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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22/08/2026
The Trump economy: $40tn debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel ft.trib.al/yjvQxNr
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The Trump economy: $40tn debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel
The president’s agenda is under strain as the Iran war pushes up prices and America’s finances worsen
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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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 12/08/2026
‘He tries to position his company — which is paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for harming children — as the AI company that will fight for you, me and everything society cares about (such as earning a living).‘ www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Don’t Buy Zuckerberg’s ‘Good Guy of AI’ Act
After seeing a video of Mark Zuckerberg sparring with a UFC champion on a barge in the middle of Lake Tahoe, you might be inclined to dismiss his man-of-the-people essay published on Monday morning. I...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This might be the greatest example of "Twitter isn't real life."
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 07/08/2026
“This is not healthy behavior, it’s more closer to a bear market rally where all the gains are registered in a few days.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We used to be a dead country. We were dead. But now we’re the hottest. 🙄
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It's one thing to honor the sacrifice of fallen service members. And it's common rhetoric to declare that they died for a worthy cause. It's the Platonic ideal of malignant narcissism to just stand there shamelessly and put words into their dead mouths.
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Downtown Josh Brown @downtownjoshbrown.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Last year only 16% of US adults read a book. 57% placed a sports bet. You have no f***ing excuse for not getting rich in America over the next ten years. These people literally cannot think straight. You should be running circles around them.
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Nacmtrader17 @nacmtrader17.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Like the ads write themselves
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 13/06/2026
people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 27/02/2026
If President Trump tries to take control of the midterm elections by executive order, he'll be defying the Constitution in an attempt to trample the authority of Congress and the states and the rights of voters. The time to draw a line is now, says @walterolson.bsky.social. buff.ly/ok13K53
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Still timeless.
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
America right now...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
MAHA was always a con. It was always about the ego and ambition of a drug-addled narcissistic fraud.
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meatloafenjoyer @meatloafenjoyer.com · 14/02/2026
Remember when they suggested paying for new homes with your 401k? lol, lmao even
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
(AXIOS) - Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Axios in an interview Tuesday that, when he searched President Trump's name in the unredacted Epstein files the previous day, it came up "more than a million times." @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 01/02/2026
I’m starting to think the people who are excited about “AI agents” have literally never used a computer in their lives
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OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful.
Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed.
When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O.
Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night."
Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How?The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk")
1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus
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2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders
3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK"
4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes)
The damage:
- Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats
- 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone
- Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total
The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking
"is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A new heartland economy based on ICE warehouses and AI data farms.
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism newrepublic.com/article/2059...
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The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism
Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Fight and help win a world war. Establish a global order that cements your national power for 80 years. Blow it all up. What am I missing?
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account. Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
Homeland Security &
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Law enforcement uses 'reasonable suspicion' to make arrests, as protected under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on this position.
A person's immigration status makes them a target for enforcement, not their skin color, race or ethnicity.
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Elections matter.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 13/01/2026
The president appears to be in a k hole on stage.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 13/01/2026
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.
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Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last...
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Uncrewed @uncrewed.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
You might asking yourself "Why would Axios say something stupid like this?" Well, the answer is that Rahm Emanuel's only group of supporters for a Presidential campaign consists of beltway journalists and editorial board members, so this is right up their alley. bsky.app/profile/axio...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Jan. 6, 2021:
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Interim Venezuelan leader promises Trump family to speed the flow of cocaine into the United States.
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Peter M. Sullivan 🇺🇸🇮🇪 @citizensullivan.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Trump's entire worldview is shaped by his career as a thuggish, corrupt, outer borough real estate bidnessman. The "Deep State" shtick is his substituting the diplomatic and legal framework for those meddling zoning board members and building inspectors who blocked his plans.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
CBS News Exclusive | Did Nicolas Maduro fund the pro-Palestinian protests of 2023 and 2024? Bill Ackman and Miriam Adelson have their suspicions.
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Got to love how much praise NYT gets for one article, 2+ years late, that literally just rehashes things we all knew already but NYT has spent the last 2 years ignoring & denying & obfuscating.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The AI buildout takes your water, electricity and jobs — but you DO get this. 🤡 @nypost.com nypost.com/2025/11/21/b...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 15/11/2025
ICE vs the clergy
Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim VondruskaA masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. 

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Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/11/2025
people like this get security details to make themselves feel important
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Layoffs Already Higher Than for Any Full Year Since 2020
Announced US job cuts by quarterIt’s been harder than normal to get a grasp on the US labor market lately, with several agencies that produce key economic data, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics, going dark during the government shutdown. Even before that, President Donald Trump’s efforts to downsize the US government left holes in the sprawling federal statistical system. But private datasets have helped fill in some of the gaps.

A report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas showed almost 950,000 US job cuts this year through September, the highest year-to-date total since 2020—and that was before the heavy October run of announcements. (Excluding that first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, US job cuts in the first nine months have already surpassed full-year layoffs for every year since 2009.) When something is almost the worst since the Great Recession, North says, “that’s not a very encouraging number.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
“.. for those of us who, in our younger years, revered America as a shining city upon a hill, .. this is quite a painful period. “..’America has lost its moral bearings; as a result, it has also lost its moral standing in the world.” @peter-wehner.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The Working Class Has Shifted Left on ‘Virtually Everything’ www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | The Working Class Has Shifted Left on ‘Virtually Everything’
Jared Abbott, the director of the Center for Working-Class Politics, explains why working-class voters feel a “representation gap” from the Democratic Party despite shifting left on most issues over t...
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NJ 11th for Change @nj11thforchange.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
New Jersey! Early voting has started! We love early voting. It’s convenient! It’s nearby! Weekend hours! The same exact machines as Election Day voting! Love to bring your kids with you to vote? Take them with you! And did we mention you get an I VOTED sticker? www.nj.gov/state/electi...
Red white and blue stickers that read I Voted Today!
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Mikie Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Early voting starts today, New Jersey. Get out there and vote! La votación anticipada en persona empieza hoy, Nueva Jersey. Vayan a votar! NJ.gov/vote
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James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 20/10/2025
Trump continues to wield funding threats, but they seem to have backfired. His withholding of infrastructure funds in NJ has been a “pure gift” for Dems in the gubernatorial race. From Robert Kuttner: trib.al/C8cxD1X
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Trump Keeps Overreaching: Will It Backfire? - The American Prospect
No university has agreed to his latest extortion plan. And his vindictive partisan shutdown of the NY-NJ Gateway tunnel project could be a life preserver for Democrat Mikie Sherrill in the close New Jersey governor’s race.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Has to be understood as a threat
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21/10/2025
Alpha Warriors
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Feels like, between .. 1. “No Kings” rally 2. Benioff apologizing 3. Young Republicans getting suspended 4. Universities rejecting White House “contracts” .. authoritarianism got something of a margin call this week.
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Hermit @robmetters.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
No Kings! Red Bank NJ. Thousands line the streets. The crowd is psyched
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 18/10/2025
This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇 Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it. Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United
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