Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈

Earlier this year, SCOTUS tried to construct a stupid legal framework where the President was allowed to destroy basically all independent institutions except for the Federal Reserve, which was deemed too economically important. Unsurprisingly, even that was not enough for Trump.

“I lied, put your clothes back on, we’re playing the Bay Area Regional Planner board game”

The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but it’s also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are “Heritage Americans”. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team

some more upcoming Talarico scandals— He got asked to the prom by four girls and had to turn three of them down In 2022 a waiter told him to enjoy his meal and he said “thanks you too” He agreed to foster a puppy but decided he couldn’t give her up and ended up adopting

April US transit data is in today, & all of the 10 largest US rail networks are growing! SF is seeing a real boom, with ridership up 17% on Muni & 15% on BART SEPTA (Philly, 10%) and PATH (NY/NJ, +7%) are also seeing strong growth, while MTS (San Diego, +0.8%) is the slowest🧵

NEW CANADIAN JOBS DATA: Employment Growth: 88k Unemployment Rate: 6.6% (-0.4%) Prime Age (25-54) Employment Rate: 83.5% (+0.3%) Employment Level: 21.1M

Federal government employment is down 333k since the start of 2025 amidst DOGE cuts—that's more than 11% of the Federal workforce The large drop last October was caused by many workers who had been on deferred resignation becoming officially unemployed

US tech sector employment is down 43k over the last year in data released this morning—that's nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and significantly worse than either the 2008 or 2020 recessions

NEW US JOBS DATA: Non-farm Payrolls: +172k Unemployment Rate: 4.3% (+0%) Prime Age (25-54) Employment-Population Ratio: 80.8% (+0.1%) Average Hourly Earnings: +0.3%

Metro job data is in today, & 29 of the 50 largest metros have gained jobs over the last year Fastest: Las Vegas (2%), Raleigh (2%), Fresno (1.7%), SLC (1.3%), San Jose (1.3%) Slowest: DC (-2.9%), Portland (-2.8%), OKC (-1%), Detroit (-.9%), Milwaukee (-.9%)

okay I will give Steyer my "best Pride Month Campaign Ad" award

NEW: US labor market flows remained sluggish in April data released this morning, as hiring fell to the 3rd-lowest level since early 2013 The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs fell to 1.1%, quits fell to 1.9%, and job openings rose to 4.6%

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