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US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is gearing up for a potential Senate or presidential run in 2028, igniting excitement among progressives nationwide.  #AOC2028

Progressives criticize Trump-appointed SSA Commissioner for considering raising retirement age, contradicting Trump's campaign promise.

“This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of providing material support to terrorists.

Amazon is expanding its logistics empire, officially supporting fulfillment for Walmart Marketplace orders through its Multichannel Fulfillment service. The move is part of a broader push to provide end-to-end supply chain services for sellers.

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Are we sure we didn't get teleported into the Idiocracy movie‽

With cancellations surging, many subscribers reported technical issues. On Reddit’s r/Fauxmoi, one post read, “The page to cancel your Hulu/Disney+ subscription keeps crashing.”

Another added, “Already cancelled my Disney subscription,” while others said they faced looping logins and stalled forms. These firsthand accounts suggest Disney’s systems struggled under the unusual traffic volume.

The 30-year mortgage rate shot up the day after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates.

Hours after the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday by 25 basis points, mortgage rates ticked up 9 basis points.

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The Fed announced Wednesday that it would trim its key policy rate by a quarter of a percentage point, bringing it to the range of 4% to 4.25%. Around the time of the announcement, Mortgage News Daily, a website that posts daily updates on rates, crashed - possibly the result of people flocking to the site to see how mortgage rates reacted. The company told MarketWatch it was looking into why the site was down that afternoon.

Mortgage News Daily later reported that the 30-year rate went up by 9 basis points (0.09%) to 6.22% on Wednesday. On Thursday, it reported that the 30-year rate had gone up by 15 more basis points, to 6.37%.

In contrast, a report by Freddie Mac measuring weekly averages for the 30-year rate found that mortgage rates fell to the lowest level in 12 months on Thursday. That's because Freddie Mac's report gathered information prior to and after the Fed's decision was announced. The weekly report doesn't survey lenders, but is based on actual mortgage applications to lenders across the country that are sent to Freddie Mac.

... Mortgage rates aren't tied to the Fed's interest-rate moves. Instead, they typically fall in advance of a Fed rate cut, as MarketWatch has reported, because bond investors are trying to anticipate where the central bank will go. Mortgage rates are priced off the 10-year Treasury note BX:TMUBMUSD10Y by adding a spread.

Hence, the 10-year Treasury yield is a better gauge of how mortgage rates will move - and the 10-year yield was trending higher Thursday.

Mortgage rates have decoupled from the Fed's benchmark / targets, basically, because fiscal policy and the overall economic outlook are so bad that traditional monetary policy is no longer effective.

This is generally what economists would call 'a bad sign'.

Myself, I would go so far as 'a very bad sign.'

My condolences to anyone who confused their local new/used home salesperson with a qualified economist, if they told you, and you believed, something like 'Fed rate cuts will lower mortgage rates!

https://www.wtrf.com/news/senate-approves-october-14-charlie-kirks-birthday-as-national-day-of-remembrance-for-charlie-kirk/

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Here's a list of every democrat that voted to make the birthday of a white surpremisist a national holiday:

Aguilar

Ansari

Auchincloss

Balint

Bera

Boyle

Budzinski

Case

Chu

Cisneros

Clark

Crow

Cuellar

Davids (KS)

Dean (PA) DeLauro DelBene

Deluzio

Dingell

Edwards

Fletcher

Foster

Golden (ME)

Goldman (TX)

Gottheimer

Harder (CA)

Himes

Houlahan

Hoyer

Huffman

Jeffries

Kamlager-Dove

Keating

Landsman

McGuire Meeks

Menendez

Meng

Mfume

Schrier

Scott, David Sewell

Sherman

Sherrill

Smith (WA)

Min

Morelle

Sorensen

Morrison

Soto

Larsen (WA)

Moskowitz. Stanton

Larson (CT)

Lee (NV)

Murphy

Stevens

Nadler

Suozzi

Levin

Takano

Titus

Tran

Liccardo

Lieu

Lofgren

Lynch

Mackenzie

Magaziner

Mannion

Neal

Panetta

Pappas

Perez

Pou

Raskin

Vargas

Wasserman Schultz

Riley (NY)

Rivas

McBath

Ross

McBride

Ryan

McClellan

Salinas

McCollum

Sánchez

McDonald Rivet

Scanlon

McGarvey

McGovern

Scholten

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36387158

Looks like Whoopi Goldberg will be the next to be cancelled.

“We’re looking at the entire spider web”

Fri 19 Sep 2025 08.36 EDT

New York lawmakers, immigrants’ rights activists and religious leaders were arrested on Thursday at protests both inside and outside the complex in lower Manhattan where federal officials have been routinely detaining immigrants amid the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda.

At least 70 demonstrators staged a direct-action protest to block access to and from the underground garage used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to transport people arrested by the agency. The nature of the protest prompted the New York police department (NYPD) to begin arresting people sitting in front of the access ramp.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36374796

The abrupt programming decision quickly morphed into a flashpoint for free speech in America under the Trump administration.

https://archive.ph/8buhg

By John Koblin, Brooks Barnes, Benjamin Mullin and Michael M. Grynbaum
Sept. 18, 2025

Mr. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, and Dana Walden, his head of television, were also hearing from skittish advertisers and employees who had begun to receive threatening messages. When the team reviewed Mr. Kimmel’s planned remarks, they grew concerned that his monologue would only inflame the situation further.

So they made the call: “Jimmy Kimmel Live” would temporarily go dark.

That decision — the product of a spider’s web of interlocking political and financial pressures placed atop one of the country’s biggest corporations — quickly morphed into a flashpoint for free speech in America. Many Democrats, actors and comedians cried foul as right-wing activists celebrated. On a diplomatic trip in Britain, President Trump knocked Mr. Kimmel for “bad ratings” and proclaimed that ABC “should have fired him a long time ago.”

House Democrats are preparing to reject a measure to avoid a government shutdown expected to reach the House floor on Friday, potentially teeing up a high-stakes confrontation as Republicans dare them to own the fallout.

The impasse has set the stage for another volatile showdown ahead of the Sept. 30 government funding deadline, with federal workers and agencies bracing for a potential shutdown.

Republicans are pressing for a “clean” seven-week extension of federal funding that pushes the fight into late November. The party controls both the House and the Senate, but can't get any spending bill through the upper chamber without the support of some Democrats. The House could vote on the GOP continuing resolution as early as Friday.