Evan DeSimone
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Media writer/ennui enthusiast: Digiday, IntegralAds, Tubefilter, DCNorg š NYC
I donāt have any faith in Gavin Newsom i just support the art of being mean wherever I see it.
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4 months ago
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Rough day for Tesla drivers. Everyoneās gonna key that shit now.
4 months ago
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Now more than everā¦
4 months ago
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If you donāt do this to me when I die, iāll be furious.
4 months ago
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The reviews are in!
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5 months ago
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Save us Scott Bakula!
5 months ago
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A lot of people think American hegemony is in decline, but we currently have both ThePope AND The Anti-Christ soā¦
5 months ago
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We all laughed at him, but pollen season has me doing this five times a day.
5 months ago
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āThoughts and prayersā final boss.
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This is how conservatives think about the economy.
5 months ago
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Welp, āwe canāt just ignore the Presidentās desires.ā
5 months ago
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Wow. Everything IS computer.
www.barrons.com/articles/tar...
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New Tariff Rules Favor Apple, Nvidia, Dell and Others
A new list of goods to be excluded from the latest round of tariffs on U.S. importers was released, and it includes smartphones, PCs, servers and other technology goods, many of which are assembled in...
https://www.barrons.com/articles/tariffs-exclusions-exemptions-apple-nvidia-dell-smartphones-pcs-b2e069ff
6 months ago
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This is correct and under-discussed.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/08/t...
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Trump's Tariffs Aren't Economics. They're a Cultural Purge | Washington Monthly
Trump's blunderbuss tariff policies are a declaration of war on the half of America that didnāt vote for him.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/08/trumps-tariffs-arent-economics-theyre-a-cultural-purge/
6 months ago
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The second horseman of the recession has arrived.
djmag.com/news/skrille...
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Skrillex surprise releases new album: Listen
The 34-track 'F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!!
https://djmag.com/news/skrillex-surprise-releases-new-album-listen
6 months ago
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Why not screen it for traces of Fentanyl? That fake excuse is just as made up.
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6 months ago
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This is easy. They will become even more insane but will direct that madness at a completely unrelated target.
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6 months ago
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Someday Elon is going to die, and itās going to be funny, and people are going to say ādonāt laugh! He has a family that loves him!ā I think itās very important to remember that no, in fact, he very specifically does not.
6 months ago
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Which self exactly?
6 months ago
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They actually want to reshore sweatshops because people with high-paying laptop jobs donāt like them.
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6 months ago
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This was a prophecy.
6 months ago
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Boer approaching floor.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon
The president is pleased with Elon Musk, but the decision comes as the tech mogul increasingly looks like a political liability.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/02/trump-musk-leaving-political-liability-00265784
6 months ago
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Well they have the same values soā¦
www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/p...
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The Taliban senses an opening as it pushes for diplomatic recognition in talks with Trump administration | CNN Politics
In the two months since Donald Trump became president, the Taliban has ratcheted up its efforts to ingratiate itself with the Trump administration, appearing to sense an opening to re-establish offici...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/politics/taliban-talks-trump-administration
6 months ago
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If youāre purely concerned about efficient spending then you have to let George Soros run DOGE now. Sorry.
6 months ago
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So having an historically corrupt President has forced us to exonerate an obviously corrupt mayor. Shit sucks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/n...
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Judge Ends Eric Adams Case, but Sharply Criticizes Trumpās Justice Department
The judge, Dale E. Ho, refused to let the government leave open the prospect of reinstating corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams. But his decision recognized the presidentās power to determine ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/nyregion/eric-adams-case-dismissed.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
6 months ago
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In the American lexicon āliberationā is a word we we often use to describe dropping a bunch of bombs on something weāll later regret soā¦
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6 months ago
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Texas is the oil rich second largest economy in the wealthiest country on Earth and yet every story from there sounds like a third world country. āeradicated disease outbreakā āpower grid collapse.ā Thatās GOP control.
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6 months ago
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I do this even when Iām not watching The White Lotus. Normalize Carrie Cooning.
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6 months ago
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Nice to see this. My current ranking is Myrie, A. Adams, Mamdani, then Lander. Great that theyāre doing this, the WFP is basically the only minor party that actually works at gaining electoral power.
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Evan DeSimone
keith kurson
6 months ago
Having been in charge of large scale government migrations⦠this is bad! This should be a five year project (which theyād already started pre-covid) with the new system running parallel to the old, slowly falling over to the new. This is looking for a way to break it and claim it canāt be fixed
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Iām generally sympathetic to the abundance agenda but I do think it relies heavily on the assumption of a world beating U.S. economy which we simply will not have by the time this is over, if indeed it ever is.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
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Dow sinks 500 points. Stocks are on track for their worst quarter since 2023 | CNN Business
US stocks were lower Friday as investors digested inflation data that showed an uptick in one of the Federal Reserveās key gauges, underscoring the delicate state of the economy as businesses brace fo...
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/28/investing/us-stocks-tariff-uncertainty-volatility
6 months ago
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New Trump policy dropped.
6 months ago
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I want to meet one of the Americans who claims to have a very unnfavorable opinion of Hildegard of Bingen.
6 months ago
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Oh? You think YOU have terrible birthday twins? These are mine.
6 months ago
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Every smart person I know is enthusiastic about the abundance agenda, this makes me deeply pessimistic about its political prospects.
6 months ago
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Just humiliating.
6 months ago
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Not to be controversial, but they should not do that.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
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Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China
Giving Elon Musk access to some of the nationās most closely guarded military secrets is a major expansion of his role as an adviser to President Trump and highlights his conflicts of interest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/musk-pentagon-briefing-china-war-plan.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
6 months ago
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This is open, unambiguous extortion.
6 months ago
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Retirement planning during a Trump presidency.
6 months ago
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"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Iām the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney
6 months ago
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FWIW, I still think weāre here:
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Evan DeSimone
Marisa Kabas
6 months ago
USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.
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My contrarian view is that Chuck Schumerās decision on the CR was the optimal one. Simultaneously avoids the negative ramifications of a shut down and concentrates the anger of the party on himself, forcing a needed change in leadership.
6 months ago
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Canadiansā ability to get serious in a crisis puts ours to shame.
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7 months ago
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Iām going to be real with you. Every smart person in this country has been drinking heavily to cope with all this. If they force us all to sober up weāre going to overthrow the government.
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7 months ago
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Mind you, I was joking at the time.
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7 months ago
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One amusing consequence of the total U.S. withdrawal from global NGOs is that many will be less hesitant to describe us as we really are.
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7 months ago
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Hey! Itās my first day at The Economy. Are all the lines supposed to be red?
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I really didnāt enjoy the last recession, but in retrospect itās kind of nice that Bush didnāt do it on purpose.
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