"American conservative politics is ... about creating a list of enemies, and fantasizing about all the things that might justifiably be done to them, and building the necessary fortifications; about turning on the TV and never turning it off." https://defector.com/the-man-who-invented-himself

manufacturing employment is at its highest level since late 2008 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP

Like @mmasnick wrote (https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/03/elon-musk-is-running-scared-from-mastodon-cuts-off-the-best-tool-for-finding-your-twitter-followers-there/) Movetodon seems gone but Debirdify (https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/) still works. I just added another batch of 46 people I used to follow on Twitter who seem to have recently joined Mastodon (welcome!). With the free API going away, this is likely to be my last batch of automated import.