Plain Lincoln

not what i was planning to include in my July jobs report recap (in progress) but here we are

Accusing Israel of genocide and recognising a non-existent state are the luxury beliefs of western foreign policy, elicited in response to misleading photographs on front pages and fake fatality statistics, and utterly divorced from strategic reality.

Ferguson has genuinely persuaded himself that the Gaza genocide is a necessary evil to preserve (his version of) Western civilisation.

archive.ph/5b4GZ

London stands up against far-right thugs in our streets. Notable which politicians come out in support of civil society and defense of liberal democracy. And which politicians fuel the flames of bigotry and racism. This will be the political dividing line of the next years. Time to pick a side.

The economy is so good that I'm firing the BLS Commissioner for reporting numbers so grim I refuse to believe them, and also demanding the Fed cut rates typically seen during a recession.

Y'all BBC and Times pundits are so racist they've constructed Islamo-Judeo-Bolshevist terrorist conspiracies about New York Jews.

That Melanie Phillips is a lunatic conspiracist bigot and racist is not remotely shocking. But the fact that the Times continues to employ her should be.

Mel P reaching the "Those Jews are unfit to be Jews, and a danger to the real Jews" stage of fascistic ethnonationalist purity discourse.

Firing experts is bad.
#EconSky

Essentially every core understanding a Labour leader needs to follow to succeed is contained within Tony Blair’s 2011 foreword to the Unfinished Revolution.

"get back to it"?
When did the UK EVER have anything resembling "meritocracy"?🤔

Bar Chart: Jobs Created Last 6 Months of Biden versus First 6 Months of Trump 2 Biden: 1.05 Million Trump II: 486K

BREAKING: Jobs report shows MAJOR SLOWDOWN in labor market since Trump announced tariffs in April.

We can now compare the first 6 months of Trump with the final 6 months of Biden, and it's no comparison.

Over a million jobs created under Biden, less than half that under Trump #NumbersDay #EconSky

The mainstream news media has bent the knee to Trump. Get used to Pravda on the Potomac and on Times Square, for that matter. #EconSky

The *market* response to this is almost the least important dimension.

If anyone has a spare ticket to Oval at any point over the next couple of days, I am a very willing bidder

Is this a parody?🤔

“Designed as Death Traps”: U.S. Veteran Reveals Rampant War Crimes at GHF Sites in Gaza As more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed seeking aid at militarized aid distribution sites run by the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a former GHF security contractor tel...

We watched. We knew. They knew but the media had to wait until someone came down odd the fence.
www.democracynow.org/2025/7/29/an...

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

The government employs thousands of data analysts, our statistical agencies collect millions of data points, conference rooms full of trade economists spend decades studying how to make sense of it all, and he's inside the residence scribbling numbers with a sharpie, isn't he.

The world‘s most terrifying Venn diagram.

BTW, I actually think there's a reasonable argument for the Fed cutting rates. But this is literally the opposite of that argument.

Trump administration cancels plans for new wind energy projects in federal waters The Trump administration is canceling plans to use large areas of federal waters for new offshore wind development. It's the latest step to suppress the industry in the United States.

More than 3.5 million acres had been designated wind energy areas, the offshore locations deemed most suitable for wind energy development. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is now rescinding all designated wind energy areas in federal waters.

Quick, someone Google "current NYC mayor" before hitting publish.

HSBC boss says Rachel Reeves putting up bank taxes would harm UK growth Georges Elhedery’s comments come amid speculation the chancellor could make such a move in autumn budget

HSBC CEO has joined a growing chorus of bankers cautioning Rachel Reeves against increasing taxes on banks.

But they are OK with bailouts, subsidies, soaring exec pay, low wages for workers, illicit financial flows, tax abuse, selling dud products.

They just object to corporate taxes.

Who built a system where someone can export a list of Taliban murder targets into excel on a computer with internet access.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Sound familiar?

How one of the gravest security lapses in history was kept secret Successive UK governments gagged the media over a leak that put thousands at risk of Taliban reprisals

Jesus wept, so many of the details in this are eye-popping:

Nobody is easier to fool than people who want to be fooled. Are choking to hear and repeat the worst kind of inflammatory drivel, in fact.

I've discovered how to pin this, just in case Trump drops by and needs some help taking on the most important job in the role (Fed chair)

The Loss of an Objective Reality trend: chaos dominance and wealth gap + AI/GLP-1

The Loss of an Objective Reality

it's wild that some people think productivity growth and full employment are mistakes