Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic roaming free in the internet … Not because necessarily they're trying to do bad things, but because they've got to justify these valuations.“- Barack Obama ~ He gets it. 1119030
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The White House has launched MAGA-themed remakes of classic games where you get to build a wall and deport immigrant families as ICE. This is how our tax dollars are being spent. Celebrating cruelty while the job market collapses, gas prices skyrocket and literally every vegetable is being recalled 713446
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Sky News Reporter: “Donald Trump says you’re a gift to the Republican Party.” Abdul El-Sayed: “I’m a gift to the state of Michigan, God-willing.” Reporter: “He says you’re full of shit.” El-Sayed: “At least I don’t let mine go in the middle of the Oval Office.” ~ This is the energy I want to see. 22591124
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu 12443942694
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/08/2026Amazing that Iran is successfully attacking the drinking water in the American Midwest, and this is pretty directly the Trump administration's fault, yet this is not a huge scandal among his voters who live there 16787241
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialMike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026New all-time high in the wealth of the top 0.00001% of Americans vs national income @FT @soberlook thedailyshot.com/sub... 26179112
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialMike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The AI debt boom... lot of suppply certainly not bullish for Treasurys $LQD $HYG 2173
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/07/2026CFOs realizing replacing workers with AI means going from a predictable expense with known ROI (employee payroll) to a usage based cost whose ROI is mostly vibes (AI tokens). 6939
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/06/2026Nehls on how House GOP will make case for affordability back home: Nehls: What are you talking about? I'm gonna get me lobster tails. Some nice rib eyes. Reporter: Do you think the 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck can afford that? Nehls: Maybe not. Maybe they don't work as hard as me. 310191444233
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The Supreme Court: The president is definitely a rapist and should pay for it. Also the Supreme Court: We need to give him as much power as possible. 114830
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care. 774175217219
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialTim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 19/05/2026If you are into some really sick and depraved sh*t, may I recommend JP Morgan’s 2026 mid-year outlook? privatebank.jpmorgan.com/nam/en/insig... 3267
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialMike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 17/05/2026S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary sector median component drawdown from 52wk high? 26% Worst: $LULU -65% Best $EBAY -0.6% 0163
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17/10/2025This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end. 2014245679194
whatisaccounting.bsky.social @whatisaccounting.bsky.social · 25/09/2025newrepublic.com/post/200879/...newrepublic.comWhere Did Trump Actually Send Millions He Raised for Hurricane Relief?A new investigation raises questions about Donald Trump’s GoFundMe for survivors of Hurricane Helene. 010
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialIvan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Is Jake Tapper's forthcoming book on Trump's mental health decline available for pre-order yet? 411413
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialSteven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Next week it'll be September. So far no sign of Republicans standing up to Trump in any meaningful way. 1851996372
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 28/08/2025it's truly wild that the Democrats have watched all the protest movements of the past few years and seen it as an opportunity to cultivate zero young leaders 341944257
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/08/2025Grocery stores that have been eating the cost of tariffs are about to pump the brakes. Some are looking to be more transparent about the coming price hikes. Starting tomorrow, new tariffs of 15% to 50% hit a wide range of food items. If you’ve got a household food budget, this is a must-watch. 56688704497
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 04/08/2025 Trump’s tariffs leave us in the second worst of all worlds on.ft.com/4mLgav9 | opinionon.ft.comTrump’s tariffs leave us in the second worst of all worldsWe may have avoided a global trade war but American consumers and businesses will still suffer 75516
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialBill McBride @calculatedrisk.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Goldman: “The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will publish a preliminary estimate of the benchmark revision to March 2025 nonfarm payrolls on September 9th. We estimate a downward revision on the order of 550-950k” 17796188
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Schumer and Jeffries should condemn this and demand an apology from the President - or they should resign, or be primaried. 41877071703
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm. 9794546711121
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/06/2025That’s an oldie but a goodie. 671492473
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialRepublicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Ground beef hit a record $5.80 per pound in April, up nearly 50% from five years ago. And the USDA says prices will keep climbing throughout 2025. Not great 1121290377
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialKye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 26/05/2025BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time. 319124334433
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/05/2025‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid. 374237124936
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialBarchart @barchart.com · 24/05/2025Ground Beef hits new all-time high 🚨 1217237
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialWashington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 23/05/2025"We came here because we love this country, America’s founding values and its openness to people with different backgrounds. Now, we are caught in a battle between the White House and Harvard." The latest from @harvard.edu international students Abdullah Shahid Sial, Leo Gerdén and Karl Molden:wapo.stOpinion | We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up.Three student leaders on Trump’s attempts to throw them out of the country. 1133777
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/05/2025If only the EU had a spare Boeing 747. 37978160
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialJon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people. 384141273834
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/05/2025The strategic end game of “Make America Healthy Again” is to justify Medicare & Medicaid cuts by arguing that any illness is your fault and so the government shouldn’t pay for a sickness you deserve. 1025354
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025"So if the media were going to put their thumb on the scale – as they inevitably do – they ought to have done so in defense of democracy, the rule of law and human decency. The failure to do so is playing out in our shattered world." That's by Margaret Sullivan. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comYes, the media’s Biden coverage was flawed. But its reporting on Trump was far worse | Margaret SullivanA new book has fueled controversy over press handling of the ex-president’s decline. But that distracts from a bigger problem 34895318
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialBennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 11/05/2025Kinda crazy how the United States literally amended its constitution to prevent insurrections from running for office and then many courts decided that the literal constitution was mostly just a guideline for voters and there was nothing they could do 828782
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Trump's genius is that he's such a moron that people don't take it seriously when they're told he's a fascist, and he's such a fascist that people don't take it seriously when they're told he's a moron 530066
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Don’t worry the tariff price hikes are temporary. They will be over as soon as hundreds of thousands businesses spend hundreds of billions to build factories in the US, hire workers, train them and all the while hope Trump doesn’t change his mind on tariffs thus wasting their investment. Easy peasy 817327
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼 540245596021
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialLora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 02/05/2025The Trump administration has floated a plan to trim about $6 billion from NASA’s budget. At the same time, the agency is allocating $1 billion to Mars-focused initiatives, aligning with an ambition long held by Elon Musk and his rocket maker SpaceX. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/n... 119729
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/04/2025NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u... 29264452658
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/04/2025🤡 480175684596
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight: 16043742710373
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Turns out @mcuban.bsky.social was correct 13885501587
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialMaggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 09/04/2025This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so 864772666
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialkyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Tariff Q&A: the Actual Inbox! I’ve gotten many, many questions about a lot of things, which has understandably increased over the last few months. It’s time to do a series of experimental biweekly Q&As to answer some of those questions! Starting with... tariffs! kyla.substack.com/p/tariff-q-a...kyla.substack.comTariff Q&A: Welcome to the Actual Inboxa brief comprehensive guide that hopefully answers all your questions 1549
Reposted by @whatisaccounting.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Bombshell in North Carolina: the state's GOP-dominated Court of Appeals just sided with the GOP candidate in last year's supreme court race. Their decision would toss roughly 60,000 ballots (!) that have been counted, & likely hand the election to GOP instead of incumbent Dem Justice who won it. 67389324008