Marcelo Martinelli

Let me just save us all hours and say that nothing any of us are proposing here - including me - will likely happen in the next decade or longer, so if you want to defeat Trumpism, you're gonna have to understand, and use, the system that's in place.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Reagan was like Joe Free Trade. He and Thatcher are the avatars of the neoclassical economics resurgence, trade liberalization, etc. good or bad this is pure reality. The idea that this conversation is even happening shows how much we’re in the mad king 2+2=7 world.

The MAGA Media Takeover Trump and his powerful friends are creating a dangerous moment for free speech.

With TikTok’s potential sale to a group of Donald Trump allies, “we should be far less worried about what foreign governments could do with our social-media information than about how our own government might abuse it,” David Karpf argues.

It's remarkable how one man and his followers have ruined so much of America. Absolutely jarring.

Only the best people.

when team no fight / centrist dems lose Ezra Klein ….

Powell called out Trump for making stuff up to smear him

"I'm not aware of that, Mr President. I haven't heard that from anybody at the Fed. You just added in a third building is what that is. No, it was built five years ago. We finished it five years ago. It's not new."

WATCH: “Denying it will not stop it.”

Genocide scholar (and former IDF soldier) Omer Bartov on why he wrote his “Never Again” NYT piece

Sadly the people who most need to watch this whole thing won’t. But we sure will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...

(Mehdi is not the one you want to bring the weak sauce to)

YouTube video by Press Box Chronicles with Jeff Pearlman How Anabolic Steroids usage led one man to Brain Cancer: The story of former NFL lineman Lyle Alzado

I honestly questioned whether Press Box Chronicles would work. But we're about to hit 25k subs. So ... hey. And I deserve 0 credit--wasn't my idea. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQrG...

Tom Brady is with Trump today.
A good reminder: Brady is a douche.

We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

Jamie Dimon Says Private Credit Is Dangerous—and He Wants JPMorgan to Get In on It The bank put $50 billion toward lending to riskier companies to compete with nonbank giants dominating the market. The Walgreens deal was the payoff.

www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

America Thirst Welcome to the era of Trump-branded globalism.

NEW from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social — "Epstein and Trump: What We Know"

A seminal read in @thebulwark.com Morning Shots: www.thebulwark.com/p/america-th...

Trump’s Foreign Policy: Felons First The pattern is clear—he’s using American power not to help Americans but to shield foreign authoritarians from justice.

Bolsonaro. Le Pen. Putin. Netanyahu. Bukele. MBS.

Why does Trump tell other countries — and ours — to go easy on authoritarian lawbreakers, defendants, and criminal suspects?

Because he’s a criminal himself. He’s using American power not to serve Americans, but to protect his fellow scoundrels.

CNBC: What about using tariffs to modify some other country's behavior? What if people start doing that to us?

HASSETT: Look, the president has made clear there are a couple national emergencies


CNBC: What about Brazil?

HASSETT: Brazil has been transshipping Chinese goods

I have wondered for a long time which mattered more: reality, or the online perception of reality. If people whose children die still don't believe in vaccines, then we have the answer.

There is nothing serious about this.

It is simply not in any way serious or credible to fire a Fed chair over a building renovation. Period. Reporters should cover this for what it is—in your face politicization of US monetary policy. Then cover the ramifications for markets and the global economy like @colbylsmith.bsky.social did

Arguably the damage is done, no one stepping into the job as Fed Chair can be reasonably seen as independent

KARL: Does the president have the authority to fire the Fed chair?

HASSETT: That's a thing that's being looked into, but certainly if there's cause, he does

Holy shit -- Kevin Hassett completely bombs on ABC when pressed by Jon Karl to explain how Trump can possibly justify 50% tariffs on Brazil even though the country has a trade *deficit* with the US

Noem on a federal judge blocking the Trump administration from racially profiling: "Judges are getting political. It's not their job. I hope they can bring some dignity back to the bench, because we certainly are lacking it now from many of these federal judges."

Blue Georgia (@blueatlgeorgia) on Threads Tom Nichols: "Donald Trump ran, in order of importance, for three reasons: stay out of prison, get revenge on his enemies, enrich himself and the people around him by every means possible. Everything ...

Tom Nichols: "Donald Trump ran, in order of importance, for three reasons: stay out of prison, get revenge on his enemies, enrich himself and the people around him by every means possible. Everything else is just window dressing."

This is what Schedule F is for

Kathryn Bigelow's new film - "A House of Dynamite" - about a missile attack on the USA will drop in October.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

We're about to find out if "Get over it" from a trusted leader can pull people away from a conspiracy theory. I'm skeptical but you never know!

you don’t say

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

A lot of Trump’s appeal comes down to the fact that people whose lives are boring & mediocre because they aren’t particularly bright, talented, or motivated, would very much like to hear a story in which actually it’s someone else’s fault.