📚 BAMBI ✌🏻

FYI: Elmo’s grok is now broke!

Wild recklessness.

Bitch yes u have

Powell's press conference is more consequential than usual:
1. December rate cut may not happen
2. The FOMC is divided ("strongly differing views")
3. Powell very worried—about both inflation and unemployment.

Stocks are falling, bond yields rising, as he speaks.

I honestly have no idea why people continue to report his big announcements when they always turn out to be bs.

How Will You Know That America Has Become a Dictatorship? After 20 Years Living in One, I Can Tell You. Much of the country is afraid: afraid of the government. Afraid of their fellow citizens. Afraid U.S. laws will no longer protect them.

Much of America is afraid. Afraid of the government. Afraid of their fellow citizens. Afraid America’s legal and judicial institutions will no longer protect them. If Americans don't wake up, organize, and fight harder to defend the rule of law, we'll find ourselves living in an authoritarian system

Grok is broken Carl —>

Indicting Democratic candidates on transparently pretextual charges is the latest sign that things are getting very bad.

After Unusual Machines Names Donald Trump Jr. To New Advisory Board, Defense Contracts Follow Donald Trump Jr. once mocked Hunter Biden's "no-show no-experience board seats." Now he's on his second newly activated advisory board—and that company just announced $15 million in contracts.

Donald Trump Jr. in 2021: “Those Hunter no-show no-experience board seats didn’t come without an expected return!”

Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it.

New: me, for @forbes.com

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“.. A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states .. to form ‘quick reaction forces’ trained in ‘riot control’, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray, according to an internal Pentagon directive ..”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Kinda NAZI-like

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

Corruption moves on …

The US Justice Department placed two prosecutors on leave, hours after they referred to Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, as 'a mob of rioters' in a sentencing memo, said four people familiar with the matter reut.rs/4nxtNOi

Trump Is Demolishing Four Pillars of American Power By rejecting the lessons of the previous century, the president has undermined America’s advantage over China and Russia.

Four pillars of power helped the United States win the Cold War. The same pillars will almost certainly determine whether China or America wins today’s power competition—but instead of bolstering them, “Trump is bulldozing them,” Michael McFaul argues.

So much for peace 😢

Peace deal going great! 🙄

Brazilian farmers beef up soybean production as China halts business with US during trade fight Brazilian farmers are increasing soybean production as the U.S. and China engage in a trade fight. The conflict has shut American soybeans out of the Chinese market, leading China to seek more Brazilian supply.

Brazilian farmers are increasing soybean production as the U.S. and China engage in a trade fight.

Yawn!

The Trump administration is ripping away any support for children to eat, be educated or have healthcare. Yet they want more babies? Make it make sense!

It's just one of many things we'll have to do once we expel these people from power but overhauling the Hatch Act into something that actually matters will certainly be on the list.

Either that or every 4-8 years Government websites will turn into extensions of political parties.

Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

#ICYMI: We found that the FDA allowed 20+ foreign factories to continue to send certain medications to the U.S. even after those facilities were banned because of concerns about contamination and other breaches.

The agency kept the practice largely hidden from the public and Congress.

John Dickerson To Depart CBS News In First Major Talent Exit Under New Paramount Owners John Dickerson, co-anchor of CBS Evening News who has been with the network since 2009, said that he is exiting at the end of this year.

dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.

Brief exchange last night with a MAGA/former supporter of mine:

Him: “Hey Joe, Mamdani is now the face of your new party. So all you Democrats are a bunch of socialists.”

Me: “Ok. I’ll play. Trump is the face of your party. So all you Republicans are a bunch of fascists.”

Hurricane Melissa is now the strongest storm on the planet this year | CNN Melissa is about to deliver Jamaica its most devastating blow from a hurricane.

Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for coastal areas of Jamaica before landfall by Melissa, currently the strongest hurricane of 2025.

Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/3WYcbAd

Talked with someone today from the Salvation Army, who said they are bracing for this

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Even if you are leader of the free world, you don’t just get an MRI without a clear reason to do so.

There’s no such thing as a “screening” MRI.

Breaking down SNAP benefits by congressional district Thanks to the government shutdown, participants in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) are not expected to receive that aid next month. The effects of this could be dire; SNAP, ofte...

Was curious about the relationship between congressional district politics and SNAP recipients. While there are more households receiving SNAP in Harris-voting districts, there are more vulnerable people (kids, disabled and elderly) receiving them in Trump-voting ones. www.pbump.net/o/breaking-d...