Someone is insider trading on crude oil shorts using Iran War announcements from the White House…and making a LOT of money. You better bet we’ll be investigating ⬇️

Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Biden Mental Health Debate

What in the hell is this? It’s like watching an 8 year old do a book report without having read the book. The 25th Amendment looms.

PPI: The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 0.7 percent in February, seasonally adjusted. ... Core +0.5 percent Way above consensus forecast.

Is Bondi next to go? She could be one embarrassing acquittal away.

I prefer non-lethal distractions from the tRUMPSTEIN Files like renaming the Gulf of Mexico, making Canada the 51st state & buying Greenland. Sure it was hugely offensive to longtime friends & allies, but at least no one died.

Latest for @meidastouch.com. Deep dive into the burgeoning private credit crisis and how Trump and Bessent are stripping away regulations through FSOC at the precise moment we need it most.

PPI for final demand advances 0.5% in January; services rise 0.8%, goods decrease 0.3% www.bls.gov/news.release... #PPI #BLSdata

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

It’s clear that Bezos decided last year to convert his acquisition of the Washington Post into a “catch and kill” transaction, i.e., stop running the Post as a business and render it worthless. The Post is a flea on the tail of Amazon. Independent media has never been more important.

Well, sheeeeeeiiiiiit! Great character actor. www.cnn.com/2025/12/30/e...

Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem

The vicious cycle of monopolization: 1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market. 2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers. 3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations. 4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement. 5) Repeat.

This is the ad Donald Trump woke up furious about. Would be a shame if it went viral.

I just watched the Devo documentary on Netflix. I highly recommend it. Their view of humanity “de-evolving” still seems timely. I was a kid when they peaked, so I was not aware of their politics or biting satire. www.netflix.com/title/82052197

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, “They’re stealing our jobs”? You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.

BREAKING: White House announces selection of new Commissioner of Labor Statistics

And this was from five months ago. So easily predictable.

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

Pete Hegseth in 2016: "How damaging is it to your ability to recruit or build allies with others when they are worried that our leaders may be exposing them because of their gross negligence or their recklessness in handling information?"

Looks like many are just figuring out that the guy who danced silently and alone for 30 minutes at his own town hall and then pretended to fellate a microphone — is clueless about the economy.

The Constitution could not be more clear: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,” & the same goes for serving as VP This is all a giant distraction by Trump to avoid his DAILY legal losses I discussed @cnn.com - TN

This Powell press conference coheres remarkably closely with the reading of the economy I outlined in this oped last week.

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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

Big News: This week, Medicare Part D patients will see their annual out-of-pocket drug costs capped at $2,000. We worked to pass this landmark reform that will help millions of seniors afford their prescription drugs.

The most that can be said about the present moment is that there is disagreement within the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party about which faces to eat in what order.

What’s with this Hunter Biden stuff? The voters have spoken. They don’t care about stuff like this. This will seem precious within a year or two.

Yet another Russian falls from building “accidentally.” www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/s...

just block them

Authoritarians want you to betray each other but they also encourage you to betray yourself through an inner moral collapse- you give up your agency and let the leader "fix it," and you disregard your moral compass.

"liberals struggle with the overwhelming volume of questions to be asked, answers to be offered... A fascist just has to be a storyteller. Because for fascists words do not attach to meanings, the stories don’t need... to accord with external reality." www.newyorker.com/magazine/dis...