Leslie Ehrlich
@leslieehrlich.bsky.social
Trained economist. Ex-global financial institutions (consumer focused). Payments nerd. Native New Yorker. Parent. Knitter. Bridge player. Petter of dogs.
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Leslie Ehrlich
@leslieehrlich.bsky.social
· Oct 24
The GOP — a fraction of its Congresspeople, not even half — could make *ALL THIS* stop by impeaching and removing him
Simple majority in the House would require 3 — 3! — GOP votes w all Dems
2/3 in Senate would required 20 Senators out of 53 to vote with Dems, not even 40%.
They own all of it
Simple majority in the House would require 3 — 3! — GOP votes w all Dems
2/3 in Senate would required 20 Senators out of 53 to vote with Dems, not even 40%.
They own all of it
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“If you raise your voice, I’ll erase your voice.”
January 28, 2026 at 1:47 AM
“If you raise your voice, I’ll erase your voice.”
And which insiders are placing these bets?
Key prediction market putting strong odds on BlackRock's Rieder as next Fed chair reut.rs/4q4bMsb
Key prediction market putting strong odds on BlackRock's Rieder as next Fed chair
BlackRock's chief bond investment manager Rick Rieder is now the clear favorite to succeed current Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell when his term is up, according to prediction market Kalshi.
reut.rs
January 28, 2026 at 3:39 AM
And which insiders are placing these bets?
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Outstanding thread >>>
Every time I talk to someone outside of Minnesota, we always spend time on *really* basic things they have don’t understand about what is happening here.
So let’s do a Q&A. What are your most basic questions about what’s going on in Minnesota?
So let’s do a Q&A. What are your most basic questions about what’s going on in Minnesota?
January 28, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Outstanding thread >>>
For shame
UN experts condemn US move to strip migrant children of legal aid reut.rs/3ZBpAiZ
UN experts condemn US move to strip migrant children of legal aid
U.N. human rights experts on Tuesday denounced the Trump administration's decision last year to cut legal aid for unaccompanied children in U.S. immigration proceedings.
reut.rs
January 28, 2026 at 3:27 AM
For shame
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Venezuelans are circumventing the government’s expanded crackdown on dissent by speaking in code, not mentioning political leaders, constantly deleting content from their phones and refusing to express opinions in WhatsApp groups.
Speak in code, delete the chats: The tactics Venezuelans are using out of fear of phone checks | CNN
Venezuelans are circumventing the government’s expanded crackdown on dissent by speaking in code, not mentioning political leaders, constantly deleting content from their phones and refusing to expres...
www.cnn.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Venezuelans are circumventing the government’s expanded crackdown on dissent by speaking in code, not mentioning political leaders, constantly deleting content from their phones and refusing to express opinions in WhatsApp groups.
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Geopolitical Strains Strengthen Need for EU Payment Systems, Says ECB’s Cipollone
January 28, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Geopolitical Strains Strengthen Need for EU Payment Systems, Says ECB’s Cipollone
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U.S. Secretary of State Rubio says the U.S. is prepared to use force to ensure Venezuela’s acting president cooperates with Washington, Bloomberg reports.
January 28, 2026 at 1:19 AM
U.S. Secretary of State Rubio says the U.S. is prepared to use force to ensure Venezuela’s acting president cooperates with Washington, Bloomberg reports.
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Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.
video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight
January 28, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.
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it reveals pretty plainly that "merit-based hiring" means "you belong to the correct class and hold the right set of identities"
Odd how when people like Bari Weiss go on about 'merit-based hiring', what they mean is hiring nice-looking white boys from elite schools regardless of their experience.
Here's CBS's new Ukraine correspondent. Graduated college less than a year ago. Yale Rugby. Only job: 7 months freelancing. 1/
Here's CBS's new Ukraine correspondent. Graduated college less than a year ago. Yale Rugby. Only job: 7 months freelancing. 1/
January 27, 2026 at 9:43 PM
it reveals pretty plainly that "merit-based hiring" means "you belong to the correct class and hold the right set of identities"
I feel safer already
January 28, 2026 at 12:03 AM
I feel safer already
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Why not deport the people serving time after they've served their time? Why does Trump want to let criminals out of jail early?
That's why due process covers non-citizens visiting the US. So we don't set up a system where people come and commit crimes then get sent home with no consequences.
That's why due process covers non-citizens visiting the US. So we don't set up a system where people come and commit crimes then get sent home with no consequences.
Trump’s demands of Minnesota and Minneapolis - still blaming Dem leadership in the state for the chaos and death his regime has caused. Doesn’t sound promising.
January 27, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Why not deport the people serving time after they've served their time? Why does Trump want to let criminals out of jail early?
That's why due process covers non-citizens visiting the US. So we don't set up a system where people come and commit crimes then get sent home with no consequences.
That's why due process covers non-citizens visiting the US. So we don't set up a system where people come and commit crimes then get sent home with no consequences.
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Has anyone been able to identify the “if you raise your voice, I erase your voice” agent?
Because that’s someone who, for public safety, should be named and identified and warned about.
Because that’s someone who, for public safety, should be named and identified and warned about.
January 27, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Has anyone been able to identify the “if you raise your voice, I erase your voice” agent?
Because that’s someone who, for public safety, should be named and identified and warned about.
Because that’s someone who, for public safety, should be named and identified and warned about.
Watch them amp up the hateful rhetoric to try to counter the ICE storm
Support For Same-sex Marriage:
All:
Support: 55%
Oppose: 32%
Support Among:
Democrats: 80%
Independents: 57%
Republicans: 30%
YouGov / Jan 26, 2026
All:
Support: 55%
Oppose: 32%
Support Among:
Democrats: 80%
Independents: 57%
Republicans: 30%
YouGov / Jan 26, 2026
January 27, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Watch them amp up the hateful rhetoric to try to counter the ICE storm
“ many of them children”
An uprising broke out at an immigrant jail in southern Texas on Saturday, with around 1,000 immigrants detained in the facility — many of them children — chanting “Libertad” and “Let us go,” according to an attorney who witnessed the event.
Immigrant Children Lead Uprising at Texas Detention Center
The immigrant jail, where many children are detained, has “horrible” conditions, including “putrid” drinking water.
truthout.org
January 27, 2026 at 10:18 PM
“ many of them children”
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Here's a short but infuriating thread:
Odd how when people like Bari Weiss go on about 'merit-based hiring', what they mean is hiring nice-looking white boys from elite schools regardless of their experience.
Here's CBS's new Ukraine correspondent. Graduated college less than a year ago. Yale Rugby. Only job: 7 months freelancing. 1/
Here's CBS's new Ukraine correspondent. Graduated college less than a year ago. Yale Rugby. Only job: 7 months freelancing. 1/
January 27, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Here's a short but infuriating thread:
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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My apologies for the visual.
ICE agent exposes himself to the crowd and then gives them a finger.
ICE agent exposes himself to the crowd and then gives them a finger.
January 27, 2026 at 4:07 PM
My apologies for the visual.
ICE agent exposes himself to the crowd and then gives them a finger.
ICE agent exposes himself to the crowd and then gives them a finger.
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fucking hell just remembered, "CBP stays at border" and the way 'border' is defined in this country is this bullshit. awesome work, guys
January 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM
fucking hell just remembered, "CBP stays at border" and the way 'border' is defined in this country is this bullshit. awesome work, guys
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"The people of Minnesota have forced the Trump administration into a strategic retreat—one inflicted not as rioters or insurgents, but as neighbors."
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:34 PM
"The people of Minnesota have forced the Trump administration into a strategic retreat—one inflicted not as rioters or insurgents, but as neighbors."
Side note: “human rights observer” is better than “protester”
There are other good descriptions out there, too
Please use them
There are other good descriptions out there, too
Please use them
One human rights observer in Maine said agents followed her home, blocked off her street, and came to her door to say they know where she lives. Her children are now staying elsewhere, to keep them safe.
Now in Maine: ICE watchers say federal agents are coming to their house to threaten and intimidate them.
www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
January 27, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Side note: “human rights observer” is better than “protester”
There are other good descriptions out there, too
Please use them
There are other good descriptions out there, too
Please use them
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Of all the departures this past year at NOAA—via the fork offer, retirements, etc.— the one that stung the most was the firing of people in their probationary first year. They have more modern skills than those of us who received their PhDs in the 90s and 00s. My whole department is in its 50s now.
How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year?
My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.
www.science.org/content/arti...
My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.
www.science.org/content/arti...
January 27, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Of all the departures this past year at NOAA—via the fork offer, retirements, etc.— the one that stung the most was the firing of people in their probationary first year. They have more modern skills than those of us who received their PhDs in the 90s and 00s. My whole department is in its 50s now.
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This is a critical point from Sen Chris Murphy: If Dems fold on ICE now, it could be a disaster in the midterms.
"The result will be a lot of voters who tend to turn out in midterm elections just won’t."
Here's our full exchange. It's powerful stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
"The result will be a lot of voters who tend to turn out in midterm elections just won’t."
Here's our full exchange. It's powerful stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
January 27, 2026 at 12:06 PM
This is a critical point from Sen Chris Murphy: If Dems fold on ICE now, it could be a disaster in the midterms.
"The result will be a lot of voters who tend to turn out in midterm elections just won’t."
Here's our full exchange. It's powerful stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
"The result will be a lot of voters who tend to turn out in midterm elections just won’t."
Here's our full exchange. It's powerful stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
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Ed is right; it's worse than usual even for a big storm. I've been wondering for a while when the labor drain caused by "immigration enforcement" is going to show up. It's possible it's showing up now.
Boston area still a snowy disaster this morning. I’m guessing that when the second wave of evening snow hit they simply didn’t have any plow drivers left after they had already been working 36 hours straight
January 27, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Ed is right; it's worse than usual even for a big storm. I've been wondering for a while when the labor drain caused by "immigration enforcement" is going to show up. It's possible it's showing up now.
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to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”
January 26, 2026 at 2:43 PM
to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”
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Days after ICE murdered a young man in Minnesota, Susan Collins used her power and seniority to call for the continued funding of the agency without any accountability.
Now is not the time for concern without courage –– it's time to stand up for what's right.
Now is not the time for concern without courage –– it's time to stand up for what's right.
January 27, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Days after ICE murdered a young man in Minnesota, Susan Collins used her power and seniority to call for the continued funding of the agency without any accountability.
Now is not the time for concern without courage –– it's time to stand up for what's right.
Now is not the time for concern without courage –– it's time to stand up for what's right.