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Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 8h

nonzero chance if you keep credding my tweets over here that ill be less hated 😅

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A goal of this administration being achieved: “American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. … And yet taxes on corporate profits have collapsed.” www.economist.com/finance-and-... h/t @talsmith.bsky.social

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ProzacElf @prozacelf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike Vick has also spent years volunteering at animal shelters and donating to the ASPCA. He is like the model of prison as rehabilitation. If you can't say he's made restitution for his crimes, I frankly question a lot about you

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

Trump campaigns for Ken Paxton in Texas: "He can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I'll be honest. Is he here, by the way? Oh, there he is. I didn't even know if he was here! I don't care."

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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

6/ U-6 dipped down to 7.62%, the lowest since January 2025 (the decline in marginally attached outweighed the increase in unemployed and part time for economic reasons)

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought

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EagleBeaverMan @eaglebeaverman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As a former commodities trader who now works in supply chain financing, I insisted this would not happen because 1) it’s too insane even for him and 2) the oil lobby would never allow it. Given I was wrong about that I have updated my assessment based on the new facts on the ground: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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maniacally abstrack black @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)

a white man, a jamaican woman, an african man, and a black man walk into a restaurant....

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/09/2026

"cast and blast" lmao

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 17/09/2026

April 2025 take aging well bsky.app/profile/aaro...

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NFL News Poster @nflnewsposter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

[NFL] Deshaun Watson throws a pick on 2nd and 5 from the Jaguars 28 on the opening drive twitter.com/NFL/status/2...

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We have just concluded an 11-hour flight during which the infant in the row behind us made almost no noise except occasional gentle baby noises. What a champion baby

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sent a funny observation to the groupchat instead of poasting it on here because some of you would find it inappropriate

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I see a lot of people actively losing their minds about the AI stuff and I'm honestly starting to feel bad for them. But it's blinding them to the real problems. These things are not your girlfriend, but they're probably going to smash-and-grab passwords and attack bank or government data.

The observation that the most alarmist claims about A.I.’s impact seem to come from the individuals most connected to Rationalism should anger us. This exaggerated grimness makes it easy to overlook the more immediate harms created by these technologies, such as their potential use in cybersecurity attacks, excess resource consumption, impact on our cognitive fitness, role in undermining education and amplification of soul-deadening slop.

This style of anxious talk also allows the A.I. companies to portray themselves as the reluctant “stewards” of an inevitable technology, which is a framing they can use to deflect blame for damage caused by their own products.

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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

it was on a recent Odd Lots episode where one of the Fed presidents noted that when you have a factory, the people at the factory have families who go to school and play little league when you have a data center, you just have a data center and maybe a couple of security guards

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yeesh. 👀 “.. we find limited evidence that data center development improves fiscal balances, employment, or business formation.” (via @talsmith.bsky.social) download.ssrn.com/2026/9/1/738...

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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

putting this on my laptop and explaining "the rights are important, but the wrongs are the fun part"

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They need to make a backpack that you can wear with a suit that doesn’t make you look like your mother packed your lunch for you.

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Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

i came up with Gator Jaw @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 😭😅 but its sick that it sounds legit enough to have come from BlackRock. Rick Rieder & Co, please run with it! it's my daily aim for it to catch on (and eventually for the reality of it to end :/ )

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“.. households are trading down ..”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

BLACKROCK: It’s not a K-shaped economy. It’s gator jaws. 🐊 (via @talsmith.bsky.social)

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“.. there are really two separate economies: one for people who make their primary income through investment and passive income . . . and then typical workers who clock in day in and day out.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6f3a...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Amazing, glad you're here, let me catch you up. So The Economist wrote about Daron Acemoglu and

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Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

btwn this and dept of edu i think its been helpful to see how baggy in practice congressional approps and tsy expenditures are, for good or bad.

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is just a fancy way of saying the Treasury will use its money to buy things. The Treasury General Account isn't some special financial facility, it's the checking account for the federal government. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Bessent could tap near $1 trillion Treasury General Account to fund bond buybacks, sources said

Using the TGA would provide the Treasury with considerable firepower to influence long-term bond yields.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“.. well well well. .. someone who harshly criticized Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for 'Stealth Easing' seems to be, well... call it what ya want.” @talsmith.bsky.social

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Chaos Akuma 🔥⛩️【VCAN】Yōkai VT @chaosakuma.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A customer at my store today bought 25 games for $250, getting so excited that he finally got the PS3 he never had growing up and finally gets to enjoy and own the games he always wanted. THIS is why physical media matters, and why we need to save discs. 👏

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 18/08/2026

Only half though. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

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Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The computers & chips that power every sector of our economy are getting EXPENSIVE

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Happy birthday, “Kind of Blue”. Released 67 years ago today. 🎂 “You have to know 400 notes that you can play,” Miles said. “Then pick the right four." [“So What"] 🙏🏼

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hormuz traffic vs. the 10-year yield is a great chart. 🔥 @bloomberg.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

How it’s playing in Tehran — where “cart” and “truck” may get lost in translation. 🙄

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I know everyone is doing the Bluesky Special on him today, but this is 100% true.

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Kang @kang.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

the rage here on whitesky over a sunscreen joke is hilarious. people talking about my kids and wife and shit lmao. keep going please.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“.. The level of mistrust between Iran and the United States is so high that Tehran wants to ensure it gets the economic relief it has been promised, to enable reconstruction, before it gives up even partial control over the strait ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/w...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Antarctica sometime weirds me out. Whole continent that is mostly uninhabited. Massive swathes of it barely explored.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“.. The president’s recent financial disclosure form shows that he collected $1.4 billion from his crypto businesses last year, the majority of it from anonymous sources.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/u...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

That's a big kick in the guts. Payrolls is much weaker, and the U.S. lost -23k jobs in March, well below expectations of +80k. Huge downward revisions, too: May now +63k (instead of +129k), June now +20k (down from +53k). Very bad news. Revise down your views substantially.

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Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

it's time will come. 2027. assuming current conditions prevail.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Same day. $DJT

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. no sitting American president has ever raised these amounts for his pet projects. .. Trump has been demanding large checks .. telling executives and lobbyists that their companies should give $25 million or $50 million.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“Tariffs were pitched as the fix for America’s trade deficit. Instead… Last 18 Months: –$1.80 trillion deficit in Goods. 18 Months Prior: –$1.74 trillion deficit in Goods. The deficit didn’t shrink. It increased 4%.” - Bilello

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Page One in Chicago — a “blue city” where the President says the people “aren’t clean.” “.. 16% drop in SNAP enrolment 1 year after food program overhaul.”

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