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Trying to add sanity back into the world that has lost its grip with reality

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A useful political rule: don't design the rules assuming your team will always be in charge.⁣ ⁣ Eventually, the big red button changes hands. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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My Libertarian Friends Were Right
Do economists have a political bias? What should we do about that?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A good reminder from Ed that not everyone will be able to afford a personal agent — even as the Internet is re-wired around them. @edmundlee.bsky.social #Muse
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Four-Million-Dollar Fairway By @theanthonydavis.bsky.social substack.com/@legalaf/not...
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The Four-Million-Dollar Fairway
How a Presidential Golf Trip to Ireland Blended Statecraft, Self-Dealing, and Sectoral Strife.
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 21h
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Trump SCREWS UP and Hands Judge Direct Evidence of his 1st Amendment Violations against PRESS!!!
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 21h
Popok: Right on time, MSNBC, CNN, and Politico have filed their joint motion for a preliminary injunction. That takes it one level up from the temporary restraining order that’s already in place by Judge Tim Kelly in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
NEWS: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveils what his administration calls the nation’s first municipal strategy to combat antisemitism, including major new investments in hate-crime prevention, synagogue security, Holocaust education and Jewish institutions.
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Mamdani Unveils First-of-Its-Kind Plan to Fight Antisemitism in NYC
The mayor is pouring millions into hate-crime prevention, synagogue security and Jewish institutions.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
These people are utterly shameless
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Listen to the full episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 9/29/26
Podcast Episode · The MeidasTouch Podcast · September 29 · 1h 21m
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Brett Meiselas: If we’re going to get into a “race” against China like with AI, why is it never like... We’re going to get into an affordable healthcare race! We’re going to get into an infrastructure race and beat them in high-speed rail! We’re going to beat China in the affordable housing race!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Hinojosa says the emails could shed light on Musk’s lucrative state contracts and tax incentives, campaign contributions, and what she describes as corruption surrounding his relationship with Abbott. Now she wants to know what was so “intimate and embarrassing.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s Pentagon is preparing to cut 20% of senior military posts as his top envoys discuss sanctions relief, energy deals, and economic cooperation with Putin’s team. The timing is raising serious questions.
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Trump's Hegseth Plans 20% Cut to Senior Military Posts as Putin Envoy Courts U.S.
As the Pentagon prepares to downgrade or eliminate senior billets by January 1, 2027, Trump officials are discussing Russian energy and economic cooperation while Moscow's war on Ukraine continues.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic candidate challenging Greg Abbott for governor, is seeking unredacted access to communications involving Elon Musk deemed "intimate and embarrassing."
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Hinojosa Moves to Unmask Abbott-Musk Emails Deemed ‘Intimate and Embarrassing’
Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic candidate challenging Greg Abbott for governor, is seeking unredacted access to communications involving Elon Musk as polls show a competitive race for Texas governor.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23h
Oz: Russell Brand was backstage hugging the Secretary of Agriculture Brand: She initiated that contact. Oz: Ha!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23h
A man charged with rape and sexual assault casually joking about consent at an official event with Trump White House officials.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22h
The internet is erupting in mockery after Eric Schmitt’s spectacular Jack Smith faceplant. Now people are openly speculating: Did his team plant the glowing 2028 story AND coordinate with MAGA influencers in advance, expecting a victory lap that blew up in their faces?
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Eric Schmitt Gets Mercilessly Mocked Over ‘Planted’ Story After Jack Smith Faceplant
A glowing 2028 scoop dropped just before Schmitt’s disastrous “gotcha,” while right-wing influencers appeared ready to celebrate. After it blew up, the internet noticed.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22h
NEWS: GOP candidate Brandon Herrera defended massive CEO salaries, mocked renters as “bums,” joked about people who don’t “tip their landlords,” then compared being called a “renter” with a hard R to a racial slur.
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Brandon Herrera Defended High CEO Salaries, Joined Mocking of Renters
GOP candidate: "Did you really call me 'renter' with a hard 'r? It's 'renta' to you."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21h
Ken Paxton desperately tried to defend his handling of a child predator case by claiming the defendant “served 60 days.” Then came the Community Note...
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Ken Paxton Defends Handling of Child Predator Case
Community Note: “Paxton's office initially recommended 1 day in jail.”
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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: A US appeals court has refused to halt a Florida federal judge’s decision to penalize President Trump and his lawyers for “bad faith” conduct in pursuing a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and reaching a deal to end it buff.ly/OXdHNe2 Order: buff.ly/tgeDcj4
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You really need to watch both videos below. These really are the dumbest people on the planet.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 29/09/2026
Watch the premiere of "Deportation, Inc. Chapter 2: Removal" now! This episode dives into the business of migrant removal and follows migrants as they are shuffled through a vast network of flights and facility transfers. youtu.be/OmUjt0ezisY?...
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Deportation, Inc. Chapter 2: REMOVAL
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Critical Thought Is Powerful 🤔 @logicallyspeaking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm guessing this whole AI rebrand thing came about from someone trying to explain it to him like he's a 3rd grader: Aide: "Well sir, it's like a super smart computer that can answer questions." Trump: "Super smart? We should call it super intelligence instead of artific... artifici... FAKE."
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Donald Trump in Tesla: Everything's Computer
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Good to know!
Screenshot of America.gov answering who won and lost the 2020 presidential election. It states that Joseph R. Biden Jr. won and Donald J. Trump lost, with an Electoral College result of Biden 306 to Trump 232, and links to National Archives and FEC election results.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website believes he is the “former” president and acknowledges his criminal indictments
Screenshot of America.gov answering, “Has a president ever been criminally indicted? If so, who?” The response says former President Donald J. Trump has been criminally indicted and that no sitting president is shown in the cited sources as having been indicted. It cites Trump’s August 1, 2023 federal indictment on four counts related to conduct after the 2020 election, as well as Congressional Research Service information noting additional New York and Florida indictments.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.
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GOP Senator’s Jack Smith ‘Gotcha’ Blows Up in His Face
Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/09/2026
British police have arrested five men on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism and explosives offenses outside RAF Fairford, a base in western England operated by the U.S.
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Air base at the center of a UK terror probe has been used by the US Air Force during the Iran war
British police have arrested five men on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism and explosives offenses outside RAF Fairford, a base in western England operated by the U.S.
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Critical Thought Is Powerful 🤔 @logicallyspeaking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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NOT YET.
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Critical Thought Is Powerful 🤔 @logicallyspeaking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This would save China a ton of espionage budget for trying to steal our military secrets 🤦‍♂️
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Ren from Ren & Stimpy: YOU IDIOT!
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/09/2026
U.S. President Donald Trump has justified the pending U.S. arms sale to Taiwan to Chinese President Xi Jinping by downplaying it as just one of many sales Washington makes around the world — even asking Xi if he’d be in the market for U.S. arms, Trump’s ambassador to China said.
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Trump asked China's president if he wants to buy US arms, ambassador says
The U.S. ambassador to China says President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he wanted to buy weapons from the United States.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/09/2026
Police were holding five men on Monday and examining suspected explosives found near a U.S.-operated air force base in England, as counterterror detectives investigated whether the arrests foiled an attempted attack linked to Iran.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/09/2026
Five British men were released on bail after officials arrested them on explosives and terror charges near a U.S.-operated air force base in England. Counterterror detectives said they were investigating “multiple lines of inquiry,” including whether there is a link to Iran, which Iran has denied.
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British police investigate whether arrests near US-run air base foiled an Iran-linked attack
Police are holding five men and examining suspected explosives found near a U.S.-operated air force base in England.
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Critical Thought Is Powerful 🤔 @logicallyspeaking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The senate is laser focused on the important issues that impact our every day lives 😒
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/09/2026
CNN, MS NOW and Politico ask a court to block Trump from enforcing his White House ban on them until the case is resolved.
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After a chaotic weekend in the Trump-media standoff, it’s now a wait-and-see game for networks
Exactly one week after news outlets filed suit against President Donald Trump and his sudden ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds, the standoff continues.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/09/2026
World shares were mixed after losses on Wall Street, while U.S. Treasury yields steadied near their highest levels in roughly two decades.
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Global shares are mixed after Wall Street dips and oil prices stabilize
World shares were mixed after losses on Wall Street, while U.S. Treasury yields steadied near their highest levels in roughly two decades. U.S. futures edged lower.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/09/2026
A Mississippi judge set a $5 million bond for a third man charged in the death of a Black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in August.
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Judge sets $5M bond for third man charged in death of Black woman whose body was later hung in tree
A Mississippi judge set a $5 million bond for a third man charged in the death of a Black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in August.
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ALSO LIVE AT 915 AM ET: Legal AF provides live coverage as the entire D.C. Circuit of Appeals hears En Banc Oral Argument  on Trump Administration’s Defiance of court order and CECOT deportations Under Alien Enemies Act. Join Popok for a hearing pregame! 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_fb...
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LIVE: D.C Circuit Hears Major Case on Trump CRIMINAL CONTEMPT
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Thank you, America.gov!
Screenshot of America.gov answering a question about the highest diesel prices in U.S. history. It states that President Donald Trump was in office when the national average retail diesel price reached a record nominal high of $6.29 per gallon on September 14, 2026, according to the EIA.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Interesting. Thank you, America.gov!
Screenshot of America.gov answering whether the Trump administration has arrested any of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients or co-conspirators during Trump’s current term. It says no arrests could be verified and cites a July 2025 DOJ/FBI review stating it found no incriminating “client list” or evidence sufficient to predicate an investigation of uncharged third parties.
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Critical Thought Is Powerful 🤔 @logicallyspeaking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tariffs are a tax on imports paid by the domestic importing company. Those "profits" are really tax revenue to the government and essentially amount to a federal sales tax on imported items paid by consumers when those importers pass on the tariff cost to consumers in the form of higher prices. 🤦‍♂️
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Jon Taffer: You Don't Have A F*cking Clue!
ALT: Jon Taffer: You Don't Have A F*cking Clue!
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If this goes ahead it is Trump overtly taking Russia's side in the war against Ukraine and Europe, aligning the United States with China, Iran, and North Korea. Like the Putin G20 visit, it cannot be allowed to happen. We must fight.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lower accountability reads as higher risk. When a town's newspaper closes those local governments end up paying higher interest rates to borrow. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two risks with AI: ⁣ 1: the system slips its guardrails (hack a grocery store to get you the current banana price)⁣ 2: a person with bad intentions uses it as a tool to do harm more efficiently. ⁣ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUzfGELUOUo
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My belief: This election isn’t about the economy in 2027. It’s about the economy in 2060. Prosperity comes from institutions like the rule of law, markets, a free press, and capitalism (not crony capitalism) newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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We Spend So Much Time Talking About Gas Prices
But is that what we really want to focus on? Also: Is the U.S. economy really the envy of the world?
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lotta talk right now about the President using public money to push political propaganda. It didn't start with these TV ads. Let me remind you of the political nonsense he forced the Census Bureau to publish: newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-fak...
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Who Put the Census Bureau in the Propaganda Business?
A once-trusted agency has dressed up partisan election claims as official statistics—and hidden the evidence needed to test them.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Markets are the great aggregator of preferences, but they don't tell us whether that aggregate is fair or whether society should accept that outcome. We need democracy for that. youtu.be/OAGV50CDgno
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The free market wouldn't object to a few oligarchs hoarding all the AI profits while everyone else is scraping by. Markets don't do morality. That's up to us. youtu.be/OAGV50CDgno
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