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#Shutdown
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@lazylife.bsky.social
Realtor/Investor. Here & Threads searching for the old FinTwit community. Anti-Big Orange. Fan of democracy, sarcasm, humor, and Philly sports. Just waiting for the MAGA schadenfreude show to begin.
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#Shutdown
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Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?
01.10.2025 20:30 β π 23640 π 8047 π¬ 1733 π 594Keep talking, Howard, keep talking.
01.10.2025 22:22 β π 12074 π 3986 π¬ 443 π 180DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files.
My team has now filed motions to defend voters in 7 of those cases in ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OR and PA.
I suggest that DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining one in CA.
#RyderCup
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Prince releases βPurple Rainβ as a single 41 years ago today β originally recorded live in Minneapolis, βthough at the time we didnβt know that was the plan,β said keyboardist Lisa Coleman.
βPrince was really excited and kept pumping us up: βWeβre making history tonight.β It all makes sense now.β
Insanity
27.09.2025 03:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Xi ain't gonna allow Trump to give gifts to his cronies for free. He's gonna make Trump pay up. Problem is it's our money Trump pays up with.
19.09.2025 15:49 β π 135 π 27 π¬ 3 π 2This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.
19.09.2025 11:27 β π 14750 π 6067 π¬ 878 π 428NEW: The court rules that Lisa Cook can stay on as a governor as her case against Trump trying to fire her is being litigated. The judge says that "for cause" applies to behavior while in office and that Cook's right to due process was violated
10.09.2025 01:59 β π 406 π 68 π¬ 8 π 4* NATO'S RUTTE: VIOLATION BY RUSSIA OF POLAND'S AIRSPACE LAST NIGHT IS NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT
* NATO'S RUTTE: IT WAS 'ABSOLUTELY RECKLESS' BY RUSSIA
* NATO'S RUTTE: WE ARE VIGILANT AND WILL DEFEND EVERY INCH OF NATO TERRITORY
@reuters.com
To boldly go where no man has gone before - delight in differences in ideas!!
We could just shoot for tolerate at this point.
Trump said crime in Washington, D.C., would be nonexistent if local authorities stopped counting "a little fight with the wife."
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
β.. prosecutors in the Jan. 6 case said that Packer has been a βhabitual criminal offender for 25 years with 21 convictions for mostly drunk driving, but also for larceny, drug possession, and forgery.ββ
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Stanley Druckenmiller (Duquesne family office) just filed their new 13F.
They sold out of their Tesla $TSLA position, added $SPY and $IWM calls.
Can see full activity at the link: unusualwhales.com/institutions...
β.. Roughly a quarter of all Bitcoins are now protected with algorithms that could be cracked by quantum computers in five or 10 years ..β
@barrons.com
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YOU WERE RIGHT. THE FIELD TRIP TO THE FED WAS A DISASTER. POWELL SKEWERED ME ON BAD INFORMATION TIM SCOTT GAVE ME.
24.07.2025 20:45 β π 802 π 96 π¬ 4 π 4The S&P 500's rebound from April is now 26%, a move so extreme it's divided consumer sentiment in half - if you own stocks (top 30% of households), confidence is back. If you don't, sentiment is at the lows of '22.
When people say "the consumer" is doing this or that, ask "which consumer?"
FYI - your mic is on the fritz on Halftime
11.07.2025 16:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0All of a sudden the pro wrestling fans are no longer interested in the Epstein files. Like, all at once. Interesting.
11.07.2025 01:14 β π 109 π 12 π¬ 12 π 3The at home assassination of a state lawmaker should be getting a bigger reaction from the President than someone throwing a rock at a Tesla dealership.
19.06.2025 19:23 β π 25612 π 5895 π¬ 583 π 192It should be illegal for law enforcement to wear masks and not show ID.
This makes it too easy to impersonate law enforcement and murder people in their homes.
COIN PLTR AMZN were all primary sponsors of Trumpβs parade. Consumers should be informed these companies are actively supporting Trumpβs nonsense.
(Along with a bunch of defense contractors, USAA, and of course UFC/Dana White)
The most consequential Speaker in state history.
15.06.2025 13:24 β π 39176 π 5201 π¬ 786 π 222We've had an unprecedented amount of use of the term unprecedented through the Trump era.
15.06.2025 18:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just some patriotic Americans exercising their 1st Amendment rights in San Jose.
14.06.2025 22:59 β π 125 π 17 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you for your attention to this matter! #NoKings
15.06.2025 15:14 β π 19018 π 4464 π¬ 336 π 206Rep. Seth Moulton: "Speaking as a veteran, I have to tell you the Marines don't want to be [in LA]. No one signs up to join the USMC to go against Americans on the streets of an American city....That's not why you sign up to serve the country."
15.06.2025 15:46 β π 3060 π 635 π¬ 67 π 25