Marlon Weems
@therealjourneyman.bsky.social
Just speculatin’ about a hypothesis. Storyteller. Cinephile. Publisher of The Journeyman, a newsletter about money and politics, culture, and growing up Black in the South. Subscribe: 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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TRUMP, MADURO DISCUSSED POSSIBLE MEETING IN US: NYT
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
TRUMP, MADURO DISCUSSED POSSIBLE MEETING IN US: NYT
A Thanksgiving Recipe
Don’t you dare call it “stuffing.”
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
A Thanksgiving dinner Public Service Announcement: DO NOT EXPERIMENT
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A Thanksgiving dinner Public Service Announcement: DO NOT EXPERIMENT
Thread. 🧵
Why POC collectively hold our breath when there’s a mass shooting or high profile crime before the suspect is even identified:
• Afghan man shoots a National Guard member:
With zero knowledge of the background or motive, the right screams that Muslims are terrorists and must be deported.
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• Afghan man shoots a National Guard member:
With zero knowledge of the background or motive, the right screams that Muslims are terrorists and must be deported.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Thread. 🧵
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Trump's redistricting push fuels N.C. GOP's bid to capture a U.S. House seat for the 2026 midterms.
N.C. can use Republican-drawn congressional map, judges rule
Trump's redistricting push fuels N.C. GOP's bid to capture a U.S. House seat for the 2026 midterms.
www.axios.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Trump's redistricting push fuels N.C. GOP's bid to capture a U.S. House seat for the 2026 midterms.
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I will be blacking out all corporate owned large retailers, however, I will shop at local small businesses on Saturday in solidarity with my community. NO Amazon, Target or Home Depot this holiday season for me.
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I will be blacking out all corporate owned large retailers, however, I will shop at local small businesses on Saturday in solidarity with my community. NO Amazon, Target or Home Depot this holiday season for me.
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Carney: We know that this decades-long process of our ever-closer economic relationship between Canada and the US has ended. And as a consequence of that, many of our strengths have become our vulnerabilities, particularly in those industries that are most tightly integrated with the US….
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Carney: We know that this decades-long process of our ever-closer economic relationship between Canada and the US has ended. And as a consequence of that, many of our strengths have become our vulnerabilities, particularly in those industries that are most tightly integrated with the US….
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Nothing like this has ever happened before; not even during black swan events like 9/11, the financial crisis, or the global pandemic. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/thejourn...
The Macro Event Nobody Is Talking About
Why the missing October jobs report hides one of the largest workforce contractions in modern history.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Nothing like this has ever happened before; not even during black swan events like 9/11, the financial crisis, or the global pandemic. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/thejourn...
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"The single biggest mass separation event in modern federal history will never appear anywhere: not in payroll data, not in sector detail, not in revisions—nowhere."
If you’re a new fan, I write about politics, economics, and the forces shaping the country at The Journeyman. Here’s my latest 2/2 open.substack.com/pub/thejourn...
The Macro Event Nobody Is Talking About
How the missing October jobs report hides one of the largest workforce contractions in modern history.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"The single biggest mass separation event in modern federal history will never appear anywhere: not in payroll data, not in sector detail, not in revisions—nowhere."
Boy, this is a gut punch. Fani *had* this asshole www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Boy, this is a gut punch. Fani *had* this asshole www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Well done and well deserved!
Didn’t expect this, but definitely appreciate it — got added to both the Top Trending Bluesky Profiles (last 24 hours) and Top 100 Users with the Fastest Follower Growth lists this week. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Well done and well deserved!
Didn’t expect this, but definitely appreciate it — got added to both the Top Trending Bluesky Profiles (last 24 hours) and Top 100 Users with the Fastest Follower Growth lists this week. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Didn’t expect this, but definitely appreciate it — got added to both the Top Trending Bluesky Profiles (last 24 hours) and Top 100 Users with the Fastest Follower Growth lists this week. 1/2
I hope waking up to see Bill Maher, Lara Trump, and Bari Weiss’s names all in the same headline isn’t a harbinger of how today will unfold
www.mediaite.com/online/bill-...
www.mediaite.com/online/bill-...
Bill Maher Slams Media’s Liberal Bias While Cheering Bari Weiss’s ‘More Fair’ CBS With Lara Trump
Maher called out the mainstream media’s liberal bias as he sat down with Lara Trump and lauded Bari Weiss for making CBS “more fair.”
www.mediaite.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I hope waking up to see Bill Maher, Lara Trump, and Bari Weiss’s names all in the same headline isn’t a harbinger of how today will unfold
www.mediaite.com/online/bill-...
www.mediaite.com/online/bill-...
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
If Hassett is the serious frontrunner for Fed Chair, this isn’t a monetary policy choice. It’s a loyalty test. A Fed Chair who bends to Trump’s political needs ain’t “reforming” the Fed, it’s erasing its independence. Markets will absolutely price that in.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Hassett Emerges as Frontrunner in Trump Fed Chair Audition
White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett is seen by advisers and allies of President Donald Trump as the frontrunner to be the next Federal Reserve chair, according to people famil...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
If Hassett is the serious frontrunner for Fed Chair, this isn’t a monetary policy choice. It’s a loyalty test. A Fed Chair who bends to Trump’s political needs ain’t “reforming” the Fed, it’s erasing its independence. Markets will absolutely price that in.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
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Great, eye opening article.
I follow Mr Weems on Substack because he’s an expert but doesn’t use so much markets & economic jargon that I can’t wrap my art major head around what he’s explaining.
thejourneyman.substack.com?r=ab81u
I follow Mr Weems on Substack because he’s an expert but doesn’t use so much markets & economic jargon that I can’t wrap my art major head around what he’s explaining.
thejourneyman.substack.com?r=ab81u
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Great, eye opening article.
I follow Mr Weems on Substack because he’s an expert but doesn’t use so much markets & economic jargon that I can’t wrap my art major head around what he’s explaining.
thejourneyman.substack.com?r=ab81u
I follow Mr Weems on Substack because he’s an expert but doesn’t use so much markets & economic jargon that I can’t wrap my art major head around what he’s explaining.
thejourneyman.substack.com?r=ab81u
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I get that part of the media cycle is for deep thinkers to come up with global Takes on what the Nuzzi outrage means for our culture, but...like, the main thing to me seems to be that she helped whitewash a genocidal eugenicist? who is killing people? right now?
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I get that part of the media cycle is for deep thinkers to come up with global Takes on what the Nuzzi outrage means for our culture, but...like, the main thing to me seems to be that she helped whitewash a genocidal eugenicist? who is killing people? right now?
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A President Who Wants Political Enemies Dead www.blueamp.co/p/impeach-co... Superb, by Shuster: "Since the beginning of the great American experiment..cynics described democracy as pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. By that measure, Trump’s rise/power are a grim joke"
A President Who Wants Political Enemies Dead
Trump’s Truth Social outburst demanding death for six Democrats shows the authoritarian threat is no longer theoretical — it’s here.
www.blueamp.co
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A President Who Wants Political Enemies Dead www.blueamp.co/p/impeach-co... Superb, by Shuster: "Since the beginning of the great American experiment..cynics described democracy as pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. By that measure, Trump’s rise/power are a grim joke"
Nothing like this has ever happened before; not even during black swan events like 9/11, the financial crisis, or the global pandemic. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/thejourn...
The Macro Event Nobody Is Talking About
Why the missing October jobs report hides one of the largest workforce contractions in modern history.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Nothing like this has ever happened before; not even during black swan events like 9/11, the financial crisis, or the global pandemic. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/thejourn...
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This should be a bigger scandal. It isn't going to go away. Why did Huckabee meet with Pollard, a traitor who sold out US secrets to Israel, and has never expressed true regret for his actions?
www.axios.com/2025/11/21/m...
www.axios.com/2025/11/21/m...
Huckabee visit with spy fuels MAGA's Israel divide
Jonathan Pollard served 30 years in prison for spying before moving to Israel.
www.axios.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
This should be a bigger scandal. It isn't going to go away. Why did Huckabee meet with Pollard, a traitor who sold out US secrets to Israel, and has never expressed true regret for his actions?
www.axios.com/2025/11/21/m...
www.axios.com/2025/11/21/m...
I mean, wtf kind of cologne is Mamdani wearing
November 22, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I mean, wtf kind of cologne is Mamdani wearing
That time I was having a serious conversation and unconsciously lifted an analogy from The Mothman Prophecies
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
That time I was having a serious conversation and unconsciously lifted an analogy from The Mothman Prophecies
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November 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲. 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦. 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦.
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