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Hai Rui Bhagwan

@rossisok.bsky.social

Pluribus is fun but the Norwegian ice hotel at the beginning of episode three is not remotely the kind of place Rick Steves would recommend

December 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM

Hai Rui Bhagwan

@rossisok.bsky.social

Is that Stephen Miller?

YouTube thumbnail that says “ASÍ SE VE EL
INCESTO” (this is what incest looks like) for video titled “La trampa genética de la
ENDOGAMIA” by channel jefillysh

December 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM

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Jake Grumbach

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

via @florianederer.bsky.social

"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill
Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou
WORKING PAPER 34524
DOI 10.3386/w34524
ISSUE DATE November 2025
Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms.

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Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.

December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM

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Paul Haine

@paulhaine.bsky.social

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM

Hai Rui Bhagwan

@rossisok.bsky.social

On a Bolaño kick so I’m kickstarting the holiday season in the Chilean style

31 minutos - Episodio 2*00 - Especial de navidad

YouTube video by 31 minutos

youtu.be

December 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM

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Gef the Toking Mongoose

@geftokingmongoose.bsky.social

Still from the sopranos showing the famous "it's anti Italian discrimination" meme but Silvio is wearing a Mario hat and has a mustache like Mario and the guy behind him blowing his nose has a Luigi hat

November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM

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Gadaí na Nollag

@voidmoder.bsky.social

Public broadcasting to be replaced with traveling combination mystery play /Punch and Judy shows, with prominent attention dedicated to the bright future offered to us all by the Littl Shyning Man.

September 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM

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✨You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch✨

@shannasince87.bsky.social

northdallasgazette.com/2025/11/24/m...

Go head Black Dynamite 🙌🏾

Michael Jai White Becomes First Non-Asian To Be Honored With Bruce Lee Award - North Dallas Gazette

Michael Jai White receives the Bruce Lee Award at AWFF 2025 honoring decades of martial arts action films and lasting legacy.

northdallasgazette.com

November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM

Hai Rui Bhagwan

@rossisok.bsky.social

Frankenstein (dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2025)

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · Oct 30

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads

They Oz you up, your mandyias.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They give you vast and trunkless legs
A sunken shattered visage too.
But they were Ozzed up in their turn
By Mandyias upon the sand
Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command.
Oz hands on mandyias to man.
Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can
Ye mighty and despair yourself

November 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM

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Corel Gallery Clipart

@clipart.bsky.social

SHANDLI1.BMF

A color portrait of American comedian Gary Shandling. In his most famous television work—“It’s The Gary Shandling Show” and “The Larry Sanders Show”—Shandling played exaggerated, neurotic versions of himself. The shows often broke the fourth wall and engaged in metacommentary about their own status as cultural objects. Yìchén has bootleg DVDs of both series, even though it could get him fired, or worse. As a fictional character whose job it is in the Eleventh Bureau to monitor American culture, Yìchén simply cannot resist Shandling’s postmodern self-reflexive sensibilities.

November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM

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James A. Benn

@jamesabenn.bsky.social

John K. Fairbank’s flashcards. #sinology

Photograph of old box of flashcards with Chinese characters.

November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM

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June Martin

@theworldsgreatestwriter.com

sorry for rewilding your wife. I hope it's some consolation to look at all the flora and fauna that are thriving inside her

November 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM

Hai Rui Bhagwan

@rossisok.bsky.social

Vicente Fox literally pulled a “How do you do, fellow kids”

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 16d

Here is one of the Gen Z protestors in Mexico, former president and ex Coca Cola executive Vicente Fox. He has been reported to have helped ignite the cartel wars and to have conspired with the Sinaloa cartel, using state power during his administration to target its rivals.

November 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM