Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 34mBond 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 100
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 44mGallup 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 100
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 17hSt. 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.” 612323
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️CNBC @cnbc.com · 13h77% of new grads believe businesses call for too much experience when hiring for entry-level jobs, shutting them out of an increasingly competitive market.cnb.cxNew 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. 871
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 13hstatic.klipy.comFunny Crying Baby Lol HahaALT: Funny Crying Baby Lol Haha 010
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 13hTurns 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 020
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 18hLula looking like Biden. Who could have imagined? 120
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 19hI wouldn’t be surprised if Murkowski decided to become an independent after the election 000
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 19hWow. Those Jacob Rees-Mogg clips with Tucker are so devastatingly embarrassing and insane for Tucker 120
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 22hThe Bob Chapek revenge tour continues. He sucks finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...finance.yahoo.com'Like I didn't exist': Former Disney CEO explains why he doesn't visit the theme parks anymoreFormer Disney CEO Bob Chapek said he hasn't been back to Disney since he was ousted in November 2022. 000
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026They’re panicking out about the Senate race in South Carolina. Gotta be some rough internals 130
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The AI oligarchs are utterly vile. The rare good use case for a wealth tax is on those freaks. Set it high on them 020
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 😂 010
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026😂 www.politico.com/news/2026/10...politico.comThe price tag on the Ken Paxton rescue mission has Republicans panickingSome Republicans want MAGA Inc. to take over spending in the final few weeks. 000
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Jared Kushner’s activities deserve more attention www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comU.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... 020
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Things keep getting worse for them, especially in the plaines. Plus, they gave up on Georgia and NC www.cnn.com/2026/10/03/p...cnn.comA growing number of House Republicans privately believe they won’t win the House | CNN PoliticsFour 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... 000
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Aboard 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.’”thelettersfromleo.comPope Leo XIV Calls War “the Most Terrible of Human Works,” Backs CNN on Trump’s Press BanA 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. 05820
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A 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 😂 000
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 importantzeteo.comFirst Draft: 📉 Top Republicans Privately Admit Their Hasan Piker Attacks Are a DudSwin’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. 160
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The California Coastal Commission certainly has its issues, but a positive legacy is ubiquitous public access to coastal areas 020
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Dems getting better at this 300115723657
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“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 041
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It’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 120
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The idea that airlines would up charge to be seated by one’s children is truly vile and irresponsible 150
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It will be nice when this moron gets fully neutered by the next congress and eventually sackedcnbc.comU.S. trade representative Greer says deal with India not 'imminent' after Modi-Trump callTies 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. 000
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“Algorithms lack the spark of the human.” — Pope Leo XIV 1377
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️Joey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sort 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 502840770
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️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 6530136
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“.. Tech payrolls have fallen to the lowest level since December 2020.” - Schwab 39585189
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️Euronews @euronews.com · 02/10/2026Burnham’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. #EuropeNewsl.euronews.comBurnham 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. 374
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hilarious 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 🇻🇦 150
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It’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 000
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Episcopalian, 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...dioet.orgBishops of Tennessee Issue Letter to Governor Lee on Attempted Christa Pike Execution | The Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee 58925
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️Joey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The 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 415039
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026An 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. 2929295
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The 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. 1215537
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm not sure who saw this coming, but so far nearly all the jobs created during the second Trump administration have gone to women. 1361194288
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Wage growth just keeps slowing. And yes, wages are rising slower than prices, and no, that's not how economic growth is meant to work. 23605201
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Why he’s radioactive www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/p...cnn.com8 in 10 Americans disapprove of Trump on inflation. That’s extremely rare for a president | CNN PoliticsWe don’t yet know how the 2026 midterm elections will shake out. 000
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026WA CD 5 is now officially on the Dem target list for pickup 👀 140
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion,’ but says, ‘I’m in favor of the death penalty,’ is not really pro-life.” 420649
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Pope 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.” 58815
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks. 60476622285
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It 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 100
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oopscnbc.comBrent oil jumps more than 4% as U.S. reportedly sends third aircraft carrier to Middle EastOil prices rose sharply Thursday following a report the U.S. is sending a third aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East. 010
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️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...bloomberg.comAngry Bondholders Flood Wall Street With Complaints on Paramount LossesJust 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... 1281705652
Reposted by Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️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... 3752192670
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Some interesting ideas on extending social security here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...podcasts.apple.comWho’s gonna pay for your Social Security?Podcast Episode · Planet Money · September 30 · 29m 010
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026They’re all fraudulently profiteeringcnbc.comCommerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reports more than $250 million in income last yearCommerce Secretary Howard Lutnick unwound his ties to Cantor Fitzgerald as the billionaire financier joined the Trump administration. 020