Mike

Mike

@mtannenbaum.bsky.social

Not really Jeff Spicoli but I did wear corduroy OP shorts and Vans as a teenager in LA. Public equities and equity derivatives analyst.

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When you don’t have any policies or ideas to improve peeps lives, this 👇 is what you’re left with.

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social

Whole bunch of interesting indicators everywhere

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Hey Meta 👋 We are currently hosting a get-out-the-vote rally in Osceola County, home to a large Puerto Rican community, and our #LatinosConAngie Instagram page was suddenly taken down while we were actively posting content from the event.

Now it matters? This is the same person who said there was no difference between Trump and Biden/Harris. I suppose better late than never.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social

“For the love of god, get out there and vote.” Jon has a message for 2026 voters, plus an all-new podcast on AI’s looming threat to our financial institutions with Ed Zitron. Drops tomorrow!

I would love to hear from any of my mutuals who have some political insight into what I consider a perplexing stance by Harris.

Mike@mtannenbaum.bsky.social

The entire idea Dems will be able to govern/legislate with the current GOP in opposition is pathetically naive and it makes me wonder what kind of scam Harris is trying to pull on people.

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If you want to know what's happening in the Israeli election, @timesofisrael.com's liveblog is a good place to be

timesofisrael.comAmid record turnout, election panel rejects bid by Netanyahu and allies to extend votingCentral Elections Committee says polling stations will stay open after 10 p.m. if people are waiting in line * Turnout at 66.7% as of 6 p.m., highest in recorded history for this hour * Netanyahu warn...
AkivaMCohen@akivamcohen.bsky.social

Israel turnout update: 66.7% as of 6pm (polls are open until 10pm local time, after which the lines close and the polls close after the last voter in line as of 10pm has voted) WILD turnout. For comparison, 66.6% is the highest turnout rate in Federal elections since at least 2002

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$UPS says its retail partners expect a strong holiday as consumers remain resilient, with volume +25% vs Q3 in line with seasonality. International also improving as is US inbound, despite tariffs & expected to stay positive. Encouraging all round. $FDX $XLI $XLF $XLY $XRT $AMZN

Rahul Sharma@retailguru.bsky.social

Call it inflation-led growth or pricing power, it's across a host of industries. But another key takeaway: consumer isn't fazed by it. On top of the airlines, runaway pricing at $UPS, Philip Morris, Hilton or advertising at $META. $PM $HLT $XLY $XLF $XLP $SPY $DAL $UAL

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A plasmid that’s 1.58 million base pairs long, about 30X the size of a typical E. coli plasmid. Its relatives were found in hundreds of microbiomes worldwide. #MicroSky

Allison G@assemblerag.bsky.social

Out now in @natcomms.nature.com: We found a plasmid in a preterm infant’s gut microbiome that’s 1.58 million base pairs long, about 30X the size of a typical E. coli plasmid. Then we found its relatives in hundreds of microbiomes worldwide. Read on to learn more about the elusive pMEGAs! 🧵

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Major press failure: treating Jared Kushner taking foreign bribes and shaping US foreign policy as less relevant than Hunter Biden not taking bribes nor influencing policy. Covering Kushner accurately was considered partisan, biased. Lies about Hunter or his minor actions treated as more important.

Bolsonaro rn:

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

* BRAZIL SENATOR FLAVIO BOLSONARO MISSES SUPREME COURT DEADLINE TO HAND IN PASSPORT TO FEDERAL POLICE -- SOURCE * BRAZIL FEDERAL POLICE CANCEL SENATOR FLAVIO BOLSONARO'S PASSPORTS AFTER DEADLINE MISSED -- SOURCE @reuters.com $EWZ

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You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

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Ethics aside, this take could use some contact with reality. Biden's expanded CTC didn't motivate recipients to vote to maintain it. Trump offered $5000 checks and it hurt him in the polls. The empirical claim that welfare creates single issue voters just doesn't hold up.

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The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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An Arab chemist won the Nobel Prize literally last year. RFK is not only a bigot, he's a stupid ignorant one. (Remember, this is the dude who claimed COVID was engineered to spare Jews and Asians.)

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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it feels truly insane that it’s not

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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Bill Maher after dinner with trump: "Yeah, I did it again, bitches....You know what? F*ck you. I like these dinners.” trump after dinner with bill maher: He is a "TOTAL AND COMPLETE LOSER..... the dinner "was a waste of time" and Maher is "not very smart."

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NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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This isn't really fair to gifted kids who aren't trained teachers and don't know how to teach. It's also not fair to the kids who are struggling and need actual, targeted instruction from an adult who knows how to help kids with learning difficulties.

Ann Leckie@annleckie.com

"But what do we do with the gifted kids, they'll just sit in class and twiddle their thumbs?" I don't know, I guess it's impossible for them to help their classmates, or work on a project in class that uses their curiosity and also teaches their classmates something. <shrug> Guess we can't!

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I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Chris Ingraham@cingraham.bsky.social

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

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From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

Yes, the modern GOP doesn’t hold any views that would fit into conservativism. I like regressive politics as a description although I’m not totally sold on it. Happy to hear alternatives.

Maggie McNeill@maggiemcneill.bsky.social

They're not "conservative"; it's just that Americans as a group are so stupid & ignorant they truly believe all political thought can be divided neatly into "liberal" (meaning "the platform of the US Democratic party") and "conservative" (meaning "the platform of the US Republican party").

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No fatalism please. A victory agaibst the odds over an authoritarian.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

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Sure, he can say this sort of thing as a candidate in a safe, blue, hippy state like Kansas...

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

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Musk said he restricted Starlink in Ukraine- causing fast moving drones to lose connectivity - and that he had every right to do so because of some terms of service or contract that he didn't show us. (He didn't address suddenly doing this with no warning to Kyiv.) www.cnbc.com/2026/10/24/u...

cnbc.comAfter SpaceX restores high-speed service, Musk claims Ukraine violated Starlink agreementUkraine says restrictions on Starlink and Starshield have been lifted, restoring connectivity to fast-moving military systems after disruptions.

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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

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Catholic Bishops, from a church notorious for raping children without consent, prays with a president also notorious for raping children without consent, get touchy about the White House posting a video of the event [checks notes] without consent.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Christopher Hale: Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee apologized on Sunday for praying over President Trump in the Oval Office last week, and he accused the White House of posting video of the prayer without the bishops’ consent

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Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

newsfromthestates.comColorado priest from Uganda released after 13 months in ICE detention in AuroraAfter 13 months in an Aurora immigrant detention center, where he became reliant on a wheelchair as his health deteriorated, a Ugandan priest who has lived in Colorado for more than 25 years was relea...

This 👇 is key. These people are inherently evil and don’t deserve to walk among decent people or breathe the same air as us. Just because they are in positions of power doesn’t mean they deserve anything less than someone who commits 1st degree murder.

Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social

Far more of us than we'd care to admit are basically Schielke, but the Stroops are real, they don't look like stereotypical villains (Stroop's a pretty pathetic figure), and they're never, ever going to be brought around to understanding the evil inherent in their actions.

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Been reading about a lot of very bad but entirely ordinary people throughout history for the next season of Past Lives (Everyday Villains). This guy is utterly typical. 1) Doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. 2) Permission structure in a system of hierarchical authority. 3) Benefits materially.

Francesca D'Annunzio@francescadnunz.bsky.social

You can read the full story here (w/ @propublica.org + @nytmag.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/m...