3/ On left, Bari Weiss states that she spiked the 60 Minutes piece because: "The admin has argued in court that detainees are due 'judicial review.'" On right, Pam Bondi Memorandum states: "An alien determined to be an Alien Enemy and ordered removed ... is not entitled to ... judicial review."

Based on these comments it feels like Bluesky demographic was more likely to be watching '24' than reading Vanity Fair in 2008.

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I hope federal workers are finally getting recognition for world-class expertise and critical contribution to America's success, eroding the narrative they're mindless and inept bureaucrats. Youth may view public service as the lauded career it once was - from NASA engineer to Congressional aide.

Why do we need a new term for inequality? If we really need one can it be "the economy is so broken that its defining characteristic is workers who drive productivity are denied any benefit of the wealth they are creating"? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...

Trump stablecoin printer goes brrrrrrrrrr

A shrinking economy under Trump is "fixing inflation, with caveats" while a growing economy under a progressive would be "rising prices." Cool.

*Technically* equal justice under law is the foundation of America's judiciary but "you take some Ws you take some Ls" is a way more fun way to report on it, I guess.

Geez it almost seems like this guy has always been in it for regular Ohioans rather than using politics as a stepping stone to a lobbying career Sherrod Brown discloses writing, teaching income after Senate share.google/MvR4COYKUz6S...

More reasons to go enjoy a meal at Reveler's Hour (no really, it had much to recommend it even before this) www.rawstory.com/scott-bessen...

That's it. We're renaming the airport in 2029.

BITCOIN IS DOWN 150%

Popularism is actually the name of a cocktail exclusively served at gatherings of these constituencies.

It's impossible to distinguish the ethereum founder's idea for twitter misinformation from all the jokes we make about "the blockchain fixes this". I need to know if Vitalik Buterin is capable of sarcasm or not. dailycoin.com/ethereums-vi...

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Dentist Offices Latest to be Disrupted by Internet

PayPal and Spark had to call this crypto-interest scheme "Vault" because the name "Celsius" isn't available. coinmarketcap.com/academy/arti...

C + I + G + (X - M)...carry the three...add a tens space... ummmmm - yep got it. Tariffs will be about 60% of GDP for 2025. That sounds about right. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

This eerily reminds me of a 2010 Senate candidate from North Carolina whose campaign was probably doomed from birth when his parents named him Ken Lewis.

We could have had Saule.

Let me get this straight - Democrats can put rules in legislation covering the President's stock trading but that's somehow impossible to achieve in crypto legislation? Smoke and mirrors. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Two weeks ago Hayden Adams (Uniswap founder) tried to dunk on me by claiming that Uniswap Labs doesn't have a central role in ongoing governance of Uniswap. I was shocked to learn that he is a liar. www.theblock.co/post/383121/...

Those clowns under the Gensler SEC should have regulated Coinbase like a securities exchange. www.coindesk.com/business/202...

Pattern recognition: The closer Senate Democrats get to supporting a crypto-written deregulation bill, the more the President is going to rub their noses in his corrupt crypto biz.

Where does petty-ocracy fall on the political alignment chart? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Crypto is inherently anti-democratic and will never submit to the law. They don't want their own financial system, they want the privilege of setting rules they don't have to follow themselves. US legislators cannot build a regime that crypto will adhere to. Existing above the law is the point.

The separation of banking and commerce isn’t some outdated relic. It’s about having a financial system that serves the public good, not one that merely subsidizes the most rapacious practices of Wall Street and Big Tech.

A simple trick for understanding stability in financial markets is to replace the word "debt" with "leverage" every time you see it. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Crypto.com is doing a deal with Trump Media that makes zero economic sense for them. 6 billion CRO tokens - huge chunk of crypto.com's DeFi platform - for basically nothing but some Trump branding rights. Unrelated, they got their case dropped by the SEC. apnews.com/article/trum...

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

This SEC letter to DTCC allowing tokenized securities is like when my parents would tell my brother to share the Nintendo. The easiest answer was to hand me an unplugged controller and keep playing. www.sec.gov/files/tm/no-...

Womp. Deleted post because I thought I had accidentally fallen for a fake Twitter account but turns out it was probably real. Too tired to deal with it.

The whinging that cryptobros exhibit over their delusions of persecution never cease to amaze me. You won the GENIUS Act! Most mainstream coverage of crypto adopts industry framing at minimum! "Big Consumer" doesn't have a campaign war chest! What a bunch of cringey sore winners.

Spent some time in "enemy territory" with Ryan and David of the pro-crypto 'Bankless' podcast. Appreciated the opportunity to share my side of the story with their audience and the good-faith discussion. Listen here: youtu.be/cVNgtVmr6m8

Everyone talks about high prices. Almost no one talks about the real issue: paychecks that haven’t kept up with the rest of the economy. As @hshierholz.bsky.social lays out, wage suppression — not inflation — is the core of the affordability crisis. Want affordability? Raise wages. buff.ly/4uYPvmg

Probably the most surprising thing about this article is that a crypto industry rep confirmed my suspicion that customers are unknowingly herded into stablecoin transactions - with fewer protections. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What can I say, I have my doubts about stablecoins: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It was a short ride between the Bitcoin genesis block's "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" to "Coinbase is working with major US banks" www.coindesk.com/business/202...

The Dems should make a point of applying the pitchforks to crypto bros, the private equity crooks, Big Pharma and the insurance companies.

Please signal boost. Need a wheelchair tech who can help troubleshoot in Silver Spring, MD.

It's remarkable that Nasdaq has found itself squeezed between market norms and longstanding rules vs an obsequious SEC and a vengeful president with far-reaching business interests.

Even Atkins is drawing a line in the sand on leveraged ETFs. SEC comment letter in a ProShares 2x+ filing from today: www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Finally we have someone running the country like their business.

While the SEC charter allows it to operate with only 3 Commissioners, the agency was designed to be bi-partisan. All investors -- no matter their politics -- should be very concerned about this. (2/2)

I can finally say I've made it in DC. I was chided in an unhinged House Committee investigation. Why doesn't the GPO offer this in hardback? financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfile...

I left the SEC a while ago so I'm a little foggy on the details now but...I think I remember it's a bad thing when your CFO, CRO and auditor all bail on you.

Affordability is dominating the discourse. What I don't like about the conversation is that it focuses almost entirely on prices—as if the only way to make life affordable is to make things cheaper. But affordability is determined by prices *and pay.* 1/

Cryptobro Dem Senator has Cryptobro Opinions

"we should do something about that" guy does something about that