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George Pearkes
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No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | QCR: Non Culto, For The Crown | American via Canada, not Scottish. *ALL CAPS HEADLINES LIKE THIS ARE FROM BLOOMBERG 📍 CLT
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George Pearkes @peark.es · Sep 5
NORMAL MEN HOUSEKEEPING NOTE

We're doing some stuff behind the scenes, but it shouldn't impact your feed. If you have any issues accessing episodes, let us know. You shouldn't have to re-subscribe or anything, but if you need to here's the link.

New ep should be out as usual middle of next week.
Normal Men Podcast | Free Listening on Podbean App
Normal Men is four guys talking about the news. We want to help explain what's happening in the world around us and have some laughs along the way. And we think
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 5h
Im sorry im sorry im trying to delete it
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 6h
Levitating
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 6h
One would think!
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 6h
I was torn because monetizing crypto is just SO easy. Anyhow, bad scene regardless.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 6h
One would think, yes, but Gorsuch got all hot and bothered because lower courts were continuing to follow precedent from full opinions rather than the shadow docket! It was totally ridiculous nonsense!
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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 6h
So I was wrong to assume Treasury can "give" The Fed its SDR

According to ESF's account, the process is ESF pledging SDR with the Fed and get the cash USD to use
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 7h
Did not know this about Old Bay
The origins of the company can be traced back to Wertheim, Germany, where Brunn started a wholesale spice and seasoning business selling to food industries, seeing an opportunity as spices were in especially short supply amidst hyperinflation in the aftermath of World War I. 9] Due to rising antisemitism as the Nazi Party rose to power, the company moved to Frankfurt, Germany; 1°1 however, on the night of November 9, 1938, a massive pogrom against Jews, known as Kristallnacht, led to Brunn being arrested by Nazi soldiers and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. " According to Brunn's son, Gustav's wife paid a large sum of money to a lawyer for him to be released; as they had already applied for and received American visas, they were able to escape with their two children to New York City and later Baltimore, Maryland, where Brunn had family.!'! There, having brought with him only a small spice grinder, 8! Brunn founded the Baltimore Spice Company and produced the "Delicious Brand Shrimp and Crab Seasoning", which was later renamed Old Bay. 12[13]
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 6h
That would have been my second guess.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 6h
*nods knowingly* crypto, got it.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 6h
One of her colleagues had a little hissy fit because lower courts were not adhering to shadow docket rulings, so clearly these clowns need to get their messaging straight.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
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Urban Carmel @ukarlewitz.bsky.social · 6h
Here’s a good chart from Bespoke of how the current period is like 1997, and how it got significantly more euphoric in the years ahead. Don’t mistake this for an analogue
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 6h
aTm , where we at on them
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Jake 🐍 @jakesnakeemoji.bsky.social · 6h
🚨 College Football Fraud Alert Update 🚨

Confirmed Fraud: Penn State, Clemson, Florida

No teams currently on Fraud Warning

Fraud Watch: Notre Dame, SEC Officiating
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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 6h
Man I skipped right past all that and had a delightful time imagining going to temple where everybody speaks Cajun
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 6h
Yes but also what is this about?
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 7h
Risk aversion! Name recognition! Institutional inertia!
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 9h
And finally reprogramming requires there to be a valid appropriation to transfer the funds into. There is no FY26 MILPERS (military pay appropriation) and FY25 MILPERS is expired (cannot legally do new obligations), hence why this is an illegal usurpation of Article I appropriation power
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 8h
Understand ≠ agree with
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 9h
Look I get why people would prefer Mills but I absolutely love this energy and I hope it gets rewarded. Incentives matter folks
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 11h
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10h
audio on for community whistling repelling ICE/BP from the scene
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 10h
ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 10h
right lol, it's wild to me people think this is not the case!
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 10h
Not at all lol. I am not saying Europeans should have the same memetic context as the US. I'm just noting a trend, not endorsing or condemning or judging it?
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 11h
tbc I am not saying nobody should wear Carhartt, I definitely am not even implying that.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 11h
That is basically what I'm saying yes.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 11h
Jael lmfao wow
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