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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is what crowd out looks like.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“.. It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.” @wsj.com 🇬🇷 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2026
"Absent policy steering, AI’s modeled effects increase the carbon intensity of the global economy and reinforce fossil fuel incumbency—outcomes that current analytical and governance frameworks do not fully capture."
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AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Torsten at Apollo: Rates are rising for reasons beyond a strong economy, with sticky inflation lifting yields in the front end, record hyperscaler debt issuance pressuring the belly, and fiscal worries pushing up the long end.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 23/09/2026
hahahahaha INCREDIBLE *CHINA IS HOLDING SENSITIVE F-35 PARTS DIVERTED TO HONG KONG *PENTAGON SAYS IT'S WORKING TO RETRIEVE STEALTHY JET PARTS *UPS FLIGHT WTH PARTS WAS HEADED TO US BEFORE BEING DIVERTED
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 23/09/2026
Concerning
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chrisarentz.bsky.social @chrisarentz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No more diesel up the wazoo.
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chrisarentz.bsky.social @chrisarentz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thanks for reminding me Mike.
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chrisarentz.bsky.social @chrisarentz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is just the analog of copying your friend’s homework. Yeah, you got the points for it but you also didn’t learn it so you got smoked in the exam.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump does it again, yet another record-high diesel price at $6.45 a gallon gasprices.aaa.com
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AAA Fuel Prices
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
* EXCLUSIVE -- CHINA HAS PRIVATELY ASKED IRAN TO USE ITS INFLUENCE TO HELP REIN IN YEMEN'S HOUTHIS AFTER SAUDI APPEAL TO BEIJING, THREE IRANIAN SOURCES SAY @reuters.com
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Philip Stafford @staffordphilip.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It doesn't surprise but it still somehow takes the breath away. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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Reuters @reuters.com · 13/09/2026
Saudi pipeline outage threatens loss of 4% of global oil supply reut.rs/3VtnZwP
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Saudi pipeline outage threatens loss of 4% of global oil supply
Saudi Arabia will run out of oil stocks for exports ‌if it doesn't restart its major pipeline to the Red Sea within days, leading to a loss of up to 4% of global supply, Saudi oil buyers and traders said. A further decline in Saudi flows will worsen the global supply crunch, which has already pushed global fuel prices to record highs, spurred ​inflation around the world and sent U.S. bond yields to the highest levels since the 2008 financial crisis.
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Small local models beat or tie with cloud-based frontier LLMs in 98.3% of chat queries, just over 60% of reasoning tasks. And cost 60-80% less (compute + electricity).
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/09/2026
Productivity is rocketing www.ft.com/content/8310...
ft.com
Houthis used Anthropic AI to try to build ballistic missiles
Missile test by group apparently failed, but exposes limits of AI safeguards
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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chrisarentz.bsky.social @chrisarentz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oof
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/09/2026
Trump: "If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate...I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000."
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/09/2026
Nonprofit groups in Nepal that were funded by USAID said they have had to shut down some of their programs since the Trump administration gutted it early last year, making it harder for them to support relief and rescue efforts after the deadly floods in late August.
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Nepal’s Flood Relief Workers Feel the Pain of Trump’s Cuts to U.S.A.I.D.
The agency played an important role in responding to earlier disasters like the 2015 earthquake. But the U.S. and other countries have pulled back, Nepali officials and humanitarian groups say.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/09/2026
This is correct, and the US Administration has created an “Office of Remigration” within our State Department —> www.wired.com/story/the-st...
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chrisarentz.bsky.social @chrisarentz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Spent many years as an IT consultant. There are limits to corp IT budgets. This is just the latest “productive tech” that CTOs and CEOs believe they must tell their board and investors they are implementing or they risk their own jobs. Cost and ROI be damned (or massaged to look better than it is).
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 28/08/2026
MS NOW's Jen Psaki kicked off the night with a devastating overview of the Hope Florida scandal — a situation, she said, where a grand jury just revealed "corruption on top of corruption on top of corruption.
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Jen Psaki pinpoints glaring 'red flag' in GOP charity scandal: 'Too far-fetched'
MS NOW's Jen Psaki kicked off the night with a devastating overview of the Hope Florida scandal — a situation, she said, where a grand jury just revealed "corruption on top of corruption on top of corruption.""Let me just start at the beginning of this story, because back in 2021, officials in Flori...
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A 5-year-old Texan just spent the first day of school in an ICE detention center. ICE kidnapped Liam Tadeo on his way to a soccer game with his dad. Liam should be in kindergarten. Instead, our government has thrown him in a prison camp hundreds of miles from home.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ashley Moody redirected $10 million in taxpayer funds meant for sick children for her own gain. She must resign.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
23% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Graph of visas issued to students per month in 2024 and 2025
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chrisarentz.bsky.social @chrisarentz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just connect everything with the Hyperloop. Problem solved.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Murdered by the Trump regime. No accountability.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 22/08/2026
‘Local AI models can already answer 89% of everyday chat and reasoning queries as well as a frontier cloud model. They also cut energy costs 80% and compute costs 77% against an all-cloud baseline.‘ tomtunguz.com/intelligence...
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chrisarentz.bsky.social @chrisarentz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Nothing to see here.
Image of sign reading « keep calm and carry on »
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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If you tolerate this, neurodivergent people will be next
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
For the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
RBADVISERS: “.. Despite economists and polticians saying inflation isn’t an issue here’s more evidence the inflation genie is already out of the bottle. #EmpireManufacturing Pricing Plans continue their upward trend.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Another Christian conservative. This keeps happening.
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chrisarentz.bsky.social @chrisarentz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
META sells adds and the average consumer is tapped out so. . .
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026
Ken Paxton spokesperson endorses privatizing Social Security
retweet by Paxton spokesperson Madison Cercy: In 2001 George W Bush proposed a partial privatization plan for Social Security so you could put 10% of your SS contribution into the markets.

People rejected this.

We can now see that if it had passed, the 10% that went into the markets would have outperformed the 90% the government managed, the program would be solvent, and the average SS recipient would be receiving 2X what they currently receive.

The worst bet you’ll ever make is betting on government.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"One baby at a time, the world is marching toward a grim milestone: Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase."
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USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that no one — and, particularly, no children — have died because of its funding cuts. But the AP has documented the deaths of women and children from Myanma...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
More people rate inflation as their top priority now than in 2024 blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/affordabil...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If you were looking for good news in today's employment report, you would emphasize the unemployment rate falling to 4.1%, a 2-year low. But this doesn't reflect job growth. The participation rate is plummeting.
Line chart titled "The unemployment rate has been roughly flat over the past two years, but this reflects plummeting participation rate" showing the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate and labor force participation rate. While unemployment held steady around 4% from January 2024 to July 2026, the participation rate plunged from 62.5% to 61.4% over eight months, the steepest decline in the dataset. This drop of 1.1 percentage points means the flat unemployment rate masks weakening labor market conditions, as discouraged workers leaving the labor force aren't counted as unemployed.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
HFI: “.. We are ~47 million bbls below 2023 levels. And WTI traded around $80/bbl back then, and we are at sub-$75 today.” ⛽️
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“.. Margin debt is the highest it has ever been,” he said .. “There’s a lot of margin debt you don’t see because it’s not called margin debt. It’s called other things. It’s that kind of leverage, some hidden, some public.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/08/06/j...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
PARCL LABS: “.. More than 1 in 10 homeowners in Colorado and Washington, DC who bought since 2020 with a mortgage are now underwater. .. Home price declines in these markets have outpaced how fast owners can pay down their loans.”
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 04/08/2026
These could have saved lives in Ukraine instead of being part of a strategic catastrophe in the ME.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026
Sen. Rand Paul: "This was a war of choice, and it wouldn't have been my choice ... they've militarized the strait. The strait has never been militarized ... I think that really we, by any objective viewing, are worse off now than we were before the war"
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chrisarentz.bsky.social @chrisarentz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Pretty much.
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chrisarentz.bsky.social @chrisarentz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Hasset lies so effortlessly. It’s something to behold.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Great piece on Kalshi's planned ICE betting markets from @pabloreports.bsky.social Disgusting stuff migrantinsider.com/p/kalshi-wan...
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Kalshi Wants You to Bet on How Many People ICE Abducts Today
A CFTC filing obtained by Migrant Insider shows the exchange quietly built a market that lets traders wager on ICE's daily arrest count with three confidential appendices the public never saw.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 18/07/2026
A federal judge says no sitting president has ever "sued federal agencies completely subject to his control for monetary benefits."
truthdig.com
Judge: Trump Using the Presidency To ‘Manipulate’ Courts in IRS Case
Judge Kathleen Williams also referred Trump’s attorney Alejandro Brito to the Florida Bar for review of possible disciplinary action.
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chrisarentz.bsky.social @chrisarentz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This
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