If we still had a functioning SEC, it would be interesting to see who gamed the market prior to the announcement: who went short? who went long? and what are their connections to the corrupt Mad King and his courtiers?

An interesting list - I don't agree with a number of the rankings, and I can say I've seen all but one of them.

Show me a centrist, and I'll show you someone who thinks they can jump halfway across a ditch and not fall in. They are nonetheless treated as 'serious' people while the Left is derided as shrill and out-of-step with the 'mainstream.'

Is the Mad King going to cut off Medicaid and EBT to Missouri? Send in ICE? Demand federal prosecutions? No, of course he's not.

In a statement reported by The Hill, Center for Biological Diversity attorney Ivan Ditmars noted: “Without the scientists and researchers to maintain strong health and environmental standards, polluters will profit while the rest of us suffer from dirtier air and water."

This is their basic communication strategy. They did it with SignalGate, they did it with Rep Grijalva, they're doing it with Iran: sow confusion so the truth is 'unknowable.'

"Playing through."

"[T]hey’re basically trying to assert not just that Dear Leader knows everything, but that there’s sense to be made out of this pudding-brain nonsense that’s coming out of him. The louder and the more insistent and the harder the clapping gets, the more I just feel like that’s all they have."

“You cannot create liquidity from an illiquid asset class. Not enforcing withdrawal limits will create a first-mover advantage for early redeemers and a prisoner’s dilemma problem for the remaining investors.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Women's #suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt died #OTD in 1947. One of the best-known women in the US in the first half of the 20th century. + Founder, League of Women Voters + President, National American Woman Suffrage Association + Co-Founder, International Woman Suffrage Alliance #Vote #WHM

The Mad King's sordid tale of malfeasance and corruption told in two posts.

Conserving the role of keystone species in ecological communities. #ConservationEcology

UAE tells it like it is to the USA.

Trump thinks he can (1) lower gas prices and (2) fluff Putin in one move? Expect this to be among the first proposals adopted.

Symptomatic of mediocrities: the unshakeable belief that they are unsung polymaths.

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace declined to comment.

Punk 🍑.

I don't think anybody could have predicted . . . 😒

There's no other word for it than "deplorable."

Who 🤬ing cares? 😒

The motto of the modern tech industry is "You can just do things to people"

I’m sure DOJ will be all over this . . . any day now . . . 😒

#UnionStrong #LiveBetterWorkUnion

Mike Johnson’s embarrassing tenure as SOTH is a prime example of this: what board members would vote to keep a chairman who claims to know nothing of what the CEO is doing?

Earlier this week, Idaho became the latest state to push back against the U.S. Department of Justice’s campaign to seize the private voter data of every state. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/eve...

The Mad King found yet another way benefit Russia and hurt Europe. For 🤬's sake.

“Total war” is a war crime. Targeting civilians is a war crime.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Un peu de poésie urbaine dans ce monde de brutes

Put it in the HOF.

Rev. Jackson is one of the main reasons I became a liberal. He spoke to me in a way that made me question everything I thought I knew, to see the world through different eyes, to see both the injustice AND the promise of America. #RIPReverendJackson

"The Boring Company hadn’t considered these issues. “It was all so obvious, but they didn’t see it,” said one transit official. “They came in thinking this is cool and it has Elon Musk attached, so it’s inevitable.”" Lawd help us. 😒

This should be a much bigger story than it's been, but it seems to be flying under the radar. 😏 I'll show myself out.

So does the Mad King have an Ahmed Chalabi-like well-funded, well-fed figure in mind, or does he plan on freshly-minted Ayatollah Jared Kushner taking over to build condos on the Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea?

To be fair, TwoFirstNames Mullin could probably snake a toilet, so I guess you could say he has SOME emergency management skills . . . 😏

"Hey, GOP, we found voter fraud, and you know what? Here's the funniest thing . . . "

How far we've fallen from the light breaks my heart.

Call it the Talk the Talk? Walk the Walk Act.

Alva Myrdal was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat & a prominent leader of the disarmament movement. She shared the #Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 (w/A. Robles) "for their work for disarmament & nuclear and weapon-free zones." #WHM It's International Day for #Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness.

Good riddance.

Donald Trump and I both attended Wharton. Only one of us attended classes. We are now all paying the price for his economic illiteracy.

NOPE

Some days the failure of too many of our primary through secondary education systems to adequately prepare our kids for life and the responsibilities of citizenship is starkly highlighted. 🙄

The last part of the sentence is, for me, the greatest thing Lincoln wrote: " . . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves and with all nations." A "just and lasting peace" is the blessing of liberty promised by the Constitution.

Because even though by now ICE goons know her habeas petition will be filed and they're not sending her anywhere, they still do it for the intimidation, the cruelty, and the lulz. 😒

Was AI used for the targeting that likely resulted in the bombing of the girls school? We must have answers to that question and there is ZERO reason for delay because the Pentagon damn well already knows the answer.

When the Mad King says "some people," what he means is "not Trump." Trump's only value, his only morality, is his own self-interest. The rest of us could be cardboard cutouts for all he cares. This is the nature of a malignant narcissist.

Well, this is suddenly relevant again. #FailSon

"Journalists were right to reject the suggestion that covering fallen soldiers is partisan. . . . "But defending that principle and questioning the limits of current coverage belong to the same obligation." The Mad King and his toadies are hiding the strategy and prosecution of the war from 🇺🇸.