Sean Brodrick

#EconSky

A Twitter account called Ivanka News tweets an AI image of a young woman wearing Muslim garb. The woman is holding a sign that says "I came here illegally. Should I be deported?" Ivanka News writes: What is your response to this person ?? In the "About this account" tab, it appears the account is based in Nigeria

An account called MAGA scope writes: Who, in your view is the great enemy of the United States? Communism, Islam, Democratic Party, or Satan? The account is based in Nigeria.

An account called MAGA Nadine writes: You go to work and find this. What would you do? The attached pic is an AI image that shows a microwave. The microwave has a sign that says "For religious reasons, this microwave is now making halal food only." The account is based in Morocco.

An account called America First posts an AI image of Tulsi Gabbard. They wrote: How would you rate your trust in Tulsi Gabbard on a scale of 1-10?

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Anecdotal, but compelling:

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Justin Wolfers reports that it hasn't been a great year for jobs. #EconSky

Years-long drought takes its toll

Just finished episode 4 of Plur1bus. Carol is obviously the villain, but I’m wondering if the showrunners realize that, lol.

I’ve been chuckling for weeks at the fascists of finance crapping themselves over the election of Zohran Mamdani. Now, Trump says, “Some of Mamdani's ideas really are the same ideas that I have.”
So now, I can’t wait to see the Greedniks turn themselves inside out.

Happy week, everyone!

Here’s a long-term chart — showing today’s all-time low for Univ of Michigan current conditions, going back 70 years.

#UMich @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

We are watching a Charlie Kirk level character rework happen in realtime except now we're being forced to accept that one of the worst political writers to appear in print this century is actually a generational writing talent, the way these people are trying to manufacture reality via bully pulpit

Media bias

NYT isn’t worth reading because they are in the bag for Trump

I even get the Nate Silver argument that if the media had been tougher on Biden's age/mental acuity he would have gotten out of the race earlier and Dems would have been better off. But I just can't see an argument why the more senile candidate (Trump) should get less age/senility scrutiny.

so, so good. run it as a political ad.

True.

US 'peace proposal' includes Russianisms prompting questions about authorship of text - analysis Luke Harding in Kyiv Some of the phrases in the US’s “peace proposal” for Ukraine appear to have been originally written in Russian. In several places the language would work in Russian but seems distinctly odd in English.

NEW: It’s takes a moment for this to really sink in.

Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.

We got “liberated”, alright — from jobs that make stuff. 🤡

@justinwolfers.bsky.social #NFP

It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.

Spam

Pretty sure Garland could have moved the case if he wanted to, or opened one in DC

Big-cap tech will be a refuge until it isn’t – until it becomes a portfolio guillotine.

"How on Earth Are We Just Now Hearing About Trump’s ‘Hours’ With an Epstein Victim?"
Merrick Garland was a catastrophically bad appointment. prospect.org/2025/11/13/h...

A sign of stress in the system: Bitcoin is now trading at $82k – down from $120k only one month ago. That’s a 36% decline.

Last 5 times YoY jobs growth slowed to 0.8% or below...
-March 2020 (recession began in Mar 2020)
-December 2007 (recession began in Jan 2008)
-March 2001 (recession began in Apr 2001)
-October 1990 (recession began in Aug 1990)
-November 1981 (recession began in Aug 1981)

Charlie Bilello: The total # of jobs in the US increased by 0.8% over the past year, the slowest growth rate since March 2021. In the past 50 years, this type of weakness in the jobs market has preceded a Recession & a spike in the Unemployment Rate 100% of the time. #EconSky

Yesterday’s S&P 500 intraday reversal of 3.6% was its largest since April’s tariff turmoil #FinSky

Dems: We need to abide by the Constitution of the United States.

Trump: You should be killed for disagreeing with me.

Media: Both sides need to tone down the rhetoric.

Funny and alarming that the media immediately capitulated to this idea that fascism was ascendant and we were at the start of a thousand year reich and then we had one pretty good election and now they're like "wait okay maybe not"