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Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

“He cheated on the golf course. He cheated on his taxes. He cheated on his wives. He cheated the business contractors he stiffed. He tried to cheat in the 2020 election. And now he’s trying to cheat on the 2026 midterms - because he knows he can’t win.”

While death and destruction rained down on Iran during the war’s first month, the world’s 100 biggest oil and gas companies brought in an extra $30 million per HOUR in windfall profits. Yes, $30 million per HOUR. All because of the deadly and reckless decision making of one man.

Screw this. If anyone’s looking to see the dynamic that’s broken the Democratic Party in just a few paragraphs, you can look here. AI could kill millions of jobs. Democrats absolutely should not roll over and play dead.

Great thread

“How often does the president of a developed country express the view that the interest rate should be set to reduce the debt service cost? This is what you hear in a banana republic.” #EconSky

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

Speaking at a conference in Hong Kong, the former Federal Reserve chair sounded the alarm on monetary policy independence, saying that she has ‘never seen a threat of this level to the Fed before’. ft.trib.al/9sXaRWt

There’s already a date onboard for a general strike May 1st, National Strike No work, no school, no shopping www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

Excellent overview that you will sadly not find in any mainstream medium

"not unique to the US. Across Europe – including France, Italy and the Netherlands – and in countries such as Brazil, researchers find the same pattern: the super-rich pay lower effective tax rates than almost everyone else. " #Econsky www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The diagnosis is in: Healthcare didn’t recover from COVID — it broke. More staff. More funding. Worse outcomes. Longer waits → sicker patients → slower care → fewer beds….A global doom loop. And the scariest part? No system has fixed it. #BlueSky #MedSky #NurseSky #EconSky #IMSky #EMSky #ObSky

Glad to see the Australian government on board. Massive milestone today with Bowen acknowledging EV growth is already offsetting the oil crisis. Increasing reserves while demand falls makes no sense. Now for a solar carport mandate! Charge baby charge. ☀️⚡ #Bettrification #EVs

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!

Not sure how this "no tax on tips" stunt was supposed to play out, but showing a senior citizen who is stuck driving Door Dash because she can't afford her husbands cancer treatment is not the flex they think it is. Or was that part bullshit too?

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

The economy is fake. Everything about it. Smoke and mirrors all the way down.

Mr. Trump, Tear Down this (Car Tariff) Wall! #EconSky econbrowser.com/archives/202...

There are several reasons why #incomeinequality in #US has skyrocketed in last few decades. And this is one of them.. Btw, this guy is a Berkeley professor & ex Secretary of Labor - he knows his stuff! #EconSky #PoliSky #uspoli

Here's are my thoughts about the recent price action and the way I see financial markets moving forward. #EconSky #finance #trading "Flows vs Macro"

Bilal and Känzig's paper on the macro impacts of climate change is now available open access in the QJE Headline estimate is that 1 degree of warming results in a 20% lasting hit to global GDP #EconSky

Hey, #EconSky! The administration is trying to cut NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate. Click below to contact your representatives and urge them to save it. Tell your friends. Our research matters and is worth funding! www.congressweb.com/COSSA/58?fra...

You can listen to the whole thing, here: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026... Worth it, mainly to hear the brilliant Linda Bilmes talk about her work on the cost of the Iraq war.

One of my cartoons in Monday's Metro

Chaska MN residents have been protesting every weekend for over a year now.

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

What a sad admission. One of my favorite places I ever lived was in Brooklyn in an area that was basically Little Bangladesh. I loved that neighborhood and would move back in a heartbeat. I never felt unsafe, I had good relations with my neighbors, and the food was great.

Miller convinced tRump to get rid of the immigrants that PAY TAXES then kick low wage earners off govt. support, and they will replace the farm workers that ICE just threw into PRIVATE detention centers where tRump's friends make $$$. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

"I write this with firm conviction and a heart of truth: I apologize on behalf of the United States." griobhtha1.substack.com/p/afsoc-comm...

BYD has named Donald Trump "Salesman of the Decade." oilprice.com/Latest-Energ...

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz

Today's pod: The brilliant @mollyjongfast.bsky.social had me on Fast Politics to discuss the Trump economy, the trade war, the war war, and the war on truth. youtu.be/-2poUJZP_fQ?...

The Offer Viktor Orbán Couldn't Refuse open.substack.com/pub/craigung... #econsky #corruption #politics #mutuals #iran #epstein

Russia’s Telegram Operation in Hungary: How Putin Is Working to Keep Orbán in Power open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut... #Econsky #hungary #politics #russia #discover

“I think the biggest thing that we can point to is that we’ve cut government employment by 300,000 workers,” he said. “Those are jobs that are very high-paying that are gone forever.” 1/ www.commondreams.org/news/hassett...

"You know something has gone terribly wrong when 94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies while the average Wall Street employee got a bonus of $246,900 in 2025. Hello?" ~ Robert Reich

Using your debt, your search history, and your private data to decide how much you’re worth? Hell no. This is what happens when technology is built to serve profit instead of people. This is why every worker needs a union.

That's an interesting discussion

The Confederate diaspora—small but powerful and ideologically intense—reshaped culture across the U.S. through influence, organizational mobilization, and political leverage. New paper by Bazzi, Ferrara, Fiszbein, Pearson, and Testa: www.restud.com/the-confeder... #REStud #EconSky

We just got the first numbers showing economic effects of the war in Iran. Headline inflation is up sharply, and there's more to come. Stay tuned.

“If they can automatically enroll men into the draft at 18, they can automatically register Americans to vote at 18. Ask yourself why they won’t” Josh H.

The Washington Post reports the CDC is burying a public health report that was supposed to have been published two weeks ago—a report that showed the ongoing success of the Covid vaccine. Michigan Senate candidate and epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed joins to discuss.

A documentary about the First Lady that costs Amazon $75,000,000 and barely makes a dent at the box office is not a smart investment on its own. But what if that same company secures a $580,000,000 Pentagon contract around the same time? Suddenly, the math starts to look different.

This is very interesting. China eats away at US global reserve currency. #econsky #natsecsky

NEW: Trump promised to lower costs on “Day One.” A new Senate report finds the opposite — Americans are now facing an $86 BILLION annual burden as consumer safeguards disappear. 👉 meidasnews.com/news/trumps-...

www.propublica.org/article/insi... #Mutuals #Econsky