For the first time, I am telling the story of the neo-Nazi threats and intimidation that led me to go to the FBI. www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/its-time-t...

WOW: DOJ redactions hid key details about Trump’s Epstein ties — and Rep. Dan Goldman just revealed what they were trying to cover up. In the unredacted document shown today by Goldman, we can now read the full notes from a 2009 conversation involving Jeffrey Epstein and Trump’s attorneys. 1/

"It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and isn't an imminent threat" Oh- You sure about that? Every last member of this Administration is simultaneously a Willfully Ignorant Lickspittle AND a Walking Monument to Dunning-Kruger....

“Apparently I’m an idiot.” Woman at Pennsylvania gas station who voted for Trump rips into him, calls him “a worthless pile of sh*t”.

Trump Is Quietly Trying to Free Man Who Lied About Hunter Biden Alexander Smirnov gave the FBI information he later admitted was false.

Let’s be clear on what’s happening here. They’re trying to steal the next election and this is a smoking gun. GOP Senator Mike Lee sees polling that shows Dems gaining ground and the solution isn’t better ideas or better leadership. The solution is rushing to pass the SAVE Act. #SaveActTaxesVoting

"The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- PJ O'Rourke

Good News so long as you're not a (checks notes)...Consumer.

Trump can't declare bankruptcy on the Iran war. He can't get his dad to bail him out. There's no one to sue. His usual lies and bluster aren't working. Iran isn't Venezuela. The global energy market isn't something he can bully. This has already spun out of control. I wrote about the war in @ms.now.

This whole administration continues to be an object lesson in the catastrophic folly of letting unserious people have authority over serious things

Two weeks into the war that he started for reasons he can’t explain, the president of the United States is threatening to charge news outlets with treason for purportedly colluding with the enemy by producing coverage he dislikes. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian,” and acknowledgements they failed to achieve the stated goal of lowering the government deficit.

So, none of the people who are actually in command of the military suggested to Trump and Hegseth Iran affair is a stupid idea without any hint of strategy or planning. They just followed orders.

Anyone see any disclosures on this.....anywhere?????

Hegseth: "Some in the press can't stop. Allow me to make suggestions. People look at the TV and they see banners, 'Mideast War Intensifies.' What should it read instead? How about, 'Iran increasingly desperate.' More fake news from CNN. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better"

They can't control what's happening now, so they're trying to control what gets said about it.

Pretty much sums it up.🤷‍♀️

"Two things are infinite- the universe and human stupidity...though I'm not sure about the universe"- A. Einstein (allegedly)

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else? Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.

Fantastic essay: "Why the ATM didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did." davidoks.blog/p/why-the-at... Key point: "it is paradigm replacement, not task automation, that actually displaces workers." In this sense, we're still in the early days of AI's effect on the economy.

Even if the war ends fast, “normal” won’t fully return. Trust and relationships are slow to rebuild, and that shows up as less trade, less cooperation, and more expensive risk management.

CPI for all items rises 0.3% in February; shelter up #BLSData #CPI www.bls.gov/news.release...

As long as you don’t need gas, groceries, affordable healthcare, retirement savings or constitutional rights, things aren’t so bad.

Sometimes all I've got left is sarcasm. And when that runs out, I get serious.

*reading through every military history book ever written* Anyone know when I'll finally get to the part where solely bombing someone to rubble results in a democracy?

Congratulations, if you've ever made a BOFA DEEZ NUTS joke, you probably also had a better understanding of how Trump would impact the economy than Bank of America's actual head of US Equity & Quantitative Strategy.

I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But... ...maybe there wasn't much planning?

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“.. one thing the US economy doesn’t need right now is a war of choice shutting down a major trade route, blowing up oil markets, and driving up the cost of energy for Americans, just as the labor market seizes up. And yet, here we are.” @dkthomp.bsky.social www.derekthompson.org/p/the-econom...

Here's the point to remember about the brutal negative revisions in today's job market report: They aren't saying the labor market showed green shoots that withered. It's saying that there never were any green shoots. They were an illusion.

The U.S. economy has lost jobs since "Liberation Day."

How does recent growth compare to recent years? Economy added just 0.16 million jobs over 12 months to Feb 2026. Job growth stopped.

HUGE payrolls miss, wow Feb Payrolls -92k vs +55k est/+130k prev 2m net revision -69k Unemplomyent 4.4% vs 4.3% est/4.3% prev Avg hourly earn YoY +3.8% vs +3.7% est+/3.7% prev Jan Retail sales MoM -0.2% vs -0.3% est/0.0% prev Control group est MoM +0.3% vs+0.3% est/-0.1% prev

Today's jobs report was much weaker than expected. Payroll jobs fell 92k in Feb, and revisions to Dec data show a loss of 17k jobs. Average job growth over the last 3 months now under 6k. Household survey population controls indicate a significant drop in the labor force. #NumbersDay #EconSky

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

it's a real achievement to develop a policy that so many macroeconomists could agree on

MOLON LATTE!!!

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Back o' the envelope mathing: A sustained $10 increase in oil prices will.... - add about 28 cents to the retail gas price (reg grade) - subtract 0.1+% from real GDP - keeps the Fed's preferred inflation gauge above 3% in 2026.

“.. pain points will not kick in until oil hits approximately $125 a barrel. At that level it would extract a drag of between 80 and 100 basis points on gross domestic product and an increase of 160 basis points in inflation from 2.4% to 4% ..” @joebrusuelas.bsky.social #OOTT

The 10y Treasury yield rising another 5bp this morning to 4.1% confirming a breakdown in traditional asset price correlation Investors are incorporating longer-term inflationary pressures & Treasuries have lost their appeal as a safe haven refuge

US @ISM #Manufacturing remains in expansions territory for strong back-to-back months since 2022 ✅ISM 52.4:🔽0.2pt ✅New Orders 55.8:🔽1.3pt ✅Production 53.5:🔽2.4pt ⛔️Employment 48.8:🔼0.7pt ✅Backlogs 56.6:🔼5.0pt 🔥Inflation 70.5:🔼11.5pt

For Absolutely No Reason Whatsoever Related to Recent Events, I’d like to remind everyone of this: www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...

"Alexa, show me what you get when you cross a Walking Monument to Willfully Ignorant Dumbfuckery with Dunning-Kruger"

Interviewer: "What's your take on how he's framing the economy?" Me: "It's that he's lying."

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

Rep. Garcia: We have a survivor that made serious allegations against Trump. There's a series of documents and interviews with the survivor that are actually missing, that we don't have access to. Why these documents are missing is a critical question for the DOJ.

Feel like it should be a big deal that the part of the government that is growing most quickly is teaching its new hires to violate the constitution. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

Really, where's the balance of payments problem? #EconSky econbrowser.com/archives/202...