JPMORGAN: “.. we think the November [CPI] readings understate true inflationary pressures, and are poised to rebound in December .. “.. rent and OER .. gives a November increase that is about half its true value. “.. once the December data are released, some firming of these series are likely.”

1. Wow 2. Shocked not shocked

October 2025 saw fifty more cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes committed by Trump and his administration. They're up 580 since he was sworn in last January.

Donald Trump—who has deemed himself the “peace president”—has escalated the administration’s position against Venezuela, and many of the conflicts he claims to have resolved stubbornly refuse to stop, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:

Before this year, the US govt hadn't taken a direct stake in a healthy commercial firm since at least the 1950s. Now, it's taken 14, with more coming. My new Capitolism @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social laments 2025's worst policy development: "The Year America Went (Kinda) Socialist" t.co/GYs7bvDhO5

House Republicans are going on vacation and letting your health care subsidies lapse.

"I love that Rick Scott is on CNN talking about all the waste and deception in the health care/insurance business. He really is an expert since his company paid a record $1.7 billion in fines for Medicare fraud."

See if you can spot Liberation Day. @usapolling.bsky.social

Payrolls fell -105k in October and rose +64k in November. August and September payrolls were also revised down a total of 33k. These data suggest VIRTUALLY NO EMPLOYMENT GROWTH since April ("Liberation day"). Unemployment is now up to 4.6%. This is a tricky report, so stay tuned.

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.

Bookmarking this to use whenever Republicans tell me how much they care about the national debt

We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).

Is the defining feature of populism handouts for half of the groups you shaft with your terrible policy ideas? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

You have to be fucking kidding me with this shit! “Americans don’t realize how good they have it.” ~ Scott Bessent on affordability

So is this one of Trump’s 20 points for the so-called “Peace” Agreement?

. Kash Patel today: "When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life." Never ever forget #January6th !! 💠 👊 💠

J-MART: ".. he’s turned the office into an adult fantasy camp .. brazen corruption, near-daily vulgarity and handing out pardons like lollipops .. ".. the country has never seen such an indulgent head of state." @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...

STUPID! If you want to know why cars cost more, look at tariffs, commodity spikes, electronics, and supply chain changes — not long-established fuel economy rules. Weakening CAFE standards could backfire and lead to HIGHER gas prices if vehicles become less efficient.

KNAPP: "ADP Small Business Employment -120,000, -0.24% YoY ".. The sector is in recession. We've been arguing for three years the Fed's unbalanced policy tightening put most of the burden of tightening on small banks and businesses. Tariffs were the nail in the coffin." substack.com/chat/4168/po...

The long-term chart of #ADP payrolls:

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

2026 is going to be a *great* year to run for office. @runforsomething.net will help you. Filing deadlines are coming up fast - it's just barely not too late to get started. runforwhat.net

BREAKING: The FBI has paid nearly $1 million in overtime to redact the Epstein files, per Snopes.

The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever. Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years. They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has

So the Spartan Defense decided not to play the second half, amirite

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

GO BUCKS! www.instagram.com/reel/DRpzeIE...

Breathtaking hypocrisy. It’s about the oil. And it’s all criminal.

Corruption. Criminality. Cruelty. Documented. Complicit GOP Congress does NOTHING. Vote.

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

“Juan Orlando Hernández helped to facilitate the importation of an almost unfathomable 400 tons of cocaine to this country: billions of individual doses sent to the United States with the protection and support of the former president of Honduras.” — US DOJ

He’s going to fight drug trafficking by pardoning them? Trump announced “a Full and Complete Pardon” for former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was found guilty by an American jury last year of conspiring to import cocaine into the US.

Straight up war crime

The president and his special envoy are primarily concerned with finding a way to make Putin happy by providing a sufficient reward for his brutal and sadistic war of aggression. We have become a country that sells out our friends and embraces the worst people on the planet.

It was only a failure if you assume they ever had good intentions. If you assume they intended to destroy the federal government from within, they succeeded. We’ll be dealing with the results of this monumental breach of the federal government for many years to come.

The only Republican speaking with clarity on this issue. Sad that he’s the only one.

This is exactly right

FITCH: PEOPLE WITH LOW CREDIT SCORES ARE FALLING BEHIND ON THEIR CAR EMI PAYMENTS MORE THAN EVER BEFORE 6.65% OF SUBPRIME AUTO LOANS ARE OVER 60 DAYS LATE, THE HIGHEST LEVEL EVER RECORDED

Senator Kelly’s remarks in the video are “a 100% accurate representation of what the law says." “No American citizen should have to deal with this type of preposterous investigation.” - Professor Eugene Fidell, leading military justice expert in Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com/politics/mar...

The Trump surrender of Ukraine descends into utter chaos. But “chaos” is too mellow a word: What we have here is a rich bouillabaisse of incompetence, mendacity, tragedy, farce, and diplomatic blunder. Words have a hard time keeping up with the story. But we’ll try. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Only someone this wealthy would so flippantly suggest you uproot your life, sell your house, pull your kids out of school, quit your job, request a transfer — all to save 50 basis points on CPI. 🤡

Rubio is at best a liar. He must resign. And take Witkoff with him. Is it too much to ask that they take trump down with them?

How embarrassing. Administration sources were all-in on this Russian wishlist until it was revealed that it was an *actual* Russian wishlist and not just the worst possible peace plan for Ukraine.

Trump’s 28-point peace plan with Russia “is misnamed,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. “It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future.”

Trump Guns are now running commercials on Fox News