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For all the sturm und drang surrounding Target $TGT today, it spent $510 million on dividends and $251 million on stock buybacks in the latest quarter. corporate.target.com/press/releas...

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Who’d have thunk? Do you see what Wall Street sees? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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The problem is, civilizations very, very seldom revive once the rot sets in. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Moody’s had been a holdout in keeping U.S. sovereign debt at the highest credit rating possible, and brings the 116-year-old agency into line with its rivals. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/m...

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Since there's no honesty or integrity anywhere anymore, and corruption, gambling and self-dealing are the order of the day at the highest level, sure why not? wapo.st/42XtYvt

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Long ago, Warren G Harding abd Teapot Dome, and Nixon, a vicuna coat and Bebe Rebozo were the definition of presidential corruptipn. But U-S-A! We’re No. 1. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

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How about the President gets up and gives an updated version of, "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever." Or, is that on Monday's schedule? wapo.st/4kb2HLw

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Nothing is impossible anymore. (Voice of America is also off the air for the first time since 1942, per WaPo). wapo.st/43jr2ZZ

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"Allies, from Paris to Warsaw, look to Berlin to anchor a robust security strategy without the United States." -- Washington Post. From the "things-I-thought-I'd-never-see" file.

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"It is likely that U.S. onshore oil production has peaked and will begin to decline this quarter." -- Diamondback Energy letter to shareholders. But wait. U.S. crude oil production was at an all-time high under the ancien regime. How can that be?

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This who I’m talkin’ about. #Knicks #MikalBridges

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Sovereignty. If only the Derby winner had been a Canadian or Danish horse.

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Andy Beshear for President !!!

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“After all our subtle colour…what more is possible? After us, the Savage God.” -- William Butler Yeats, upon attending the premiere of Ubu Roi in Paris in 1896

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Peak wisteria. I might just post a picture each day.

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Transparency = NO GOOD! Keep it all opaque, for the love of god. White House blasts Amazon over tariff cost report: 'Hostile and political act' cnb.cx/3GJZcgD

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Ouch. 7.25 years for Santos. Where does Polymarket put the odds of a presidential pardon? www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/g...

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How do you spell, "completely unaware"? (This would be a member of the Village People.)

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Welcome to Berlin circa 1934-1935. Welcome to The Emergency. www.wsj.com/podcasts/the...

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This is a sure sign of what's next, do you think? www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/t...

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I have every confidence this administration’s policy-by-social-media diktat will lead to a flood of capital investment by business. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

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"Censorship and hiding solves nothing. Let’s educate ourselves if we are going to run a free government.” -- Eisenhower (who wished more Americans had read Hitler and Stalin in prior years, thinking it might have helped anticipate the oncoming threats.) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

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West Wing foreshadowed our world — again. Oops, no. They meant North Korea.

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Erwin Schrödinger in 1938: Recanted his opposition to Nazism, regretted doing so and told Einstein: "I wanted to remain free – and could not do so without great duplicity." Failed to appease the new regime and the University of Graz dismissed him from his post for political unreliability.

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The U.S. stock market's current theme song, courtesy of Robert Johnson and the Glimmer Twins. youtu.be/-wfgukbENbQ?...

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Investors first! Voters second! There’s a rallying cry for 2025.

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Corruption is, as corruption does. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/h...

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Ergo, you and I can be snatched off the street too, taken from our loved ones, whisked off to a foreign land, imprisoned. With no legal recourse to return. What’s to stop it? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

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"Matters not. We say it is so. It is so." wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

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