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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

For centuries, the United States has been double-crossing allies, selling out partners, and sacrificing innocent people without compunction. Recently, Iranian civilians avoided certain slaughter by ignoring Trump’s self-serving lies. theintercept.com/2026/07/18/u...

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The United States of Betrayal

Turning on our allies has always been the American way.

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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The question on oil inventories is "how much does China have?" www.marketwatch.com/story/oil-is...

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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump's big news is China acquired the publicly available voter file? Bro, DOGE employees took off with our Social Security info on thumb drives.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm watching the Trump speech because I have to for my job and it's the most batshit crazy presidential speech I've ever heard in my nearly 50 years alive Where it's coherent—which is only intermittently—it's on its face the largest tureen of turd soup any POTUS has ever served

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Two years ago, America had drop-dead boring diarrhea, now every big strong tyrant I meet says, “Sir, you’ve got the most explosive diarrhea on earth. And I’ll skip the salad.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026

Oyer: "2 days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser..."

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

So here’s the (insanely corrupt) business plan: “Bloomberg Terminal for Trump’s brain.” For years, @mattgertz.bsky.social and @bobbylewis.bsky.social generated immense social value by just juxtaposing Trump’s live tweets against Fox News. You could see when he woke up, how far behind he was, etc.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

There’s a business here, Carl! bsky.app/profile/crai...

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 17/07/2026

Tonight seems to be the ceremonial kickoff of President Trump’s campaign to interfere in the November election. Trump has badly lost independent voters, even MAGA is disheartened; he is failing and unpopular, and he’s dragging his party down with him in the midterms.

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Deglobalization delivers imported core inflation. #econsky

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

There is no election security crisis. Trump manufactures the illness himself and then eases the crisis of his own making. I believe psychiatrists refer to this phenomenon as "Munchausen by Nazi” (pardon my accent). abcnews.com/Health/munch...

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Oh look. Gasoline futures heading back to the highs. And dumb fuck Donny has big plans to escalate his war. Good luck with all of the above in November.

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The fact that a cognitively impaired basket case is making fatal calculations based on demented fantasies cannot be discussed in America. It’s something everyone knows and nobody can seriously address.

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

What I find impossible to explain to Europeans is that there is zero national debate about the immense gamble about to happen. Americans truly are sleepwalking into whatever this is. No serious public discourse.

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s possible that America now has no other choice than to escalate massively. Oil reserves will run low in August. Capitulation is politically impossible. So rolling the dice and hoping Iran doesn’t destroy energy infrastructure is what’s left. Rubio has vanished again.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Record. Peacetime. Deficits. And an unnerving steepening at the long end. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

REUTERS: “.. A 16th straight U.S. district court, this one in Connecticut, on Friday rejected the US Department of Justice's demand for state voter rolls.” www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

> @afp.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“.. More than 200,000 comments—overwhelmingly negative—rolled in.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

".. It’s hard to see why regulators approved these products after the market had already risen so much,” said Kim Hyung-kyoon, executive director at asset manager Tcha Partners. “They’ve effectively created a casino for retail investors.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/26ef...

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‘A casino for investors’: leverage brings huge swings to world’s best-performing market

South Korean regulators fear single-stock leveraged ETFs are fuelling volatility

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Korean stock market's max drawdown now -25.2% (via Schwab)

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

What a graphic. @cnn.com $NVDA $TSLA $AEO

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

FEDWATCH: “.. There was an AI race to the top, and now it seems to be a race to the bottom between the US and China, driven by model performance that could deflate memory prices and intensify price competition. “.. As such, this has yet to be fully reflected in Tech valuations ..” #KimiMoment

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

$SKHY

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Martin Baccardax @mdbaccardax.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

So ... alongside $SKHY ... we have $SPCX, $CBRS, $QNT, $BXDC and $FRVO all trading south of their IPO price. The banks walk away with billions in fees, record high trading book gains and massive headline profits. Sounds about right.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

RBADVISERS: “.. The US is importing core inflation even without a pandemic! “.. Deglobalization and a massive trade deficit is fueling core inflation exactly as your basic econ textbook says it should.”

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 17/07/2026

‘When we overlay the average spread for double-B US dollar corporate bonds across different maturities, it looks a lot like the type of risk that the market has assigned to both SpaceX and Oracle bonds is junk risk.‘ www.ft.com/content/3a02...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

$SPCX $122.12 low

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

CPI on trend for 3.9% at year-end. (via B of A)

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This chart pair never gets old. (via B of A)

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I stopped short of marrying Salma Hayek.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Confederacy stops short of establishing nationhood, preserving slavery

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

England stops short of advancing to World Cup final

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Trump’s speech stops short of offering evidence of vote tampering

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"Stops short of offering evidence"?? What fresh hell of a mealy-mouthed headline is this??

Washington Post headline: Trump's address stops short of offering evidence of vote tampering

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Washington Post Stops Short of Being a Real Newspaper

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Busy week on the insider-selling beat. 👀 @barrons.com @yahoofinance.com @bloomberg.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“.. an outcry over the huge security operation — including a special sea surveillance mission, involving boats and helicopters from the Italian coastguard, financial police and port authorities — required to protect the ambassador and his superyacht ..” www.ft.com/content/f577...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

RBADVISERS: “.. Bubbles are inherently inflationary because they grossly misallocate capital. A comparison of building permits to data-center construction helps explain the housing shortage.”

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LiveSquawk @livesquawknews.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

US Sending Dozens More Refuelling Planes To Israel Ahead Of Possible Escalation – Axios www.axios.com/2026/07/17/t...

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Scoop: U.S. sending dozens more refueling planes to Israel ahead of possible escalation

U.S. plans to send dozens more refueling planes to Israel ahead of possible Iran escalation

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 17/07/2026

‘Imagine a scenario where banks pull back repo loans because of stress elsewhere on their balance sheets. Repo rates would then surge, hedge funds could liquidate Treasury positions en masse, and yields would gyrate.‘ www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

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How Sky-High Deficits Threaten the Bond Market

The Treasury is issuing record debt into a market increasingly unfriendly to profligate governments.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“.. It runs on data centers that need land, water, power and a county's permission .. “.. Those are gates that an angry public knows how to shut. If AI is rejected by the public, it will eventually meet the same fate in America as nuclear power.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“.. until now, the primary moat for OpenAI and Anthropic was simple: .. their competitors’ products weren’t very good. But if AI models “turn out to be a general-purpose technology like the automobile or electricity, what can they uniquely offer?” @mims.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chea...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“.. People will pay because they have to,” said an executive at a hedge fund. “If you’re behind on that news, you’ll get crushed.” @financialtimes.com $DJT www.ft.com/content/e466...

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NPR @npr.org · 17/07/2026

The NPR Network has never backed down on its mission, because millions of people rely on this trusted journalism and programming, and because of supporters like you who stand with us. Power the NPR Network. Make your first gift, or increase your support today. Donate now: n.pr/3SzxYze

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

ICYMI $DJT (to no one's surprise) is an absolute clown show of a company and has announced at least seven lines of business since election none of which have worked. Thus the stock is sub $10 - Trump owns 41% of the company = 114.5 million shares

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Cover. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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