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I'm thinking about 1929. Did Wall Street traders wake up on October 24 knowing that the market would crash that day? It feels like they know what is coming today. How will that impact what happens?

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"🔶️ 8:00PM ET: Global markets respond as the impact of America's renewed economic strength takes hold." checks CNN market ticker at 8:00PM ET 🔻 Dow Futures down 2.48% 🔻 S&P Futures down 3.49% 🔻 NASDAQ Futures down 4.44%

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Given that Dow Futures are down 1000 points (2.3%) and the S&P plunged 3.5% and will probably get worse when trading opens, perhaps a small refresher course is in order. www.investopedia.com/terms/c/circ...

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A shockingly straightforward headline from CNN: www.cnn.com/business/liv...

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To be "tariffing" fentanyl, wouldn't he have to legalize it? So is he saying he's going to legalize fentanyl?

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Rest in peace, Val Kilmer

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What the heck, Bluesky? My Discover feed becomes filled with Gators, Yankees and UConn - none of which I am interest in - and tapping "show me less like this" results in more of that content! Sadly, switched to muting, but that's not ideal.

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Said a poet in front of a Tesla in Lyndhurst, Ohio . Well done, my favorite. #teslatakedown

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Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...

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🚨 New, Exclusive and Detailed: 2.8 Billion #X user info dumped online. The person who leaked the data claims it’s the work of a “disgruntled X employee” who allegedly stole the data during mass layoffs. Read: hackread.com/twitter-x-of... #CyberSecurity #Twitter #Breach #InsideJob

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A friend of Neri Alvarado, the young Venezuelan man with an autism awareness tattoo sent to El Salvador, shared this video from members of the swim club where he worked with neurodiverse children. More about Neri from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and I here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Extraordinary

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Here’s a picture of me, a European, security freeloading in Afghanistan as part of a US Army special forces task force. Look! They even gave me a special “freeloader” badge to wear above my medals. 12 close friends and colleagues killed when they were there freeloading too.

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Okay @ronnychieng.bsky.social on the Signal group chat bombing is very funny. "Not everything that happens is [Trump's] fault! He has a whole administration that can fuck up for him!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=isNl...

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

It feels like the US is in the upside-down

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Elbows up, Canada.

submitted 11 days ago • 1549 comments

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff says the strategy now is for America and Russia to “integrate their energy policies in the Arctic”. No longer trying to hide that this is the new alliance.

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From an extraordinary evening in Amboseli #kenya

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I didn't see this article when it came out in October, but it was prescient.

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UK Subs detained

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The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.

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Words fail me www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Black Bag is a great movie: smart, witty, tight, well written and well acted. It's refreshing to see this kind of film in cinemas again.

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We've taken the first part of my multi-part series, "Nova Scotia's Policing Panic," out from behind the paywall for everyone to read for free. This is the wildest story you'll read all week: Nova Scotia's Police Panic, Part 1: ‘A coupla suckers’ www.halifaxexaminer.ca/investigatio...

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Farewell to the last of The Few. I had the honour of talking to a Battle of Britain pilot years ago. He was kind but gently clear that war is a horror. It's hard to forget the lessons of history when you hear them from those who were there. May they rest in peace. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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An odd quirk of the 2020s is "training an algorithm." Fifteen years ago, you saw what you followed. Now you have to manually tell an algorithm you don't like something to stop it surfacing ever more content of a type you have never engaged with. That doesn't seem like progress.

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Nominative determinism was strong for the author of this article. Rest in peace, Roy

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Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China went into effect last night at midnight so here’s a reminder from Ferris Bueller on how that’s gonna go

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