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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 1h

"U.S. Budget Deficit Jumps to Nearly $2 Trillion" www.wsj.com/politics/pol... "budget experts expect the deficit to surpass 6% of GDP, compared with 5.8% in fiscal 2025." Silver lining from @djheakin: "They could have blown it up worse, and they wanted to, some of them" 😭

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 23h

Roberts is a nice guy. For various reasons some players past and present don’t think much of him as a manager. This strikes me as something you don’t do in public.

Roberts: "We're smarter, we're better and we're tougher"
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Lostinatown @lostinatown.bsky.social · 21h

They are heading to the co-Rec as we speak to find a fifth player…

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 21h

My new @opinion.bloomberg.com piece reviews the big Iowa steel plant deal Trump & others say is a great example of his steel tariff policy. Given the project's high cost, questionable economics, sketchy backstory, & shameless politics, I gotta say: I agree. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Trump’s Steel Policy Is Working. That’s the Problem

With great fanfare, President Donald Trump announced last week that “the largest steel plant ever built in the United States” would be coming to Lee County, Iowa, adding that Mesabi Metallics’ $15 bil...

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Active Measures, LLC @activemeasures.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*because Roger Stone likely leaked the tape to WaPo defensively to coincide with the GRU release date dictated to WikiLeaks to coincide with Putin's birthday

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“.. That works out to between $54,000 and $81,000 for each additional industry job. Under less optimistic assumptions, the cost per job could rise to as much as $125,000.” @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.cato.org/blog/federal...

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Federal Film Tax Credit Could Cost Up to $50 Billion" www.cato.org/blog/federal... via @CatoInstitute @adamnmichel "At the high end, this new subsidy would spend as much subsidizing Hollywood movie studios as the National Park Service spends each year,"

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As Cabinet officials (Justice and Defense included) campaign at rallies across the countries for Trump allies -- and the Hatch Act be damned -- @rosenzweigp.bsky.social traces the wider pattern: Trump has drawn the whole of government into a coordinated effort to advance his political interests.

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Using the Power of the Government to Win Elections

The Trump administration is breaking a fundamental promise of political impartiality.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump on Iran: "With the war, it's just artificial… It's a small price to pay... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New from me: Home Sellers Are Out of Reasons to Wait — unlike every other year since 2022, there’s no reason to believe the Fed will make things easier next year conorsen.substack.com/p/home-selle...

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Lostinatown @lostinatown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I hope you are right or at least that you have been pregaming…

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🤷 www.aol.com/articles/6-w...

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fox checks in on Michigan: "A must-win midterm state is the real loser of Trump's Canada trade war" www.foxnews.com/politics/mus... "That vulnerability is compounded by how frequently auto parts cross the border before a vehicle is completed." 😯

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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you're a woman who plays EA Sports CFB or Madden, I wanna talk to you! And if you're a woman who loves football and don't play those games, I also wanna hear from you! Working on a piece on football, the sports video games, and well, US! RESHARES APPRECIATED

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Steel stocks slump as investors worry Trump's Iowa steel project (if it ever gets built) would fuel overcapacity in the US steel market. www.barrons.com/articles/nuc...

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The US Is Losing Brazil to China" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BREAKING: The US 30-year Treasury yield has risen to 5.612%, the highest since June 2002.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

perfection

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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After further reporting by @nataliaecm.bsky.social, we now know this error affected at least 200,000 should-be Texas voters. What a mess.

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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Xi: Can we avoid the thucydides trap? Trump: Yeah I think we can. we're looking into it very strongly. Pete: Thucydideez nuts Marco: haha gottem

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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The govt gives lots of benefits that everyone can’t have (jobs, contracts, funding for projects access). If the 1A didn’t apply to decisions about these kinds of privileges it would give the govt tremendous power to shape the marketplace of ideas and retaliate against its enemies. Uhhhh wait….

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"President Donald Trump’s tariffs are supposed to bring manufacturing back to America. But a bicycle factory in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains shows how the levies themselves often sabotage that goal." 😯 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Mikkel Runge Olesen, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, described the final document, which was released on Tuesday, as only a moderate improvement for the United States, achieved at considerable political cost." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In 2024, the US imported ~12 million metric tons of potassic fertilizers from Canada (hillnotes.ca/2025/06/05/p...) Specialized ships can carry ~60k metric tons, tho container ships <half that (www.sasktoday.ca/central/loca...) So we'd need at least 200 ships loaded from [checks notes] Belarus

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Cozy and Comforting Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 21/09/2026

you can just do things

In February, a company processing debit-card transactions for Polymarket's U.S. betting platform delivered some alarming news:
Fraudsters were flooding the app.
Users were linking stolen debit cards to Polymarket US accounts, then trying to use them to make wagers and withdraw the money into clean cards or accounts they controlled. Thieves tried to make off with at least $10 million.
At one point, the processor rejected as fraudulent more than 80% of the deposits it was handling, a rate that far exceeded industry standards of roughly 1%. Polymarket employees quickly raised their concerns with Chief Executive Shayne Coplan, according to people familiar with the events.
The compliance team, those people recalled, was floored by Coplan's response: Just keep growing and pay a fine if regulators ever find out.
Current and former employees said Coplan's reaction, which hasn't previously been reported, was characteristic of his plan for Polymarket-growth at all costs.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Prediction markets are handy indexes of conventional wisdom, but do they actually tell us anything? Across the 2026 primary cycle they well-calibrated at least. www.slowboring.com/p/is-the-blu...

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juliacurlee.bsky.social @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The White House could have replaced the machines. Instead it gutted CISA's election security, ODNI's influence center, and the FBI's task force — and increased DHS leverage over state elections. Today in Lawfare: the federal playbook to intervene in state elections, and how to stop them.

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Laundering Federal Election Interference in the Midterms

The administration has turned an unfixable fact—Chinese parts in nearly every U.S. voting machine—into a license to contest any election it loses.

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Lostinatown @lostinatown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That would be a sign of improvement

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Lostinatown @lostinatown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am honestly treating this season as Odom’s first season since last year’s was so chaotic with the portal…the offense looks significantly better this year. At the same time, he brought back Kane…🤷‍♂️

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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NEWS: Classified U.S. intelligence assessments have determined that the Kremlin has again authorized a digital influence campaign to peddle content across social media in hopes of seeding or amplifying domestic divisions around the election season, U.S. officials said www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...

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Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds (Gift Article)

The Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns, U.S. officials said.

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Most Michigan voters disapprove of Trump’s tariffs on Canada, poll shows: Among the state’s independents, who could determine the outcome of several key midterm races, 68 percent disapprove of the levies on Canadian products." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"At the turn of the millennium, solar panels cost $5-$6 per watt of generation capacity. Today, they sell for around 12 cents per watt" www.ft.com/content/8b70...

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