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Trying to be skeptical without being cynical. Too many years in finance. Tech, games, autos, dogs...

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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Driving Down Memory Lane in VW’s Scirocco and Corrado www.motortrend.com/features/vol...
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Driving Down Memory Lane in VW’s Scirocco and Corrado
Cranking up the way-back machine for a spin in two of Volkswagen’s first front-drive sporty coupes.
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Fuckin yikes, man
Some comics were transparent about their willingness to ignore their moral convictions in order to play at the festival. “So what, they have slaves?” asked Tim Dillon in a podcast segment that led to his firing from the festival. “They’re paying me enough money to look the other way.” Pete Davidson offered a similar take, acknowledging in a chat with Von that people have asked him why, given his father’s death on 9/11, he would take a paycheck from the Saudi government. He did not address the criticism directly, but he did suggest he was happy to forget 9/11 for the right price: “I just know I get the routing, and then I see the number, and I go, ‘I’ll go.’”
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
One person familiar with the federal investigation told NBC News “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups…Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive.”
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'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say
Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.
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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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Jon asks why the GOP's "one is too many" logic applies only to immigrants and not mass shootings
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/09/2025
This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
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CNN @cnn.com · 24/08/2025
The Trump administration has been planning for weeks to send the National Guard to Chicago, two officials told CNN, as President Trump looks to expand his anti-crime agenda and crackdown on immigration in major cities across the United States. cnn.it/45yvNjJ
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Officials have been planning for weeks to send National Guard to Chicago as Trump seeks to expand crime crackdown | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has been planning for weeks to send the National Guard to Chicago, two officials told CNN, as President Donald Trump looks to expand his anti-crime agenda and crackdown on imm...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Here's the sitting president of the United States endorsing ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
16% of respondents have "a great deal of confidence in the Supreme Court". On the bright side, only 13% say climate change is "not happening". apnews.com/projects/pol...
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Latest AP Polls | AP-NORC Polling
New and historic polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research on presidential approval, the U.S. economy and other issues.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
BOOCKVAR: After seeing the Japan deal, we assume "$2.9 Trillion that will be taxed at 15% and that equals $435 Billion of taxes on US consumers and businesses .. For context, US companies pay about $525 Billion of corporate income taxes to the US govt." peterboockvar.substack.com/p/great-to-s...
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Great to see a trade deal but.../JGB yields jumping again in response/Mixed commentary still from calls
I want to quickly start by saying that Bleakley Financial Group has officially changed its name to One Point BFG Wealth Partners.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
By charging Americans 15% tax to buy Toyota, but charging GM 50+% tax to import their raw materials, Trump is *crushing US manufacturing*
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 17/07/2025
Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Trump's threats to fire Jerome Powell are being covered by the US press with the wrong lens. It's not Democrats vs. Republicans or Trump vs. the Fed. This is a story about why authoritarian rulers who remove constraints on their power destroy prosperity. I explain why here:
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Jerome Powell and the Authoritarian Sirens of Odysseus
Why strongman presidents become weaker—to everyone's peril—when they remove constraints on their own power.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2025
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
A lot of Trump’s appeal comes down to the fact that people whose lives are boring & mediocre because they aren’t particularly bright, talented, or motivated, would very much like to hear a story in which actually it’s someone else’s fault.
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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
History rhymes....
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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Pam Bondi: ‘What Is The DOJ Hiding?’
WASHINGTON—Casting doubts on the agency’s recently released review of the late financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi held a press conference Wednesday to ask wh...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/07/2025
'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

FAST COMPANY Article: 

While retirement typically occurs, after
completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals
called "micro-retirement." Micro-
retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months.
Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/07/2025
If blue states kept their money, they would be fine or even better off. Red states would be in deep financial trouble. Example: California is the fourth largest economy on Earth. It grows over one third of America’s vegetables and two thirds of its fruits and nuts.
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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Agree with everything in this piece. But what happens when R voters are told by state propaganda that this bill is actually *not* responsible for their economic hardship, and it's somehow the fault of Dems? Will they believe their own eyes or the propaganda? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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They Didn’t Have to Do This
By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I spent months on this video about people worshiping ChatGPT, please watch and leave a comment and share if you can!! My YouTube channel is still so small that I lose money making these videos rn 😭. Every little bit helps!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCy...
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ChatGPT Is Becoming A Religion
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"Two weeks" is Trump's favorite unit of time, @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social notes. Tax plans, health care policies, evidence of conspiracy theories, the ISIS fight, new coal mines, infrastructure plans—all were at one point riddles he promised to solve in about two weeks www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
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For Trump, ‘Two Weeks’ Is the Magic Number
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Excellent, beautiful, tragic, and true by @dannagal.bsky.social. Gift link: Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have Either. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
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Opinion | Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have Either.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.
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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
"Fortunate Son"?? Is this for real?? What hero directed them to play this during Donny Bone Spur's fascist birthday parade?
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Sarah Kozloff @sarahkozloff.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Love the ANDOR reference. Here's another.
a woman carrying a sign that says, "I have friends everywhere," a code phrase for identifying people in the Resistance in ANDOR
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 14/06/2025
Today, let freedom ring.
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 30/04/2025
Former Capitol Police officer: I would love nothing more than to move on from the worst day of my life. But as current officials attempt to rewrite that day… and pardoned criminals are making runs for office… the true patriots have become "nothing but afterthoughts."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Really need journalists to push back on this bullshit. When they say this, just ask them point blank: "Are you saying that because one Latino man committed a murder, another Latino man deserves a life sentence? Do you think all Latino men interchangeable?"
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Stunning. @acyn.bsky.social
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🤡
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2025
these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Russia laying the groundwork for European invasion.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/04/2025
Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
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Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Cabinet member worth $500 million speaks. 🇺🇸 @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 06/04/2025
UCONN IS BACK ON TOP OF WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 👑 The Huskies are 2025 national champions.
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 06/04/2025
If supposedly "50 countries" are calling Trump to negotiate tariffs, why did he spend the past three days on the golf course and fundraising, before the global markets reopen tonight. They wouldn't be lying to us again, would they? Couldn't be.
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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
So important to remember that Wall Street is a tight knit crew in an echo chamber who will happily ignore obvious but inconvenient alarm bells until the danger shows up in their gated communities. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Wall Street Blew It
Investors discounted everything Trump has ever said about trade and tariffs. We’re all going to pay for that mistake.
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
THIS. #HandsOff
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 05/04/2025
Even as the stock market crashed, President Trump was in Florida at his Doral golf resort and Mar-a-Lago club helping pump up family businesses, evidence that Trump continues to monetize the presidency. A NYT behind-the-scenes look with Theodore Schleifer and Zolan Kanno-Youngs nyti.ms/3XPqyIa
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Trump Family’s Cash Registers Ring as Financial Meltdown Plays Out (Gift Article)
The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president’s Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Now that’s a split-screen. ⛳️ @wsj.com
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
🔥 OBAMA: “IMAGINE IF I HAD DONE ANY OF THIS… I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious — who are we as a country, and what values do we stand for?” 🇺🇸
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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"They're crashing the economy. That's very very different than making housing affordable." Do NOT let the GOP get away with saying an economic downtown is somehow beneficial for anyone.
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 04/04/2025
The United States is currently a country where you can be kidnapped by secret police and shipped off to a slave labour concentration camp without ever being charged with a crime or getting a chance to argue your case in front of a judge. If you think it can't happen to you, why do you think that?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/04/2025
Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now
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Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now
HUNTSVILLE, AL—In an effort to comfort the child by telling her the funds had gone to a far better place, local parents Blake and Allison McKee gently explained to their daughter Friday that their mon...
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