Jon Cryer

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The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

We can’t treat our supporters like shit. No amount of money is worth the hit to the relationship.

If you work in/adjacent to Democratic politics, or even if you are an occasional Democratic donor, this new @adambonica.bsky.social piece is the most important thing you can read today.

The Democratic Party cannot build power if it allows scam pacs to thrive

open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Mothership Strategies apparently being paid to fucking lose for Dems. Because it seems to be a real problem.

Crockett: Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of shit—we know that. But in a functioning democracy, he still wouldn’t be able to get away with this. He’s been able to get away with it because Republicans are complicit and—most importantly—the Supreme Court is complicit.

Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.

a fun game to play with BLS numbers is to go “that’s stupid, why do they do it that way” and then go find the paper explaining why they do it that way to see if you still think it’s stupid, and if you do, you win

I am like 0 for 19 lifetime at this game

While I’m grateful for he and his family stepping up in this way, I must reiterate that democracy SHOULD NOT BE A BATTLE OF THE BILLIONAIRES!

Excellent piece, including this quote from the head of Greece's statistical agency about why fights over data are also fights about whether a country can see itself clearly:

How Trump's campaign of hatred against migrant "invaders" is fueling potential violence "There's nothing normal about any of this."

Reminder: Six years ago today, a gunman motivated by hatred of immigrants carried out a horrific massacre in Texas. The demagoguery and ideology he cited had been pushed heavily by Donald Trump. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One way of looking at this is that it is a story of a government losing its ability to rely on merit and rationality, surrendering instead to cult-like loyalty and conspiracy theories.

YouTube video by The Bulwark Kevin Hassett BUSTED Covering Trump’s Jobs Fraud

Trump and his servant, Kevin Hassett, are lying about the Bureau of Labor Statistics to justify Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner, whose only offense was telling the truth about the economy.

How do I know they're lying? Because I have video of a witness exposing the lie. The witness is Trump.

"Just before the election this woman came out with phenomenal numbers on Biden's economy and right after the election, they announced those numbers were wrong."

This is a lie! The pre-election job numbers were bad! BLS revisions were bad for Biden/Harris!
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-shoo...

Has a single reporter asked Trump what specific drug he's cut prices for by "1,500 percent?"

"Which drugs specifically have had their prices cut by thousands of percent, Mr. President?"

Another great day of activism in #NY17 at the weekly Nanuet protest in Rockland County.

Bigger crowd than usual (not counting #NoKings Day) with endless horns honking in support, as today’s rally was specifically promoted as an ICE-focused event.

Thanks to @indivisrockland.bsky.social!

We’re defying basic number theory at this point—riding roughshod over the intrinsic properties of integers.

Something really sick is happening on Twitter and there’s no indication that the ownership or any of the elite or institutional users care

Two thoughts:

1. This makes sense as a source of revision that wouldn't be caught in conventional adjustments

2. A lot of the govt layoffs are still to be counted as 150,000 feds on Deferred Resignation count as 'employed' until 9/30

Unemployed Americans Endure Longer Job Searches in a Cooling Market The number of people unemployed for at least 27 weeks has topped 1.8 million: ‘I’m considering myself semiretired at this point.’

“More than 1.8 million people have been unemployed for at least 27 weeks, the highest level since 2017, excluding the pandemic.

ha Job switchers’ wage growth is no longer higher than those staying put.”

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Trump just got punched in the face by everything from “Charlamagne Tha God” to reality Trump got pummeled!

Trump just got punched in the face by everything from “Charlamagne Tha God” to reality. My new article on the latest "punches" in Trump's face that really stung him! deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-just...

I guess she’d aged out. But still seems to fit a certain pattern.

The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways.

I’m not a doomer, but seeing all of this stuff laid out in one place, combined with seeing continued reports of businesses and universities and law firms capitulating to threats, combined with SCOTUS seemingly rubber stamping everything, makes me really, really apprehensive.

Popular 1980s actor Loni Anderson of the hit TV series ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ has died Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday.

Popular 1980s actor Loni Anderson of the hit TV series 'WKRP in Cincinnati' has died www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/l...

White House economist calls for 'fresh set of eyes at the BLS' after weak jobs report | Fox Business Video National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett discusses the latest jobs report, the firing of the labor statistics chief and the consumer impact of tariffs on 'Fox News Sunday.'

Hassett went on TV and claimed you can’t trust the economic data anymore because all the recent revisions are partisan.
A bald-faced lie.
Every serious economist still in this administration should resign. They are actively underminding the US economy by lending their credibility to this horse****

Yes, keep pressuring Dems & get behind those like the Great Khan of the Northern Steppes who will fight. But the lion's share of public pressure needs to be laser-focused on Mike Johnson, John Thune, & 5 GOP Reps & 10 Senators & pressuring them <every day> to do their damn jobs & end the fascism.

👇🎯 This cannot be said often or loud enough. Again, there are two, & only two, solutions to our authoritarian problem, & <both> involve a subset of Republicans deciding they value democracy over power. <Everyone's> allocation of effort is wildly misallocated right now:

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Mr Low Rent Kennedy and his wife, the Marvelous Mrs. Measles.

What I do wonder about with MAGA is how many of them fully understand the word "hoax," when uttered by one of their leaders, means "this story is the truest thing that ever happened."

Certainly, having a freakout denial when you aren't accused reads like a confession.