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Investing and the economy, The New York Mets, Stoic Philosophy. Also hating my favorite football team, the New York Jets

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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ft.com
How US mortgage bonds can trigger a ‘vicious loop’ for Treasury yields
One little cog in the bond market’s feedback machine
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Exactly one year ago today, I went to the hospital after waking up at 2am with numbness in my hands and feet. That numbness turned out to be the first symptom of an awful autoimmune disorder known as Guillain-Barré syndrome. About a week later, my body was almost completely paralyzed.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The single biggest mistake of the Cohen Era was the Baez/Crow-Armstrong trade. Number 2 was not making a very serious, winning effort to sign Freddie Freeman when he was a free agent.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“No one comes home through the wind No one comes home through the growlin’ He is lost amongst the yowlin’ Lost forever in the darkness Of the sour-sweet Grinch Night wind.”
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Hegseth’s One Percent
A cult of military superiority over civilians is not only unwarranted, but actively dangerous.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
TRUMP: This is gonna bring prices down. Way down. When do you see completion of the job, fellas? BUSINESS GUY: Well, the pipeline will take 3 years
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Stephen Walt @stephenwalt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Secretary of (Losing) Wars Hegseth rejects meritocracy. He doesn't want a military or service academies filled w/ the best people (no matter what color, gender, orientation, etc.), he wants a military that looks and thinks just like him. It's a recipe for incompetence, a topic on which he's expert.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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The Houthis Have a Rich Sense of Irony and Timing
Supposedly decimated last year, they are back and stronger than ever.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump said he was "working on a deal" to purchase Belarusian potash fertilizer. Belarusian president says there is no potash for Trump to buy www.politico.eu/article/bela...
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Lukashenko says Belarus doesn’t have enough potash for Trump
“Even if we wanted to supply [potash] to other, Western markets, we simply do not have those volumes,” said the Belarusian president.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I swear the only thing that practically eliminating any sort of real NFL preseason has done is move a bunch of hamstring injuries from mid/late August to week 1.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Trump Loses the Other Strait
The Houthi advance is bad news for the U.S., and even worse news for Saudi Arabia.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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theatlantic.com
A Quarter Century of Panic
After 9/11, the U.S. government was over-focused on fighting terrorism, losing sight of other threats. Americans are still living with the consequences.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Myth of Perfect Knowledge
Science will never be able to give a completely objective description of the world. That should make us humbler—and wiser.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Dan Driscoll’s Parting Shot
The Army secretary told Trump about problems in the Army and his friction with Hegseth, then resigned.
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Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Trump went to war because sanctions could not work. Now he’s imposing sanctions because war could not work.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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theatlantic.com
The Latest Empty Threat Against Iran
The Trump administration gave its own explanation for why sanctions against Tehran won’t work.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I need to stop seeing shit about the Jets ending their INT drought. It was in a fucking preseason game. It does not count.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Secret of Mana
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Why war with Iran is easier than peace
YouTube video by CaspianReport
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Since the start of 2025, the Mets are 75-103 with Brooks Raley for a paltry .421 winning percentage. They are now 61-43 without Brooks Raley for a very nice .587 winning percentage. Coincidence? I think not!
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Mets clean house and get hot? All this time and arguing over the Mets clubhouse issues only for us to find out now that it was actually Brooks Raley that was the clubhouse cancer.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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How the U.S. Squandered Its Strategic Advantage
Idle threats and munitions shortages have boxed Trump in.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
RIP to the Why Am I a Mets Fan podcast. :(
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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This May Be Trump’s Biggest Error in the Iran War
Success requires knowing what motivates your enemy.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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The American People Need the Truth About the Iran War
The president and the Pentagon are not being up front about what has happened in more than 20 weeks of hostilities.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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I worked with Trump. I know why he is being so easily goaded into a forever war
Miles Taylor watched flattery and insults move the US President. With help from Russia and China, Iran has learned the same lessons
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Trump Has Only Terrible Choices With Iran
Some involve accepting Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz. The rest call for escalation.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
apnews.com/article/ice-... Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
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AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Iran, Not Trump, Is in Control of This War
The cease-fire was always just a Trump fantasy.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Military conflict has always existed. It’s just stopped making sense. foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/06/w...
foreignpolicy.com
War Has Become Pointless
Military conflict has always existed. It’s just stopped making sense.
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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 07/07/2026
Juan Soto’s Hot Streaks Are Delightful blogs.fangraphs.com/juan-sotos-h...
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Juan Soto’s Hot Streaks Are Delightful
When Soto is seeing the strike zone well, the numbers almost don’t make sense.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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America’s Impending Population Collapse
This year, for the first time in nearly a century, more foreign-born people will likely leave the United States than will enter.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
#Mets
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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American cesspool
Green algae, blue shards, and a red-faced megalomaniac.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“Truth never triumphs—its opponents just die out. Science advances one funeral at a time.” -Max Plank
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Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Trump is now Nixon going to China — if Nixon had bombed China first. A remarkable if fragile opportunity has emerged to end this misbegotten war and begin to take America and Iran off their 47-year path of confrontation, Rob Malley and I write in @nytopinion.nytimes.com. Read paywall free:
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Opinion | Trump’s Iran Debacle Could Be a Gift for America
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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America’s Big Mistake in Iran
Aerial bombing alone can’t win a war.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“Deregulated capitalism is a fragile flower bound to commit suicide.” -Paul Samuelson
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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theatlantic.com
Iran Has Humiliated Trump
Officials in Tehran got the United States to sign a document that even Americans described as degrading, mortifying, a total capitulation.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Trump says the quiet part out loud: He had to choose between surrender and economic disaster. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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The Art of the Yield
Trump says the quiet part out loud: He had to choose between surrender and economic disaster.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“The reason that ‘guru’ is such a popular word is because ‘charlatan’ is so hard to spell.” ~William Bernstein
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Trump Warns Iran To Accept His Ultimatum Or Face Wrath Of Next Ultimatum
WASHINGTON—Threatening to continue issuing threats if the Islamic Republic did not quickly agree to his demands, President Donald Trump warned Iran on Monday to accept his ultimatum or face the wrath ...
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Dee Mack @carly911.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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The Betrayal of Black Patriots
They devoted their lives to serving the United States. Now the nation’s top military leader is sending the message that they’re not welcome.
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
4 worst players in MLB by fWAR: 1. Mark Vientos: -0.9 2. Salvador Perez: -0.8 3. Josh Bell: -0.6 4. Jeff McNeil: -0.4
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Drew106 @drew106.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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The Iran War and the Future of American Empire
The choice is between controlled retrenchment now and forced retrenchment later.
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