GW

GW

@gdubba.bsky.social

Trying to be skeptical without being cynical. Too many years in finance. Tech, games, autos, dogs...

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One person familiar with the federal investigation told NBC News “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups…Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive.”

nbcnews.com'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials sayThree people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

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This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.

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Here's the sitting president of the United States endorsing ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social

I mean, I know that's obvious. He's basically claiming that Palestinians want to die and the US is letting that happen. But I don't think those specific words have gotten enough attention.

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BOOCKVAR: After seeing the Japan deal, we assume "$2.9 Trillion that will be taxed at 15% and that equals $435 Billion of taxes on US consumers and businesses .. For context, US companies pay about $525 Billion of corporate income taxes to the US govt." peterboockvar.substack.com/p/great-to-s...

peterboockvar.substack.comGreat to see a trade deal but.../JGB yields jumping again in response/Mixed commentary still from callsI want to quickly start by saying that Bleakley Financial Group has officially changed its name to One Point BFG Wealth Partners.

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Trump's threats to fire Jerome Powell are being covered by the US press with the wrong lens. It's not Democrats vs. Republicans or Trump vs. the Fed. This is a story about why authoritarian rulers who remove constraints on their power destroy prosperity. I explain why here:

forkingpaths.coJerome Powell and the Authoritarian Sirens of OdysseusWhy strongman presidents become weaker—to everyone's peril—when they remove constraints on their own power.

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"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

theatlantic.comThe Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency FoodFederal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

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A lot of Trump’s appeal comes down to the fact that people whose lives are boring & mediocre because they aren’t particularly bright, talented, or motivated, would very much like to hear a story in which actually it’s someone else’s fault.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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If blue states kept their money, they would be fine or even better off. Red states would be in deep financial trouble. Example: California is the fourth largest economy on Earth. It grows over one third of America’s vegetables and two thirds of its fruits and nuts.

Agree with everything in this piece. But what happens when R voters are told by state propaganda that this bill is actually *not* responsible for their economic hardship, and it's somehow the fault of Dems? Will they believe their own eyes or the propaganda? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

theatlantic.comThey Didn’t Have to Do ThisBy passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.

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The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

"Fortunate Son"?? Is this for real?? What hero directed them to play this during Donny Bone Spur's fascist birthday parade?

Timothy Burke@bubbaprog.xyz

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

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Really need journalists to push back on this bullshit. When they say this, just ask them point blank: "Are you saying that because one Latino man committed a murder, another Latino man deserves a life sentence? Do you think all Latino men interchangeable?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Homan on Abrego Garcia: "He got more due process than Laken Riley got."

Russia laying the groundwork for European invasion.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com

⚡️'First to suffer' — Russia singles out Poland, Baltics in threat to NATO. These countries have shown "high aggressiveness" towards Russia and are "constantly rattling their weapons," Russia's Foreign Intelligence Director Sergey Naryshkin said on April 15.

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You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

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If supposedly "50 countries" are calling Trump to negotiate tariffs, why did he spend the past three days on the golf course and fundraising, before the global markets reopen tonight. They wouldn't be lying to us again, would they? Couldn't be.

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Even as the stock market crashed, President Trump was in Florida at his Doral golf resort and Mar-a-Lago club helping pump up family businesses, evidence that Trump continues to monetize the presidency. A NYT behind-the-scenes look with Theodore Schleifer and Zolan Kanno-Youngs nyti.ms/3XPqyIa

nyti.msTrump Family’s Cash Registers Ring as Financial Meltdown Plays Out (Gift Article)The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president’s Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.

"They're crashing the economy. That's very very different than making housing affordable." Do NOT let the GOP get away with saying an economic downtown is somehow beneficial for anyone.

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The United States is currently a country where you can be kidnapped by secret police and shipped off to a slave labour concentration camp without ever being charged with a crime or getting a chance to argue your case in front of a judge. If you think it can't happen to you, why do you think that?

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social

It sure looks like they’re going all in on the “the executive branch can ignore court orders if it thinks the court lacks jurisdiction” thing