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Massive economic upheavals – whatever their cause – have wide-ranging unforeseen political effects, especially for unstable regimes and brittle governments. Keep an eye on this. Russia's 2025 budget estimate assumed oil revenues at $70 per barrel. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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So wait, when you make radical changes to a complex system things don’t always work out in accordance with the revolutionary ideology you believe?

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Confirmed cases of measles in the US. 2020: 13 2021: 49 2022: 121 2023: 59 2024: 285 Total cases: 527 (5-years) 2025: (first 90 days) 628 confirmed cases of measles, and 3 deaths.

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Thank heavens I moved all of my money out of the market and traded it for a sack of magic beans.

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Stunning note from Mizuho, comparing tariff policy to Chernobyl Gorbachev’s gov’t “was built on power and lies and could not admit mistakes .. Admitting the disaster to the world, even if it was the right thing to do, would show weakness. “We are all along for the ride, no matter how dangerous..”

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And also, it’s nonsense

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bruh

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Gotta be honest, can’t really understand any discourse that discusses violent vs non-violent as a measure of the efficacy of protest movements. There are clearly examples of both being effective (and ineffective), even in recent history. It’s just more complex than that single binary measurement.

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Thousands gathered on the National Mall in a wide-ranging protest of the policies of the Trump administration.

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Tell us again that Trump is an “anti-war” president who doesn’t like to see people being killed

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Congratulations to Laura Loomer on her new role as National Security Advisor

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Jay: ...but aren't we giving the Executive too much power? Madison: No! You see, the beauty of this system is that ONLY Congress will have the power to declare war and regulate commerce, and will provide robust oversight of the Executive. Hamilton: Should be perfect, no notes.

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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

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Gabriel Fauré is criminally underappreciated.

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So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

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Trump has pinned the inability to effectively stop the Houthis on Biden’s “weakness,” arguing that what is needed is more bombing and bigger bombs. “If that worked, it would’ve worked already,” observes @colinpclarke.bsky.social 1/2

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The Trump administration inadvertently shared its attack plans with a journalist, but it didn’t share its strategy for victory — because it doesn’t have one. My latest for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

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We used to talk around the @marketplace.org office about what the first question would be if we got got an interview with him. I think we landed on asking him to tell us how tariffs actually work.

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Centrally planned economy; official lists of banned terms; ideological orthodoxy imposed on museums and universities; arrest and disappearance of dissidents; rubber-stamp legislative body; judiciary expected to approve all executive actions… What does this remind me of

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