Batman John
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Batman John
@batmanjohn.bsky.social
Not to be confused with the other, less talented, bat person

Tech + Finance
It sounds like the tech CEOs have more sway here than the immigration hardliners (Miller/Vance). Or maybe he's just a sucker for something he can charge a price for ($100k H1B fee)

TRUMP: You have to bring in talent

INGRAHAM: Well, we have plenty of talented people in America

TRUMP: No you don't. No.

INGRAHAM: We don't have talented people here?
November 12, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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the president of the united states, for some reason apparently:
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
AI profitability worries are OVER.

Next stop: A financed Blackwell GPU for every household!
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
At what point does the asset-based economy just become the Mag7-based economy $QQQ
Still could be $RSP's worst day vs $QQQ since April 9.

Very close here.
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Still could be $RSP's worst day vs $QQQ since April 9.

Very close here.
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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I was curious about whether this might end up as an implied directive to governors to use their own pardon power on the state-level convictions, but it looks like it can't/won't happen...

- AZ has a D governor (Hobbs)
- GA has a R governor, but the governor doesn't have pardon power
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 AM
2024 analysis is complicated, but I agree looking forward

Autocracy doesn't need broad support to survive if it can de-mobilize and de-motivate opposition. In 2026 + 2028 voters need to have faith that dems will fight for them. "Both parties suck" and cynicism will be easier for the GOP to exploit
I’m already seeing people insist that even with this capitulation the Democrats will still sweep 2026 because Trump is that bad. It was precisely that attitude that gave us 2024.
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.

Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.

Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
"This legislation will protect federal workers from baseless firings"

No?? IMO they're even more vulnerable
1) Trump/Vought are already flouting the law on RIFs
2) Now the GOP will see RIFs as bargaining chip, not as a political liability

Terminal lack of self-preservation by some of these dems
“Um well there aren’t even any Senate Dem Press releases saying they support the deal”

Sen Tim Kaine: Hold my beer
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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This seems significant
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I know the senate whip is not that strong, but it seems wild that there are 8 dem votes *and* leadership is a no *and* the politics have been playing very well for dems in the past week (GOP in hot water; big sweeps for dems in elections)
*SCHUMER SAYS HE IS VOTING 'NO' ON GOP BILL
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Replace the ATCs who stopped getting paid last week with ATCs who will stop getting paid next week, lol
Sean Duffy: "The secretary of war texted me yesterday and said, 'I might have some air traffic controllers. If you could use them, I'm gonna offer them to you.' I don't know that I can, Jake, because they're not certified in the airspaces that we need them. But if I can, I'm going to use them."
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Don’t know if it even made the news outside Ukraine.

Three combined heat and power plants fully stopped working after last night’s enormous attack. Unclear if anything can be fixed, millions of people are completely without electricity, heating or running water. Before winter.
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Republicans seem to think that the norms created by the social contract are just sort of a immutable laws of nature and that therefore, tearing up the social contract will have no negative consequences for them, and I am, very much not looking forward to that thesis being tested
I think we're genuinely flirting with a societal rupture and I'm not sure I want to experience that
AHAHA SUPREME COURT SAYS TOUCH THE STOVE
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
My prior here is the admin needs to mitigate any tech stock downturn out of political necessity (asset-based economy ftw). So they're getting the worst of both worlds...

1. Increased the likelihood of apid selloff due to higher (perceived) risk
2. Clear flip-flopping when the eventual bailout comes
November 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Interesting poll from YouGov: more impacted by shutdown = more blame tilted GOP

I can see this creating havoc in the GOP between "materially affected by Trump's policies" vs. "politics is just a game", esp. since power holders are more likely to be the latter

today.yougov.com/politics/art...
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
We should all know better than to trust a news clip that wasn't from @atrupar.com or @acyn.bsky.social
This is a parody account. This is not a real quote.

Stop sharing it.

And if you say, "well, it's ok because it might as well be real," I will block you.
November 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I think we're fortunate that DOT is at least reducing traffic and not playing hardball with the controllers ala Reagan in 1981.

Ground stops are annoying but "temporarily filled with .... some non-rated personnel" is frightening

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profess...
November 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Some interesting price action today, SPX dumping at the close even with a significant positive MOC. No insights here, just an interesting observation vs. what I'm used to seeing.
October 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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mariners
October 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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We have to worry once they have profits because then you can value them
October 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Long time listener, first time poster. Glad to join the community so I can bond with others, specifically about Modelo! Drinking Modelo! Buying Modelo! Creating a shrine in my closet to ask Modelo to forgive me for my mortal sinful form! Anyways, nice to meet you Bluesky!
October 12, 2025 at 2:27 AM