Here's the point to remember about the brutal negative revisions in today's job market report: They aren't saying the labor market showed green shoots that withered. It's saying that there never were any green shoots. They were an illusion.
Good thing Trump keeps Chinese cars out of the country, otherwise we would be able to buy better cars at lower prices www.fastcompany.com/91503415/byd... As Trump always says, "why pay less?"
I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:
Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.
The NYT results page for Texas tonight.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Former Middle East adviser at the US Department of Defense, Jasmine El-Gamal, has it exactly right.
Eisenhower
You haven’t been to a supermarket lately, then. I can find sumac and za’atar these days.
And then fail to get the 2/3rds majority in the Senate needed to convict, so nothing changes. Sounds like a plan.
This aged well. Note the author.
THIS.
The White House Correspondents’ Association has announced that entertainer and magician Oz Pearlman will be the headliner for April’s Correspondents’ Dinner, not one of those mean, mouthy stand up comics who might mix in some social criticism. The Correspondents judged themselves too weak for that.
Sociopaths are terrific at spotting other sociopaths.
{gift link} www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
This is a scandal for ICE, but also an indication of just how much they're scraping the bottom of the barrel.
They've had multiple applicants with outstanding warrants for their own arrest walking in looking to play cop. That's apparently how dumb some of these goons are.
It’s not like he’s infallible.
The bottom line on this: Media figures are unable to grasp the possibility that most ordinary people don't agree that undocumented immigrants are dangerous criminals, and don't reflexively see them as inevitably locked in zero sum conflict with US citizens, so they think this just *has to* resonate
"He cannot use a phone. He doesn’t know his address, he doesn’t know phone numbers, he can’t communicate, he can’t see. And they just left him.”
A pointless article. Yep, Washington reporters cover the horse race while the horses are still in the stalls.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country.
www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...
oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.
"Is it asking too much of journalism to rise up and meet this moment? It surely shouldn’t be." margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/what-a-mis...
That Cabinet that some people pin their hopes on will invoke the 25th Amendment.
"SLOPPINESS": The Trump administration claimed that a man detained by ICE had a criminal convictions for marijuana possession in 2009.
The judge pointed out that the man was 4 years old at the time.
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"Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free: Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy,"
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.
still unclear to me how the species made it this far
"Just imagine for a moment I call you… you better do exactly what I want or I'm going to impose… a 10% tariff that will last for 150 days and then go away." That’s not leverage; that’s a marshmallow test.
Um, pluviophile
