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Hey, quick question about this photo from Epstein's island: What the fuck

If you are counting on tariffs to help dramatically cut the deficit - then you're going to need much higher tariffs.

Uncle Sam brought in $31 billion in import duties in October - while the overall budget deficit was $284 billion.

The US is deregulating banks. Will the rest of the world follow? New rules will boost lending and profits and entrench American dominance. But critics say they could lead to another crash

This seems like an important story.

Michigan Avenue right now.

Update: Commerce has now also posted its shutdown plan. BEA would completely shut down, and Census would shut down apart from some operations related to the 2030 decennial census. So no retail sales, international trade, PCE, GDP...
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul... #EconSky #NumbersDay

If you are worried about misinformed U.S. federal guidance on vaccines and preventative health measures right now, here’s a list of well sourced and science backed alternative sources of information.
A thread that you can bookmark for future reference and pass on to others 🧵

So, kudos to both #Democrats & #Republicans in the House for their draft mark-up for next year's #budget, which maintains funding for #NIH (just like the Senate). This is rare, true #bipartisanship and should be praised. But #RussellVought will not be stopped by an appropriations bill. Why? 1/

Can we please all just start using the 1-2 punch?

1. Taco got a plane and gave you the shaft. Groceries aren’t any cheaper. Everything gets 2% more expensive every 3 months.
2. Why won’t Trump release the Epstein client list? What is he covering up?

Wash-Rinse-Repeat

Slotkin seeking bipartisan talks to restore health care cuts Democratic U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin toured a children's hospital in Grand Rapids Monday and said she hasn't given up on restoring funding for health care programs.

Now that the President’s big bill has passed, I am hearing the real, detailed stories of what’s going to happen to the institutions we care about and the services they provide. Everyone is going to pay more for their health care.

If a global company is paying its workers so little that they need federal benefits, that company should lose eligibility for tax incentives.

Can we please all just start using the 1-2 punch?

1. Taco got a plane and gave you the shaft. Groceries aren’t any cheaper. Everything gets 2% more expensive every 3 months.

2. Why won’t Trump release the Epstein client list? What is he covering up?

Wash-Rinse-Repeat

Oh my:

The letter bearing Trump’s name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy—like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. 1/4

Below, from Nick Timiraos, the consensus forecasts for the upcoming U.S. CPI inflation figures, set for release in just over two hours.
The consensus projections anticipate an increase across all measures—headline and core, on both a monthly and annual basis.
1 of 2.

Persistent risk premium

For dollar assets

Think about that for a second

I mean...

This indecision, uncertainty, and artificial scarcity means the prices will slowly go up, investment gains and economic development will slow, and high tech industry will suffer.

This was all avoidable. As AI begins replacing white collar jobs it will get worse.

We are in a #tacoteardownturtletanking economy now.

US Leaders are waffling on tariff policy and the support of allies around the world.

At the same time, we have damaged a ton of scientific research, global food security and medical support, workforce and education programs / resources.

The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field?

That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience

A 🧵 1/n

The Pentagon Had a Budget Surplus. Guess What Trump Decided to Do With It. This could have been good news, if Trump had followed a different path.

If the OBBB passes, the mantra will be “Taco got a Jet and gave you the shaft.” for every single bad thing reported that is related to that bill.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

YouTube video by Sen. Elissa Slotkin Slotkin delivers speech on her Economic War Plan

As a CIA officer and Pentagon official by training, I believe that the single, greatest security threat to the United States is the shrinking middle class here at home.

Today, I laid out my Economic War Plan.

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

Letter: To save Social Security, do away with the millionaire loophole Letter: To save Social Security, do away with the millionaire loophole

Letter: To save Social Security, do away with the millionaire loophole

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Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.

ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

They didn’t perform a cesarean.They harvested a fetus from her corpse.

Let’s call it what it is: an experiment. A inhumane experiment carried out on a Black woman, because historically, we know medical institutions use Black bodies as test subjects before offering those same treatments to

The good doctor digging in to the #DumpRFKjr story with some serious bullets here...

#StandUpForScience

When you hang around a lot of south will rise again types it’s hard to believe a country can move on.

US Court of International Trade has issued unanimous ruling in case against Trump “liberation day” tariffs
ruling also covers case filed by 12 states led by Oregon
All tariffs invalidated as beyond scope of executive power; implementation blocked by permanent injunction, per @ilyasomin.bsky.social

Little known fact that Grover Cleveland used to ride around the world in the Statue of Liberty and have sensitive national security discussions inside it, before taking possession of it himself after he left office.

WHO DID THIS?!?!