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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Odd-looking trades happen all the time in markets that big. What's hard to explain is telling investigators to stop looking. youtu.be/puXEsuVyIQM
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The Iran War has drained America’s strategic petroleum reserve to its lowest level since 1982.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The vote marked the second time the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) denied students at the nation’s largest historically Black university, with over 15,000 students, a midterms voting site. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
North Carolina early voting begins, with students targeted by suppression schemes
Ultimately, voters described the roadblocks as a feature, not a bug, of the state’s electoral system — one that’s littered with so much confusion that some may decide to stay home and not vote at all.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Airfares .. #PPI (via Schwab)
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/10/2026
Pennsylvania reports 1,222 measles cases as outbreak grows reut.rs/4s3UfD7
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Pennsylvania reports 1,222 measles cases as outbreak grows
The Pennsylvania Health Department on Wednesday reported ​1,222 measles cases ‌in the state, up 86 cases from a week ​earlier.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Suboptimal: Long-term look at US government debt levels, interest expense, maturing debt, and total debt service payments @RayDalio @soberlook thedailyshot.com/sub...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...
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𝓒𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮 @anondananda.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
> @cnn.com $SPCX www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/i...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This level of naked, open corruption is unprecedented in our history.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 06/10/2026
Water prices rose 1.6 times faster than overall inflation between 2015 and 2025. Consumer prices increased 39% during that period, compared with a 62% jump in water bills, according to the study. Water costs also rose more than twice as fast as groceries, which increased 30%.
theguardian.com
US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds
For-profit water corporations, federal cuts and climate crisis are ‘supercharging water rate hikes’, study co-author says
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ballymagibbon2.bsky.social @ballymagibbon2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@jd-vance-1.bsky.social WTAF
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NPR @npr.org · 06/10/2026
Musk's company, SpaceX, and Luckey's company Anduril, could potentially benefit from recommendations made in the study about future autonomous weapon systems. n.pr/4AUVhFG
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Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey's new Pentagon roles raise ethics worries
Musk's company, SpaceX, and Luckey's company Anduril, could potentially benefit from recommendations made in the study about future autonomous weapon systems.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Palm Beach GOP comes out in favor of pedophile county clerk candidate. Mike Caruso, Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts, said he still intends to win his November election for Clerk and Comptroller after being arrested in August for molesting a male relative under the age of 5.
miamiherald.com
Palm Beach GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuse
“I maintain my innocence and remain a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller,” Mike Caruso, facing child sex abuse charges.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The bottom 20% spends 17% of pre-tax income on energy... top 20%? Just 2.7% JPMAM
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 03/10/2026
The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump's rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. to.pbs.org/4zgbIuz
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
This year’s election is a test for the working-class coalition that lifted Trump into the White House and gave majorities to Republicans in the House and Senate.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“I am the house.” - Sept 8 “I can’t control the bond market.” - Oct 3 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.
Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.
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Diane Swonk @dianeswonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Suspended animation Dismal jobs report with only 29,000 jobs created in the month and tepid wage gains. Losses in local government employment shaved 17K from the total Wage gains continued to cool. Benefit costs are cutting into wage gains, much to the dismay of workers.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We already know what story the best man will tell at this kid's wedding.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump’s tax cuts – and botched tariffs – will add $1.2 trillion to federal deficits over the next 5 years. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump's tax cuts and botched tariffs will add over a trillion to deficits over the next five years.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 01/10/2026
Glaciers in Switzerland lost 5.5% of their ice volume this year, the second-biggest percentage drop on record due to heat waves and low winter snowfall, experts report. to.pbs.org/4hoUYLy
pbs.org
Swiss glaciers lost more than 5% of ice volume in 2026. Heat waves and low winter snow accelerated the thaw
Global warming is wreaking havoc on Europe, the world’s fastest-warming continent.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. How is that .. number bigger than 100%? Apparently because earlier pledges were withdrawn.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/p...
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The 10-year Treasury yield is at its highest since 2007; the 30-year, its highest since 2002. Meanwhile, mortgage rates are back above 7%. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Manchester City charges: Premier League confirms club guilty of all charges related to financial rule breaches
bbc.co.uk
Manchester City charges: Premier League confirms club guilty of all charges related to financial rule breaches
The Premier League confirms that Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules between 2009-10 and 2017-18.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 29/09/2026
The site's question-and-answer function confirms that President Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files and that Democrat Joe Biden beat him in the 2020 election. It says federal officials did not find widespread fraud in that election, as Trump says constantly. to.pbs.org/4yZmkO8
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WATCH: Trump launches AI-powered government website America.gov
The president said the site is “glamorizing” the federal bureaucracy — but it doesn’t agree with him on many key issues.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
7.50% mortgage rate... highest since April 2024
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026
Oil stocks in US strategic petroleum reserve fall to lowest level since 1982 reut.rs/4xTC8RM
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Oil stocks in US strategic petroleum reserve fall to lowest level since 1982
Stocks of crude ​oil in ‌the U.S. Strategic Petroleum ​Reserve fell ​to 283.8 million ⁠barrels last ​week, the ​lowest level since October 1982, ​according to ​data from the ‌Department ⁠of Energy.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Boomers + Silent Gen hold 62% of total US household net worth @yardeni
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Weird coincidence that all this is happening the same day as the AI air control rollout. “You’re absolutely right - a forty five degree angle of approach is entirely too steep for landings, and that’s on me. Would you like me to call some local mortuaries?”
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Supertanker freight costs are surging to records, pushing crude transport costs above $22 a barrel from about $2 a year ago. Markets @soberlook
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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As a former megachurch youth pastor I can tell you that Hegseth is running the military like a megachurch youth pastor, which as a former megachurch youth pastor I can tell you is a bad idea.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
WaPo statement: @washingtonpost.com
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 18/09/2026
“All evidence suggests that noncitizen voting in American elections is a minute phenomenon. American elections are accessible, secure, and accurate.” — Cato’s Stephen Richer, before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight.
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Roy Cooper @roycoopernc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Michael Whatley needs to look in the mirror.
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Governor Josh Shapiro @governor.pa.gov · 17/09/2026
In the midst of the largest and deadliest measles outbreak in America in 35 years, RFK Jr. chose to spend his time today addressing the premier vaccine-denial conference in America.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While wage and salary growth has slowed to roughly pre-pandemic levels, health insurance costs have surged. Sage Eco @soberlook Carl Quintanilla
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A 30-year fixed mortgage printed 7.22% yesterday. @cnbc.com
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15/09/2026
At least three supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran's tour after Macklemore is dropped over pro-Palestinian comments onstage.
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3 supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran's tour after Macklemore is dropped over pro-Palestinian comments
Three supporting acts have quit Ed Sheeran’s tour after Macklemore was removed for his pro-Palestinian comments onstage.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fitch: US private credit default rate hit a record 6.3% in August
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rep. Thomas Massie has introduced a resolution to impeach Pete Hegseth — accusing him of defying Congress and illegally continuing the U.S. war in Iran.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14/09/2026
Coal, gas and oil-fired power plants are responsible for about one-quarter of the nation's total climate pollution, second only to the transportation sector. Pollution from power plants is one of the largest sources of climate-changing pollution in the world. to.pbs.org/4xmGHDO
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The Trump administration is set to eliminate a rule that curbs greenhouse gas emissions from power plants
The rule change a significant shift from efforts by Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama to combat climate change.
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ballymagibbon2.bsky.social @ballymagibbon2.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@roycoopernc.bsky.social 🤔
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record
bbc.co.uk
Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record
Cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne says he has matched a donation from Ben Delo announced late on Friday.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Remember when Joe Biden proposed canceling student debt and every single Republican accused him of "bribing voters"?
dailymail.com
Biden accused by GOP of 'bribing' voters with student loan forgiveness
The Biden administration unveiled its latest effort to forgive as much as $20,000 in debt for some borrowers on Monday after the Supreme Court struck down its original plan last year.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Commerce quietly deleted its own rules against political interference in federal statistics.⁣ ⁣ Now Census and BEA data can legally be delayed, reworded, or manipulated.⁣ ⁣ newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
newsletter.platypuseconomics.com
The Rules Changed. The Numbers Didn’t.
And I’ll tell you the day that stops being true.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Jimmy Kimmel announces his interview with James Talarico has been censored and will not air on television today after Trump’s FCC threatened ABC. It will go on YouTube instead.
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