probably the basic thing to understand is what matt darling explains here: economic fundamentals like unemployment and wages were in fact very good predictors of economic sentiment pre-2020. like you have to at least start there besttrousers.substack.com/p/the-vibece...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

I know he’s just an addict. But I think it’d be really funny if there was a mutant whose power was that he could teleport to the nearest Waffle House and only the nearest Waffle House from anywhere in the universe.

just incredible that while the last shipments out of the strait are finally rolling in and there’s nothing coming behind them, the entire executive branch are obsessed with winning online flame wars with the pope

These judges should be named and shamed, and the people who clerk for them should be marked down permanently as unqualified.

man, this is such a bad asymmetry. eventually Ds are going to get so black-pilled by the double-standard that they give up the standard entirely (cough maine cough). and frankly i'd understand the impulse. media is allowing this to happen - facilitating it, in fact.

The judge found The Wall Street Journal did not defame Trump by publishing the piece.

Faine identifies an important component of the vibecession

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy: There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot. for the first time I can remember, there’s no supposedly obvious alternative path to reliable employment that our leaders can demand we pivot to. indeed, they’re not even bothering to try to offer an alternative - and scamming starts feeling like the only answer

genuinely good work from house dems who swiftly made clear that he can leave or he can be thrown out, but he’s going one way or the other

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Someone stole a critical piece of evidence from a Tesla Model Y involved in a violent crash in Bergen, Norway — the network card responsible for storing and transmitting crash data to Tesla’s servers. No one has been able to explain who removed the card or when. /1

I do think, if you lay out every event in the life of Justin Trudeau, this makes significantly more sense than him being Prime Minister of Canada.

democrats should be straight up attacking the nyt, journal and post for their vance coverage

evangelicals eagerly, gleefully pretended not to see the myriad ways trump is the most heretical politician to hold american higher office in modern history so i don't think we should take their outrage as sincere now that they need a way out of his sinking coalition

GUYS THIS ISN’T ROCKET SCIENCE: Go to someone who thinks the economy is terrible, at any point between 2021 and now. Ask them why they think that. They’ll mostly tell you a bunch of stuff they heard online, much of which is either misleading or outright false! Pretty good clue about what happened.

this is part of what you give up when you decide to commit yourself to access journalism.

hmm if only there was another recent president with a habit of inane senility-induced rambling we could compare press coverage to

I am pretty sure that if a Democratic US President was in office, lashing out at the supreme pontiff, and blasphemously depicting himself as the savior, the headlines would describe this papal response as defending the church and not “hitting back.”

Here’s @mattpolprof.bsky.social on why the GOP is, in fact, the stupid party

they like him and want to help him. They send out a push alert not for the actual story "the president is losing his fucking mind" but one repeating Trump's false criticism of the Pope as if they are reasonable.

I am in no way kidding about the social diseases btw

How did the Discover tab on Bluesky decide that I want to see pet grief posts? I want literally the opposite of that.

Certain writers (*cough* NYT Opinion *cough*) overread the durability of illiberal nationalism and scoffed at pro-democracy appeals, but they only listened to each other, never allowing alternate opinions into their elite bubble. That left them unable to grasp everything from Hungary to Minneapolis.

together

you're laughing? orban is eating shit immediately after our loser vice president went there to try to help him in the biggest display of contagious loserdom in history, and you're laughing? yeah, me too

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Woke Bill Kristol is hilarious

All honor to the Hungarian people for showing the way.

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Good day to bust this one out.

Was it only four days ago The Telegraph comment pages were gazing into their tea leaves ?

The message I've been playing around with in my head is The Scam Economy. Everything is a scam and everyone is trying to scam you, most of all the scammer in chief, Donald J. Trump and his billionaire buddies

based based based based

THANK YOU MR. VICE PRESIDENT!!!

i do want you to imagine, you know, for shits and giggles, what the media coverage of a democratic vice-president absolutely eating shit on not just one, but *two* incredibly important geopolitical events in which he was ostensibly the most important american in the room, all in the same weekend

please send JD Vance to campaign for every republican senator up for reelection put him front and center, photo ops, tv spots, the whole nine yards

historic rejection of JD Vance

even the most tenacious autocrats have a difficult time denying a landslide result against them

I'm going to lose my mind. This chart very clearly shows life becoming MORE affordable for Americans over time: wages going up faster than prices. But because Wolfers dishonestly characterizes it as "barely keeping up" and "hard to get ahead" hundreds of people uncritically share it.

I’m sorry but this is the 2026 version of the classic Nigerian scam and I’m in awe that so many people are willing to defend or participate in it

the idea that vance is anti-war and was a skeptic seems really to come exclusively from vance and is not borne out by anything else in his record as vice president so far

A major problem we have is that too many powerful and influential people believe (at least subconsciously) that America is somehow magically insulated from decline and collapse. But whatever our Greatness it was achieved through policy choices and can be undone by other choices. It's happening now!

Trump must be removed from office. He has no capacity to do the job, and he’s destroying the US and the world with incoherent flailing. He thinks he can bully and blackmail the whole world and will start WW3 or nuke someone eventually. He absolutely cannot he allowed to continue.

As little as I already thought of the man I'm in awe of what he's accomplished in 15 short months. Historic run. Basically threw away all his fire extinguishers and told every firefighter in town to eat shit, and then set his house on fire. We need a separate Mount Rushmore for morons

IMHO, VanceWorld was leaking all the “Trump is a big dumb dumb who didn’t listen to our handsome boy, the serious peacemaker” stories and TrumpWorld decided it was time to feed JD a little humble pie.

well I’m going to need this image for probably the rest of my internet life, however long that may be