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Economics/Finance person, deep into wine industry. Lifetime politics geek, data lover, third gen Democrat. NYC born, CA living.
“Standing up to Donald Trump didn’t work,” Senator Angus King said on MSNBC Monday. “It actually gave him more power..."The bare-knuckle politics the Trump administration employed...became too brutal for the handful of centrist Senate Democrats, who never liked the idea of the shutdown much anyway."
"Early in the shutdown, White House officials had predicted Democrats would eventually fold. They saw little need for Trump to negotiate with the Democratic leaders [instead] wait out the Democrats, ramp up the pain & then watch as they eventually caved.
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For Trump, Nothing Was Off Limits During the Shutdown
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November 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
“Standing up to Donald Trump didn’t work,” Senator Angus King said on MSNBC Monday. “It actually gave him more power..."The bare-knuckle politics the Trump administration employed...became too brutal for the handful of centrist Senate Democrats, who never liked the idea of the shutdown much anyway."
"Early in the shutdown, White House officials had predicted Democrats would eventually fold. They saw little need for Trump to negotiate with the Democratic leaders [instead] wait out the Democrats, ramp up the pain & then watch as they eventually caved.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u... Gift Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u... Gift Article
For Trump, Nothing Was Off Limits During the Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
"Early in the shutdown, White House officials had predicted Democrats would eventually fold. They saw little need for Trump to negotiate with the Democratic leaders [instead] wait out the Democrats, ramp up the pain & then watch as they eventually caved.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u... Gift Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u... Gift Article
Criminals? 'Mr. Segal wrote that immigration agents “finally responded to my request to detain these criminals. As someone who lives in the neighborhood, I’ve seen how American jobs are being given away to those with no right to be here. Pump up the numbers!”
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Boston University Student Faces Backlash After He Called ICE on Workers
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November 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Criminals? 'Mr. Segal wrote that immigration agents “finally responded to my request to detain these criminals. As someone who lives in the neighborhood, I’ve seen how American jobs are being given away to those with no right to be here. Pump up the numbers!”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
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The Western Sky from Northern California after a rain...
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The Western Sky from Northern California after a rain...
GOP likes Vance's big idea: No actual program: go back to Pre-ACA separate high cost pools for people with pre-existing conditions, then everyone else gets individual policies. Unaffordable to everyone, esp. those with pre-existing conditions. Basically, nothing.
Mike Johnson on bringing bill to extend ACA subsidies to the floor of the House if it passes the Senate: “Am I going to guarantee a vote on ACA subsidies that is just a boondoggle to insurance companies and robs the taxpayer? We have a lot of work to do on that."
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 249. 11/13/25
… The latest batch of Epstein documents released by Democrats on House Oversight show how he weaved an intricate web of rich and powerful people around the globe to compromise them and use them for hi...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
GOP likes Vance's big idea: No actual program: go back to Pre-ACA separate high cost pools for people with pre-existing conditions, then everyone else gets individual policies. Unaffordable to everyone, esp. those with pre-existing conditions. Basically, nothing.
Mike Johnson on bringing bill to extend ACA subsidies to the floor of the House if it passes the Senate: “Am I going to guarantee a vote on ACA subsidies that is just a boondoggle to insurance companies and robs the taxpayer? We have a lot of work to do on that."
open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Today in Politics, Bulletin 249. 11/13/25
… The latest batch of Epstein documents released by Democrats on House Oversight show how he weaved an intricate web of rich and powerful people around the globe to compromise them and use them for hi...
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Mike Johnson on bringing bill to extend ACA subsidies to the floor of the House if it passes the Senate: “Am I going to guarantee a vote on ACA subsidies that is just a boondoggle to insurance companies and robs the taxpayer? We have a lot of work to do on that."
open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Whoever banned the book hasn't lived through a CA drought. “The State of Water” explores what has led to California’s current water crisis, “exposing a history of unlimited growth in spite of finite natural resources,” according to its publisher, Heyday Books.
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Trump admin to ban book from Yosemite National Park, says author
The Trump administration's censorship directive has reportedly targeted Obi Kaufmann.
www.sfgate.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Whoever banned the book hasn't lived through a CA drought. “The State of Water” explores what has led to California’s current water crisis, “exposing a history of unlimited growth in spite of finite natural resources,” according to its publisher, Heyday Books.
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
Denial is a river in Egypt. Climate change and environmental reality come even to Texas.
Texas’s economy has boomed for so long that it would be easy to imagine that the growth might go on forever. But, across the state, residents are being confronted with the alarming reality of limited water supplies. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/5PZt9T
Texas’s Water Wars
As industrial operations move to the state, residents find that their drinking water has been promised to companies.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Denial is a river in Egypt. Climate change and environmental reality come even to Texas.
Pretty obvious how Trump managed to bankrupt 6 companies, including casinos...a nepo baby with absolutely no sense.
Brilliant!
‘The center’s arrangement with soccer’s international governing body will disrupt its performance schedule, forcing relocation or postponement of several concerts at an institution that has seen a sharp decline in ticket sales since it was taken over by Trump’
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November 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Pretty obvious how Trump managed to bankrupt 6 companies, including casinos...a nepo baby with absolutely no sense.
Why expand oil drilling in delicate environment when surplus oil sits in tankers across the globe? As China shifts to EVs, global oil demand is declining but Trump is stuck in the 1950s and oil is liquid gold.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Why expand oil drilling in delicate environment when surplus oil sits in tankers across the globe? As China shifts to EVs, global oil demand is declining but Trump is stuck in the 1950s and oil is liquid gold.
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
Trump wouldn't pay court appointed attorneys, as well as Food Stamps and health care -- but ICE was on full salary.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Trump wouldn't pay court appointed attorneys, as well as Food Stamps and health care -- but ICE was on full salary.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Or cancel tariff? "You're going to see substantial announcements over the next couple of days in terms of things we don't grow here in the United States. Coffee being one of them, bananas, other fruits. Things like that. So that will bring the prices down very quickly."
www.axios.com/2025/11/12/c...
www.axios.com/2025/11/12/c...
Bessent says "substantial" relief imminent on coffee, fruit prices
Trump's tariffs have hit coffee prices in particular.
www.axios.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Or cancel tariff? "You're going to see substantial announcements over the next couple of days in terms of things we don't grow here in the United States. Coffee being one of them, bananas, other fruits. Things like that. So that will bring the prices down very quickly."
www.axios.com/2025/11/12/c...
www.axios.com/2025/11/12/c...
More evidence some people just have too much money. Maybe donate to food pantry instead of paying "pumpkin stylists"?
www.wsj.com/style/pumpki...
www.wsj.com/style/pumpki...
Pumpkin Stylists Are Making a Killing This Fall
Fervor for the season is reaching new heights, with families paying pumpkin entrepreneurs and porch stylists north of $1,000 to create Insta-perfect seasonal tableaus for their homes.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
More evidence some people just have too much money. Maybe donate to food pantry instead of paying "pumpkin stylists"?
www.wsj.com/style/pumpki...
www.wsj.com/style/pumpki...
Stunning how much disdain those who know Trump, including Epstein, have for Trump. And how stupid they agree he is. Say he's lucky in his opposition. But how can Dems convey Trump's stupidity to gullible supporters convinced he is the "mogul" he played on TV?
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Read Jeffrey Epstein Emails Released on Wednesday
Congress released thousands of documents turned over by Epstein’s estate. Here are a few of them.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Stunning how much disdain those who know Trump, including Epstein, have for Trump. And how stupid they agree he is. Say he's lucky in his opposition. But how can Dems convey Trump's stupidity to gullible supporters convinced he is the "mogul" he played on TV?
www.wsj.com/us-news/read...
www.wsj.com/us-news/read...
Telling the truth about climate change = unfair competition? Investigated for truth Trump denies? "The probe is focused on the firms’ competitive practices and how they steer clients on hot-button issues such as climate- and social-related shareholder proposals"
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Exclusive | Proxy Advisers ISS and Glass Lewis Are Facing Antitrust Probes
An FTC investigation is focused on how proxy advisers steer investors on climate and ESG issues.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Telling the truth about climate change = unfair competition? Investigated for truth Trump denies? "The probe is focused on the firms’ competitive practices and how they steer clients on hot-button issues such as climate- and social-related shareholder proposals"
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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If there were consequences, Trump would pardon them. Will need another admin to enforce the law.
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
If there were consequences, Trump would pardon them. Will need another admin to enforce the law.
Bessent was supposed to be one of the better people in Trump's tacky cabinet. Is self-dealing like all the rest. "The I.R.S. Tried to Stop This Tax Dodge. Scott Bessent Used It Anyway." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
The I.R.S. Tried to Stop This Tax Dodge. Scott Bessent Used It Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Bessent was supposed to be one of the better people in Trump's tacky cabinet. Is self-dealing like all the rest. "The I.R.S. Tried to Stop This Tax Dodge. Scott Bessent Used It Anyway." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
U.S. Commerce Department has announced a 92% antidumping duty on pasta made in Italy by La Molisana and 12 other companies, which import the bulk of pasta from Italy to the U.S. That is on top of the Trump administration’s 15% tariff on imports from the European Union. www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves
The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
U.S. Commerce Department has announced a 92% antidumping duty on pasta made in Italy by La Molisana and 12 other companies, which import the bulk of pasta from Italy to the U.S. That is on top of the Trump administration’s 15% tariff on imports from the European Union. www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Good to know that some Americans still have pretty idealistic and constitutional expectations of their government. Enough to know this is wrong. Wish is also was more than 60%. Guess the close their eyes & rest vote for the GOP.
Authoritarian, Just Unpopular, or Both? President Trump’s Actions Under a Microscope.
(Blueprint)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251112
(Blueprint)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251112
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Good to know that some Americans still have pretty idealistic and constitutional expectations of their government. Enough to know this is wrong. Wish is also was more than 60%. Guess the close their eyes & rest vote for the GOP.
FIFA so corrupt and greedy. Remember when soccer/football was the 'peoples' game'?
Another price increase for the 2026 World Cup…
Sensing strong demand, FIFA raised the cost of many tickets to record-setting heights — the first large-scale implementation of its “variable pricing” strategy.
Details from @henrybushnell.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
Sensing strong demand, FIFA raised the cost of many tickets to record-setting heights — the first large-scale implementation of its “variable pricing” strategy.
Details from @henrybushnell.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
FIFA so corrupt and greedy. Remember when soccer/football was the 'peoples' game'?
Why is Congressional GOP still so deferential? Even Republican voter approval finally dropping, from 83% to 68%. Before new Epstein info released.
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More Americans are unhappy with the way Trump is managing the government, AP-NORC poll shows
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More Americans are unhappy with the way Trump is managing the government, AP-NORC poll shows
More Americans are unhappy with the way Trump is managing the government, AP-NORC poll shows
A new AP-NORC poll finds U.S. adults’ opinions of how President Donald Trump is managing the federal government have dropped sharply since early in his second term, highlighting the risks posed by the...
apnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Why is Congressional GOP still so deferential? Even Republican voter approval finally dropping, from 83% to 68%. Before new Epstein info released.
apnews.com/article/trum...
More Americans are unhappy with the way Trump is managing the government, AP-NORC poll shows
apnews.com/article/trum...
More Americans are unhappy with the way Trump is managing the government, AP-NORC poll shows
Like Trump putting tariffs on Brazil to support Bolsonaro or giving $40 billion to Argentina to help Millei. How is this in US national interest? "Formal request follows Trump's October Knesset speech when he turned to Herzog and said: "why don't you give him a pardon? Give him a pardon, come on."
WTF? "Trump sent an unprecedented letter to Israeli President Isaac Herzog demanding he pardon the [Netanyahu] & put an end to his corruption trial."
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Trump is showering Netanyahu with gifts. What is he getting in return?
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November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Like Trump putting tariffs on Brazil to support Bolsonaro or giving $40 billion to Argentina to help Millei. How is this in US national interest? "Formal request follows Trump's October Knesset speech when he turned to Herzog and said: "why don't you give him a pardon? Give him a pardon, come on."
WTF? "Trump sent an unprecedented letter to Israeli President Isaac Herzog demanding he pardon the [Netanyahu] & put an end to his corruption trial."
us18.campaign-archive.com?e=d9855bd6e6...
us18.campaign-archive.com?e=d9855bd6e6...
Trump is showering Netanyahu with gifts. What is he getting in return?
us18.campaign-archive.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
WTF? "Trump sent an unprecedented letter to Israeli President Isaac Herzog demanding he pardon the [Netanyahu] & put an end to his corruption trial."
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Did Supreme Court say it was legal years ago? Can Vought just unilaterally declare it illegal? Conservatives hate its consumer support but it also does useful things for industry, now in limbo. More chaos.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Trump administration declares CFPB funding illegal
The decision, disclosed in a court filing, puts the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on track to shut down in ‘early 2026’ when its remaining cash runs out.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Did Supreme Court say it was legal years ago? Can Vought just unilaterally declare it illegal? Conservatives hate its consumer support but it also does useful things for industry, now in limbo. More chaos.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...