I’m the guy who invents new bathroom faucet designs for every hotel. You might know me from Knob That Goes The Other Way and Joystick That’s Hard To Turn Off. Lately I’ve been lacking inspiration, even thinking about hanging it up. I’ve had a good run, but — wait, never mind: Ball You Turn Diagonal

A reminder that if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.

Line chart showing the relative value of the US dollar by various presidents' first 100 days in office. Nixon's line is poor, dropping as much as 10%. But Trump's line stands out as a steady drop. He is underperforming even his own first term.

Dollar-exit leveraging

is the new

Dollar cost averaging

#EconSky

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🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨

TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.

MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.

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Tesla fundamentals are collapsing and market share continues eroding. The stock price is decoupled from the fundamentals. Tesla was mostly insulated from tariffs relative to other automakers.

China Tariff Rollback Unlikely to Boost Imports, Port of L.A. Chief Says The executive director of the Port of Los Angeles says he doesn’t expect a flood of goods despite the deal reached by the U.S. and China.

The executive director of the Port of #LosAngeles says he doesn’t expect a flood of goods despite the deal reached by the U.S. and #China. #econsky #tariffs

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Are you an economist who thinks climate change is a serious risk we should understand and be prepared for?

Sign the petition to reinstate the National Climate Assessment (whose cancellation was also quite illegal)

And spread the word.

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I've long had doubts about efficient market theory, but the past six weeks have thoroughly debunked it.

It's messed up that I have to read history to find out what comes next.

“They’re trying to kidnap someone” On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.

@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka.

They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

This has been a core premise since before the election. The touted tariffs impacting corporate profits would negate any savings from tax rate decreases.

chart of low uber profits

Uber is the company that Tesla is trying to be for some reason. Uber has the robotaxis in Austin already that Tesla wants to do in a year or two
#econsky #finsky

Auto Loan Delinquency Rate hits its highest level in 14 years #EconSky

Books, in the raw. No covers, no spines, tied with twine.

After Bezos' cowardly reversal on clear tariff pricing, all books sold by Amazon will arrive without spines.

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

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We need the best educated workforce in the world.

We need the best teachers in the world.

We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.

No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.

It seems pretty likely to me that there is another U.S. debt downgrade coming. The administration’s trade war is undermining the global safe-haven status of the U.S. Also, the White House has attacked the rule of law. That's third-world tinpot dictator type of stuff. Not good for bonds. #EconSky

Programs for Children and Families Eliminated ACF Affordable Housing and Supportive Services Demo ACF Head Start ACF Preschool Development Grant ACF Primary Prevention Youth Homelessness ACL ACL University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Developmental Disabilities Projects of National Significance ACL Lifespan Respite Care ACL Long-term Care Ombudsman ACL Preventive Health Services ACL Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities (Investigate group home abuse) ACL State Councils on Developmental Disabilities CDC Adolescent and School Health CDC Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) CDC Asthma CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning CDC Firearm Injury & Mortality Prevention Research CDC Newborn Screening and Molecular Biology CDC Oral Health CDC Reproductive Health CDC Smoking and Health CDC Youth Violence Prevention CMS Medicaid and CHIP Budget of $129.6 million? Is this a joke? GDM Children's Interagency Coordination Council GDM Discretionary Sexual Risk Avoidance Programs GDM Still Birth Taskforce GDM Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program HRSA EMS for Children HRSA Family Planning HRSA Healthy Start HRSA Universal Newborn Hearing Screening IHS Preventive Health OASH Office of Population Affairs SAMSHA Childhood Mental Health SAMSHA Children and Family Programs SAMSHA Consumer and Family Network Grants SAMSHA Health Transitions Infant and Early SAMSHA Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health SAMSHA SAMSHA Interagency Task Force on Trauma Informed Care Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) SAMSHA STOP Act Pregnant and Postpartum Women SAMSHA Youth Prevention and Recovery Initiative

Here is a list of critical federal health programs for families that they want to cut.

Without these programs families will have fewer resources to care for loved ones, young and old. Those on the edge will fall into poverty.

Call your reps.

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway. This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!

Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.

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If the trade war with China doesn’t end soon, Amazon is in serious trouble #EconSky

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

Posting this for later, pay it no mind

An image of all agency and program eliminations proposed for HHS. Reach out to altCDC for an accessible version or filterable PDF. The alt-text box does not fit all the text contained.

🏥HHS ELIMINATIONS💀
We have created a list of all agency and program eliminations proposed in the HHS 2026 Budget.

Feds: Please let us know if you have any clarity to share.

The cuts are massive. Reach out if you would like a PDF or xlsx

@alt-hhs.altgov.info
@altfda.altgov.info

Programs eliminated from the Agency for Children and Families: Affordable Housing and Supportive Services Demo Community Economic Development Community Services Block Grant Head Start LIHEAP Limb Loss Resource Center Medical-Legal Partnership Preschool Development Grant Primary Prevention Youth Homelessness Refugee Support Services Rural Community Development Transitional Medical Services

HHS Eliminations by Agency (Accessible Version)
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If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

OOF! Chinese purchases of American oil are down -90% Y/Y, while Chinese purchases of Canadian oil are up +700% Y/Y.
That’s a $20 billion annual loss for the United States at $60/barrel. #Crude #oil #EconSky

From the newscast community on Reddit: A 90 year old Holocaust survivor confronted Trump's ICE director. Explore this post and more from the newscast community

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