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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 15h
A lot of people who really ought to know better¹ seem to be taking "omg, the British benefit system gives you a car for having gluten intolerance" at face value. ¹ for example anyone who works for the wall street journal
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 18h
I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19h
I think for obvious reasons it is not correct to conflate public executions carried out by the state as spectacle with videos of murders by law enforcement that have been recorded often at considerable risk by observers. These are two different bad things done for different reasons
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16h
Breaking news: A 39-year-old woman from Franklin County, Pennsylvania, who had been diagnosed with measles has died, according to the local coroner’s office, marking the sixth such death reported since the state’s outbreak began this year.
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Sixth person who had measles has died in Pennsylvania, local coroner says
The state is experiencing the nation’s worst ongoing measles outbreak, the first in the U.S. to top more than 1,000 cases since 1991.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h
Heavy rain from Post-Tropical Storm Rachel flooded parts of the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday. Learn more about the storm: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/w...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h
They're also both incredibly clumsy and obvious. Don Segretti, the Nixon operative who coined the term ratfucking, would be embarrassed to see how half-assed this all is.
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NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 17h
More than 400 trees were cut down in D.C.'s East Potomac Park this weekend. A furious federal judge said the government failed to give proper notice of the work amid an ongoing lawsuit.
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Furious judge orders freeze after 400 trees are cut down in East Potomac Park
The Trump administration says the tree removal has nothing to do with the president’s plan to renovate the park into a championship-level golf course.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h
Zelensky on bombing the Russian data centers: “It’s pretty clear where the bots were coming from.”
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 16h
Honey, please.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 18h
This will be broadly unpopular with the electorate but I don’t think involuntary denaturalization should ever occur in a liberal society. Once you take your oath of citizenship you should forever be a citizen.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 17h
Without defending the farmer at all, this one is on Emily Marris first and above all others.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h
Grocery shopping in 2026
Sign that reads: SHOP WITH CONFIDENCE.
The eggs we carry are not affected by the current recall.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17h
This is simply not generating either the volume or tone of scandal coverage that effectively ended Joe Biden's presidency when he was unable to produce a surgically-clean implementation of Donald Trump's totally unplanned & poorly timed withdrawal from Afghanistan: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 19h
An EU-CN agreement is good and further strengthening of the RMB against USD would also be good, but FX geeks know EURCNY is down a fair bit over the last 15 months
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 19h
There is a certain irony in spending $276 million on political “free speech”.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 19h
Because we are in upside down world the guy who took a $50,000 bribe ordered a a government raid of a Congresswoman over 40 year old paperwork filed by her father. Our republic is broken.
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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 19h
Former UK cabinet minister divorces, immediately falls in love with Véronique Pulpeuse, 26y old. Your publisher would fire you on the spot for proposing this premise to your spy script (again, I repeat: not making fun of the serious allegations).
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19h
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 19h
Ross's thesis seems to be that if fiction were more masculine in its themes, men would read more. But there's plenty of masculine fiction available and men don't read more of it. They just don't read as much as women--across the board.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 19h
But also, the public data suggests otherwise. Women don't avoid books by men, but men are more reluctant to read books by women. (And sure, not all men, but we're talking about directional trends re: who buys and reads books.)
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19h
"buy my product or I'll talk shit about you in between my regular attempts to whip up violent pogroms against immigrants"
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Ruo Shui @ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social · 20h
the American electorate hated a soft landing
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 20h
If you've fallen for this bullshit, please leave the premises.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20h
Liberals spend forever wondering if these people believe what they are saying and it doesn’t matter. Their audiences 10000% believe it and they vote accordingly.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 20h
Miller Lite stat o’ the day $366 million Elon Musk’s political spending so far this cycle. 5/20/25 Musk to step back from political spending: ‘I think I’ve done enough’” Enough said.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 20h
These are weak men executing bullshit orders on a pretext so flimsy it drifted away on a whisper. You don’t have to give them the presumption of strength or inevitability.
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Ruo Shui @ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social · 20h
Hock saying this while setting up lending facilities for Anthropic is a good bit
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Ben Glasner @benglasner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It remains shocking to me that we have seen a full scale reversal of the post-COVID trend in wage growth. Since March 2025, real wages are down across the distribution. Only the 25th is up (+1%). let’s look at how odd this is in the context of the last 40+ years. @innovateeconomy.bsky.social
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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We set a record on Friday! Most weeks in one calendar year where the Nasdaq 100 posts a gain despite the SOX (semiconductor) Index slumping 4% or more.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/10/2026
If you praise the Confederacy, everyone knows what you're doing. If you praise Rhodesia, though, you still get that little frisson of naughtiness, the little tingle of rebelliousness that can power you through the drudgery of your eight-hour shift at your dad's car dealership.
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How a defunct white supremacist state became a cult favorite on the Right
From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can't stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.
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MsBellaF @msbellaf.bsky.social · 20h
Excellent idea for an ETF finance.yahoo.com/markets/opti...
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This ETF firm is giving investors a way to avoid Elon Musk
Subversive ETFs filed to launch new "Ex-Elon" funds excluding Elon Musk's companies, Tesla and SpaceX.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 21h
To extend an old metaphor: Bluesky is a record store. Gruber wants us all to know that X is an ENTIRE mall. With, like, mall Santas and a food court and a build-a-bear workshop. And sure, the security guards harass people and the owner traffics in CSAM. But, you guys, MALL SANTAS!
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 22h
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day to those who celebrate
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h
NYC COMPTROLLER LEVINE: “.. One more possible sign that AI is already impacting employment in NYC: .. For the first time in decades, NYers ages 22–27 with a college degree have a higher unemployment rate than those without one.”
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 22h
We also got a story today about how people who worked on DOGE are making money off the data they stole. It's a self-reinforcing corruption machine they got going www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 22h
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 22h
Wow, amazing
Line chart titled "Hourly discourse about The Last Jedi," labelled as satire with made-up data. The complaint index holds near 95 to 100 from 15:00 to 03:00 Moscow time. At 03:00 a red dashed line marks "Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centres," and the index then falls to about 5 within two hours. A small blip to about 18 at 08:00 is labelled "Backup generator," after which the line flattens near zero. The source line reads: "Institute for Correlation Without Causation. Satire, not analysis."
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 21h
Semiconductors downgraded to quarterconductors.
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Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 21h
Oil volumes out of the Persian Gulf are around 13 mb/d compared to a high of 16.5 mb/d a few weeks ago. This is still way better than the height of the war in March and April, but oil prices are back to their highs. Way too much risk premium is priced... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/denouement...
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 21h
Lavrov stated that they would continue to pursue the goals of the "special military operation" without making excuses to anyone.
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Ed Bradford @fullcarry.net · 21h
From "return-free risk" to serious curve risk. As Jim Grant once warned, US Treasuries used to offer no yield for plenty of danger. Today, soaring term premiums show investors are finally demanding real compensation for locking up cash in an uncertain world.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 22h
A half-a-million dollar share of a Nobel might seem like a nice surprise on its face but actually Hall has had it in his budget forever.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 08/10/2026
It’s (probably) not at an “I will I get fired if I put ‘artificial intelligence’ in an email” level but the WH is making clear that the expectation is to use Trump’s politically correct terminology in public communication
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 12/10/2026
(staring directly at the camera, unblinking) like i said. bsky.app/profile/mich...
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PaladinForGood 🇺🇦 @sema4paladin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This and so fucking much this
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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 12/10/2026
Another reminder that much of ‘realist’ political theory is absolute junk pseudo-intellectual nonsense because the reality is that everyone has agency and smaller states can defend rules-based principles.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026
There is, writes @davidfrum.bsky.social, an "implicit quid pro quo in these lucrative deals offered to Trump’s family and friends: If you compel Ukraine to surrender, we will enrich you beyond reckoning" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin
The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Congrats again to the Harvard economists & co. who told us that Scott Bessent was a "credible Treasury Secretary" bc he went to the right schools & cocktail parties & bc it is a Big Club. It might be nice for Furman & company to speak up now & correct the record. The silence really is deafening.
Jason Furman 2025 FT quote: Bessen as "credible Treasury Secretary"George Carlin Big Club quote
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Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The poor guy really can't take the pressure that comes with his job
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