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I've heard execs/Wall St analysts take comfort in fact that consumer spending has held up even as consumer views of the economy are tanking. After all, revealed preferences matter! But I wonder how much of that disconnect could be explained by cases like this (from a reader):

submitted 17 hours ago • 287 comments

Canadian Election Day is tomorrow. If you want Mark Carney to be Prine Minister, DONT BE OVERCONFIDENT. The polls have tightened. Disinformation is everywhere. Other party leaders tell you he’ll win easily, so you can vote for their party without worry. TURNOUT WINS ELECTIONS! Bring a friend.

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

Curtis Yarvin wants to replace democracy with dictatorship, starting with a purge of federal employees. Here's JD Vance naming Yarvin and quoting his ideas in 2021: "We should seize the administrative state for our own purposes. We should fire all of the people." www.youtube.com/live/PMq1ZEc...

submitted 16 hours ago • 16 comments

"Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways"

submitted 8 hours ago • 58 comments

Good. Nice to see.

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

You know I have always tried to share the most accurate information I can, whether the news is (usually) bad or (occasionally) good. There are accounts that continually post exaggerated models proclaiming a big surge. They have been wrong over and over and over. Follow the folks who get it right.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

The deportation of Heidy Sánchez has been "sudden and traumatic for their infant daughter, still breastfeeding and with ongoing health issues... 'The baby does not want to eat. They ripped the child from her mother’s arms at the immigration office.'" www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

When we call for politicians to "do something," this is what we mean. Not speeches or op-eds or campaign rallies, but using every tool available to disrupt the advance of fascism.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

some dumb motherfuckers , even libs , act like the relative lack of conservative professors is a problem . but american conservatism is an anti intellectual movement! might as well ask why there’s a lack of vegan chefs in brazilian steakhouses

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

This is some straight-up Gilead shit. It wasn't one big thing, it was a million little things.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Or the fact that Pam Bondi has decided she can throw all of you in prison for not giving up your sources.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Chris Hayes, welcome to The War on Cars.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

ICE can enter anyone’s home, and abduct and deport them to a foreign prison indefinitely because the DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments. If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.

submitted 2 days ago • 993 comments

THIS SHOULD NOT BE AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A day before the arrest of Judge Dugan in Wisconsin, former immigration judge Joel Cano and his wife were also arrested in New Mexico after providing a Venezuelan migrant a place to stay while he awaited his immigration hearings.

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

what is point of the Democrats? Quite seriously?

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

More like this, please.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A single transmission event from a wild bird to dairy cattle in Dec 2023, led to cattle-to-poultry, cattle-to-peridomestic bird, and cattle-to-other mammal transmission. Movement of asymptomatic dairy cattle facilitated spread of #H5N1 from Texas across the US.🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

American Jews overwhelmingly (56%-31%) disapprove of Trump’s approach to countering antisemitism. They don’t want Democratic and academic institutions and freedoms that for so long have protected Jews, being attacked under the pretext of defending them. www.jta.org/2025/04/24/p...

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

where was this guy in 2000 when Naomi Wolf had him wearing earth tones and the bogus conventional wisdom of the establishment punditry was that he & bush were essentially six of one and half a dozen of the other… this guy wouldn’t have let SCOTUS rob him of Florida and we’d be in a whole other world

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it

submitted 4 days ago • 1421 comments

Pledging to defend the Constitution right before the country you were about to become a citizen of unconstitutionally detains you

submitted 4 days ago • 52 comments

Everyone please read and act! 👇

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

“There are only two genders!” “You can only study one of them!”

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

150 Colleges and Universities signed this letter defending the value and freedom of higher ed. Glad to see Carleton among them. Is your school? www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

We underestimate one another on climate change! Such a brilliant important explainer from @dpcarrington.bsky.social on how we underestimate one another's willingness to address climate change and as a result we end up doing less. Correcting this = more action! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Really nice visualisation of a lagged health outcome over decades (in contrast to the delays over days/weeks we typically see for acute infectious diseases like COVID)

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.

submitted 6 days ago • 127 comments

During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide. Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.

submitted 6 days ago • 56 comments

Opposition to Trump's authoritarianism is very much standing up. But we are SOOOOOO FARRRRR from being able to focus on corruption in the way that needs to happen.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

If you have a lost NSF or NIH grant. Colleagues inside government agencies are tracking terminated grants in hopes of assisting organizing efforts and perhaps litigation. The link takes you to the NSF tracker; the NIH tracker is linked from there. Pass this on. 🧪🥼 airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

submitted 8 days ago • 923 comments

Anyone debating or analyzing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's life or record is doing a grave disservice. He could be El Chapo. He could be Charles Manson. He could be the Dalai Lama. It doesn't matter. What has happened to him and others is clearly a violation of America's core laws and principles.

submitted 8 days ago • 293 comments

I AM a lawyer And if I were trying the contempt case This might well be Prosecution Exhibit 1

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

if this isn’t a lesson to never bend to these jokers www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

In the hour of darkness and peril and fear, let’s all channel a little Paul Revere. @hcrichardson.bsky.social #paulrevere #boston250

submitted 9 days ago • 349 comments

Data Viz company by @mikehoney.bsky.social www.mangasolutions.com We all can say it has been a milestone for tracking variants in the pandemic Please share.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now

submitted 10 days ago • 160 comments

Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats

submitted 10 days ago • 68 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 10 days ago • 8503 comments

let’s look back at what has happened so far Cory Booker giving a 25 hour speech: everyone loved it, raised his profile Van Hollen flies to El Salvador and meets Abrego Garcia: everyone loved it, raised his profile Schumer publicly caved: everyone hated that just a general note to Dems

submitted 10 days ago • 204 comments

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submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

They couldn’t fit more than two talking points on his cue card. You never want to make the cue card too small for this exact reason

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

So it turns out Musk offered via DM to impregnate this influencer, and when she told others he unfollowed her and cut her X income stream. This is the guy eliminating core public services.

submitted 11 days ago • 49 comments

The mainstream press viewpoint is that no one mainstream is racist, and therefore, as ideas approach the mainstream, they become less racist

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments

Ah, great, so DOGE is harassing whistleblowers with drones now.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Old enough to remember when the GOP thought the biggest scandal in the world was the Obama admin's IRS reviewing the tax exempt status of some right leaning non-profits.

submitted 11 days ago • 44 comments

I’m sorry… what?

submitted 11 days ago • 285 comments