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Vandy, C.A.

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I used to sling stocks at the Squid || dog, food+beverage, travel pics || markets/econ but not investment advice || travel advisor Chicago or Paris https://cavandy.substack.com/p/lucy virtuoso.com/advisor/VandyGlobalTravel

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Vandy, C.A. @cavandy.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hi new BlueSkyers! I’m here to talk markets, economy, food/wine, travel and try not to despair the next 4 years.

Feel free to tag me in all doggo pics, still miss my darling Lucy RIP who was the bestest sweetest girl ever. Here she is in 2020 💜

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Vandy, C.A. @cavandy.bsky.social · 1h

everyone is calling for him to be sacked bc he’s a fucking ghoul who is making us less safe

NPR @npr.org · 1h

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

$CRM

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4h

This is like disbanding your military during World War Two.

The Trump regime is firing many of the 2,540 employee of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) during the ongoing government shutdown. Why? CISA dismissed Trump’s allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Cybersecurity agency that clashed with Trump one of the first hit with federal firings due to government shutdown

CISA plans to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65% of its workforce.

nypost.com

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5h

Some people don't super love Dubai but they get offered good money for a good job and they go for a couple of years. Wouldn't be my choice but I get it.
But a lot of people have made "slagging off the UK and going on about Dubai" their entire personality and it's quite dull

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Vandy, C.A. @cavandy.bsky.social · 3h

hmmm what's more likely to be the antichrist, the sweaty billionaire whose boyfriends keep dropping out of windows or some guy that sweaty billionaire is pointing to??

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10h

Peter Thiel has recently hosted 4 lectures about who the antichrist could be + warning that Armageddon is coming. He says the harbinger of the end of the world could already be in our midst + things such as international agencies, environmentalism and guardrails on technology could quicken its rise

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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NOTRELOAD AI @notreload.bsky.social · 4h

$AAPL [Apple is acquiring talent and computer vision tech from startup Prompt AI. Prompt, founded by top researchers, had good tech (Seemour smart home app) but a failed business model. Apple will likely use this for its HomeKit division.] www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/a...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Vandy, C.A. @cavandy.bsky.social · 15h

*another one??

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15h

Democrats. They are HANDING YOU GIFTS.

The Attorney General just had a guy we know took Russian money speak to the country. There's a direct link from Russia to Benny. You cannot fuck this up.

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Vandy, C.A. @cavandy.bsky.social · 16h

🫠 non it’s bc I’m 7 hours ahead and the markets like to fck w my free time (yes it’s all about me)

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 16h

Nice to have fast markets back.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17h

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily
ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
a.
Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.

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BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 19h

so, just to recap:

a) Trump didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize
b) Trump got given a rare earth backhand slap by China
c) the government Trump presides over is still in shutdown
d) Trump's ICE goons are being ridiculed by people dressed in inflatable frog costumes

great quarter, well done everyone !

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ALT: a close up of a door with a blurred background

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 20h

The school it takes straight A's to get into - what Wall Street would call "the smart money" - has studied the latest Trump extortion carrot and said...Nope. Not gonna do that.

MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding

MIT is one of the nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Vandy, C.A. @cavandy.bsky.social · 22h

like I really wanna know what improves by cancelling this?

or it's just that the petty and ignorant president gets to take away something that his predecessor championed

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22h

now do jan 6th

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Vandy, C.A. @cavandy.bsky.social · 22h

who gains from this

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 22h

The US is canceling a huge solar project in Nevada, the latest effort by President Donald Trump to limit renewable energy development

US Cancels Major Solar Project in Nevada Biden Had Championed

The US is canceling a huge solar project in Nevada, the latest effort by President Donald Trump to limit renewable energy development.

bloom.bg

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Vandy, C.A. @cavandy.bsky.social · 1d

me in the group chat this am

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Vandy, C.A. @cavandy.bsky.social · 1d

lawsuit when

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

Chief Judge Virginia Kendall said in a statement Thursday: “At no point did I, nor did the Building Security Committee, authorize or request the National Guard’s assistance to secure the Dirksen Courthouse.”

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Chicago Chief Judge Says US Troops Should Stay Away From Court

Chicago’s chief federal trial court judge says troops aren’t needed to secure the city’s US courthouse.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Vandy, C.A. @cavandy.bsky.social · 1d

"I run the company (with the money Daddy gave me to buy it)"

like, whatever dude ... it still looks like your botoxed-within-an-inch-of-his-life dad bought you a corporation for funsies and some light facsism

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 1d

This year’s laureate:

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