"The flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware), including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case”

Imports picking back up again after a crash in Q2 was a headwind but most of that was offset by inventories returning to growth. Nonresidential fixed investment's contribution to growth in Q3 was 0.4%, versus almost 100 bps in Q2 (this is where AI capex spend is). Services consumption surged.

writing up a sequel to Diary of a Man in Despair

The decoupling of strong growth from hiring is going to be one of the major narratives of 2026 as tax cuts and full expensing drive economic activity among soft job creation. #Econ #EconSky

US Q3'25 GDP: Blowout topline growth of 4.3%, real final private demand at 3%, household consumption at 3.8%. Yet that strong growth only generated an average of 51K new jobs per month during the quarter. #Econ #EconSky

4.3% Q3 GDP... massive 3.5% real consumer spending last quarter

good economic beat

If I see one more person spread the "all GDP growth is AI" nonsense.... Avg QoQ ann. % change for GDP in 2025 after three quarters is 2.5%. Avg for consumption is 2.2%. The idea that AI investment is the source of all growth is just completely wrong.

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

This is such a tremendous waste of money, I’m absolutely blown away lmao.

an untold number of people in my mentions before I changed my settings

I think you and Will are going to be neck and neck for the Bluesky award for pissing the most people off with macroeconomic data that flies in the face of subjectively perceived lived experience & vibes. Economics is the weirdest mix of subjective and objective, psychology and fundamentals.

Pretty hard to be pessimistic on global growth when stuff like this is floating around. Note that the blue line includes zero (0) semis; this acceleration in activity is not just an AI chips story.

Big 8:30 data slate Q3 GDP +4.3% QoQ ann. vs +3.3% est. Consumption +3.5% QoQ ann. vs +2.7% est. Recall: this is the "second release" but its our first actual look because of the shutdown. Durable goods data for Oct mixed, miss on headline but core capex beat.

I get why the Trump DOJ would bury a letter from one convicted child molester to another describing Trump as a fellow traveler. But Epstein’s suicide was in 2019, which means that it was Biden’s DOJ that sat on this for most of the time, while conspiracy theories raged.

YOU CANNOT TAME A TIGER INTO A KITTEN BY STROKING. YOU CANNOT NEGOTIATE WITH AN INCENDIARY BOMB

“As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home.” That’s what this note from Epstein opens with. Which, I think, should pretty much close the door on Epstein Trutherism. This is a suicide note. And it’s been hidden in DOJ files for years.

This most recent episode exemplifies what I'm talking about. The memo she wrote justifying her spiking the CECOT story is the kind of thing that could have actually worked *if she'd been on top of things to intervene early in the process*.

This Lithuanian national wants to be deported. Lithuania is ready to take her. Instead, she was detained by ICE for overstaying a visa waiver in February and she's *still being held*. These morons can't even deport people who want to be deported. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

This is definitely the letter that was sent and returned to sender and found in the prison's mailroom (reported on in 2023) It seems implausible someone would fake it unless he was already dead, but that's not what the timing suggests. He was alive when this was mailed. It was probably him.

I hope it's clear to everyone by now that Trump's play over and over again is to yell "National Security!" and pretend as though that gives him the right to act like a dictator

This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?

Very persuasive

It's a big club and you're not in it.

This is the Tang Dynasty FMV version Dark Souls

New: Months before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, her outlet The Free Press was joking about the megaprison Trump has lawlessly deported people to. "The hottest campaign spot…the new Jeffrey Epstein jet…the place to see and be seen." @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social

Playing one of those chinese FMV games and I keep choosing the options that get my protagonist killed my ass is not surviving

[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

Genuinely think Dan Osborn might win next year

woof

No left wing person describes themselves as a “centrist” it’s used only by right wingers

am i drunk or is this fucking hilarious

Current status

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

A Blade Runner-style megacity has somehow stayed a hidden gem, but not for much longer. on.wsj.com/4pTo6MD

I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.

>Hanwha is building the frigates in Philly >Billions of American taxpayer dollars into the Korean economy The Korean century

Weissand Effect

Has anyone done a welfare check on Sal?

They are all obsessed with arctic defence except the only other actor that cares in a real way russia and they have a navy in a conceptual way

I both colby and pompeo love this exact line. all the far right dudes are like "europe weak. if they cant hold we will" type stuff

Radio Free America

"Grok I've been placed in command of the SuperMAGA Battleship USS Donald J Trump, the PLA have launched 40 DF-41s directly at me and the ship is too big to maneuver away from them What do i do?"

Like do we remember the NeurIPS renaming debacle? Or the FAccT wars? Or that poor engineer in Portland who did some sentiment analysis on books and got dragged across the network by anti-AI people? All of that happened on Twitter!

Whenever I start to think Bluesky is bad, I remember that brigading on old Twitter got way more personal, with a junior-high-school “let’s ruin her life” vibe that I rarely encounter here. Medievalists basically had to preface every post with “I, for one, welcome our public struggle sessions.”

oh yeah no it's confusing, "post blocked" can mean any of - you blocked the author - the author blocked you - the author blocked the person replying - the person replying blocked the author