John Zimmerman
@zman1527.bsky.social
70 year old male Californian, semi-retired mineral exploration geologist.
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Notice that the parts of Trump's economic program that help working and middle class Americans — DOGE checks, tariff rebates, and warrior dividends — are popular, progressive, and non-existent. Tax cuts for the rich are unpopular, regressive and very very real.
December 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Notice that the parts of Trump's economic program that help working and middle class Americans — DOGE checks, tariff rebates, and warrior dividends — are popular, progressive, and non-existent. Tax cuts for the rich are unpopular, regressive and very very real.
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*Chris Rufo* warns X is making the right too conspiratorial:
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
December 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
*Chris Rufo* warns X is making the right too conspiratorial:
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
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There are books with names like “The closing of the western mind” that document how nearly two millennia ago an empire drove away science and learning to bring on the dark ages.
Years from now people may have reason to write similarly about the world Vought wrought. But we can organize to stop it.
Years from now people may have reason to write similarly about the world Vought wrought. But we can organize to stop it.
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
There are books with names like “The closing of the western mind” that document how nearly two millennia ago an empire drove away science and learning to bring on the dark ages.
Years from now people may have reason to write similarly about the world Vought wrought. But we can organize to stop it.
Years from now people may have reason to write similarly about the world Vought wrought. But we can organize to stop it.
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A true must read from the great @gregsargent.bsky.social.....
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A true must read from the great @gregsargent.bsky.social.....
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Whose Inflation Is This?
The president in March 2020 had to make an impossible choice: sky-high inflation, or surging unemployment.
I believe the proper choice was made.
Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel saw this coming in real time. See the full story….
ritholtz.com/2025/12/whos...
The president in March 2020 had to make an impossible choice: sky-high inflation, or surging unemployment.
I believe the proper choice was made.
Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel saw this coming in real time. See the full story….
ritholtz.com/2025/12/whos...
Whose Inflation Is This? - The Big Picture
Perhaps the most overlooked element in the “affordability hoax” is the president’s own role in it. Before we get into the details, a few preliminary caveats. First, as COVID-19 ran wild, lockdowns wer...
ritholtz.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Whose Inflation Is This?
The president in March 2020 had to make an impossible choice: sky-high inflation, or surging unemployment.
I believe the proper choice was made.
Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel saw this coming in real time. See the full story….
ritholtz.com/2025/12/whos...
The president in March 2020 had to make an impossible choice: sky-high inflation, or surging unemployment.
I believe the proper choice was made.
Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel saw this coming in real time. See the full story….
ritholtz.com/2025/12/whos...
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BREAKING: The U.S. has seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in a major escalation between the two countries (Bloomberg)
December 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
BREAKING: The U.S. has seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in a major escalation between the two countries (Bloomberg)
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This is more or less how the right wing justices reach decisions bsky.app/profile/righ...
Oh good, Glenn Beck has created an AI George Washington. You will be shocked to learn that the AI George Washington created by Glenn Beck sounds exactly like what would happen if Glenn Beck built an AI George Washington to sound exactly like Glenn Beck.
December 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This is more or less how the right wing justices reach decisions bsky.app/profile/righ...
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Reveals the lie at the heart of MQD. MQD lets SCOTUS kill a thing by saying "well, see, this power properly belongs to Congress, they can revise it" on the covert assumption Congress /won't/ revise it. But here kav says it out loud that Congress won't do its job, and that's bad for accountability
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Reveals the lie at the heart of MQD. MQD lets SCOTUS kill a thing by saying "well, see, this power properly belongs to Congress, they can revise it" on the covert assumption Congress /won't/ revise it. But here kav says it out loud that Congress won't do its job, and that's bad for accountability
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Hiding the crazy is their key to power.
It's so interesting to me how Makary conspiracy code switches when he talks to podcasters vs national news. This is the kind of stuff MAHA hears from the FDA Commissioner.
December 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Hiding the crazy is their key to power.
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Trump state capitalism update, as the nation drifts further and further away from free markets.
Trump-branded industrial parks...
Built on federal lands...
And owned by the federal government?
Yikes. www.wsj.com/tech/trump-s...
Built on federal lands...
And owned by the federal government?
Yikes. www.wsj.com/tech/trump-s...
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Trump state capitalism update, as the nation drifts further and further away from free markets.
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Syrian president accuses Israel of fabricating threats to justify militarism and divert attention from Gaza massacres.
Syria’s al-Sharaa accuses Israel of ‘exporting crises’ across region
Syrian president accuses Israel of fabricating threats to justify militarism and divert attention from Gaza massacres.
bit.ly
December 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Syrian president accuses Israel of fabricating threats to justify militarism and divert attention from Gaza massacres.
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My morning WFH reads:
Brexit is an unmitigated economic failure, Office-to-Residential Conversions Are Booming, Bean Soup Theory, Data on Self-Driving Cars, Mass Surveillance Recordings, Noah ❤️ AI, Ukraine’s Drone Battle and Time for Pete Hegseth to Go
ritholtz.com/2025/12/10-t...
Brexit is an unmitigated economic failure, Office-to-Residential Conversions Are Booming, Bean Soup Theory, Data on Self-Driving Cars, Mass Surveillance Recordings, Noah ❤️ AI, Ukraine’s Drone Battle and Time for Pete Hegseth to Go
ritholtz.com/2025/12/10-t...
10 Thursday AM Reads - The Big Picture
My morning train WFH reads: • Time to admit the truth: Brexit has been an unmitigated economic failure: Leaving the EU has reduced Britain’s GDP by up to 8pc, according to a devastating US study. GDP ...
ritholtz.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My morning WFH reads:
Brexit is an unmitigated economic failure, Office-to-Residential Conversions Are Booming, Bean Soup Theory, Data on Self-Driving Cars, Mass Surveillance Recordings, Noah ❤️ AI, Ukraine’s Drone Battle and Time for Pete Hegseth to Go
ritholtz.com/2025/12/10-t...
Brexit is an unmitigated economic failure, Office-to-Residential Conversions Are Booming, Bean Soup Theory, Data on Self-Driving Cars, Mass Surveillance Recordings, Noah ❤️ AI, Ukraine’s Drone Battle and Time for Pete Hegseth to Go
ritholtz.com/2025/12/10-t...
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Reuters has done some really great investigative reporting on the impacts of Trump's retribution campaigns
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Reuters has done some really great investigative reporting on the impacts of Trump's retribution campaigns
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Donald Trump finally posts a Thanksgiving message — and uses it to call Governor Tim Walz “seriously retarded.”
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Donald Trump finally posts a Thanksgiving message — and uses it to call Governor Tim Walz “seriously retarded.”
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This is…not grounded in reality.
Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income reut.rs/4p65j0l
Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration may slash income tax completely over the next couple of years because of government revenue generated from tariffs.
reut.rs
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
This is…not grounded in reality.
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How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
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This is what we’re rejiggering the economy for?
HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is what we’re rejiggering the economy for?
How many other multiple shootings were there in America this week? Don't they matter?
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
How many other multiple shootings were there in America this week? Don't they matter?
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AI's infiltration of films, music, painting — even sculpture — is inspiring new resistance to tech in art, and putting a premium on work that's purely human.
As AI marches into art, humanity is a selling point
Art has long been seen as a uniquely human endeavor, making AI's advance into this realm especially unsettling.
www.axios.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
AI's infiltration of films, music, painting — even sculpture — is inspiring new resistance to tech in art, and putting a premium on work that's purely human.
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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Multiple federal judges have ruled he has.
Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Multiple federal judges have ruled he has.
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Headlines You Never Expected To See (a la Mad magazine):
"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that President Trump does not want to execute members of Congress."
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that President Trump does not want to execute members of Congress."
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Headlines You Never Expected To See (a la Mad magazine):
"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that President Trump does not want to execute members of Congress."
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that President Trump does not want to execute members of Congress."
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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You can never predict the exact form of Trump’s death threats (or death charge, a la Jan 6) or random murders, such as his killings at sea or his illegal termination of USAID. You can only rely on the sociopathy of his cult and the pusillanimity and complicity of Republicans in Congress.
Here's a transcript of the key exchange:
ME: You filled out a form which essentially says, ‘who delivered this threat,’ and your office wrote in ‘Donald J. Trump.’
HOULAHAN: 'The President.'
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
ME: You filled out a form which essentially says, ‘who delivered this threat,’ and your office wrote in ‘Donald J. Trump.’
HOULAHAN: 'The President.'
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
You can never predict the exact form of Trump’s death threats (or death charge, a la Jan 6) or random murders, such as his killings at sea or his illegal termination of USAID. You can only rely on the sociopathy of his cult and the pusillanimity and complicity of Republicans in Congress.