Eschaton

Oh No Not Our Big Beautiful Boaters

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:30:00 +0000

No group is entirely monolithic, but boat guys are Trump guys.

Damn You Sleepy Joe

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:33:00 +0000

Why does he keep doing this.

Annual inflation rose to a three-year-high of 4.2% in May, underscoring how elevated energy prices are rippling through the US economy, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

How is this holding up:

“I firmly believe that nothing is more transient than a supply shock, and we can, we can look through that, because before the Iranian conflict began, core inflation was coming down,” Bessent told CNBC’s Joe Kernen from the sidelines of President Donald Trump’s summit with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. “So I think core inflation will continue coming down.”
That hasn’t been the recent trend, however.
Separate readings this week showed that consumer prices jumped 0.6% in April — and still rose 0.4% even when focusing on core costs that exclude food and energy. Twelve-month inflation stood at 3.8% for inflation and 2.8% for core.
Similarly, wholesale prices, a better indication of pipeline pressures, soared 1.4%, putting the 12-month level at 6%, the highest since late 2022. The inflation shock showed up in import and export prices as well, which also posted their highest levels in about four years.

That was from March.

At Least The War Is Over

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:43:00 +0000

Going well.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has claimed attacks on United States military bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan in retaliation for US strikes on Iranian ports and islands in the Strait of Hormuz.
In a statement carried by state media on Wednesday, the IRGC said it launched drone attacks on the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and the Ali Al Salem airbase in Kuwait, as well as a long-range missile strike on an airbase in Azraq, Jordan.

But, Atrios, you can't take what the IRGC says at face value! Yes, true, but I have some bad news about Pete Hegseth's Pentagon.

Morning

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:50:13 +0000

Wacky Wednesday

Happy Hour

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0000

Get happy

Screwed

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:37:00 +0000

Heckuva job, Elon.

New York — The screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite and longtime foe of American ranchers, is back in US cattle after decades.
The US Department of Agriculture confirmed at least three infected cattle Texas this week. The beef industry has already been grappling with the smallest cattle herd in 75 years due to prolonged droughts.

The early months of Trump II were especially enraging, in part because of Dem (not all) politicians talking about DOGE as if it could be a force for good.

War Off War On

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:28:51 +0000

The American Dream

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:30:00 +0000

I have been curious about what they expected to find here.

But since arriving in the US, Afrikaners – largely the Afrikaans-speaking descendants of Dutch settlers and French Huguenots – have faced major challenges, in large part due to policies aimed at immigrants and enacted by the White House and Ohio’s Republican-run legislature.
Last June, Ohio introduced new driving license rules for lawful residents who are not citizens or green card holders.
They include the requirement for all applicants to complete eight hours of lessons through a designated driving school, 24 hours of classroom work and 50 hours of driving with a licensed adult before being able to take a driving exam. The cost of fulfilling these requirements is estimated at about $500 and could take up to nine months, when in the past it took a matter of weeks.

I am a "ban cars" guy and this is insane.

Headlines Every Time

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:30:00 +0000

The problem with all (good) fact checking type reporting is that the other reporters wake up every day with their minds wiped, putting the new claim/lie in the headlines and first paragraphs.

Including the period before the ceasefire, he’s done it at least 37 times. That’s the number of times he’s said directly — in social media posts, public appearances and phone calls with the media — that a deal was nigh or claimed Iran was desperate to cut one.

At Least The War Is Over

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Or maybe it's infrastructure week.

United States President Donald Trump has said that a deal between Israel and Iran is imminent, and that the two will leave each other alone for at least a week.
He told reporters late on Monday that the US was “in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal”.

Morning

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:29:00 +0000

Taco Tuesday

Happy Hour

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0000

Get happy

Afternoon

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:25:39 +0000

Busy with life stuff

Badass

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Elissa Slotkin is working on the important issues.

But those rules don’t go far enough for Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) or Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), who are introducing the Protecting America from Chinese Cars Act. Should it pass, the bill would ban connected cars built or designed in China (and other adversarial nations like Russia) from entering the country, including any connected cars built elsewhere by a Chinese company or by any firm in which Chinese companies own more than 15 percent.

I do find it funny that the usual centrist dipshits were setting her up to be The Next Big Thing before realizing she is dumber than dogshit.

Trivially easy for Canada or even just Ontario to retaliate.

I have some bad news for people who are pretending to be frightened of Chinese computer chips.

At Least The War Is Over

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:30:00 +0000

Few pleasures in politics these days, but it is funny when Trump makes horrible people eat shit, even if only temporarily.

Bringing The Fun

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:43:04 +0000

No idea how this doesn't cause fans to miss half the game.

Screwed

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:30:00 +0000

Funny how they all know they have to suggest Sleepy Joe is to blame.

Well before the first U.S. detection of New World Screwworm, since February of 2025, USDA has worked around the clock with our state, local, industry, and ranchers on the ground. The secretary herself made four trips to South Texas, more than anywhere else in the country," a USDA spokesperson told Reuters. "The idea that this department has not been transparent is absurd and does not match what ranchers are telling the department and our partners directly."

Sleepy Joe gave the cows citizenship!

Rollins blamed the spread of screwworm toward the U.S.-Mexico border on “the open-border policies of the last administration and the resulting illicit cattle movement” in a separate social media post an hour before Wednesday’s press conference.

The Decider

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Bibi didn't really agree.

"He won’t have any choice," Trump told the Financial Times , over the phone. "I call the shots. I call all the shots. He [Netanyahu] doesn’t call the shots."

Trump told Axios earlier that he was going to ask Netanyahu not to retaliate against Iran for the latest attack to make sure the three sides could salvage a deal.

Trump told the Financial Times that the latest strikes have not had "any impact on the deal".

Mr. Trump, sir, he is making you look weak and foolish.

“Israel and Iran must immediately stop ‘shooting.’ President DONALD J. TRUMP,” Trump wrote on Truth Social early Monday.
In a phone call Sunday, Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold off launching a retaliatory attack on Iran, according to a US official.

Morning

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Messy Monday

Happy Hour

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0000

get happy

Bari's Kids

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:30:00 +0000

Free Press "reporter" explains why none of these dipshits ever travel.

If people want to travel because they think it would be cool to see this or that thing, that’s fine, but the idea that people are learning anything novel or valuable from these experiences is absurd. In order to learn anything that isn’t already on Wikipedia or repeated on a…
— River Page (@river_is_nice) June 4, 2026

We All Went To School Near Boston

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:30:00 +0000

If this really is an important subject for ongoing public discussion by people and for the benefit of people with no stake in the answer, then Harvard and our broader HE system should be nationalized.

Banana-fana-fo-Fari

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:30:00 +0000

Back when she was at the NYT, gross old white recently retired and near to retirement at Times journalists would assemble like Sexpest Voltron to defend Bari whenever she was criticized.

So, the story goes through screenings. It’s very well received. There are notes as always and we do rewrites as always. But this is on a very tight deadline. It’s Sunday; we’re going on the air that night. And in the case of stories that are, as we say, crashing, our deadline on Sunday is noon. So, we work on all of these things. We get the piece approved by everyone. And about four hours after our deadline, Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent? Now, I’m paraphrasing. I don’t have the quote, but that’s what was communicated to me. And the other thing, Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer.
This is not what you see on the video. On the video, you see the officer standing slightly off the front of the car. And you clearly see Ms. Good’s wheels turned completely as far as they will go, away from the officer. But he shoots her in the head, kills her, and says something about her that I can’t repeat in polite company.

A certain type of man is very susceptible to a certain type of (then) young brownnoser. They are all probably in love with their chatbots now.

Morning

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:01:46 +0000

Sunday funday

Saturday Evening

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:59:37 +0000

Enjoy