A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z
Green shoots on the labor market wilted with the BLS reporting the economy lost 92,000 jobs in February.
Job growth in December was also revised to -17,000 from +48,000, lowering the 3-month average hiring to 6,000 (all of it in January).
The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4%.
Genuinely fascinating divergence.
Oil and energy market types: really beginning to freak out.
Global macro types: mostly relatively calm and expecting this to all blow over.
Got a lot of pleasure from that line
Every note is perfect
Desi Lydic Foxsplains the not-war in Iran that Trump didn't start and also already won
The report highlights the grim state of freshwater ecosystems, degraded marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and the risk of extinction for many species. But it also emphasizes the potential for improvement through conservation, restoration, and renewed connections between people and nature.
New must follow!
(What’s the opposite of enshittification?)
Welcome:
@doctorow.pluralistic.net
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
subtle
"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."
— Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).
Note: It’s not normal for US bond prices to fall (yields go up) during a period of war, uncertainty and with a rising price of oil acting to slow economic activity.
Stocks down, Treasuries down, dollar down.
Sell America trade in effect.
Read the story wot did it*
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
*I mean, it helped
Sen. Blumenthal has written a letter to Kristi Noem about her denial that Corey Lewandowski has a role in approving contracts at DHS.
"I demand that you amend your testimony" and "provide the basis for your apparent false statement on the record."
www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.
The @federalreserve.gov just granted a crypto company—Kraken—access to its public payment services for the first time.
More evidence that crypto’s success is not as an *alternative* to the existing financial system but to capture the existing payment infrastructure.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
New: I talked to the traders who bet Khamenei would die.
One, an Israeli ex-pat, would've won $63,000 before Kalshi froze the bet: “I was booking my trip to Courchevel.”
“American commercial immorality on steroids," @chrismurphyct.bsky.social told me
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
NEWS: Kristi Noem misled Congress yesterday.
She said that Corey Lewandowski isn't playing a role in DHS contracts.
That's not true.
(N.B. She's testifying today in front of the House. Someone might ask her about this.)
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
A crucial variable in this war is whether these monarchies start running out of interceptors before the Iranian regime runs out of projectiles.
At current burn rates, it could be very soon.
www.wsj.com/world/gulf-s...
Retail gasoline prices were up $0.11/gallon yesterday. Will probably make this a thread until it settles down:
Hey, cool. @lastweektonight.com just did a segment using reporting I did w/ @farooqumar.bsky.social
Oliver was talking about body cams--and how law enforcement agencies have often undermined their potential
The same body-cams Dems are centering that ICE reforms on
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4_...
At a certain point you just cannot keep extending someone the benefit of the doubt. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
So instead of “regime change,” are we actually merely doing the younger generation of hardliners a favor by clearing out the gerontocrats?
Iran’s *new* leadership? New like …the president, foreign minister, head of the national security council and chief justice, all of whom are in the same positions they held on Friday?
While operations are coordinated at a members-only, private beach club — in between fundraisers and parties.
It's very hard for the public to learn who is behind these accounts, but if any prosecutors did want to take up this case, it would likely be trivially easy to subpoena all the evidence they need.
We have reached peak Douthat, folks.
THIS.
