Austin Clemens

Clip from Korsmo's wikipedia: At Yale, he was a member of the Federalist Society, an organization for conservative and libertarian lawyers and law students.[7] In January 2006, he and other Yale Law students signed an open letter to Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter supporting the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.

Sometimes it's best to suppress your 'where are they now?' thoughts

Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after five months in ICE custody Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolon...

Every small victory should be felt in a big way.

This woman's story should be shared nationally. It was a crime to detain her after being victimized for so long.

www.thebanner.com/western-mary...

Really jumping the gun on the outcome of this ceasefire too.

Just stop giving it out. Seems embarrassing for the cause of peace.

In America.

The young progs yelled at you online, and, well, I guess you showed them! You helped render their culture an ugly, violent, stupid, contemptible wreck that will likely take decades to return to any form worthy of pride.

You showed those fucking kids! That will teach them to talk back.

Chart showing estimates of US population growth at monthly frequencies from 2017-2025 from BLS, BEA/Census, CBO, and author's calculations

Estimated monthly contributions to monthly breakeven payroll growth across population, changes in institutionalization/civilian status, and labor force participation 2017 - 2025

Estimated monthly breakeven payrolls rate from 2022-2025

Absolute banger of a blog post from Dallas Fed economist Anton Cheremukhin who estimates breakeven payrolls have fallen to *30k* thanks to rapid declines in population growth.
www.dallasfed.org/research/eco...

Ezra Klein should be really into Kat's candidacy right? Going on News Nation, doing politics the right way.

If you ever run into Elon Musk, please spit on him for me.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

"Nuptial Rites". The illustration shows a wedding ceremony. There's a woman in the left side of the image. She wear a headpiece decorated with flowers and holds a large egg in her arms. There are stairs leading to an elevated stage with musicians playing lute on both sides of the stage. There's a skeleton in a festive clothes riding a white horse in the center of the image. There are festive robes behind them. The room is decorated with tiles and there are two roosters in front of the stage. There are some poppy flowers in the foreground. The artwork is colorful with much red, blue and beige.

"Angel's Whisper". The image shows a room decorated with tiles and murals with a pool in the foreground. There's a queen sitting in on the throne in the center of the image. There's an angel standing next to her closely. There are two white peacocks in the room and two swans swimming in the pool. The artwork is mostly grey-blue.

"The Dressing Room". The illustration shows a woman with long black hair sitting in front of the mirror. There are people behind her holding and brushing her hair. There are flowers around the woman and behind the wall in the middle ground. There's a statue of a man on the right and some flowers and herons near it. There are broken plates and vases in the foreground. There are eggs in some plates. In the background there are buildings that connect to each other. The artwork is mostly pastel with pinks, blues, turquoise and purples.

"Sojourn". This artwork is inspired by "Picnic at Hanging Rock". The artwork shows a ruin with young women sitting and standing around it. There are two teachers among them. They are skeletons. One is holding a chihuahua and another one is reading a book. The young women participate in different activities such as reading books, drawing, sharing secrets with each other, playing flute and admiring the surroundings. There are two dogs in the foreground and a bird that one of the characters is drawing. There are trees in the background and some rock formations. Two young women are walking towards the rocks. The artwork is mostly green and brown with some white and light blue accents.

It's time for a new pinned post with some of my recent work.
Hi! I'm Anya! I draw fantasy illustrations like these. I am open for work and also accept private commissions.

📩: anya.chalina.illustrations@gmail.com
prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/anya...
portfolio: anyachalina.myportfolio.com

A stacked bar graph showing the evolution of income for bottom 50% households over the course of the last economic expansion (2009-2019). It shows that these households saw their income growth by a bit less than 30%, compared to about 41% for top 10% households. The stacked bars show what components of income made up this growth. About half was from wages, with most of the rest from increased transfer payments.

This coming Monday, October 6th, I'm doing a 1 hour event talking about @equitablegrowth.bsky.social's inequality tracker and new gov data on inequality. Anyone can join, come check it out! (registration link in the next skeet)

The Tariff Exemption Behind the AI Boom Data Centers get Tariff-Free Imports. Why Shouldn't we All?

NEW from me:

In his 2nd term, Trump has pursued the largest trade war in modern US history—with 1 glaring omission. Computer imports are almost entirely exempt from tariffs

It's a special carveout that AI companies are now reliant on for their data center buildout🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Trump has already implemented vast swaths of Project 2025 but Time had to wait for Trump to wear his “I love Project 2025!” t-shirt to write about it.

I’ve been looking around for the most credulous mid-campaign piece about Trump’s obviously fatuous Project 2025 disavowal, and I think it might be this one from Politico. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Real embarrassing now that we know this doesn't even replicate

A graph of the share of wealth held by the 50th to 90th percentile of households in the wealth distribution from 2000 to 2024. It has declined from around 34% to around 30%

On MONDAY the 6th, 2pm EST, join me to talk about @equitablegrowth.bsky.social's inequality tracker. I'll be talking about the data and answering questions. It will be fun! Anyone at all is welcome to join. Link to register in the next post!

Republicans discovered that you can just say whatever the fuck you want and no one will call you on it.

Equitable Growth - U.S. Inequality Tracker

And make fun graphs, like the one above that shows income growth in the last economic expansion, at the inequality tracker, here

Register here

A stacked bar graph showing the evolution of income for bottom 50% households over the course of the last economic expansion (2009-2019). It shows that these households saw their income growth by a bit less than 30%, compared to about 41% for top 10% households. The stacked bars show what components of income made up this growth. About half was from wages, with most of the rest from increased transfer payments.

This coming Monday, October 6th, I'm doing a 1 hour event talking about @equitablegrowth.bsky.social's inequality tracker and new gov data on inequality. Anyone can join, come check it out! (registration link in the next skeet)

Equitable Growth - U.S. Inequality Tracker

And check out the inequality tracker and make your own graphs like the one in my first post here! inequalitytracker.equitablegrowth.org

Register right here!

A graph of the share of wealth held by the 50th to 90th percentile of households in the wealth distribution from 2000 to 2024. It has declined from around 34% to around 30%

On MONDAY the 6th, 2pm EST, join me to talk about @equitablegrowth.bsky.social's inequality tracker. I'll be talking about the data and answering questions. It will be fun! Anyone at all is welcome to join. Link to register in the next post!

I don't understand why Klein keeps circling that speech. Kirk talked like that all the time. Trump talks like that all the time. What R methods are Ds supposed to copy/not copy?

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

On Monday, October 6th, I'll be doing an event with @equitablegrowth.bsky.social to debut the U.S. Inequality Tracker, give an intro to the data that goes into it, and talk a bit about inequality in the U.S. Anyone can come, please join us!

Women be shoppin’ am I right?