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Dad x2. Full-time cat herder. Elderly urban planner. Some SimCity brah. Pavers and cobbles stan. Pro bono @theurbanist.org. Probably far from home. AMDG. Pax.

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Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶‍♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 34m
Bond market continue to slide with rapidly rising yields. Bad for homebuyers, bad for carbuyers, bad for residential and commercial construction starts, bad for anyone who wants to start or grow a business, bad for government financing capital programmes
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Gallup put national party ID at D+11, with Ds at 50. Pretty easy to see why the national environment may be higher than D+11 when it comes to likely voters
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 17h
St. Francis died on the evening of October 3, 1226, asking his brothers to sing his Canticle of the Creatures. Eight hundred years later, on his feast day, the hymn it became: “All Creatures of Our God and King.”
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Hassett? More like HACKett
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 13h
77% of new grads believe businesses call for too much experience when hiring for entry-level jobs, shutting them out of an increasingly competitive market.
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New grads say employers set the bar too high for entry-level roles: 'No job is willing to give you that first experience'
77% of new grads believe businesses call for too much experience when hiring for entry-level jobs, shutting them out of an increasingly competitive market.
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Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶‍♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 13h
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Funny Crying Baby Lol Haha
ALT: Funny Crying Baby Lol Haha
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Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶‍♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 13h
Turns out the actual Great Replacement is AI. Weirdos got conspiracy mad over the wrong thing and now their government is actively fighting to impoverish and make their lives worse with technology
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Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶‍♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 18h
Lula looking like Biden. Who could have imagined?
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Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶‍♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 19h
I wouldn’t be surprised if Murkowski decided to become an independent after the election
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Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶‍♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 19h
Wow. Those Jacob Rees-Mogg clips with Tucker are so devastatingly embarrassing and insane for Tucker
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Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶‍♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 22h
The Bob Chapek revenge tour continues. He sucks finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...
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'Like I didn't exist': Former Disney CEO explains why he doesn't visit the theme parks anymore
Former Disney CEO Bob Chapek said he hasn't been back to Disney since he was ousted in November 2022.
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Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶‍♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They’re panicking out about the Senate race in South Carolina. Gotta be some rough internals
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Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶‍♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The AI oligarchs are utterly vile. The rare good use case for a wealth tax is on those freaks. Set it high on them
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Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶‍♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
😂 Poasting Tom Cotton’s phone number for an extremely fleetingly popular policy to get more golf time is so funny, but even funnier because Congress will likely quickly get complaints to repeal it and for Dems to run on next cycle 😂
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Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶‍♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
😂 www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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The price tag on the Ken Paxton rescue mission has Republicans panicking
Some Republicans want MAGA Inc. to take over spending in the final few weeks.
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Jared Kushner’s activities deserve more attention www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Things keep getting worse for them, especially in the plaines. Plus, they gave up on Georgia and NC www.cnn.com/2026/10/03/p...
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A growing number of House Republicans privately believe they won’t win the House | CNN Politics
Four weeks to Election Day, a growing number of House Republicans privately fear their chances of holding onto the majority are vanishing and have begun focusing on how to limit the size of a potentia...
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Aboard the papal plane to Paris, CNN’s Christopher Lamb told Pope Leo XIV that some colleagues were “having difficulties in the White House.” The pope smiled: “I am very happy that here you are all welcome.” Hours later at UNESCO, Leo called war “the most terrible of ‘human works.’”
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Pope Leo XIV Calls War “the Most Terrible of Human Works,” Backs CNN on Trump’s Press Ban
A day after a judge restored CNN’s White House credentials, the pope told its Vatican correspondent that good coverage belongs to everyone. Then, in Paris, the longest English address of his papacy.
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A weird possibility in Vermont is that Phil Scott wins the plurality of the vote but not more than 50%, which would then mean the new legislature in January gets to pick a governor. Thus, they could pick the Dem (Janoo) anyway 😂
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Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶‍♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
😂 The fact that they’re surprised by this is incredible. If you polled the average voter, they also wouldn’t know about Carlson, Shapiro, Benny, Kirk (before Sept. 2025) or basically any of those weirdos, and so it’s true of people on the left. They’re just not that important
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First Draft: 📉 Top Republicans Privately Admit Their Hasan Piker Attacks Are a Dud
Swin’s conversations with Trumpworld insiders reveal alarm at just how badly the plan to make the leftist streamer the main midterms character is misfiring. Also, Pete Hegseth beclowns himself again.
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The California Coastal Commission certainly has its issues, but a positive legacy is ubiquitous public access to coastal areas
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Dems getting better at this
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“Dispute” is an absolutely insane description here. The Pope didn’t dispute anything. He rejected a bonkers proposition by demented techbros promoting an inanimate technology
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It’s really funny how he thinks he can buy votes with a small select number of maybe voters with a few hundred bucks last minute. Even funnier that he thinks getting 530A accounts generated but not activated and providing no immediate personal benefit means anything. He’s so vapid and stupid
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Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶‍♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The idea that airlines would up charge to be seated by one’s children is truly vile and irresponsible
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Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶‍♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It will be nice when this moron gets fully neutered by the next congress and eventually sacked
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U.S. trade representative Greer says deal with India not 'imminent' after Modi-Trump call
Ties between the U.S. and India have been under strain for over a year, and New Delhi faces fresh risk of up to 100% tariffs for continuing to buy Russian oil.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Algorithms lack the spark of the human.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Human beings are called to be co-workers in the work of creation, not merely passive consumers of content generated by artificial technology.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“.. Tech payrolls have fallen to the lowest level since December 2020.” - Schwab
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Euronews @euronews.com · 02/10/2026
Burnham’s decision to put the prospect of EU membership back on the table has caught attention in Brussels. But any attempt to unpick Brexit could come with conditions and difficult trade-offs. #EuropeNews
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Burnham is rethinking the UK’s ties with the EU. What are his options?
Burnham’s decision to put the prospect of EU membership back on the table has caught attention in Brussels. But any attempt to unpick Brexit could come with conditions and difficult trade-offs.
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Hilarious how Anthropic wanted the Pope to hold open the notion of personhood and soul for Claude AI and the Pope just keeps delivering endless harsh rebukes of the inhumanity of AI. Absolutely based Pope 🇻🇦
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It’s pretty clear Rs are collapsing in all the internals. Hell, VT Gov is officially a tossup and possibly tilt D. DCCC doesn’t invest in WA5 if they think it’s nowhere near tossup. Yesterday’s WA3 poll is going to look quite silly
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Episcopalian, Lutheran, and Catholic Bishops ask Tennessee Gov to commute death sentence of Christa Pike: “Such an act does not deny justice. It declares that justice need not become vengeance and that the State of Tennessee can choose restraint, human dignity, and mercy.” dioet.org/2026/10/01/b...
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Bishops of Tennessee Issue Letter to Governor Lee on Attempted Christa Pike Execution | The Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The US tech sector continues bleeding jobs in official data released today—overall, employment decreased by 17k last month and is down 69k over the last year That's nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and much worse than the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms
a graph of the year-on-year change in US tech employment
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An all around weak -- but not tragic -- payrolls report for September. +29k jobs created, about 60k below expectations. Revisions made both July and August look weaker, too. Over the past 3 months, we've an average of a mere +17k per month.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The unemployment rate is up a tick to 4.2 percent. It's been "around 4 percent" for a couple of years, and looks like it's staying nearby.
Line chart titled "The unemployment rate has been roughly flat over the past two years" showing the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate as a percent of the labor force. The rate stood at 4.2% in September 2026, remaining stable in the 4.0% to 4.5% range throughout 2025 and 2026. This follows a gradual rise from a low of 3.4% in April 2023, representing an increase of 0.8 percentage points over three years before plateauing at current levels.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm not sure who saw this coming, but so far nearly all the jobs created during the second Trump administration have gone to women.
Line chart titled "So far during Trump's second term, just 8% of all job growth has gone to men" showing change in employment by gender since January 2025. Total nonfarm employment grew by 776,000 jobs through September 2026, with women gaining 711,000 positions (92% of growth) while men added only 65,000 jobs (8% of growth). Women's employment gains accelerated sharply through 2026, reaching 711,000 by September, while men's employment growth remained flat with brief periods of decline, including a drop of 96,000 jobs in February 2026.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wage growth just keeps slowing. And yes, wages are rising slower than prices, and no, that's not how economic growth is meant to work.
Line chart titled "Nominal wage growth is slowing" showing year-over-year growth in average hourly earnings of private-sector workers. Wage growth has declined steadily from a peak of 5.9% in early 2022 to 3.0% in September 2026, the slowest rate in the series. This nearly 3 percentage point drop over four and a half years indicates significantly cooler labor market conditions, with the deceleration accelerating in recent months as growth fell from the 3.7-3.9% range in 2025 to the low 3% range currently.
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Why he’s radioactive www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/p...
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8 in 10 Americans disapprove of Trump on inflation. That’s extremely rare for a president | CNN Politics
We don’t yet know how the 2026 midterm elections will shake out.
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WA CD 5 is now officially on the Dem target list for pickup 👀
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion,’ but says, ‘I’m in favor of the death penalty,’ is not really pro-life.”
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pope Leo XIV, celebrating his home state of Illinois for abolishing the death penalty: “The dignity of the person is not lost even after very serious crimes are committed.”
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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It would actually be extremely funny if MGP lost her reelection bid in an election where Dems get over 240 House seats. That poll is almost certainly a very terrible outlier and there’s a near 0% chance she loses, but it would be quite funny
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Oops
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Brent oil jumps more than 4% as U.S. reportedly sends third aircraft carrier to Middle East
Oil prices rose sharply Thursday following a report the U.S. is sending a third aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 01/10/2026
‘Just hours after Paramount Skydance issued $52B of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions in losses, triggering a flurry of angry calls from money managers to Wall Street banks that underwrote the debt.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Angry Bondholders Flood Wall Street With Complaints on Paramount Losses
Just hours after Paramount Skydance Corp. issued $52 billion of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, triggering a flurry of...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Some interesting ideas on extending social security here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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Who’s gonna pay for your Social Security?
Podcast Episode · Planet Money · September 30 · 29m
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They’re all fraudulently profiteering
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reports more than $250 million in income last year
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick unwound his ties to Cantor Fitzgerald as the billionaire financier joined the Trump administration.
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