Mike
@mtannenbaum.bsky.social
Not really Jeff Spicoli but I did wear corduroy OP shorts and Vans as a teenager in LA. Public equities and equity derivatives analyst.
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Smirnov admitted to completely fabricating the conspiracy that became central to the GOP's effort to impeach Joe Biden. Days later, the Russian asset pleaded guilty to four felony charges and was sentenced to six years in prison. After a few months, he just mysteriously disappeared.
Here's a story that flew under the radar. Of course it happened during the Convicted Felon Donald Trump regime.
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsACriminal
newrepublic.com/post/202897/...
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsACriminal
newrepublic.com/post/202897/...
FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail
Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was sentenced to six years in jail.
newrepublic.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Smirnov admitted to completely fabricating the conspiracy that became central to the GOP's effort to impeach Joe Biden. Days later, the Russian asset pleaded guilty to four felony charges and was sentenced to six years in prison. After a few months, he just mysteriously disappeared.
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i would like to read a deeply-reported, 10,000-word investigative piece about the procurement process that ends up sourcing a luxury 737 for the head of DHS which only seats 17 people
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:32 AM
i would like to read a deeply-reported, 10,000-word investigative piece about the procurement process that ends up sourcing a luxury 737 for the head of DHS which only seats 17 people
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Police around the country have banned car chases -- b/c they're deadly.
But not ICE.
So when an undocumented immigrant -- w/ no criminal record -- tried to drive away from a stop this morning, ICE gave chase.
The result: a school teacher is dead.
Linda Davis
www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...
But not ICE.
So when an undocumented immigrant -- w/ no criminal record -- tried to drive away from a stop this morning, ICE gave chase.
The result: a school teacher is dead.
Linda Davis
www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...
Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE
According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morning’s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect.
www.wtoc.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Police around the country have banned car chases -- b/c they're deadly.
But not ICE.
So when an undocumented immigrant -- w/ no criminal record -- tried to drive away from a stop this morning, ICE gave chase.
The result: a school teacher is dead.
Linda Davis
www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...
But not ICE.
So when an undocumented immigrant -- w/ no criminal record -- tried to drive away from a stop this morning, ICE gave chase.
The result: a school teacher is dead.
Linda Davis
www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...
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joyce is going after elon again
February 17, 2026 at 1:22 AM
joyce is going after elon again
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"Look, if I have to first ask permission to kidnap someone, it's not really kidnapping now, is it, you silly liberal."
Rep. Mark Alford: "If you tie a judicial warrant to what ICE is doing, it will never happen"
February 16, 2026 at 7:53 PM
"Look, if I have to first ask permission to kidnap someone, it's not really kidnapping now, is it, you silly liberal."
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So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding?
Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.
Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.
Rep. Mark Alford: "If you tie a judicial warrant to what ICE is doing, it will never happen"
February 16, 2026 at 8:07 PM
So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding?
Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.
Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been...a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov
― Isaac Asimov
Nobody’s going to buy US cars outside the US www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:10 PM
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been...a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov
― Isaac Asimov
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“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
-NYT ethical guidelines
-NYT ethical guidelines
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:48 PM
“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
-NYT ethical guidelines
-NYT ethical guidelines
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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
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Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/
February 16, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/
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OMG I've never seen someone send an email like they were wearing a wire.
Josh Johnson destroying Elon Musk for begging Epstein to come to the pedo island is the funniest shit I’ve seen this morning.
February 16, 2026 at 5:48 PM
OMG I've never seen someone send an email like they were wearing a wire.
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how does someone mow down a family of four, blame the car (no issue was found), transfer real estate to Nevada LLCs to avoid compensating the victims' families, and then walk away with nothing more than probation?
Do YOU have an aging friend/relative who should stop driving? Tell them this story from San Francisco. Ask how they will feel if they kill an entire family.
But don't tell them that even then, they'll be forgiven and be able to drive again.
This verdict is obscene.
www.ktvu.com/news/woman-a...
But don't tell them that even then, they'll be forgiven and be able to drive again.
This verdict is obscene.
www.ktvu.com/news/woman-a...
Woman accused of wiping out entire family in San Francisco crash likely won't get prison time
An 80-year-old woman accused of driving at a high rate of speed and crashing into a family of four, killing them, at a San Francisco bus stop nearly two years ago, appeared in court on Friday. Mary Fo...
www.ktvu.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:32 PM
how does someone mow down a family of four, blame the car (no issue was found), transfer real estate to Nevada LLCs to avoid compensating the victims' families, and then walk away with nothing more than probation?
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Hegseth is a massive Elon dickrider. Can almost guarantee that’s what’s going on here. Elon was so focused on Altman he didn’t even notice Anthropic pass him on the shoulder 12 months ago.
February 16, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Hegseth is a massive Elon dickrider. Can almost guarantee that’s what’s going on here. Elon was so focused on Altman he didn’t even notice Anthropic pass him on the shoulder 12 months ago.
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This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.
February 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.
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Palantir CEO Alex Carp explains what he and Peter Thiel like to do for amusement.
February 16, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Palantir CEO Alex Carp explains what he and Peter Thiel like to do for amusement.
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Good piece. Warsh would be a fundamental break from the Bernanke-Yellen-Powell Feds if he carried out his views. Do I think he’s capable of pulling that off? Not really. Do I think he might try and do some harm? Yes.
For more than a decade, Kevin Warsh has advocated reining in the Fed’s pivotal role in the nation’s financial markets.
Now, he may finally get the chance to do it. And Wall Street is obsessed with finding out what comes next.
w/ @samjsutton.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Now, he may finally get the chance to do it. And Wall Street is obsessed with finding out what comes next.
w/ @samjsutton.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Trump wants the Fed to cut rates. Kevin Warsh has bigger plans.
Any turbulence that pushes up longer-term rates would clash with the president’s goal of cutting borrowing costs for the government and lowering mortgage rates.
www.politico.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Good piece. Warsh would be a fundamental break from the Bernanke-Yellen-Powell Feds if he carried out his views. Do I think he’s capable of pulling that off? Not really. Do I think he might try and do some harm? Yes.
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About one of the Trump accusers in this piece:
“The interview [with the alleged victim and her attorney] was conducted July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell.”
“The interview [with the alleged victim and her attorney] was conducted July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell.”
Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
February 16, 2026 at 5:10 AM
About one of the Trump accusers in this piece:
“The interview [with the alleged victim and her attorney] was conducted July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell.”
“The interview [with the alleged victim and her attorney] was conducted July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell.”
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I don't know about you but to mine eyes this is straight up perjury.
We can’t trust anything coming out of this administration. It’s getting tiresome.
February 16, 2026 at 1:31 PM
I don't know about you but to mine eyes this is straight up perjury.
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RFK Jr. is a pathetic clown whose stupid games are getting people killed cepr.net/publications...
RFK Jr.’s Job Performance: Lies that Take Lives
RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine lies, amplified in a Trump administration built on misinformation, are directly fueling measles outbreaks and preventable deaths.
cepr.net
February 15, 2026 at 2:49 AM
RFK Jr. is a pathetic clown whose stupid games are getting people killed cepr.net/publications...
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Inflation: so long as tariffs stay, it's not about to go away (no matter what the gov't may report).
www.wsj.com/business/pri...
www.wsj.com/business/pri...
The Break Is Over. Companies Are Jacking Up Prices Again.
Higher tariffs, labor and health-insurance costs have pushed many businesses to raise prices for consumers.
www.wsj.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Inflation: so long as tariffs stay, it's not about to go away (no matter what the gov't may report).
www.wsj.com/business/pri...
www.wsj.com/business/pri...
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“If a government’s actions in a democracy require masks — if the people being governed in that democracy cannot know who is acting — that is a problem with what the government is doing, not with the governed.”
Yeah, this went quickly from happening to me seeing it to “I should write about this” to me being unable to do anything else until I got this out.
Here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/tom-homan-...
Here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/tom-homan-...
The Trump admin argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
www.lawdork.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:42 AM
“If a government’s actions in a democracy require masks — if the people being governed in that democracy cannot know who is acting — that is a problem with what the government is doing, not with the governed.”
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Because legally qualified American voters don't want to be harassed and intimidated by masked gunmen as a condition of going to vote. Is that really hard to understand?
February 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Because legally qualified American voters don't want to be harassed and intimidated by masked gunmen as a condition of going to vote. Is that really hard to understand?
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i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.
February 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM
i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.