A dog stands on a table, posing next a basted peak lapel sport coat. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.

A dog sitting on the floor, posting next to a basted blue tweed sport coat with notch lapels. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.

A dog sitting on the floor, posing in front of a wall where three tailored jackets are hanging.

A dog poses on a table. He's surrounded by a tailor's measuring tape.

Every time this tailor posts a photo of their workspace, it looks like their dog is a tailor and he's showing off the garments he made.

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Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

Kash Patel and the Lessons of FBI Leadership How does the current director stand up to his predecessors?

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...of all days, therefore he works "twice as many days, with half the time off."
Also, barricading yourself in your office with porn and whiskey is not most employers' definition of "working."

"Half as many days off" and "on the job twice as many days" are not the same, at all!! For this to be true, K(r)ash would have to take a LOT of time off, and previous directors would have to have barely worked, ie: K(r)ash works works 2/3 of all days, compared to prior FBI heads who worked 1/3...

Failure to answer this simple, direct question from Elizabeth Warren should disqualify Warsh from becoming Chairman of the Federal Reserve

If he can't display independence from Trump on what is an undisputed issue, nobody should believe he will disagree with Trump when dealing with financial policy

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

Monstrous evil

Warren: "Will you disclose how you divest those assets, or will you just collect the check for $100 million from someone whose whole business is betting on what the Fed will do?"

Warsh: "Ethics officials at the Fed. Reserve and the Office of Government Ethics-"

Warren: "I will take that as a no."

we didn't have the technology we have now in the 1960's. He's talking about threatening nuclear strikes as an opening gambit. We used "overwhelming" conventional firepower with all the tech available at the time in Vietnam, and it did not "work."

what exactly is he referring to?

The Jerusalem Cross is a symbol of the Crusades. Disingenuous people argue it’s “just a representation of Christianity and not bigoted”

But we all fucking know the Crusades was about massacring anyone that wasn’t Christian.

Pete Hegseth has a HUGE one tattooed on his chest

It’s a symbol of hate.

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WELKER: Why is the US rewarding Russia by extended these sanctions waivers? Russia is working with Iran

MIKE WALTZ: That's oil that was going to market. Now, instead of just going to China, it can go to some of our other allies and partners.

W: It's a reversal of what Bessent said on Wednesday

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You can listen to the whole thing, here: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

Worth it, mainly to hear the brilliant Linda Bilmes talk about her work on the cost of the Iraq war.

Iran Ceasefire Won't Fix the Economy What happens after the shooting stops? The uncomfortable answer is that a ceasefire with Iran may calm the headlines, but it does not erase the economic damage already done. In this clip, Justin…

Whatever happens with the ceasefire, it's worth remembering that even if the war ends, the damage remains. The broader economic consequences are large, and persistent, and affect all of us.

Kinda depends what the strike zone is.

He didn't pee in his pants, he just sat in JD's fave chair!

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

vote out leaders world-wide who were in office during the pandemic.
That was just another vibe-based, major political shift that was also very real and consequential.

I think it was clear in '24 that we had weathered two major economic disruptions, covid and the supply chain disruption, fairly well due in large part to proactive federal policies.
It's accepted economic theory that Biden/Harris were punished for being in charge, anyway. It was a major trend to..

Right now we have several sources of inflationary pressure with no broader economic upside. I think it's key to oppose that.
Also, I was curious if I am being reactionary/alarmist, so I scrolled through Robert Reich's feed, and I think he's very concerned about many of the same issues.

...take a situation where there is an enormous amount of unease and uncertainty about where trump's policies are taking is, and wave it away and say "Nah, everything's fine!"
We dems are way better on the economy than republicans are, it's about time we act like it!

This dialogue is all about "broad, statistical trends" vs. perception, yes?
Democrats are quite famous for losing elections when broad, statistical economic trends are in their favor AND our policies are 1000 times economically better as well.
It would be the penultimate Democratic strategy to..

own gov't
Safeguards and limits on financial services and products are eroding. Regulations that protect consumers are vanishing. Medical care deserts are expanding
Media companies are gleefully abdicating any pretense of consumer advocacy
Consumers know all of this. It is not metaphorical wolves

The bigger picture economic stuff is chaotic. Iran is quite likely not going to open the Strait under anything like "our terms." Tariffs are doing damage throughout the economy. Trump is pushing an oligarchic patronage/pay to play model. There are sectors of the economy under attack from our...

I mean, it's a metaphor, right? The horrible news about wolves... in this metaphor, the wolves are a fantasy created as a compelling narrative to drive an algorithm and show us ads.
This is not how I consume social media.
And financially, I do fine, but inflation is taking a serious toll on me...

Respectfully, "the boy who cried 'Wolf!'" gets eaten in the end.

Will, it feels like you're belittling the very real economic difficulties I am facing.