stevenbodzin.bsky.social
Investigative financial reporter at REDD Intelligence, focused on Latin America. Had a resentful outer-borough attitude before it was cool. Find me on iNaturalist or on my bike. My employer has nothing to do with my posts. Pro-edit button.
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All true. Tonight I went down a rabbit hole of Russell Vought's (recent) ex-wife, Mary, whose X account is quite a thing. It is so extreme I wondered if maybe she lost that account in the divorce and it's being run by a Trump employee. x.com/MaryVought
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Federal employees started a website to debunk the attacks on them!
www.wethebuilders.org
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Pathetic chickenshits
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Meanwhile in Canada (and these are Canadian dollars, at Safeway):
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Stolent is when you give up water for Lent and only drink Russian vodka
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Stolent Content Of Other Publisher
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Coincidentally, I give you money every month and no longer give money to the Post.
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If he is seen to be selling, the shares will drop hard and fast
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I suspect banks will still extend him credit so long as he has a grip on the White House.
He’ll offer the entire country as collateral.
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This is the problem, that Daddy Saudi or whoever can always step in to save him....in return for heaven knows what
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Luckily all officers areas have had their TVs set exclusively to Fox for 25 years so I'm sure they're all ready to resist tyranny, right?
Right?
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“Maybe there’s intelligence that can be obtained by someone other than a white man with a degree from Yale. We don’t know. And frankly we don’t want to know. It’s a market we can do without.”
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Meanwhile in Canada (and these are Canadian dollars, at Safeway):
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There is no need to defend pennies. Plus, they won't be in circulation for 30 years if it's more profitable to melt them for scrap.
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I'd be all for making everyone's tax returns public
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Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:
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Yoko Ono is a treasure. A truly original artist & kind mentor to many. Whose call I still can’t believe I was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time to take. 5/5
Happy Birthday, @yokoono.bsky.social
May your days be filled w/love & good conversation.
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One thing about his wealth is that he has probably borrowed a lot against his Tesla stock. Most of that money is spent. So if the share price falls and a bank needs to make a margin call, he might need to sell more, causing a downward cycle. (Or he sells a chunk of some other company to an oligarch)
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In 2023, Peter Thiel led an attack on Silicon Valley Bank. The FDIC stepped in and stopped the financial panic from spreading to the rest of the economy, protecting the Biden Boom.
I am not sure, but I suspect this is why Thiel & Friends are now attacking the FDIC.
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A district court judge who appears the least bit left partisan will be swiftly overruled. She is using her power more responsibly by not listening to people like you. Ciao
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Ok, if you think judges should model themselves after Aileen "Loose" Cannon, and that such crap would be accepted from a centrist or liberal judge, then once again, you don't know what you're talking about
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I don't know if you're an idiot, but you are opining about something you don't know about. This is how federal judges operate. If they don't, their rulings will be appealed and reversed.
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I'm curious, how many hours a month do you spend in court?
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Ha, thanks. I didn't see the link because what am i really going to go read the original :)
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Right, of course that is a racist, or at least weird, term to use. But he's claiming that the word has been banned in, like, the national anthem. Total BS
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She knows, and has been subjected to, more than you. Please consider that as a judge she needs to show she's giving both sides a fair hearing, and wait for her ruling before judging her.
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I hadn't even heard that "brave" was problematic until this very column
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I had it in 1987 when I arrived at Sarah Lawrence College and was firmly told that my classmates were not "girls" but "women." I actually think that was the last time.
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could have spent that $100bn on:
- $20bn a year pledge toward ending extreme poverty worldwide
- wipe out tuberculosis
- preparing large parts of the US for climate change and/or converting them to renewable energy
Instead, LEGS
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Most of my clothes are DEIed, because I don't usually wear natural colors
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I used to watch Hugo Chavez's weekly Alo Presidente show every week for work and pretty often saw chavistas saying "Presidente, te están engañando!" They (the bureaucrats) are deceiving you! No one could believe he would support such bad ideas. And sometimes he would throw people under the bus.
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Why did you post that sarcastic response to me amplifying your point? I know you don't know me but i wrote pretty clearly, "this is a terrifying possibility."
As a smart guy once wrote, "Social media is brain pollution." Please read more generously.
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I'm agreeing with you. Log off and take a breath.
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It wasn't even a big issue in the election. It was a big pretext. People don't vote on issues. They vote on vibes. They use issues to justify their vote. Schumer doesn't need to know that because he hasn't run in a truly competitive election in decades
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I'm not, but for different reasons
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there's an overall vibe of "if the tools of government are legitimately placed in the hands of a bad-faith traitor who openly seeks to undermine it, we must blindly treat them the same as we would any other person in this situation"
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She's right that states can rename places, and it's why I don't care much that Apple and Google go along with the change. But all fights are the right fight to pick. Activists need wins to show they can win, to build strength for bigger fights.