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I forgot to post their services sector comments when they were released last week and...hooooo boy. www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

changing name of paper to Dr Dipshits Livejournal Blog

been thinking a lot about the media reaction to Biden's first debate performance compared to its response to fascism

“right now, we live in a culture and in a documentary universe, and in some ways in a journalistic universe, where the subject gets to dictate who they are to everybody.” — ezra edelman on his scrapped prince documentary

Michigan church worship leader, youth pastor & CPAC performer, Zachary Radcliff, who was arrested on 33 child sex crime charges, now faces 60 child sex crime charges & has been denied bond. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

"One analysis of costs found that eggs would have to cost $10 per dozen for the next three years before any backyard coop, with eight hens laying eggs total, would pay for itself."

More and more people are saying that this is fundamentally about elite failure and moral/socioeconomic corruption

Barber: what do you want Elon: Simple Jack in a divorced k-hole Barber: say no more fam

this is why, during the first administration, it was a scandal that they had hired Darren Beattie, a white supremacist: they could imagine that he was hired by accident, and that this was a scandal of incompetence. but when they hired him again, for the second administration, silence.

The only thing in life Trump actually cares about is the stock market

Trump says he wants opioid deaths to be falling before he'll pull tariffs against Mexico and Canada. But they have already been falling. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/u...

however many pussy hats you think we're gonna need, double it

The Los Angeles Times has removed its new AI-powered “insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan

If you're wondering about the vibe in Canada right now, I just got served this ad for a brewhouse that is just a portrait of the White House being burned down. No text, just a bigass picture of the White House burning and a link directly to their menu lolol

welp, I did it:

Gillibrand ran Franken out of the Senate for about 10% of what Cuomo did. What a fraud she is.

Some Tesla owners are getting desperate

uh. thank you Bill Kristol, honestly you're a better friend to me than several swing state dems and, while confused, I am deeply appreciative.

People bout to get real upset when they realize you can’t feed yourself on hating pronouns.

there is no tradition of dead generations which weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living more than the idea that communism died with the USSR and this generation's only duty is to avenge it, then expire

Tariff wars and robber barons, white supremacy and Comstockery, sewage in the water and measles on the march. Truly, he has Made America Gilded Again.

I see the phrase "competitive authoritarianism" thrown around a lot on here and while that may be descriptive of the moment we're in I cannot stress enough that you should never say that phrase to a normal voter and instead just say Trump's trying to be king.

a 16 year-old DOGE staffer known only as TesticulusMaxxximus1488 just moved the stone tortoise that was restraining the 36 Heavenly Spirits and the 72 Earthly Fiends, buckle up everybody

New CAMPAIGN TRAILS post on Ghost about the horrific history of tariffs we're apparently intent on repeating. As the president said, "Have fun!" campaign-trails.ghost.io/tarri/

typical book project timeline

The median political writer:

A DJ and karate instructor are running American foreign policy toward Ukraine?

👇👇 #TeslaTakedown

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:

I remember where I was sitting when I first saw this clip almost a decade and a half ago; I was fact-checking something for @davidcorn.bsky.social and it required me to watch I think this exact video: youtu.be/wN7KHWdyrbI?... Everything in that brief clip, including the audience reaction, is the…

Jamie Dimon going on TV and screaming “YOU’RE SCARING THE HOES” but they can no longer hear him

Taking a super nice train in Italy for $45 and thinking of how cool it is that our taxpayer money back home will buy Ethereum to bail out David Sacks.

I lose roughly 1-5 followers every time I post photos of babygirl worf and what that tells me is you lack honor

goddamn is "We are stooges for a bamboozler" a great headline and sentence

This is who's in charge of our foreign policy now

So @propublica.org has a blockbuster story about Jodi Ernst, who cast a critical vote on Hegseth and has great sway over defense matters, being in an 'inappropriate relationship' w/ a top general The story has responses from both -- and they aren't exactly denials www.propublica.org/article/joni...