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Brad Hacker retweeted
FACTS: The middle fifth of households are, on average, around $1,700 worse off in 2026 than they would have been, while the poorest fifth are around $750 worse off.
The richest 1%, by contrast, are estimated to be an average of $12,560 better off than they would have been, primarily because of Trump's tax cuts.
Brad Hacker retweeted
The US affordability crisis is worsening:
Food prices have surged +34.5% since December 2019, now at their highest level on record.
Rent and grocery prices have risen +33.3% and +30.0%, respectively.
Furthermore, motor vehicle maintenance and repair prices have soared +55.2% over the same period.
Meanwhile, prices for services excluding rent, including medical care, transportation, education, communication, and recreation, have increased +29.2% since December 2019.
As a result, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has risen +30.4%.
Basic necessities are becoming increasingly unaffordable in the US.
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There have been just 8 World Series in history where both teams enter having never won one...
1903 - Americans/Pirates
1905 - Giants/A's
1906 - White Sox/Cubs
1907 - Cubs/Tigers
1909 - Pirates/Tigers
1920 - Indians/Robins
1980 - Phillies/Royals
2026 - Brewers/Rays
Brad Hacker retweeted
Today, at an Oval Office presser, Trump was in rare form, with a rapid-fire assault of falsehoods, hyperboles, and threats.
He said Rep. Omar needed to be jailed, Rep. Slotkin needed to be tried, he insulted Somalians and immigrants in general, and attacked the press multiple times, asking one reporter what is wrong with them, telling another to Shhh! and growling "Quiet!" to another.
Anyone who witnessed this would clearly conclude that the biggest story on Earth, this day and every day, is that the President of the United States is seriously unwell and allowed to continue in office - unfit, untethered, and unchecked.
It is unbelievable, unfathomable, and unacceptable.
Danger, Will Robinson danger!😂😜
🚨 A $2 TRILLION MORTGAGE DISASTER IS BUILDING IN THE U.S., AND IT COULD MAKE THE 2008 CRISIS LOOK SMALL
The U.S. has roughly $8.3 trillion in fixed rate mortgages, averaging just 4.6% interest, while new mortgage rates are around 7.4%.
Based on a simplified 25-year loan valuation, those mortgages could already be worth $1.94 trillion less, even without a single default.
For comparison, estimated mortgage related losses during the 2008 crisis totaled up to around $1.4 trillion.
That's about 1.4 times that amount, although today's losses are still on paper.
The bigger concern is that these losses don't require homeowners to stop making payments.
They come from the gap between old mortgage rates and current borrowing costs.
In 2023, rising rates helped bring down Silicon Valley Bank after massive losses on long-term securities.
Now a similar interest-rate risk is hanging over a much larger mortgage market.
If institutions are forced to sell at heavy discounts, those paper losses could become real.
The next financial shock might not start with homeowners defaulting. It could start with the institutions holding their mortgages.
Brad Hacker retweeted
🚨 BREAKING:
Cooper: "I've seen governments and dictators rise and fall, and people and places torn apart by lies, hatred, and war. I've seen people do things and heard them say things I never could have imagined. I've seen what we humans are capable of when everything else is stripped away. Yes, great acts of cruelty and barbarism. But we're also capable of extraordinary acts of heroism and humanity. It's a choice, and the choice is ours.
Let us hope that 50 years from now, someone standing here or somewhere else on the eve of this republic's 300th anniversary will look back at us and say: They didn't know if they would survive it, but they did."
Brad Hacker retweeted
BREAKING: The number of active home sellers in the US rose +1.2% MoM in September, or +17,276, to 1,510,784, the highest since March 2020.
At the same time, the number of active homebuyers fell -2.4%, or -23,161, to 928,892, the lowest on record.
This lifts the gap between active sellers and homebuyers to a record 581,892.
As a result, there were +62.6% more home sellers than buyers last month, the largest difference on record.
This percentage has more than doubled since November 2024.
By comparison, the 2021 low was -35.7%, when buyers outnumbered sellers by 633,854.
Hundreds of thousands of homebuyers have been priced-out.
Brad Hacker retweeted
Youngest players in postseason history with a leadoff HR:
1) Jackson Chourio in 2024
2) Jackson Chourio in 2025
3) Jackson Chourio in 2026 🤯
Brad Hacker retweeted
October 14, 2025: Jackson Chourio hits a leadoff home run on the first pitch against the Dodgers in the NLCS
October 14, 2026: Jackson Chourio hits a leadoff home run on the first pitch against the Dodgers in the NLCS
Time is a flat circle
Brad Hacker retweeted
A month ago, when everything was kitchen table and Iran war, I suggested that THE issue that will take Trump down more than any other, is corruption.
I said this because he was so increasingly brazen, so tone deaf to how it looked, and behaviorally, I didn't think he could or would stop.
Well - the folks at Gallup, who have been measuring population perception of corruption for two decades, said today that 89% of Americans say corruption is widespread in the Trump 2.0 government. That's not “some,” and it's not even "most."
It breaks as 91% of Democrats, 90% of independents, and even 83% of Republicans! Highest US corruption measurement in Gallup history.
And - of the largest and richest democracies on Earth, America is now #1 in perceived government corruption. The only countries scoring higher, per Gallup, since 2023 are Lebanon, Peru, Ghana and Nigeria.
That is the company America is now in. Not with Canada. Not with Norway. With Lebanon and Nigeria.
It gives new meaning to America First.
F*ck you, MAGA.
Brad Hacker retweeted
How can you possibly vote for a Republican if you're a child of an immigrant? Or a millennial who wants a habitable planet? Or a scientist? Or a person who trusts science? Or a person of color? Or Hispanic? Or LGBTQ? Or a veteran? Or a senior? Or someone on a fixed income? Or an educator? Or in a labor union? Or an environmentalist? Or a farmer? Or in need of steady health care? Or a woman? Or compassionate? Or humble? Or sane?
