can't help but think a better strategy for containing energy prices would be maybe not bombing Iran in the first place

Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as Amended, on Domestic Petroleum Production, Refining, and Logistics Capacity MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY SUBJECT:       Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as

Several executive orders this evening invoking the Defense Production Act so Trump can directly financially support US oil/gas/petroleum/coal production, which is a great signal about how poorly this war is going economically and how little they planned for this
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

a Trump post that says "has anybody looked at how badly the country of spain is doing. Their financial numbers, despite contributing almost nothing to NATO and their military defense, are absolutely horrendous. Sad to watch!!!"

stupid Trump tweet for many reasons but one of which is that Spain had higher GDP growth than the US over the last year (3% vs 2%)

signs summer has truly began in DC—just got approached by Mormon missionaries for the first time this year

fundamentally if the right-wing fantasy was true and there was a massive cabal of American elites working to get women to take over male-dominated industries they'd be doing a terrible job at it

living paycheck to paycheck was replaced by living tariff pause to tariff pause and is now being replaced by living ceasefire to ceasefire

40 of America's 50-largest metro areas have now recovered to pre-COVID jobs levels

Fastest: Austin (23%), Raleigh (17.5%), Nashville (13.1%), Dallas (13.1%), Phoenix (11.2%)

Slowest: SF (-3.5%), Boston (-2.4%), Milwaukee (-2.1%), Cleveland (-2.1%), DC (-1.3%)

New metro job data is in, & 21 major metros have lost jobs since 2025 as growth slows

Fastest Growth: Fresno (1.9%), Raleigh (1.7%), Las Vegas (1.7%), San Jose (1.7%), Kansas City (1.4%)

Slowest: DC (-3.1%), Portland (-1.8%), Baltimore (-1.5%), Boston (-1.1%), Milwaukee (.8%)

nothing fundamentally changed about conservative political influencers from 2024 to 2026. they were whiny then they’re whiny now. except they went from whining these guys liked to laugh at because it held no consequences to something that actually was being implemented into policy.

I think a lot of podcasters in this vein should be interpreted as “reactionary” in the most literal sense that they are extremely vacuous and form their politics by following trends of resentment against whatever they see on social media

Tariffs

oh no what is Lyman in the discourse for this time

NOOO DEVASTATED

"the current prime minister of canada and former head of the bank of england visits a professional women's hockey practice and puts pride tape on his stick" is a piece of content so microtargeted to my interests it feels illegal

I think the genderswap was a good idea and the design is great, even if I am a tad annoyed they de-aged her. Trusting she's gonna be well handled because the Shrinking Rae genderswap was a straight-up improvement.

She's on #fraudwatch for not pulling her weight in the viltrumite fights, though

lot of "people called Caesar a dictator but the Senate was able to easily remove him" ahh takes coming out today

2021 deepfake fear was that eventually anonymous foreign trolls could create clear enough fake videos of the president to fool grandma into losing her social security check, the 2026 reality is that the number one place people see actual AI-generated scam content is from the President's social media

this specific image is nuts but even in general its just insane that the president of the US is the number one deployer of AI slop in the world right now

a moment where I feel bad for SNL because how do you even parody "wow the pope is so weak on crime with all this 'turn the other cheek' nonsense"

Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. He talks about “fear” of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart. I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t! I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country. And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History. Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. He wasn’t on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump. If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican. Unfortunately, Leo’s Weak on Crime, Weak on Nuclear Weapons, does not sit well with me, nor does the fact that he meets with Obama Sympathizers like David Axelrod, a LOSER from the Left, who is one of those who wanted churchgoers and clerics to be arrested. Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It’s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it’s hurting the Catholic Church! President DONALD J. TRUMP

an all-timer for "imagine how JD Vance would react if a democrat said any of this"

no longer satisfied just wrecking the US economy through tariffs, Donald Trump has decided to go strait to the source and just prevent international trade from happening in the first place

jd vance international tour of humiliation continues. visit pakistan and leave with the strait more closed than it was before. visit hungary and watch orban get posterized.

they have until asian markets open to come up with some method of saving face

this was a great conversation because, when it comes to tariffs, there's a level of technical analysis "what even are the rates actually" "what impact have they had" "etc" and then there's the point where @josephpolitano.bsky.social is just like "yeah it's corruption"

why were they in Boston though lmfao

a picture of Ksenia with two men who look like Shane Hollander and Ilya Rosanov

off topic but ksenia met the DC hollanov lookalikes at the PWHL game tonight and brought enough good luck that the Victoire beat the Feet so this is like the most on brand night possible for me

an eternity of things have happened since this tweet. how are you possibly responding to this just now. what is GOING ON

hilarious 18-month-input-lagged response from Matt here. brother if you're the pro-antitrust anti-corporate power guy and tweet "Ken Paxton is aggressive on antitrust and corporate power" people are gonna interpret it as an obvious endorsement of your preference from him. what is going on here.

a map of job growth by state since Jan 2020

45 states and Puerto Rico have now returned to pre-COVID employment levels

Fastest Growth: Idaho (+13.9%), Utah (+12.9%), Texas (+11.1%), Nevada (11.1%), Florida (+9.9%)

Slowest: Virgin Islands (-17.9%), DC (-10.4%), Hawaii (-2.9%), Vermont (-1.5%), Massachusetts (-0.7%)

a map of job growth by state

Data from today shows 19 states, DC, & VI have lost jobs since 2025 as the labor market slows

Fastest Growth: Nevada (2%), S Carolina (1.1%), Texas (.9%), N. Carolina (.9%), Missouri (.8%)

Slowest: DC (-6%), Virgin Islands (-3.3%), Maryland (-1.8%), Oregon (-1%), Iowa (-.9%)