“One million children will not be treated for severe acute malnutrition. Up to 166,000 people will die from malaria. New cases of tuberculosis will go up by 30%. Two hundred thousand more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade.” https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-rubio-usaid-musk-death-toll-malaria-polio-tuberculosis

they finally took away our avocado toast. it is for our own good.

all crypto is now $TRUMP.

i never strangled you. i simply effectuated a pause on your breathing. if you chose not to restart after the pause, that’s on you.

didn't they campaign on bringing back the romance, that sense of surprise, when, um, the tornado demolished your home? https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/114100647524431078

"The murderous insanity of all this is scarcely possible to describe." @ryanlcooper speaks plainly about what one is doing when one purposefully shatters the global public health system with no transition or replacement. https://prospect.org/world/2025-03-03-musk-doge-pepfar-hiv-tuberculosis/

"A week ago, Atlanta Fed’s nowcast of consumption was 2.2% q/q annualized; now it’s zero… In the 11 or so years of nowcasted consumption growth, there have been no instances of negative values (or zero values) outside of 2020…this is a somewhat remarkable occurrence." #MenzieChinn https://econbrowser.com/archives/2025/03/nowcasted-consumption-falls-to-stall-speed

#economics

impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.
impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.
impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.

it's remarkable the term gaslighting was invented prior to this administration.

cf @ddayen on Schroedinger's CFPB. https://prospect.org/economy/2025-03-03-cfpb-we-didnt-mean-stop-work-russell-vought/

in policy, you can never get it just right. you should try to get close, but perhaps more importantly, you have to choose in which direction it will be less costly to err, then condition your choices so they will err — hopefully not too much but inevitably — in that direction. going for symmetrical optimality is foolish hubris.

maybe we could have a strategic sportsbets reserve too.

drain the swamp.

screenshot from thread beginning https://xcancel.com/ustreasury/status/1896348155522039985

[new draft post] Meeting Starter https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/02/meeting-starter/index.html

so any progress in, you know, the US Congress, the branch that controls the money, on funding a US Crypto Reserve?

(genuinely asking! it certainly wouldn't surprise me if this craven caucus included it in a budget in deference to dear leader.)

do you ever wonder what the kompromat is on Rubio?

waiting for the Trump Administration to 💡: "hey, what if we replaced the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with a strategic reserve of petroleum *stocks* (we could buy up in advance!)"

10 Observations About Tokyo by #QuicoToro https://www.persuasion.community/p/10-observations-about-tokyo ht @SteveRoth

hear me out: #eggcoin

a thing i find odd about people into (bad, ugly) Mearsheimer-ish "offensive realism", great-power spheres of influence, etc is the presumption that Russia is or would be a great power in such a world, rather than a vassal either of China or Europe, or site of conflict for resources between them.

so obviously a pump. who got to say, and who got to know, which cryptocurrencies Trump would name?

i’m sure he named Cardano because Trump is just really into a Haskell foundation and claims of provably correct proof-of-stake.

will it end in meaningful purchase, or just the usual dump? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯