Leslie Ehrlich
@leslieehrlich.bsky.social
Trained economist. Ex-global financial institutions (consumer focused). Payments nerd. Native New Yorker. Parent. Knitter. Bridge player. Petter of dogs.
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Leslie Ehrlich
@leslieehrlich.bsky.social
· Oct 24
The GOP — a fraction of its Congresspeople, not even half — could make *ALL THIS* stop by impeaching and removing him
Simple majority in the House would require 3 — 3! — GOP votes w all Dems
2/3 in Senate would required 20 Senators out of 53 to vote with Dems, not even 40%.
They own all of it
Simple majority in the House would require 3 — 3! — GOP votes w all Dems
2/3 in Senate would required 20 Senators out of 53 to vote with Dems, not even 40%.
They own all of it
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The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
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This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
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If you are in the National Guard and fear you may be deployed to violate the rights of US citizens, there is help. Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
If you are in the National Guard and fear you may be deployed to violate the rights of US citizens, there is help. Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Dead Kennedys
B52s
David Byrne
Elvis Costello
David Johansen
Dead Kennedys
B52s
David Byrne
Elvis Costello
David Johansen
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
cast of Glee
The Kingston Trio
Bo Diddley
Ani DiFranco
Simon & Garfunkel
cast of Glee
The Kingston Trio
Bo Diddley
Ani DiFranco
Simon & Garfunkel
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Yo La Tengo
Taylor Swift
Wilson Pickett
Gang of Four
Spice Girls
Yo La Tengo
Taylor Swift
Wilson Pickett
Gang of Four
Spice Girls
November 28, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Dead Kennedys
B52s
David Byrne
Elvis Costello
David Johansen
Dead Kennedys
B52s
David Byrne
Elvis Costello
David Johansen
470, more than one a day
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
470, more than one a day
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No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
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The same road this picture was taken.
My neighborhood.
My neighborhood.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The same road this picture was taken.
My neighborhood.
My neighborhood.
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This is Bear. He is in charge of supervising Thanksgiving dinner preparation. Appointed himself to the role, but takes it very seriously. 14/10 (TT: emileebellant)
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is Bear. He is in charge of supervising Thanksgiving dinner preparation. Appointed himself to the role, but takes it very seriously. 14/10 (TT: emileebellant)
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A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.
Important, sobering writeup on the history of deportation policies and practices
Trump is a matter of degree, not kind
Notable to me is that many tactics he’s using were signed into law in 1996… for those who think it’s a “them” thing
Thanks @austinkocher.com
open.substack.com/pub/austinko...
Trump is a matter of degree, not kind
Notable to me is that many tactics he’s using were signed into law in 1996… for those who think it’s a “them” thing
Thanks @austinkocher.com
open.substack.com/pub/austinko...
Mapping Deportations: What 58 Million Removals Reveal about the History of the U.S. Immigration System
Over two centuries of deportation data and restrictive laws show that immigration enforcement is not a neutral process but a racial boundary-making system built across decades of policy decisions.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Important, sobering writeup on the history of deportation policies and practices
Trump is a matter of degree, not kind
Notable to me is that many tactics he’s using were signed into law in 1996… for those who think it’s a “them” thing
Thanks @austinkocher.com
open.substack.com/pub/austinko...
Trump is a matter of degree, not kind
Notable to me is that many tactics he’s using were signed into law in 1996… for those who think it’s a “them” thing
Thanks @austinkocher.com
open.substack.com/pub/austinko...
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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
Dark Winds is terrific
We're lucky enough to see a boom in indigenous pop culture. So you could watch:
Reservation Dogs (You've heard of this one)
Dark Winds (Native noir, so good)
Molly of Denali (You know, for kids!)
Rutherford Falls (New England indigenous rep!)
Spirit Rangers (Kids!)
/2
Reservation Dogs (You've heard of this one)
Dark Winds (Native noir, so good)
Molly of Denali (You know, for kids!)
Rutherford Falls (New England indigenous rep!)
Spirit Rangers (Kids!)
/2
Pow!
YouTube video by FNX TV
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Dark Winds is terrific
Encouraging risk into the banking system through reducing capital requirements and enabling lower lending standards.
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Encouraging risk into the banking system through reducing capital requirements and enabling lower lending standards.
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
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Sure looks like Karoline Leavitt had her nephew's mother deported right before Thanksgiving as a favor to her brother.
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Sure looks like Karoline Leavitt had her nephew's mother deported right before Thanksgiving as a favor to her brother.
Interesting take on the whole concept of “vibes” and economics
A call to look deeper than a chart or two
Seems quite right
open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...
A call to look deeper than a chart or two
Seems quite right
open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...
ways of vibing
treatments and responses in the real world
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Interesting take on the whole concept of “vibes” and economics
A call to look deeper than a chart or two
Seems quite right
open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...
A call to look deeper than a chart or two
Seems quite right
open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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What workload? All he does is schedule vacation time, hold press conferences to announce he has no knowledge of anything, and monitors his son's porn usage. Did anyone every figure out where his paycheck actually gets deposited since he doesn't have a bank account? That would be good to know.
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
What workload? All he does is schedule vacation time, hold press conferences to announce he has no knowledge of anything, and monitors his son's porn usage. Did anyone every figure out where his paycheck actually gets deposited since he doesn't have a bank account? That would be good to know.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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The boy's family's lawyer called the response "disturbing."
OpenAI Says Boy's Death Was His Own Fault for Using ChatGPT Wrong
OpenAI has argued that the 16-year-old, who took his own life, used ChatGPT incorrectly and that his tragic death was his own fault.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The boy's family's lawyer called the response "disturbing."
I am ashamed… seems as if even some of the agents arresting these spouses applying for green cards are, too
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I am ashamed… seems as if even some of the agents arresting these spouses applying for green cards are, too
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Much in this document is totally divorced from reality
Skandalakis sets out his reasons for seeking dismissal of the case here:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
request-for-dead-docketnolle-prosequi
www.documentcloud.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Much in this document is totally divorced from reality
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Coco Gauff, with the help of the USTA, matched her $3 million earnings for winning the 2023 U.S. Open to renovate tennis courts at Joe W. Brown Park in New Orleans.
Coco dropped in for a surprise visit. This one kid was serious about making his moment count. Look at the concentration!
Coco dropped in for a surprise visit. This one kid was serious about making his moment count. Look at the concentration!
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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This this this so much this
Good analytics has been making many fields better for decades.
Advanced computing will continue to do that!
That’s different from AI slop, “friends”, and other deleterious applications
Surely we can differentiate and regulate appropriately, though so far, not so much
Good analytics has been making many fields better for decades.
Advanced computing will continue to do that!
That’s different from AI slop, “friends”, and other deleterious applications
Surely we can differentiate and regulate appropriately, though so far, not so much
the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This this this so much this
Good analytics has been making many fields better for decades.
Advanced computing will continue to do that!
That’s different from AI slop, “friends”, and other deleterious applications
Surely we can differentiate and regulate appropriately, though so far, not so much
Good analytics has been making many fields better for decades.
Advanced computing will continue to do that!
That’s different from AI slop, “friends”, and other deleterious applications
Surely we can differentiate and regulate appropriately, though so far, not so much