Patrick Rizzo

You need to understand that he actually believes it is illegal to criticize him. Why? Because Trump believes he - not the people - decides the law.

This is why we are in the middle of, not on the verge of, a totalitarian takeover.

Paxlovid from Pfizer costs $15 to make and now retails for $1500.

Insane

When Dems do actually do a good job at "kitchen table" stuff (which admittedly they need more of and aren't great at taking credit for) these weird generalists like Douthat don't notice or understand it because they're just engagement hounds and genuinely not very fucking bright

Nobody asked you to renovate a bathroom you dumb bitch. P.S, Trump likes marble because it’s easy to snort Adderall & coke off of especially in humid climates like DC & Palm Beach. Can cut a line right on it.

Aren't there enough crises w/o him creating more? He's a chaos agent.

WAKE THE FUCK UP CONGRESS.

AND MAGA - HAVE FUN SENDING YOUR KIDS TO WAR IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY.

Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article) Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

Required reading
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

President Orange Julius Caesar and his ilk claim that guns are a God given right but don’t feel that food is a God given right. They claim to care about babies but don’t care if they go hungry when they become children.

Every former President, VP, Speaker, FBI Directors etc all need to get together in a single press conference and call for the end of the Trump regime.

More Powell: "At the same time, I think the risk of higher, more persistent inflation has declined significantly since April."

He also noted that housing inflation has cooled and non-housing services are elevated by "nonmarket" factors, which aren't really seen by consumers.

The Fed is all over the map on inflation as well. Kansas City Fed President Schmid dissented in favor of no cut because he is clearly worried inflation is still too high.

Yet Powell was somewhat dismissive about prices: "Inflation away from tariffs is actually not so far from our 2% goal." 6/x

5/x: This is the Gov. Waller view, that healthy GDP data could lead to more jobs.

Powell: “For some part of the committee, it’s time to maybe take a step back and see if whether there really are downside risks to the labor market, or see whether ... the stronger growth that we’re seeing is real.”

More Powell: "Forecasters generally, broadly have raised their economic growth forecasts for this year, actually, in some cases, quite materially.

"In the meantime, we see a labor market ... it's not clearly declining quickly and maybe just continuing to gradually cool."

Yet the new hesitancy about cutting in December seems more a response to a potential rebound in jobs rather than worries about inflation. Some on the committee think growth is improving, which could actually boost hiring.

Powell: "They're noticing stronger economic activity."

The Federal Reserve cut its key rate a second time this year out of concern that weaker hiring points to a slowing economy, which lower rates can potentially arrest.

Powell: "Labor demand has clearly softened. ... Available evidence suggests that both layoffs and hiring remain low." 2/x

Some takeaways from yesterday's Powell presser: The Fed is clearly being whipsawed by an economy all over the map. Are things getting better, or worse?

It's hard to tell for both inflation and hiring, particularly without government data. A 🧵

That's how you ask for covfefe in South Carrrreddddd.

“This isn’t the Fed putting its foot on the gas. It’s really the Fed taking its foot off the brake.”

Point is: The Fed's latest rate cut isn't stimulus, it's normalization. We may be most of the way back to normal.

The harder question is: What next?

Even harder: Answer that question without data

A rising danger in the Arctic As climate change melts permafrost, microbes will emerge. The world isn’t paying enough attention to the potential threat they pose Photo caption - Sunset on the Arctic horizon as captured in the Chukchi Sea during NASA’s 2011 study on Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment. Melt ponds like these that form on sea ice and permafrost are fast developing their own new microbiomes. NASA/Kathryn Hansen

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

🚨 Melt ponds in permafrost are fast developing their own new microbiomes, it is not clear how benign or malign they may become. The conditions that protected the Arctic from many health threats, both local & from the south, are melting away.
👉 thebulletin.org/2024/11/a-ri...

indictment – #1 in United States v. Rabbitt (N.D. Ill., 1:25-cr-00693) – CourtListener.com INDICTMENT as to Michael Rabbitt (1) count(s) 1, 2, Katherine Marie Abughazaleh (2) count(s) 1, 3, Andre Martin (3) count(s) 1, 4, Catherine Sharp (4) count(s) 1, 5, Brian Straw (5) count(s) 1, 6, Jos...

This indictment of @katmabu.bsky.social and five other protesters is the most ridiculous thing I’ve read (this week), and I imagine it will be laughed out of (lower) court. They’re being charged with the conspiracy of slowing down an ICE vehicle. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

E Jean isn’t skeerd—this little 80 yr old lady has more balls than ALL of Congress combined.

I should be surprised, but I'm just angry and ashamed.

A metaphor for the current state of the USA.

This is cool, 6 million year old ice from Antartica with inferred temperature ~12°C warmer than the late Pleistocene. No CO2 level yet! (That will be highly anticipated!)

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fuck these antagonist hiding behind masks and badges! Unbelievable! Resist!

Fully expecting more landslides today as first response goes out — please keep those brave souls (including family & friends) in prayer.

Many people do this, including with close family friends. Nonsense story from a Murdoch rag.

Literally anyone I am remotely related to I refer to my “aunt,”
“uncle,” or “cousin,” (and any older Indian person I actually call “auntie” and “uncle”) and I’m pretty sure that’s quite common among South Asians