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How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 228 comments

I worried about our ability to change jobs as we pivot to manufacturing, but then I remembered most of my high school class went from being infectious disease experts to economists in only a few weeks.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Well, when you put it that way, we need to accommodate some big guys — not just a bunch of women.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

April 2025 is the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby. #GatsbyAt100

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The good news is that the collapse in Help Wanted ad postings under Donald Trump is not unprecedented. The bad news is that it was slightly worse under COVID.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Read the whole article. This is so fucked up. Especially this line: “Trump-administration attorneys told the court to dismiss the request on multiple grounds, including that Trump’s ‘primacy in foreign affairs’ outweighs the interests of Abrego Garcia and his family.”

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Tired: Cloud-seeding Wired: Crowd-seeding

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

What a difference 10 years (and gallons of cowardice) can make! Heritage puts the "peas" in "appeasement."

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

This is all going just splendidly. >> When President Trump convened CEOs of some of the country’s top automakers for a call earlier this month, he issued a warning: They better not raise car prices because of tariffs. www.wsj.com/business/aut...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I think most of this team could be fooled with floor pie.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

+1 for "tapped".

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

2017: So livid is then-Rep Todd Rokita that he co-sponsors Matt Gaetz's HRes477, a blistering demand for a special counsel for Hillary Clinton's "mishandling of classified data and use of an unauthorized email server." Like much of Todd, his position on secure data has softened since then.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This Hegseth thing is the biggest scandal since Todd Rokita accidentally texted @adamwren.bsky.social his Arby's order.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments