Reposted by Michael CarloneSteve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 11hCorporate profits and tax revenues grew together until the Trump tax cuts. Now corporate profits are at an all-time high while tax receipts are at their lowest since 2021. 26574260
Reposted by Michael Carlonejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973720438
Reposted by Michael CarloneJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise. 661046406
Reposted by Michael CarlonePwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026hell, they could dispel it by just going outside 21081
Reposted by Michael CarloneCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Incredible chart: “.. US 10-year Treasury REAL yield versus tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz as a proxy for the ongoing crisis.” @bloomberg.com 12406129
Reposted by Michael CarloneDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 29/08/2026My vision of the role of American military does not include taking possession of other countries' natural resources by pointing a gun at the head of their corrupt leaders 1420046
Reposted by Michael CarloneGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 26/08/2026Just to be clear, Social Security is not accounting fraud (obviously). Its structure has to be adjusted over time for changing demographics, of course, but it's a completely sustainable approach to income security for the elderly. 451966287
Reposted by Michael CarloneDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Bill Nye breaks down the Science of Skin Color and shows why Racism is Ridiculous. 346130084663
Reposted by Michael CarloneJennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Between a narcissist rock and a tactically leveraged hard place. The merry-go-round is just gonna keep spinning until the horses fall off. 2164
Reposted by Michael CarloneCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026one of the supposedly damning docs the White House released tonight says Russia tried to undermine BIDEN. Also says China "prefers that President Trump be defeated" but actually "Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election" (!) 561969739
Reposted by Michael CarloneDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Wait, we are making civil immigration detainees do forced labor??? For a private for-profit firm? For no pay? Jfc this is evil and unlawful. 515264
Reposted by Michael Carlonejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/05/2026i feel like this is probably the best time in recent american history to be a criminal because the justice department doesn’t give a shit, it’s too busy going through the president’s burn book www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/p...cnn.comExclusive: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll | CNN PoliticsThe Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple sources fam... 14047271049
Reposted by Michael CarloneAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count 313198835312
Reposted by Michael CarlonePopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/05/2026It’s actually very difficult to keep a distance from all this rather than be hardened to it — to remind yourself this man is a demented freak, that his followers are shitbird cultists, that his aims and the aims of his supporters are un-American and evil. 451440277
Reposted by Michael CarlonePopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22/04/2026The overwhelming ethos of Trumpism is “bully who can dish it out but can’t take it” 482201309
Reposted by Michael CarloneChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 05/04/2026I know this and you know this and we all know this but sometimes you gotta say the obvious thing out loud (so to speak) just so you don’t feel alone or crazy: our president is a deeply unwell and utterly vile man who shouldn’t be in charge of driving a golf cart much less the free world. 181843339
Michael Carlone @comptonite.bsky.social · 27/03/2026This administration is a collection of the most horrible people. 000
Reposted by Michael CarloneLast Will and Testament Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/03/2026This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre... 532248947
Reposted by Michael CarloneCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Monday - Send more troops Tuesday - Say we’re ending war Wednesday - Send more troops Thursday - Say ending war Friday - Send more troops Saturday - Golf Sunday - Golf 376151514668
Reposted by Michael CarloneHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 14/03/2026His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly. 35468492263
Reposted by Michael CarloneCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/03/2026This is some next-level swiftboating 4075328984
Reposted by Michael CarloneBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I learn from their website that Gallup is proud of all the contracts they have with many federal agencies. thehill.com/homenews/med...thehill.com 46867245
Reposted by Michael CarloneEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026So authoritarian USAID. 26461135
Reposted by Michael CarloneTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 21/01/2026No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous. 827300627983
Reposted by Michael CarloneAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities This is exactly the opposite. Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE. 538237879167
Michael Carlone @comptonite.bsky.social · 06/01/2026WTF?whitehouse.govJanuary 6: A Date Which Will Live in InfamyDiscover the real January 6 story: peaceful protest turned tragedy, Deep State entrapment, media deception, and President Trump's triumphant pardons restoring justice to patriotic Americans. 010
Reposted by Michael CarlonePopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Pretty sure Denmark has universal healthcare because they voted for it and pay higher taxes and accept other trade-offs for it, not because they‘re hoarding a magic healthcare tree, but that’s too complicated for the ballcap-selfie-in-car crowd. 1002827393
Reposted by Michael CarlonePopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Trumpers have a howling void of angry insecurity where a soul should be. Unchecked power tastes like ashes in their mouth because they thought when they got it everyone would be forced to like and admire them even though they’re irredeemable assholes. But people still treat them like assholes. 752695652
Reposted by Michael CarlonePopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 03/12/2025It’s true. We shouldn’t pretend that. Trumpist culture is not the same as American culture and not equal. Trumpist culture is proudly ignorant, defiantly against America’s founding values and subsequently developed values, venomously bigoted, and generally despicable. 862878667
Reposted by Michael CarloneDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/11/2025This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history 1092681715
Reposted by Michael CarloneCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/11/2025TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up. 527108994569
Reposted by Michael CarloneSarah Huckabee Blutarsky @shuckabeeblutarsky.bsky.social · 20/10/2025This is the purpose of The Fairness Doctrine, which is to ensure that people who lick doorknobs and cry when confronted by the complexity of shoelaces have equal footing in any debate with these condescending experts and their fancy books and dusty scrolls. 2834
Michael Carlone @comptonite.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Shitty people, continuously showing their total lack of decency. 030
Reposted by Michael CarloneTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I think this is right: "We've slid into some form of authoritarianism," says Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard. "It is relatively mild compared to some others. It is certainly reversible, but we are no longer living in a liberal democracy." www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...npr.orgHundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianismMost — but not all — political scientists are deeply troubled by the president's attempts to expand executive power, according to a national survey. 921640583
Reposted by Michael CarlonePopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest: Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No 10992472572
Reposted by Michael CarlonePatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Standing up for due process isn’t standing up for criminals. It’s standing up for the fact that the truth isn’t just whatever the loudest or the most powerful person says it is. 161111302
Reposted by Michael CarloneAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 24/08/2025The people of Chicago should govern themselves. The idea that the president is going to impose some kind of military rule is absolutely repugnant to our founding principles and affront to the rule of law. Our constitution does not permit for arbitrary federal policing like this. 518239
Reposted by Michael CarloneKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity. 539179706695
