at least the CDOs the investment banks built on subprime mortgages had collateral somewhere behind them - actual houses. or borrowing against the equity & cashflow of an on-going concern. but in what sense is this actual collateral? i'm gonna take my slurped up NFTs to JPM and borrow $1b.

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“…taking a different approach.”????? You guys. Come the F on Do better

Carson, born 100 years ago today. “You become successful, the way I see it,” he said, “only if you’re good enough to deliver what the public enjoys. If you’re not, you won’t have any audience; so the performer really has more to do with his success than the public does.” #RIP

Here's what you need to know about Trump's war on science & medicine, from two incredible experts, @michaelemann.bsky.social & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...

My question is has #SpeakerJohnson seen what’s in the #EpsteinFiles and personally knows how bad it is for Donald Trump or just following orders on the conjecture of how bad it is. Either way, his disobedience in seating @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social is proving them all guilty.

The people in Arizona’s 7th congressional district have been without representation in Congress for over 7 months. Mike Johnson continues to deny them representation because their duly elected representative has pledged to sign the petition to release the Epstein files.

At anything beyond D+8 on the generic, the current GOP gerrymanders will likely boomerang. Trump will need other tools to suppress the people's will.

I assumed that second quote was satire, or at least a paraphrase. It’s not. The thug trash said that.

“Tricia McLaughlin said protesters “shot at agents” with fireworks and threw objects at agents [and] Agents...gave protesters multiple warnings. The video of the incident does not show protesters throwing rocks or fireworks at agents, nor can agents be heard warning protesters.”

We can’t let this happen. And any Republican who refuses to renew health care subsidies for hardworking American families, saying we can’t afford it, needs to explain how they found $1 trillion in tax cuts to give away to the wealthiest people in America.

Comer: "I think President Trump was right when he was talking about the IQ levels of Hakeem Jeffries."

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

Man pardoned by Donald Trump: “Hakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC I cannot allow this terrorist to live. Even if I am hated he must be eliminated. I will kill him for the future.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

CNN: Mike Johnson says Republicans have proposals to address healthcare subsidies and they can have them ready immediately. Over 400k people in Missouri are enrolled in the marketplace. Have you seen those proposals? REP. MARK ALFORD: No. I would like to.

President Donald Trump has spent the past several weeks patting himself on the back for saving the American economy, but CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale said that the new economic numbers fly in the face of those Trump claims.

The poll watchers are back

Looks like Earth may need @markhamillofficial.bsky.social to pay a visit

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

"At this moment in time, of course, the release of the TRUMPSTEIN Files is really the public's main priority."

BREAKING: The USS Gerald R. Ford and its accompanying ships were previously off the coast of Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.

This is one of my favorite things. It’s like a fireside chat with President Bartlett. You can preview it here. The podcast premieres this Sunday 💙💙💙💙

Test run for 2026. Here's what I wrote in the NY Times about the federal government potentially interfering with the 2026 elections and what we need to do about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

Bove is a f****** moron. The issue in the case is not whether writing the date is something that is difficult to do, but whether throwing out a vote when somebody *accidentally* forgets to write the date is an appropriate remedy.

They don’t really care about hungry kids. Just political power. Hold the line, Democrats.

Friends in BROOKLYN and QUEENS, sweet Penny is still missing. She was last seen on Bushwick Ave / Beaver Ave. Please share this updated poster and keep and eye out if you can

I think one of the things that non-evangelicals find most annoying about evangelicals is when they claim that other people can’t lead happy and fulfilling lives unless they believe in the same things that they do.

The company brought Junior in right after the election as part owner. They just won the largest drone motor contract awarded by the Pentagon.

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"

12% of Americans will lose access to food resources when SNAP benefits expire in 8 days

So preposterously unconstitutional, but also: active duty military payroll is more than $3b **per week.** This is a pittance of that. It has nothing to do with helping out the troops- they want to establish the precedent that Trump can bypass Congress and fund the government with anonymous bribes.

The White House’s remains. Buried under a golf course.

In a win for voters Friday, a federal appeals court rejected a right-wing effort to revive a Republican bid to block Pennsylvania from counting undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots.🥳 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Very concerning, if true.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on CNBC: "Deaths from extreme weather are on a 100 year plunge. There's never been a safer time to be alive from extreme weather. Five times more people die from the cold than die from the heat."

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include: -Amazon -Apple -Coinbase -Lockheed Martin -Google -Meta -Microsoft -Palantir -Tobacco companies -The Adelson family Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.

“Starting on Day One, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.” —Donald Trump, August 2024

"nearly half..." ??? it's an open book test. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

This is precisely how the Trump Foundation worked. He raised money and then spent it on himself. Which got him banned from operating a charity.

“Let them go a month without meals. Maybe they will get a job” First, many SNAP recipients have jobs. They’re just living below the poverty line because of tremendous wealth inequality. Second, many are disabled and children and can’t work. Third, no one should starve to death.

"Magda Goebbels made a great strudel"

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The old rulebook is gone. It's not coming back and we all need to accept that. The DOJ is weaponized. the GOP is rigging elections. Trump is literally bulldozing the White House. Democrats need to operate under this new reality, fight hard, and play by the same rules.

Donald Trump's wildly inappropriate reaction to this (quite impressive) piece of Reaganite advertising ought to cause so many people to view the ad he doesn't want them to see that we'll have to rename the Streisand Effect the Ontario Effect.

the point NOT being discussed..... ....is that the outrage against BILLIONAIRES is caused by too many BILLIONAIRES being complete self-serving dicks

NEW: U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis is allowing the deposition of Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino to expand to FIVE hours (she'd limited it to 2), and she wants to hear about use of force by CBP in Little Village on Wednesday and Thursday. Plus a reminder to "preserve all body-worn camera footage."

Q: This is the people's house. Why not inform the public when it was decided the East Wing would have to be demolished? LEAVITT: We have informed all of you. We've been keeping you apprised of this project. We showed you renderings.