Steve
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Yeah. The financial class (especially the billionaires) were all in a tizzy with claims of hyperinflation when Biden was President, but Trump trying to create the single thing most likely to blow up inflation—a politicized central bank juicing interest rates—produces crickets.
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Yeah. The financial class (especially the billionaires) were all in a tizzy with claims of hyperinflation when Biden was President, but Trump trying to create the single thing most likely to blow up inflation—a politicized central bank juicing interest rates—produces crickets.
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really burying the lead here that Bovino needs an armed contingent to use the bathroom at Target
ICE at Midway Target and seem to possible be leaving. Lots of community members here
January 11, 2026 at 11:41 PM
really burying the lead here that Bovino needs an armed contingent to use the bathroom at Target
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Honestly, this will give you hope about both hummingbirds and people
January 11, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Honestly, this will give you hope about both hummingbirds and people
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I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.
January 9, 2026 at 12:15 AM
I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.
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imagine telling yourself on january 6, 2021 that five years from now things would be so much worse
January 7, 2026 at 12:06 AM
imagine telling yourself on january 6, 2021 that five years from now things would be so much worse
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It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
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A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
January 3, 2026 at 1:41 PM
A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.
December 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.
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It's weird that everyone is doing their 2025 closure a good 12 hours before Trump will be done with whatever horribles he has planned.
It could yet get worse!!
It could yet get worse!!
December 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's weird that everyone is doing their 2025 closure a good 12 hours before Trump will be done with whatever horribles he has planned.
It could yet get worse!!
It could yet get worse!!
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Every installment of this MTG rehabilitation tour feels like “Nice Scorpion Regrets Past Stings, Needs Help With River Crossing!”
December 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Every installment of this MTG rehabilitation tour feels like “Nice Scorpion Regrets Past Stings, Needs Help With River Crossing!”
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Literally nothing is not improved through the addition of pitted Kalamata olives
December 29, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Literally nothing is not improved through the addition of pitted Kalamata olives
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Fritz Henle
‘Cleaning Lady in Museum of Modern Art, NYC’
1948
‘Cleaning Lady in Museum of Modern Art, NYC’
1948
December 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Fritz Henle
‘Cleaning Lady in Museum of Modern Art, NYC’
1948
‘Cleaning Lady in Museum of Modern Art, NYC’
1948
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The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
www.motherjones.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
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Donald Trump: the president who destroyed ISIS in record time in his first term and also the president who is boldly taking on the ISIS terrorists in his second term.
December 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Donald Trump: the president who destroyed ISIS in record time in his first term and also the president who is boldly taking on the ISIS terrorists in his second term.
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Bari Weiss makes sure that, when you watch 60 Minutes, you C BS.
December 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Bari Weiss makes sure that, when you watch 60 Minutes, you C BS.
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It's also striking to me how often they writers encounter MAGA Christians who are polite to them and think their short encounters are indicative of who those people are. Christian nationalists are often ignorant but rarely stupid.
December 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It's also striking to me how often they writers encounter MAGA Christians who are polite to them and think their short encounters are indicative of who those people are. Christian nationalists are often ignorant but rarely stupid.
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Nativist italian americans are so funny. Wym your whole personality is being italian and then talking about immigration the way people used to talk about your ancestors
December 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Nativist italian americans are so funny. Wym your whole personality is being italian and then talking about immigration the way people used to talk about your ancestors
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This is a great insight.
December 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is a great insight.
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Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
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The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
December 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
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Thinking about we ended our show Catastrophe, leaving many wondering what happened. *I* know what happened but we wanted to put the viewer in S & R’s shoes & give them a problem that, in solving, would force them to “live” out the show’s (I hope) v clear thesis.
December 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Thinking about we ended our show Catastrophe, leaving many wondering what happened. *I* know what happened but we wanted to put the viewer in S & R’s shoes & give them a problem that, in solving, would force them to “live” out the show’s (I hope) v clear thesis.
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I just read this out loud to my wife. If you have a spouse or partner, try it, especially if they don’t know what’s coming. Hearing it out loud makes the bonkers-ness sink in.
Reading this to unsuspecting people should be a TikTok meme.
Reading this to unsuspecting people should be a TikTok meme.
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I just read this out loud to my wife. If you have a spouse or partner, try it, especially if they don’t know what’s coming. Hearing it out loud makes the bonkers-ness sink in.
Reading this to unsuspecting people should be a TikTok meme.
Reading this to unsuspecting people should be a TikTok meme.