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MarkBee

@markbeekeeper.bsky.social
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Jerk of all Trades, Bastard of none. Ph.D. Scientist, Bass Player, Amateur Chef, Cat dad, Budget Audiophile

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h
APOLLO: “.. When rates are high, builders build less, and when fewer homes and apartments get built, rents go up ..” @mikezaccardi.bsky.social #CPI www.apollo.com/insights-new...
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 13h
Impressive cockpit footage from a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 shows the fighter shooting down a Russian jet-powered drone with an R-60M air-to-air missile.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 15h
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
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The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Chris Wright lies: "Diesel has mostly been affected by the Russia-Ukraine war" (Note that he also blames [checks notes] Gavin Newsom)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
"Senator Dave McCormick of the great state of Minnesota"
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Al Franken @alfranken.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today is our 51st wedding anniversary! Franni’s been my life partner from the time we met freshman year of college to this day. We’ve grown up together. She’s the best girlfriend, wife, mother, grandma, and friend. Thanks, honey. Here’s to another 51!
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Has everyone seen this??? I had not and I loved it!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is a good example of domestic political considerations and geopolitical pressures driving an economic policy decision in this era of geo-economics. Releasing these strategic reserves helps partially shield consumers from soaring prices, but it’s also a high-stakes,... 1 of 2
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING NYT: The top super PAC for Senate Republicans is canceling all the remaining ads it had booked in North Carolina as of Friday — shifting away tens of millions of dollars in a move that signals that Republicans no longer see a path to winning the state this fall.
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Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim
The Senate Leadership Fund is diverting money to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party as it seeks to hold its majority.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TFW you are taking a page from Idi Amin
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
charliesykes.substack.com/p/day-one-im...
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 02/10/2026
NEW: Amid rising diesel prices, Republicans turn against Trump for first time on handling inflation. A majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (52%) now say they disapprove of Donald Trump’s handling of prices: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-02...
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Amid rising diesel prices, Republicans turn against Trump for first time on handling inflation
In our September poll, 52% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents disapprove of Trump's handling of prices. That could be dragging down Republican Senate candidates in red states
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CATO: “.. At the end of August, around one-third of publicly held marketable debt—more than $10 trillion—was scheduled to mature within the next 12 months. Over half matures within three years.” @cato.org www.cato.org/blog/persist...
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 02/10/2026
They made seven arrests—and earned $14 million. See how local police are cashing in on Trump's immigration crackdown.
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Exclusive | Police Score Big With Little Work in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
The Department of Homeland Security pays local agencies as much as $2 million for each arrest in a nationwide task force.
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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#BeastingWithNatalie
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
NEW: We’re reporters, not teachers. We have no business running a private school. But to show you just how easy it is to start one, we decided to test the process ourselves.
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A donor told the man running Susan Collins' super PAC he'd illegally route his money through a shell company. The reply: "Very smart." The donor is in federal prison. The man who wrote that runs her super PAC today.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
Gross. How much creepy behavior does Patel have to get caught in before he gets booted?
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Kash Patel Caught With Suspected Double Agent at Alina Habba’s Wedding
The FBI director was spotted in a photo with an FBI informant suspected of being a double agent.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
GOP defending Kansas www.semafor.com/article/10/0...
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Top GOP group pauses Senate spending in N.C., goes up in Kansas
A Republican super PAC is shifting strategy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
Russ Vought: "We fund what we need to fund. I'm not at all shy about we want to spend billions of dollars on a new shipyard. We're up there defending the $1.5t that the Department of War needs. But it's also coming at a ton of reduction on the non-defense side"
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Chrissie Hynde @chrissiehynde.com · 02/10/2026
Hi all! I don’t know where you are at the moment, but here in the U.K. it’s a lovely time of year. The leaves are turning and it’s cooled off after the insane heat waves all across Europe... XCH
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Idiots. They’re all idiots.
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Al Franken @alfranken.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is cruelty. Undocumented immigrants are spending months in detention facilities awaiting resolution of deportation cases. Before Trump 2, they could get a bond hearing to show they aren’t a danger or flight risk. (1/2) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Supreme Court to scrutinize ICE’s mandatory detention policy for immigrants
The case, one of the first the court has accepted since its summer recess ended, promises to be among the most consequential of the term that begins next week.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Bet against me.” (via Macropaper) 🇺🇸
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. The ships, jet fighters, Marines and sailors will arrive in the region by the end of November, the officials said. Trump recently told aides that he expects to resume bombing Iran that same month ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tech Executives At AI Roundtable Donated Over $200 Million To Trump’s Super PAC and Pet Projects www.citizen.org/news/tech-ex...
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Tech Executives At AI Roundtable Donated Over $200 Million To Trump’s Super PAC and Pet Projects - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Big Tech executives met with Donald Trump for a meeting about the threats posed by…
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This Supreme Court allowed Alabama to keep killing people in 2022 after the state repeatedly botched its executions and left inmates on gurneys, cut up by needles. Of all the Roberts Court’s sins, its death penalty rulings have been especially nihilistic.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The arguments you've heard against California's billionaire tax are utter BS. Here to debunk them — and explain why you should vote YES on Prop 40 — is renowned economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
B of A: Our Sell Side Indicator “remains in ‘Neutral’ territory but is now just 0.3ppt away from a ‘Sell’ signal .. If the indicator enters ‘Sell’ territory, median and average NTM S&P 500 returns have historically been below average but still positive at 7% and 3% ..”
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MarkBee @markbeekeeper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kegsbreath doesn't even make a good clown... Are we supposed to take this absurd display seriously?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. France is now in a debt crisis.” - @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social 🇫🇷
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Weird, it's like all of us who kept saying this was a non-issue and Democrats should just ignore the attacks were ... right?
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Emily Crockett @emilycrockett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey @politico.com can you explain why @thirdway.bsky.social is the source for what the Democrats' SCOTUS platform will be, when they don't even have the word "Democrat" in their name and routinely diss the party? I'll wait.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
*BIGGEST US GRID SUSPENDS PLAN FOR NEW DATA CENTER POWER AUCTION
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
> @techcrunch.com techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/p...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
(FT) - Diesel prices will not return to normal for more than a year, according to US oil and gas executives surveyed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. @financialtimes.com $CRAK www.ft.com/content/0d74...
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
US 10-YEAR TREASURY YIELD RISES TO 5.29%, RENEWS HIGH SINCE '2007
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
RBADVISERS: “.. Nominal GDP comes in at 8.5%. The strongest growth in 20 years (ex pandemic effects) suggesting the 5.25% 10-YEAR YIELD MIGHT STILL BE TOO LOW.”
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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FATALITY
A tweet from Joyce Carol Oates: overall takeaway from the Curtis Yarvin profile is that there must be millions of smart-aleck show-offy kids who annoy their teachers and go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their “contrarian” pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces; until, as adults, they still harbor a delusion that, if there is a king, or a fuhrer, he’d be impressed with the guys motor mouth and appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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