Former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under Obama👇👇

Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.

A Social Security official told Musk team that adding migrants to a database of dead people was illegal, not to mention cruel. Security guards then frog marched him out. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings.

Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Having seen you on news shows, heard you on podcasts, and now reading this wonderful article, I have decided you are my favorite journalist.

kudos to whichever photo editor chose this image

NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat The National Security Agency sent a bulletin in February warning of Russian hackers trying to access encrypted conversations on Signal.

🚨 CBS News has received an internal NSA bulletin from Feb 2025 warning staff NOT to use Signal app for sensitive info, citing vulnerabilities to Russian hackers. These docs were sent pre-Houthi chat scandal with Jeffrey Goldberg.

When they say they want to kick out immigrants to protect "good American jobs," this is what they meant

Trump moves to gut several agencies, targeting Voice of America, libraries The president signed an executive order that repeals several Biden-era labor and environmental policies, and another that severely cuts various independent agencies.

Good rule of thumb for determining who are the good guys and who are the bad guys is “which side is eliminating libraries” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

What...does any of this mean
www.reuters.com/markets/us/t...

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately. The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

A Reagan Appointee Just Showed How All Judges Should Respond to Trump’s Lawless Rampage "In this courtroom, and under my watch, the rule of law is a bright beacon which I intend to follow," the judge declared.

With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on Judge Coughenour showing how every court should respond to the Trump administration’s sadistic and lawless rampage (including full audio of his extraordinary statement from the bench): slate.com/news-and-pol...

Is this legislation to enact a National Abortion ban?
Call your Congress person and alert them .

If Joe Biden fired 100 FAA employees and a plane crash happened just a few hours later, Fox News would bring Lou Dobbs back from the dead with wall-to-wall coverage blaming it on Biden.

It’s a Scam! It’s a Purge! It’s a Scam *and* a Purge How to think about Trump’s plans for the federal workforce

There's far more idealism in the civil service than people realize. But not for long paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-a-scam...

US military deportation flight likely cost more than first class U.S. President Donald Trump's military deportation flight to Guatemala on Monday likely cost at least $4,675 per migrant, according to data provided by U.S. and Guatemalan officials.

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's military deportation flight to Guatemala on Monday likely cost at least $4,675 per migrant, according to data provided by U.S. and Guatemalan officials.

www.reuters.com/world/americ...

The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government.
Put that in a headline.

www.expressnews.com/news/article...

Donald J. Trump Is the Oldest President to Take the Oath, Again Before Joseph R. Biden Jr. was sworn in 2021, Donald J. Trump held the record for the country’s oldest commander in chief. He reclaimed the record on Monday.

Donald Trump is the oldest U.S. president to take office. He is 78 — five months and six days older than Joe Biden was on his inauguration in 2021. See how past presidents compare.

Trump Will Be Oldest President Ever Inaugurated President-elect Donald Trump is breaking President Biden’s record as the oldest president to be sworn in. Trump is 78 years and 220 days old, while Biden was 78 years and 61 days old when he took…

President-elect Donald Trump is breaking President Biden’s record as the oldest president to be sworn in

You were great on NewsHour tonight. Thank you for your work

They're going after Ann Selzer; will the Conference Board be next? www.conference-board.org/topics/tags....

Trump fixed the economy without even taking office

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Good one.

@markzandi.bsky.social love your podcasts but … in the vagaries of the English language (correct me if I’m wrong) there is no such word as “funnest” 😊

I've been warning about this for a while. Sooner than you think U.S. economists may have to go Argentine, cobbling together alternative estimates of inflation, employment and so on because the official data have been corrupted.

RFK Jr. attacks "red state people" in recently unearthed footage: "Red state people are more likely to murder you, to impregnate your teenage daughter, to commit a violent crime against you..."