@shawshankchris.bsky.social
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He's promising to protect the integrity of the data by firing statisticians who follow established methods of data collection and processing whenever those methods yield numbers that don't please the boss.
Kevin Hassett: "The data can't be propaganda. The data has to be something you can trust, bc decision-makers throughout the economy trust that these are the data that they can build a factory because they believe, or cut interest rates. If the data aren't that good, it's a real problem for the US."
August 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
He's promising to protect the integrity of the data by firing statisticians who follow established methods of data collection and processing whenever those methods yield numbers that don't please the boss.
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"Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed —
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above."
~ Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above."
~ Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”
June 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed —
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above."
~ Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above."
~ Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”
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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
-Hannah Arendt
-Hannah Arendt
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
-Hannah Arendt
-Hannah Arendt
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If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen?
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
March 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen?
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
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"But I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation." -Madison
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"But I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation." -Madison
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I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta.
feel like one problem of Trump is that describing him objectively sounds like you're insulting him
February 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta.
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How’s this WSJ take aging
WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit.
"Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."
"Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."
February 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
How’s this WSJ take aging
It’s legitimately embarrassing for a publication called ‘Politico’ to have a writer who doesn’t know anything about FDR.
a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.
February 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It’s legitimately embarrassing for a publication called ‘Politico’ to have a writer who doesn’t know anything about FDR.
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Anecdotally, in DC there was a lot of advertising in favor of the push for more flights out of DCA, basically framed as a good idea for consumers with no potential downsides.
youtu.be/w08rEQXrKek?...
youtu.be/w08rEQXrKek?...
January 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Anecdotally, in DC there was a lot of advertising in favor of the push for more flights out of DCA, basically framed as a good idea for consumers with no potential downsides.
youtu.be/w08rEQXrKek?...
youtu.be/w08rEQXrKek?...
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We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life
January 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life
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the arc of the moral universe could be a bit shorter imo
November 6, 2024 at 7:59 PM
the arc of the moral universe could be a bit shorter imo
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I'm the executive at Subway who gives notes on the ads demanding "more splashing on the Italian dressing" and "drop the meatball from a much greater height." I don't have any kind of degree or expertise, I just like watching sandwiches bounce in weird ways and the founder hired me in 1983.
January 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I'm the executive at Subway who gives notes on the ads demanding "more splashing on the Italian dressing" and "drop the meatball from a much greater height." I don't have any kind of degree or expertise, I just like watching sandwiches bounce in weird ways and the founder hired me in 1983.
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The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes
January 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes