frank
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Biden handed it back to Trump with this move alone. never forgive or forget
I 💯 unironically believe the SVB bailout played a major factor in getting the US into the current mess it finds itself in
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Biden handed it back to Trump with this move alone. never forgive or forget
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Did, uh, anyone notice that when Carville claims in his NYT piece that “defund the police” was bad that the link takes you to an Appeal story about why ”fund the police“ was bad? Any editors, perhaps?
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Did, uh, anyone notice that when Carville claims in his NYT piece that “defund the police” was bad that the link takes you to an Appeal story about why ”fund the police“ was bad? Any editors, perhaps?
buying tech stocks is just diet meme stock investing at this point. I'm honestly kinda aghast at even the exposure in index funds at this point
7 trillion-dollar stocks, the “Magnificent Seven”
Alphabet,
Amazon,
Apple,
Meta,
Microsoft,
Nvidia and
Tesla
are powering the market’s gains. Economists are raising concerns about the rest of the companies
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Alphabet,
Amazon,
Apple,
Meta,
Microsoft,
Nvidia and
Tesla
are powering the market’s gains. Economists are raising concerns about the rest of the companies
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
buying tech stocks is just diet meme stock investing at this point. I'm honestly kinda aghast at even the exposure in index funds at this point
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Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.
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NVIDIA has had the excellent luck to wind up in a market position where it just fucking prints money, and they're on the verge of squandering it out of FOMO and market mania.
Hello! One of Enron's incredibly junior investment bankers here. One thing we discussed a lot at the time is that we couldn't trace the business model of the company due to its Byzantine accounting structure. But Enron was so high flying on Wall Street, we assumed we were missing something.
it's happening dot gif
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
NVIDIA has had the excellent luck to wind up in a market position where it just fucking prints money, and they're on the verge of squandering it out of FOMO and market mania.
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
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One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
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👀 Alex Vitale is a sociologist who wrote a very good book called The End of Policing.
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
👀 Alex Vitale is a sociologist who wrote a very good book called The End of Policing.
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good work guys you picked a fight in which Dems can stand up out of their permanent defensive crouch and go “our guy is a fucking astronaut and you’re an alcoholic tv host”
Gallego to Hegseth: "You will never ever be half the man that Sen. Kelly is. You, sir, are a coward. And the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are. I can't wait until you are no longer the secretary of defense."
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
good work guys you picked a fight in which Dems can stand up out of their permanent defensive crouch and go “our guy is a fucking astronaut and you’re an alcoholic tv host”
exactly. just like the journalists, politicians are apparently too in the weeds (nicest possibly interpretation) to see the insanity of the whole situation
...were generally trapped in Democratic-critical / both sides media hell, which is a problem that is totally unaddressed in the book. Like the idea that the media ecosystem is this way is taken for granted among most elite politicians because they're the ones who go on TV.
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
exactly. just like the journalists, politicians are apparently too in the weeds (nicest possibly interpretation) to see the insanity of the whole situation
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Whew buddy. "Capitalist" should be in the DSM.
Rand Paul: "What is the Republican plan for healthcare? My plan would allow for people to buy their insurance through a collective. Basically to buy their insurance through Costco or Sam's Club or Amazon."
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Whew buddy. "Capitalist" should be in the DSM.
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I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
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Abolishing ICE is only the beginning. Have you looked at your local cops?
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According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.
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According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Abolishing ICE is only the beginning. Have you looked at your local cops?
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According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.
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According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.
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It's almost certainly unintentional but I love that the video starts in front of the AMC Empire 25, which in its original iteration 113 years ago was the Eltinge Theatre after renowned vaudeville/Broadway "female impersonator" (i.e., flamboyant drag performer and queer heartthrob) Julian Eltinge.
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It's almost certainly unintentional but I love that the video starts in front of the AMC Empire 25, which in its original iteration 113 years ago was the Eltinge Theatre after renowned vaudeville/Broadway "female impersonator" (i.e., flamboyant drag performer and queer heartthrob) Julian Eltinge.
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I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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Gaza today from my camera
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Gaza today from my camera
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it's happening dot gif
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
it's happening dot gif
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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The billionaires' paper has thoughts about how us peasants should feel about capitalism
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The billionaires' paper has thoughts about how us peasants should feel about capitalism
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Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
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Saying this but to a computer
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Saying this but to a computer