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Jacob Weindling

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Editor-in-Chief of @splinternews.bsky.social Rabid Colorado sports partisan. Mildly rabid lefty partisan. Accidental UFO reporter-ish. Subscribe to Splinter: https://tinyurl.com/px9jjc64 Splinter newsletter: https://www.splinter.com/newsletter

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · Feb 7

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Five Reasons to Subscribe to Splinter, A Good Website

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 6h

Do you believe Pizzagate is real?

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 7h

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

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 7h

Marc Thiessen is so fucking stupid, willfully or not, that he argued waterboarding couldn’t be torture because Christopher Hitchens agreed to be waterboarded to find out how bad it was for a iirc Vanity Fair article and video, even tho Hitchens was all: it’s torture I felt like I was being tortured…

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 10h

I once made the case to my grandfather that Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson and all pitchers of that era were overrated because of the elevated mound and he didn't talk to me for the rest of the day he was so mad

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1d

It’s difficult to explain to non-Jews the extent to which Jewish children are raised to believe that the single greatest athlete in American history is Sandy Koufax

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 12h

Honestly anyone who pronounces their rs exposes themselves as a non-Masshole

Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 12h

Buena Vista in Colorado

Worcester in Massachusetts

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 13h

Rural Republicans quite literally killing off their own constituents.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 15h

Wrote about a pretty chilling Dallas Fed paper today strongly suggesting the bad jobs numbers this year are the new normal because the GOP likes racism more than money www.splinter.com/trumps-immig...

Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Creating a Lasting Drag on Jobs and the Economy

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 16h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 15h

The GOP wants America to look more like European nativism, and turns out they meant a slowing economy with an aging workforce and growing existential problems too. www.splinter.com/trumps-immig...

Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Creating a Lasting Drag on Jobs and the Economy

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 15h

This chart is terrifying. We're meeting demand for job growth. At 30,000 jobs/month. This is due to demographic trends you can see unfold in 2024, and Trump's gestapo entering the fray in 2025. www.splinter.com/trumps-immig...

Dallas Fed chart, longer description in the link but it shows the breakeven rate to keep the employment rate steady dropping from 200-250k jobs/month to 30,000 now

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 15h

Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Creating a Lasting Drag on Jobs and the Economy

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 16h

Red River Rivalry this weekend just got a lot more real

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 16h

A simpler way to look at the generational gold bull run is it's the safest short on America

Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 16h

Let's zoom in on the chart since Trump won last November...aaaand there goes gold off the chart

Chart of Nasdaq and most of gold except for its current push up that is above the visible chart, gold is up 44% to the Nasdaq 100's 25%

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 17h

Since the bottom of the bear market in October 2022, gold has out-performed the Nasdaq

You know, that thing in the midst of an insane AI bubble

Gold

Chart of gold and the Nasdaq plotted on the same % gain since Oct 2022 showing Gold higher than the Nasdaq

An image of, per Wiki "Cassandra or Casandra (/kəˈsændrə/;[2] Ancient Greek: Κασ(σ)άνδρα, pronounced [kas:ándra], sometimes referred to as Alexandra; Ἀλεξάνδρα)[3] in Greek mythology was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him to utter true prophecies but never to be believed. In modern usage her name is employed as a rhetorical device to indicate a person whose accurate prophecies, generally of impending disaster, are not believed."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17h

Fascinating moment in the power of DC Think. Democrats are clearly *not* looking for an off ramp right now. They’re actually saying this. Which is a measure of how badly it’s going for the GOP. It’s the GOP that is actually looking for the offeamp.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 18h

MTG is right. The Democrats pursued a tired strategy that’s actually working. Up is down. Black is white. We live in unprecedented times where the unthinkable happens. We shall see where this goes, but it's hard to argue the Dems aren't in a good position right now. www.splinter.com/democrats-ha...

Democrats Have Played This Government Shutdown Fairly Well—So Far

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 18h

Mike Johnson is flailing around trying to find any narrative to grasp on to, and 'our bill we know you know sucks shit is going to get adjusted later this year' is the best he can do. Credit to Dems for forcing him into that corner. www.splinter.com/democrats-ha...

Democrats Have Played This Government Shutdown Fairly Well—So Far

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 18h

Wrote about how despite their dumb offer that the GOP is even dumber not to take (it's so stupid even MTG knows it), Democrats have played this shutdown fight pretty well. www.splinter.com/democrats-ha...

Democrats Have Played This Government Shutdown Fairly Well—So Far

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 19h

Do you realize what an unhinged take you have to make to get me to defend the fucking Chiefs. I hate them so much I invited Swiftie rage into my mentions last year. www.splinter.com/taylor-swift...

Taylor Swift and the Kansas City Chiefs Expose American Hypocrisy, Part II

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 19h

Would love Heidi to explain the thousand-plus page playbook written in a different language that Kelce has to memorize, or even just the route tree he runs. Let's get her on record telling us all how simple football is.

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