Firecraqer!
@firecraqer.bsky.social
Veteran finance, marketing, technology and startup professional and citizen journalist. NYU Stern finance MBA. Live from Minneapolis. Follow...the money. Protect wild swimmers.
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Tripping Daisyyyyyyy @turfclub.bsky.social if you live in Iowa they’re there tomorrow. highly recommend!!
June 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Tripping Daisyyyyyyy @turfclub.bsky.social if you live in Iowa they’re there tomorrow. highly recommend!!
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From Rachel Cohen at Vox on twitter:
this video of Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet is playing in the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development cafeteria this morning
(per source at HUD)
this video of Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet is playing in the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development cafeteria this morning
(per source at HUD)
February 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
From Rachel Cohen at Vox on twitter:
this video of Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet is playing in the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development cafeteria this morning
(per source at HUD)
this video of Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet is playing in the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development cafeteria this morning
(per source at HUD)
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Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany.
“BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”
“BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”
February 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany.
“BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”
“BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”
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Got to say I LOVE the Trump Administration negotiating to get Rare Minerals from Ukraine, for 2 reasons:
1. It reduces our dependence on China for Lithium and Graphite (China provides near 70% of world supply)
2. More than 50% of those minerals are in Russian Annexed land.
1. It reduces our dependence on China for Lithium and Graphite (China provides near 70% of world supply)
2. More than 50% of those minerals are in Russian Annexed land.
February 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Got to say I LOVE the Trump Administration negotiating to get Rare Minerals from Ukraine, for 2 reasons:
1. It reduces our dependence on China for Lithium and Graphite (China provides near 70% of world supply)
2. More than 50% of those minerals are in Russian Annexed land.
1. It reduces our dependence on China for Lithium and Graphite (China provides near 70% of world supply)
2. More than 50% of those minerals are in Russian Annexed land.
Can we just agree that the bros are DOGEbags?
February 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Can we just agree that the bros are DOGEbags?
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This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.
February 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.
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This is what oligarchy looks like.
February 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is what oligarchy looks like.
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination.
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
February 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
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Excellent reporting.
"The data the White House has cited to say Canada is responsible for a 'massive” increase in fentanyl flowing across the northern border include a large drug bust that, according to the U.S. border agency, has no known connection to Canada." #cdnpoli
"The data the White House has cited to say Canada is responsible for a 'massive” increase in fentanyl flowing across the northern border include a large drug bust that, according to the U.S. border agency, has no known connection to Canada." #cdnpoli
February 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Excellent reporting.
"The data the White House has cited to say Canada is responsible for a 'massive” increase in fentanyl flowing across the northern border include a large drug bust that, according to the U.S. border agency, has no known connection to Canada." #cdnpoli
"The data the White House has cited to say Canada is responsible for a 'massive” increase in fentanyl flowing across the northern border include a large drug bust that, according to the U.S. border agency, has no known connection to Canada." #cdnpoli
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I wrote for Slate about how a conservative think tank plans to "identify and target" Wikipedia editors who it claims are abusing their position—a dangerous escalation that shifts the fight from debating edits to going after the editors themselves.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
A Powerful Conservative Think Tank Is Targeting One of the Last Good Things on the Internet
The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” Wikipedia editors it accuses of antisemitism.
slate.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I wrote for Slate about how a conservative think tank plans to "identify and target" Wikipedia editors who it claims are abusing their position—a dangerous escalation that shifts the fight from debating edits to going after the editors themselves.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
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Just for the record, we're talking about, among other things, the WEATHER. We, um, might need to talk to people monitoring it elsewhere.
February 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Just for the record, we're talking about, among other things, the WEATHER. We, um, might need to talk to people monitoring it elsewhere.
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Panama is now denying this furiously. Looks like it may have simply been a false claim. Marco Rubio may end up being far, far worse than anyone fathomed.
February 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Panama is now denying this furiously. Looks like it may have simply been a false claim. Marco Rubio may end up being far, far worse than anyone fathomed.
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Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections.
Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
February 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections.
Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
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Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "The water comes down from the northwest parts of Canada, I guess, but the Pacific Northwest. And it comes down by millions and millions of barrels a day and uh, I opened it up. It wasn't that easy to do. But I opened it up and it's pouring down."
February 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "The water comes down from the northwest parts of Canada, I guess, but the Pacific Northwest. And it comes down by millions and millions of barrels a day and uh, I opened it up. It wasn't that easy to do. But I opened it up and it's pouring down."
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So, just like @abenewman.bsky.social & @himself.bsky.social found out Trump staffers had read the weaponized interdependence thesis as a playbook against China, it’s now crystal clear Musk and DOGE see the dynamic as a playbook to submit any and all parts of the US government.
CNN with an absolutely gigantic story:
"Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system."
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"Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system."
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...
Musk associates sought to use critical Treasury payment system to shut down USAID spending, emails show | CNN Politics
Four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using...
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February 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
So, just like @abenewman.bsky.social & @himself.bsky.social found out Trump staffers had read the weaponized interdependence thesis as a playbook against China, it’s now crystal clear Musk and DOGE see the dynamic as a playbook to submit any and all parts of the US government.
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Real shocker here. The 25 year old rooting around in the code of the US government's payment system likes to post things like "Normalize Indian hate."
www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
Exclusive | DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, whose access to Treasury payment systems was approved by a judge, has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism a...
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Real shocker here. The 25 year old rooting around in the code of the US government's payment system likes to post things like "Normalize Indian hate."
www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
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Last year Elon Musk and SpaceX claimed the NLRB is unconstitutional after being accused of labor violations.
Now under Trump, the NLRB is dropping its opposition to this claim.
The labor board will no longer fight in court against the charges that it shouldn't exist.
Now under Trump, the NLRB is dropping its opposition to this claim.
The labor board will no longer fight in court against the charges that it shouldn't exist.
February 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Last year Elon Musk and SpaceX claimed the NLRB is unconstitutional after being accused of labor violations.
Now under Trump, the NLRB is dropping its opposition to this claim.
The labor board will no longer fight in court against the charges that it shouldn't exist.
Now under Trump, the NLRB is dropping its opposition to this claim.
The labor board will no longer fight in court against the charges that it shouldn't exist.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Update: Bitcoin went down $4,164.48 today under Trump
February 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Update: Bitcoin went down $4,164.48 today under Trump
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Spirits giant Brown-Forman — whose flagship brand is Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey — announced that it’s closing its barrel-making plant in Louisville, KY. That move comes as American whiskey producers face 25% retaliatory tariffs from Canada in response to Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canadian goods.
February 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Spirits giant Brown-Forman — whose flagship brand is Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey — announced that it’s closing its barrel-making plant in Louisville, KY. That move comes as American whiskey producers face 25% retaliatory tariffs from Canada in response to Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canadian goods.