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.”
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The Trump administration has been planning for weeks to send the National Guard to Chicago, two officials told CNN, as President Trump looks to expand his anti-crime agenda and crackdown on immigration in major cities across the United States. https://cnn.it/45yvNjJ
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16% of respondents have "a great deal of confidence in the Supreme Court". On the bright side, only 13% say climate change is "not happening". apnews.com/projects/pol...
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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...
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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:
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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...
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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.
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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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...
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I spent months on this video about people worshiping ChatGPT, please watch and leave a comment and share if you can!! My YouTube channel is still so small that I lose money making these videos rn 😭. Every little bit helps!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCy...
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"Two weeks" is Trump's favorite unit of time, @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social notes. Tax plans, health care policies, evidence of conspiracy theories, the ISIS fight, new coal mines, infrastructure plans—all were at one point riddles he promised to solve in about two weeks www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
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Excellent, beautiful, tragic, and true by @dannagal.bsky.social. Gift link: Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have Either. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
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Russia laying the groundwork for European invasion.
⚡️'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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Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
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Cabinet member worth $500 million speaks. 🇺🇸 @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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So important to remember that Wall Street is a tight knit crew in an echo chamber who will happily ignore obvious but inconvenient alarm bells until the danger shows up in their gated communities. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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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
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"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.
You must listen to Derek Thompson push back against gullible CNBC anchors @dkthomp.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...
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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?
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
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Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now