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Rep. Omar was the correct choice.

This is super cool, what a great idea.

People: Your machines are bad for the environment Sam Altman, his left eye slightly twitching, a small twinge brings his lips into the faintest of smiles: so is your very life

if you are still on Twitter/X and get any suscpicious DMs from the person who hacked me, can you let me know?

NEW from me: Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling was the largest pushback on Trump’s trade war Even though Trump imposed a new 10% tariff, it resulted in a 3% reduction in overall tariff rates, a large restriction in his tariff powers, and possibly >$150B in refunds🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/the-suprem...

Dog I can’t believe they’re starting Abada 😭😭😭 #ForTheCrown

RIP to a true legend. After Fred Wesley he’s maybe my GOAT bone player Look at those album covers—South Bronx Boricua gangsta shit that Fat Joe and Big Pun drew from Here’s a sad one, one of my all time favs. Qué lío indeed m.youtube.com/watch?v=YtCQ...

So we're just raising tariffs on vibes now, cool, cool cool cool

My Twitter/X account was hacked. Like an idiot, I fell for a phishing scam. Until further notice, anything from that account is not from me.

Ripping off Trump’s name and face from all these buildings will be a necessary cathartic moment to start off the slow process of rebuilding US institutions.

I saw this picture and wondered if there was a cat in there.

If it's what you say, I love it. Especially before midterms.

*TRUMP SAYS HE WILL INCREASE GLOBAL TARIFFS TO 15% FROM 10%

ah, I almost forgot how bad it is to work on an entire article only to have Donald Trump completely change the tariff rates just as I finish

They want such a huge increase in defense spending that they literally can’t figure out how to use it But they felt spending was such a “big problem” that they illegally impounded lifesaving foreign aid, killing hundreds of thousands, and they ripped food and health care away from millions in OBBBA

Getting ready to vote in my local primary and there’s a county commission candidate that described herself as a “race traitor” in her candidate questionnaire from @charlotteobserver.com I’m in awe.

Trump wants to ⬆️ the military budget $500 billion PER YEAR, close to a 50% ⬆️ It’s such a large ⬆️, they have no idea how to even use that much money. Over the decade, it’d cost $5.6 trillion Keep in mind they just took health care & food from people in the largest cuts to Medicaid & SNAP in history

Popularism seems to be oddly focused on how woke people annoy him. Hmm.

Causal inference is my passion.

LOTR Adaptation: in sadness, we have dropped the Tom Bombadil scene in order to keep the movie under 4 hours. Wuthering Heights adaptation: Whoops! We forgot the last half of the book!

Residential fixed investment as a % of GDP is at Q1 2008 or Q2 2016 levels. Its cycle will come, just not yet:

Oh ok we are getting 18 inches of snow tomorrow/first NYC blizzard since 2017? Groundhog still had some juice.

No athlete makes me feel as old as this guy. I loved watching his dad’s sick crossovers — still have the Hardaway #10 Warriors jersey my brother got me when he visited a friend in Florida back in the early 90s…

Just back from Rio, Brasília & Salvador launching @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Carnival Economics project w Brazil's Ministry of Culture. Carnival isn’t a one-off event—it’s a year-round production economy. A case study on how culture, identity & joy sit at the centre of what a creative economy should be.

I don't go here but Andor people your guy is on point.

This is the best illustration of why the economic effects of Trump will be felt not in a single moment of collapse, but in permanently lower prosperity. Outside AI euphoria, people will think ten times before committing to any large investment. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

Counterpoint: no, it won’t.

In this talk Jocelyn Bell says the reason she discovered pulsars is that anything she doesn't understand sticks in her head and annoys her forever; the mystery signal was present only 10 times per million readings but she still cared about it: "That's how sick I was." lmao youtu.be/ot1Ggv6YZyQ

Good night folks, enjoy a deeply underrated music video this evening. (I truly hate YouTube thumbnails)

I never bothered to learn whatever was going on with Clavicular because I’m a man over 40. The kids can have that kind of culture without me.

SCOTUS stands up against POTUS on issues where capital opposes POTUS (Fed independence, arbitrary tariffs...). Anywhere else?

No bad deed goes unrewarded www.axios.com/2026/02/20/n...

The Supreme Court showed up today, and the power of the President has limits. That is huge, regardless of what the tariff rate is tomorrow.

The president is famously scrupulous about paying his debts fully and promptly.

shocking nobody, the new tariffs Trump is putting on to replace the ones struck down by SCOTUS this morning also exempt data center computers

Federal Judge Joseph Goodwin (West Virginia), on the reign of terror by “agents of the federal government—masked, anonymous, armed with military weapons … It is an assault on the constitutional order. It is what the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

here's your hearty laugh of the day, courtesy of Oren Cass' take on the SCOTUS tariff decision

Speaker Johnson does Black History Month

Texatarians - only eat food from Texas.

The savings rate is very low. But it's usually an under-estimate, and ~never a structural over-estimate. It's easier to count spending than income. [This post brought to you by Claude Code, the fine folks at FRED, and Chart Builder/charts.py!]