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“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “broligarchy” (Recorded at TED2025 on April 8, 2025) youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?... via @YouTube

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"More than three-quarters of senior Hill staff (76%) said their boss was concerned about how the Trump administration handles and distributes sensitive materials.... That includes 100% of Democrats who took the survey and 52% of Republican staffers." punchbowl.news/archive/5525...

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The worst case scenario for how the United States might react would be to pursue deep sea mining. Disturbing ocean beds to mine nodules on the ocean floor would catastrophically accelerate climate change, wreck marine ecosystems, and obliterate fishing stocks. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/15/u...

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The recent spike in 10-year Treasury yield (white) coincided with China fixing the Yuan weaker (orange), which is no coincidence. The falling Yuan had contagion effects to all of EM, causing EM reserve managers to sell Treasuries. This shows how much power China has over US markets ... and policy...

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📉Global growth expected to decline & downside risks to intensify as major policy shifts unfold "Global growth forecasts have been revised markedly down reflecting effective tariff rates to levels not seen in a century & highly unpredictable environment" via IMF www.imf.org/en/Publicati...

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Federal records show an immigration judge ordered U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's grandfather deported back to Cuba in 1962 . He was in the U.S. illegally. He was allowed to stay through clemency. Hypocrite enough Marco?

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Driving up to her front door with a gun because she refused to pick up the phone after they broke up x.com/theintelfrog...

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“Economic uncertainty has never felt this uncertain.” Justin Fox in Bloomberg Opinion #economy #markets @opinion.bloomberg.com

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The dollar is meant to be a source of safety. Lately it has been a cause of fear. Donald Trump has replaced ironclad assumptions about America’s currency with stomach-churning doubts econ.st/3Y3GG90

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"The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, 'No, he's not the one,' like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, 'Take him anyway.'" www.newsweek.com/merwil-gutie...

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Trump on the bond market, speaking this afternoon: “That bond market is very tricky. I was watching it. But if you look at it now, it's beautiful. The bond market right now is beautiful. But yeah, I saw last night where people are getting a little queasy."

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This video is great - A journalist break downs the highly misleading chart Trump is using to support his tariff policies youtu.be/PWhv-06DNjE?...

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With US growth concerns deepening, the yield on the 10-year US government bond is now below 4% (Bloomberg chart below) in Asian trading … and pulling the dollar weaker. #economy #markets

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Interesting piece by Adam Hochschild drawing lessons for today from the domestic repression of WWI and the post-WWI Red Scare. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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This was….five months ago

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The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers. AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

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Whiskileaks — pass it on www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

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Is reserve currency status driving Dollar overvaluation? No! Until 2012, USD was at a record low. Its rise since then is mostly due to QE in Japan and Euro zone, i.e. non-Dollar factors. USD strength is cyclical and not due to structural factors like reserve currency status...

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Our official statement from Albert Sellars LLP on President Trump's recent executive order.

submitted 45 days ago • 117 comments

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

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Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 48 days ago • 2582 comments

Ruth is an expert in fascism. If you’ve not read it yet, I highly recommend her fantastic book “Strongmen” @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw

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Seriously if you're active on X at this point what are you doing. What. Are. You. DOING. For who are you tweeting? Why are you staying at a nazi bar? The site is unusable & run by a guy who RTs posts saying public workers were responsible for the Holocaust. Link: www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

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This is really remarkable. A pardon attorney was told that Gibson was a personal friend of the President and she should recommend he be given his access to guns back. She didn't and was immediately fired. They will fire lawyers who won't bless their cronyism. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...

submitted 57 days ago • 137 comments

The fact that the Nazis are always the bad guys and never the good guys shows just how woke and out of touch Hollywood has become

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TRUMP TARIFF CHESS Feb 1: announces tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Feb 3: pauses tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Feb 27: announces tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Mar 4: imposes tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Mar 5: delays 🇨🇦🇲🇽 car tariffs Mar 6: pauses tariffs on USMCA-compliant 🇨🇦🇲🇽 goods Mar 7: threatens tariffs on 🇨🇦 dairy (250%) and lumber

submitted 61 days ago • 726 comments

Yes, millions of people will suffer but at least it's for a good cause: because one old asshole wanted to avoid going to jail for crimes he committed

submitted 65 days ago • 99 comments

A constituent asks Senator Roger Marshall (R, Kansas) why DOGE is firing so many veterans and the man just runs away. I’ve seen some pathetic behavior in my life but this might get first prize.

submitted 67 days ago • 720 comments

That a wartime president who courageously remained in his country despite being urged to leave, and has united and led his country since, is lectured on 'peace' and 'advantage' by a former military photographer and a draft dodger is a massive irony.

submitted 68 days ago • 41 comments

While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.

submitted 68 days ago • 467 comments

The night before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, I wrote down what I thought would be Putin's strategic objectives and have been using it as a slide. Until today, I thought he had failed in dividing NATO. But it seems we're closer to that after today's oval office meeting.

submitted 68 days ago • 60 comments

Egg shortages. Fatal measles outbreaks. Airplane crashes. Crypto scams. Tariffs. Betrayal of allies. Pardons and special favors for insurrectionists, crooked mayors, and online pimps. The American people voted for change!

submitted 69 days ago • 123 comments

The selection of right-wing podcaster Dan Bongino for a senior FBI role hammers home that President Donald Trump is eliminating the guardrails that prevented right-wing conspiracy theories becoming criminal prosecutions during his first term.

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“White, who started his career repairing guitars for members of the band AC/DC in the 1970s…” Never change Australian business stories, never change! By @nicfildes.ft.com www.ft.com/content/05b9...

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Highly valued tech company with controversial CEO plunges after most of the board resigns Keep an eye on Australia's WiseTech

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Tomorrow in the NYT: I voted for Donald Trump because I hate the people he hates and wanted to see them suffer. Now that I am suffering, why can’t you find it in your heart to be sympathetic? RUDE

submitted 75 days ago • 54 comments

All right, no more lying in bed doing nothing. Time to get up, go to my office desk, and do nothing there!

submitted 79 days ago • 122 comments

per Roger Sollenberger - One of Elon Musk’s DOGE kids—Ed Corestine—appears to be a member of Andrew Tate’s online “university.” Research doc shows the account, created May 2023, is tied to an email belonging to Corestine. www.ft.com/content/3f95...

submitted 79 days ago • 5 comments

are the democrats....alive?

submitted 81 days ago • 319 comments

An excellent question. Where are the Fortune 500 & Wall Street CEOs? Where are the university presidents? Where are the civil society leaders? Not just speaking out specifically in defense of their institutions & democracy, but also about 🇺🇸's global interests? The silence is deafening & shameful.

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