Rotary phones.

I mean. This is the underemployment story. Involuntary part-time is up over a million from a year ago. It had a slight rebound in December, but that could very well be due to the holiday season.

Black unemp went down to 7.5% in Dec from 8.3 in Nov. BUT! - that measure is volatile, so a single month means less than the trend - Black unemp has been 📈 all year - it's still nearly *double* the unemp rate for white workers (3.9) - if the overall UR was 7.5 it would be a national emergency

As always, Trump turns subtext into text. Remember when this was a "law enforcement" operation?

One part of racial segregation missing from modern social science research is dehumanization. For example, Black people were not allowed into car dealerships, lest they touch the new cars. My uncle (colorfully) describes that here: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

BREAKING: Indivisible and a broad coalition of groups across the country are calling for a coordinated ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action this Saturday and Sunday to demand accountability, honor the life lost, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s actions.

The SEC has not played in a college football national championship game in the last three seasons. The Big Ten has/will play in the college football national championship game in the last three seasons. This is unprecedented in modern college football.

As a native Minnesotan who experienced one of the first celebrity politicians governing my home state, seeing Jesse Ventura criticize the Trump administration is odd, surreal, and evidence that something has fundamentally broken through.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal immigration officers shoot and wound 2 people in Portland, Oregon, authorities say.

Comments on most conservative sites are all people saying "looks like cold blooded murder" "POTUS clearly lying about agent having to go to the hospital" "they're calling 37 year old married mother with stuffed animals in car a terrorist???" Only outlier is Musk's twitter--all bloodlust

God is punishing us in every way imaginable. He’s absolutely sick of us!

Freezing out the Minnesota investigators will create big problems for the Trump-aligned GOP in Minnesota.

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

The American public is not as dumb as they’d like to believe. Even so, they are counting on people to shrug their shoulders and move on despite their lies. We cannot allow them to do so. We must ensure this is something they answer for every single day.

The narrative demonizing Renee Nicole Good was already in motion before any facts had been established. Whatever narrative they came up with, no matter how at odds with the truth, was going to take hold in the media “debate” on this. We need to understand that facts do not matter to these folks.

This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.

This is where we are. No transparency and no accountability.

Minnesota investigators said the Trump administration has barred it them from taking part in the investigation into yesterday’s ICE killing

The Trump Admin begins the cover up.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com

The dates are now January 6 and January 7. The contrast between the pardoning of all the January 6 insurrectionists (~1500 people), was met with acceptance. The death of a woman at the hands of an ICE agent is debated as justified. What is the rationale behind this difference in treatment? 🤔🧐

The New York Times states it plainly in display type: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

The publicly declared response of some on the right to someone including their pronouns in their bio seems at odds with the narrative that it's the left who are particularly intolerant to other political views

"They carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," a witness says. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes."

Sending another 2,000 armed, masked, armored, federal agents to our community makes us less safe. Makes us unable to live free. Makes death. Makes orphans. www.mpschools.org

This is an administration that has pardoned its supporters who attacked the Capitol to try to overturn an election, but will defend the killing of protestors they dislike.

Note how the apologists for the administration are already weaponizing Renee Nicole Good’s identity, race, gender, and (perceived) class. The difference between how these same people speak about Renee Nicole Good and Ashli Babbitt couldn’t be more glaring.

Note how the apologists for the administration are already weaponizing Renee Nicole Good’s identity, race, gender, and (perceived) class. The difference between how these same people speak about Renee Nicole Good and Ashli Babbitt couldn’t be more glaring.

There’s a special kind of grief many of us are feeling tonight. Because it didn’t have to be like this.

Someone needs to do a deep dive between the discussion of police/law enforcement yesterday (anniversary of January 6 insurrection attempt) and today (ICE shooting). The hypocrisy is staggering. We should also note that ICE are not the police.

Minnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026

Tim Walz is mobilizing the MN National Guard, and reminds Minnesotans that the guard "is OURS - our teachers and our neighbors." He asks Minnesotans to respect them. "They're there to protect you and your constitutional rights. They don't wear masks."

I knew something very bad happened when my phone wouldn’t stop buzzing. I have now seen 3 different videos of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis (that I do not share as a rule). It’s just too much. Senseless. Violent. Enraging. We are not one week into this year and it is already way too much.

This is what happens when pundits and consultants tell you “the economy” is the only thing people care about.

"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"

Trump: “I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President”

NEW from me: The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...

Someone asked me to comment on the anniversary of Jan 6. I will consider having comments on it….should it ever end. We are very much still reaching for the nadir of this reclamation. No time yet for historicizing it. Still trying to survive it.

Literally no mention in the mainstream news of the 5th Anniversary of Trump supporters attempting to violently overthrow the U.S Government.

Will "non-interventionist" MAGA go along? Yup. A new WaPo poll finds only 40% overall approve of the Maduro capture and only 37% say this was appropriate without Congress. But 80% of Trump voters support the capture and 78% are fine with not going to Congress. 6/ newrepublic.com/article/2049...

This is honestly embarrassing.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

I stand with Senator Mark Kelly.

Every session and event sponsored by the National Economic Association was over capacity. The AEA must assign space appropriately in future meetings.

Tim Walz: "I don't want to mince words here. Donald Trump and his allies in Washington and in St Paul and online want to make our state a colder, meaner place. They won't to poison our people against each other by attacking our neighbors."

Great. They managed to fake scandal a good man out of his campaign.

Congratulations Rene Crespin!