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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Fully Depreciated" is a tax and accounting term that indicates the asset is past its useful economic life, the sort of incredibly nerdy business reference that I would make but in this context its about a young woman, which prompts one to ask, well, how would her value be going down

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 8

This detail from the WSJ’s new Trump-Epstein reporting also seems pretty bad www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

The Epstein estate also turned over another letter from the book that references Trump. It came from businessman and longtime Mar-a-Lago member Joel Pashcow, who made a crude joke about a woman that Trump and Epstein socialized with in the 1990s, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Pashcow letter included a photo of a posterboard-sized check for $22,500, which had been mocked up to appear that it was sent from Trump to Epstein. Beneath it, a handwritten caption said: “Jeffrey showing early talents with money + women sells ‘fully depreciated’ [redacted] to Donald Trump for $22,500.” The woman’s name is redacted in the image.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 16h

i firmly think that the reason a lot of this stuff doesn't really get covered is because it's a bummer to bring up at a dinner party, and dinner party conversations are how the actual policy is formed in DC

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

a real water is wet scenario here

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 57m

There's such an obvious 'activist class' that believes that it and only its membership are engaging in true, pure protest and everyone else is just faking it

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1h

but grandpa keeps making new tariffs scott

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1h

BESSENT: ONE TIME PRICE ADJUSTMENT FROM TARIFFS IS NOT INFLATIONARY

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1h

Still a poaster

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1h

Well, she's hot

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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 1h

As so often is true, Texas piloted this approach and the result, as Kari White's work showed, was harm to the women of Texas

The feds are cutting off public money for all Planned Parenthoods, following a playbook that began in Texas

Texas’ Planned Parenthood has lost half its clinics, but they continue to see thousands of patients a year.

www.texastribune.org

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 17h

A common talking point of libertarians is that regulations are unnecessary because the market will regulate itself. After all, they'll say, if a brand sells products contaminated with lead, consumers can just vote with their wallets and not buy that product.

Yeah. So about that...

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 20h

i was surprised to learn that bc most protein powders are considered dietary supplements, they basically fall into a regulatory grey area

there's no federal limit on the amount of lead they can contain and neither manufacturers nor the FDA have to prove these products are safe before they're sold

Protein powders and shakes, like all dietary supplements, fall into something of a regulatory gray area.

There is no federal limit specifying the amount of lead allowed in protein powders. And while the FDA requires that manufacturers keep their products free of harmful contaminants, it largely leaves it up to companies to decide what counts as harmful and test their own products for compliance.

Before 1994, manufacturers had to prove herbal products were safe before selling them. That changed after Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. The law sharply limited the FDA’s authority, leaving supplements far less regulated than drugs.

Today, supplements are “presumed safe unless found otherwise,” says Cohen at Harvard Medical School, and most products face scrutiny only after reaching the market—meaning unsafe or contaminated supplements can reach consumers before problems are caught.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2h

But this time we control the torment nexus, think of what we could do with that sort of power

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 3h

Alex Jones arguing that there were 'small discovery errors' that lead him here instead of flatly ignoring all discovery requests is fucking rich as hell and I love that he was turned down

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 3h

Swear to God, after 2024 I don't want to fucking hear 'candidate OLD' ever fucking again

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

there are a couple of ways to think about this, one is that no one should be running for their first senate race at this age, and the other is that if platner can’t beat her, he definitely can’t beat collins. i think he can. everybody needs to stop crying and start fighting.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

Janet Mills going to the Senate at 79 would make her the oldest elected freshman senator in history — but just as old as or younger than 1 in 9 senators serving in this congress. www.pbump.net/o/a-79-year-...

A 79 year-old freshman senator would be … unusual

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has announced her intention to run for Senate against the state's well-known — ahem — incumbent, Susan Collins. When the next Senate term begins in January 2027, Collins wil...

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 3h

Anyway her quick rehabilitation and book deal really hammers home how fundamentally unethical that beat is

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 3h

Yet another reminder that the reason Nuzzi was fired was not a relationship with RFK Jr it was not telling her editor about it, her infraction was professional, not tawdry

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 3h

It is very, very good that they are so, so fucking stupid

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17h

it is genuinely good that ICE is regularly tear gassing Chicago-area PDs

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20h

At 105th chaos erupted when ICE agents allegedly crashed into an SUV. A crowd formed and objects were thrown. Pepper balls were shot into the crowd. Police arrived to try to have dialogue with the crowd when witnesses stated they began throwing rocks at ICE. ICE then deployed tear gas.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 3h

Ah, last material filing day of the year. I love this time of year, because its over today, no matter what

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 3h

Christmas be fucked

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 16h

i cannot imagine having a brain which makes you think this and not "it is regrettable that the Republican party could not maintain a cordon sanitaire"

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16h

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 13h

What's Chuck Tingle hiding

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 14h

One thing I like about Gundams is that I don't -need- to paint earlier

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 14h

Built a Master grade Gundam this weekend

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 22h

A reminder, that today, on here, the tone of the website is what it is but out in the real world, Democrats are holding the line on the shutdown, MTG is slagging Republican leadership for the shutdown, and Thune and Johnson are on TV waxing rhapsodic about ANTIFA controlled cities

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 22h

2028 will be pretty bad

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 22h

Its like closer to the Mongols but worse at war and with shittier weapons, and like yeah when the Spanish show up with like guns and stuff everyone was like 'oh wait I know who deserves to get straight up murdered'

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22h

there are a lot of takes on the Aztec Empire, some of them intended to avoid ethnocentrism, which take the position that Mesoamericans like dying to atrocities, which makes one wonder why the people making those arguments believe the Spanish did anything wrong.

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