Debbie Carlson
@debbiecarlson.bsky.social
Journalist: Commodities, investing retirement + more for @barronsonline @WSJ, @theguardianus + others. Curiosity gets the best of me.
What a beautiful act. Rick Steves is a treasure.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
What a beautiful act. Rick Steves is a treasure.
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One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
December 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
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Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
December 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
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"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"
It took Rand Paul to connect the dots between oil and Trump's war threats.
Rand Paul: "We've never in our past decided just to shoot smugglers who are unarmed without even proof they're smuggling anything. So I think this is a horrendous thing that should stop. I think it's illegal & immoral... the kids in the military - I'm not for sending them down there to die for oil"
December 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It took Rand Paul to connect the dots between oil and Trump's war threats.
To give is golden, especially if that gift is actual gold. For @barrons.com I explore how charitably minded folks who also bought gold ahead of its rally can donate it to their favorite non profits. www.barrons.com/articles/gol...
All That Glitters Is Gold When It Comes to Charitable Donations
Donating precious metals this year is a smart way to dodge the taxman and do good at the same time.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
To give is golden, especially if that gift is actual gold. For @barrons.com I explore how charitably minded folks who also bought gold ahead of its rally can donate it to their favorite non profits. www.barrons.com/articles/gol...
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WHO AMONG US hasn't sat down 11 times with a journalist and a tape recorder only to be shocked that they'd publish stuff we talked about?
December 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
WHO AMONG US hasn't sat down 11 times with a journalist and a tape recorder only to be shocked that they'd publish stuff we talked about?
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Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
December 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
The holiday train from @chicagocta.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The holiday train from @chicagocta.bsky.social
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Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
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December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
This headline strikes fear in the heart of Chicagoans of a certain age.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/06/u...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/06/u...
Five inches of snow blankets Chicago area on Sunday with quickest start to winter since 1978, NWS says
The region was blanketed with 5 inches of snow in what a meteorologist at the National Weather Service called the “quickest start to winter” since 1978.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This headline strikes fear in the heart of Chicagoans of a certain age.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/06/u...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/06/u...
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There is zero narrative right now about wages or incomes. Kudos to all the rich assholes at choke points in the political process that succeeded in wielding polling to keep the conservation not about what you earn relative to the rich but on the price of eggs. Master stroke.
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
There is zero narrative right now about wages or incomes. Kudos to all the rich assholes at choke points in the political process that succeeded in wielding polling to keep the conservation not about what you earn relative to the rich but on the price of eggs. Master stroke.
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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“What have I done!” 🤡
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“What have I done!” 🤡
If Animal House ever gets rebooted, this party animal deserves a role.
In addition to rum, moonshine and peanut butter whiskey, this raccoon at a Virginia liquor store also got into some vodka and eggnog. If you have not tried it, peanut butter whiskey “is excellent,” a PR manager for the store said. The raccoon apparently agreed. trib.al/XurZIQv
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
If Animal House ever gets rebooted, this party animal deserves a role.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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*whispers*
Hey, writers.
Come here.
No, closer.
Okay, here’s a thing I always try to remember:
You can write 24 utterly straightforward words and some people will read only 18 of them, and in the wrong order.
And nothing on earth you ever do will fix that.
Hey, writers.
Come here.
No, closer.
Okay, here’s a thing I always try to remember:
You can write 24 utterly straightforward words and some people will read only 18 of them, and in the wrong order.
And nothing on earth you ever do will fix that.
December 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
*whispers*
Hey, writers.
Come here.
No, closer.
Okay, here’s a thing I always try to remember:
You can write 24 utterly straightforward words and some people will read only 18 of them, and in the wrong order.
And nothing on earth you ever do will fix that.
Hey, writers.
Come here.
No, closer.
Okay, here’s a thing I always try to remember:
You can write 24 utterly straightforward words and some people will read only 18 of them, and in the wrong order.
And nothing on earth you ever do will fix that.
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Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Sarah Conway will be the next editor in chief of the Chicago Reader
December 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Sarah Conway will be the next editor in chief of the Chicago Reader
Nattily dressed shop cat.
November 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Nattily dressed shop cat.
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Ok people, let's get one thing straight. Whether you love dibs or hate dibs, we all agree on one thing: you don't get to claim dibs because you were parked and blocking snowfall. You have to actually SHOVEL THE SPOT.
November 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Ok people, let's get one thing straight. Whether you love dibs or hate dibs, we all agree on one thing: you don't get to claim dibs because you were parked and blocking snowfall. You have to actually SHOVEL THE SPOT.
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few things make me feel more chicago than trudging through the snow for a beer in a dive bar
November 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
few things make me feel more chicago than trudging through the snow for a beer in a dive bar
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Boom.
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Boom.