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5 worst stock market crashes in US history: 1929 - Hoover 🔴 1987 - Reagan 🔴 2008 - Bush 🔴 2020 - Trump 🔴 2025 - Trump 🔴

Thieves get rich Saints get shot And god dont answer prayers alot (aaron sorkin)

The last time the US set tariffs this high, it was 1930 -- and it sparked a global trade war that caused international trade to PLUMMET. By 66%.

I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

"Is the light worth the candle?" 1850s gambling phrase by Michel de Montaigne, meaning, if you lose all your money gambling, you cant afford a candle

Hope a good nurse provided him with a urinal bottle...

"Victory has a thousand father's but defeat is an orphan". JFK said after bay of pigs fiasco

🔥 PETE ON HEGSETH-GATE: “An epic fuck-up… these are not serious people… if there are no consequences, all the bluster from Trump about merit was bullshit… we deserve so much better…”

GSK is studying a large group of elderly adults to determine if its blockbuster shingles vaccine reduces the risk of dementia.

Walz on Musk getting briefed on China war plans: "I don't understand -- where are the Republicans? Where are the Lindsey Grahams?"

Remember: whatever happens from here on out the Dems who vote for this GOP budget are complicit. Because they willingly surrendered the power they had to stop it. The idea that allowing what’s been happening the last two months to continue is a way to avoid “blame” is madness

Musk is blaming "Herbert Sandler," among others, for secretly financing the protests and Tesla dealerships over the last few weeks. Sandler died in 2019.

To be clear: a tariff is a tax.

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If Twitter stops working, people can’t tweet. When government services break down, people can die.

Supreme court rejects Trump on USAID foreign-aid freeze

!! Also, this was way too close.

We'll say it again: No, 150-year-olds are not collecting Social Security benefits. #SOTU www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Warren Buffett, the famed investor who runs the sprawling conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, described tariffs as “an act of war” in an interview with CBS.

Key takeaway from DOGE: There’s less government fraud/waste than expected.

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help

The whole republican party is a cancer ... ironic that trump and musk are ending cancer research

Yes

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

Prominent appellate lawyer and Donald Trump critic Neal Katyal has joined a lawsuit challenging the Republican president's effort to remove the head of a key agency that hears cases brought by federal government workers who are fired or disciplined @mikescarcella.bsky.social reut.rs/4i7b4HH

Pushback made a difference here. In the face of loud "concerns from lawmakers and veterans advocates over the impact of the hiring freeze" the new admin scaled back its initial assault on the V.A.... cc @rieckhoff.bsky.social www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...

One of the driving principles of the second Trump administration is affirmative action for mediocre white men

The U.S. will reach its debt limit on Tuesday, January 21, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. To prevent a breach and a potentially catastrophic default, the Treasury will begin taking "extraordinary measures" to buy time. How will this standoff impact markets and the economy? 🤔 #Economy

Jesus Is My Health Insurance theonion.com/jesus-i...