The American death drive

Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.

I wrote about The Tantrum State and living in it. Personally I do not care for it very much. defector.com/fascists-are...

Near Lyndale and 24th Ave in Minneapolis tonight, feds have reportedly shot another person. Preliminary info is shaky for now, hearing two people injured. BORTAC just rolled up in an armored vehicle. A crowd is gathering outside the police tape—MPD presence as well.

Financial Services stocks today (Trump talking about an interesting rate cap)

"Our plans are measured in centuries."

Main Cabin (everything below first/business class) revenues -7% YoY while Premium (first/business) +9% is really wild.

US coffee prices continue to hit new highs in inflation data released today, up 20% over the last year and 50% since pre-COVID

Angrier and in moments, just so fucking sad. But mostly angry. We are going to win. I can also say — having been housebound with a toddler w flu/RSV all weekend — the more you can get connected, out on the street, or do your part somehow, the better you will feel. Mutual aid is its own reward.

US housing starts

Yay Fed speak. Bloomberg.

Sentiment check: r/wallstreetbets is absolutely libbing out, indistinguishable from Bsky.

did something happen

Markets weaken: S&P 500 E-minis down 0.5%, Nasdaq futures fall 0.8%.

What the hell? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

these guys are eventually just gonna land on "what if we just forced everyone to give me and my friends money and murdered everyone who resisted this more efficient economic system"

Sweden's paper of record says in light of where Trump is taking the US it's necessary to discuss "joint Nordic nuclear weapons – perhaps together with Germany". www.dn.se/ledare/ingen...

Despite a lurch toward fossil fuels in the U.S., the rapid growth of #CleanEnergy worldwide was still @science.org's 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Much of that progress was due to plummeting costs for #solar, #wind and battery storage. Read more 👇 buff.ly/cvjjWKX

One of the lesser known facts about Canada is that most Friday and Saturday nights the country’s leading pollster gets drunk and posts new findings. He will also yell at people and share chumbawamba songs.

America is yearning for "it."

Ok so may the “Big Short” guy isn’t a super genius

Greenland stocks are meme stocks now

There are going to be entire marketing courses about how durable the boars head brand loyalty has been during this whole "their factories are infested and their owners don't care" debacle Everybody's going to be like "how do WE get customers who don't care if we kill them??"

In total, the US has now lost roughly 175k blue-collar jobs since the peak in February 2025 www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...

A reliable gauge of the underlying job market is average job growth over the past three months. Right now, that's -22k. (And again, the Fed's Powell says that likely overstates reality for technical reasons.) We're losing jobs. Call it a jobs recession.

Blowback etc www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Canada accounts for nearly 60% of US crude imports

ahahahahahahahaha

"Analysts struggled to explain the immediate rationale for investing in Greenland-exposed stocks, and said their share price gains over recent weeks bore the hallmarks of a meme stock rally driven by retail investors." Everything is ridiculous

iykyk trump like

It is the position of the Trump Administration that its agents can come into any state and city in America (let alone other countries) and kill people and that state and city have no jurisdiction to inquire about it. Treat any Trump official accordingly.

I’m at the spot where ICE murdered Renee Nicolle Good today, along with my daughter and her bf. Still lots of people here at 11:00 pm. (Avoiding getting anyone in the picture) It’s beautiful, surreal but still mostly enraging. Abolish ICE.

This is the video.

The end of the department store

Lol how can you tell this administration is lying to you? Because oil hasn't been shipped in actual barrels in over a century www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...

There have been some expensive supply chains in history, but using the military to import oil to a country that exports oil is a new one.

Five years ago, this great moment was captured on video:

US manufacturing employment

Blue collar employment

@autoschmidt.bsky.social: "Tesla's share of the Western European new BEV passenger car market has now fallen below 10% for the first time on record, according to Schmidt Automotive Research data." Two key points to the collapse in its dominating position: read more: www.linkedin.com/posts/matthi...

Hedge funds profit as Venezuela’s bonds surge ft.trib.al/YyrK5MQ

“.. Is Cuba next?” asks Marko Papic of BCA Research. “Yes, it may very well be. But unless you are a commercial real estate developer (with a hospitality specialization), we see no market implication.” @johnauthers.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

TRUMP: WE'RE IN CHARGE OF VENEZUELA

Just before Christmas the US effectively banned Chinese drone maker DJI. Why? by Chris Miller as.ft.com/r/8b300a12-a...

So it now looks like this whole “invasion” was done so that a more competent leader could be put in place for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela?