal for reducing coal-fired power generation, so won’t need to order the shutdown of any plants for a second year running
So anyways
We spent 30 years trying to make this not happen. Trump screwed it up in 8 months.
You get any of your orders cancelled? www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
Trump is an economic wrecking ball www.cnbc.com/2025/09/01/t...
We are effectively doing what volcanoes did to the climate through the Earths history in case you are curious where this is headed.
Shares in Samsung, SK Hynix drop after US makes it harder to make chips in China reut.rs/45IZuyD
Yeah if only we had an election in November when you could have elected the person not running ON LITERALLY RAISING YOUR EVERYDAY COST
Serious Credit Card Delinquencies (unpaid balances for at least 90 days) hit their highest level in 14 years #EconSky
No Democrat can simply come in 2029 and clean this mess up. These guys are doing real and serious damage.
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
Houthi rebels storm UN offices in Yemen, detain employees-SCMP
“At Goodwill of North Georgia, the number of Black people who for the first time ask for help finding work is up 41% over the past three months, compared with a 23% increase in the number of new white job seekers.” www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
How can we afford this? It is insane Also occupying yet another middle east country....
Samsung drops 2.3% after losing US chip waiver; SK Hynix down 4.8%.
Fatality.
“What independence means is that the technocrats at the Central Bank use economic reasoning, data” to achieve economic goals, says Fmr. Fed Chair & Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen. ‘Americans need to worry’ about political interference. It’s “a recipe for runaway inflation.” #Velshi
WSJ: Middle income Americans start to share low-income earners’ gloomy views on the economy, according to surveys done by Morning Consult #EconSky
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
South Korean negotiators struggle to close gaps with US despite summit, tariff deal reut.rs/4lTCJN9
O'Keefe to Noem: "At least 20 people who signed this letter were current FEMA employees & they've been placed on administrative leave. Is it now the policy of DHS that anytime an employee puts their name on something criticizing you or POTUS, they should anticipate being put on leave or fired?"
A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Oh no it is like people realized these things called VPN's exist
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...
Lori Chavez DeRemer: "Consumer confidence is up." (Consumer confidence is actually way down since Trump's second inauguration.)
So rare I hear a good story about Turo
Pritzker on Trump's authoritarian takeover: "The playbook is the same. It's thwart the media. It's create mayhem that requires military interdiction. These are things that happen throughout history and Donald Trump is just following that playbook."
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting. The president lacks the authority to take either step. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Increasing political pressure on the Fed by half as much as Nixon did, for six months, raises the price level more than 8%. www.nber.org/papers/w32461
Swear to god I will call for burning the Democrat party down to the god damn ground if they do not use this as leverage to limit Trumps insanity "Government shutdown looms as Congress returns after monthlong August recess" www.cnbc.com/2025/08/31/g...
Stop trying to normalize this monster. He’s a psychopath. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
RIP Margaret Rossiter, who coined the phrase the Matilda Effect (amongst many others), a phenomenon too many women will have seen first hand
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
Raddatz asks how anyone could object to the National Guard in DC because carjackings are down 87%. Brilliant. If they hermetically sealed all DC residents inside their homes, they could get that stat down to nothing at all. Should we do that, Martha?
@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social this is how you talk about Trump Call out his authoritarian moves for what they are.
Thank god This is how Democrat leaders should be talking about Trump. He is an authoritarian dictator and needs to be labeled as one.
Military would explode before that beuracracy ever figured out how to do that lol
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Want to know the advantage of having the worlds reserve currency? "if you look at the cost of the national guard well over a million dollars a day" Military has an infinity budget and it is eating up more and more of the US budget. Any other country would be destitute right now.
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
Noone will remotely care until they need those institutions for their own selfish health needs. We have become an extremely stupid country. Darwin tried to take out these idiots in 2020 but scientist came and rescued the morons.
Taylor Swift recently came out in support of Sourdough bread for those confused why this grifter is bringing this up. We are in the worst timeline. Fully convinced Y2K killed everyone and we are in purgatory.
@bencasselman.bsky.social explains the Trump takeover attempt of the Fed to your non-Wall Street- adjacent friends and family. www.nytimes.com/video/busine...
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
Kari Lake's "criticisms, and her work leading to the near-total shutdown of VOA, are misguided and bad for our country — for several reasons." https://wapo.st/3UTo0GY
These people are INSANE
USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers. FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages. #LaborDay #EconSky www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...
Highly recommend this deeply reported story from AZ Mirror's @jerodmacevoy.com on a secret ICE facility at the Mesa airport. Weaves together something hyperlocal and specific with how it fits into the national without ever losing sight of the humans being harmed. azmirror.com/2025/08/29/t...
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
You guys laugh but his base finds this stuff relatable. Especially the contractor being incompetent and then being caught. Biden should have done way more of this stuff. It is how a guy who literally screws his base on policies can make them this he is a great guy.
Yes, because they are worthless and noone running these endowments understands what mark to market is.
This Is What—and Who—We’re Losing in RFK’s Purge open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
This was LITERALLY what the Democrat base demanded Biden do.
If Missouri Republicans mid-cycle redistrict and break the law, they will be sued. That is a promise and I don't bluff. Just ask Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Congrats again, everyone
Proving once again the S&P 500 is a wealth index, not a measure of the economy #EconSky #FinSky
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
0DTE options now account for almost 80% of Nasdaq options volume, a new all-time high 🚨🚨
"The American Slavery 2.0 project is a brilliant conceit precisely because it dovetails so many MAGA governing principles into a single, big and beautiful policy." — @schaller67.bsky.social
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
"3,000 CDC staffers have left since January, with thousands more gone from the FDA and NIH. The expertise drain also hits cyber defense, nuclear safety, weather forecasting and disaster response."😱 Enabled by a complicit GOP Congress that will live in infamy. www.axios.com/2025/08/30/t...
Late on the Friday before Labor Day, hundreds of VOA journalists were told they’re being terminated in 30 days. Kari Lake, the ‘acting CEO’ of USAGM, says “this will help reduce the federal bureaucracy, improve agency service, and save the American people more of their hard-earned money.”#SaveVOA
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Coping, seething, etc
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
🚨BREAKING: A Fulton County judge has temporarily paused his own contempt order that would have fined the county commission $10,000 per day for refusing to seat two election-denying Republican nominees to the county’s Board of Elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
BREAKING 🧵: Divided appeals court rules against Trump's tariffs. 4 judges appointed by Bush I, Obama, & Biden (2) say IEEPA doesn't allow tariffs. 4 judges app. by Bush II (2) & Obama (2) - including chief - say it does. 3 judges app. by Clinton & Obama (2) say it doesn't allow *these* tariffs.
Giant, aircraft carrier-sized loopholes that depended entirely on strong parties, bipartisan norms of behavior, & rolls of duct tape that simply don't exist anymore in 🇺🇸 politics. We can debate what future versions of these laws look like. Right now, they need to go. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Will you be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine? The answer may depend on your age, insurance coverage, health and finding a pharmacist who will provide the shot. The process has become muddled this year thanks to new federal guidance on who can get the shots. bit.ly/4gjRt73
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.
Few of them lectured me how it would easy to clean up New Orleans by doing summary executions in the street of anyone who did even a simple crime. I am good. Rural people can rot in hell.
I swear to god the Democrat party better get revenge. Especially that sick prick who yanked the kid away from his dad. My blood boils at this crap and the Democrat party better realize what is coming when this finally boils over due to their inaction.
WHOA. Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley just announced her retirement. She was up for reelection in April. Liberals now have an even better chance to increase their majority from 4-3 to 5-2. x.com/mattsmith_ne...
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
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Hey @democrats.senate.gov and @housedemocrats.bsky.social you guys going to do anything? This is literally like the one federal programs even old racist Republicans boomers care about that is being looted in real time. Feel free to go nuclear whenever you get some time.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
A Texas Republican lawmaker who last week blocked Democrats’ effort to filibuster the state’s gerrymander made disturbing comments at a 2022 legislative hearing — suggesting a way to deal with immigrants might be: “shoot, shovel and shut up.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...