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Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com

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Pitch: Threes Company reboot in South Dakota

06.03.2026 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

learning what everyone who has ever done business with him learns

06.03.2026 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

HUGE payrolls miss, wow

Feb Payrolls -92k vs +55k est/+130k prev
2m net revision -69k
Unemplomyent 4.4% vs 4.3% est/4.3% prev
Avg hourly earn YoY +3.8% vs +3.7% est+/3.7% prev
Jan Retail sales MoM -0.2% vs -0.3% est/0.0% prev
Control group est MoM +0.3% vs+0.3% est/-0.1% prev

06.03.2026 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 238    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 48
a graph of year-on-year change in US tech employment

a graph of year-on-year change in US tech employment

Brutal numbers for US tech sector jobs released todayβ€”overall, employment decreased by 12k last month and is down 57k over the last year

That's now nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and significantly worse than either the 2008 or 2020 recessions

06.03.2026 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5

A military culture where the Secretary say he will ignore β€œstupid rules of engagement” leads to the US sinking what they likely knew was an unarmed ship, killing more than 80 sailors with 62 others still missing.

06.03.2026 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 150    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 10

Did not see this story but has been doing this for a while and was with Project Veritas during the Biden admin

06.03.2026 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome to the Clicktatorship

06.03.2026 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 202    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3

This is the regime Trump has been coddling in its efforts to take over another country.

06.03.2026 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 402    πŸ” 122    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 2

The unifying feature of Trump administration foreign and security "policy" is a failure to understand anything at all about strategy, like even at a conceptual level

06.03.2026 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

congrats man!

06.03.2026 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a yellow suit is carrying a black box ALT: a man in a yellow suit is carrying a black box

When Noem is finally fired and they gotta clean those planes

05.03.2026 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 333    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4

I assume if you are White House Chief of Staff you run up some chits with journalists. Is that what this is? Or that he is available?
bsky.app/profile/wsj....

06.03.2026 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 1
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Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

New NY Times ’visual investigation’ strongly suggests that the US fired the missile that hit the Minab school Saturday. (Though is very careful with its language to not say it conclusively.)

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

05.03.2026 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 301    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 12

Does he have to dress like a chef all the time everywhere he goes, like the Mandalorian of gastronomy

06.03.2026 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1185    πŸ” 130    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 7

It was funny to see, I don't even remember which US newspaper it was anymore, but an obit of Ali Khamenei said something to the effect of "he lived a paranoid life in which he believed the US and Israel were out to kill him, which eventually happened"

06.03.2026 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1981    πŸ” 347    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 3

bsky.app/profile/anja... double-tap strikes, regardless of the target, are usually understood to be Geneva Convention violations because they target the wounded and aid personnel who are specifically protected under international law. The target here makes this an especially staggering evil.

05.03.2026 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 223    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

β€œAlmost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.β€œ

A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

05.03.2026 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1834    πŸ” 957    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 66

Textbook corruption

05.03.2026 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 183    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

This guy just screams that he's really into doing war crimes on a daily basis

05.03.2026 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 521    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 2

This is the sort of thing you say when you hope to get a bad colleague hired by another company

05.03.2026 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 191    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Any organization that has signed up to serve as a backdrop to Trump at this point knows they are willing props in authoritarianism. Here, the President is musing about which country he plans to attack next.
bsky.app/profile/atru...

05.03.2026 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 154    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Luis Suarez (left of Trump) - now is the moment you choose to stop biting people?

05.03.2026 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 309    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

Fetterman isn’t Manchin in WV: this is Sinema in AZ.

05.03.2026 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 454    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 1

Fetterman is basically a reactionary now: there is no real effort to explain why Mullin - a buffoon who spent the week insisting we are not at war with Iran - is qualified. Trump nominated Mullin, and that’s good enough for him.

05.03.2026 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3111    πŸ” 551    πŸ’¬ 188    πŸ“Œ 28

Department of Noseland Security

05.03.2026 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 316    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 2
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What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

05.03.2026 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5379    πŸ” 1252    πŸ’¬ 434    πŸ“Œ 312

Folks: Kristi Noem was fired immediately after this post.

05.03.2026 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 465    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 2

Started watching "How to Get to Heaven From Belfast" and am 100% certain the words "Derry Girls meets Bad Sisters" were uttered in the pitch meeting

05.03.2026 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 199    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 1

US at one end, Canada at the other

05.03.2026 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 199    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 4

Vaguely recall that a paroled inmate committing a terrible crime was enough of a scandal to undercut the Dukakis campaign. This is objectively worse in term of Trump's responsibility, but will get a fraction of the attention.

05.03.2026 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 580    πŸ” 222    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 8