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Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 11h

Yemi is a good guy. Hoping he has great success with his film.

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Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 23h

It’s simple if you forget the fluff and just look at data.

Tax rates are part of that data - a very important part.

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Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 23h

Ah. But you see, return of principal is a major part of the return calculation. You can’t really call it return until your principal is returned.

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Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨
Friends.
I keep telling all of you to manage your own money. Financial math is the easiest math there is.

Read this and tell me you would go ahead and commit 25% of your fund to a single exposure. You wouldn’t.

Jeffries’ customers WERE PAYING THEM FOR THIS!

The fallout from the implosion of First Brands keeps spreading. Morgan Stanley’s asset-management business asked to redeem some money it invested in a Jefferies Financial Group fund with large exposure to the bankrupt auto parts supplier’s trade debt. Point Bonita, a unit of Jefferies’ Leucadia Asset Management, had about a quarter of its $3 billion trade-finance portfolio invested in First Brands-related receivables.

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Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 1d

I live next to a University that has 50,000 undergraduate students.

It’s an amazing life.

Love all you Bearcats!

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Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 1d

More proof that the Republican party has become the party of ignorance and incompetence.

Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 1d

I like your subtlety.

Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 1d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

This is outrageous.

Impose your authority.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Illinois State Troopers Arrest ICE protesters at Broadview Detention Center

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Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 1d

Yes to the bribe.

To be a complete pedant, this is not a proper title for him.

As a raging heterosexual female,
I know that anything containing the word “dick” cannot possibly apply to this so-called man. Definite deficit, as well as definite ick-factor.

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Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 1d

My friends of #TheArchers & Ambridge:

Do not let Farage & his ilk & the frigging Tories kill the NHS.

Also, after holding for literally hours on a pharmacy phoneline, medicines cost Americans hundreds of $$ per prescription.

DO NOT BELIEVE THE PROPAGANDA THAT CARE IS BETTER OVER HERE. IT IS NOT.

Broti Gupta @brotigupta.bsky.social · 2d

so much of the american experience is being on hold with pharmacies for so long you decide it might just be easier to die

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Brandon @spacejamveteran.bsky.social · 1d

These are criminals

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Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 1d

May I just mention, as a woman, that Qatar isn’t exactly my favorite place on earth.

How about you, fellow female taxpayers?
How does this strike you?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 2d

If you suspend your beliefs that

We all want the USA to succeed

We all want humankind & earth to thrive

We all want our children&grandchildren&nieces&nephews to have a better life than we,

it becomes clear:

These people are the family annihilator who doesn’t cap it all off with a suicide shot

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Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 2d

I’m glad they are.
And they should not move an inch.
This is a coup.

Remember, republicans control all branches of government. This is on them, 100%.

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Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 2d

This federal government shutdown could last much longer than history suggests.

I would not be surprised if it was a stalemate until next year.

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Andy Beshear @andybeshearky.bsky.social · 2d

A President threatening to jail a sitting Governor is unacceptable and is the opposite of what this country stands for and was founded on. I stand with Gov. Pritzker and for the rights of each state across our great nation.

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Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 2d

It is fashionable to denigrate social media.

However, without it, the billionaire oligarchs who have taken control of main stream media in the US & the UK would be operating completely unchallenged.

Here on @bsky.app, we can obtain unfiltered original voice source materials. This is invaluable.

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Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 2d

100% true.

Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 2d

Gough Street.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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RevolutionaryRadish @revoradish.bsky.social · 3d

Dems take note. This is what your constituents want to see. We know you don’t control every lever of power, so it’s less right now about triangulation and strategy, and more about what you’re willing to put on the line. Please show us you’re willing to stand up for and with us.

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Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 2d

I think MNBA 🏀 players would be shocked if they could hear the chatter of the female fans who are old enough to be their mothers.

Patricia Plonsker @pplonsker.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly. (Part of the problem is that none of these ignoramuses have ever read any quality literature. They live in an unexamined echo chamber of mediocrity.)

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James @dorianjames.bsky.social · 4d

We need to bring this war to an end so the chickens and frogs can go back to their families

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