@jakemadtown.bsky.social
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Look at broader measures of unemployment—including people who want a job but aren't in the labor force or who are working part-time but want a full-time job—and the labor market is in the worst place since the pandemic
December 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Look at broader measures of unemployment—including people who want a job but aren't in the labor force or who are working part-time but want a full-time job—and the labor market is in the worst place since the pandemic
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Absolutely wild graph from @byheatherlong.bsky.social on the bad site
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Absolutely wild graph from @byheatherlong.bsky.social on the bad site
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The claim going around that Yahoo News reported that the Brown shooter yelled Allahu Akbar is not true. Yahoo News syndicated an article from an astroturf outlet called The Center Square that is funded by right wing donors like the Kochs and Donors Trust. /
December 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The claim going around that Yahoo News reported that the Brown shooter yelled Allahu Akbar is not true. Yahoo News syndicated an article from an astroturf outlet called The Center Square that is funded by right wing donors like the Kochs and Donors Trust. /
Hey @thomhartmann.bsky.social - if Joe Rogan thinks your AI tunes are high art, maybe you should stop doing them.
the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them
December 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Hey @thomhartmann.bsky.social - if Joe Rogan thinks your AI tunes are high art, maybe you should stop doing them.
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Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)
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the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them
December 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them
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Interesting on why journos don't unite to question Trump:
"Washington is where journalists become celebrities. When Trump dodges one reporter’s question, the next rarely picks up that question and presses it. They’d rather ask their own question. There’s no glory in repeating someone else’s."
"Washington is where journalists become celebrities. When Trump dodges one reporter’s question, the next rarely picks up that question and presses it. They’d rather ask their own question. There’s no glory in repeating someone else’s."
Why don’t journalists fight back against Trump’s insults?
Do they stay silent to protect corporate profits?
Will they ever reach the point where they tell Trump to f– off?
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
Do they stay silent to protect corporate profits?
Will they ever reach the point where they tell Trump to f– off?
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
Will a reporter ever tell Trump to f– off?
Here’s why journalists respond so passively to presidential abuse
www.stopthepresses.news
December 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Interesting on why journos don't unite to question Trump:
"Washington is where journalists become celebrities. When Trump dodges one reporter’s question, the next rarely picks up that question and presses it. They’d rather ask their own question. There’s no glory in repeating someone else’s."
"Washington is where journalists become celebrities. When Trump dodges one reporter’s question, the next rarely picks up that question and presses it. They’d rather ask their own question. There’s no glory in repeating someone else’s."
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Apart from the fact the leader of the right mocked Reiner, one small difference is that Reiner's day job was making movies that people loved, while Kirk's starting point was creating enemies list of professors to be fired or harassed. These are not the same things.
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Apart from the fact the leader of the right mocked Reiner, one small difference is that Reiner's day job was making movies that people loved, while Kirk's starting point was creating enemies list of professors to be fired or harassed. These are not the same things.
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“Trump Derangement Syndrome” has always been a way to smear people for having a logical, rational response to Trump having power. The real TDS is normalizing Trump’s power and the way he abuses it
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“Trump Derangement Syndrome” has always been a way to smear people for having a logical, rational response to Trump having power. The real TDS is normalizing Trump’s power and the way he abuses it
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I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.
December 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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Your personal propagandist gets killed: "Terrorism"
Tons of people killed in a mass shooting: "Shit Happens"
Got to love how Trump, MAGA, and the GOP just do not give a shit about human suffering and are so open about it.
Tons of people killed in a mass shooting: "Shit Happens"
Got to love how Trump, MAGA, and the GOP just do not give a shit about human suffering and are so open about it.
December 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Your personal propagandist gets killed: "Terrorism"
Tons of people killed in a mass shooting: "Shit Happens"
Got to love how Trump, MAGA, and the GOP just do not give a shit about human suffering and are so open about it.
Tons of people killed in a mass shooting: "Shit Happens"
Got to love how Trump, MAGA, and the GOP just do not give a shit about human suffering and are so open about it.
Fed Chair Powell says job growth may be 60,000 less per month because more businesses are closing and not being measured.
@mchinn.bsky.social plugged that in, and it shows near-zero job growth for 2025. Which explains why rate cuts continue. jakehasablog.blogspot.com/2025/12/powe...
#EconSky
@mchinn.bsky.social plugged that in, and it shows near-zero job growth for 2025. Which explains why rate cuts continue. jakehasablog.blogspot.com/2025/12/powe...
#EconSky
Powell says job growth may be even worse, which explains the rate cuts
One of the big mysteries with recent decisions by the Federal Reserve to continue to cut interest rates is that some parts of economic d...
jakehasablog.blogspot.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Fed Chair Powell says job growth may be 60,000 less per month because more businesses are closing and not being measured.
@mchinn.bsky.social plugged that in, and it shows near-zero job growth for 2025. Which explains why rate cuts continue. jakehasablog.blogspot.com/2025/12/powe...
#EconSky
@mchinn.bsky.social plugged that in, and it shows near-zero job growth for 2025. Which explains why rate cuts continue. jakehasablog.blogspot.com/2025/12/powe...
#EconSky
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I would hope, but have little faith, that people will learn the most crucial lesson from this: most people, regardless of background, just want to get along and live in peace.
With all the hysterics about Mamdani's election, it's clear that a lot of people don't want to absorb this basic truth.
With all the hysterics about Mamdani's election, it's clear that a lot of people don't want to absorb this basic truth.
🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA: “The man who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters has been identified as Ahmed al Ahmed. The father-of-two has been hailed a hero after pouncing on one of the gunmen and wrestling a rifle from his arms.” thenightly.com.au/australia/ns...
December 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I would hope, but have little faith, that people will learn the most crucial lesson from this: most people, regardless of background, just want to get along and live in peace.
With all the hysterics about Mamdani's election, it's clear that a lot of people don't want to absorb this basic truth.
With all the hysterics about Mamdani's election, it's clear that a lot of people don't want to absorb this basic truth.
Free markets and "profit first" capitalism caused the consolidation, (mo)Ron.
And I don't see your 70-year-old ass giving Medicare and going into the free market for you and your family.
Tell me you're rich and privileged without having to show your bank account.
@wisdems.org
And I don't see your 70-year-old ass giving Medicare and going into the free market for you and your family.
Tell me you're rich and privileged without having to show your bank account.
@wisdems.org
Ron Johnson: "Obamacare has caused this consolidation. The solution is consumerism. Free market competition."
December 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Free markets and "profit first" capitalism caused the consolidation, (mo)Ron.
And I don't see your 70-year-old ass giving Medicare and going into the free market for you and your family.
Tell me you're rich and privileged without having to show your bank account.
@wisdems.org
And I don't see your 70-year-old ass giving Medicare and going into the free market for you and your family.
Tell me you're rich and privileged without having to show your bank account.
@wisdems.org
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America has the most marketized health care system, with co-pays and HSAs already in place to patients to act like consumers. And we have the most expensive system with poor outcomes.
Ron Johnson: "Obamacare has caused this consolidation. The solution is consumerism. Free market competition."
December 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
America has the most marketized health care system, with co-pays and HSAs already in place to patients to act like consumers. And we have the most expensive system with poor outcomes.
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Just gonna keep suggesting this: We are letting bad people set our information agenda when we talk about them all the time.
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just gonna keep suggesting this: We are letting bad people set our information agenda when we talk about them all the time.
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Lol at every university trustee and law firm partner who concluded they had no choice but to play ball with this bumbling fool
Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.
December 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Lol at every university trustee and law firm partner who concluded they had no choice but to play ball with this bumbling fool
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New AP poll has Trump's approval on immigration down to an abysmal 38% as he rants psychotically about "shithole countries," smears Somalis, threatens large-scale denaturalization and remigration, and openly pines for more white immigrants and fewer nonwhite ones
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
New AP poll has Trump's approval on immigration down to an abysmal 38% as he rants psychotically about "shithole countries," smears Somalis, threatens large-scale denaturalization and remigration, and openly pines for more white immigrants and fewer nonwhite ones
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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Remember that Trump and his propagandists tried to gaslight you into believing there was no percentage in taking on this fight, that it was hopeless. And a certain cadre of pundits tried to persuade you that Dems didn't dare discuss this in public.
Still not over yet but a big step forward.
Still not over yet but a big step forward.
HUGE. Judge Xinis grants the writ of habeas corpus and orders that the government "SHALL release [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately."
December 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Remember that Trump and his propagandists tried to gaslight you into believing there was no percentage in taking on this fight, that it was hopeless. And a certain cadre of pundits tried to persuade you that Dems didn't dare discuss this in public.
Still not over yet but a big step forward.
Still not over yet but a big step forward.