SAY THE LINE, BART!

Alan Zibel (@alanzibel.bsky.social) DCinvestor Politics is no longer a broadway play but live-streamed improv.

The American right once prided itself on its anti-utopianism. Now the immanentizing of the eschaton is coming from within the house. compactmag.com/article/conser…

We have not had 20 million illegal immigrants enter the country over the last 4 years. It's a made-up number based on no actual data that RW influencers started using because it was a big round number, and that GOP politicians like JD Vance then started repeating.

Celebrating a birthday June 30 Vincent D'Onofrio (1959) Do you have e favorite role?

WOW! An unnamed Pentagon source is CONFIRMING the SETI report about an unknown radio signal being picked up by American satellites. In addition, radar confirms an object roughly 550 km wide (about 1/4 the size of the moon) heading toward Earth. That's THE PENTAGON confirming!!!

Compact Cable operations manager Marty Gilbert tells Elie Mystal that standard troubleshooting protocol has been ineffective in resolving this morning's signal disruptions and further investigation will be necessary. #ID4

On this day in 1996: Hotmail launched.

Everyone's doing it, including *checks notes* the Department of Labor account (!!), but the experts are adamant that you can't use the foreign born CPS data in levels for current-year analysis since the numbers are just a residual of the annual update to population controls

The heroes at the Yale Budget Lab are calculating tariff faster than Trump can change them. Right now the tariff rate is up +15.6 %-pts to 18 percent, roughly ten times that of other industrialized nations, and the highest since 1934. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/state…

Record High Say Immigration Benefits Nation Latest Gallup: When asked if #immigration is generally a good thing or bad thing for the country, a record-high 79% of US adults call it a good thing & a record-low 17% see it as a bad thing news.gallup.com/poll/692522/su…

The baseball cap is a way for the 1% to act like everyone else, if only from the forehead up. wsj.com/style/fashion/… via The Wall Street Journal

Warren Buffett comes out on top from Kraft Heinz flop finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-bu… via Financial Times ($)

Autor and Hanson: "Policymakers are spending far too much time looking backward, fighting the last war. They should be spending much more time examining what’s emerging as a new China Shock. Spoiler alert: This one could be far worse." nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opi…

What ever happened to federal employees not being able to have access to Bloomberg at work?

Today’s is hot then 😂 *BESSENT: WOULDN'T PUT TOO MUCH EMPHASIS ON ONE INFLATION NUMBER

Chance of a rate cut next meeting: 50% for zero, 50% for 300bps

Breaking news: “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, CBS said in a statement. The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News. wapo.st/3GRVSAz

If he doesn’t get the Fed job then I am sure the Central Bank of Turkey will have him.