Mike Palmedo

Gotta say, as someone brought up Catholic who no longer does the religion thing - I am impressed w the Church at this moment in time.

Yeah, and even if they did, that's two consenting adults

NBER Launches Initiative on Economic Measurement

Just saw today that there is an NBER initiative to collect new sources of data to better understand recent changes to the overall economy

www.nber.org/news/nber-la...

Just in time for Xmas, too

Yeah, the Y axis seems wacky and the selection of breakfast foods seems random.

The press release says the breakfast index is three eggs, a glass of milk, a bagel, and an avocado

Hope to hell we are back to work by the end of the week and the Venezuela invasion never happens.

You can do thanksgiving dinner real cheap with this monstrosity

In my part of Fairfax County most of the Trump signs came down once Musk started firing people at random

Graphic from the washington post showing all counties in VA, even the really rural ones, shifting away from Republicans

I fucking hope so

Since my point of view today is the VA elections... School curriculum has been a big issue here in the past. Including the past governor's race. This year I've heard zero about it from candidates. This is a thing of the past.

(The plastic bag thing caused minor grumbles, again, in the past.)

Back then there were still people in Congress that had fought in WWII, and I like to think they wouldn't stand for the US's current slide into fascism.

I think people should call it a "briberoom" instead of a ballroom.

Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations started under Reagan, too

Duolingo during the shutdown

I am not exactly an "anti-nazi single issue voter" but I'm getting close. I support anyone who pushes back against the growing fascist takeover of the US. So I guess I am an "anti-fascist single issue voter".

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

On an abstract level I like the idea of counterfactuals where everything collapses. Like GDP growth, with versus without a nuclear apocalypse.

Yeah, I read the post and thought "damn, he said THAT!" So I watched the video... And he didn't say that at all.

How about this: every plan lets you have 100 numbers you can text for free. Other than that, 10 cents per text.

You could make it 200 or something, but have a system where personal use is okay but mass marketing stuff is not.

Three mass shootings in one day

Samsung brings ads to US fridges Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.

???

www.theverge.com/news/780757/...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Never actually done a quaalude, but I support downers and decent classic rock. Also, quaalude is hard to spell.

Have you ever seen bandtoband.com for looking this kind of thing up?

The Animals to Minor Threat is 5 hops!

This was in my feed next the real video of masked, armed secret police outside an elementary school in Mount Pleasant (DC), so it took me a pause to figure out if this was real or fake.

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

Gotta assume that the secret service has a group of people who go wherever he'll go before him and clear out anything that may be dangerous. Any "crime" he might find would have to be staged.

Hell, the WASHINGTON Post has nothing about the protest on their app. (Or if they do have a story, it's hard to find.) Instead, they have a prominently placed story about people going to bars and having mixed views about the groups of secret police roaming the U St. nightlife district.