The right and the far-right control the major social media platforms. It's a great time to talk about restructuring Section 230 cepr.net/publications...

1.79 American employees quit their job for each employee fired by their boss in Aug per today's new #JOLTS data. This proxy for worker bargaining power in jobs is steady versus June and July but declining over recent, post-pandemic years. www.upjohn.org/labor-levera...

It's a story of a gradually weakening labor market. That means slower wage growth, especially for those at the bottom and higher unemployment for disadvantaged groups like Black workers and the young.

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell pledged on the campaign trail in 2021 to build 2,000 units of shelter or permanent supportive housing in a year. More than three years into his term, he still hasn't added that many net new units, an Axios analysis finds.

I assume that anyone negotiating a trade deal with Trump knows it's just to humor the old guy. Deals mean zero to Trump, he breaks them ALL THE TIME and boasts about it.

Trump claimed that other countries have “stolen” the filmmaking business from California.

wow trump looks *terrible*

The top military brass refused to clap for a 79-year-old man displaying his dementia. These are serious people, not Republican politicians.

WaPo: "Met by silence at address, Trump asks for applause" www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...

like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want

The Trump Crazy is getting worse by the hour, a great time to talk about restructuring Section 230 deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-right-...

"You have my permission to commit war crimes. In fact, I'm encouraging you to!"

WE HAVE LIFTOFF www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

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Quits in restaurants have fallen through the floor, a very bad sign about the state of the labor market

They can't legally throw people off these programs. The shutdown changes nothing in that respect. If the courts say Trump could ignore the law with the shutdown, they would also let him ignore the law without the shutdown. NO ONE SHOULD IMAGINE OTHERWISE. Remember, Trump LIES about everything.

Looks like China is jumping ahead in AI www.tekedia.com/chinas-deeps... Team Trump wants to give people in the United States the Trabant of AI, and push up everyone's electricity prices in the process.

Quits in restaurants have fallen through the floor, a very bad sign about the state of the labor market

Trump calls it good fun.

China just unveiled a flying wind turbine that harnesses high altitude winds at 3000 feet--with no infrastructure. America is getting a golden ballroom.

Pretty neat, Trump gets to kill anyone anytime for no reason. That's pretty MAGA.

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

Seems like Microsoft is trying to push a calculator that only gives you the right answer a bit more than half the time. I'd rather do the calculation in my head and go with an approximation (better to be approximately right, than exactly wrong), but I don't know MS customers.

WTF. Why would any business want to give this tool to employees? Why would Microsoft sabotage its customers this way?

Sounds pretty damn MAGA!

reminder that this directive functionally massively discriminates against Black men and should be understood as part of an ongoing campaign to resegregate the military www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Ordinary working Americans do not share the financial elite's euphoria over the Trump economy.

There is no bailout that will solve this problem. It took decades to create the markets for beans and months to devastate the markets for beans. NY Times: China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. [52% of exports] Now, It’s $0.

Looks like China is jumping ahead in AI www.tekedia.com/chinas-deeps... Team Trump wants to give people in the United States the Trabant of AI, and push up everyone's electricity prices in the process.

We’re at peak greed when the president brags about 24k gold décor for the White House while cutting commissaries, healthcare, and social nets. A palace of glitter for him, an empty pantry and hospital bill for you.

Utterly legally indefensible. Harvard should stop any and all settlement talks and fight tooth and nail. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I'm getting really tired of this "demanding answers" thing. Dude's not "demanding answers," he's asking for help getting his wife back.

It is not the free market driving up CEO pay, it is a corrupt corporate governance structure

In case this is too complicated, Trump claims he has the right to kill anyone anywhere in the world. Pretty cool, huh?

But the important thing is that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth had a good time!

Fast-food spending is stagnating. Either RFK Jr. has convinced people to change their eating habits, or the economy is not doing very good deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-fast-f...

This is a great story. Trump is trying to lock the U.S. into an antiquated inefficient payments system so that his campaign contributors can make money at the expense of the rest of us. Anyone who says these people are "market fundamentalists" need to go to hell.

an obvious point which seems to be waaay over the head of most intellectual types who weigh in on political and economic issues.

Governments create markets to begin with But, yeah

Trump might say his economy is doing great, but the fast-food index says otherwise cepr.net/publications...

Come on governor, it's the warrior ethos, beating up people going to work or visiting the sites in major American cities. It's MAGA, Trump got a mandate almost as large as Hillary Clinton in 2016 for this.

Trump might say his economy is doing great, but the fast-food index says otherwise cepr.net/publications...

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Take the threats about banning or restricting mifepristone seriously. It’s all based on junk science. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

This is a great story. Trump is trying to lock the U.S. into an antiquated inefficient payments system so that his campaign contributors can make money at the expense of the rest of us. Anyone who says these people are "market fundamentalists" need to go to hell.

Tired: Trump is punishing Brazil because they sentenced his pal Bolsonaro for attempting a coup Wired: Trump is punishing Brazil because their useful central bank payment system is squeezing out PayPal www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...

For anyone arguing that the Big Ugly Bill “didn’t cut ACA tax credits:” Sen. Ossoff introduced an amendment to extend them as part of the BBB. The Senate GOP shot the amendment down. So yes, they damned well *did* vote AGAINST extending them.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

At Risk 💔 Volunteer says the shelter’s sweetest pup is Sweet Girl; she’s a “wiggle monster who dive bombs into the nearest person to earn belly rubs. If you are a person who has met Sweet Girl, you have seen her glorious belly, & are blessed by it.” Her story on video 🙏repost to find a #foster