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For the 2nd straight week, B of A’s Hartnett draws attention to what he’s been calling the “Washington D.C. recession.”

Bad energy

More Americans say Trump is a dictator than say Zelensky is

Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who agrees that if you want people to stop calling your party a bunch of Nazis, then your party leaders should stop doing Nazi things like the Sieg Heil. Did you notsee this coming?

DJ D-Sol is so bulled up on "animal spirits" and "policies that will spur investment" that he can hardly acknowledge the worst start to M&A since 2015 and a chaos monkey causing "a little bit of volatility" lmao the hopium is palpable for guys that don't make things www.ft.com/content/a7c9...

Week 5 🇺🇸

We will all have to protest very soon.

Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

“U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce”

While everyone is focused on what DOGE is doing, Elon Musk is quietly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on an April Wisconsin Supreme Court race. This race could have electoral consequences in future elections, like 2028 in a crucial swing state. Pay attention.

This means nothing. Useless. Empty words, zero action. Boycott his events. Refuse to cover his photo ops and propaganda signings. He’s addicted to coverage and hates being ignored. Until you band together and do something, these statements are utterly pointless & pathetic.

reading the press it feels like the unprecedented dismantling of gov't and the rule of law from within is just not a compelling story instead we have "what do the immigrant camps mean for housing?" or "so RFK is sending your ADHD kid to the gulag, find out how to send them treats" type of stuff

Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.

These are probably just corrupt business meetings to discuss how to divide up the spoils of Russia taking over Ukraine with American help. Some quisling Ukrainian oligarchs and their peers.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

Make no mistake. We are in the midst of a complete and total Constitutional crisis.

Started/going

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

Today we are all focused on what is happening to the federal government. This is coming next. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

We’ve had checks & balances & separation of powers embedded into the founding of our national govt specifically because the Framers anticipated that some day an executive might come along like Trump. For over 2 centuries we have also had judicial review. It’s all under siege now.

Trust me, bro.

Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate. "MMR coverage is particularly low in Gaines County, where nearly 1 in 5 incoming kindergartners in the 2023-24 school year did not get the vaccine." www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h...

This week’s strong durables data? “.. likely a result of front loading of durables by Democrat consumer .. “.. a very large increase since the election in the share of consumers who think it is a good time to buy large HH durables because prices are likely to go higher ..” - B of A

So much for his Hippocratic oath.

AP: “.. In a little more than two weeks since Trump took office, the world’s richest man has created an alternative power structure inside the federal government .. None of this is happening with congressional approval ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/elon...

I was told CEOs were (to quote Druckenmiller last month) “somewhere between relieved and giddy.” 🙄

We’re gonna have to march.

lolll

The Belarusian regime has banned my book, Gulag: A History, presumably because they don't want anyone to realize that the past is repeating itself www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/4476/g...

How it started. How it’s going.

Trump: I'm gutting a key part of executive branch oversight by purging inspector generals. I'm not even giving Congress the legally required notice. Democratic senators: A bit concerning. But we don't want to slow you down. Let's approve Noem at DHS (w/ some Dem votes) ASAP!

How patients on TikTok are expressing their experience and critique of harsh, biased communication by their doctors (and what to do about it) nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @nejm.org

Things I'd like to see to indicate this isn't the Nifty Fifty (1972-73) redux: A new high in the advance-decline line. Needs 3287 net advances to get there.

Firing independent watchdogs is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Removes another obstacle to corruption and abuse of power www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...