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Unusual Whales

@unusualwhales.bsky.social

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand.

You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls

RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

April 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He did not reason himself into his preoccupation with tariffs and can neither reason nor speak coherently about them. There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim — only the impulsive actions of a mad king, untethered from any responsibility to the nation or its people. For as much as the president’s apologists would like us to believe otherwise, Trump’s tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview.

The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance. His long history of scams, hostile litigation — not to mention his frequent refusal to pay contractors, lawyers, brokers and other people who were working for him — is evidence enough of the reality that a deal with Trump is less an agreement between equals than an opportunity for Trump to abuse and exploit the other party for his own benefit. For Trump, there is no such thing as a mutually beneficial relationship or a positive-sum outcome. In every interaction, no matter how trivial or insignificant, someone has to win and someone has to lose. And Trump, as we all know, is a winner.

April 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM

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Josh Marshall

@joshtpm.bsky.social

Sounds like the computer systems at Social Security Admin are starting to get kinda glitchy the more DOGE fiddles talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/situa...

Situation Getting Rocky at SSA

On Monday I did a series of posts about what SSI disability...

talkingpointsmemo.com

April 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM

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Ben Wikler

@benwikler.bsky.social

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

April 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM

jvhutch.bsky.social

@jvhutch.bsky.social

Scary stuff

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Mar 12

New: we've obtained a leaked list of the more than 200 sites, services, apps an ICE surveillance contractor monitors. Bluesky, OnlyFans, many more. Used to track targets. Highly relevant with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE. We've published the full list here: www.404media.co/the-200-site...

The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring

404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it an...

www.404media.co

March 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM

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Jonathan V. Last

@jvl.bsky.social

"America First" isn't about making America wealthier, safer, or more powerful.

It's about Donald Trump allying with dictators so that he can become one here, at home. www.thebulwark.com/p/america-fi...

‘America First’ Is a Lie

America has *always* been about putting America first. Trump’s “America First” movement is about something else entirely.

www.thebulwark.com

March 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM

jvhutch.bsky.social

@jvhutch.bsky.social

#icebreaker on the Hudson. Usually you can hear them grinding up the ice but the wind is too loud. Was kind of worried that it might blow my phone out of my hands.