JUST IN: -911,000 fewer jobs were created between April ’24 and March ’25, the BLS says. Wow, that’s a big revision. That means the labor market was weak even before the tariffs kicked in. The job market was mostly frozen in 2024, too. Average job gains before revision =147,000

It was a lot of fun chatting with Benjy Sarlin and Jim Geraghty about the impending shutdown showdown. Gift link below! (You just need to enter your email address to access)

Mamdani's 40-point age gap between oldest and youngest voters is what leaps out most, but he's also tied with Cuomo among seniors in absolute terms

New: DNI Tulsi Gabbard directed the NSA in recent months to recall a classified report related to Venezuela & Ric Grenell – despite agency staff affirming it was accurate & complied with all policies, sources tell Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Holmes & me. cnn.com/2025/09/09/pol…

Maybe - and I'm just spitballing here - radically increasing the cost of making stuff in America won't actually encourage people to make stuff in America?

Leave them in the water if you want the trade deficit to decline!

“Moaning about foreign competition is a great American tradition” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

Even the company that makes Ozempic is 10% lighter nytimes.com/2025/09/10/bus…

Should Democrats up their demands this time? And would it benefit Republicans to give them an off-ramp? Read more from Benjy Sarlin, Adam Carlson and Jim Geraghty: wapo.st/46iZvZ9

The best long argument for why this one won't work. I think heart of q is whether D's see a worse long-term risk in showing base they won't fight; but by the same token if you don't have much leverage you might demoralize that base even more when you inevitably surrender.

Hear me out: What if instead of a weird system where we try to take a pound of flesh from various companies without meaningfully impacting the deficit, we just made people and businesses pay taxes?

Donald Trump on Curtis Sliwa: “We don’t need thousands of cats living in Gracie Mansion”

If you’re not familiar with Gov. Cox, recommend reading his response to the Pulse shooting in 2016 as well. ksl.com/article/402092…

When I talked to Spencer Cox this summer at NGA, I was struck by how blunt he was about his tech pessimism > When I mentioned to Cox that the phone bans had the air of cigarette restrictions — it’s too late to save adult smokers, but perhaps we can save the next generation —

This is his curse, he wrote the best book about why self-promoting social media is corrosive to institutions, lives by that example, and as a result is invisible to the people who need to hear it most (not me, of course, my posting is great)