M.R. Ducks

Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."

The plausible range of additional tiny cars in america as a result of the trump administration is (-♾️,0]

Tiny cars are awesome and Donald trump is lying when he says he has approved them.

Trump hasn’t lowered inflation. If anything, he’s raised it.

My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

Despite his Wharton education, Trump can’t do basic math — he continuously insists that prices can drop more than 100%, which is impossible.

My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday.

And there's the motive.

Our Ongoing National Suicide Is Very Distressing to Me!!!

Waste, fraud, and abuse, anyone?

A page from the Dorney School punishment book showing various students, their offences, and their punishments

Thinking of the student Mary Young who 106 years ago today 'said "shan't" under [her] breath when told to repeat poor work'.

With data from Los Angeles & Maryland, the authors find that being assigned to an easier grading teacher (who assigns higher grades on average):

- Decreases future test scores, likelihood of graduating high
school and taking the SAT

- Reduces post-secondary enrollment, employment and earnings

Of the 80,000 Somalis who live in the twin cities, only 4000 are non-citizens. And the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of those 4000 non-citizens are NOT undocumented—they are here legally.

There is no immigration issue to enforce here.

I know racists don't care about this, but these facts do matter

What If It’s Already Too Late? Institutional rot or ideological infection—either way, a real “Deep State” is already taking shape.

“Imagine what would happen if, next year, we had a 2008-style crisis and Bessent and Hassett were [at Treasury and the Fed]. In such a universe, could the rest of the world trust American economic leadership? Could the American-led economic order survive?”

www.thebulwark.com/p/what-if-it...

More command economy bs from the republican party

If you have Amazon prime had a good experience with their virtual NP thing, I think one medical. Basically free if you don’t go beyond the trial, but only 9 bucks a month after.

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Bessent Under Discussion to Also Lead National Economic Council Donald Trump’s aides and allies are discussing the possibility of making Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent the top White House economic adviser — in addition to his current job — should the president p...

is this a failure of imagination (so many people in Trump admin have like 6 jobs), or recognition that it's hard to find anyone remotely literate in economics who will work for Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump’s Plan For AI Dominance Threatened by His Own Attacks on Solar, Wind Power So far, the quickest and cheapest way to address the growing strains on the power grid is through renewable energy, data shows.

Trump wants to power the AI boom with coal, gas and nuclear energy. But wind and solar — technology he's attacked — could add power to the grid faster and more cheaply.

>spend a year berating our allies for not spending enough
>threaten their economies with tariffs and repeatedly claim we won’t honor our article 5 commitments
>they spend more on defense
>start berating them because they’re spending the money on their own defense industries

“Before you ask, is this all immigration?”

Huh, interesting. And good job preempting this thought right when I had it 😅

It's not hell. It's way worse than hell.

Episode 103: Fire Safety in Multifamily Housing with Alex Horowitz (Incentives Series pt. 6) Explore why multifamily homes are often safer from fires than single-family housing, as Alex Horowitz shares research on building age, fire risk, and single-stair safety in our Incentives Series.

Pew's main findings:
- Newer multifamily is safer than older multifamily
- Newer multifamily is safer than newer single-family
- Single-stair multifamily buildings are as safe as buildings with two stairwells

www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/12/03/1...

Four-byline alert: 🚨

(FT) - Bond investors have told the US Treasury they are concerned about Kevin Hassett’s potential appointment as Federal Reserve chair, worrying he will cut interest rates aggressively to please President Donald Trump.

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/ad4b...

Definitely agree on the street grid for this site (and elsewhere). That’s where I think more actual planning is needed, just not confident our current planning regime would do any good.

bsky.app/profile/tom-...

“Planning assistance caused municipalities
to build 20% fewer housing units per decade over the 50 years that followed.”

www.tom-cui.com/assets/pdfs/...

Yeah. I’d love denser/more urbanist development but the way to get there is by real reform of land use rules. More micromanaging via discretionary approvals will almost definitely lead to less and worse development overall.

Trump’s Aides Cancel Fed Chair Interviews as President Homes In On Pick The decision comes as Trump signaled publicly that longtime adviser Kevin Hassett is a leading contender to lead the central bank.

We’re so cooked

www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

Bessent is aggressively ignorant on economics and a pathological liar but his inability to complete a sentence is a very close third in the things that make listening to him so frustrating.

Hard disagree. The official BLS jobs numbers are still the most reliable data we have, and it's not close. And there's no way the Administration has (yet) fiddled with its data. I promise to let you know at the first whiff of interference.

Nyt: South Korea has a coffee shop problem

DJ Khaled suffering from success

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...