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I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
May 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
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America is a business. Why? Consider the story of how George Washington became one of the richest people to ever be president…
March 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
America is a business. Why? Consider the story of how George Washington became one of the richest people to ever be president…
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Repeating the method that led to the spectacular result for the USA in Afghanistan—negotiating a surrender without our partner even being in the room.
U.S., Russia hold first talks on Ukraine without NATO allies, Kyiv
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S., Russia hold first talks on Ukraine without NATO allies, Kyiv
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S., Russia hold first talks on Ukraine without NATO allies, Kyiv
While U.S. officials characterized the talks as the first step in a peace deal, the Russians are portraying them as a way to end Moscow’s isolation.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Repeating the method that led to the spectacular result for the USA in Afghanistan—negotiating a surrender without our partner even being in the room.
U.S., Russia hold first talks on Ukraine without NATO allies, Kyiv
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S., Russia hold first talks on Ukraine without NATO allies, Kyiv
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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In 2020 they used the Big Lie (100s of misleading claims) of "voter fraud" to try to overturn an election. In 2024 they're using similar tactics to create/amplify misleading claims of "government waste and fraud" to justify dismantling huge sections of the U.S. government.
Elon Musk is making wild claims that #DOGE has found evidence of massive Social Security fraud....
The reality is that Musk's young engineers don't seem to be able to understand COBOL databases while Musk is misrepresenting the Social Security data
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The reality is that Musk's young engineers don't seem to be able to understand COBOL databases while Musk is misrepresenting the Social Security data
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits
Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There's a much simpler explanation.
www.wired.com
February 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
In 2020 they used the Big Lie (100s of misleading claims) of "voter fraud" to try to overturn an election. In 2024 they're using similar tactics to create/amplify misleading claims of "government waste and fraud" to justify dismantling huge sections of the U.S. government.
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CAUTION: Very Stable Genius Virologist at werk.
(Kevin Hassett is an economist.)
CAUTION: Very Stable Genius Virologist at werk.
(Kevin Hassett is an economist.)
Kevin Hassett on Trump's avian flu plan: "What we need to do is have better ways w/ bio-security & medication & so on to make sure that the perimeter doesn't have to kill the chickens. To have a better, smarter, perimeter...they're killing chickens to stop the spread, but chickens don't really fly"
February 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
bsky.app/profile/atru...
CAUTION: Very Stable Genius Virologist at werk.
(Kevin Hassett is an economist.)
CAUTION: Very Stable Genius Virologist at werk.
(Kevin Hassett is an economist.)
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is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?
February 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM
is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?
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Leopard: I will eat your face
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
J.P. Morgan econs on Trump’s latest are “increasingly concerned that the policy mix may tilt into an unintentionally far less business-friendly stance. The sustained 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico set to start this weekend is materially different than the tariff increases built into our baseline.”
February 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Leopard: I will eat your face
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
This is alarming.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
February 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is alarming.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Irish physicist Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale was born #OTD in 1903. She pioneered the use of X-ray diffraction to study the structure of crystals. One of her earliest results showed that Benzene's ring structure is flat. 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️ ⌬
Image: University of Kent
Image: University of Kent
January 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Irish physicist Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale was born #OTD in 1903. She pioneered the use of X-ray diffraction to study the structure of crystals. One of her earliest results showed that Benzene's ring structure is flat. 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️ ⌬
Image: University of Kent
Image: University of Kent
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Physicist Polykarp Kusch was born #OTD in 1911. His measurements of the magnetic moment of the electron revealed that its value disagrees with naive predictions by a tiny amount — about 0.1%.
Quantum Electrodynamics offers a marvelous explanation of this minuscule discrepancy. 🧪 ⚛️
Image: AIP
Quantum Electrodynamics offers a marvelous explanation of this minuscule discrepancy. 🧪 ⚛️
Image: AIP
January 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Physicist Polykarp Kusch was born #OTD in 1911. His measurements of the magnetic moment of the electron revealed that its value disagrees with naive predictions by a tiny amount — about 0.1%.
Quantum Electrodynamics offers a marvelous explanation of this minuscule discrepancy. 🧪 ⚛️
Image: AIP
Quantum Electrodynamics offers a marvelous explanation of this minuscule discrepancy. 🧪 ⚛️
Image: AIP
Trump has rolled back a Biden order that mandated negotiations to the lower cost of drugs for people using Medicare and Medicaid.
Medicare had just announced 15 more drugs whose prices they were going to bring down in negotiations with Big Pharma.
Medicare had just announced 15 more drugs whose prices they were going to bring down in negotiations with Big Pharma.
January 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Officer Michael Fanone, who suffered a heart attack after a rioter tazed him, received a last-minute pardon for testifying before the Jan. 6 committee.
Fanone learned about the pardon from a reporter Monday morning.
“I haven’t digested it,” he said. “I just can’t believe that this is my country.””
Fanone learned about the pardon from a reporter Monday morning.
“I haven’t digested it,” he said. “I just can’t believe that this is my country.””
January 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Officer Michael Fanone, who suffered a heart attack after a rioter tazed him, received a last-minute pardon for testifying before the Jan. 6 committee.
Fanone learned about the pardon from a reporter Monday morning.
“I haven’t digested it,” he said. “I just can’t believe that this is my country.””
Fanone learned about the pardon from a reporter Monday morning.
“I haven’t digested it,” he said. “I just can’t believe that this is my country.””
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President Trump's inaugural address was a misleading assessment of the U.S. It has a growing economy, falling inflation, slowing illegal immigration, a record-breaking stock market, the lowest levels of violent crime in years and a military that has limited engagement in conflicts around the world.
Trump’s inaugural address centers on pledge to lift a country in ‘decline’
In his second Inaugural Address, the president reprised dark themes from his first and laid out an expansive policy agenda.
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
President Trump's inaugural address was a misleading assessment of the U.S. It has a growing economy, falling inflation, slowing illegal immigration, a record-breaking stock market, the lowest levels of violent crime in years and a military that has limited engagement in conflicts around the world.
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Always reminded how much of the "crisis" on the southern border could be resolved by simply having enough judges to process asylum claims in a timely manner.
January 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Always reminded how much of the "crisis" on the southern border could be resolved by simply having enough judges to process asylum claims in a timely manner.
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For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
January 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
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This is even more efficient than putting a box in front of the White House fence that says, “Bribes go here.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...
January 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is even more efficient than putting a box in front of the White House fence that says, “Bribes go here.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...
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This is the GOP’s long con on full display.
January 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This is the GOP’s long con on full display.
Denmark sent troops to Afghanistan & Iraq. They were part of American power & influence over the past half century because U.S. alliances were based on shared values.
“So what did we do wrong?” one Danish official asked.
They did nothing wrong—we elected Trump
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
“So what did we do wrong?” one Danish official asked.
They did nothing wrong—we elected Trump
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Trump Triggers a Crisis in Denmark—And Europe
"Trump might forget about Greenland. But also, he might not. Nobody knows. He operates on whims," @anneapplebaum writes.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Denmark sent troops to Afghanistan & Iraq. They were part of American power & influence over the past half century because U.S. alliances were based on shared values.
“So what did we do wrong?” one Danish official asked.
They did nothing wrong—we elected Trump
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
“So what did we do wrong?” one Danish official asked.
They did nothing wrong—we elected Trump
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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South Korea just had its version of America’s Jan. 6 and Brazil’s Jan. 8, with supporters of an auto-coup attempting national leader storming a government building, assaulting police, and smashing property in anger after the coup attempt failed.
Incredible scene in Seoul tonight as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s supporters are storming the Seoul courthouse in response to his arrest. They are smashing the windows and vandalising the offices.
January 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
South Korea just had its version of America’s Jan. 6 and Brazil’s Jan. 8, with supporters of an auto-coup attempting national leader storming a government building, assaulting police, and smashing property in anger after the coup attempt failed.
This is not an accident.
Pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong waved the American flag, because they saw it as a symbol of freedom.
Anti-rule-of-law protestors in South Korea wear MAGA hats, because they see it as a symbol of lie-based efforts to overthrow democracy.
Anti-rule-of-law protestors in South Korea wear MAGA hats, because they see it as a symbol of lie-based efforts to overthrow democracy.
Hard to ignore the parallel with the US Jan 6 storming of the Capitol. Some of Yoon’s supporters were seen wearing red “Make Korea Great Again” hats. “Stop the steal” has been a popular chant in the past weeks’ protests.
January 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is not an accident.
Ah… but the ability to push money to Trump for corrupt purposes through this (and MANY other vehicles) isn’t restricted to Americans.
He’s not even pretending to stand separate from his corporations this time.
He’s not even pretending to stand separate from his corporations this time.
At both an intellectual and a political level, I am not equipped to conceptualize how to oppose the next administration when the president can promote shitcoins and millions of Americans respond by eagerly exchanging real money for pretend money
January 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Ah… but the ability to push money to Trump for corrupt purposes through this (and MANY other vehicles) isn’t restricted to Americans.
He’s not even pretending to stand separate from his corporations this time.
He’s not even pretending to stand separate from his corporations this time.