This is not normal
2025-04-18 17:58:06.76527+02 by Dan Lyke 1 comments
Sixty percent of freight containers or shippers have been canceled. Our whole industry has stopped ordering products from China due to the 145% tariffs.
and
These products will not be on the shelves because our industry and millions of small businesses have simply stopped ordering. We'll run out of inventory in the next 60 days.
Mack Trucks announces layoffs at Lehigh Valley plant, blames tariffs
“Heavy-duty truck orders continue to be negatively affected by market uncertainty about freight rates and demand, possible regulatory changes, and the impact of tariffs,” spokesperson Kimberly Pupillo said.
Both via this BlueSky thread.
NPR: A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data from the NLRB. Always hard to tell what's a newsletter writer trying to pimp up mainstream recording, but this thread with screenshots from the testimony that say:
In the days after DOGE accessed NLRB's systems, we noticed a user with an IP address in Primorskiy Krai, Russia, started trying to log in. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created accounts that were used in the other DOGE related activities and it appeared they had the correct username and password due to the authentication flow only stopping them due to our no-out-of-country logins policy activating.
and that MFA got turned off.
Meanwhile, cyber professional @permadeath.com writes: "i am going to Lose My Fucking Mind if the seed crystal for an antifascist general strike ends up being david fucking brooks": NYT: What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.