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Just here for the resistance "What is your nationality?" - Major Strasser (nazi) "I’m a drunkard." - Rick Blaine Casablanca (more relevant than ever…)
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NYT: “.. In only five of the 90 cases were patients vaccinated ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

Secretary Bessent will likely get his bond rally, but it'll be for bad reasons with admin policies driving weakening growth rather than the hoped for disinflationary boom. My thoughts on Bloomberg Surveillance just after his interview earlier this week:

#FAFO

#GoldenAgeOfAmerica 🇺🇸

Gut - wrenching plummet in consumer sentiment, yet again in February. Weakest since November 2023 on heals of escalating inflation/tariff concerns & escalating uncertainty.

#TodayInPyongyang.

“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love .. you make” Musical genius — thanks Paul. Now more than ever

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

This ⬇️

Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?

Oct 26: “I’ll slash prices — so fast it’ll make their heads spin” Feb 13: “Could go up” 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

This!

The leopards are eating faces, and people who were only told by everyone alive on Earth that that would happen are steamed about it They were railroaded! Yes—everyone on Earth told them this would happen—but what about all the people on Mars, Venus and Proxima Centuri! Why did they hide the truth!

People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!

Yes. But they are missing that much of this has to be performative. That’s what Trump is great at and Dems are awful at. You can’t just tell voters , you have to know how to sell voters. Trump gives sales pitches, Dems show charts. One goes viral. The other is ignored and forgotten

Happy #valentines day Bluesky peeps. We need to resist but still embrace love where we find it.

Elmo and his merry band of teenage incels

When America reaps the whirlwind of putting Tulsi Gabbard in as the director of national intelligence, it will cost lives and honor beyond what you can imagine.

This! ⬇️

Too little too late boys #FAFO

Scenes from A Humiliation open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Tell the real stories of actual people who are going to die because of Elon Musk. It won’t be hard to find them. This isn’t an actuarial game...You can find the actual human beings who are going to die. You can talk to them." And share their stories.

Each rescued orphan that comes through our door – no matter how briefly – reminds us of the compassion and remarkable bonds that define elephants. Askari was no exception. A member of our family for barely a month, this brave little elephant will remain imprinted on hearts forever. #FieldNotes

Some hero’s don’t wear capes!

Kinda like there’s no “common sense” with the GQP

Ya’ll— time to take the gloves off. Love Michelle O but the days of “when they go low we go high” are over. DEFCON 1 folks.

Many are asking: “What can I do now?” Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do

i know ppl here do not enjoy screenshots of X but this one is such a great encapsulation of what it's become

The problem is the GOP love being cucks. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Daily reminder with these chodes: Every accusation is a confession (and a concession).

Yesterday, I along with @repespaillat.bsky.social, Senator Blumenthal and other Dems co-led the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act to protect families and kids in schools, churches, and hospitals from ICE raids. Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com and I broke it down. youtu.be/QovrOPj_k_U?...

Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?

Voltaire knew… “Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities… So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves to put shackles upon sleeping men.”

Muskrat

Want to know what evil is? It's having $400 billion—and being projected to earn $600 billion more over the next 4 years—and knowing that you could awaken every morning for a month and point to a country and say I will end all hunger THERE without denting your lifestyle at all and instead you do this

#FAFO

This

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

This is your daily reminder that both Merrick Garland and Mitch McConnell can go fuck themselves forever and ever.

Gold > Stocks

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" was released on this day in 1977. The Album of the Year Grammy winner was also one of the most commercially successful albums ever recorded. "Rumours" sold 10 million copies in its first month; it would go on to sell 44 million copies worldwide.