Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈

You would need a lot more tariff increases to hit this number, make of that what you will

Monsters Inc Quarterly Report ahh headlines

banger

Now I gotta pay more for coffee because Donald Trump is at the end of a long game of digital telephone that started with Zoltan Pozar’s Breton Woods 3, great

In a way Trump believes in BRICS as a anti-US political alliance more than almost any of the member countries, the 50% Brazil/India tariffs are nonsense policy downstream of his belief that they’re unironically close to creating a currency that will supplant the US dollar

Hate to see another queer man living my dream.

Bessent still wants his quarterly European vacation I see.

The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!

Uhhh what the hell is going on here

I do! Ridership is down 0.7% from 2024 but running at 92% of pre-COVID levels

It's running at 86% of 2019 ridership but up less than 1% from 2024

LIRR was in the top 10 of US transit systems last year but not in 2019, and vice-versa for BART (BART's ridership recovery has been real bad)

NYCT + MTA Bus Company but not LIRR & Metro-North

lots of celebratory riding during the first month it was all electified (I believe they also made the train free for some weekends)

The ending of this clip is wild, where they talk about how nobody abroad wants American lobster anymore so it’s the one thing that’s dropped in price and the grocery store owner says “enjoy your lobster”

Trump tariff banana

yes, Syria is 41% (a 31% increase from the existing 10%)

A graph of the timeline for Trump’s 2nd term tariffs

Good morning. It is now 12:01 AM, which means tariffs have increased on $1.6T in US imports from more than 90 countries. Those increases go from as small as 5% for goods from the EU & Japan to as high as 31% on Syrian goods, driving the overall tariff rate up more than 2%.

Also posting about the tariffs taking effect at midnight is MY bit

“RECIPROCAL TARIFFS TAKE EFFECT AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT! BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, LARGELY FROM COUNTRIES THAT HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THE UNITED STATES FOR MANY YEARS, LAUGHING ALL THE WAY, WILL START FLOWING INTO THE USA. THE ONLY THING THAT CAN STOP AMERICA’S GREATNESS WOULD BE A RADICAL LEFT COURT THAT WANTS TO SEE OUR COUNTRY FAIL!”

Okay 10000 tariff grandpa time for bed

every day I am at risk of discovering a fork in my kitchen

SKY

Once again, I would usually end this by showing Sound Transit light rail ridership in Seattle, but they unfortunately *still* haven't updated their official federal data in several months. The unofficial data on their website says ridership is up 25% over the last year though!

a graph of ridership growth of Caltrain in the Bay Area, showing a massive increase in ridership post-electrification

Some good news is that ridership on the Bay Area's Caltrain continues to skyrocket in the wake of the route's electrification—passenger counts are up 79% compared to this time last June

A graph of year-on-year Ridership Growth in LA Metro, which shows ridership dropping in June

Some bad news is that anti-ICE protests, Federal occupation of DTLA, the temporary closure of several stations, and threats of immigration raids drove LA Metro use down significantly in June, with ridership down roughly 7% compared to last year

A graph of ridership recovery vs pre-pandemic ridership

WMATA has just now edged out the NYC MTA to achieve the strongest post-pandemic recovery of any major US transit agency! In the first half of this year, ridership was at 88% of 2019 levels.

LA Metro & NJTransit have also had strong recoveries, while SF BART & Chicago's CTA lag

a graph of ridership growth by transit agency

Official transit data is in for the first half of this year & DC's WMATA remains the fastest-growing agency in America! Ridership is up nearly 15% year-on-year

SEPTA, Seattle Metro, & the LIRR have also seen strong growth, with Boston's MBTA & NJTransit losing riders

sure whatever why stop at 100% at this point. Let's do 200%. 350%. 1,245%. 3 billion percent. Two kabillion percent. Seventeen Brazilian percent. One Google percent.

I hear they shot Kennedy too

It’s today, it’s the other non-Brazil tariffs that take effect tomorrow (your first source says the same thing)