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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
As expected, Qatar declares it will halt all further mediation efforts with Israel.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/09/2025
September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend. This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending. Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared
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The Real Reason the Economy Might Collapse | Robert Reich
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%... "That's just how it is."
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Jamie @arenaguy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I'm speechless. Shocked every day at what's happening in the US
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 11/06/2025
"Whatever the nature of the crisis, it forces the revolutionaries to make a choice. Give up—or radicalize. Find compromises—or polarize society further. Slow down—or use violence" The logic of revolution is always the same www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters
His military deployment in Los Angeles follows a long, disturbing tradition.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
🎯 #NeverForgetJanuary6th
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Re-upping this “One First” post from April asking—and trying to answer—five questions about the domestic use of the military:
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142. Five Questions About Domestic Use of the Military
The federal government's authorities to use the military for domestic law enforcement are old, broad, and vague. They may soon become far more relevant than they've been for quite a long time.
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Jamie @arenaguy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
So true
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Jamie @arenaguy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
be very afraid
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Jamie @arenaguy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Profound!
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Irony is dead
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...
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Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier."
An Australian study, conducted over four years and starting before the pandemic, has come up with some enlightening conclusions about the impact of working from home. The researchers are unequivocal: ...
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JPN @niland2024.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Trump: “Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls…They don’t need 250 pencils, they can have 5.” Also Trump: accepts new Air Force One worth $400M from Qatari royal family.
Golden luxury staircase, airplane interior.Luxury conference room, airplane interior.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Please watch & share this video. This state sponsored violence is hard to watch, but if we turn away & stay silent, we're complicit. If it can happen to them, it can happen to you. It's up to each of us to SPEAK OUT! If you support the immigrant community reply with #OnYourSide to show you care.
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This is what front-loading looks like ahead of tariffs. Great chart from Arbor:
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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Worries about global economic growth continue to pressure international oil prices, with both Brent and WTI trading below $60 a barrel this morning. Moreover, the impact of concerns over weakening demand is amplified by the prospect of rising supply. #economy #markets #oil
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 01/05/2025
As Friedrich Merz becomes German chancellor, Emmanuel Macron may finally have found the partner he needs for France and Germany to reshape European leadership.
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Merz and Macron can restart Europe’s Franco–German engine
As Friedrich Merz becomes German chancellor, Emmanuel Macron may finally have found the partner he needs for France and Germany to reshape European leadership.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 30/04/2025
Imagine if when we invaded Iraq, three years in we only took a sliver of the country at the cost of 800,000 men. Would the conventional wisdom be that we are winning? No? Then why do some think Russia is?
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JPN @niland2024.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Tariffs. Here goes the domino's. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/u...
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UPS to cut 20,000 jobs on likely lower Amazon shipments, profit beats estimates
United Parcel Service reported a first-quarter profit that beat market expectations and said it will cut 20,000 jobs as the parcel giant looks to trim costs.
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JPN @niland2024.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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JPN @niland2024.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
UPS announcing that it is cutting 20,000 jobs because of fewer Amazon deliveries is just the first of many reports like this to come. Empty ports = less goods to sell coming from overseas. Less goods from oversees = layoffs across the transportation industry.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
It’s only getting much play in the trade/transport niche press. But pretty real product shortages beginning in mid-May or so are already locked in. They’re maybe a thousand miles out in the Pacific Ocean. Modern trade takes place in gargantuan container ships. There are very detailed records …
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
YARDENI: “Industry analysts are scrambling to lower their S&P 500 earnings growth forecasts for the remaining three quarters of this year. They are anticipating that if the tariff war between the US and China doesn't end soon, the result might be a recession during the second half of this year.”
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
There will be some big time financial pain this summer Because this portends a disaster
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Andrew Strait @agstrait.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This was an incredibly excellent talk by Eliot.
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Patrick W. Watson @patrickww.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Never seen this before.
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Jamie @arenaguy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Tariffs already doing major supply chain damage
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👻Eerie-ka all Along🎃 @erikavalentine.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
An early sign of the trucking industry collapsing in part due to a sharp, tariff-induced dropoff of container shipping.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11/04/2025
Five below is a variety store that sells toys, stuffed animals, tshirts/etc, geared at teens. I buy my phone charger cables there because they’re dirt cheap ($5)
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Missed this earlier. The retailer Five Below just completely halting business with China now. No more shipments. Any container that has been packed must be unloaded and returned.

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Five Below Inc. has asked vendors to turn away products waiting for shipment in China before they set off for the US, according to a memo reviewed by Bloomberg.
Shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S sent a letter to suppliers on behalf of the discount retail chain saying that the company has elected to suspend its cargo shipments, following the US and China tariff impact. It was unclear from the memo if it went out to all Five Below vendors, or a subset.
The letter says that no containers are to be delivered to the yard starting April 10, and all containers that are loaded must be unpacked and returned to the carrier.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Medicaid covers... -40% of births nationwide -50% of kids with special needs -72 million people in total Remember this as Republicans move to gut the program to finance tax cuts that will overwhelmingly go to the richest 1% of Americans.  "Party of family values."
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 23/04/2025
Peter Dutton made a new election ad, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol
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Honest Peter Dutton Ad
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Russian student Daria Kozyreva, 19, was sentenced to almost three years in Russian prison last week. She was punished for taping a paper with poems by Taras Shevchenko (a Ukrainian poet) to Shevchenko's monument in Russia on the anniversary of the war. In her last word, Daria said:⤵️
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
An excellent exploration of the dimensions of bad strategy from @ldfreedman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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The Art of Bad Strategy
Trump, tariffs and terrible deals
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Sidney Morss @sidneymorss.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
owning a small business in 2025…
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 11/04/2025
New consumer sentiment data just out for April: Americans’ expectations for how the economy will fare over the next year are now at their worst in 45 years. Consumer confidence is down 40% since Trump’s inauguration, including a 20% drop among Republicans.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 11/04/2025
NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
why is *every* newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been. What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
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Jamie @arenaguy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Wow. Painting himself as a hero For (partially) pausing the shitshow he created.
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Jinx @davidljjenkins.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Trump’s post was 7 minutes after the NYSE opened—before Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the 90-day pause on tariffs. The sequence and timing directly support insider trading and market manipulation. By informing people to buy before the policy was publicly disclosed, Trump broke the law.
An image of Trump’s Truth Social post. “Now is a good time to buy.” Rule 10b-5 prohibits the use of material nonpublic information for personal or third-party financial gain. Trump’s post, when combined with the market-moving announcement and Greer’s testimony, fits the legal definition of market manipulation and insider trading. Trump’s post was 7 minutes after the NYSE opened—before Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the 90-day pause on tariffs. The sequence and timing directly support insider trading and market manipulation. By informing people to buy before the policy was publicly disclosed, Trump broke the law.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Howard Buffett has visited Ukraine 18 times in the last 3 years to show his support and oversee the aid being provided. The Buffett Foundation has already provided Ukraine with $800 million in aid and this year the Buffett Foundation has pledged to Ukraine an additional $1 billion in aid.
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
MAGA would be coming with pitchforks for Biden if he manipulated the stock market like Donald Trump just did.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
EL-ERIAN on CNBC: “.. I think the Fed got very close to having to intervene for the wrong reasons. And that is market malfunction — and it would have been .. some combination of buying treasuries, reducing interest rates. I think we got close to that point today.” 🍌
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This remains deeply wrong and problematic. I don’t know what else to say.
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