Text from a low income neighbor. His family hasn’t eaten in 2 days because they didn’t get their SNAP benefits He works 60 hour weeks at a min wage job & it just isn’t enough. He has young children. This is the horrific cruelty Trump is imposing on ordinary Americans😓 (We bought them 2 weeks food)

2015: oh well they probably have my social security number already 2025: oh well they probably have root at the Pentagon already

GEO and CoreCivic need a massive #TeslaTakedown style movement. “Private prison” companies are a scourge and are allowing ICE to do what it is doing. They must go.

Consumer sentiment nears lowest level ever as worries build over shutdown — www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...

Awwww there’s our little investor, why don’t you come down here and tell the family all about your doggy coins and your podcasts

After SCOTUS arguments, @legalafmtn.bsky.social's Michael Popok and I sat down with @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov. I asked AG Bonta about a possibility discussed by Justice Barrett: tariff refunds if Trump loses. Here's his response. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLUp...

O hai, new Howard Marks memo. #econsky #finsky www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/mem...

If only Gorsuch had that realization roughly about the time he thought presidents should have immunity from everything. #SheShed

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

“U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is expected to order scheduled air traffic cut by 10% at 40 major airports starting Friday…”

@foxnews-mun-1.bsky.social discusses a @washingtonpost.com poll showing 71% saying they are paying higher grocery bills and 59% blame Trump. Rightfully - he invented groceries (🙄) and his policies are inflationary

Ask Target how that’s going :)

Betting market odds for SCOTUS letting Trump keep his tariffs have tanked

Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

What we know so far, 9:30pm —Dems flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani up —Dems seem to flip 2 statewide offices in GA —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincy. —Dems sweep Orlando council —PA: Dem justices up big —Maine anti-mail vote measure down —Krasner wins

Zohran Mamdani has won, & will be the next mayor of NYC.

“Jobs are booming” is Treasury Secretary-speak for “most-announced-job-cuts-for-a-full-year-since-2020.” “Inflation is falling” is Treasury Secretary-speak for “inflation-is-at-an-eight-month-high.”

NEW: FBI warns that ICE impersonators are harming ICE's image in immigrant communities, quietly urges ICE agents to identify themselves, as revealed in an intelligence document we obtained and shared w/ @dell.bsky.social / @carolinehaskins.bsky.social / @wired.com #FOIA www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

A chart from the great @bennsteil.bsky.social — showing how US importers did, in fact, absorb most of Trump’s tariffs at first. But not for long. @cfr.org www.cfr.org/article/who-...

Patiently waiting for Ethereum $ETH to protect me 😂...

Since Q is a boomer who doesn't understand technology I have done you all the favor of posting this insane footage

Goldman Sachs' and Morgan Stanley's CEOs said what? 🗣️ www.tker.co/p/goldman-sa...

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

holy shit. more terrible media consolidation.

Go read @claudia-sahm.bsky.social . "...that is part of the reason why I do not see recessionary dynamics in the labor market now." #econsky #finsky stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/a-curious-...

Trump's extraordinary political decline has come despite his clear information superiority and the declining influence of independent, legacy media. It makes it all that much more remarkable, durable and problematic for them.

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao? TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him. TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

Oh, look at this portion of the Trump interview that 60 Minutes didn't air tonight -- it features him boasting that "60 Minutes was forced to pay me a lot of money," saying Bari Weiss is a "great person," and that David Ellison buying CBS is the "greatest thing that's happened in a long time."

After I pull the div and interest money I need to live on tomorrow, I'll split the rest among $EDD, $WIW, and $RVT. Two for bonks, one for stonks.

Notable that the people carrying Trumpism don't act like they believe they're carrying out the will of the public, they act like dictators terrified of a spontaneous uprising so swift and massive it overwhelms their protective services before assistance can arrive.

vance has some of the most rancid body language of any politician i can remember in recent history, he's somehow even worse than trump. even with the sound off, every interview is like a parody of the worst fucking boss you've ever met.

Crunch point dead ahead. www.marketwatch.com/story/why-no...

Data is key for understanding and leasing the impacts of climate change on our economy and people. Glad to see @climatecentral.org continuing the data when our government fails.

“Subjects in a white van and white truck exited their vehicles and pointed guns at the customers at the drive-thru window.” Baristas at the drive-thru took shelter in a restroom...police responded to the scene. Police confirmed the agents were ICE. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

One year ago: 🇺🇸 @economist.com

Pretty apt example of what a bunch of hucksters these ppl are

...The Google project sailed through early approvals. But Filler’s grassroots group grew, and filled up meeting halls with opponents. They eventually convinced a small majority of City Council members to vote no on the project... Google pulled the application.... www.barrons.com/articles/dat...

Is it good when even judges are saying you can’t trust the government anymore?

It you click through this quoted thread, you will get an extended lesson in how our media environment has largely carved itself out by firing seasoned beat reporters and replacing them with partisan generalists who often lack basic background knowledge on the topic they’re reporting on.

There are lots of disasters waiting to happen in how much we have wired up to pure presidential power, but one thing we don't have is some state-of-exception button the president can push and instantly become absolute dictator. That's not a thing in American law. No emergency power encompasses it.

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

People are dunking on this, but to be fair: *I* don’t remember any other Secretary of Defense who has (inadvertently) shared details of an impending strike — and his conversations about it with cabinet members — with the editor of a major publication (who was accidentally added to his Signal chat).

Sunday Data: Not a great time for commercial real estate.

"Complacency is not a misperception but a preference." #econsky #finsky www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/the-...

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

cops tackling and marching off with a giant penis, Kristi Noem menacing a chicken she swears is antifa, feds pepper-spraying a frog ridicule is an extremely effective protest tactic and foil for authoritarianism

techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a... yeeeeeah

This makes sense coming from the guy whose son monitors his porn consumption