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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

submitted 10 days ago • 336 comments

You know what, I'm just going to put out the piece tomorrow morning. Its still the weekend so will be before U.S. markets open on Monday. Let my editor actually get a chance to edit it lol. in the meantime, here's the banner.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Another day, another needing to say "The young men who buy into Andrew Tate's bullshit are not victims but perpetrators of the rape culture he sells them". I think there's an argument to be made that they are often victims of some kind of fraud/con artistry/grift. But not victims of the misogyny.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

One thing that still blows my mind, even though nothing matters anymore, is that Zuck jerked off with Rogan for four hours or whatever and never once even mentioned the metaverse, even though five minutes ago it was so important he renamed the entire company after it! And nobody even noticed!

submitted 20 hours ago • 38 comments

Oil producers across the country say they're thinking twice about taking on new drilling projects and looking to cut costs as President Trump’s trade war drives down the price of oil and drive up the cost of drilling.

submitted 17 hours ago • 14 comments

Reminder: a century ago, the U.S. abandoned some tariffs, and Congress began delegating others to the Executive, in large part because of the graft & corruption resulting from carve-outs & exemptions. Today, the President is the engineer of the graft & corruption, and he and his cronies love it.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Do I have this correct? We are not tariffing smartphones, the advanced tech product that isn’t primarily manufactured here. And we are tariffing cars, the products we do make largely here. OK.

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

The US tariff policy seems increasingly designed to deepen the trade deficit, penalizing things the US exports, while keeping expensive things it imports relatively cheaper.

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

“.. Furniture producers in China have seen a complete halt in orders from U.S. importers, and we’re hearing the same across toys, apparel, footwear, and sports equipment. .. Almost everything is on hold as it relates to China business.” @loriannlarocco.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/t...

submitted 18 hours ago • 77 comments

Look, another one lol

submitted 18 hours ago • 14 comments

Measles in the US, update —712 cases, 11% hospitalized, 3 deaths, 97% cases are unvaccinated —Now in 24 states —Actual cases must be multiple thousand to align with the number of hospitalizations and deaths reported www.cdc.gov/measles/data... www.cbsnews.com/news/measles...

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

WAPO: “.. The exemptions appear to undermine Trump’s ‘economic revolution’ that seeks to move high-tech supply chains and parts suppliers inside the U.S. ..” 🤡 @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 18 hours ago • 74 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 412 comments

Good Goldman chart showing how US yields and the dollar have decoupled.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Shoutout to Seattle

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

humiliating

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

“Sorry we didn’t send your social security check this month grandma. Please sign onto X dot com to find out why.” - Signed, BigBalls

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

submitted 1 day ago • 239 comments

Trump take house

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

submitted 1 day ago • 373 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 381 comments

Yikes....

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

submitted 3 days ago • 88 comments

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

submitted 2 days ago • 1529 comments

Federal spending is up under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

hard to overstate what a disaster 24/7 equity trading will look like in a period like this

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments