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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦

@mmcguire.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 Former j-prof and journalist in Canada. Still a news junkie. Interested in journalism, journalism education, Canada’s North and fellow cancer haters.

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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New from me: the Trump administration runs infinitely renewable stupidity. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...
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Opinion: Stupidity is an infinitely renewable resource with this U.S. administration
From trade tensions to renaming Lake Ontario, the latest moves add to a pattern of chaos and needless distraction
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Congratulations to all the journalists and who just won National Newspaper Awards with a special shout out to the team at Nunasiaq News nna-ccj.ca/national-new...
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National Newspaper Awards announce 2025 winners
The Nunatsiaq News won its first National Newspaper Award for a special section published in Inuktitut and English – one of 27 awards announced at a […]
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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
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The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review
Writer and author Alex Preston said he “made a serious mistake” after a reader spotted similarities between his review and one that appeared in the Guardian
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Jim Rankin @jleerankin.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Journo jobs alert: @thestar.com's storied and well-paid, unionized year-long journalist internship program for 2026-27 is open for applications. Current cohort includes eight reporters and two photogs. Deadline for applying is April 15. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Torstar/7440...
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Toronto Star One-Year Reporter Internship 2026-2027 (Temporary)
Company Description: Company DescriptionTorstar Corporation is a progressive media organization with a long, proud history in newspapers and a passion for capitalizing on the fluid world of digital an...
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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
New from me: Year One of Carney. He offered himself up as useful in a crisis, but he’s also spent the past year doing something no other PM has ever done: learn politics in real time, in front of us all. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...
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Opinion: He’s useful in a crisis – but is he any good at politics? A look at Mark Carney’s first year
For the first time, Canada has a Prime Minister figuring out how to be a politician on the job, in front of everyone
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
What a impressive group of young people pursuing careers as journalists in Canada. Congratulations to all on winning these scholarships. www.cbc.ca/news/2026-cb...
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Meet the recipients of the 2026 CBC News summer scholarship for emerging journalists | CBC News
CBC is proud to offer the CBC News Summer Scholarship in memory of Joan Donaldson and Peter Gzowski to aspiring journalists from across the country in 2026.
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Paul Adams @pauladams29.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Elly was a mentor and friend. An extraordinary intellect. I’ll miss you old friend.
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Elly Alboim, former CBC parliamentary bureau chief and political consultant, dead at 78 | CBC News
Elly Alboim, a former CBC parliamentary bureau chief, longtime political consultant and professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, has died at 78, his family tells CBC News.
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
When you need a reason to smile trust babies to help. Imagine studying how and why babies laugh. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
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Opinion | The Evolutionary Brilliance of the Baby Giggle
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David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I agree with you, Washington Post. I just wish you felt the same way.
A screenshot of an email from the Washington Post, acknowledging that I cancelled my subscription. The key passage reads: "We hope you’ll reconsider the value of the necessary and important work our journalists do to keep citizens informed. Absolutely nothing has changed about that. In fact, it’s more important than ever."
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
It was an honour to work at the beginning and end of my career with this talented, thoughtful journalist who taught so many about covering indigenous people. RIP my friend. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
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Dan David 'Father of APTN News' passed into the spirit world
Dan David, an icon for hundreds of journalists, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, in Canada and South Africa, and changed how stories are told.
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Great news — especially at a time when local news from other sources is shrinking.
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Shut Down www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/b...
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Shut Down
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Cancer is so cruel. Yet she was so full of grace when she wrote about how she faced it.
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Paul Adams @pauladams29.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Prof. Graham was always a gentle, generous and serious person in my experience. As dean, she was always sympathetic and helpful to me. And always seemed deeply concerned with the wellbeing of our students. This is a shock. RIP
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Daughter charged in death of 'distinguished' Carleton University professor | CBC News
Ontario Provincial Police have charged a woman from Leeds and Thousand Islands with first-degree murder after finding the body of 78-year-old Katherine Graham on Tuesday.
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
So touched and honoured by this event and the outstanding support fir this project. carleton.ca/sjc/2025/emo...
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Emotional Carleton event kicks off fundraiser for Mary McGuire Journalism Internship Travel Fund | School of Journalism and Communication
https://youtu.be/-OUGaRv35xg Carleton’s journalism program launched a fundraiser for the Mary McGuire Journalism Internship Travel Fund with a powerful
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
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Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit
Davie says
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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BREAKING: Canada's Approval Rating in America is 60 Points higher than Trump's. 60.
If you wanted to design a culture‑war villain who would alienate the middle of the American electorate, you wouldn’t pick “Canada.”
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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ESMO 2025: mRNA-based COVID vaccines generate improved responses to immunotherapy
Patients with cancer who received mRNA-based COVID vaccines within 100 days of starting immune checkpoint therapy were twice as likely to be alive three years after beginning treatment, according to a...
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Madelaine Drohan @mdrohan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I wrote this piece for opencanada.org, part of the Canadian International Council, on how Trump and Benjamin Franklin mastered using perceived victimhood to wrest concessions from negotiating partners.
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Open Canada — Canada's Place in the World/ Le Canada dans le monde
Open Canada — Canada's Place in the World/ Le Canada dans le monde
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
So this is what's above the fold in today's NYT, while the protests get two photos below the fold and a piece on A23. I know I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but damn.
DEMOCRATS’ ADS
MAKE OLD PITCH:
STOPPING TRUMP
WELL-WORN PLAYBOOK
Louay al-Ali
Abdul Salam
Mahmoud
Fahd al-Freij
Issam Hallaq
Mohammad
al-Rahmoun
Aous Aslan
Qahtan Khalil
Using the Impasse to
Carry Out His Agenda
Some See It as a Missed
Chance to Advance a
Positive Message
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts.
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
A fascinating read about the non-AI challenges of facing universities. Key takeaway is that handing out more As does not make students less stressed or more focused on their studies. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Perverse Consequences of the Easy A
In the era of grade inflation, students at top colleges are more stressed than ever.
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Troubling findings for cancer patients. news.cuanschutz.edu/cancer-cente...
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CU Cancer Center-led Research Shows That COVID-19 Infection Can Awaken Dormant Cancer Cells, Leading to Metastatic Disease
CU Cancer Center researcher James DeGregori, PhD, led a study showing that COVID-19 can awaken dormant cancer cells, leading to metastatic disease.
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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Many Lung Cancers Are Now in Nonsmokers. Scientists Want to Know Why.
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A moving story with thoughtful recommendations that deserve attention to help Canadians manage grief.
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A sobering read for journalists and publishers. How the rise of generative AI may spell doom for the Fourth Estate: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The End of Publishing as We Know It
Inside Silicon Valley’s assault on the media
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 21/06/2025
“Wherever a journalist is silenced, the democratic soul of a country is weakened. Freedom of the press is an inalienable common good. Those who conscientiously exercise this vocation cannot see their voices silenced by petty interests or fear of the truth.”
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Pope Leo praises work of journalists in first public comments on clerical abuse scandal | CNN
Pope Leo XIV says has said the Catholic Church must establish a culture that refuses to tolerate abuse in “any form,” as he thanked a Peruvian journalist for reporting on allegations of abuse inside a powerful Catholic group.
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Respect to @laurapayton.bsky.social for retelling and trusting her difficult story to @kkirkup.bsky.social and helping people understand the value of these new guidelines.
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
A sobering and powerful piece about how easily doctors can dismiss the concerns of patients. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Guest column | Doctors said I was ‘too young’ to be seriously ill. I had Stage 4 cancer.
What it took to finally get doctors to listen to me — and what I’ve learned since.
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Congratulations to La Presse, the winner of the 2024 Michener Award in Public Service Journalism as well as all the impressive finalists for their reporting projects that made a difference www.michenerawards.ca/media-releas...
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La Presse Wins 2024 Michener Award for Exposing Systemic Failures in Quebec’s Youth Protection System  - Michener Awards Foundation
The Michener Awards Foundation is proud to announce La Presse as the recipient of the 2024 Michener Award for meritorious public service journalism. The award was presented during a ceremony at Rideau...
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Looking forward to celebrating all these nominees and great public service journalism at ceremony tonight. www.michenerawards.ca/media-releas...
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Michener Award Finalists Announced: Investigative Journalism that Sparked Change Across Canada  - Michener Awards Foundation
Ottawa – The Michener Awards Foundation is proud to announce the finalists for the 2024 Michener Award for meritorious public service journalism. This year’s entries reflect Canadian journalism of the...
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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Exercise ‘better than drugs’ to stop cancer returning after treatment, trial finds
First clear evidence that structured exercise regime reduces risk of dying by a third, can stop tumours coming back or a new cancer developing
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
A helpful piece on the realities of screening and diagnosing cancer in the wake of speculation about Joe Biden’s recent diagnosis.
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Confused about how many stages of cancer there are? Only four —with stage four the most serious—despite what Donald Trump and others are saying today about Joe Biden having Stage 9 cancer. So someone came up with this handy guide to all those higher non-existent stages. bsky.app/profile/stev...
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I am so thrilled that this program I helped start five years ago continues and yet another graduate of the Carleton journalism program will spend the summer working at CBC North. carleton.ca/sjc/2025/car...
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Carleton journalism student heads to Yellowknife to take up CBC North internship sponsored by Mary McGuire | School of Journalism and Communication
Carleton University Master of Journalism graduate Tamara Merritt will be heading to Yellowknife to take up a paid internship with CBC North through a
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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Yes, the media’s Biden coverage was flawed. But its reporting on Trump was far worse | Margaret Sullivan
A new book has fueled controversy over press handling of the ex-president’s decline. But that distracts from a bigger problem
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The finalists for the prestigious 2024 Michener award for public service journalism have just been released. Congratulations to all the journalists and news organizations on the shortlist. www.michenerawards.ca/media-releas...
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Michener Award Finalists Announced: Investigative Journalism that Sparked Change Across Canada  - Michener Awards Foundation
Ottawa – The Michener Awards Foundation is proud to announce the finalists for the 2024 Michener Award for meritorious public service journalism. This year’s entries reflect Canadian journalism of the...
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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A cancer diagnosis can also be a 'financial double-whammy.' Here's what advocates want to change | CBC News
Cancer can rob working age Canadians of their retirement savings. That's why this federal election, the Canadian Cancer Society is calling for tax changes and other solutions to boost affordability.
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Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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Video: Opinion | What Have You Learned About America in Trump’s First 100 Days?
Opinion columnists reflect on the lessons they’ve learned about America in the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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Dean Jobb - True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Canadian academics warned to halt non-essential travel to the U.S. amid Trump's crackdown, border tensions www.thestar.com/news/canada/... via @thestar.com
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Canadian academics warned to halt non-essential travel to the U.S. amid Trump’s crackdown, border tensions
The Canadian Association of University Teachers has issued a travel advisory for its members amid Trump’s crackdown and border fears.
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 12/04/2025
Another excellent column from @sproudfoot.bsky.social, on Poilievre's continued difficulties in adapting to the moment.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 09/04/2025
Doctor says political mayhem in the U.S. pushed her to come home to New Brunswick www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @cbcnews.ca 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
Dr. Sophia Halassy is now working as an obstetrician-gynecologist at Moncton's Georges Dumont hospital, after more than a decade of U.S. medical school, residency and employment.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I'm seeing grown-ass adults marvel at how high stocks jumped today - they must think their mom actually vanished when she played "peek-a-boo."
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Thinking about this quote, from JPMorgan's Michael Cembalist, today: www.jpmorgan.com/insights/out...
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