Pretty much

"Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact." www.wired.com/story/silico...

did a read-aloud of my latest column, set to the backdrop of a drive through central virginia youtu.be/pq8TUlk4BxQ

“People who listed Microsoft and other tech companies on their résumés were applying to become baristas.” www.wsj.com/tech/seattle...

Statement from a Times spokesperson: "We welcome the judge’s quick ruling, which recognized that the complaint was a political document rather than a serious legal filing."

Nobody Wants To Work Anymore They're Taking Our Jobs!

or Fed vs Trump.

“.. What’s really striking this week is he didn’t even need to launch a formal investigation into ABC — he simply made some loose threats on a podcast, and within hours, Kimmel is yanked. .. that speaks to the influence he’s managed to build up.” @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Russell 2000 posts first record close since November 2021

I used to think people were exaggerating when they said the USA was becoming a facist state. I think I was being naive.

This is indeed everything. Also important to note where this spending is coming from. Over 75% of capital gains income goes to households in the top 10% of total income, while nearly everybody else is almost totally dependent on wages. @talsmith.bsky.social

“A group of boys brought in a transistor radio to listen to music. They didn’t realize they had to lift the antenna, so I lifted it for them. The music wasn’t that loud and it was quite sweet.” gothamist.com/news/from-bu...

“.. It will squeeze consumers, who have faced years of cumulative price hikes. This time, however, Americans won't get the boost from a roaring jobs market or strong wage growth.” @axios.com www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Today's FAFO: *HYUNDAI DELAYS GEORGIA BATTERY PLANT CONSTRUCTION AFTER RAID

Someday we’re going to invent batteries that can store energy and it’s going to be awesome. 🤡

POLITICO: ".. You don’t need Playbook to pick through the possible meanings of stomach-churning lines like 'We have certain things in common, Jeffrey' … 'May every day be another wonderful secret.' .. You can draw your own conclusions .. you probably already did." www.politico.com/newsletters/...

I’m simultaneously over people who think everything needs to be a big swing (reimaginings, radical change) and people who think only small swings are realistic but whose theory of change relies on big-swing levels of enthusiasm/mobilization, or who don’t acknowledge any opposition to their ideas.

It is impossible to be too cynical about Washington these days. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Btw Miran's biggest critic should be himself. Last year he had scathing words for people moving from the the White House to the Fed (my emphasis added). LIKE HIM NOW. Has he changed his mind? Are we naïve or sinister to believe him?

We get the July JOLTS data tomorrow morning (10 AM ET). 1/ Top of mind - we've had 12 months of stability in hiring, about 9 months of stability in quits. Both are great barometers of the tug of war between weak labor demand growth and weak labor supply growth.

US president is seeking to overhaul country’s electoral system, falsely claiming his 2020 loss was a result of fraud.

Full Bulwark Podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social: Substack: www.thebulwark.com/p/sam-stein-... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yaho... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4xwt...

"Like any 11 year old, I didn't think about the deep inequality in my city....And then I just saw how we had the money and means to just go over to my uncle's place, then there were other 11-year-olds that were on their roofs or at the Superdome." @talsmith.bsky.social remembers Katrina:

Trump might get what he wants with regard to the Fed, not because it's intimidated by him but because of the economic slowdown his policies are causing. @talsmith.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:

GOLDMAN: “.. Following this morning’s data, we forecast core PCE inflation of 0.26% in July, corresponding to a year-over-year rate of 2.87%.”

If Man United were a stock it’d be a value trap that tumbles 20% after somehow missing the very low bar for earnings

"My friend Victor like saved me though, because he laid on top of me. But he got hit." 10-year-old describes witnessing Minneapolis shooting.

this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following

following up on my "Beyond Bidenomics" piece from last week, we have @brusselermel.bsky.social in the FT this week making the case for a more serious commitment to economic planning in future progressive economic policy work: www.ft.com/content/dda5...

Also, @schooldaves.bsky.social has a book coming out soon. It's called As Public As Possible and I got a sneak peak. Two thumbs way up! thenewpress.org/books/as-pub....

dc youth curfew zone = sundown town for young black men (especially if you have dreads or your hair is grown out)

I’m not an Absolute Coffee Guy so maybe Mr Cena is full of it but this absolutely cracked me up.

Hope this guy went on to have a good life.

there's so little actual rigorous evidence based reporting on crime and criminal justice. it fucking sucks so bad. I know that true impartiality is impossible, etc etc but I should not be able to *easily* tell what the author's priors are from a short article, and you so frequently totally can.

They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say

At least theres something funny in the middle of all the horrors going on www.thedailybeast.com/dr-phil-accu...

By no means new thing, but still 👀

Redford, 89 years old today. “All the President’s Men” (1976) owes its existence to him — buying the film rights, developing a script and cajoling a reluctant Woodward & Bernstein. I thought it was “a great character study,” he said — but for months, “they didn’t return my calls.”

rich nimbys in charlottesville lost the political debate over zoning, leveraged the legal system to try to stop it, and are going to lose the political debate again for the simple reason that the voters of cville support zoning reform and have elected a city council that intends to see it through

Jackson, Mississippi, has the nation's highest homicide rate, more than 3 times the rate in DC

I know some people don’t like bringing content from the shit site over here but this was too fascinating not to share

“New York City office visits, or foot traffic, exceeded 2019 levels for the first time in July, according to Placer.ai, a location-analytics firm. It was the only major city to hit that milestone.” @carlquintanilla.bsky.social www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

In this interview, Mamdani explains what he wants to do to taxes: “To match the top corporate tax rate of New York to that of the top corporate tax rate of New Jersey” and “increase personal income taxes on the top 1 percent of New Yorkers by 2 percent.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Sitting in Costco parking lot. Daughter napping in back. I started with a 97% state of charge yesterday, did 105 miles with a trailer (don’t ask), another 52 miles without, and ran a tailgate (fans, slow cooker, hot dog roller, interior AC) off my truck for four hours. Why do ppl have range anxiety?

If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?

It’s gone forever obviously, but in 2015 during breaking news you could turn on CNN, you could check the mono-Twitter timeline and maybe the left/right wings of online discourse and have a pretty good read on what “reality” was, but now everything is so fragmented it’s hard to know what’s what.

per John Kenneth Galbraith thought, businesses should be just insecure as workers in a competitive market environment. its just that businesses, small and large, using their capital to form leagues and persuade governments, have been able to better shield themselves from the insecurity of risk.

If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:

As somebody else said, this is the hardest anyone has ever George Costanza’ed before in history

heatmap.news/ideas/inflat... “In a city like New Orleans, rocked by the recent nuclear outage, residents spend, on average, over 19% of their incomes on their energy bills, over three times the DOE’s threshold to be considered an energy-burdened community.” Great piece by @advaitarun.bsky.social!!