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We’re on a run of great charts today

Yikes

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/chart-crime-alert/ I’d like to nominate this post from Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent for Chart Crime of the Year Like all great chart crimes, it starts with a goofy y-axis. The numbers decrease from bottom to top, and the origin is at –60...

I need to know what JoJo from Jerz thinks. Without her, is the conversation even happening?

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-counting-jobs-is-really-really-hard/ ^ Good article on why counting jobs is harder than it sounds. The BLS has its biases, but they’re not rooted in partisan politics.

Shocked I tell ya

Oh well that's comforting, given the mouthpiece is also the one unilaterally enacting them

MAGAnomics is firing these workers while simultaneously creating a whole new set of de facto federal workers.

How many resources will be diverted away from more productive means towards compliance? And finding workarounds? And rent seeking? And which types of businesses will be more equipped to absorb these costs? Hint, it’s not the mom & pop small businesses that MAGA loves to lionize in other...

Counterpoint …at least we get to keep seeing the pictures

Matt missed the memo where ‘America First’ was defined as whatever Trump says it is at a particular moment in time, subject to his whims. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Take that, China

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Eh

It’s impressive how much one can get wrong in such a short tweet

Also a good reminder to those bemoaning the Colbert cancellation that he could’ve tried, I dunno, being funny?

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/white-house-slams-south-park-donald-trump-parody-1236468583/ Donald Trump‘s White House has responded to Wednesday night’s explosive “South Park” Season 27 premiere, which portrayed the president begging for sex from Satan and featured a Deepfake-assisted PSA...