Amy Fried

Note, #mepolitics

Services price inflation is looking a lot like 2022 again.

www.ismworld.org/supply-manag...

It's striking how much pushback Trump got from a financial-oriented cable channel, both on economic and non-economic matters.

You don't need an historian to just get a date right. You folks do a lot more than that! (A political scientist)

I don't know why anyone would trust this transcript. I remember when Nixon released redacted transcripts of the WH tapes with all the criming left out.

Yeah, he means this. Just as when he’d tout the record number of people employed during his first term in office, Trump is incapable of understanding that population growth isn’t a measure of popularity.

Trump also lied and said no one ever won TX bigger than he did in 2024.

"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...

In this century, yes, but there were larger margins before that.

Also more recently, Romney had a bigger margin in TX than Trump (but it was less than Bush in 2004).

You clearly didn't pay attention to the 2024 election or just like to make things up.

Well, yeah, there is that! I just wanted to use a more recent example.

I just wonder how many folks will just take him at his word. So maddening.

More delusion fromTrump on his 2024 win:

Mitt Romney won TX (57-41%) bigger than Trump (56-42%). That's a 16 point margin for Romney and a 14 point margin for Trump.

Narrator: These deals do not exist.

I've never paid $40 for a salad -- either one out or one I made myself. What are people putting in them for it to cost this much?

Susan Collins helped this happen.
#mepolitics

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Susan Collins voted yet again (tinyurl.com/rescissionsr...) against barring rescissions from the White House. (tinyurl.com/rescissionsv...)

No bigger phony in the Senate. She continues to give away her power as Appropriations Chair.

#mesen #mepolitics

I now have Fidium fiber and they’ve been good all around. Don’t know if that’s an option.

I dumped Verizon because they had awful customer service.

Guy thinks he knows how to improve data gathering, cleaning and analysis because he uses data. Wha?

Figure from Ernie Tedeschi titled nonfarm payroll employment percent revisions

Important to remember that because of the incredible work of government statisticians, initial BLS employment estimates have become MORE accurate.

Its revisions are now smaller than those from years past

excellent figure from @ernietedeschi.bsky.social

Ughh.

One, I am not sure the highest priority here is the victims, justice for the victims or combatting child exploitation, or at least I do not feel this way. If there was justice for the victims we would see some kind of accountability for the years they allowed this horrible human being, if you can call him that, to prey on underage and young girls while jet-setting around the world with high-profile individuals and/or entrapping his victims in his various mansions and/or his notorious private island. And to make matters more severe continued to traffic, rape and assault victims while on prison work-release and/or even after being a registered sex offender for about a decade. Rather, I feel like the DOJ’s and FBI’s priority is protecting the “third-party”, the wealthy men by focusing on scrubbing their names off the files of which the victims, “know who they are”. To learn that our own president has utilized thousands of agents to protect his identity and these high-profile individuals is monumentally mind-blowing. That is their focus? Wow!

One of Epstein's victims calls out Bondi's DOJ for protecting the powerful men in the files.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Criminals have higher standards than Trump and his DoJ.

OMG. So Mamet's blaming Terry Gross for not having him on but she had him on FOUR TIMES?! I bet the vast majority of guests aren't on that much.

Mamet says Terry Gross snubbed him when she worked at All Things Considered but, from what I can tell from her online bio, she never worked there. I guess she didn't have him on Fresh Air. (A pathetic complaint either way.)

Probably not.

And you know there’s zero chance of that, right?

Fascists take notes from each other.

Opposing the existence of the state of Israel and not just the Israeli govt is a rather extreme position. Btw, do you also oppose the existence of the U.S., which is based on colonization and imperialism?