fundamentally the US's counterbalance oil shocks is that we can produce more oil and China's counterbalance is that they produce the stuff the world needs to use less oil

oh now SUDDENLY he hates it when you tax international trade

holy based

found a beautiful old magazine to hang in the apartment. they don’t make em like they used to

I forgot to attach the ridership chart AHHH

Congratulations to Seattle's Sound Transit, America's fastest-growing train network, which is opening an 7-mile, 3-station extension across Lake Washington today! This is the system's 5th new segment opened in 2 years, continually pushing ridership up to new record highs!

actually existing abundance liberalism is thriving in Salt Lake City, Utah

beautiful DC blossom train to go along with the beautiful blossom card

even putting aside the JK Rowling aspect of this, one way I feel like media conglomerates have degraded is that none of them can seem to put out movies/TV shows at the pace that was historically normal. The Harry Potter *movies* came out basically once a year!

The first official US electricity data of 2026 is out today, and solar output continues to grow rapidly, up 15% compared to last January!

Adjust for inflation, and US office construction is basically down to worst-of-the-great-recession levels, falling nearly 60% since the onset of the pandemic in 2020 and hitting another recent low in data released today

The US is now building more data centers than office buildings for the first time Spending on data centers hit a record high of nearly $47B/yr in data released today, up 31% over the last year, as office construction keeps falling Also, I'm aware this graph looks like Kentucky

how were they not doing this already lmfao

What u post at midnight when things are definitely going well

if you build the LEGO container ship in the US is it technically Jones Act compliant?

Just watched: Rocky Happy Picture Show boxd.it/dCLPsF

ahhhh hahahahahahahaha ahhhhhhh HAHAHAHAHAHAH

brother saw markets close down 1.5% and took to Truth social

we are battle testing the "Trump will back down from any policy if the stock market drops more than 5%" thesis today

small moment of joy today is how beautiful the annual DC Metro cherry blossom cards are this year

Meanwhile just under 1/3 of Philly households live car-free, also among the highest rates in the US, primarily relying on the city's subway, commuter rail, trolley, & bus network Those households are especially concentrated near the Broad St, Market-Frankford, & PATCO Lines

things have gotten so bad Joe Kent is bailing

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In general it would be nice if the Trump administration could decide what their chip export control policy is gonna be and stick to it for more than 15 minutes at a time

27 likes 465 replies on this free press article lmfao they are not happy about this one

NEW: US labor market flows remained sluggish in January data released this morning, though improving from late-2025 lows The hiring rate rose to 3.3%, layoffs fell to 1.0%, quits fell to 2.0%, and job openings rose to 4.2%

tweets u post when you r not at all stressed abt the economy

Yesterday it was 80 and sunny in DC. right now it is literally snowing. I am going to become the joker

mfw Seattle ends a 5 game losing streak to break Boston’s 6 game winning streak

releasing oil from the strategic petroleum reserve to cover the easily foreseeable consequences of my actions

we’re back to doing tariff investigations again

reading “Gods of New York” about NYC in the 80s and sometimes you gotta just laugh at the screenwriters of history to stop from screaming

still a rough time for all of us coffee drinkers out there—prices are now up more than 50% since 2019 and 18% over the last year alone

NEW: CPI inflation rose to 2.4% year-on-year, coming in at 0.3% month-on-month. Core CPI inflation fell to 2.5% year-on-year, coming in at 0.2% month-on-month

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pierre poilievre pov

the classic "its the mystery staffer's fault, no I will not be revealing which mystery staffer or punishing them in any way" move

tonight the White House touched the stove and went oof ouch owie. Tomorrow? The stove shall beckon again

evergreen headline

they're calling it the most normal and stable price action of any commodity in global history

the bullying has worked and I have made a letterboxd in case ppl wanna follow, disclaimer! you will be experiencing the reviews of a person who has watched a total of 8 movies across the last 5 years and is just getting into film for the first time boxd.it/jZeeF

watched “Your Name” for the first time yesterday (loved it even, though Joey is 10 years behind the zeitgeist as usual) but one thing I really appreciated is the movie has just a deep artistic and spiritual love for Tokyo as a city that I feel like is so rare for how US media treats its locations

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

Asian markets can’t hurt you if you don’t look at them. Just pretend they’re not real.

posts u make when things r definitely going well

spotted in DC ❤️

US transit data is out today, and Seattle's Link remains one of the fastest-growing rail systems in the nation, with ridership up 9% in the wake of the extension to Federal Way Ridership should increase even further at the end of this month when the 1 & 2 lines are connected🧵