Chip Bayers

If you are a company that still advertises to your audience on Twitter, if you are a public figure who still uses it to reach your audience, if you are someone who uses it to keep in touch with your audience for your brand or your work...maybe think about who that audience is. Maybe get off Twitter.

All surviving former IDF Chiefs of Staff, Mossad directors, Shin Bet Chiefs and Police Commissioners have issued a joint statement warning Israel that Netanyahu is leading the nation to unprecedented defeat. (Restart Israel)

Mark Zandi @Markzandi · 8h The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump. Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue. Unemployment remains low, but that’s only because labor force growth has gone sideways. The foreign-born workforce is shrinking, and labor force participation is declining. Telling is the economy-wide hiring freeze, particularly for recent graduates, and the decline in hours worked. Mark Zandi @Markzandi · 8h It’s no mystery why the economy is struggling; blame increasing U.S. tariffs and highly restrictive immigration policy. The tariffs are cutting increasingly deeply into the profits of American companies and the purchasing power of American households. Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy.

Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi says:
- We are headed for a recession
-The BLS data is totally reliable- for now
-The revisions are due to delayed reporting of DOGE govt layoffs
-Higher tariffs are dragging down the economy
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If you are wondering where your cheap cup of joe went.... #tariff

Trump's plan to boost U.S. automakers is squeezing them instead For now, the automotive winners of Trump's trade policies are Japan, the UK and the EU.

I think that effect could've been used by Trump, but the Trump admin is incompetent, so the tariffs aren't targeted to reward the few at the expense of the many. They're a mess, punishing people almost at random.

E.g., his ad hoc "deals" have put American car manufacturers at a disadvantage.

Everyone who thinks that voters are responding to their own lived experience needs to explain this graph.

ICE has arrested and incarcerated and is trying to deport a Cuban legal immigrant who is a political dissident who entered legally, is here legally, who has committed no crimes and is married to a US citizen WITHOUT DUE PROCESS storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The D.C. Bar's disciplinary arm has recommended that longtime Trump ally Jeffrey Clark lose his law license for assisting Trump's failed bid to overturn the 2020 election.

Connecticut Sun could move to Boston by 2027 after Steve Pagliuca-led group agrees to buy WNBA team - The Boston Globe Pagliuca will pay a record $325 million for the team, according to sources, plus another $100 million for a Boston practice facility. The league still must approve the sale.

Connecticut Sun annual team payroll: $1.2M

Connecticut Sun sale price: $325M

No team sports players are more grossly underpaid than in the WNBA

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Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.

“Both of them.”

At least for me, any candidate in the Dem primary who doesn’t pledge to immediately return the WH and the grounds to the way it was before Trump turned it into Mar-a-Lago on the Potomac is automatically disqualified. The massive ballroom, garish gold plated foil, all of it gone.

CNN: An auto parts maker in Detroit just had to layoff 100 workers and shut down a warehouse. The owner specifically blamed tariffs.

STEPHEN MIRAN: It's always convenient to blame political changes when your business fails

This action will directly raise the cost of electricity, & increase pollution. As I said on Open Circuit, US public lands belong to all of us. They’re ours. This Administration is not even just picking winners for what goes on public lands—they’re picking losers www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

It’s odd how much Trump’s strategy for getting to the bottom of the Epstein mystery looks like “letting all of Epstein’s accomplices off the hook and giving them special favors”

DOJ is engaged in massive coverup of Trumps child trafficking and child rape w Epstein.

Alternative headline:

Trump trafficked and raped little girls and his entire administration and DOJ are covering it up for him.

Trump’s name redacted from the Epstein files. Trump’s name? Yes, Donald Trump’s name. But do not construe this as stigma in any way.

Nice job, @jasonleopold.bsky.social

the entire republican party is currently involved in a cover up involving the worlds most notorious underage sex trafficking ring

California's economy is already getting hit by immigration raids The number of people reporting to work in the private sector in California has decreased by 3.1% — a downturn only recently matched by the COVID-19 lockdown.

I have to wonder how much of the collapsing economy can be attributed to the deliberate terror campaign in the nation's largest state, which has led to 3.1% of California workers—a big number!—not showing up to the job since ICE raids started.
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Democrats offered an amendment to simply ensure that if taxpayers spend $1 billion retrofitting a Qatari jet, it doesn't transfer to Trump after his presidency for his personal use.

Republicans voted NO and blocked the amendment.

This is the most corrupt administration in history. Easily.

When headline writers try to amplify "urban doom" vibes for clicks, they create factless news that their reporters will then write about.

See this great recent example from the @nytimes.com, where an "urban doom" headline is directly contradicted in paragraph 11 of the article. 3/

I’ve found that people calling Social Security offices wait an average of nearly 1 hour and 45 minutes, with some people waiting over 3 hours for help.

The Social Security Administration isn’t sharing data about the extent of the problem. I’m asking for answers.

A regressive $340B tax on imports enacted illegally without an act of Congress. It's kind of funny how directly this parallels the complains that led to the American Revolution

KERNEN: “What do you say to Ford, who makes their cars in 🇺🇸 but import some parts and Trump’s tariffs just wiped out all their profits, their first quarter loss in years?”

SEC. BESSENT: “It’s idiosyncratic.” 🤷🏼‍♂️

UPDATE: @SenatorHagerty and the Republicans just voted to let Trump take the Qatari jet with him when he leaves office.

Insane corruption. There is no bottom.

One interesting thing about Trump randomly imposing tariffs on every country on earth for any reason or no reason is that it is illegal

It’s an administration full of proudly ignorant criminals, wrecking the future.