Not really Jeff Spicoli but I did wear corduroy OP shorts and Vans as a teenager in LA. Public equities and equity derivatives analyst.
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I do not consider MAGA actually conservative. It is more regressive than anything. It does not have any traditional conservative values - politically or economically.
There we go! You can read the whole thing here without logging into twitter bsky.app/profile/araf...
The guy who tariffed lumber, who is trying to deport the construction workforce, and who campaigned on his opposition to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing does not actually care about bringing down housing prices.
I have always wanted to dose a tab while sick. đ¤Ł
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (whoâs âripping apartâ CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
Most Americans either have no memory of or were not even alive during 1970s stagflation. It is going to be a very rude awakening.
Historically, technology becomes democratized over time. Why should AI use cases be any different?
Credit to Cassidy, even if its late, ill take him trashing Rand Paul
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions â and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
"According to a Health Workforce Analysis published by HRSA in November 2022, federal authorities project a shortage of 78,610 full-time RNs in 2025 and a shortage of 63,720 full-time RNs in 2030. [Among] The ten states with the largest projected nursing shortage in 2035 [is]...North Carolina (13%)"
These two hypocritical douchebags aren't even from NYC originally! They should be the first to be deported back to MN. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubwayT...
maybe that sick pasty look is his natural skin color. đŹ
The amount of makeup he is wearing is crazy.
horrible
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the âpathological irony of crisisâ: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
Fatality.
These guys are so bad at the whole "militarized police force with unending loyalty to dear leader" thing, it's really amazing
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"Across three different courts, 15 judges have weighed Trumpâs tariff maneuversâand 11 of them, appointed by presidents of both parties, have found he acted without legal support" share.google/Y4ohBxL7PPfG...
For investment nerds (like myself), this is similar to Soros' observations of reflexivity in the markets.
One thing the DC occupation drives home is how many types of federal cops there are.
đŻ Banger! #MMA
âď¸ A massive, unexpected benefit for society in that they are containing themselves to a small well disclosed area.
I too wouldn't mind picking up a couple of extra hours at $60/hr + benefits. ;)
I wish I could repost this đŻ times. Itâs a banger.
Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September.
Aaaaaaaand with that, the insane right wing pivot is, if not complete, reaching the paramount turn, just nakedly reprinting antisemites and ranting about liberals
Maybe a hot take but this really does feel like the worst, most egregious ex of news media legitimacy collapse as an institution, even worse than their pre-Iraq War boosting, bc *literally the thing they said was the most impt thing* is actually happening w this president now & they cant be arsed
â.. The Oval Office photos donât resolve those questions. They raise them. And until the press decides to treat Trumpâs health the way it treated Bidenâs, makeup and memos will remain the White Houseâs firstâand lastâline of defense.â @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/trump-heal...
Right out of Soviet propaganda.
"The (U.S.) Middle-Class Vibe Has Shifted From Secure to Squeezed" (WSJ) "After months of tracking high-income earnersâ positive economic outlook, Americaâs middle-income households appear to be losing confidence" www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
Yea this is to pressure the Panama Canal traffic. This is the route everyone must take to get to South American markets on the East Coast. Since China stopped buying grain we may try to blockade ships.
Elmoâs word of the day:
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. đ Marlon on Snoop:
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
THIS! And also the US CLOUD Act gives the US govât the authority to access data stored on the servers of any US company - even if itâs Canadian data. The Act gives legal precedence so anything in your MS OneDrive can be accessed by MAGA and their contractors.
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA âwas never like this before. Thereâs a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.â
Once again, Border Patrol tells the press this was a targeted kidnapping, yet they took a man who is legally here & in the immigration process. This shows that it was not a targeted investigation as they claimed. Press must stop printing lies. apnews.com/article/immi...
Counterpoint: Rogue One movie and Andor seasons 1 & 2 are excellent and infinitely better than anything George Lucas created after 1990.
This makes housing go from âan important issueâ to âan existentially important issueâ imo. If the fastest growing state in the country is Texas or California might be life or death for democracy.
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Iâd add that Noem only got the job because she willingly got all that plastic surgery. Itâs not enough to be a malevolent sycophant, you must also physically fit a stereotype. Itâs pathetic and should be brought up.
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldnât go along with the lie. (Seriously, thatâs the answer)
Liberals: âWe could try to DO some things to reduce gun violence; âthoughts and prayersâ isnât enough.â Republicans: âOutrage! Disgrace! Theyâre attacking prayer.â Thereâs no need to be polite or defensive in response to this. Invoking faith as an excuse to shun responsibility deserves no respect.
In fact his represents the average American who doesnât think they should be accountable for all the idiotic decisions they make in their lives.
In some ways Ham-Face is the perfect Trump voter: all his decisions blow up in his face but the explanation is always, you don't understand, the radical leftist Joe Biden made us mad.
![[twitter] Jesse Spafford @jessespafford Can't believe the evil Dems made Trump appoint RFK: [embedded video of Ham-Face bloviating] Erick Erickson @@EWErickson ⢠18h My wife is caught in the crosshairs of the CDC mess and vaccines. The left says](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aq6ucuguuc67yqwu4x4eipro/bafkreichwgzalj7dvqgzdmahudlqoekjonwxksgxxovaow5oxmyv3huz6i@jpeg "Click to view full size")
This is how low the WaPo has fallen. Megan McArdle tells us Lisa Cook has to "come clean" when Trump and everyone around him is openly stuffing their pockets with billions washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... This is too stupid for words.
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A curious divergence.
Fixed it.
Amazing story here. Hats off to the hacker - greentheonly - and excellent work by @faizsays.bsky.social at @washingtonpost.com. And, the world needs more attorneys like Brett Schreiber, who fearlessly brought this case & hurdled over endless Tesla roadblocks. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
yes that is what i sound like when things are going well on merits
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Weâre the wealthiest, most powerful country to have ever existed in human history and yet weâre taking money away from helping kids with brain cancer.
đ Evergreen post.
I don't expect Johnson or Thune to actually do their jobs. They want these policies & have also demonstrated they willing to violate their oaths & are on board with the lawless authoritarianism. But...no one of them. Or of Murkowski, Collins, etc. Free passes. Every day đ¤ˇââď¸
"so he's got the reins of power, but he's lost the battle of ideas."
A concise observation about the lack of critical thinking from RFK jr supporters.
In today's Morning Shots: @eggerdc.bsky.social provides an excellent analysis of the chaos and destruction at the CDC, and the price we'll pay for it. I put myself in Trump's mind and explain why he may well fire Kennedy. www.thebulwark.com/p/camelot-fo...
Unbelievable.
this is just such quality content
Needless to say, I would not have been able to complete my PhD had this rule been in effect when I was a student. What a nightmare.
FOX: *plays clip of Gavin Newsom pointing out that crime is higher in Louisiana than in California* FOX: Your response? MIKE JOHNSON: He needs to go an govern his state and not be engaging in this
I don't know if you go to Dunkland before Blockland, but that would be appropriate path as well.
What a disingenuous hack.
A cult of personality. What could go wrong?
Every non-Cowboys football fan rn:
This is LITERALLY one of the main elements of fascism.
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
Itâs been an extremely competitive year but this quote from Vance is without question the most violently stupid thing I have read.
Exactly. Funds arenât infinite and bailing out/subsidizing rural hospitals to an even greater degree requires cuts somewhere else or higher taxes. Those peeps arenât considering that.
Cassidy voted to confirm RFK after supposedly buying the lie that as HHS secretary he wouldnât touch the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. It took him like three months to fire the whole committee.
I would add, shouldn't have these people prayed before the incident? Seems like it is a little late now.
It really has not gone anywhere since the election. It is a Rorschach test for your view on rates.
Two weeks after blowout coverage of the Trump/Putin âsummitâ in Alaska. @afp.com
On June 24, 1922, far-right assassins murdered the Weimar foreign minister Walther Rathenau, who was Jewish Rathenau Monuments went up, and June 24 became a Weimar natâl holiday When the Nazis took power in 1933, they destroyed the monuments and built monuments to the assassins on the same sites
âď¸đŻ Banger!
Playing with a shower idea of a way to explain the implications. If we accept the market as big computer metaphor, the computer is quite good at running say a regression model and defining the best fit. What it is not great at is identifying a structural break in a series with very little data.
It's hard to keep straight exactly what the worst thing going on, but the US health system being led by an idiot conspiracy theorist really is high up there.
Canada, the European Union, and the rest should be looking to rapidly increase trade with each other and China, relying on the demented 79-year-old in the White House is a bad plan substack.com/home/post/p-...
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
đŻ âď¸ Peeps who think long rates are going to come down are naive.
Case study: Erdogan replaced technocrats with loyalists and kept rates low when they needed to rise. Inflation soared to 86%, and is still painfully high. Thatâs the playbook Trump's floating. Keep the Fed independent if you want low inflation without the drama.
This is a fun chart
Update: Appeals court overturns 90-years-settled law to make American employees' legal rights to speak up & act together to improve their jobs subject to presidential veto. Huge victory handed to Musk, Bezos, & other bosses. Big loss for labor. SCOTUS likely upholds prospect.org/justice/2025...
".. Huang did not say it directly, but his clear message to the White House is that .. the most helpful thing to do would be to get out of the way." @opinion.bloomberg.com $NVDA www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
1800 block of South Western Avenue in Chicago
Decades of US diplomatic efforts being unwound. @reuters.com đŽđł www.reuters.com/world/china/...
đ¨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member âyou need to get the f*ck out of here. Iâm going to make you leave.â
Full service AI. Not only did it identify the targets and write the code to hack them... it also suggested how much to try to extort them for and even helpfully wrote the ransom notes.
I thought they put Ron Vara out to pasture. He is back?
After showing his guns emblazoned with racial slurs, far-right slogans, Minneapolis shooting suspect displayed a message "Hail Breivik. Hail Brenton." Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
$PLTR trades on a P/CTTA multiple: price to closest to Trump Admin multiple.
"Donald Trumpâs tariffs proved to be the final nail." đ˘ www.wethefifth.com/p/mailbucket...
These people are sick
here is this platypus supercut you may want to watch
Reminder that this is why I said ICE wears masks, it's got nothing to do with 'doxxing' to the public but rather to make criminal charges harder to prosecute by local and state authorities, and many people here were like "That's absurd" lol