Or be that leader if you have the chance

From the @WSJ: “Economic fortunes of low- and high-income Americans are diverging—same pattern happening with companies.” #economy #inequality #divergence #dispersion

Can confirm

Never do I feel more like I’m back in 5th grade failing art class than when I wrap Christmas presents

He’s lying

Gosh - so shocking something like this has gone sideways www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

Kavanaugh tries to put the "Kavanaugh Stops" genie back in the bottle

The private credit explosion continues: According to the Financial Times, “private credit firms snapped up nearly 14 times as much consumer debt this year as in 2024, piling into riskier areas such as credit cards and buy now, pay later debt.” This shift raises interesting questions, ... 1 of 4

The story of the Fed race is that Scott Bessent goes on the All-In pod and gives a detailed policy prescription for the Fed, citing academic research and economic history. And then Trump will just up and post: "I want my new Fed Chairman to lower Interest Rates if the Market is doing well"

Efficiency ftw Spend more do less

“A popular government without popular information…is but a prologue to farce or tragedy…Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.” ~James Madison, 1788. Image: White House collection.

His "Golden Fleet" is has lead hulls.

#GDP 🇺🇸

So much for “civility” in travel. 🤡

Good to hear the appropriate degree of skepticism re the president this morning

Make Billy Mitchell Great Again

John Phelan just re-nuclearized the surface navy by saying the Trump class will carry nukes That's utterly bonkers.

STOP CALLING THEM BATTLESHIPS FFS, people

If you quote or play tape of the president without context, you’re committing journalistic malpractice

Absolutely not www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Him and Alfred Thayer Mahan, birds of a feather. “He has been personally involved in crafting plans for the Golden Fleet” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

I can’t even with this. “Battleships”? “Golden Fleet”? Honest to Pete what is happening

This is pretext. Trump’s been obsessed w/wind turbines for decades, which began after Scotland put some in near his golf course. He sued the govt & lost, which is why he claims they cause cancer, mental illness in whales, bird extinctions, etc. Welcome to the 19th century. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Ian Parker on Pete Navarro is every bit as elegantly savage as you would hope. A profile in hack politics for the ages.

People must grasp the idea of “media capture.” It’s when authoritarian regimes and/or their powerful allies take control of media to stifle independent voices holding the government to account. It’s one way Hungary’s Viktor Orbán keeps power. In the U.S., it’s what the Ellisons have done with CBS.

Is the Press Free yet?

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

“concerns”

Image: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Whoa

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"The people who did this to America will never pay a price. And if we defeat them, our success will be used as an argument against us."

President Trump’s tariffs are taxes on American businesses and consumers. Lather, rinse, repeat

Apropos of nothing, my rule for VAR (and all video replays) - 3 looks, at game speed, then you have to decide.

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

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The winds in Colorado/Wyoming are insane. @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

* Number of additional unemployed Americans since January: 982,000. * Number of federal government job losses: 271,000. 🤡

The Trump Doctrine is, essentially: “Who’s gonna stop you?”

Real wages (after inflation) were growing at 2.0% last year. Now it’s 0.8% — “clearly playing into what the majority of American households would define as an affordability crisis.” @joebrusuelas.bsky.social

Most weak-kneed phrase in journalism right now? “Critics say…”

Headline has changed. Better.

No. No, no, no, no. The name is set by statute. Do better

My brain hurts

From the BLS -- Food at Home (Groceries): +1.9%

You guys. No. It's named by statute. Do better.

"congratulations to President Kennedy"

The DNC is burying its 2024 autopsy. "DNC Chair Ken Martin ordered a postmortem report after assuming his post and said it would help the party learn from mistakes. Now he says releasing it would be a distraction." www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

I honest to Pete don’t understand the aversion to saying he lies. (Don’t give me the whole oh-we-don’t-know-his-intent malarkey)

So the National Guard doesn’t get the little $1776 bonus, just Regular forces Not a great look, since that part of the military is currently bearing the brunt of the administration’s domestic deployments and has 3 dead in the last 3 weeks (DC and Syria)