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Powell: If any administration finds a way to remove Fed officials over policy differences, then future administrations will do so.... The public would lose faith that the central bank will make decisions based only on what's best for all Americans. Fed's credibility would be lost. shorturl.at/30SDt

A new report shows that nearly half of U.S. households did not earn enough to cover their necessities in 2024.

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“.. Even if the conflict were to be resolved today,” he said, effects would hit the food system “well into late summer and the fall,” or even 2027 .. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

!!! Trump appointees at Treasury push for $250 bill with his face on it. Director of Bureau of Printing & Engraving, who resisted the effort, said she was involuntarily reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye. wapo.st/4fM4Hei

Woah: Feds arrested a Google employee today, who they say made $1M+ betting on Google-related Polymarket events. Here are a few of the markets the account allegedly belonging to the employee wagered on. abcnews.com/US/google-em...

White House pool report www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

"He's a menace ... I WANT SPIDER-MAN!" J.K. Simmons is at the Mets game tonight and ran into a familiar face 😂

JPMORGAN: “.. During Warsh’s term (if he lasts as long as prior Fed chairs), he will preside over the dreaded crossover point: in 2031 entitlements, interest and other mandatory outlays are projected to permanently exceed Federal tax revenues for the first time.”

This observation serves to illustrate how two things are true: the high end of the wealth distribution is grotesquely under-taxed, and even super-confiscatory schemes directed at that wealth can't replace a broad tax base.

Mayor Mamdani has announced the Affordable & Efficient Code Reform task force, to convene later this year. The housing plan says that among other things, elevator and plumbing reform will be considered. www.nyc.gov/content/dam/... (pgs. 98-99)

We’re thrilled to share that The Believer won its first ASME National Magazine Award tonight, for Rafia Zakaria’s “Water Pressure”! Congratulations to Rafia Zakaria and to all of this year’s winners. www.thebeliever.net/water-pressu...

Mission accomplished.

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HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

NEW: The transcript of today's sealed hearing in the "Broadview Six" case IS IN. Read it here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/95/75/a403b7...

It’s here. The Trump Administration has issued an Executive Order that includes a requirement for banks to collect customers’ citizenship information. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Federal regulator fights to protect prediction gambling markets. Via Reuters

lol, here we go *TRUMP ENDORSES PAXTON IN TEXAS GOP SENATE PRIMARY RUNOFF

This weather is crazy

Deportations are costing American-born workers their jobs, and no industry has been more impacted than construction, a new study found. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/r...

MTA: LIRR strike ends at midnight tonight. Train service is set to resume at noon tomorrow on the main electric branches, with full systemwide service returning by the p.m. rush

Really sad to hear that Niner Bikes has folded. Just bought my RLT 9 RDO last year

The overton window has moved a lot! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Headsup: New House transportation bill imposes a new, national $130/year fee for owning an EV.

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"By mid-May, higher prices for just two energy products — gasoline and diesel fuel — added nearly $40 billion in costs to American consumers. That’s more than the Pentagon’s cost estimate of its military operations, now approaching $29 billion."

5 million households in the Northeast burn heating oil to heat space or water. Due to Trump's Iran war, heating oil prices are up 60% over last year. Risks are high of more severe price spikes this fall/winter. These households should switch to electric heat pumps this summer. States should help.

BREAKING: Supreme Court *blocks* 5th-circuit ruling that had halted the distribution of abortion medication via telehealth. Upshot: mail-order mifepristone is permitted nationwide—over Louisiana's objections Justice Thomas dissents.

We all have occassion to say this a lot in this era, but seriously this is the craziest goddamn thing I've read in a very very long time abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified. n.pr/4nrDVto

My first exposure to the missing scientists alien theory was someone posting it in the comments of a Kalshi betting market about whether the U.S. government would reveal the existence of aliens this year

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Let this radicalize you

Wow, who could have predicted libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/05/fede...

“.. CPI food at home (essentially grocery prices) jumped by 0.68% m/m in April ... largest increase since August 2022 ..” - Schwab

In 2022, the North Carolina Supreme Court's Democratic majority banned partisan gerrymandering under the state constitution. Republicans then won control of the court and spontaneously reversed that decision, re-legalizing gerrymandering. I suspect this is the model Virginia Democrats will follow.

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US spending on data centers & computers has grown so much that it's larger than basically all other physical investment categories—more than all single-family housing construction, factories, power plants, industrial equipment, apartments I'm running out of points of comparison

Feel like I need to know more about why Accenture is running commercials on Netflix that sound like a fireside chat at a corporate conference

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Being unable to cite one single law or regulation against trash cleanup hasn't stopped cops from harassing the people who do it nygroove.nyc/cops-vs-broo...

It was fun riding the NEC last week and seeing them assembling wind turbines for Revolution Wind in New London, CT

Incredibly proud of my @bloomberg.com colleagues, who won a Pulitzer today for illustrated reporting for the graphic novel version of an incredible, harrowing story about “digital arrest” scams in India. Gift link to the graphic novel, will thread the feature below: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)

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❗ UPDATED @ms.now: A conservative appeals court in Louisiana just temporarily blocked access to the mailing of mifepristone — 1 of the 2 pills used in medication abortion — nationwide. This is the biggest blow to abortion access since Dobbs. Here’s what to know:

(WSJ) - The U.S. national debt now exceeds 100% of gross domestic product, crossing a once-unthinkable threshold, on the way toward breaking the record set in the wake of World War II. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...