Wut?

Spotted as we clean out the Marketplace offices before we move. Tells you how long we’ve been here.

We are out here fighting over whether we should keep burning the atmosphere or if people should have enough food to eat, and meanwhile the spiders are learning to cooperate. You do not want the spiders to cooperate. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...

Still lots of slack in the Goon economy.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Completely normal

Think about it…

CNBC/NRF Retail Monitor Retail sales strengthened in October as consumers prepared for the holidays. Total retail sales increased 0.6% from September and 5% year over year, while core retail sales showed similar gains of 0.6% month over month and 4.89% year over year.

So currencies. Much medium of exchange. Very store of value.

Donald Trump appeared to be wearing a red tie.

JFC George - don’t accept the premise Tariffs are taxes paid by consumers and businesses. Frame the question the right way. It’s not a damn true/false

the truth is, I have no idea -- and several states, in fact, did not have any idea -- how this guidance would be implemented and what it would mean in practice. which is the problem, of course. it creates only more confusion around a program in serious trouble.

It’s very funny to think that the guy who didn’t know what the 13 stripes on the flag meant has a nuanced understanding of the intentions and debates of the founding fathers.

I don’t…what…huh??

WaPo puts the Sleepy Trump piece on Page One. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump threw another lavish party as his DOJ asked the Supreme Court to stop it from being forced to pay food stamps for 40 million Americans. Yes, this is *different* from last week’s Gatsby party. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...

What the hell are we doing?

Do the math. It don’t add up

“Most of the days the federal government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was the president.”— @howtoreadthisch.art www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

Here’s an oldie but a goodie: “DOGE rebates” 🤡 “..the proposal would distribute .. $5,000 per household for the 78 million households that pay federal income tax.” @wutangforchildren.bsky.social

(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡 @zacheverson.com www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

Great explainer

This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it. But most people won't believe that for several good reasons. /1

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Huh. And oh.

In a 67-page 10-Q for Trump Media ($DJT), the risk factors account for nearly a third of the filing, which, trust me, is a lot. Gotta wonder how many of the folks who bought the stock even skimmed those risk factors. Stock down over 60% YTD.

We’re at war?

Are we invading Poland

Fox goes with real-world math over WH gaslight.

FRED HICKEY: “.. GenAI is probably the most over-hyped technology I’ve ever witnessed in my 45 years of following tech stocks.” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

I agree with this…

Sununu went from being the governor of New Hampshire to being an airline lobbyist?

18 days later. 🤡

"there's a whole lot of public servants right now... drawn to the job by desire to make the world a better place, who are feeling... that maybe the world doesn't love them very much. And they're worried they're not going to get the wages they not only need, but the law says that they're owed."

Unprecedented corruption - not just monetizing the presidency by selling branded products, but selling those products directly to government employees and having the Department of Homeland Security promote them to the media

> @conorsen.bsky.social

Nope

Not once does this @politico.com piece mention that CPI is near the highest of Trump’s term. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Sandwich man goes free

Not for nothing, but has anyone asked the air traffic controllers if this plan makes sense to them as a way to reduce their load?

Always read @crampell.bsky.social

Yep. On it.

Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025. On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data. This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data. Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport www.bls.gov/schedule/202...

Give this man the FIFA Peace Prize. 🥇

Huh

I just want to know who is going to write the book on this ponzi scheme when it is over.

Get your colleagues and friends off it, folks.

I legit can’t figure out the play on these FAA flight cancellations. Who’s the White House trying to pressure. And who do they think people are gonna get mad at when Thanksgiving goes down the drain?