John Zimmerman
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70 year old male Californian, semi-retired mineral exploration geologist.
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Barry Ritholtz
1 day ago
10 Sunday Morning Reads â FBI: Epstein Was Vladimir Putinâs Wealth Manager âAn embittered Brit decimated Washington Post âUS Brain Drain Threatens Scientific Leadership âHow Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters âWhat I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis
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10 Sunday Morning Reads - The Big Picture
Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: ⢠Jeffrey Epstein Was Vladimir Putinâs Wealth Manager, FBI Source Claimed in Newly Released Epstein Files: Unse...
https://ritholtz.com/2026/02/10-sunday-morning-reads-9/
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Mario Nicolais
4 days ago
You're saying that Trump's tariffs not only (1) increased costs on Americans (2) crippled industries that lost export customers, but now also (3) did not work at all and only INCREASED the trade deficit (probably because of 2)?!? It's almost like Trump is a moron.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...
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In 2025, Trade Deficit in Goods Reached Record High
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/business/economy/imports-tariffs-trade-deficit.html
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Rick Wilson
4 days ago
No WAY.
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Barry Ritholtz
4 days ago
10 Thursday AM Reads: -The Grift Economy Is Going Mainstream -Bitcoin's Plunge Should End the Hype That It Is Digital Gold -Why Voters Hate Trump's (Pretty Decent) Economy -The Disappointment of Young Trump Voters -Why AI Writing Is So Generic, Boring, and Dangerous
ritholtz.com/2026/02/10-t...
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10 Thursday AM Reads - The Big Picture
My morning train WFH reads: â˘Â The grift economy is going mainstream Scams and grift have evolved from fringe activity into normalized economic behavior, marking a fundamental shift in how cons operate...
https://ritholtz.com/2026/02/10-thursday-am-reads-485/
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Michelle Goldberg
7 days ago
I wasn't sure this off-Broadway play was believable until real life overtook it
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/o...
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Opinion | He Studied Cognitive Science at Stanford. Then He Wrote a Startling Play About A.I. Authoritarianism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/opinion/play-ai-authoritarianism.html
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Barry Ritholtz
9 days ago
10 Weekend Reads: -Something Big Is Happening -Inside the Booming Business of Monster Porn (GQ!) -26 Rules to Be a Better Thinker in 2026 -Is inherited wealth bad? -Are We Tripping? -The 'Harvard of Umpire Schools' Closes as Changing Times Favor Tech Over Tradition
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10 Weekend Reads - The Big Picture
The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: ⢠Something Big Is Happening: Hereâs the thing nobody outside of ...
https://ritholtz.com/2026/02/10-weekend-reads-78/
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Faine Greenwood
10 days ago
The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Voughtâs obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.
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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-uses-usaid-funds-budget-director-voughts-security-documents-show-2026-02-13/
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David Corn
12 days ago
A key moment that shows the police-state nature of the Trump regime.
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Dean Obeidallah
13 days ago
Time for Democratic officials to petition the state bar of each DOJ lawyer who works on these BS cases to be disbarred. These prosecutors know the case is "not supported by probable cause." That is grounds for disbarment. Time to take the fight to the corrupt DOJ!
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Groundwork Collaborative
14 days ago
NEW: Ever feel like everything takes longer, costs more, and leaves you more frustrated than it should? Thatâs not a coincidence. We call it the Annoyance Economy, and it costs American families $165 billion a year in wasted time and money. đ
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Taking on the Annoyance Economy - Groundwork Collaborative
https://groundworkcollaborative.org/work/taking-on-the-annoyance-economy/
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David Dayen
14 days ago
Just learned that AIPAC has now jumped into a fourth open seat House race in Illinois, backing Melissa Conyears Ervin with what has been described as a $2.8 million buy (around $500k a week). This is straight up AIPAC, not a shell PAC, through United Democracy Project.
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cozy fan tutte
15 days ago
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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Bitcoin crashing, down to 66,000. Let's hope it doesn't take down the whole system. I guess they too did not realize that everything Trump touches turns to shit.
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Aaron Rupar
20 days ago
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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Chris Murphy
20 days ago
A UAE investor secretly gave Trump $187 million and his top Middle East envoy $31 million. And then Trump gave that investor access to sensitive defense technology that broke decades of national security precedent. Brazen, open corruption. And we shouldn't pretend it's normal.
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Adam Serwer
20 days ago
If many people hold a left-wing opinion they are a mob and should be ignored; if few people hold a left wing opinion they are fringe and should be ignored. The substance or correctness of the opinion is irrelevant. This is the reactionary centrist credo
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Barry Ritholtz
21 days ago
10 Monday AM Reads: -Kevin Warsh Is Trumpâs Manâand His Own. How He Will Reshape the Fed -What happens after the Age of the Dollar ends? -Why public expectations of inflation matter -How high can prices in the Hamptons go? -When Bruce Springsteen Met Michael Stipe
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10 Monday AM Reads - The Big Picture
My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: ⢠Kevin Warsh Is Trumpâs Manâand His Own. How He Will Reshape the Fed. Kevin Warsh is President Trumpâs nominee for the next chair of the Federal Reserve, Trum...
https://ritholtz.com/2026/02/10-monday-am-reads-460/
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Barry Ritholtz
22 days ago
10 Sunday Morning Reads -Trumpâs Year of Anarchy -Crypto CEO Became Enemy #1 on Wall St -Injury to Buildings and Vegetables -Trapped in the hell of social comparison -On the architecture of unreality -The commenters won -Police Losing Faith in Its Tactics
ritholtz.com/2026/02/10-s...
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David Corn
25 days ago
Donald Trump is mad. And I donât mean angry. For a president to boost this is alarming. As in 25th Amendment alarming.
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Ian Bassin
25 days ago
Job losses and bioterrorism yes, but the other pressing threat in Amodei's essay is the threat AI poses to democracy.
@nschneidman.bsky.social
and I draw out the threat posed of "authoritarian lock-in" in response:
www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-autocr...
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Rachel Bitecofer
26 days ago
đ¨đ¨đ¨Theyâre making their move against our election system
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Robert Reich
27 days ago
âImagine how they lie when thereâs no evidence to contradict them.â Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.
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We are letting another massive opportunity slip by. The Pretti shooting remarks prove how willing they are to go with bald faced lies. Make that a crucial point! They lie to you ALL THE TIME!
27 days ago
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Conor Sen
27 days ago
Lowest consumer confidence since 2014:
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Adam Serwer
28 days ago
Wild to for a jewish organization to be like "well if mamdani wasn't such a fucking rootless cosompolitan"
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jamelle
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EmmaTK55
about 1 month ago
Another great piece from
@elienyc.bsky.social
âTrump will lose this case because heâs trying to mess with something the Supreme Court thinks is important. I wish we all could be so lucky as to appear valuable to John Roberts and the Supreme Court.â
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Jamal Greene
about 1 month ago
It seems to me Congress should hold off on funding elaborate conspiracies to violate the Constitution.
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Aibo - Zonny
about 1 month ago
The British đŹđ§ todayđ
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Does ICE know a Hispanic is playing football tonight, qb for Indiana. How cool would that he if those goons charged onto the field and grabbed him. đ
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Robert Reich
about 1 month ago
MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Remember this.
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D. Earl Stephens
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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Barry Ritholtz
about 1 month ago
Harsh, but fair: Decades of Tax Cuts and Oligopoly rule have undone all of the post-World War Two Middle-class economic gains. U.S workers just took home their smallest share of capital since 1947, at least
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U.S workers just took home their smallest share of capital since 1947, at least | Fortune
American workers arenât just getting the smallest share of GDP since records began. Their share of employment is shrinking and shrinking
https://fortune.com/2026/01/13/us-workers-smallest-labor-share-gdp-on-record/
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Dean Obeidallah
about 1 month ago
NEW and WOW: Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, and Canada are sending troops to Greenland amid continued threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to annex the territory, multiple outlets reported.
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Germany, other NATO allies sending troops to Greenland amid Trump threats
Trump said Wednesday anything less than U.S. control of Greenland would be "unacceptable" in a warning to NATO allies about Arctic security.
https://www.newsweek.com/greenland-germany-sending-troops-nato-donald-trump-threats-11361535
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Molly Knight
about 1 month ago
đ¨đ¨wake up the pope đ¨đ¨
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Dom Ervolina
about 1 month ago
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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Carl Quintanilla
about 2 months ago
We got âliberatedâ, alright. đ¤Ą
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Rebecca Schoenkopf
about 2 months ago
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Nazi Scumbags Go Wilding At Minneapolis High School
Fucking Nazi scumbags.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/nazi-scumbags-go-wilding-at-minneapolis
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David Corn
about 2 months ago
FTW.
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Dean Obeidallah
about 2 months ago
Stephen Miller on CNN yesterday defending taking Greenland by force: âWe live in a world, in the real world that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.â This is the fascist manifesto.
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derek guy
about 2 months ago
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
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SuperNovaGal đŤ
about 2 months ago
The US just joined the axis of evil. We are so screwed.
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Note to Venezuelans celebrating this action: everything Trump touches turns to shit. Everything.
about 2 months ago
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And Trump has already ruined 2026.
about 2 months ago
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Jon Cooper
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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David Corn
about 2 months ago
Happy New Year with real fascist stuff about expelling a third of the nation. Wonder whoâll be targeted.
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Nicholas Grossman
about 2 months ago
Trump has done so much damage to democratic institutions not via clever, well executed strategy, but by acting on authoritarian/bigoted/corrupt impulse, then stubbornly barging ahead if he meets pushback. Manufacturing charges against Abrego Garcia only after deportation failed is a good microcosm.
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