“.. All signs point to this summer being the worst for teen employment since 1948, when the federal government started tracking the data, as rising inflation and higher fuel prices squeeze the small businesses and restaurants that typically hire them ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/teen...

Today @polphilpod.bsky.social gives us a very important breakdown of what has happened to trans rights in the UK and what it means for the freedom of even cis citizens there. We published it because the UK press is completely captured on this topic. Please read & share with folks who live there.

More than three quarters of Americans, including 55 percent of Republicans, said President Trump’s policies had increased the cost of living in their community. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...

REMINDER: The Chris Rufo theory of academia, and today’s broader right-wing theory of politics and culture, is that most students—most people, really—crave far right ideas, but get more left-wing ones only because a small cadre of radical leftists captured all institutions and forced it on everyone.

What could they possibly have in common

We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.

By “lifted off” he means “kicked off”

MORGAN STANLEY ON MORTGAGE RATES: "If rates remain at current levels, affordability would deteriorate at a pace rarely seen over the past ~50 years..."

"Oil will bring wealth to Greenland like it brought wealth to Louisiana" Median household income in Louisiana is ~$61K- roughly 25% lower than national median income. The people of states and countries with oil around the world are generally poor- while their elites are rich at their expense.

1. In a startling development, 8 Congressional Democrats crossed party lines to give Trump the power to pull school funding for supporting trans people. We list them in our latest article. Gonzalez (TX) Cueller (TX) Davis (NC) Fields (LA) Gillen (NY) Kaptur (OH) Gluesenkamp (WA) Vindman (VA)

We still have attorneys’ fees tho! Come join us on Saturday for a 12 hr livestream! bsky.app/profile/katm...

AOC: This is the current drinking water in Morgan County, Georgia, right after a Meta data center was constructed. The only difference between the clean water and this water was that data center. This isn't just one well or one family's situation. This is what the drinking water now looks like.

Recall: Dems hung tough on no funding for ICE & BP, Rs caved and passed rest of DHS and decided to do ICE and BP via reconciliation. Trump wanted ballroom then slush fund, couldn’t work it out, & here we are. Lesson for Dems: Hanging tough put pressure on Rs, -> Rs in disarray.

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis calls the new Trump/DOJ $1.776B slush fund "stupid on stilts." "These people assaulted police officers, admitted their guilt, were convicted. Now we're going to pay them for that?!?!" He calls it what it is: "tyranny." #StupidOnStilts

The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit. They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever. To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing.

KAT WON. FUCK ICE.

"Sanctuary cities" hosting the World Cup this summer: New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta

Türkiye slashed its US Treasury holdings from $16 billion to $1.8 billion in March. Source: Bloomberg

Republicans: “higher ed is indoctrination.” Republicans: “students won’t take our indoctrination course so we’re going to force them to.”

EU Climate Commissioner Hoekstra: “Unfortunately, the US has checked out on climate, and I have to take the world as it is, not as I wish it to be.”

Iran has already restarted some of its ​drone production during the ‌six-week ceasefire that began in early April, CNN ​reported on Thursday. US intelligence ​indicates Iran’s military is ​rebuilding much faster than initially estimated, the report added.

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

really can’t be overstated how much Polis was out on a limb with the Peters thing there are definitely issues on which “the Democrats” suck but on the topic of Tina Peters it was “Jared Polis sucks” the entire state party is furious, you don’t censure your own governor lightly

NEW: In the morning, lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment to a $580 billion transportation bill that would make federal highway funds contingent on states and cities killing off their automated license plate reader programs, i.e., Flock, in most cases.

Functionally indistinguishable from the way Putin talks about Ukraine & Xi talks about Taiwan.

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Former Cuban President Raul Castro has been indicted in the United States, a senior Trump administration official told Reuters Wednesday, in a move that marks an escalation in Washington's pressure campaign against the ​Caribbean island's communist government.

This is all over the news in Italy. It has triggered a diplomatic incident, but we shall see whether Italian authorities will follow strong words with deeds. One thing is clear: if Ben-Gvir & co. feel they can do this to foreign peace activists, that NYT report is not hard to believe at all

Trump is gaining ever tighter control over the Republican Party as GOP critics of the president were among the highest-profile losers across dozens of state and national primaries. www.semafor.com/article/05/2...

For as left wing as Bluesky is I think a lot of people remain weirdly disconnected from the fact that "Israel has committed genocide" is as close to a consensus position among actually existing Democratic voters as possible

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party's State Central Committee (400-600 members) will vote Wednesday night on a measure to reprimand Gov Jared Polis and ban him from speaking at party events after giving clemency to Tina Peters

San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city. This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...

Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund just got its first applicant: Ex-Trump admin official Michael Caputo is requesting $2.7 million — claiming he was the target of "political weaponization" after the Justice Department investigated his potential Russia ties.

This sounds like LSD-laced cigarettes and MKUltra-era CIA stuff, but it's Israeli designed. "The audacious plan, developed by the Israelis and which Ahmadinejad had been consulted about, quickly went awry, according to the U.S. officials who were briefed on it. Ahmadinejad was injured on the war’s

Per Reuters sources, this week at the NATO FM meeting, US will communicate to allies that it will have only a limited ability to engage in protecting NATO members in case of an attack.

I’ll do ONEST Explained on what they actually plan.

Colorado Democrats must impeach Jared Polis. Peters tried to help Trump overturn democracy and would do it again

His name is Andrew Paul Johnson "Discord messages showed Johnson told the child "since he was pardoned for storming the Capitol on January 6th, and he was being awarded $10,000,000 as a result of being a ‘jan 6’er’ ... that he would be putting him in his ‘will’ to take any money he had left over,"

The job market for young people is getting tougher. Greenhouse data shows the average entry-level role now attracts ~2.5x as many applicants as before the pandemic. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart:

I'd like to suggest this stance be adopted by white fans as well

"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfao

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Producer prices up 6.0 percent, energy up 22.7 percent, over the year ended April 2026 www.bls.gov/opub/ted/202... #BLSdata

Breaking - 30 year treasury hits highest level in 19 years www.cnn.com/2026/05/19/b...

The Memphis that just lost their member of congress due to gerrymandering?

Republicans did this. 🧵

I know there's a lot going on, and it's hard to cover it all, but I think "we are only taking white people in our refugee program" should be getting more attention.

“Construction companies view it as easier to reduce production, reduce the construction of new homes and new buildings in general, rather than try to increase wages for U.S.-born workers."

I have prayed at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Like me, the Muslim-Americans who were targeted today pray for peace, for the future of their kids, for a better tomorrow. That’s what we all hope and pray for. 1/