Kelly H

So much for “de-levering the public sector.” 🤡

@washingtonpost.com
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“.. Here's a fun fact: The United States now has fewer manufacturing jobs today (12.573M) than it did in March 2018 (12.576M) when Trump first started his tariff wars:”

- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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Credit derivative default swaps are baaack….

Kolanovic.

The coverup is failing. What happens when other countries start interviewing witnesses the FBI has poorly tried to hide?

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Family demands answers after US citizen detained at O'Hare Airport, held for more than 30 hours. 28 yr old woman born and raised in IL, illegally held, kidnapped inexplicably to WI by ICE. There are no explanations being offered. We have thugs running ICE, operating outside the laws.

Last 14 months of Biden's term:

+1.74m jobs

First 14 months of Trump's term:

150,000 jobs

(total! for the whole 14 months!)

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The U.S. economy lost jobs in 0 of the 48 months Joe Biden was president. It has lost jobs in 6 of the 14 months of Trump's second term.

I have spoken to two people now who have told me that only part of their FBI interviews are in the released files, and the parts of their interviews that are missing include mentions of Trump. 1/

can’t be more crazy….

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The Fashionable Notion of 'Free Speech Culture' Is Justifying State Censorship, Ironically It'll convince people that free speech is a sham

Donald Trump and Elon Musk decried "cancel culture" while building machinery for state censorship. Far too many "free speech defenders" fell for it.

Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions — The Wall Street Journal Justice Department plans to withdraw appeals defending punitive executive orders issued by the president, people familiar with the matter said

well done, everyone. huge white collar firms folded for nothing.

really says something when the only positive news in America is that the president has a rash that looks like a Men in Black alien is almost ready to split from his skin

I guess I’m fine with online games like Candy Crush, but payday loans, reverse mortgages, personal injury lawyers would be a hard pass

It is remarkable that the general state of things is:

1) creators whose work was stolen to train AI have no rights
2) users who create with AI have no rights in the output
3) the AI companies have full rights to everything they want, including user prompts

I dunno, sounds wrong and untenable.

Trump Humiliated as Epstein ‘Walk of Shame’ Pops Up Near White House — The Daily Beast Stickers include QR codes that link back to the Epstein files.

Someone turned Farragut Square into an Epstein ‘Walk of Shame Hollywood-style stars with QR codes linking to DOJ files, placed 5 minutes from the White House. Except the stars have Jeffrey Epstein’s face on them. And QR codes linking to DOJ documents.

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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OpenAl and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a multi-year strategic partnership to accelerate Al innovation for enterprises, startups, and end consumers around the world. Amazon will also invest $50 billion in OpenAl, starting with an initial $15 billion investment and followed by another $35 billion in the coming months when certain conditions are met.

OpenAI announcing “$110 billion” in new funding, leaving out that $35 billion of Amazon’s $50 billion is contingent on an IPO, and the $30 billion each from SoftBank and NVIDIA is paid in installments. Anyone reporting this as fully closed is wrong. It’ll happen anyway.
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States Can Block the Paramount-Warner Deal - The American Prospect But thanks to some clever maneuvering, they are already running out of time.

"Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal," said California AG Rob Bonta last night. But he'll have to act fast, as Paramount's merger shepherds want to rapidly close the merger and commingle assets before states have a chance to challenge it. Up-to-the minute news on this terrible merger, from me:

lol the media got Biden pushed out over far less bad data….

Michael Burry warns that Nvidia $NVDA earnings report reminds him of Cisco $CSCO at the peak of the Dot Com Bubble 🚨🚨🚨

And this is why the Trump governing regime only works for billionaires. They can afford it after their tariff refunds while the rest of us are out about $1700 since they were implemented

Jon Stewart on MAGA’s deranged Olympic victory lap after Team USA beat Canada

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is “feared.”

F.B.I. Director Celebrates Hockey Victory as Bureau Stares Down Crises

5. Sunday’s episode was only one instance of a larger pattern of lawlessness that's getting so big that the Times noted that Patel has “shown little willingness to curb or even conceal his jet-setting."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...

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