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Ankur Sheth

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
We’re a banana republic And Republicans in Congress endorse every bit of it.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
back in the olden days DOJ would investigate a particular crime it believed had been committed, rather than just poking around to see if anything was wrong
The investigation is seeking information to see where it leads, the source said. For example, if records, representations related to age and immigration status contain false information, that would provide material for investigators to scrutinize further. They could also examine communications related to such matters.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Always read Kyla. Always
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/10/2026
A new documentary lays bare the human failings of Elon Musk—and the faith people put in him anyway, Megan Garber argues:
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‘Elon Is a Nuke’
A new documentary makes the case that Elon Musk is a human of mass destruction.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Read every word of this and share it.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this is fucked up
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Ankur Sheth @ankursheth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The party is over! The generation that came of age in 90s and 2000s was lucky... ritholtz.com/2026/09/the-...
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The Aberrational Century - The Big Picture
It’s the end of September, and that means I am busy working on the Q4 quarterly call (out early October). I decided to surface to share two tables I find absolutely fascinating. The first table (above...
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Generations. Several of them.
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Ankur Sheth @ankursheth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ritholtz.com/2026/09/nonc...
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How Non-Competes Damage the Labor Market - The Big Picture
Map by Claude    Last month, I posted this data dive into the question of “How Wealth Is Created in America.” It’s always fun to look at the sources of wealth, and I used a few broad data sources.1 Bu...
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When the public finally learns the full accounting of the damage done in this war, it’ll probably be too late to hold anyone in the Trump administration accountable. But this is insane. And they’re lying to the American people.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My fellow Americans, this is being done in our name. wapo.st/4h1hNmT
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Alligator Alcatraz detainees were put in small cages, DHS watchdog report finds
The Florida facility’s staff referred to the enclosures as “calming areas.” Investigators said their use violated federal standards and did not align with “standards for humane treatment.”
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Ankur Sheth @ankursheth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hard to disagree... www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/c...
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VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There’s this one weird trick called LEGISLATION
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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Ankur Sheth @ankursheth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"...and their proxies are preparing us to swallow the damage that they are now anticipating." Privatize the profits, socialize the risks and the losses. That's modern capitalism for us, the masses. garymarcus.substack.com/p/pause-open...
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Pause OpenAI, now
Quite simply, they can no longer be trusted.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Schiff:
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Ankur Sheth @ankursheth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
www.theverge.com/transportati... It always come down to grifters are gonna grift.
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Elon Musk broke the FAA — Palantir is picking up the pieces
Palantir’s reach in the FAA keeps growing.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So 1. Hrs right. There is nothing magic about $40 trillion. It’s just a number. 2. He’s delusional. He’s paying >5.2% to borrow at 30 years. GDP grew 1.5% in Q2. His math isn’t mathing.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century
U.S. debt is on track to reach historic levels
Debt held by the public as a percentage of the gross domestic product, 1792-2055
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Source: Authors' calculations using data from the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve, the Yale Budget Lab, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. A full list of sources is available here.
Chart: Center for American Progress
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I think it's bad the Commander in Chief is either in denial or just lies about the facts on the ground regarding the Strait of Hormuz on the daily. Maybe it's me.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“No one truly appreciates the scope of Trump’s clusterfuck” Evergreen sentence right there
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/08/2026
A central part of why it seems like powerful, rich people live in a consequence-free world is that the social incentives to hold them to account have withered. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar... 𝟏𝟐-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞-𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Well, I mean, it was nonsense
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The tricky part for a future Dem Admin is going to be finding a way to divest the US govt from these companies without tanking their stock price & hurting them over the long term. What Trump is doing is a fundamental tenet of communism while he distracts by claiming Dems are.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’s worth repeating on a regular basis: the Trump administration’s corruption is truly unprecedented. I get why Trump is seeking bribes. What I’m less sure about is how the bribers think this will end. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-corrup...
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The Corruption Is the Point
An awful lot of folks are okay with bribing Donald Trump, his family, and his administration. What will the reckoning look like -- or will it happen at all?
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Ankur Sheth @ankursheth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Couldn't agree more! Thank God that S&P 500 didn't change their rules! trendlabs.com/the-public-i...
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The Public Is the Exit - TrendLabs
SpaceX (SPCX) has already been cut roughly in half from its highs, just days after the biggest IPO in history. That sounds dramatic. But it really shouldn’t be surprising. We’ve been talking about thi...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
BOUIE: ".. Musk spends a large part of his free time fomenting violence and spreading .. hateful ideology .. ".. It is that fact, and not the cars he builds or the rockets he launches, that ought to define his place in public life." @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
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Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Today, in violations of the rule of law that would be sufficient for impeachment in any other American presidency but aren't in this one because pathological partisan loyalty has rotted the constitutional order:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
One more time: While many people insist they need to stay on Twitter to keep informed about the real world, staying on Twitter is more likely to misinform you about the real world. Stop marinating your brain in the right-wing fever swamp. It's actively making you dumber.
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar just out there cutting everything down to their essence.
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Ankur Sheth @ankursheth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
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Ankur Sheth @ankursheth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Democracy in an Age of Powermaxxing
The billionaire backlash has finally arrived. But is it too late?
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Two weeks ago today, after Nasdaq willingly rigged the rules, somewhere btw $7-10 bil of passive money was forced to buy SpaceX at $160.42 Today, 10 trading days later, it closed at $119.85 It’s an unprecedented forced loss (at least $2b) for passive investors and our financial media is 🦗
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump Media pitched $100,000 monthly fee for fast feed of president’s posts. What a shakedown www.ft.com/content/e466...
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Trump Media pitched $100,000 monthly fee for fast feed of president’s posts
Family company has quoted the six-figure sum for high-speed access to Truth Social platform
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Washington Post Stops Short of Being a Real Newspaper
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I’ve lived in Beijing too. They don’t have elections.
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Ankur Sheth @ankursheth.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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Elon Musk and The Rise of Cult Capitalism
Every billionaire is a policy failure. The first trillionaire is also a market failure.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I guess this is what the FBI does now that they've stopped investigating white-collar crime? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...
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FBI Evidence Team Visits Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
Officials surveyed the newly drained pool, where the floor began peeling soon after a $16 million repair job. President Trump has blamed vandals.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15/07/2026
"During Duterte’s reign, people inside the Philippines thought they were experiencing quasi-normal political life. But the rest of the world was able to see the situation more clearly." This is about us:
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America’s Death Squads Are Real
Sometimes you can’t see the world clearly from the inside.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and Staunch Trump Ally, Dies at 71
Mr. Graham died of a “brief and sudden” illness on Saturday evening, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas.Over his Senate career, Mr. Graham led two influential committees, Judiciary and Budget.

As head of the Judiciary Committee, he oversaw the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He also played a critical role during the 2016 fight over President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the court, aiding in Republicans’ success in blocking the pick.More broadly, Mr. Graham was instrumental in advancing Mr. Trump’s effort to reshape the federal judiciary.
During his tenure at the helm of the committee, the Senate confirmed more than 200 federal judges, including Ms. Barrett, cementing one of the defining conservative judicial legacies of the Trump era.As chairman of the Budget Committee, Mr. Graham played a central role in translating Mr. Trump’s domestic agenda into legislation. He oversaw the budget resolution that allowed Republicans to advance much of the president’s sweeping tax, immigration and spending package without support from Senate Democrats.

The effort required months of negotiations among warring factions within his party before the tax package became law last year. Mr. Graham, along with Republican leaders and the Trump administration, embraced budget reconciliation as the party’s primary vehicle for enacting Mr. Trump’s agenda at a time when Republicans lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.

Those efforts became a defining accomplishment of Mr. Trump’s return to Washington with a Republican-controlled legislature, and highlighted not only the growing influence of Mr. Graham within his party but also his transformation from Trump critic into a steadfast and outspoken ally.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Donald Trump is mentally deranged. He’s a danger to the U.S. He’s a danger to the globe. He does not belong in this position of power—in control of the massive U.S. military—and he should be removed from office. This is not a joke. And his GOP enablers are responsible for abdicating their duty.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
You know inequality must be bad when even Mitt Romney thinks there’s too much money concentrated in the hands of a few Out here sounding like @aoc.bsky.social & Bernie! (So hundreds of billions is fine but Mitt draws the line at a trillion apparently)
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When Biden did literally this exact thing the media organized Biden Is Unfit parades in every major city until he dropped out
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The "Big Bill" H.R.1 -- signed into law by the POTUS one year ago -- will lead to huge tax cuts for the top 10% of the income distribution, with cuts imposed on those in the bottom 10-30% of the income distribution. www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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