This is exactly the kind of thing that happens when the market starts to panic....Today will be a very interesting day
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My grandfather killed Nazis "Everything that is done in the world is done by hope" - Martin Luther Mainly Democratic politics and fighting the fascist president WI born, MN transplant. Vote Blue. Speaking only for myself.
This is exactly the kind of thing that happens when the market starts to panic....Today will be a very interesting day
Trumpβs Iran War is not going to be ending anytime soon. And calling for a country to surrender unconditionally means it is unarguably a war that requires a declaration of war.
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.
Wow did something happen in the US in January 2025?
Honestly, I am kind of wondering if today is the day that the markets start to actually freak out. Oil at 90 and climbing, jobs report just crashed through the floor and dear leader thinks it's all going swimmingly well
Prior to the new Gulf War, our economy was slowing, inflation rising, our fiscal condition deteriorating.
Now we are going to prices rise further, the economy slow further, our fiscal condition worsen. All of this makes what Trump is doing in the Middle East look far more reckless.
liberated... from economic growth
On Tuesday "for the first time since 2002 Democrats outvoted Republicans in Texas."
Sharing a new discussion TX Dem Chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social who talks about their big night, @jamestalarico.bsky.social, and what comes next in battleground Texas π
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/for-the-fi...
Seems pretty clear at this point that if Dems get to 51 seats in November, Fetterman will pull an Arlen Spector move and flip parties.
Was another good election night for Democrats, Texas Rs = clown show, and going all in for Talarico!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My latest π
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Updating the list: Trump just took the US military into Ecuador πͺπ¨
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We are learning why our Founders gave Congress - not the President - the power to commit us to war.
My latest on Trump's new war π
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-new...
when I am tailspinning, my call sheet is way better than this.
Trump has no plan. This is a damning summary from The Economistβs Middle East Correspondent Gregg Carlstrom.
Ongoing incoherence, rising oil prices, global chaos, and oops! more American troops, already.
Notes on Trump's new war, Day 3 π
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-new...
This is the post Iβve been waiting for from a Democrat.
Mandi Jung, a MN teacher, needs to be heard far and wide. Her message about the treatment of the immigrants living in MN is so powerful. Take a moment to listen to her. We need to bring this energy everywhere.
This war is less popular than every single one of Trumpβs other unpopular policies. Which is amazing.
I didn't paywall this because I wanted people to be able to read and digest all of the data and arguments.
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The entire Democratic strategy debate β "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? β is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
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When is someone going to investigate the real fraud in our govt? The big fraud?
There are two explanations for the Trump Adminβs Russiaβs policy: 1. This admin is secretly aligned with Putin and lying about that to the world and the American people, or 2. they are incredibly naive fools who ignore overwhelming evidence that contradicts their worldview.
The guy Platner is retweeting is an actual neo nazi.
Mamdani has so much game, my goodness.
Went to the White House with mock-up s of the New York Daily News of Trump, and came home with a rescued ICE hostage from Columbia University.
Straight baller
If this proves true (i.e., Agheyeva is immediately released), there's an argument to be made that Mamdani somehow has β at least for now βΒ one ofβ¦the most productive relationships with Trump of any state or local leader in the country, Democrat or Republican?
Trump should have course corrected this week on tariffs and immigration/ICE. He didn't - and now 2026 Republicans are in trouble. New video, written analysis π
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-shou...
Yep. The absurdity of media's slobbering over Trump's "stand up" stunt is that many people view *ICE* as posing more of a threat than immigrants do.
Exactly. And the corporate media trying desperately to generate a "win" for Trump over the immigrants part of his speech are nothing more than state media at this point.
Media is slobbering all over Trump's dumb "stand up" stunt, feverishly trying to manufacture a winning moment for him