Kai Ryssdal
@kairyssdal.bsky.social
Dad, husband, host @Marketplace. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran. kryssdal@marketplace.org
Wut?
Trump says that HBCUs would be "all be out of business" if fewer Chinese students were allowed to go to American universities
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Wut?
Spotted as we clean out the Marketplace offices before we move. Tells you how long we’ve been here.
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Spotted as we clean out the Marketplace offices before we move. Tells you how long we’ve been here.
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We are out here fighting over whether we should keep burning the atmosphere or if people should have enough food to eat, and meanwhile the spiders are learning to cooperate. You do not want the spiders to cooperate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We are out here fighting over whether we should keep burning the atmosphere or if people should have enough food to eat, and meanwhile the spiders are learning to cooperate. You do not want the spiders to cooperate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
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Still lots of slack in the Goon economy.
Rhodes: Trump should “call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing”
On The Gateway Pundit podcast, Stewart Rhodes announces he is relaunching the Oath Keepers
www.mediamatters.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Still lots of slack in the Goon economy.
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
Completely normal
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Completely normal
Think about it…
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Think about it…
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CNBC/NRF Retail Monitor
Retail sales strengthened in October as consumers prepared for the holidays.
Total retail sales increased 0.6% from September and 5% year over year, while core retail sales showed similar gains of 0.6% month over month and 4.89% year over year.
Retail sales strengthened in October as consumers prepared for the holidays.
Total retail sales increased 0.6% from September and 5% year over year, while core retail sales showed similar gains of 0.6% month over month and 4.89% year over year.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
CNBC/NRF Retail Monitor
Retail sales strengthened in October as consumers prepared for the holidays.
Total retail sales increased 0.6% from September and 5% year over year, while core retail sales showed similar gains of 0.6% month over month and 4.89% year over year.
Retail sales strengthened in October as consumers prepared for the holidays.
Total retail sales increased 0.6% from September and 5% year over year, while core retail sales showed similar gains of 0.6% month over month and 4.89% year over year.
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So currencies. Much medium of exchange. Very store of value.
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
So currencies. Much medium of exchange. Very store of value.
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Donald Trump appeared to be wearing a red tie.
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.
Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Donald Trump appeared to be wearing a red tie.
JFC George - don’t accept the premise
Tariffs are taxes paid by consumers and businesses.
Frame the question the right way.
It’s not a damn true/false
Tariffs are taxes paid by consumers and businesses.
Frame the question the right way.
It’s not a damn true/false
STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump says we're taking in "trillions of dollars" from tariffs. Is that true?
BESSENT: Uh. Over the course of the next few years, we could take in trillions of dollars
S: Are you worried though that the president's focus on revenue is going to hurt you at SCOTUS?
B: Not at all
BESSENT: Uh. Over the course of the next few years, we could take in trillions of dollars
S: Are you worried though that the president's focus on revenue is going to hurt you at SCOTUS?
B: Not at all
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
JFC George - don’t accept the premise
Tariffs are taxes paid by consumers and businesses.
Frame the question the right way.
It’s not a damn true/false
Tariffs are taxes paid by consumers and businesses.
Frame the question the right way.
It’s not a damn true/false
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the truth is, I have no idea -- and several states, in fact, did not have any idea -- how this guidance would be implemented and what it would mean in practice. which is the problem, of course. it creates only more confusion around a program in serious trouble.
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
the truth is, I have no idea -- and several states, in fact, did not have any idea -- how this guidance would be implemented and what it would mean in practice. which is the problem, of course. it creates only more confusion around a program in serious trouble.
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It’s very funny to think that the guy who didn’t know what the 13 stripes on the flag meant has a nuanced understanding of the intentions and debates of the founding fathers.
The president seems to have been briefed on how the tariffs oral argument at SCOTUS went:
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It’s very funny to think that the guy who didn’t know what the 13 stripes on the flag meant has a nuanced understanding of the intentions and debates of the founding fathers.
I don’t…what…huh??
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I don’t…what…huh??
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WaPo puts the Sleepy Trump piece on Page One.
@washingtonpost.com
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@washingtonpost.com
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November 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
WaPo puts the Sleepy Trump piece on Page One.
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump threw another lavish party as his DOJ asked the Supreme Court to stop it from being forced to pay food stamps for 40 million Americans.
Yes, this is *different* from last week’s Gatsby party. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...
Yes, this is *different* from last week’s Gatsby party. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...
Trump Throws Decadent Opera and Truffles Rager at Mar-a-Lago
The president’s ragers show no sign of slowing down even amid the government shutdown.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Trump threw another lavish party as his DOJ asked the Supreme Court to stop it from being forced to pay food stamps for 40 million Americans.
Yes, this is *different* from last week’s Gatsby party. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...
Yes, this is *different* from last week’s Gatsby party. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...
What the hell are we doing?
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What the hell are we doing?
Do the math. It don’t add up
November 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Do the math. It don’t add up
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“Most of the days the federal government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was the president.”— @howtoreadthisch.art
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
“Most of the days the federal government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was the president.”— @howtoreadthisch.art
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
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Here’s an oldie but a goodie: “DOGE rebates” 🤡
“..the proposal would distribute .. $5,000 per household for the 78 million households that pay federal income tax.”
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
“..the proposal would distribute .. $5,000 per household for the 78 million households that pay federal income tax.”
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Here’s an oldie but a goodie: “DOGE rebates” 🤡
“..the proposal would distribute .. $5,000 per household for the 78 million households that pay federal income tax.”
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
“..the proposal would distribute .. $5,000 per household for the 78 million households that pay federal income tax.”
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
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(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
Great explainer
November 8, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Great explainer
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This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it.
But most people won't believe that for several good reasons.
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But most people won't believe that for several good reasons.
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#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it.
But most people won't believe that for several good reasons.
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But most people won't believe that for several good reasons.
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"We spoke with nine C-level U.S. airline executives and senior officials across six U.S. carriers for this story. They expressed varying degrees of skepticism, but none felt the cuts were without some level of political interference."
With little recourse, U.S. airline leaders skeptical of DOT flight cut justification theaircurrent.com/airlines/air... (via @willguisbond.com & @jonostrower.com) #staycurrent
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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