Mike Scott
@mikescott60.bsky.social
There are so many Mike Scotts of which I am one.
Absolutely brazen.
"Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later
ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform
them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension."
www.nber.org/system/files...
"Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later
ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform
them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension."
www.nber.org/system/files...
www.nber.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Absolutely brazen.
"Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later
ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform
them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension."
www.nber.org/system/files...
"Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later
ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform
them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension."
www.nber.org/system/files...
Fill up your ears this holiday season.
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www.radiorethink.com/tuner/?stationCode=eggnog&stream=hi
Earfuls of Eggnog Live Stream
Listen live to Earfuls of Eggnog
www.radiorethink.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Fill up your ears this holiday season.
www.radiorethink.com/tuner/?stationCode=eggnog&stream=hi
www.radiorethink.com/tuner/?stationCode=eggnog&stream=hi
Will DJT go to heaven? View the debate!
#TrumpGoestoHeaven #MrTrumpGoestoHeaven
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AQG...
#TrumpGoestoHeaven #MrTrumpGoestoHeaven
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Mr. Trump Goes To Heaven
YouTube video by Vic Berger
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Will DJT go to heaven? View the debate!
#TrumpGoestoHeaven #MrTrumpGoestoHeaven
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AQG...
#TrumpGoestoHeaven #MrTrumpGoestoHeaven
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AQG...
Latinos are abandoning Trump. Immigration policy is only the third biggest grievance. Affordability is #1. If Dems can manage to focus on affordability, they might be able to win again.
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Latinos are abandoning Trump. Immigration policy is only the third biggest grievance. Affordability is #1. If Dems can manage to focus on affordability, they might be able to win again.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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I've seen enough: the gerontocracy is dead.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-geront...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-geront...
The Gerontocracy Is Dead
Nancy Pelosi's retirement announcement and the gerontocracy's quiet war on little old me
www.kenklippenstein.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I've seen enough: the gerontocracy is dead.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-geront...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-geront...
The billionaire tears are flowing tonight.
prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...
prospect.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 AM
The billionaire tears are flowing tonight.
prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
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Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"
I've saved her some time.
I've saved her some time.
October 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"
I've saved her some time.
I've saved her some time.
The epistemic crisis is soooo last decade.
Stupidity is where it's at in 2025.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
Stupidity is where it's at in 2025.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The epistemic crisis is soooo last decade.
Stupidity is where it's at in 2025.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
Stupidity is where it's at in 2025.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
Some politicians view this veteran as a terrorist.
October 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Some politicians view this veteran as a terrorist.
generation of young swine
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
generation of young swine
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
If you search 'trump cognitive' on start.duckduckgo.com, you can access their A.I. Search Assist feature that describes the current known status of DJT's cognitive decline.
If you use Google A.I., you get nada.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
If you use Google A.I., you get nada.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Google AI Overview appears to block results on searches for ‘Trump cognitive decline’ but not for Biden
Google appears to have blocked certain artificial intelligence search results for queries about President Donald Trump’s mental acuity
www.yahoo.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
If you search 'trump cognitive' on start.duckduckgo.com, you can access their A.I. Search Assist feature that describes the current known status of DJT's cognitive decline.
If you use Google A.I., you get nada.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
If you use Google A.I., you get nada.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Is there any other developed nation that treats its teachers as callously?
www.epi.org/publication/...
www.epi.org/publication/...
The teacher pay penalty reached a record high in 2024: Three decades of leaving public school teachers behind
Over the past three decades, stagnant weekly wages of public school teachers have fallen further and further behind those of college graduates who chose other careers, resulting in an ever increasing ...
www.epi.org
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Is there any other developed nation that treats its teachers as callously?
www.epi.org/publication/...
www.epi.org/publication/...
September 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Really, how does one get to a point where one refuses to acknowledge virtually all established immunological science? 🤷♂️
www.democracynow.org/2025/9/5/vac...
www.democracynow.org/2025/9/5/vac...
“How Can You Be So Ignorant?”: GOP & Dem. Senators Slam RFK Jr. for Attacks on Vaccines & Science
Both Democratic and Republican senators grilled Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday in a contentious hearing on his policies and anti-vaccine misinformation. RFK fire...
www.democracynow.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Really, how does one get to a point where one refuses to acknowledge virtually all established immunological science? 🤷♂️
www.democracynow.org/2025/9/5/vac...
www.democracynow.org/2025/9/5/vac...
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fucking wild that the fundamental moral test of our time is something as simple as "can you denounce fascism" and so many people are failing it
September 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
fucking wild that the fundamental moral test of our time is something as simple as "can you denounce fascism" and so many people are failing it
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“In its time as the leader in the medication coupon world, GoodRx has formed some eyebrow-raising partnerships.”
BadRx | Jess McAllen
From PBMs to coupon aggregators, the middlemen of medicine are racking in the cash—at the expense of patients.
thebaffler.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“In its time as the leader in the medication coupon world, GoodRx has formed some eyebrow-raising partnerships.”
The limitations of art & lit in combating fascism. 😕
timkreider.substack.com/p/if-you-cal...
timkreider.substack.com/p/if-you-cal...
If You Call This Victory
V-E Day, The PEN Gala, and Whether, on Due Consideration, We Are Fucked
timkreider.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The limitations of art & lit in combating fascism. 😕
timkreider.substack.com/p/if-you-cal...
timkreider.substack.com/p/if-you-cal...
