Ian

Trump’s project is inadvertently collapsing the United States

hello from upstate New York:

“In the long run, we are all dead.” - John Maynard Keynes.

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

“It’s not only unlawful, but it’s not in the US interest to have Russian technology controlling the commercialization of Arctic gas in the North Slope,” says ex-Polar LNG CEO who quit after discovering secret Russian funding. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

This is why Putin calls Trump on the daily. Needs to constantly prod his cattle

“.. Democratic investigations into the administration’s [equity] deals could lead Congress to turn Trump’s improvised portfolio into a permanent, formal ownership operation .. now that Trump has turned the federal government into a corporate owner.” @cato.org www.cato.org/blog/trump-e...

Democrats need to state that if this is done, they will have no choice but to turn Trump and his subordinates over to international tribunals for war crimes prosecutions, if Trump makes it impossible to prosecute them domestically. Make subordinates accepting pardons understand the consequences.

Until they proved they could be sufficiently anti-Black. Just like Irish immigrants. They've proven it and now they're white bc they proved they could be relied upon to be virulently racist for the white hegemony. Next question.

America now has second-generation school shooting survivors nypost.com/2026/10/17/u...

Is the President a closet bisexual?

I feel seen

Eesh. Religious leaders should be denouncing this shit as blasphemy

He should face a tribunal

The moment your doctors show you a lion, a bear, a snake and a giraffe, and ask you to point out the giraffe, is not a moment to brag about but a moment to be seriously concerned about your health and your suitability to do your job, especially if your job includes having the nuclear codes.

Love to see it

Writing in National Review, Andrew McCarthy makes out the case that Trump's duplicitous dealings with Putin satisfy the statutory requirements for a treason prosecution. And indeed, they do. Which is probably why most of Trump's dealings with Putin are kept under wraps.

UNITED CEO Scott Kirby: “.. Wealth inequality has become a danger to our society, .. We should have a national wealth tax ..” @nytimes.com $UAL www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/b...

Today I saw a man with no lips

Being Black in America like being on The Truman Show...

Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

We’re not going to vote our way out of this

i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.

‘A sharp reset in AI expectations could undermine corporate confidence, trigger a pullback in capex and weigh on GDP growth just as higher oil prices, tariffs and tighter immigration restrictions push inflation higher, raising the risk of a stagflationary environment.’ www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

RBADVISERS: “.. Consumers believe inflation is hurting them more than during the late-1970s. How long can this go on before it starts encouraging higher wage demands?” #UMich

Real wages are shrinking year-over-year for the sixth month in a row. The Iran War brought an end to three years of real wage growth.

They always convince themselves that the reason it didn’t work last time was because they didn’t hit hard enough

September 24👇👇

This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like - we still have elections, but under conditions that are not equal and not fair.

There are business laws in place to pursue negligence, which is what these AI companies are: negligent

Christianity is a tool of oppression

Don’t underestimate the regime’s interest in apocalyptic religious war

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

If public executions are coming back, please bring back duels as well. I've got some scores to settle

Just today: - The Trump admin announced the first public execution since 1936. - Trump tried to incite a race war against Somalis. - Trump said anyone using the phrase AI is "THE ENEMY" - The NYT reported on a potential ICE plan to deport migrants on military boats and ferries.

You really can’t make this shit up.

Such a cool resource! I'm going to stick with the API for now I think (because I've been poking at FRED for the better part of two decades now and don't need the intermediation) but if you're econ data-curious this makes it WAY easier to access. fredhelp.stlouisfed.org/fred/data/ai...

Burnham clears path to EU summit with post-Brexit breakthrough ft.trib.al/UvmTBdE

Lots of talk about defending "Western civilization" these days, so here's Richard Wright on what it means to be Western:

Trump II is simply an ongoing attack on American democracy, that America is refusing to fight.

Counterpoint: the rise and decline of union halls

He may have autism, but he also needs to project an image of autistic genius. And we know for certain that he’s no genius

‘Every month rates stay elevated, more CCC borrowers from the 2021–22 vintages hit the refinancing wall with less cash to service their debt, and with CCC yields around 15% the bill from the cheap-money era is landing on the weakest balance sheets first.’ www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

I've been thinking about this photo all day. Considering how the Trump administration is constantly ranting about Communists, and how Pete Hegseth is always nattering on about our WARFIGHTERS, it's genuinely crazy to me that this image exists. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-kowt...

MS: “.. real wage growth has still deteriorated across groups. .. low-income consumers benefit less from wealth and are more exposed to higher rates, so we do not expect broadening out .. .. The K-shape dynamic is evolving, but we believe it persists ..”

This math isn’t going to work for a lot of people

This is particularly stupid because going after wage theft and getting employers to pay up also tends to increase the amount of FICA payroll taxes that get collected, part of what goes to fund -- *checks notes* -- Medicare's trust fund.