Counterfeit Stargazer

Come on lads - do you want to be seen or not?

Lisa D. Cook, Member, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

“President Trump purported to fire me “for cause” when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022.”

a picture of Jerome Powell in front of the text "if only you knew hot bad things readlly are"

Giraffes are four distinct species, major report confirms The revised classification will help ensure different giraffe populations are adequately protected, conservationists say

Giraffes are four distinct species, major report confirms | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

We are going to end up with something like the Waffle House Index to measure distress in the economy

What were they actually gonna do here? Ask every brown-enough person for their papers to go to the fucking baseball game?

This is the most slam-dunk, anti-American thing I can think of. You need a passport to go to a Major League Baseball game now? Malpractice not to make a huge deal out of this.

Senate Committee on Finance is still going and I… I just can’t imagine being in a suit at 11pm

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

Is anyone else calling him "Leo Quatorze" in a Frasier voice every time you see it written?

Carson Now readers, your time has come: Carl’s Jr opens next week in Carson City After Arnulfo’s closed in 2023, fast food fans rejoiced after a sign went up on the vacant restaurant in December 2023 stating Carl’s Jr would be “coming soon.” However, “soon” was relative, and updates were few and infrequent. Work officially began in September 2024, and at that time applicant Miranda Brake said the restaurant was finishing up permitting. According to job listings on Indeed, the restaurant is currently hiring for a number of positions including cashiers, a district manager, assistant manager, general manager, opener, cooks, and shift leads.

Carson Now readers, your time has come: Carl’s Jr opens next week in Carson City

After Arnulfo’s closed in 2023, fast food fans rejoiced after a sign went up on the vacant restaurant in December 2023 stating Carl’s Jr would be “coming soon.” However, “soon” was relative, and updates were few and…

Utah and Nevada are Mountain West!

Here’s my economic outlook for Q2 (April on the left, June on the right):

Unintentional Nevada

no pressure 🥴

Man leading meeting stands at a chart pointing to the nadir of a huge drop in the stock market

Recession indicator: having to learn about the bond market

I bought an iPhone 16. Would have waited longer, my 12 is still working fine, but figured now was the time.

Give nine public comments.

I wish I could experience reading the Atlantic piece for the first time again.

Leave Trans People Alone: A Rant “Trans sports” isn’t an actual problem in the real world. The problem is that life is hard. Don’t make it harder.

"Leave Trans People Alone: A Rant"

“'Trans sports' isn’t an actual problem in the real world. The problem is that life is hard. Don’t make it harder."

I've written a lot about transphobic jerks here, as recently as yesterday. @JVLast said it better.

www.thebulwark.com/p/leave-tran...

The Library of Congress has an image of US Senator for Nevada Pat McCarran allegedly working on his 1939 tax return. This photo was taken in Washington, DC and is dated Mar 11, 1940. bit.ly/2TGhc0H

November 2024: Trump will save the economy
March 2025: We have returned to subsistence agriculture

Really gross!

Anyone who’s worked with data for more than about five minutes will tell you it absolutely can lie, and does so all the time.

Even more than that, it can easily be misunderstood by people who don’t know what they’re looking at.

This actually happened to me once, I thought my job was taking money out of my checking account but it turns out it was just purchases I had made at the Legislature Gift Shop.

This is a genocidal war crime endorsed by the president of the United States

Trump Is Deleting the Data That Keeps This Country Running The gutting of government statistics is a recipe for chaos.

slate.com/business/202... Took a brief moment away from podcasting to write about the disappearing government websites and data. Our economy runs on trustworthy public data. If you take it away or put it in doubt, you’re playing with fire.

It's just like he campaigned on: Tariffs against our closest allies, in contravention of the trade agreement he renegotiated, with far lower tariffs on China.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

In the Journal of the Nevada Assembly for Jan 31, 1919, on page 48, it is noted that "Mrs Hurst in the chair." On that day, Jan 31, 1919, Mrs Sadie Hurst became the first woman to preside over the Nevada Assembly. bit.ly/1n35sL8