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The Sahm Rule is flashing red, and the unemployment rate is rising.
What does this mean?
- For sure the economy is in a MALAISE. (Close to no job growth since Liberation Day.)
- I reckon it's in a jobless SLUMP.
- It may be in or on the cusp of a RECESSION.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBTN...
What does this mean?
- For sure the economy is in a MALAISE. (Close to no job growth since Liberation Day.)
- I reckon it's in a jobless SLUMP.
- It may be in or on the cusp of a RECESSION.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBTN...
The Sahm Rule Is Flashing Red: Justin Wolfers on Looming Recession Risk
What if the U.S. hasn’t really created any net new jobs since April—just as unemployment is starting to climb?
In this conversation, economist Justin Wolfers unpacks a sobering jobs report that…
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December 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The Sahm Rule is flashing red, and the unemployment rate is rising.
What does this mean?
- For sure the economy is in a MALAISE. (Close to no job growth since Liberation Day.)
- I reckon it's in a jobless SLUMP.
- It may be in or on the cusp of a RECESSION.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBTN...
What does this mean?
- For sure the economy is in a MALAISE. (Close to no job growth since Liberation Day.)
- I reckon it's in a jobless SLUMP.
- It may be in or on the cusp of a RECESSION.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBTN...
Clearly Trump is trying to kill tourism
December 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Clearly Trump is trying to kill tourism
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These are truly terrible numbers. But check out the new deep low for healthcare. And it’s about to get even worse.
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
These are truly terrible numbers. But check out the new deep low for healthcare. And it’s about to get even worse.
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Rep. Brian Babin on two National Guard members who Trump deployed to DC getting shot by a suspect Trump granted asylum to: "It was a mess up completely by the Biden administration"
December 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Rep. Brian Babin on two National Guard members who Trump deployed to DC getting shot by a suspect Trump granted asylum to: "It was a mess up completely by the Biden administration"
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Pam Bondi is Coming for Domestic Terrorists. You Might Be One of Them.
I recorded an emergency pod to explain this story. Fair warning: it’s likely to be the scariest thing you hear today. And, if you’re not alarmed, you’re not paying attention.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
I recorded an emergency pod to explain this story. Fair warning: it’s likely to be the scariest thing you hear today. And, if you’re not alarmed, you’re not paying attention.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Pam Bondi is Coming for Domestic Terrorists. You Might Be One of Them.
An emergency video/podcast
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Pam Bondi is Coming for Domestic Terrorists. You Might Be One of Them.
I recorded an emergency pod to explain this story. Fair warning: it’s likely to be the scariest thing you hear today. And, if you’re not alarmed, you’re not paying attention.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
I recorded an emergency pod to explain this story. Fair warning: it’s likely to be the scariest thing you hear today. And, if you’re not alarmed, you’re not paying attention.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was taken to a detention center and held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care
December 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was taken to a detention center and held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care
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Aaaaaand ACIP just voted to delay the vaccine and remove the universal recommendation for it
To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Aaaaaand ACIP just voted to delay the vaccine and remove the universal recommendation for it
WTF?
Trump: "Under Boot Edge Edge - another grossly incompetent. Get on his bicycle, ride to work. What they do is they take the fiber optics & they take fiber, try to hook it into copper. And fiber and copper don't mix. You can't do it...you saw that by the helicopter crash. You saw that into the plane"
December 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
WTF?
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A key point from this interview: the "benefit" of tariffs, if it exists, is delayed. You don't flip a switch and get a plant tomorrow. You wait years. It also follows that a tariff you don’t trust to outlast a mood swing won’t change where companies build at all.
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A key point from this interview: the "benefit" of tariffs, if it exists, is delayed. You don't flip a switch and get a plant tomorrow. You wait years. It also follows that a tariff you don’t trust to outlast a mood swing won’t change where companies build at all.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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Imagine if Dems in the Senate hadn't caved. The House wouldn't be in session rn, the discharge petition wouldn't be signed, people wouldn't have SNAP, govt workers would be RIF'd & the GOP would have some decent talking points. But also online rage addicts would be happier! YMMV!
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Imagine if Dems in the Senate hadn't caved. The House wouldn't be in session rn, the discharge petition wouldn't be signed, people wouldn't have SNAP, govt workers would be RIF'd & the GOP would have some decent talking points. But also online rage addicts would be happier! YMMV!
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Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.
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This is fantastic. Make sure you stick around until the record scratch at the end.
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is fantastic. Make sure you stick around until the record scratch at the end.
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I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
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It’s enraging the extent to which the corporate media is not relentlessly covering and showing this brutality.
It’s clear who the aggressors are. Keep remaining nonviolent, and record EVERYTHING. All of these masked ICE thugs will be held accountable.
November 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
It’s enraging the extent to which the corporate media is not relentlessly covering and showing this brutality.
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Policy evaluation 101: Set the baseline.
Trump took office Jan 20, so compare outcomes to Jan 19. "Less bad than last week" is not "good."
Tariffs still higher, soybean sales lower, rare earth access tighter than on Jan 19.
Trump took office Jan 20, so compare outcomes to Jan 19. "Less bad than last week" is not "good."
Tariffs still higher, soybean sales lower, rare earth access tighter than on Jan 19.
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Policy evaluation 101: Set the baseline.
Trump took office Jan 20, so compare outcomes to Jan 19. "Less bad than last week" is not "good."
Tariffs still higher, soybean sales lower, rare earth access tighter than on Jan 19.
Trump took office Jan 20, so compare outcomes to Jan 19. "Less bad than last week" is not "good."
Tariffs still higher, soybean sales lower, rare earth access tighter than on Jan 19.
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This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
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Kristi Noem says “There's no American citizens that have been arrested or detained."
Tell that to George Retes. This U.S. Army veteran and American citizen was wrongfully arrested and brutalized by ICE while simply trying to get to work.
Tell that to George Retes. This U.S. Army veteran and American citizen was wrongfully arrested and brutalized by ICE while simply trying to get to work.
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Kristi Noem says “There's no American citizens that have been arrested or detained."
Tell that to George Retes. This U.S. Army veteran and American citizen was wrongfully arrested and brutalized by ICE while simply trying to get to work.
Tell that to George Retes. This U.S. Army veteran and American citizen was wrongfully arrested and brutalized by ICE while simply trying to get to work.
At first view it looked almost normal. Then the video looped. She's good at not being obvious about doing guiding.
October 28, 2025 at 5:04 AM
At first view it looked almost normal. Then the video looped. She's good at not being obvious about doing guiding.
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More than 100 former top Justice Dept officials, including dozens of former prosecutors, file court brief opposing James Comey's prosecution:
"not the judgment of an impartial prosecutor, but rather an expression of retributive animus by the President"
washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/over-on...
"not the judgment of an impartial prosecutor, but rather an expression of retributive animus by the President"
washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/over-on...
October 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
More than 100 former top Justice Dept officials, including dozens of former prosecutors, file court brief opposing James Comey's prosecution:
"not the judgment of an impartial prosecutor, but rather an expression of retributive animus by the President"
washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/over-on...
"not the judgment of an impartial prosecutor, but rather an expression of retributive animus by the President"
washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/over-on...
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Kaine: "We can't do a deal with Trump then have him tear it up tmrw & start mass firings or canceling programs he doesn't like or ones that help blue states. We have to be sure that a deal is a deal ... thus far he's not been willing to even discuss a deal, much less guarantee he'll live by one."
October 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Kaine: "We can't do a deal with Trump then have him tear it up tmrw & start mass firings or canceling programs he doesn't like or ones that help blue states. We have to be sure that a deal is a deal ... thus far he's not been willing to even discuss a deal, much less guarantee he'll live by one."
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Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
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From @juddlegum.bsky.social’s newsletter this morning: “A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.”
popular.info/p/ice-boosts...
popular.info/p/ice-boosts...
October 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
From @juddlegum.bsky.social’s newsletter this morning: “A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.”
popular.info/p/ice-boosts...
popular.info/p/ice-boosts...
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Popok: Why did they choose No Kings Day for a “routine training exercise” in a state where his leading political critic is the governor?
Bonta: They’re doing what they always do—trying to intimidate. It would be humiliating for the president—and shameful and embarrassing if he were capable of shame
Bonta: They’re doing what they always do—trying to intimidate. It would be humiliating for the president—and shameful and embarrassing if he were capable of shame
October 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Popok: Why did they choose No Kings Day for a “routine training exercise” in a state where his leading political critic is the governor?
Bonta: They’re doing what they always do—trying to intimidate. It would be humiliating for the president—and shameful and embarrassing if he were capable of shame
Bonta: They’re doing what they always do—trying to intimidate. It would be humiliating for the president—and shameful and embarrassing if he were capable of shame