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Jacob Weindling
@jakeweindling.bsky.social
Editor at Large @splinternews.bsky.social
Rabid Colorado sports partisan.
Mildly rabid lefty partisan.
Reluctant finance guy.
Accidental UFO reporter-ish (more on that later).

Signal: JacobWeindling.16
And while gold is selling off hard, so far, the price range where the US wasn't actively trying to take Greenland from NATO and where Japan didn't publicly announce a plan to blow out its deficit even more is a buy zone for the market.
February 2, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Not sure it's a good thing that the Japanese 40-year has 4% in range and the US 30-year can see the TACO Trump number of 5% over the horizon
February 2, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Gold way down, stocks up, yields up, risk up the most

The very broken market's nature is healing
February 2, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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I feel like trump voters are beginning to realize there isn't some grand ending here. It's just national suicide and not everyone is down with that
Remarkable: 55% of noncollege whites and even 50% of rural whites say ICE is too aggressive, per new Fox News poll.

And 71% of independents disapprove of Trump on immigration.

This is digging deep into Trump's base.

We detail these numbers on today's pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Trump Tirade over Protests Goes Off Rails as Crushing Fox Poll Hits
As Trump grows more delusional about how hated his ICE raids have become, a longtime pro-immigrant organizer explains why this may be a watershed moment in terms of public opinion on the issue.
newrepublic.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Everywhere you look these days you can find a Republican who has been shamelessly violating Biggie's 4th Crack Commandment
February 2, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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Goalie fight, as called in American Sign Language:
February 2, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Bad Bunny is an American treasure
Bad Bunny with a powerful anti-ICE speech at the Grammys 🔥🔥🔥🔥

"Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ‘ICE out.’ We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans."
February 2, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability
February 1, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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ProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers

www.propublica.org/article/alex...
February 1, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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Any serious reckoning of Obama’s legacy is going to have to grapple with the fact that Summers held a position of influence in the administration for years.
Larry Summers, seen here somehow managing to have the worst gender politics in the room while in a one on one conversation with JEFFREY FUCKING EPSTEIN.
February 1, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up
January 31, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Someone paying $55k for dinner with Bari Weiss is one of the clearest examples of how taxes on the wealthy are criminally low
Bari Weiss attended a fundraiser last night in NYC, attendee tells me. There was an auction item for dinner with her and wife Nellie Bowles. Several people cheered in approval, many others said after how gross it was. Bari shouted out “And you can make out with Nellie!” It ultimately sold for $55k.
February 1, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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liam and his dad are home!

and someone please get rep. castro a coat!
February 1, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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a "fun" fact is that texas' state senate map is so gerrymandered that this swing would flip all but four republican districts
February 1, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Holy shit
February 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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And most of the major media did not take it as seriously as they should have because they were also often ridiculed by Gawker etc. An entire century thus far of reactionary politics from people getting owned online.
we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”

This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
January 31, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 31, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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In America the only way to retire from working is to let Gunther choke you to death
"The career, the legacy of AJ Styles fades to black"
January 31, 2026 at 9:15 PM
If this same 5-0 game had unfolded in 1998, both teams would have already combined for 200 penalty minutes by now
January 31, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Blowing the doors off the Red Wings more than once or twice a year could fix me
January 31, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Yeah I wouldn't say Roy covered himself in too much glory in either goalie fight, man loved to write checks his ass couldn't cash
January 31, 2026 at 6:46 PM
RETVRN
January 31, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Will never feel right watching an Avs-Red Wings game where it doesn't feel like a 12 man brawl could unfold at any moment
January 31, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Trump nuking everyone in crypto's leverage with a Friday post he TACO'd on by Sunday is what ended the crypto bull run. Charts look like a lot of bodies are floating up on beaches right now. www.jezebel.com/trump-bankru...
Trump Bankrupted Tons of Crypto Bros and Caused Its Biggest Wipeout Ever With One TruthSocial Post
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
www.jezebel.com
January 31, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Kind of think this wipeout is a continuation of metals yesterday. Lotta degenerates were longing silver cuz they got sick of BTC lagging, and the way you have to understand crypto is through leverage. The reason it goes up and down so much is because people take on debt to long

Debts came due today
January 31, 2026 at 6:13 PM