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Financial illiteracy @sparticuszorro.bsky.social · 12m

Russell Napier: «We Are Entering a Time of Financial Repression» | The Market

Market strategist Russell Napier talks about why he sees structurally rising inflation coming, why central banks are impotent – and what that means for investors.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 51m

Just make it up in volume

Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 21h

'Sora cost $20 a month & subscribers can generate an unlimited number of AI videos... this costs (Sora owners) OpenAI "at least $5 per 10-second video"'.

Journalists, please ask more questions about how this tech could ever in a million years make a profit?

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 22h

studio execs & major outlets claim AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over Hollywood. the reality is much different. i spoke with filmmakers, producers, and editors about how AI is actually showing up in productions – and what it still can't do:

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Why would the cartels want to stop ICE and CBP activities that have been diverting resources away from drug interdiction?

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 14h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 11h

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 10h

🥰 pro-life america 🥰

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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Elizabeth @underthesea62.bsky.social · 11h

Hahahahaha 😂

Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · Sep 20

Hm…

Tweet from Olivia Nuzzi:

Why does Hollywood think female reporters sleep with their sources?

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 17h

Here, the President of the United States says publicly that people on the left in America have “the devil’s ideology.” The devil’s ideology.

I don’t want to hear anyone on the right whine & complain anymore about “divisive/dangerous” language coming from the left. Not when you worship this guy. Ok?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "They have the devil's ideology. They become violent on the left."

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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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monty @montyburns77893.bsky.social · 17h

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 16h

This is the right take, fwiw. “Genocide” is a legal term, which means (a) it doesn’t become true just bc it is good mobilizing rhetoric or expresses the depth of one’s despair, and (b) it doesn’t become false bc accepting it as true would make one sad, uncomfortable, or challenge one’s self-image.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 16h

On MSNBC, Kamala Harris was asked if she agreed that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.

“I will tell you that when you look at the number of children that have been killed [...] the refusal to give aid, we should all step back and ask this question and be honest about it, yeah.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris held back from labeling Israel's actions in Gaza a "genocide" on Sunday but said it was an appropriate question.
"A lot of folks in your party have called what's happening in Gaza a genocide. Do you agree with that?" correspondent Eugene Daniels asked Harris during an interview on MSNBC's "The Weekend."
"Listen, it is a term of law that a court will decide," Harris responded. "But I will tell you that when you look at the number of children that have been killed, the number of innocent civilians that have been
killed, the refusal to give aid and support, we should all step back and ask this question and be honest about it, yeah."

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20h

Further premeditated, lawless killing in the Caribbean.

Making at least five such US strikes.

Against unidentified "narcoterrorists" affiliated w/ an unspecified "designated terrorist organization" allegedly trafficking unspecified narcotics.

POTUS is asserting a license to kill outside the law.

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19h

The potential for shit like this is one reason why groups like LUCE in Massachusetts urge people to report sightings to them so they and their partners can directly warn people. A decentralized network is a lot harder to shut down. No big tech company will be in ally in the fight against ICE.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 19h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

NYT: “.. Hamas on Monday returned only four bodies of roughly two dozen remaining, angering Israelis who had been expecting many more to come home.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Mike @mtannenbaum.bsky.social · 19h

Can the US do an acqui-hire if things do not work out? Asking for a friend. ;)

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 22h

The only "wave of violence" being perpetrated is coming from the masked fascists kidnapping our neighbors and friends, tear gassing our streets, and threatening anyone who tries to speak up.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23h

Statement from AG Pam Bondi:

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Mike @mtannenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

Joltin’ Joe aka The Yankee Clipper

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

A consistent thing about Trumpists in power is how they want everyone else to believe that people only do things for money

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Mike @mtannenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

I would go further and contend that these people do not even care that the event exists. Sponsoring this "event" was an avenue to get favorable treatment by the Trump Admin, not part of some sort of B2B marketing strategy. In that sense, it still might be a good investment.

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Bob Elliott @bobeunlimited.bsky.social · 1d

Among institutional quality hedge funds there is no outperformance persistence beyond chance. If a manager is top quartile in one yr their quartile ranking is random over the next 5yrs.

That's why diversifying & lower costs is much better than picking.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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