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Bessent has a brilliant idea to bring down interest rates… Let banks carry more debt and do away with the capital and leverage requirements implemented after the banking collapse in 2008. In other words, his brilliant idea is to set the stage for another banking collapse.

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In his book "Secrets in the Dark," Frederick Buechner describes a period in his life as feeling like the "Little Ease," an infamous cell in the Tower of London built so small that its inhabitant could neither stand or lie down comfortably. 2025, I see you and am looking for a skeleton key.

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Told my kids they could either get guacamole on their Chipotle order or they could go to college. They’re doing rock-paper-scissors to decide.

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When they show you who they are, believe them. speakermjohnson 🇺🇸 www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

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A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts the FDA's own publication from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

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What 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] 🙏🏼

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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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My review of Alisa Weilerstein at Zankel Hall: www.sequenza21.com/2025/05/alis...

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Wise words from Mr. Rogers. We are all in this together. Let us all renew ourselves to strive for the common good.

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Jake Tapper has seriously lost it

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Not a substack fan, but this is pretty great. A list of contradictory statements & problematic (non-)points made by RFK. I will quote my two favorites in the thread below:

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While speaking to the West Point graduating class, Trump said, "No one wanted to join the military under Biden". Everyone in that graduating class started their training during the Biden administration. Donald Trump is an idiot.

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Why did six House Republicans who promised to oppose Medicaid cuts vote for the "big beautiful bill"? It could be because the bill now contains an expanded "pass-through" tax deduction that would personally benefit them. Follow the money.

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The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the U.S., according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times.

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Jong-Fast: This would be the largest cut to food assistance in US history—and it will result in hungry kids. It’s also important to mention that this bill grows the deficit. I don’t know how it manages to do the two things you absolutely don’t want—starve children and grow the deficit—but it does.

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I don't like when p__n bots follow me, but at least one that did today had a "think happy thoughts" t-shirt on, if little else.

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Today in “Things that would have immediately ended any previous presidency but for some reason we allow because this one guy 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️”

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In times like this, integrity matters. Well done 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 Top lawyers walked out of Paul Weiss to start their own firm—right after the firm cut a shady deal with the White House to dodge an executive order that would’ve limited its business. Some folks still have a spine.

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He got a REAL ID, is a citizen and was arrested and told his real id was fake. ICE is a disgrace.

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counter)induction's premiere of "Chimera," the culminating work in "Proteus," the chamber cycle I have written for them. on.soundcloud.com/S18UeYSkyTLq...

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Wonder how many people Trump is negotiating foreign policy and tariffs with, that have children and other relatives going to Harvard and other Ivy League schools ?

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Men Are Calling Other Men to Say Good Night, and the Results Are Amazing www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/s...

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Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.

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I’m going to get under blankets and listen to The Beatles.

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“Everyone has to make everything in the United States, or else!” he yells… as his family signs deal after deal for golf courses in other countries… and he accepts hundreds of millions in crypto bribes from unidentified foreign actors…

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Could there be a nicer start to a holiday weekend? Listening to the National's live album, eating fresh strawberries from Rutgers' fruit market (courtesy of Kay's outing yesterday), and drinking espresso (La Colombe, Corsica blend).

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The cruelty is the point.

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A new analysis finds that projected growth from the GOP budget's tax cuts would only cover 2.7% of their $3.8T cost. That's nowhere close to the cuts "paying for themselves." Notice how nobody ever asks, "but how will we pay for it" when it comes to trickle-down economics?

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not to brag or anything but ive taken criticism from the online left before and it didnt make me gravitate towards fascism

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www.uncut.co.uk/features/the... ‘If you want to be a band that lasts, you have to write lots of hits or none at all.’ Michael Stipe to Matt Berninger.

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Are we great yet?

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Have a safe and enjoyable weekend all!

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwS6... New #stereolab #album !!!

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This is a political time to wake up EVERYDAY prepared to Speak Truth to Power!...

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Upon returning home, i am thrilled to discover that my favorite local coffee shop still has the absolutely rudest baristas on earth. It’s a delicate balance between amazing coffee and passive aggressiveness. They nail it.

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"You said there were no cuts to scientists, and then the HHS spox said, 'Actually, there were cuts to scientists and now we're trying to rehire them.' It gives the impression you're not sure about personnel actions in own agency." -- Jon Ossoff just dismantled FDA Commissioner Makary

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if you play any radiohead song backwards it gives you the address of a hipster sushi joint in new york

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F#ck. “A provision ‘hidden’ in the sweeping budget bill that passed the U.S. House on Thursday seeks to limit the ability of courts—including SCOTUS—from enforcing their orders *** The provision ‘would make most existing injunctions…unenforceable,’” per the dean of UC Berkeley Law School. 5/22/25

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Trump cut nearly $3 billion in the first 100 days. Cancer is the #2 killer of people. Anyway, MAGA. www.axios.com/2025/05/19/n...

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It’s hardly surprising that the same people who were fine with older Americans dying from Covid have no issues with cutting Medicare.

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Kelly: Senator Ossoff and I introduced legislation to compel the rest of Congress to do what the two of us already do: put your assets into a blind trust, where you don’t have the ability to use any of the information you have to make money because of your job.

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now that it's been out for a week or so, I think the main takeaway from the Tapper book is that if you want the NYT/CNN class to care about the president's cognitive capabilities, you should give an anchor a book deal that gives him a financial interest in making that a story

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Fascism is really exhausting.

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In their Big, Beautiful Bill, Republicans prohibited Medicaid funding for “gender-transition procedures” for adults and minors.

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