"Autocracies overstate yearly GDP growth by approximately 35%."

HELPPP

Just kinda scratching my head that one of the richest CEOs in the world went to the White House yesterday to deliver the president a literal piece of gold in exchange for an exemption to the president's tariffs and did it on live TV.

⚡️ 'This is child trafficking' — Russia launches 'catalogue' of Ukrainian children for adoption, sorted by eye and hair color. kyivindependent.com/russia-launche…

Henry The last couple years Biden went to town killing cows around the country. It’s no surprise that’s now being reflected in the price.

08 Aug 2025

look how many blue check replies are mad as hell under this and that should tell you that none of them, from Trump on down, know what they are doing

where’s all those communists who just swear up and down that Russia/ the USSR isn’t an imperialist monster

Explaining that destroying democracy is for the greater good isn’t a new argument and has been done before, but I don’t think any of these guys know any history, or expect you to

All those people who pointed out a big barrier to EV adoption (improving the electrical grid) are sure awful quiet when crypto and AI power use comes up

Hey they fired the last guy and guess what; new numbers, amazing how that works, and just exonerating themselves, coincidentally. Stalin would blush

takes a huge bong hit:

Goldman's latest (still very early) analysis of tariff effects thru June 2025: -Foreign exporters absorbed 14% of US tariffs -US companies ate 64% -US consumers ate 22% -Protected US companies also raised prices -Consumers will see bigger price increases (70%) thru the Fall

BBC: “Al Jazeera’s entire team in Gaza city has been killed.”

crazy how often you can use this screenshot

If this guy went down this slide today we’d all swear it was AI and that would ruin everything, AI has ruined our sense of whimsy

An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me

#ableg #abpoli sometimes it sucks here

is it time yet

Whatever’s in those files must be really bad