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Leslie Ehrlich

@leslieehrlich.bsky.social
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Trained economist. Ex-global financial institutions (consumer focused). Payments nerd. Native New Yorker. Parent. Knitter. Bridge player. Petter of dogs.

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 6h
Closed for that one
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cowvin.bsky.social @cowvin.bsky.social · 15h
Billionaires can clearly afford to pay more taxes if they can spend this much on political influence. Tax the rich! If you're in California, vote for the wealth tax.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21h
It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 19h
idk man you’ve been blowing up a lot of fishermen and school girls for a guy worried about innocent life
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 14h
No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 15h
to be a parent in the long Trump era is to pick up your phone and be greeted by video of masked government goons disappearing parents from playgrounds, then wonder exactly how long until this goes from a tragedy documented elsewhere to one you'll be forced to see in person at your own local park
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 15h
Ruin a book by adding a word. A Wrinkle in Time Management Make Way For Duckling Soup Bake Fahrenheit 451 Great Aunts’ Expectations What Ho! Jeeves’ Accountant
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 17h
Retired consumer banker and payments pro here: DO NOT DO THIS EVER
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 17h
The hunting of our friends, co-workers, and neighbors should be front page news every day Along with the self-enrichment of Trump, his family and friends Oh and selling out Ukraine to Russia really, really sucks While we pay higher prices and suffer higher interest rates from Trump’s policies
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 19h
“Nothing about Putin’s statement makes sense if this deal is about diesel. It all makes sense if this deal is about bribing people close to Trump to betray Ukraine and Europe.” And (paraphrasing) Patel’s trip to Russia is to gather fake evidence against Comey et al. emptywheel.net/2026/10/10/a...
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Agent of a Foreign Power - emptywheel
If you read Putin's statement about the capitulation he wrangled from Trump yesterday, rather than Trump, it becomes clear that Putin has finally finished fully recruiting Donald Trump.
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 20h
Counting myself lucky that I can’t imagine why he thinks ibuprofen is bad? No, I’m not listening to the clip, thanks Could it be as stupid as it eases menstrual pains and women *should* suffer?
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Democrats must recon with the idea that, guided by ideology and in exchange for massive profits from government contracts, many of these tech companies were *fine* assisting with the erosion of democracy and civil/human rights violations en mass.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Man, when BMW says "that's too fascist for us"
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 20h
Fascinating Thank you @trufelman.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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The Resale Revival
Podcast Episode · Articles of Interest · S8 E14 · 34m
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 22h
Holy shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream
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India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi
Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This, and also will be important for the 2030 Census. It has been argued that Andrew Cuomo’s disinterest in ensuring a full and accurate count cost NY state a House seat.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The technique of having plain clothes goons race up to a car with guns drawn seems designed to maximize shootings.
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I thought this was SVB side eye and indeed A remarkable story of incompetence and arrogance Anyone with a scintilla of asset/liability management experience (yield curve, not credit risk) in banking would have done better
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just about everything about the process of how we pay our person income taxes is wrong Below — that a whole private industry successfully resists our doing it directly, for free — is one aspect That we have to file at all is another. After all, for many of us the govt knows almost everything!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Home prices are up ~50% since 2020 and most of those home were bought with fixed rate mortgages at low rates. So forgive me for not feeling especially for those homeowners. For buys things indeed really suck. Prices are still way up and rates are high.
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Donald Trump and his family and friends are looting the government” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Will Donald Trump’s Corruption Matter in November?
Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · October 10 · 46m
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Loretta from Canada🇨🇦 @myview66.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is one of the rafters(learned that one today) that shows up chez moi. They are funny. I will not eat these!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Here to agree, not wrong
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A few months back @thecityreporter.nyc reported on ICE officer Brenden Cuni who was named in several lawsuits involving immigrants who described violent arrests. He's the agent spotted at the Marble Hill ICE shooting yesterday w/ a long gun. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/09/b...
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ICE Supervisor at Center of NYC Shooting Named in Multiple Lawsuits Alleging Violent, Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, who was seen brandishing an assault rifle at the scene of Thursday’s shooting, was previously accused of beating up and tasing immigrants during arrests.
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Corruption
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are no bylines on the reposted ABC story about corrupt defense contracts including Don Jr. abcnews.com/US/new-shipy...
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New shipyard announced amid earlier Democratic concerns about potential conflicts of interest
New shipyard announced amid concerns raised by congressional Democrats about investments involving Donald Trump Jr.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 10/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...
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Opinion | Hold A.I. Companies Liable (Gift Article)
A.I. companies must operate under our laws.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I think everyone is misreading the Diesel deal, according Trump too much agency. Putin got Trump to say something INSANELY stupid, no doubt in hopes of all the bribes on the table. This will solve none of the problems Trump caused the US. en.kremlin.ru/events/presi...
Statement by President of Russia Vladimir Putin
October 9, 202622:50
During the October 9 telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump, considerable focus was on prospects for settling the Ukraine crisis, while the situation surrounding Iran and various aspects of bilateral relations were touched upon as well.

When discussing the state of affairs in the global energy market, the Russian side confirmed its willingness to supply oil and petroleum products to the US market and global markets at large. I am convinced this will have a positive impact on the entire global economy.

An agreement was reaffirmed to maintain personal contacts between the presidents of the two countries and to continue cooperation across their respective administrations, security services, and agencies.
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I presume some of you remember when Pakistani jihadists executed Daniel Pearl in 2002 and filmed it. The point was for everyone to be afraid of their brutality. That's the United States now I guess.
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Better than Kefkaposting
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026
The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s not literally the most barbaric thing the US government could do, but symbolically it’s one of the most appalling ideas possible.
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nothing to see here, move along
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I feel better about voting for her after listening to this So does my socialist son! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Governor Kathy Hochul on Taxing the Rich, Cornell, and Her Relationship to the Left
Podcast Episode · The Hell Gate Podcast · October 9 · 30m
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/10/2026
Hundreds of protestors march from the site where an ICE agent shot a father in the Bronx on 10/8 to the hospital where he was being held. Defund and abolish ICE. Chinga la migra. 🧵 of photos...
A big crowd of protestors march in protest of an ICE agent shooting a father in the Bronx. Banner up front reads "JUSTICE FOR LORENZO, JOAN AND ALL VICTIMS OF ICE / Party for Socialism & Liberation." Signs read "Chinga la Migra" and "ICE OUT OF NYC"
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hey @governor.ny.gov @hellgatenyc.com A follow up subject for the next interview (Also you could cover housing)
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
Regardless of the legality of posting armed national guard members at drop boxes, whether the boxes were open yet, or whether drop boxes qualify as polling sites under the law; the optics are what matter. Lawful or not, it’s overt, intentional voter suppression.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Theatre of the absurd! Trump announces US will buy diesel from russia even though he signed a law mandating sanctions for any country buying russian energy. Meanwhile russia actually has a diesel export ban because they can’t meet domestic demand.
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Truly appalling Don’t understand why Democrats aren’t much louder about this Surely we can say they are fucking up on affordability AND shooting and disappearing innocent people AND as greedy and corrupt as all get out
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Up is down, black is white, truth is lies
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Civility" is just another word for "capitulation" dressed up as virtue.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
"Next month, Trump is hosting the 'most exclusive dinner in the world' at his golf club in Virginia — & you’re invited! Well, only if you can pony up millions to buy his scammy meme coin. It’s just another breathtaking bit of corruption that, by now, is depressingly routine." — @snipy.bsky.social
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Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low
Buyers have lost almost everything. He keeps pumping them anyway.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There are at least FOUR Trump huge oil corruption stories from just the [double checks calendar] last two days. There's the NYT story about Trump selling out Ukraine to get a $2M donor a big contract. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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In Trump’s Russian Oil Deal, Middle East Funds Are the Biggest Owners
A majority of ownership in a proposed multibillion-dollar deal would go to a group of Middle Eastern investors, including some with business ties to U.S. negotiators.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Fraud Task Force is important bc: 1) It chases peanuts while Trump steals orders of magnitude more on a daily basis 2) It is largely propaganda 3) It was the excuse to destroy white collar policing news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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DOJ Fraud Division’s Rise Diminishes Premier White Collar Unit
The Justice Department’s corporate crime enforcement hub has lost the bulk of its market manipulation and securities expertise over the past few months, accelerating what former officials call a downg...
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