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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Insider trading laws aren't just about fairness. They're about making markets work. Today I explore why selling early access to presidential announcements could undermine that principle—and why ordinary investors may end up paying the price. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/the-presid...
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The President Is Selling You Out — One Second at a Time
How early access to Trump’s "truths" will drain ordinary investors
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Mehr releases what it says are details of the Iran-US MoU:
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Trump's weaponization of government to hurt companies he dislikes get a lot of attention. Probably not enough coverage of how he also accidentally kills companies he likes because he doesn't understand economics www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
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The ‘America First’ Corporate Graveyard
An (economic) serial killer is on the loose, and he’s murdering U.S firms left and right.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
It’s George Conway. I put everything about my career on the line and left the Republican party to stop Donald Trump and his MAGA sleazebags in Congress. All I’m asking you for is $5 to get me to Congress so we can fight them together in the lion’s den.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 02/04/2026
10,000 Veterans and their families to lose their homes due to Trump's VA: www.npr.org/2026/04/02/nx-s1-575081…
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Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it
Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/02/2026
NEW: @hcrichardson.bsky.social and I discuss republican clandestine spying, weaponization of the Justice Department, and failures of Pam Bondi. Never any paywalls, and you can subscribe for free. www.muellershewrote.com/p/heather-co...
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Heather Cox Richardson and Allison Gill Discuss Republican Spying and Weaponized Justice
Watch now | A recording from Allison Gill's live video
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Aaron @bluecardpack76.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The only time NATO invoked Article 5 was after the 9/11 attack. Trump is stunningly ignorant of US and NATO history. September 13, 2001 AFTER THE ATTACKS: THE ALLIANCE; For First Time, NATO Invokes Joint Defense Pact With U.S. | The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2001/09/13/u...
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AFTER THE ATTACKS: THE ALLIANCE; For First Time, NATO Invokes Joint Defense Pact With U.S. (Published 2001)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
An important thing to understand about Trump's base is that they believed our military occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan were mistakes, but they also thought military occupations in Chicago, LA, Portland, and DC were very legal and very cool.
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Peterson Institute for International Economics @piie.com · 16/09/2025
NEW: Data suggest US businesses have absorbed most of the tariff costs through July 2025, not foreign sellers. There is very little support for Trump’s thesis that foreign sellers are absorbing tariffs by lowering their prices on US imports. More:
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Who is paying for Trump's tariffs? So far, it's US businesses.
President Donald Trump promised during his recent campaign to impose steep tariffs on other countries, assuring voters that the cost would be paid by foreign sellers, not Americans. In September 2024,...
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Aaron @bluecardpack76.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Economics Professor Justin Wolfers: "I am confident that we're going to see higher prices coming in the second half of the year as a result of the tariffs."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left
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Peterson Institute for International Economics @piie.com · 06/08/2025
NEW: We're tracking tariff revenue as a % of monthly total import values US businesses pay (including shipping & insurance), by type of good & country of import, along with revenue compared to the federal budget deficit. Check out the interactive charts here:
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Trump's tariff revenue tracker: How much is the US collecting? Which imports are hit?
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Richard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 26/07/2025
It's really hard to tell at this point but I think years from now this will be one of the most destructive things that RFK Jr did at HHS. Mammograms, FIT tests and colonoscopies, diabetes, blood pressure, depression screens. All of these are as widely available as they are because of USPSTF.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Today's front page 📰 Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland Our front page has caused a stir online, prompting anger from Donald Trump's supporters. So, we want to ask: which part is factually inaccurate? 🤔
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Tomorrow's front page 📰 Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
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Aaron @bluecardpack76.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Exclusive | Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files - Wall Street Journal
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Exclusive | Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files
Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president that the department also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victim...
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Thankfully Politifact did not include all of the remarks I gave them, as they likely were not fit to print. That said, this piece is a reminder that Gabbard's "new analysis" is little more than politicized garbage. www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
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Trump’s falsehood that Obama tried to lead a ‘coup’
President Donald Trump said intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard “caught” former President Barack Obama and that he tried to lead a “coup.” That’s a distortion of records showing how Obama sought an asses...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Reupping my YouTube abt how corrupt Todd Blanche's attempt to save Trump from his pedophile problem is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae-Z...
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Trump's Ghislaine Maxwell problem
YouTube video by emptywheel
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Aaron @bluecardpack76.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Newly discovered photos and video shed fresh light on Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein | CNN Politics In a brief call with CNN on Tuesday, President Trump, asked about the wedding photos, responded, “You’ve got to be kidding me,” before repeatedly calling CNN “fake news” and hanging up.
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Exclusive: Newly discovered photos and video shed fresh light on Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein | CNN Politics
Newly uncovered archived video footage and photos reveal fresh details about Donald Trump’s past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
A black man appointed by a black president? Trump fanatics are going to lose it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/07/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Not only does an Excel spreadsheet of Trump mentions in the Epstein files exist, but so do training videos explaining how to flag the files for Trump mentions. Plus, the number of people who had access is larger than previously known. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...
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The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI
Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 17/07/2025
Exclusive: For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump.
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.
The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Mehdi’s interview of Mulvaney was taped on Tues. at Conway Hall (no relation 🤣) in London. I watched the whole thing live, because I was on a panel that occasionally chimed in during the interview. The entire interview and program (called Head to Head, on Al Jazeera’s English-language channel) ...
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
For those interested in what the conversation about the Epstein files looked like on X over the last few days, I collected some data and put it into an interactive visualization: faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Spot...
Spotlight graph of X discourse about Epstein from July 5 to July 13. Graph showing X posts along time (X axis) and cumulative number of X posts shared by that time (Y axis). Counts are limited to posts (excluding reposts) from accounts with more than 25,000 followers. Individual tweets are sized by the total number of reposts. Graph shows initially low activity (X posts from high follower accounts), with a first surge on July 6, starting at 9pm EDT, and then surging again the next morning and throughout that day. After that, there are additional periods of increased activity (though not as much as July 6 and 7) which occurs during the days, with tapering off during the nights.

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@elonmusk (7/8/2025, 1:28:41 PM EDT): They arrested (and killed) Peanut, but have not even tried to file charges against anyone on the Epstein client list.

Government is deeply broken. https://t.co/YndRadQUBE
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@AOC (7/11/2025, 2:18:31 PM EDT): Wow who would have thought that electing a rapist would have complicated the release of the Epstein Files?
12742334 Followers | 47336 Reposts | 415845 Likes

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
BEIGE BOOK: “.. Contacts in a wide range of industries expected cost pressures to remain elevated in the coming months, increasing the likelihood that consumer prices will start to rise more rapidly by late summer.” www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15/07/2025
Republicans see Whites as a target of discrimination as much as they see Black and Hispanic people that way. But they’re less likely to see any of them as targets than they were a year ago. Free to read: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/07/2025
Holy shit -- Kevin Hassett completely bombs on ABC when pressed by Jon Karl to explain how Trump can possibly justify 50% tariffs on Brazil even though the country has a trade *deficit* with the US
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I mean if any of this is true I’d say Trump has a problem on his hands, though I kind of wonder how it is that he’s still sitting on these taped interviews with Epstein if they really contain what he claims. . youtu.be/Ko_y_JnULxg?...
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Author DROPS BOMBSHELL on Trump... SECRET TAPES?!?
YouTube video by Legal AF
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Trump’s 50% Brazil tariff: Because nothing says "America First" like taxing your own citizens to defend someone else's coup.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 09/07/2025
Measles cases in the U.S. have hit a three-decade high, reaching the highest yearly total since 1992 in less than seven months.
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U.S. Measles Cases Climb to 33-Year High
Vaccination rates for kindergartners have fallen nationally.
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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The CEA did not study import prices. There is no evidence that foreign producers have broadly lowered their prices to bear the costs of the tariff. Tariffs paid by US importers are rising, so eventually, US businesses and consumers will bear that cost.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 04/07/2025
Mirroring Trump, Republicans have turned even more sharply against pluralism in the past few years. Gift link: wapo.st/45NVTQf
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Kimberly Clausing @kclausing.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
To reveal the underlying values, just look at the bill. Both Senate and House bills have large, expensive tax breaks for the foreign income of US MNCs, even as the Administration supposedly rails against offshoring, as @whitehouse.senate.gov points out in a new oped. www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
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Peterson Institute for International Economics @piie.com · 25/06/2025
NEW: We modeled (a few versions of) the "Liberation Day" tariffs. The tariffs reduce US & global economic growth & increase inflation in many economies, depending on how others respond. A higher US risk premium means even higher inflation & significantly lower real GDP than the other scenarios.
A higher US risk premium amplifies the economic losses from Trump's tariffs
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It took Netanyahu 29 years, but he finally found an American president who was itching to go to war with him against Iran.
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Peterson Institute for International Economics @piie.com · 12/06/2025
Tariffs are a “bad form of tax," @adamposen.bsky.social says, in terms of the costs compared with the amount of revenue raised, who pays the tax, & the chaos created. “Costs, chaos, corruption are the reasons you don’t use tariffs as a large-scale revenue generator." Watch here:
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PIIE’s Adam Posen says tariffs fail the American people
YouTube video by Peterson Institute for International Economics
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
lol Exclusive: FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...
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Exclusive: FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say
Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/06/2025
President Trump has long amplified debunked or baseless theories. On Saturday, he shared a conspiracy theory on social media that falsely claimed former President Biden had been executed and replaced by a robot. It was the latest outlandish claim he has promoted online to millions of followers.
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Trump Amplifies Outlandish Robot Biden Conspiracy Theory
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Aaron @bluecardpack76.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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Aaron @bluecardpack76.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Fiona Hill was a National Security Council advisor for European and Russian Affairs during Trump 1.0.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 29/05/2025
I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
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Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"
YouTube video by Annie Andrews
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Trade policy update.
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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
stagflation ftw
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/05/2025
Wow. This is major news. Judges discuss moving the U.S. marshals from the executive to the judicial branch. Not only would they protect judges from trump threats, but it would also make it easier for courts to order marshals to carry out court orders.
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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My thoughts on the tax deform underway in the House. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/o...
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Opinion | Behold the New Tax Plan: More Complicated, Less Fair, Totally Unaffordable
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Aaron @bluecardpack76.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Gift Link How Trump’s Search for a New Air Force One Led to Qatar’s Jet - The New York Times Qatar had been trying to sell off a luxury jet for years, with no luck. Then President Trump’s team set its sights on it.
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The Inside Story of Trump’s Search for a New Air Force One
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Kimberly Clausing @kclausing.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Another troubling own goal that will hurt US exports, US innovation, and US prosperity. (International student tuition is a service export.) To say nothing to the damage to US standing in the world, international relations, and future partnerships... as well as the students themselves!
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