Yea but at least Cantor Fitzgerald will profit from their tariff refund finance product.
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Yea but at least Cantor Fitzgerald will profit from their tariff refund finance product.
I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.
They have various emails over the years. @me @mac and currently @iCloud If you have a relatively recent iCloud account you should have one but some older iCloud accounts were tied to any email might not. They never did great job promoting it though.
You would think it might show up somewhere in the data. Wait to the next GDP release and the sharpy revision up $8 trillion.
Let the rage tweeting begin:
Wonder what hoops Robert’s & CO at SCOTUS will jump through to give Trump the win here. Seem a slam dunk for originalist on the court to side with appeals court but we shall see.
RIP Walgreens. You were often closer by than other stores.
Sycamore Partners the firm that ruined Staples. Should be a horror show in 6-13 months.
Raw clams via DoorDash can’t be a great idea right?
Paint the boarder wall black? WTF? So it is too hot to touch durning the 24 hours of sunlight I guess.
There absolutely no logic in what he says and yet it’s believed by 1/3 of the country.
Image if Biden had arranged for the Federal Government to take an interest in a solvent public company.
Driving around NY/NJ hard to believe construction is contracting here anyway. Everything from multi housing developments in suburban/rural and multi family in NYC and Jersey City seems to be booming. Bifurcated economy for sure but think we muddle through with much small biz tariff pain though.
Leaked Meta AI Guidelines Reveal Chatbots Were Permitted To Engage In Romantic Conversations With Children
It’s amazing to me all those that complain that raising marginal tax rates is socialism are very quite about the communist state planning from the White House. Profit sharing, government taking preferred shares, directing who should be CEO’s. Free market capitalism or central planning communism?
Sadly Cosby’s PA conviction was overturned in 2021.
Nah someone would find a way to get kick backs and it would take longer.
I also didn’t hear outrage when Mike Johnson decided to clock out early, saying Congress wasn’t in session because he didn’t want to vote on releasing the Epstein files. If you’re going to blast people for bailing on their jobs, at least be equal opportunity about it.
6 bankruptcies and multiple failed business might also have something to do with it.
If these numbers came in under Biden the right and center would be eviscerating the executive for his policy. Here the main stream narrative is all about the firing. So the guy might not know how to run an economy but sure knows how to redirect attention.
Brutal take down of the Robert’s court by Thomas Edsall. I might add deservedly brutal. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...
We have moved from a post fact world to a post reality world now.
still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs
@weisenthal.bsky.social Some nice press dude: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...
I image this is why so many of his business have failed. Can’t ever be wrong, always someone else’s fault. Staff afraid to bring bad news so don’t change course.
Truly feels like an emperor has no cloth moment. Really with all that is going on how any one could think employment is going to be strong is beyond me. Fired federal workers, killing small businesses with tariffs, exports down, contractors fired, universities who are big employers less funding…
I image it is a foregone conclusion the Fed cuts in September at this point. It is now a question of how much. They have the data to claim independence now.
NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds. Then the harassment began. Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel. Six credible threats to his life. More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:
That is certainly what is happening but not sure if is nefarious or simply incompetence. No one in the WH knows anything about supply chain management and logistics.
It is amazing that business big and small knew this and voted for this chaos.
If you really want’s to end the war start with a no fly zone.
It is really bad and certainly not limited to millennials. I can’t answer why are folks like this, although wish I could.
So no TACO today?
It is not just Trump that does not understand but 3/4 of the country. And even some of those that do, like Bassett, pretend not to.
I do love Trump's utter unawareness that larger inflows of foreign capital are at odds with reducing the US trade deficit. In fact, they are a major part of why the US trade deficit exists.
WTF? And is it a great economy or one that needs the help of lower rates?. Hard to believe it is both.
So two things jump out at me from the NYC shooting. Tamura had two mental health crisis holds in Nevada, one in 2022 and another in 2024 and had a valid Nevada conceal fire arms permit. Anyone else see a problem here?
Remember when JoePa pretended nothing was happing.
I guess all societies have produced humans like this but it still shocks me that we humans have evolved very little.
Almost a billion dollar gift to one’s self. Not my definition of free.
Poor Lindsey Graham sold his soul for Trump and it was not enough to avoid being primaries by MAGA.
NEW: An NYPD officer and one other person were shot in the lobby of 345 Park Avenue (the Blackstone building) at East 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan by someone armed with an assault rifle, per law enforcement. More TK.
So the most powerful person in the free world does not know that a 100% discount is free?
Do we actually believe that Trump knows that 11 other FOMC members vote on interest rates? What happens if Powell steps down and say 9 members decent on lowering rates? I think Fed Independence is gone the moment Powell resigns. Giving in the the school yard bully never turns out well.
The guy is from Westchester anyway. Just an NYC carpetbagger looking for redemption so he can run for President in 2028. I think I prefer the socialism over the cronyism and corruption.
this clip perfectly illustrates how Republicans *successfully* flood the zone with conspiracy theories 1. Ron Johnson is asked about Epstein 2. He immediately changes the topic to Obama 3. The host chases the shiny object and asks about Obama. Johnson never has to weigh in on the Epstein coverup.
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
Increase profit outlook means my rates go up.
What is with the BS text messages of late? It exploded exponentially many with area codes from Canada. How you doing? Work from home?………..
ICE: keeping America safe by **checks notes** forcibly expelling an 82-year old American with authorization to live & work in the U.S. to a foreign prison & falsely informing his family of his death. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I don’t think Coke has confirmed anything but there is plenty of sugar produced in the USA.
Friend who worked for This Old House magazine at the time of my kitchen renovation said double the cost and double the time. I laughed when she said it, but in the end it was dead on.
youtu.be/4zv8pmTBXYQ?...
Sugar is better than high fructose corn syrup although the Iowa farmers might not be so happy.
Yea agree, I almost included that in my initial response but I don’t think he will.
She should primary Schumer in 2028.
TACO trade. Works till it doesn’t.
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
UPDATE: Three days on, disabled veteran and US citizen George Retes is still missing after being kidnapped by ICE. His wife has phoned every law enforcement agency in the area, they all say they don’t know where he is. It was his daughter’s third birthday yesterday. This is America now.
“Several US citizens were released only after agreeing to delete videos and photos of the raid from their phones”. WHF. Truth no longer matters. One might also say: US citizens were released after government forced the destruction of evidence.
That and the loss of EV credits and alienating the right as well as left customers now. But the robots are coming…
So American party is Libertarian with EV credits?
NEW: the Trump admin has moved to terminate TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua, covering over 50,000 people Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people here legally who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.
Who is we? Billionaires? I tend to agree that neither party represents the middle but I doubt the middle supports corp welfare like he thinks.
I am getting a sense tipping is going to drop back to 15% for table service and zero everywhere else.
It is only for Native American whaling. It is highly regulated and strictly for subsistence and ceremonial whaling. Is it a carve out to win her vote but it is not all that bad in the whole scheme of things as the cost is only $5 million per year. There’s a hell of a lot worse in that budget.
Headline a bit deceptive not a “law” yet.
Not bad enough news to be good news though?
primary this loser
Yea but just in case he is serious I hope he starts with Musk.
Remember back in March when Chuck @schumer.senate.gov told us it was OK to let the CR pass as there’d be better chances to show the minority’s resolve? Hmmmm. How did that work out?
Her vote was “Agonizing”or Cowardly?
You have to work 30 hours but only companies with 50 or more full time employees have to offer it to you even if you work 30 hours. Of course Medicaid also pays for about half of all nursing homes patients.
if you're a politician based in new york city, trump saying he'll withhold federal funding from the city if mamdani is elected is far more important than any other bad faith question you are asked about mamdani and it's the only thing you should be addressing.
Buyer’s remorse? But he signed onto GOP with their anti green agenda, did he really think he would change it? Personally, I think we should dump green subsidies but we should also be dumping carbon subsidies and let the market decide. (Hint green would win)
That is the problem right there. Most people don’t know that Medicare does not cover nursing homes so they are ambivalent about Medicaid cuts.
The problem is that the GOP have little to fear: a) there may not be a change in power for ... a decade or three. They have already started arresting Dem pols b) the Dems suck at handling the aftermath of awful GOP admins, and they don't live by the new precedents.
as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders
How would he even know? Didn’t Trump sidestep him in the planning?
Q1 GDP Growth Revised down to -0.5% Annual Rate www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/06/q1-g... PCE growth was revised down from 1.2% to 0.5%. Residential investment was revised down from -0.6% to -1.3%.
It is not a new take and many a Commander in Chief from both parties have ignored it.
What could go wrong?
And yet still better than Fox.
Cuomo and Weiner rejected in NYC. Hopefully good character in voting continues to make a comeback.
Read this headline several times and let it sink in
It is cooler in Hades, or just maybe that is where we are.
Iranian State TV: Attack underway on US base in Qatar
He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.
Thomas Massie would like a word.
Trump’s attacks on Iran were based on vibes, not new intel, two administration officials tell Rolling Stone. “There is no intel,” one of the sources says. “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”
US is a net exporter of oil but we still don’t produce enough heavy crude to be truly self sufficient.
Iranian parliament approves closure of Hormuz Strait, blocking access to oil routes.
A friend texted this to me this morning with the note “sex pests unite” And that is the story.
Iran 2025 is no Iraq 2003 and yet one wonders if we will get dragged into another quagmire which could go much worse.
This JD Vance op-ed did not age well
10 reasons not to rank Andrew Cuomo *at all*
#DontRankCuomo
Conserving our environment is an American value. From hikers to hunters we want to keep our public lands public! Thats why the unprecedented sell-off of millions of acres of public lands needs to be removed from the Senate Budget Bill. Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸 Pass it on!
