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Justin Schardin

@jschardin.bsky.social
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VP, Financial Services @ CFRA Washington Analysis. Longtime DC finreg and econ policy guy; history buff, tortured MN sports fan, Fargo native. #Timberwolves; opinions my own

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/10/2026
Juice xkcd.com/3308/
4-panel comic. (1) [Two people, one with a ponytail, sitting and typing at terminals opposite each other. A sign on the wall reads “Juice Mission Control,” with JUICE in huge letters.] PERSON 1: Jupiter Icy Moons Exploder checkin is complete. All systems nominal. (2) PERSON 2 with ponytail. [People turn to look at each other.] PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: Jupiter Icy Moons *Explorer*. (3) [Person 1 turns back to his terminal.] (4) PERON 1: Control, everything is fine, but I need to schedule an urgent spacecraft update. [Person 2 facepalms] PERSON 2: Oh no.
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Colton the fish sp💀💀ker🐟🪴🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
forg has mini side quest for treasure 🐸
A tiny spotted frog juvenile sits on my fingertip.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/10/2026
Switzerland’s iconic glaciers lost an enormous amount of ice in 2026, a new report shows, signaling an ongoing rapid meltdown driven by climate change that has astonished scientists. About 20 percent of glacial ice in Switzerland has vanished since 2021. wapo.st/4z8ztEI
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/09/2026
On every social media site, very much including this one, it seems like about half people's effort & time goes to building a list of Official Enemies that must never be cited or supported, as though that's the first step in a serious political program as opposed a deranged black hole of energy.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Climate crisis update.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
In Beijing, a think tank at Renmin University recently published an assessment titled
"Thank Trump," which wryly hailed his efforts to hasten the "twilight of an empire," by undermining America's alliances, civil service, scientific institutions, and democratic credibility. In the past two years, the international approval rating of the U.S. has dropped nearly forty points, according to a worldwide survey by the Alliance of Democracies; in multiple polls, China now rates higher than the U.S.
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Justin Schardin @jschardin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I have questions, @themountaingoats.bsky.social
Headline that reads: "Mountain Goat's Epic Pump Fake Stuns Predator in Viral Clip"
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
Convincing young people that America is poor & no one can afford anything & everyone is living paycheck to paycheck & their economic future is doomed ... IS NOT GOING TO LEAD TO MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY. People who feel anxious & under threat do not respond with openness & generosity! Look it up!
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
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West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In his speech yesterday, Canada PM Mark Carney seemed to try to explain to the President what a “trade deficit” is. You’re not just giving another country 100s of millions of dollars… You’re buying things from them! That you want!
Another prominent justification for U.S. tariffs has been their claim that, since the United States runs a trade deficit with Canada, we were "ripping them off"
But the United States' narrow merchandise trade deficit only exists because the U.S. buys so much of its energy from us.
Canada fuels American growth: supplying 99% of their natural gas imports, 85% of electricity imports, and 60% of crude oil imports. I don't think they want us to stop sending it.
And the comprehensive U.S.-Canada trade balance, which includes the many services - from finance to entertainment - that we buy from the U.S. shows a persistent American trade surplus.
Most fundamentally, trade is about building mutual strength - creating a relationship that benefits both countries.
For example, Canada is the largest customer for U.S. cars - in fact, we buy more American-built cars than the United Kingdom, Japan, and China combined.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
When people ask me now what part of that training prepared me for being in Congress, I always tell them that Congress is best when it includes people who think in lots of different ways. And the way that scientists think if often antithetical to the way politicians and lawyers think.
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Oh man www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Singer-songwriter Glen Hansard dies in Dublin crash
Oscar-winning songwriter and The Frames frontman Glen Hansard has died aged 56 in a road crash in Dublin.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In recent weeks, there has been a remarkable surge in large, intense, fast-moving, and unfortunately in many cases destructive/deadly wildfires in multiple Northern Hemisphere regions spanning a wide range of climates & ecologies, but they all share one key commonality. [Thread]
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/07/2026
The Bayeux Tapestry arrived at the British Museum in London early Friday after a secretive nighttime operation involving multiple police forces — the first time the fragile embroidery has left France in several hundred years.
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Bayeux Tapestry Arrives in U.K. After Maximum-Security Operation
The 11th-century tapestry will go on display at the British Museum in September. Tickets for the exhibition have already been selling rapidly.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Opinion: Putin’s reign may not survive the impending fall of Crimea thehill.com/opinion/nati...
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Putin’s reign may not survive the impending fall of Crimea
Tuesday marked the third anniversary of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prigozhin failed and paid with his life. But Russia as a whole, and Russian-o…
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
You're about to have a shot at buying Television guitar hero Tom Verlaine's personal album collection.
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Tom Verlaine's vinyl collection to be sold through Discogs & NYC's Academy Records
You can buy records from Tom Verlaine's personal collection starting June 26 and most records will go for between $10 and $50.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/06/2026
Study: Majority Of Middle-Aged Men Lack Support Network They’ll Need To Handle Neil Young’s Death theonion.com/study-majority-of-midd…
Study: Majority Of Middle-Aged Men Lack Support Network They’ll Need To Handle Neil Young’s Death
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Gary Gensler has come out hot against the idea that prediction markets can offer sports betting. Whole thing is worth a read but this is probably my favorite part www.marketswiki.com/wiki/images/...
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Look, I’m sorry but I just can’t believe the Knicks came all the way back. And I bet a lot of my fellow basketball fans feel similarly. This calls into question the legitimacy of their Game Four win.
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Justin Schardin @jschardin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"In all, the CFPB has deleted roughly 3,800 consumer advisories, pieces of congressional testimony, letters to state regulators, blog posts, speeches and press releases, according to Americans for Financial Reform". www.americanbanker.com/news/in-ongo...
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In ongoing records purge, CFPB deletes supervisory reports
The Trump administration's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has quietly scrubbed over a decade of consumer guidance and public records from its website.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/06/2026
The House passed bipartisan legislation that would provide new aid to Ukraine and impose sanctions against Russia, largely clashing with the Trump administration’s approach to the war.
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House passes Ukraine aid bill in another GOP rebuke of Trump’s foreign policy
The vote comes after the House passed a resolution earlier this week against President Donald Trump’s war against Iran.
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Justin Schardin @jschardin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Got it. www.82-0.com/share?id=KdL...
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Build the ultimate NBA all-time team and see if you can go 82-0
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Justin Schardin @jschardin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
First attempt was 66-16. Second spin i got 1980s Miami, which means choosing from just the '89 Heat... www.82-0.com/share?id=DOS...
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Build the ultimate NBA all-time team and see if you can go 82-0
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Gwed @snowfolk.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Washington and Moscow are fueling the Alberta separatist movement in order to weaken Canada: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US and Russia fuelling separatist debate in Canada, new report says
Researchers warn that foreign actors are meddling in the Alberta separatist movement in ways that threaten Canada’s "democratic integrity".
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Justin Schardin @jschardin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I've got a plan to secretly replace Russ Vought at OMB with @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social. Who's in?
Photo of OMB Director Russ VoughtPhoto of musician Bob Mould, looking very similar except with a flowered shirt.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/05/2026
CBS News Radio ends today. It’s a major loss for the US
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CBS News Radio ends today. It’s a major loss for the US
The decision by top editor Bari Weiss to end radio service represents another crack in the network that my grandfather, William S Paley, helped build
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
the new Pink Floyd album sucks
a quick Photoshop of China president Xi Jinping (Chinese adult male with black hair in a blue three piece suit on the left) shaking hands with Donald Trump (white adult 34-time convicted felon, child molester, rapist, and genocidal mass murderer with grey-brown tumbleweed hair in a dark blue three piece suit with red tie).  they are standing in front of steps that lead to a government building.  Trump's suit and hair appear to be on fire, referencing the Pink Floyd 1975 album Wish You Were Here.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds
Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century, authors say
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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This series rips
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Right-wing twitter thinks I'm always crying about GOP victories, left-wing Bluesky thinks I'm always quietly celebrating GOP victories. I'm just good at covering this stuff and understanding the history and mindset, instead of going "ooh, gosh, unprecedented!" when stuff happens.
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Michael R Strain @michaelrstrain.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🚨New paper. 🧵Our baseline estimate implies that preserving trust in the integrity and quality of official statistics generates economic benefits of about $25 for every $1 spent on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics's budget. cc: @nickbloom.bsky.social, @ericagroshen.bsky.social, #econsky
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Around minute 94 of THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979), during the closing credits, we see Miss Piggy speaking briefly to Janice in the screening room, and the film finally passes the Bechdel Test.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?" This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for HistoryExtra , but here's an excerpt! 🗃️🧪
Table showing cost of items in the 14th C., and the equivalent value in eels. The table has 3 columns: "You want to buy", "It Costs", and "But in eels?" The table shows you that:

2 doz. eggs costs 1d, or 6 eels
A gallon of the best ale costs 1.25d or 8 eels
1 sheep costs 1s 5d, or 106 eels
1 cow costs 9s 5d, or 706 eels
A 2-story cottage costs £2, or 3,000 eels

The d. here means penny, from the latin "denarius." There were 12 d. to a shilling (s), and 20 shillings to a pound (£).

As far as I know, no one was buying cottages with eels. This is more to give you a sense of relative costs. But wouldn't it be interesting if you could buy a house with eels?

This chart leaves unanswered the question: "What about the next-best ale?" and suggests and entire spectrum of ale gradations. Which makes good sense, of course. But also, you certainly wouldn't want to spend your eels on inferior ale!
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The AI bubble is like the dotcom bubble: It’s not that the Internet was some useless passing fad; it’s that a lot of money got poured into absolute horseshit before people started figuring out where the actual value was.
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Justin Schardin @jschardin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
SEC and CFTC jointly propose revisions to Form PF, which requires reporting from private funds. It would raise thresholds for when funds have to report and eliminate or streamline various requirements. www.sec.gov/newsroom/pre...
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SEC.gov | SEC and CFTC Jointly Propose Amendments to Reduce Private Fund Reporting Burdens
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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Punchbowl: News. The Senate Banking Committee is no longer planning to hold a hearing for Federal Reserve nominee Kevin Warsh next Thursday, according to two sources with knowledge of the planning
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Portalrealm @portalrealm.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Shortlist of actors for TNG
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
this account is closed to jaded replies about going to the moon. i will never be jaded about going to the moon
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Nathan Williams @nathanmwilliams.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Can't speak from experience but would guess getting mega famous at 20 and then being treated like a borderline deity your whole life isn't necessarily great for the aging brain.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
So, yesterday the US set a new March temperature record of 110 degrees, beating the old record by two degrees. Today the US set a new March temperature record of 112 degrees, beating the new record by two degrees and the old one by four degrees.
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Justin Schardin @jschardin.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Gobert has 11 rebounds not halfway through the second quarter.
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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
it's like finally seeing pacino and de niro sit down in heat
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/03/2026
I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”
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Justin Schardin @jschardin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I'll add my voice to the people who have praised Karen Petrou after her passing on Saturday. I got to meet with her several times while at the Bipartisan Policy Center and she was always one of the most incisive and insightful minds on #finreg issues.
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