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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 15h

The timing would be horrible from the GOP perspective, it will look like they caved due to the popular pressure from the No Kings movement

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 16h

@peark.es how freaked out should I be about the possibility of shitty corporate bonds triggering a chain reaction of bank failures?

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 17h

These corporate bond collapses spook the shit out of me. There is so, so, so much bad corporate debt on the books and the possibility of a rapid series of bank and hedge fund collapses is frighteningly plausible.

Jesse Felder @jessefelder.bsky.social · 17h

From Tricolor to Saks, Bonds Are Now Crashing at Breakneck Speed www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 17h

The messaging from the organizers has been stressing peaceful protest. Maybe the Bessent/Duffy/vizier crowd just see it as an opportune TV hit topic to jockey for position with some virtue signaling towards Trump's grievances/insecurities. He's traveling so he's gonna be watching a lot of Fox.

Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 17h

Duffy screeching about it too. They're spooked.

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 17h

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own bunker, who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves.'

The techbros will be the first to be torn to pieces by mobs if society collapses

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 17h

Columbus wasn’t the hero we all learned about in elementary school.

He enslaved Native people.

He ordered brutal crackdowns on Native people, having them killed + their dismembered bodies paraded through the streets.

He brought diseases to the U.S. that devastated Native communities.

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

This is a question for @schnorkles.bsky.social if i've ever seen one

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

CALLING ALL INTELLECTUALS: would Jay Jay the Jet Plane be a drone if you gave him a lobotomy

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

if you gave Jay Jay the Jet Plane a lobotomy, I’m pretty sure that would make him into a drone

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

until we get a good livestock vaccine (i.e. 18 months into next Dem admin minimum) we're going to have big seasonal swings in egg + poultry meat prices as avian flu wipes out flocks late summer during wild fowl migrations.

After a summer respite, bird flu is back

Bird flu is spreading again as water fowl migrate. In poultry, cases are spiking earlier than expected, so some state officials are bracing for a challenging autumn.

www.nbcnews.com

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

This is going to intensify and not lessen as we move into winter (post-harvest + seasonal livestock illnesses) w/tariffs still in place. Avian flu levels are spiking unexpectedly hard, we're back at or above the levels we saw during the big outbreak in 2024. Get ready for $8/dozen egg prices again!

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

The inability to model a system in a manner that allows you to predict observed outcomes a priori doesn't negate the empirical evidence that the outcome occurred Will!

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

THEN DON'T ENTER A STAY THAT ALTERS THE STATUS QUO, YOU FUCKING MEDDLER

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

When do we get to reclassify transphobia as moldy brain disease?

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 2d

"According to the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump once joked in a closed-door meeting that 'if it were up to [Stephen] Miller, there’d only be 100 million people in this country, and they’d all look like Miller.'"

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Who belongs in Trump's America?

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 2d

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 2d

2 years of funds available? There's only $100 billion of R&D money in DOD's 2025 budget and $265 billion of salary.

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 2d

What the fuck is this unintelligible gibberish even supposed to mean?

TrumpReposter @trumpreposter.bsky.social · 2d

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 3d

So, uh, the congestive heart failure speculation is seeming like a spot on bet.

Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

reut.rs

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 3d

The Democratic instinct to habitually adopt the most unpopular positions of their opponents will never cease to amaze.

Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 3d

a man in a military uniform stands at a podium in front of a group of people

ALT: a man in a military uniform stands at a podium in front of a group of people

media.tenor.com

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 3d

TBH a small, crazy part of me hopes that the Republicans WILL eventually kills the filibuster, because the Democrats are too timid to ever do it.

The only way we will ever see the Legislature reclaim its powers as a co-equal branch will be if the Republicans kills the Senate filibuster

Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 3d

Grapefruit juice my friend

Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 3d

Can Thune tell me where to find these Dems? they sound way better than the lot we have now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 3d

Abolishing ICE isn't sufficient at this point. The entire DHS needs to be congressionally dismantled and its functions distributed to appropriate departments

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 3d

Generally speaking I think the entire apparatus of DHS needs to be rethought, though I would prefer it not to happen under this particular administration for obvious reasons.

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 4d

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