Edward Carney

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Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
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YouTube video by DireStraitsVEVO Dire Straits - So Far Away (Official Music Video)

I was listening to a playlist of songs from the year I was born and it suddenly sparked memories of this being my absolute favorite song for a time. Hey guys, is it good that I was an actual child and I was obsessed with the idea of morosely pining for what I could not have?
youtu.be/YIHMPc6ZCuI?...

"There's nothing in the Constitution that says a dog can't compile economic statistics."

We’re about to do this for the economy

Not to distract from the message, but I am proud to announce that my brain now reads Mark Hamill's posts in Mark Hamill's voice.

Pretty cool that I've already seen several posts to this effect, from several academics.

It's a daily experience of watching a magic show in which a guy simply wads up a card with "accountability" written on it, shoves it in his pants, gestures like he made it disappear, and a room full of full-grown adults erupts into applause while you look around, wondering if you're being pranked.

Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.

I've got to cling to things like this as I struggle to stay focused on the endgame of building a better society in the wake of chaos and carnage.

What's fucked up is that I think Trump really believes his "everybody does it" defense, for everything. The man so doggedly refuses to inhabit reality that he's long since convinced himself that's completely normal, trivial even.

Every once in a while, I remember a short video I watched once, so I open Instagram in an effort to search for it, but then Meta gives me an AI-generated answer to some sort of question it thinks I'm asking through the Instagram search field, and it makes me want to throw my phone into the Sun.

Yeah, but it also illustrates that unshakeable American confidence that hard work and infinite growth will always keep filling that hole in the long run, forever.

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

"Because the other topics in this section had not been updated since 2008, the decision was made to restore the Impeachment case back to its 2008 appearance," the statement said. The label on Trump's impeachments was "intended to be a short-term measure to address current events at the time, however, the label remained in place until July 2025," the Smithsonian said.

This doesn't make any sense. Did things happen related to those other topics which would warrant them being updated? Because if not, this is like saying, "We're removing recent info from our Russia exhibit because there haven't been any comparable additions to our exhibit on the Ottoman Empire.

Is the Government Still Collecting Inflation Data? Well … Whether it’s AI or Social Media, for me at least, the routine...

"It’s another version of what we see at the National Weather Service and basically every other part of the government you assume is doing stuff in the background but don’t pay a lot of attention to until you need it, or a ten foot wall of water obliterates your house."

Shut the fuck up.

this is spot on

the tax hikes these people go apocalyptic about are, in relative terms, almost always tiny - the MA millionaires’ tax, for example, is 4% on income above $1M

but paying taxes hurts their feelings far more than their wallet

remember that we have an entirely predictable time bomb waiting in the jobs report when federal severance runs out this fall

I'm increasingly fascinated by the type of internet dweller whose mission in life seems to be to find pictures of the most attractive people in the world and say, "Pfft, they're a seven at best."

Seems to me that in times of fascist takeover and ecological collapse, it is more important, not less, to be kind and polite and try to promote living in a society that less closely resembles Hell.

My employers are based in Europe and I asked them in February to start paying me in Euros, because I figured that would provide me enormous protection, essentially at no additional cost to them. After five months, they said "we don't wanna," with no further explanation.

Indeed, the reason why I couldn't get a foot in the door after graduating NYU is not because I was competing against minorities but because I was competing against fellow NYU grads who worked summer jobs at UBS during high school and got $100,000 "congratulations" checks from their grandparents.

Peter Navarro says Trump might get Nobel economics prize "He's basically taught the world trade economics," Trump's senior trade adviser told Fox Business Thursday morning.

Oh for FUCK'S SAKE
www.newsweek.com/peter-navarr...

Every Republican who ever complains about Democratic corruption in the future should be shown this post and asked to explain it.

oh well that's certainly a compelling argument on multiple levels

This motherfucker gets millions added to his salary every year for not knowing why people enjoy entertainment, and meanwhile I can't convince a multinational organization I've worked with for ten years to give me an extra 50 bucks a month so I can continue to heat my apartment come winter.

No one ever lost an argument by appealing to their bartender.

It's all third spaces, baby. Used to go bowling, used to cover Skynyrd in the garage, used to have a car club. Now we've got Theo Von on in the F-350 on the way home from your 11-hour workday.