Dan Immergluck

This is such a damning video. You should watch it if you haven’t.

Can I pick “Least bad” maybe? (I actually have known one or two ok ones.)

The looming Trumpcession Orange man bad (for the economy).

AM Must Read in Public Notice: The Looming Trumpcession >>> "Trump’s policies are directly responsible for job losses, rising prices, wavering confidence, and a speedrun towards what looks like stagflation." h/t Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-jobs...

Noooooo…

YEONSOO GO: 20-YEAR-OLD KOREAN AMERICAN PASTOR'S DAUGHTER AND PURDUE UNIVERSITY STUDENT WITH LEGAL VISA- ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

TAE HEUNG "WILL" KIM: KOREAN AMERICAN PH.D. STUDENT & MEDICAL RESEARCHER AT TEXAS A&M, LAWFUL PERMANENT U.S. RESIDENT - ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

A growing number of the new victims of Trump’s cruel, illegal ICE terror are young Asian Americans with LEGAL STATUS who have grown up their entire lives in this country and are being swept up for minor infractions or technicalities.

this is an absolute twenty alarm fire and I just cannot bring myself to believe capital, in one way or another, isn’t going to reel him in on this.

we can’t have a real economy without the goddamn labor numbers. it just doesn’t work.

There is no downside for him for this shit. Some significant share of his base buy it and cant do math. Another portion believe he’s just “exaggerating” but that he is lowering drug prices. And the rest think the lying is fine.

And the media mostly normalized it a long time ago.

Mark Zandi @Markzandi · 8h The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump. Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue. Unemployment remains low, but that’s only because labor force growth has gone sideways. The foreign-born workforce is shrinking, and labor force participation is declining. Telling is the economy-wide hiring freeze, particularly for recent graduates, and the decline in hours worked. Mark Zandi @Markzandi · 8h It’s no mystery why the economy is struggling; blame increasing U.S. tariffs and highly restrictive immigration policy. The tariffs are cutting increasingly deeply into the profits of American companies and the purchasing power of American households. Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy.

Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi says:
- We are headed for a recession
-The BLS data is totally reliable- for now
-The revisions are due to delayed reporting of DOGE govt layoffs
-Higher tariffs are dragging down the economy
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White House economist calls for 'fresh set of eyes at the BLS' after weak jobs report | Fox Business Video National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett discusses the latest jobs report, the firing of the labor statistics chief and the consumer impact of tariffs on 'Fox News Sunday.'

Hassett went on TV and claimed you can’t trust the economic data anymore because all the recent revisions are partisan.
A bald-faced lie.
Every serious economist still in this administration should resign. They are actively underminding the US economy by lending their credibility to this horse****

this is a must-read. and it's not great that zero democratic politicians/candidates have been willing to speak up about this level of corruption over the last decade. no wonder consultants are so terrified zohran

Why I changed my mind on the genocide charge against Israel For the past 21 months of horrific violence and heartbreaking suffering in the Gaza Strip, I’ve been wrestling with the contentious…

A tipping point is happening.

From the Chair of Israel Studies at UCLA:

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Also recently worked for that bastion of moderation, Sen Mike Lee.

Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There “Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.

pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life

w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...

Too many folks sleep (not literally) on this beach. #12thStreet

If this guy ends up replacing Powell, it is game over for the credibility of the Fed. Just game over.

And the US economy can't operate under that condition.

LOL

The editors of Theory & Society, a storied journal that was thrown under the bus of evo-soc/anti-woke neopositivist sociology, are now looking for contributions that will confirm their paranoia about their (lower?) salaries being the product of some woke BlueSky cartel.

Sydney Gaza Protests. 50,000 expected, 100,000 turned up.

Nothing is the matter with Kansas

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

New, amazing footage of 90,000 people on Sydney Harbour Bridge, marching to end the genocide in Gaza.

A protest the city and New South Wales authorities did NOT want to happen.

(🎥 ABC News)

Unfit to Serve: Jeanine Pirro Made Excuses for Jan. 6th Senators weighing her nomination for U.S. attorney should revisit her remarks denigrating prosecutors and calling defendants “hostages.”

The Senate just confirmed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. If you want some examples of how ridiculous that is, see this piece I wrote with @normeisen.bsky.social:

www.thebulwark.com/p/unfit-to-s...

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Omg my kids would have loved
this when they were little…

Or still.

Chicago area leaders must speak up about value, necessity of immigrants Immigrants add value to the nation, and immigration, properly managed, is by and large a win-win situation.

That's true all over the US. It's time for business, faith, and community leaders to speak out against the Trump administration's extremist immigration agenda and the fundamental, morally corrosive hypocrisy that underlies it. My op-ed for the Chicago Sun-Times: chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

Republican Congressman and candidate for governor of Michigan John James is mad at Canada for the fires causing smog in Michigan.

He’s also very on the record being very pro-fossil fuel and anti-climate-change policy. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Republican Congressman and candidate for governor of Michigan John James is mad at Canada for the fires causing smog in Michigan.

He’s also very on the record being very pro-fossil fuel and anti-climate-change policy. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Trump: "I think we're gonna be very successful fairly soon. We'll have drug prices coming down by 500, 600, 800, even 1,200 percent."

Anyone who knew much about Trump’s real estate history, including his work with contractors and lenders, would expect these persistent attempts to shape data and numbers in ways to get him out of trouble. It was always there.

Another New Jim Crow practice that serves as a barrier to generational wealth in Black communities and contributes to the racial wealth gap, which we see reflected in so many indicators (including credit scores)