Jonathan Schoolar
@jcschoolar.bsky.social
Professional investor to fund my interest in reading and talking science, particularly ecology, biodiversity and the losses we face in our natural world.
I cannot imagine the insanity - or need for money - required to deny global warming but link insect and tree deaths, wildfires and declining animal populations to chemtrails.
What a venal ass.
What a venal ass.
November 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I cannot imagine the insanity - or need for money - required to deny global warming but link insect and tree deaths, wildfires and declining animal populations to chemtrails.
What a venal ass.
What a venal ass.
And $300 million for a ballroom Obamacare enrollees will never see the inside off. And $40 billion for Argentina. What an ass.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
And $300 million for a ballroom Obamacare enrollees will never see the inside off. And $40 billion for Argentina. What an ass.
No grift too small, no bar too low. No conflict that MAGA can’t stomach.
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
No grift too small, no bar too low. No conflict that MAGA can’t stomach.
Yep. Someone is in distress and Trump just stands there, annoyed at being inconvenienced.
November 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Yep. Someone is in distress and Trump just stands there, annoyed at being inconvenienced.
Check my PCE math but...prices consumers pay were only 6% above the 2008 peak three years later. Three years after 2020, prices were 20% higher. And continued above trend.
Recent economic dissatisfaction started as anger against INFLATION, which is increasing with Trump tariffs, now adding jobs/GDP
Recent economic dissatisfaction started as anger against INFLATION, which is increasing with Trump tariffs, now adding jobs/GDP
Impossible to repost or discuss this chart too many times. A tale of two crises & two policy responses. One of them we still inexplicably talk about as a success, & one we still inexplicably talk about as a failure. 1.5 years of modestly high inflation did a number on us.
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Check my PCE math but...prices consumers pay were only 6% above the 2008 peak three years later. Three years after 2020, prices were 20% higher. And continued above trend.
Recent economic dissatisfaction started as anger against INFLATION, which is increasing with Trump tariffs, now adding jobs/GDP
Recent economic dissatisfaction started as anger against INFLATION, which is increasing with Trump tariffs, now adding jobs/GDP
Sending masked men with no ID in unmarked vans to snatch people off the street - what could possibly go wrong?
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Sending masked men with no ID in unmarked vans to snatch people off the street - what could possibly go wrong?
Obviously a dangerous narco terrorist
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Obviously a dangerous narco terrorist
Trump’s Solicitor General trying to argue that tariffs are NOT a tax on Americans, that foreign companies pay a huge percentage.
1. Honda Motor of America, a subsidiary of Honda in Japan, does pay the tariff on its cars here
2. There are a very small number of foreign subsidiaries like HMCA
1. Honda Motor of America, a subsidiary of Honda in Japan, does pay the tariff on its cars here
2. There are a very small number of foreign subsidiaries like HMCA
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Trump’s Solicitor General trying to argue that tariffs are NOT a tax on Americans, that foreign companies pay a huge percentage.
1. Honda Motor of America, a subsidiary of Honda in Japan, does pay the tariff on its cars here
2. There are a very small number of foreign subsidiaries like HMCA
1. Honda Motor of America, a subsidiary of Honda in Japan, does pay the tariff on its cars here
2. There are a very small number of foreign subsidiaries like HMCA
Trump’s SG just admitted in the Supreme Court that the next Dem admin may declare a climate emergency and do whatever they want to oil and gas.Democrats take notice!
This also highlights the flaw in Trumpist unitary executive theory. It works when your party is in power - not so much when reversed.
This also highlights the flaw in Trumpist unitary executive theory. It works when your party is in power - not so much when reversed.
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Trump’s SG just admitted in the Supreme Court that the next Dem admin may declare a climate emergency and do whatever they want to oil and gas.Democrats take notice!
This also highlights the flaw in Trumpist unitary executive theory. It works when your party is in power - not so much when reversed.
This also highlights the flaw in Trumpist unitary executive theory. It works when your party is in power - not so much when reversed.
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
No way to predict that allowing out of uniform men in unmarked vehicles to snatch people off the streets could be dangerous.
No way to predict that allowing out of uniform men in unmarked vehicles to snatch people off the streets could be dangerous.
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
No way to predict that allowing out of uniform men in unmarked vehicles to snatch people off the streets could be dangerous.
No way to predict that allowing out of uniform men in unmarked vehicles to snatch people off the streets could be dangerous.
We have been flying blind with no economic indicators being published. Whenever they restart they could be very weak.
Prediction: if the economy is tanking because of tariffs, AI bubble and general Trump chaos - you can be sure he will blame it on these elections. “Everything was fine until…”
Prediction: if the economy is tanking because of tariffs, AI bubble and general Trump chaos - you can be sure he will blame it on these elections. “Everything was fine until…”
Without Trump on the ballot, republicans didn’t win tonight.
So tomorrow….
How will that impact Rs in Congress -esp those up for re election?
Will their positions on healthcare, tariffs, shutdown change?
So tomorrow….
How will that impact Rs in Congress -esp those up for re election?
Will their positions on healthcare, tariffs, shutdown change?
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
We have been flying blind with no economic indicators being published. Whenever they restart they could be very weak.
Prediction: if the economy is tanking because of tariffs, AI bubble and general Trump chaos - you can be sure he will blame it on these elections. “Everything was fine until…”
Prediction: if the economy is tanking because of tariffs, AI bubble and general Trump chaos - you can be sure he will blame it on these elections. “Everything was fine until…”
JD Vance’s brother loses by a 4-1 margin to Aftab Karma Singh Pureval in race for Cincy mayoral.
Oh, the humiliation! In Ohio!
Oh, the humiliation! In Ohio!
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
JD Vance’s brother loses by a 4-1 margin to Aftab Karma Singh Pureval in race for Cincy mayoral.
Oh, the humiliation! In Ohio!
Oh, the humiliation! In Ohio!
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So they answer the ego call of the Big Grifter with 1/10th% of revenue for protection.
MAGA!
So they answer the ego call of the Big Grifter with 1/10th% of revenue for protection.
MAGA!
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November 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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So they answer the ego call of the Big Grifter with 1/10th% of revenue for protection.
MAGA!
So they answer the ego call of the Big Grifter with 1/10th% of revenue for protection.
MAGA!
Fun fact: Looking at the latest monthly SNAP benefits by state and comparing whether that state went to Trump or Harris (tossing ME, NE, Virgin Islands and Guam) -
45% of SNAP benefits go to blue states
55% of SNAP benefits go to red states
MAGA!
45% of SNAP benefits go to blue states
55% of SNAP benefits go to red states
MAGA!
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Fun fact: Looking at the latest monthly SNAP benefits by state and comparing whether that state went to Trump or Harris (tossing ME, NE, Virgin Islands and Guam) -
45% of SNAP benefits go to blue states
55% of SNAP benefits go to red states
MAGA!
45% of SNAP benefits go to blue states
55% of SNAP benefits go to red states
MAGA!
We can’t raise the minimum wage, which would help the least affluent among us, because that would push up prices on everything.
We can’t raise corporate taxes, now historically low, because that would hurt profit margins.
We CAN impose tariffs, which are a TAX on the least affluent, because…
We can’t raise corporate taxes, now historically low, because that would hurt profit margins.
We CAN impose tariffs, which are a TAX on the least affluent, because…
“Increasing the minimum wage will just push the prices up of everything.”
My brother in Christ, I don’t know where you have been for the last 5 years, but they have done that anyway whilst minimum wage has remained the same.
My brother in Christ, I don’t know where you have been for the last 5 years, but they have done that anyway whilst minimum wage has remained the same.
October 31, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We can’t raise the minimum wage, which would help the least affluent among us, because that would push up prices on everything.
We can’t raise corporate taxes, now historically low, because that would hurt profit margins.
We CAN impose tariffs, which are a TAX on the least affluent, because…
We can’t raise corporate taxes, now historically low, because that would hurt profit margins.
We CAN impose tariffs, which are a TAX on the least affluent, because…
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My prediction: if Musk were to leave, the stock would open much lower - and it would be the best thing that could happen for TSLA.
Musk was a helluva a showman but he has become a giant liability.
My prediction: if Musk were to leave, the stock would open much lower - and it would be the best thing that could happen for TSLA.
Musk was a helluva a showman but he has become a giant liability.
Elon Musk Is Holding Tesla To Ransom (Again)
And the reason why is terrifyingly pathetic.
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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My prediction: if Musk were to leave, the stock would open much lower - and it would be the best thing that could happen for TSLA.
Musk was a helluva a showman but he has become a giant liability.
My prediction: if Musk were to leave, the stock would open much lower - and it would be the best thing that could happen for TSLA.
Musk was a helluva a showman but he has become a giant liability.
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All because the Republicans hate Obamacare and SNAP. Let that sink in.
All because the Republicans hate Obamacare and SNAP. Let that sink in.
Airlines are feeding air traffic controllers as they miss their first full paychecks
Airlines are donating meals to unpaid federal aviation workers during the government shutdown as air traffic controllers missed their first paychecks.
www.cbsnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
www.cbsnews.com/news/governm...
All because the Republicans hate Obamacare and SNAP. Let that sink in.
All because the Republicans hate Obamacare and SNAP. Let that sink in.
Usha Vance should ask herself: how would she feel about walking the streets of DC without an escort - would she feel like she needed to carry her passport?
October 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Usha Vance should ask herself: how would she feel about walking the streets of DC without an escort - would she feel like she needed to carry her passport?
The coming war in Venezuelan is about grabbing their oil - just like Iraq.
I wonder how our generals and flag officers feel about possibly sacrificing our soldiers and killing Venezuelans - who will defend their country as would we - for oil?
I wonder how our generals and flag officers feel about possibly sacrificing our soldiers and killing Venezuelans - who will defend their country as would we - for oil?
October 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The coming war in Venezuelan is about grabbing their oil - just like Iraq.
I wonder how our generals and flag officers feel about possibly sacrificing our soldiers and killing Venezuelans - who will defend their country as would we - for oil?
I wonder how our generals and flag officers feel about possibly sacrificing our soldiers and killing Venezuelans - who will defend their country as would we - for oil?
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Democrats will come into power again. They must return the favor - 50 national emergencies starting with reinstating the GHG endangerment finding killing every Trump O&G project.
If they don’t, we will know they are bought off as well.
Democrats will come into power again. They must return the favor - 50 national emergencies starting with reinstating the GHG endangerment finding killing every Trump O&G project.
If they don’t, we will know they are bought off as well.
The government shutdown isn't stopping Trump from amassing 'emergency' powers
Congress must take back its rightful powers, narrow emergency authorities, sunset delegations, and relearn the civic discipline of saying "no."
reason.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Democrats will come into power again. They must return the favor - 50 national emergencies starting with reinstating the GHG endangerment finding killing every Trump O&G project.
If they don’t, we will know they are bought off as well.
Democrats will come into power again. They must return the favor - 50 national emergencies starting with reinstating the GHG endangerment finding killing every Trump O&G project.
If they don’t, we will know they are bought off as well.
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DHS claims death due to misinformation about how to resist agents. Such ignorant BS. Perhaps fear of being cruelly deported to Liberia is at fault?
DHS claims death due to misinformation about how to resist agents. Such ignorant BS. Perhaps fear of being cruelly deported to Liberia is at fault?
DHS says migrant fatally struck by vehicle while fleeing ICE agents
The Department of Homeland Security said an undocumented immigrant was killed after being struck by a vehicle on a highway while attempting to flee immigration officials.
abcnews.go.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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DHS claims death due to misinformation about how to resist agents. Such ignorant BS. Perhaps fear of being cruelly deported to Liberia is at fault?
DHS claims death due to misinformation about how to resist agents. Such ignorant BS. Perhaps fear of being cruelly deported to Liberia is at fault?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Like Iraq, the coming war against Venezuelan is about oil - start to finish. Narcotics traffic now is like WMD then - justification for US oil companies to get rich(er). Some things never change.
Like Iraq, the coming war against Venezuelan is about oil - start to finish. Narcotics traffic now is like WMD then - justification for US oil companies to get rich(er). Some things never change.
Why is Trump, the self-proclaimed ‘president of peace’, aiming to topple the Venezuelan regime?
Marco Rubio has pushed for a tough approach to Venezuela, while the president reportedly only cares about the oil
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Like Iraq, the coming war against Venezuelan is about oil - start to finish. Narcotics traffic now is like WMD then - justification for US oil companies to get rich(er). Some things never change.
Like Iraq, the coming war against Venezuelan is about oil - start to finish. Narcotics traffic now is like WMD then - justification for US oil companies to get rich(er). Some things never change.
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Remember when MAGA claimed Biden took $1 billion (cue Mike Meyers) from the CCP? But could never find any evidence?
Child’s play! Trump’s miserable family has shown you can just take the money publicly from your own country. And MAGA will never say a word.
Remember when MAGA claimed Biden took $1 billion (cue Mike Meyers) from the CCP? But could never find any evidence?
Child’s play! Trump’s miserable family has shown you can just take the money publicly from your own country. And MAGA will never say a word.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Remember when MAGA claimed Biden took $1 billion (cue Mike Meyers) from the CCP? But could never find any evidence?
Child’s play! Trump’s miserable family has shown you can just take the money publicly from your own country. And MAGA will never say a word.
Remember when MAGA claimed Biden took $1 billion (cue Mike Meyers) from the CCP? But could never find any evidence?
Child’s play! Trump’s miserable family has shown you can just take the money publicly from your own country. And MAGA will never say a word.
Reading Kevin Passmore’s Very Short Introduction to Fascism for clarity.
How would you score it today?
How would you score it today?
October 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reading Kevin Passmore’s Very Short Introduction to Fascism for clarity.
How would you score it today?
How would you score it today?