oldladyjan
@oldladyjan.bsky.social
Crazy old lady who was born and lived in Michigan for 34 y. Detroit later. Live in RI now. Animal lover. Educated in biology and chemistry. Progressive. Retired from career in healthcare. Love art history and painting. Love libraries and reading.
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Watch the film about the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (aka: Galloping Gertie).....same phenomenon -- starts small and escalates into a disastrous end.
January 21, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Watch the film about the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (aka: Galloping Gertie).....same phenomenon -- starts small and escalates into a disastrous end.
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that's what's going on here. the market really wants to keep going up, so he does something - they panic, then relax. he does something new - panic less, relax more. next thing - panic even less, relax even more.
it's still just a matter of time before something catastrophic happens.
it's still just a matter of time before something catastrophic happens.
January 21, 2026 at 8:30 PM
that's what's going on here. the market really wants to keep going up, so he does something - they panic, then relax. he does something new - panic less, relax more. next thing - panic even less, relax even more.
it's still just a matter of time before something catastrophic happens.
it's still just a matter of time before something catastrophic happens.
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💯 accurate description.
The TACO cycle:
Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank.
So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.
Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank.
So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.
January 21, 2026 at 8:14 PM
💯 accurate description.
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This
The TACO cycle:
Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank.
So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.
Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank.
So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.
January 22, 2026 at 1:15 AM
This
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I mentioned earlier today that I had done a watercolour of the London Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand. This is it from 1993 (see alt text). I did several paintings wandering up and down the Strand and also in the Inns of Court.
#London #TheStrand #watercolour #ink
#London #TheStrand #watercolour #ink
January 13, 2026 at 6:16 PM
I mentioned earlier today that I had done a watercolour of the London Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand. This is it from 1993 (see alt text). I did several paintings wandering up and down the Strand and also in the Inns of Court.
#London #TheStrand #watercolour #ink
#London #TheStrand #watercolour #ink
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Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."
January 12, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."
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January 13, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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Americans will never see the files but just don’t realize it yet.
January 6, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Americans will never see the files but just don’t realize it yet.
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Read this:
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Read this:
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Just to be clear: metal falling from the sky can fuck you up. My father had a metal flake from a construction site get in his eye walking past a skyscraper project. That was an ER trip and a week with an eye patch while the eyeball laceration healed all for something the size of a fleck of pepper.
October 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Just to be clear: metal falling from the sky can fuck you up. My father had a metal flake from a construction site get in his eye walking past a skyscraper project. That was an ER trip and a week with an eye patch while the eyeball laceration healed all for something the size of a fleck of pepper.
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What we saw on No King's Day, with people on the streets was the tip of the iceberg of people who feel the way those crowds do. For every one who made it to the street, there is a host of others who wish they could have been there.
October 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
What we saw on No King's Day, with people on the streets was the tip of the iceberg of people who feel the way those crowds do. For every one who made it to the street, there is a host of others who wish they could have been there.
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Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.
October 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.
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No, CNN, it is not an important legal victory.
It is a blip along the way to the Supreme Court. It’s a case in which two Trump appointees paid him back for their lifetime jobs.
So, if you are going to offer legal analysis, make sure it’s accurate.
It is a blip along the way to the Supreme Court. It’s a case in which two Trump appointees paid him back for their lifetime jobs.
So, if you are going to offer legal analysis, make sure it’s accurate.
October 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
No, CNN, it is not an important legal victory.
It is a blip along the way to the Supreme Court. It’s a case in which two Trump appointees paid him back for their lifetime jobs.
So, if you are going to offer legal analysis, make sure it’s accurate.
It is a blip along the way to the Supreme Court. It’s a case in which two Trump appointees paid him back for their lifetime jobs.
So, if you are going to offer legal analysis, make sure it’s accurate.
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Not sure why this image is so shocking, given everything he’s done but: it’s shocking!
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Not sure why this image is so shocking, given everything he’s done but: it’s shocking!
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Everything Trump touches dies.
May he pat himself on the back for this one.
May he pat himself on the back for this one.
October 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Everything Trump touches dies.
May he pat himself on the back for this one.
May he pat himself on the back for this one.
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It’s fun to be a Republican when you can just make shit up
CNN: Do you really believe that the 7 million attendees who participated this weekend hate the United States of America?
REP. LISA McCLAIN: Well, look at what they're standing for. They're standing for communism. They're standing for antisemitism.
REP. LISA McCLAIN: Well, look at what they're standing for. They're standing for communism. They're standing for antisemitism.
October 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It’s fun to be a Republican when you can just make shit up
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If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
October 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
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March 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Why do I feel like we are about to transition into a Country similar to the early months of Covid
Like that was a trial run as to how our lives will be transformed
The Trump Project 2025 plan is going to change our way of life in a bad way for a very very long time
The time to resist is now
Like that was a trial run as to how our lives will be transformed
The Trump Project 2025 plan is going to change our way of life in a bad way for a very very long time
The time to resist is now
March 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Why do I feel like we are about to transition into a Country similar to the early months of Covid
Like that was a trial run as to how our lives will be transformed
The Trump Project 2025 plan is going to change our way of life in a bad way for a very very long time
The time to resist is now
Like that was a trial run as to how our lives will be transformed
The Trump Project 2025 plan is going to change our way of life in a bad way for a very very long time
The time to resist is now
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People are making their voices heard…
National Parks belong to us—not Trump and not billionaires. Thank you for standing up and defending our parkland!
National Parks belong to us—not Trump and not billionaires. Thank you for standing up and defending our parkland!
March 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
People are making their voices heard…
National Parks belong to us—not Trump and not billionaires. Thank you for standing up and defending our parkland!
National Parks belong to us—not Trump and not billionaires. Thank you for standing up and defending our parkland!
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i think it's great that the nazi zoomers are systematically — and again, illegally — destroying our ability to do anything useful
March 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
i think it's great that the nazi zoomers are systematically — and again, illegally — destroying our ability to do anything useful