Matt Mayeski

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Very exciting and close race. For these elections, I always try to get a local angle for impressions of candidates (especially in this case where party ID isn’t clear).

Their subreddit in particular has been very illuminating - mixed support, no strong opinions. Will be interesting!

Is this question in reference to The Rehearsal? LOL

Atlanta Fed 06-03-25 Labor Market spider chart

June 3: View our updated Labor Market spider chart with April data from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) program of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): https://atlfed.org/3FH4Hwz

Right now, NASA operates more like a jobs program that works towards space advancements. If you take a look at SLS procurement, all 50 states are involved - which sounds great! But it reduces operational efficiency leading to much longer timelines to launch.

Regardless, more NASA money is a win.

Agreed! I’m a big proponent of 1% of the federal budget for NASA (for reference, we’re currently around 0.4%)

One key change we need though to truly make it an effective 21st century space agency is adjusting its procurement requirements.

It’ll get there, not thanks to Elon but because of the wider SpaceX team. We all need to give him less airtime and focus on their exciting work.

Also appreciate your writing - one of the reasons I subscribed!

A lot of amazing and intelligent people work at SpaceX and are doing some incredible stuff. Confident they’ll figure this out - obviously would be nice if this was a reliable launch vehicle by flight 9, but SpaceX has the capital (from Starlink profitability alone!) to continue to iterate.

Totally agree with the glazing from SpaceX PR / Elon…the livecast was hard to watch. Ship clearly lost attitude control and the reps were like “this is GREAT 🥴🥴🥴”

Do want to callout that we’ve had plenty of rocket losses in the past - we think of Apollo 11, but plenty of hardships to get there.

Artist's impression of the exoplanet K2-18b. Credit: A. Smith, University of Cambridge.

𝗡𝗼, 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝟮-𝟭𝟴𝗯'𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲.

K2-18b is back in the news, now with a bold claim that biosignature molecules (DMS and/or DMDS) have been 'detected at 3σ'.

Most exoplanet astronomers are extremely sceptical about these claims, let's see why (1/n).

🔭🧪🪐 #exoplanet

Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article) Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

120 light years from Earth, there's a planet that may be covered in a living ocean. Here's my story on a tantalizing hint of life beyond the Solar System. Gift link: nyti.ms/3GbrEaZ 🧪

Meanwhile on the fiscal side, federal non-interest spending clearly outpacing last year while revenues only up a little.

Used car prices *had* been falling. And then Trump announced fat car tariffs. CarGurus data shows almost every brand (with notable exception of Tesla) seeing higher prices on used cars in last 30 days: www.cargurus.com/research/pri...

So good. 🤡

@brendanvduke.bsky.social

A large majority of the public, 83%, say the president must obey a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, while 17% say the president has the power to ignore such a ruling. The percentage saying he must obey a ruling has increased slightly from 79% in December to 83% in March.

Wow this is wild.

James: "The Trump team didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

Screenshot of Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick's tweet that reads: Today, along with a group of my colleagues (@RepMikeLawler, @RepDonBacon, @RepMikeTurner, @RepLaLota, @RepGarbarino, @RepBresnahan, & Rep. Chris Smith), I called on President Trump to reconsider his Executive Order regarding collective bargaining rights of unionized federal workers. We support efforts to improve government efficiency—but applying sweeping national security exemptions to agencies like SSA, FCC, GSA, and HHS risks doing more harm than good. These agencies are vital to public service. Undermining collective bargaining in these spaces weakens morale, accountability, and performance. That’s why, alongside this letter, I introduced the Protect America’s Workforce Act with @RepGolden. This bipartisan bill restores a responsible, targeted approach—preserving bargaining rights and reinforcing the role that the worker’s voice plays in strengthening government. We don’t have to choose between security and fairness. We can—and must—protect both.

Protecting the collective bargaining rights of workers isn't a partisan issue. We thank Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick and all the House Republicans who are urging President Trump to reconsider his executive order eliminating federal workers' collective bargaining rights.

Barbarians and mandarins "As soon as it stops accelerating, it stalls and explodes."

Curtis Yarvin, a close ally of Peter Thiel, recently declared that the system is “irreparable,” that “To capture an elite, you have to demolish its institutions,” & that “Every existing institution of science, outside the scientists & the labs themselves, must be fully cremated…” 1/

My recap of this morning's February JOLTS data.

TL;DR: Labor market turnover was decent, with hiring and quits remaining stable… but given what businesses are telling us about their hiring/firing plans, it's hard not to worry about future data.

Link: macromostly.substack.com/p/jolts-reca...

More than 100,000 are watching Cory Booker right now live on YouTube alone.

With today's consumer spending data, even the Atlanta Fed's "gold-adjusted" model (see thread below for details) has now slipped into negative territory. #EconSky #NumbersDay

Glad that the Atlanta Fed is now showing its "gold-adjusted" measure on its GDP Now chart. Still suggests it will be a very weak quarter (+0.2%), but the sharp contraction in the main model is the result of an anomaly and shouldn't be taken literally. #EconSky
www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...

One of the wildest stories I’ve ever read. Truly a massive problem that indicates deeply improper security procedure (have we forgotten about SCIFs?)

Share far and wide - at minimum, the administration has to re-evaluate their infosec. At maximum, congress needs to investigate ASAP.

Cracks beginning to show. Demonstrates concern not just among the members stated below, but also likely the strategic levers they utilize (think defense contractor lobbies, think tanks, and the intermediaries from the military itself)

Talk is the first domino. Watch their actions.

For reference:

Great thread from Ashton (Mississippi Free Press) on why the switch from X has been delayed. Many orgs are reliant on SM tool integrations to make the switch given their team’s needs. Looking forward to April!

@mcuban.bsky.social - relevant to your prior post about @sanders.senate.gov’s account

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High propensity business applications for Feb 2025 at 145.3K, up 6466 from prior month. These are business applications with a high-propensity of turning into businesses with payroll, based on the characteristics of the applications. #econsky

Hourly workers' wage growth decelerating while salaried workers' growth holding higher.

2021-2022 was quite a unique period in that hourly workers enjoyed faster wage growth than salaried workers.

No other time it's happened in last 3 decades.

Solar and wind beat coal in the US for the first time “Solar is winning.”

Solar and wind beat coal in the US for the first time

A Startup Linked to Peter Thiel Wants to Build the "Next Great City" in Greenland Funded to the tune of $525 million, Praxis aims to “revitalize Western Civilization” through a techno-libertarian city upon a hill

I encourage everyone to read more about this movement - it’s nimble, quiet, and has built an expansive network of political infrastructure with blank checks from bought-in wealthy proponents. The administration’s messaging on this initiative will be telling.

For additional reading:

“Freedom cities” are an attempt to begin implementation of this anti-democratic worldview at home, which supporters hope will compliment ongoing movements elsewhere (see Praxis, Próspera, etc.)

The goal has always been obtaining sufficient autonomy from the nations they’re located in.