Per the FT: “An Atlanta Federal Reserve analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that, after years of above-trend growth, pay for America’s lowest earners has slowed more sharply than for the highest.” And this as the US labor market risks weakening further. #economy #wages #inequality

Joe Lonsdale thinks it's OK to murder people to deter wrongdoers. I think he just made Luigi Mangione's case for him.

The same people who support this also thought it was fascism when they had to wear a mask into a hospital

This is revealing, but not in the way he thinks. Bhattacharya did and does hold fringe views in the scientific community. He got to where he is not by persuading scientists, but by benefiting from rightwing billionaires and their media platforms—Musk bought Twitter and gave him a blue check. 1/

“Look what [Trump] did to this country and the polarization – got all the cockroaches to rise to the top. Once upon a time, you were embarrassed to be publicly racist and out there with conspiracy theories. Now it’s all out in the open because he allowed it.” - Gene Simmons, 2022

folks, is "let's murder everyone for whatever reason we want" a good policy

Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.” In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Chris Hayes: Trump keeps justifying the killing of more than 80 men on boats in the Caribbean as a way to save Americans from drugs, but just this week he pardoned a man who helped traffic more than 500 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

I don't think we're fully prepared for the retatrutide trial data. Here's a participant from Triumph 3 which is the shorter CVOT trial they ran "I just finished TRIUMPH 3 (cut short from 104 wks to 88 wks). Lost 37% of body weight, off all BP meds, and reduced cholesterol and thyroid meds"

Presidential Walk of Fatigue

JFC

The boat was split in half. They were clinging to a capsized PORTION Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight"

It’s “racial discrimination” only when minorities benefit; otherwise it is “sparkling gerrymandering.”

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

#Trump economy #EconSky

Sounds about right

This is new FDA CDER Director with a father who believes his son was killed by COVID vaccine. She is in front of FDA sign and smiling while pointing to his vest which has Pfizer's logo and a bloody handprint on it.

I'm not even mad, that's amazing.

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Even if they were on a "drug mission," the first strike was illegal and the second strike even more wildly illegal. This is absolute nonsense from someone who committed war crimes and is now scrambling for cover. Lock him up.

Anyone casually weighing in on this race needs to understand this.

GEORGE WILL: “.. The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself.” @postopinions.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”

Heard the same; this is what I mean by inches from the finish line; scheduled for the final citizenship oath ceremony and now suddenly that date is cancelled and people don't know what will happen next.

Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.

Credibility with the markets? Who wrote this headline, John Barron? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

You read this and you just know that they’re going to fuck with the wrong guy soon enough. The guy does 20 years in the marines, loses his wife, then finds new love and ICE kidnaps her. If this guy went John Rambo, I’d acquit if I was on his jury.

""With customers delaying purchases until tariff policies stabilize, ISM leaders say there’s little near-term relief in sight, even as inventory drawdowns and quicker supplier deliveries hint at some underlying recalibration." www.businessreport.com/article/what...

WSJ puff piece was signal? 5-Oct: "Sharpie Found a Way to Make Pens More Cheaply ... Newell Brands moved production (to the US) without cutting employee count or raising prices" Now: "Newell Brands to Cut 10% of Employees in Cost-Savings Push" $NWL down 29% since first article

Well that'll help the economy

HERTLING: “.. a military that abandons its legal and ethical foundations does not protect a nation — it endangers it.” @markhertling.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/pete-hegse...

Senate Armed Services chair:

Pete Hegseth has a long record advocating for war crimes to be permissible. time.com/7176342/pete...

"Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function. What value, after all, is there in automating art, thinking, or reading – especially in educational and academic settings? None."

He's simultaneously running the country and his no opinions because he hasn't seen/read anything. He's Schrödinger's Speaker.

Can anyone explain this 👇 behavior to me?

As someone who flies regularly for work, I’m fascinated by the middle aged man energy of needing to take one’s suitcase out of the overhead bin far ahead of one’s row deplaning. (Note: I’m squarely middle aged myself.)

Mexican remittances data suggests the period of behavior changes in response to ICE/CBP abductions has peaked. Remittances dropped sharply earlier this year driven by volumes but those are now stabilizing as people adapt to the new reality. Implications for labor markets and some consumer spending.

Trump just gave a commutation to David Gentile, a private equity executive who defrauded investors of $1.6B. Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct. A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.

"we found a Type Of Guy who represents a particularly helpful corner of the latent space" is easily my favorite type of positive LLM posting.

Laying it on thick.

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When Trump says "I don't know what part of my body they scanned but it wasn't my brain," it's so stupidly childish and obvious that they did an MRI of his brain. It's like a kid saying "you can search my room but not my pillowcase!"

This is what I think the goods-producing sector in America is doing right now — “We now have a better handle on what tariffs are doing to our business, and in response we’re cutting staff and/or doing more offshoring”:

“There were no agreements with the Muscovites in the 19th, 20th, or 21st century, only lies, a desire to take lives, and to destroy,” said Polish President Nawrocki. He added that history offers a lesson for modern Poland: deals with Russia have never been real, and it’s a truth everyone must learn.