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Easiest cheap applause line in any MAGA rally. "We took a little city I call 'Dumocrat Detroit' and re-named it 'MERICA MERICA MERICA'! That's nice, I think." [wild applause]

Awful story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/m...

I liked how they ended the convo. It's hard to sell boring policy solutions that require short-term pain (vs someone offering to push a magic button and make everything good), but you can sell a mix of sober policy analysis with short-term benefits of undoing the other side's f--k ups, like tariffs.

Corruption/attacks on the rule of law hurt the economy because businesses worry about how to appease the leader rather than normal business concerns. Attacks on truth/data hurt the economy because businesses must spend time and money assuring themselves of things that official data once made clear

"There are economic problems that predate Trump. The problem is that he's made all of them worse." Yes, generally, it's hard for a POTUS to boost the economy, but easy for a POTUS to damage the economy. Also interesting discussion about how corruption / attacks on the rule of law damage the economy.

"[I]f one side offers rainbows and ponies, then the other side has to offer rainbows and ponies, even if the rainbows and ponies are not going to solve anything and may make things worse." Here, I agree. We should tax billionaires more because it's a good idea, but it won't magically fix the economy

Plus, it's a little Pollyanna-ish to suggest things are really good but social media, political polarization, and the general notion of "keeping up with the Joneses" is what's upsetting everyone about the economy. If Trump hadn't imposed tariffs and started the Iran War, the economy *would* be good.

Much of the optimism in this @nytimes.com podcast about the economy is built on stock market gains. I wonder what % of Americans are heavily invested in the stock market, such that a spike in it impacts their lives. For most, IMO, it's a scary time economically. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/o...

This is interesting because, while I've taken my eye off the ball recently, I noticed a number of stories claiming that the Trump Admin is on the verge of regaining total control of the Strait of Hormuz and winning the war. Maybe that's premature (or just flat-out wrong).

As with a lot of things that happen with Trump, this lawsuit strikes me as an attempt at democratic backsliding. That isn't surprising. But now midway into Trump 2.0, these maneuvers seem to have become more normalized, where it looks less like authoritarian impulses and maybe more just partisan.

I'm mildly surprised Trump doubled down in support of this ad, and encouraged Ramaswamy to keep airing it. Trump's no genius, but it doesn't take a genius to see this ad is hurting Ramaswamy's chances. Maybe Trump knows something we all don't. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...

He's obv. wrong when he says Trump's "been right about everything." As to the rest, who knows? Maybe the Iran War will be over soon, and maybe we will win, by regaining full control over the Strait of Hormuz and eradicating Iran's nuclear program. I'm v skeptical, as are, iirc, the credible experts.

36% job approval, driven by sky-high disapproval of his handling of the economy? Yikes. The midterms can't get here fast enough. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

I haven't thought the issues through, but I'm very uncomfortable with prosecutors leaning on / threatening television stations this way. Seems like it chills core first amendment political speech (and that seems like the point of it). www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

"But I’ve come to see how the institution can reshape the worldviews of those who enter it, often undermining the very ambitions that brought them there." Couldn't you say the same thing about law school and law students? And we're embedded everywhere in public life. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

"We’ll return you to 1970s rates, high gas prices, diesel shortages and bell-bottoms. Enjoy the nostalgia!" I hate how funny Iranian regime officials can be these days.

Sure, but the gap between perception and reality, when it comes to evaluating politicians, has always been wide. Who was more of a legit "tough guy," GWB or John Kerry? Kerry. Who "seemed" tougher? GWB. Perception > reality.

This is why newspaper articles should follow law review articles, and have footnotes!

This lady never had a chance to succeed. I have no idea how any competent Admin would throw someone in to run a press briefing, with the national press, for the first time ever, with less than 24 hours to prepare. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Good Lord, what a depressing article. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Well, what's she gonna do for work, *now*? It's not like she's a lawyer. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"She graduated with a law degree from Pepperdine University in 2011. By some interpretations, that technically makes her a lawyer." No, that does NOT make her a lawyer. Look, she might be great at whatever jobs she had, but it sounds like she isn't a lawyer, period www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u...

One thing the Trump era has combined me is that corruption isn't a winning issue with voters. Maybe it matters, *if* everything else is going badly (making corruption the "cherry on top of the sundae"), but even then, I doubt it matters much. Voters think politicians are corrupt anyway, so why care?

I mean, whatever. Trump — well, really, the Trump staffer who's been assigned the task of ghost writing Trump's tweets (do better, Mr. President) — is just trolling here. I don't take this as a genuine reflection of Trump's (genuinely narcissistic) feelings. He's just trying to get a reaction.

I remember the Dolphins-Bears game the year Chicago won the Super Bowl 🏈. It was the Bears only loss of the season. Dan Marino's Dolphins were a powerhouse, and the game was hyped up the hilt, as the best chance to keep the 73 Dolphins as the NFL's only unbeaten team www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/s...

The Free State of Florida®, 😆, Republican thru and thru. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

"The one thing Miami lacks is smart people." 😄 There's plenty of smart people here, but maybe not so many in the tech fields. As a local, I'm happy CMU is establishing a campus here. As an old person, I'm confused about how a Pittsburgh school sets up in Miami www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

"The GAO found violations of the anti-propaganda rule before, e.g. with Obama and GWB, but those cases concerned publicity campaigns related to policies, not ads focused on the presidents themselves." Big difference, tho those were bad, too. This is gross/infuriating www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

Isn't Trump's DOJ opening some nonsense inquiry to see if Nixon was given a raw deal? Man, so much of the GOP since the mid-70s has been in response to Watergate, e.g., "you got one of ours, so we'll [eventually] get one of yours!," and "we will normalize corruption so this never happens again!"

There's always currents and cross-currents in the #USeconomy, and there's always revisions to jobs data, but adding only 29,000 jobs in a month sounds very bad, like, recession-ish bad. What a horrendous #JobsReport. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

"They voted against me too often. I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often." I know he's likely saying this to menace or woo those Justices, and I'm sure other POTUS's had similar regrets, but saying this, out loud, is such an asshole move. share.newsbreak.com/jqmh1g92

Again, holy s--t. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/w...

Holy s--t. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

I'm against the death plenary because it's so unevenly applied, e.g., along racial lines. But I have to say, I have no sympathy for this convicted murderer, whose guilt for this gruesome, horrific crime has never been in question. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

I don't doubt it. share.newsbreak.com/jq04hn9q

"After a year and a half in the cross hairs of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s drive to remake public health policy, the agency is a skeleton of the powerhouse it was." Good grief, "Zombified CDC" is just a horrible sounding headline. How far we've fallen. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

I'm almost never personal on this app, but there's been so much disruption for me lately, between my moving office spaces and now, even worse, my high intensity gym -- the Coral Gables location of Legacy Fit -- closing in late November, I'm feeling bittersweet nostalgia. #RIP, Gables Legacy Fit.

Do law professors berate and belittle students anymore? I didn't like it at the time, but now I feel a certain nostalgia for it, so long as it's being done to people other than me, lol.

"Things will never be chill again." The tech bro / AI guys are all whackadoodles. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-s...

"'You used to think that you could count on the Republicans to be able to help out with the economy, and that they would be the ones to fix it,' one participant said." FFS, what? Something like 10 of the last 11 recessions happened when a Republican was POTUS.

Oh, right! *This* guy. FFS, the people in this Admin. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Michael Velchik, Trump's lawyer here, sound familiar to me, but I can't put my finger on it. In any event, his argument that press access is a privilege, not a right, is nonsense, and the Judge, imo, properly rejected it. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This story, of the Trump Admin attacking boats, hasn't gotten much scrutiny, mostly because few people have sympathy for even suspected drug traffickers. But a lot of the people targeted and killed might have just been fishermen. US Media: More digging into this, please share.newsbreak.com/jnzthmhe

😄 😄 😄 ! He'll probably win anyway (this is Florida, after all), but this is funny and ominous for Republicans in places that aren't *so* red www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

There it is. I'd forgotten about the high level of political discourse over at the other place.

I wonder how much of this is ● the routine thermostatic theory of politics; ● evidence that the economy / inflation, not support for toxic masculinity, drove Trump's 2024 victory; Maybe it's a combo. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...

This seems increasingly obvious to me. Trump's tariffs are less about domestic economic protection / benefits, and more about weaponizing tariffs into a blunt force object for others purposes ("Give me what I want or I'll tariff you!" sort of thing) www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

"T-maxxing"? We live in the dumbest era. www.wsj.com/health/welln...