Brian Portnoy
@bportnoy.bsky.social
Dad, husband, dog owner, entrepreneur, Steelers fan. Hoping this place is much better.
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What's absolutely wild about this is the way they've manufactured a global financial crisis for no reason at all. This isn't 2007-08, where it was a bubble bursting. This is taking a relatively thriving economy and deliberately destroying it in the first three months of your presidency.
April 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
What's absolutely wild about this is the way they've manufactured a global financial crisis for no reason at all. This isn't 2007-08, where it was a bubble bursting. This is taking a relatively thriving economy and deliberately destroying it in the first three months of your presidency.
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JPMorgan's David Kelly on tariffs: am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-...
March 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
JPMorgan's David Kelly on tariffs: am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-...
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Musk loves the pro-Nazi Afd party in Germany, praises criminal and racist Tommy Robinson, and loves the Nazi salute. That's fine. But according to him USAID which literally saves lives around the world is "evil" and a "criminal organization."
This is what you voted for, America.
This is what you voted for, America.
February 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Musk loves the pro-Nazi Afd party in Germany, praises criminal and racist Tommy Robinson, and loves the Nazi salute. That's fine. But according to him USAID which literally saves lives around the world is "evil" and a "criminal organization."
This is what you voted for, America.
This is what you voted for, America.
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1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
What's unfolding here is unbelievable.
Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …
February 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
What's unfolding here is unbelievable.
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This is heartbreaking and that is the point. Create as much chaos and misery as possible while creating a huge purse of $ to try and plunder.
February 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is heartbreaking and that is the point. Create as much chaos and misery as possible while creating a huge purse of $ to try and plunder.
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BREAKING: Latest horror a distraction from many other horrors
January 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
BREAKING: Latest horror a distraction from many other horrors
Such a dark day.
Trump now has his brownshirts.
January 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Such a dark day.
No healthy republic operates this way.
January 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
No healthy republic operates this way.
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Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
January 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
Make America Grift Again
January 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Make America Grift Again
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it is *wild* how a primary effect of unspendable wealth can be making someone incomprehensibly thin-skinned
January 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
it is *wild* how a primary effect of unspendable wealth can be making someone incomprehensibly thin-skinned
This.
i am watching clips from the hegseth hearings and it is a goddamn insult
to this country that this chucklefuck was even nominated
to this country that this chucklefuck was even nominated
January 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This.
Between Landman, Lioness, and The Agency, Paramount+ has quickly captured some of my mindshare.
January 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Between Landman, Lioness, and The Agency, Paramount+ has quickly captured some of my mindshare.
Brad Jacobs' How to Make Few Billion Dollars is not shy on imagination.
January 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Brad Jacobs' How to Make Few Billion Dollars is not shy on imagination.
I don't understand the point of having fuck you money if you never say fuck you.
January 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I don't understand the point of having fuck you money if you never say fuck you.
Lioness season 2. Wow.
January 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Lioness season 2. Wow.
Cry more. If you want client assets, be better at your job.
January 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Cry more. If you want client assets, be better at your job.
And away we go.... #2025
January 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
And away we go.... #2025
The circling back has begun and it's as rough as advertised.
January 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The circling back has begun and it's as rough as advertised.
The left keeps waiting for, is desperate for, the "Wait until they see" moment. It's not going to happen. There is no level of cognitive dissonance that will shock cultists out of the cult. That's just not how cults work. We're 10 years into this and few seem to have learned.
He sold myriad, and often conflicting, fantasies to voters. In three weeks’ time, he’ll face reality. And many Trump voters will undoubtedly start to realize that he is not at all the person they thought they were voting for.
Trump Voters Are in for a Rude Awakening
He sold them countless, often conflicting fantasies. In 2025, he’ll face political reality.
newrepublic.com
January 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The left keeps waiting for, is desperate for, the "Wait until they see" moment. It's not going to happen. There is no level of cognitive dissonance that will shock cultists out of the cult. That's just not how cults work. We're 10 years into this and few seem to have learned.
Honestly, what a pathetic man.
Niall Ferguson completes his "Never Trumper on 1/6 to MAGA intellectual soldier" journey
-Says Trump had "genuine belief" in Big Lie
-Spreads innuendo that security failure "doesn’t look entirely accidental" — aka, a set-up
-Calls Jan. 6 a "theatrical event," ignores months-long self-coup attempt
-Says Trump had "genuine belief" in Big Lie
-Spreads innuendo that security failure "doesn’t look entirely accidental" — aka, a set-up
-Calls Jan. 6 a "theatrical event," ignores months-long self-coup attempt
January 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Honestly, what a pathetic man.
On this quietest of Friday afternoons, I'm going to avoid a rant but ... If your idea of “behavioral finance” is to list a bunch of “biases” and speculate how you might fix them in others, you're working from an old and mostly useless playbook. This is about the nicest I can be on this topic.
January 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
On this quietest of Friday afternoons, I'm going to avoid a rant but ... If your idea of “behavioral finance” is to list a bunch of “biases” and speculate how you might fix them in others, you're working from an old and mostly useless playbook. This is about the nicest I can be on this topic.