Karoline Leavitt is getting quizzed at the WH briefing for her claim that CPI is 2.5%, when the October reading was 3.0. As far as I can tell, the way the admin gets to 2.5% is by counting cumulative CPI *only* for the 8 months since Trump's inauguration, and annualizing.

#Unemployment rate largely unchanged but still seen increasing on #tariff drag. Still, labor market "cooling" & downside risk to employment "have risen" 📈U-3 rate: ▶️4.5% in Q4 '25 (was 4.5%) ▶️4.4% in Q4 '26 (was 4.4%) ▶️4.2% in Q4 '27 (was 4.3%) ▶️4.2% in Q4 '28 ▶️Long-run: 4.2%

👀GDP growth expectations revised marginally higher as the economy is sending mixed signals. Little signal here in the absence of official data. 📊Real #GDP ▶️1.7% in Q4 '24 (was 1.6%) ▶️2.3% in Q4 '26 (was 1.8%) ▶️2.0% in Q4 '27 (was 1.9%) ▶️1.9% in Q4 '28 ▶️Long-run: 1.8%

🚨#Fed "Pressured, not pressed" 1️⃣ #FOMC cuts 25bps to 3.5-3.75% 2️⃣Job gains slowed & inflation moved up 3️⃣Downside risks to employment rose 4️⃣Risk management cut 5️⃣"Extent & timing" signals pause 6️⃣Schmid & Goolsbee dissent for hold; Miran for -50bps 7️⃣Balance sheet expansion to resume

Neuros & Psychs of BlueSky- How many of you had a patient who required THREE cognitive exams in a year, with one of those involving a panel? And- without HIPAA violations of course- how did that work out?

The “Who rescued who?” debate started back in April and will never be settled. Happy #GotchaDay, Argos!

They need to be independent. They need to be courageous.. even when it feels difficult. They need to serve the American people rather than the White House. They need to have good judgment and a sensible model.. of how the economy works overall. And they need to show intellectual leadership

This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice. 📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.

"Kevin Hasset....Stephen Moore....Larry Kudlow....EJ Antoni....Oren Cass...." - Arya Starkonomist

TRYING TO FLIP” THE BOAT MEANS THE BOAT WAS CAPSIZED AND THEY WERE SHIPWRECKED IN THE WATER.

Conspiracy theory: “They’re hiding the inflation data!” Boring reality: “We sent the data nerds home for six weeks and they couldn’t collect it.” As usual, never attribute to malice what can be explained by budget dysfunction.

If Arya Stark kept her List for this Administration, she'd get maybe about 15mins of sleep after naming everyone....

Somewhere on a college campus lives a squirrel, just living his best life within earshot of an open window to a room in which Econ 101 is being taught. That smooth-brained, inbred AF rodent has a better understanding of tariff impacts than this sycophantic jagoff.

Call mine Honour and Colour because they drop U

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“

“I’m asking you very nicely- and for the LAST time- to put your seat into its full upright position. If I have to come back, Mr. PopeStick here will be the one doin’ the talking, Capisce?”

WOLFERS: “When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.” #MedicareForAllNOW

Translation: "If you don't use AI then the guys using our chips can't pretend to make money and can't pay the loans they took out to pay for the original loans they took out for all the money they're not making and it all falls apart and we can't sell chips to fuel the money they're not making."

📈Core capital goods orders & shipments have swung wildly since the start of the year, but momentum in Q3 was solid, driven by communications equipment, machinery & primary metals ✅Shipments: +0.1% ✅Core capital goods ex aircraft: +0.9% ✅Orders: +0.5% ✅Core cap: +0.9%

OnlyCans?

“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.” @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

"Look, I only need to print in Beef... but you're saying it won't let me do that because my Chicken cartridge is empty?"

@pbump.com is being a bit snide here but more background is useful. On the right, he's showing how Trump's AI/Crypto Czar begged for a bailout after he played a key role in starting a run on the bank. On the left, Sacks is begging already.

Halligan efficiently clearing two cases sounds like something that should be trumpeted on a "Government Efficiency" website, right?

🎶Please allow me to introduce myself- I'm a man of wealth and taste….

It’s all a sham and a foreign influence operation as we have been saying on @pivotpod.bsky.social for a while now.

TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.

Trying to distract from the release of a notorious child sex trafficker's files because you're probably in them by threatening to kill your political opponents because they encouraged soldiers to uphold their oaths to the Constitution is quite the political PR move.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Please make sure ‘hearings on ICE’s vetting & background check procedures’ is on the list for 2026….

A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax. The anti-Robin Hood. Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work. [source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...

RunningMan 2028 pitch: Stephen Miller, Greg Bovino, and Tom Homan are dropped off in the middle of East LA in orange jumpsuits with no phones or $ and need to make it by foot to a Trump donor's home in Orange County.

Basically, the United States ran up until 2024 based on nothing more than the presumption that the administration would not do relentless crimes, and would stop if asked.

Massie: "The president has been saying this is a hoax. Well, he's just now decided to investigate a hoax, if it's a hoax. And I have another concern about these investigations he's announced. If they have ongoing investigations, those documents can't be released. So this might be a big smokescreen."

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

100% said this and feel free to quote me on it. Also @jackiekashian.bsky.social is a fantastic comedian and you should see her when she comes to your town.

Awww that ‘hotbed of threats and harassment’ must suck, huh Princess Mensa? www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...

Two truths about the shutdown: • Macro: Government is a small slice, many feds are “essential,” so the GDP dip is small and temporary. • Micro: Wasting billions is pointless, and it still hurts real people. Both can be true at once.

Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him

So, uh, Pam- Why is TODAY the time to open an investigation? And remember- your answer to this is gonna be brought up again in your testimony later.

Best case: The President of the United States knew about a pedophilia ring and did nothing to stop it. Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators. Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.

@repdangoldman.bsky.social is the best. We need more members of Congress like him. 👏👏👏

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Really unnerving point from Nicole Hemmer, historian of the right: Trump's Epstein fiasco could drive MAGA to push him to go even fuller authoritarian, because the whole project is now in such serious doubt. She's so good on MAGA's future. Check out this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/2031...

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Dear DOJ and FBI Whistleblowers- You know how this all ends, and everything to come out after this is going to be significantly worse by several orders of magnitude. Coming forward now with any evidence to edit/hide/destroy anything L’Affaire Epstein will save your ass…possibly even your soul.