John Zimmerman
@zman1527.bsky.social
70 year old male Californian, semi-retired mineral exploration geologist.
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I want y’all to fully appreciate how a similar mass psychosis event- Hitler- played out at its end bc the power of self delusion is so much stronger than we ever knew.
Plz RP this 🧵
Plz RP this 🧵
November 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I want y’all to fully appreciate how a similar mass psychosis event- Hitler- played out at its end bc the power of self delusion is so much stronger than we ever knew.
Plz RP this 🧵
Plz RP this 🧵
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10 Weekend Reads:
-Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?
-Boomers Passing Down Fortunes — And Way, Way Too Much Stuff;
-Big Tech Wants Direct Access to Our Brains;
-Gold, guns and cartels;
-Private Equity/Credit Bubble Implications;
-Tolerating annoying things
ritholtz.com/2025/11/10-w...
-Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?
-Boomers Passing Down Fortunes — And Way, Way Too Much Stuff;
-Big Tech Wants Direct Access to Our Brains;
-Gold, guns and cartels;
-Private Equity/Credit Bubble Implications;
-Tolerating annoying things
ritholtz.com/2025/11/10-w...
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
10 Weekend Reads:
-Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?
-Boomers Passing Down Fortunes — And Way, Way Too Much Stuff;
-Big Tech Wants Direct Access to Our Brains;
-Gold, guns and cartels;
-Private Equity/Credit Bubble Implications;
-Tolerating annoying things
ritholtz.com/2025/11/10-w...
-Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?
-Boomers Passing Down Fortunes — And Way, Way Too Much Stuff;
-Big Tech Wants Direct Access to Our Brains;
-Gold, guns and cartels;
-Private Equity/Credit Bubble Implications;
-Tolerating annoying things
ritholtz.com/2025/11/10-w...
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Had a great conversation with @gregsargent.bsky.social about the latest Epstein emails and their implications for the current MAGA civil war.
Really unnerving point from Nicole Hemmer, historian of the right: Trump's Epstein fiasco could drive MAGA to push him to go even fuller authoritarian, because the whole project is now in such serious doubt. She's so good on MAGA's future.
Check out this exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
Check out this exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Had a great conversation with @gregsargent.bsky.social about the latest Epstein emails and their implications for the current MAGA civil war.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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New single by @dropkickmurphys.com just dropped. Helluva Veterans Day tribute, filmed IN UKRAINE. Watch and share. And BZ to all who wore the uniform—and who still stand for freedom.
"Who'll Stand With Us?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3rt...
"Who'll Stand With Us?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3rt...
“Who’ll Stand With Us” featuring O’Hamsters [Recorded in KYIV 🇺🇦]
YouTube video by VALOR Media Network
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November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
New single by @dropkickmurphys.com just dropped. Helluva Veterans Day tribute, filmed IN UKRAINE. Watch and share. And BZ to all who wore the uniform—and who still stand for freedom.
"Who'll Stand With Us?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3rt...
"Who'll Stand With Us?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3rt...
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10 Sunday Reads: Biggest-ever Crypto liquidation event, The New Gold Rush, AI’s Dirty Work, Anti-Vax Facebook Groups, USAID deaths, and Extreme Chatbots
ritholtz.com/2025/11/10-s...
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10 Sunday Reads - The Big Picture
Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Crypto investors lose billions in biggest-ever liquidation event: A record $19 billion crypto liquidation roc...
ritholtz.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
10 Sunday Reads: Biggest-ever Crypto liquidation event, The New Gold Rush, AI’s Dirty Work, Anti-Vax Facebook Groups, USAID deaths, and Extreme Chatbots
ritholtz.com/2025/11/10-s...
ritholtz.com/2025/11/10-s...
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10 Weekend Reads: A New Election Winning Formula, 15 billion scam ads a day, the Antidote to Climate Backlash, The paradox of Philadelphia, and ending your extremely online era.
ritholtz.com/2025/11/10-w...
ritholtz.com/2025/11/10-w...
10 Weekend Reads - The Big Picture
The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The Democrats Have a New Winning Formula — The affordability th...
ritholtz.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
10 Weekend Reads: A New Election Winning Formula, 15 billion scam ads a day, the Antidote to Climate Backlash, The paradox of Philadelphia, and ending your extremely online era.
ritholtz.com/2025/11/10-w...
ritholtz.com/2025/11/10-w...
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In a 67-page 10-Q for Trump Media ($DJT), the risk factors account for nearly a third of the filing, which, trust me, is a lot. Gotta wonder how many of the folks who bought the stock even skimmed those risk factors. Stock down over 60% YTD.
November 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
In a 67-page 10-Q for Trump Media ($DJT), the risk factors account for nearly a third of the filing, which, trust me, is a lot. Gotta wonder how many of the folks who bought the stock even skimmed those risk factors. Stock down over 60% YTD.
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Democrats, don’t let the word “socialist” spook you. I’m not Democratic socialist, but I’m damn proud to be part of a party big enough to hold all of us.
FACT: Republicans call every Democrat a socialist, It’s all they’ve got.
And, who doesn’t love that Republicans are having melt down over it.
FACT: Republicans call every Democrat a socialist, It’s all they’ve got.
And, who doesn’t love that Republicans are having melt down over it.
November 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Democrats, don’t let the word “socialist” spook you. I’m not Democratic socialist, but I’m damn proud to be part of a party big enough to hold all of us.
FACT: Republicans call every Democrat a socialist, It’s all they’ve got.
And, who doesn’t love that Republicans are having melt down over it.
FACT: Republicans call every Democrat a socialist, It’s all they’ve got.
And, who doesn’t love that Republicans are having melt down over it.
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
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I remember every time Biden spoke about the positives of his economy he got reamed endlessly by pundits and posters about how terrible inflation was and housing costs, etc. and what an out of touch fool he was. Even though Biden always also said "but we have more work to do."
Trump's ballroom fiasco looks even worse against backdrop of bad economic news:
*layoffs mounting
*food stamps expiring
*health care premiums soaring
*consumer sentiment sliding
On the pod, Elizabeth Pancotti is great in explaining the opening here for Dems:
newrepublic.com/article/2024...
*layoffs mounting
*food stamps expiring
*health care premiums soaring
*consumer sentiment sliding
On the pod, Elizabeth Pancotti is great in explaining the opening here for Dems:
newrepublic.com/article/2024...
Trump Ballroom Fiasco Takes Worse Turn as Economic Data Gets Brutal
As the ballroom story gets more damaging for Trump against a backdrop of terrible economic news, a progressive organizer explains how all this gives Democrats a big opening to regain crucial lost grou...
newrepublic.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I remember every time Biden spoke about the positives of his economy he got reamed endlessly by pundits and posters about how terrible inflation was and housing costs, etc. and what an out of touch fool he was. Even though Biden always also said "but we have more work to do."
It's not a ballroom, it's a Griftatorium. How many "donors" can you fit into 90,000 square feet?
October 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
It's not a ballroom, it's a Griftatorium. How many "donors" can you fit into 90,000 square feet?
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They're (again) stress-testing norms of democracy, in this case how long they can intentionally stall and undermine due representation.
And they'd only stress-test such a thing if they're looking to expand on the test in the future.
bsky.app/profile/dean...
And they'd only stress-test such a thing if they're looking to expand on the test in the future.
bsky.app/profile/dean...
GOP’s refusal to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is a continuation of Jan. 6 and GOP’s rejection of democracy. This is not just about blocking the release of the Jeffrey Epstein file. It's also about GOP becoming increasingly hostile to democracy deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/gops-refus...
GOP’s refusal to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is a continuation of Jan. 6 and GOP’s rejection of democracy
The GOP is anti-democracy party
deanobeidallah.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
They're (again) stress-testing norms of democracy, in this case how long they can intentionally stall and undermine due representation.
And they'd only stress-test such a thing if they're looking to expand on the test in the future.
bsky.app/profile/dean...
And they'd only stress-test such a thing if they're looking to expand on the test in the future.
bsky.app/profile/dean...
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Not the WSJ having the only even moderately acceptable push alert here.
NYT and NBC with basic journalism fails here.
NYT and NBC with basic journalism fails here.
October 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Not the WSJ having the only even moderately acceptable push alert here.
NYT and NBC with basic journalism fails here.
NYT and NBC with basic journalism fails here.
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Translation: no Democrat will ever be allowed, again, to gain control of the White House, House, or Senate.
Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."
October 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Translation: no Democrat will ever be allowed, again, to gain control of the White House, House, or Senate.
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The complete refuse to accept political differences and the total demonization of the political opposition is a toxic and dangerous brew. It looks to me as if many Democrats do not understand this is the agenda of the GOP and the right.
It seems Glenn Beck and his ilk are preparing their followers for two possible futures: a) permanent and complete GOP control of the federal government or b) massive resistance to a Democratic victory that will make J6 look like a garden party. One thing they’re not prepping folks for is democracy.
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The complete refuse to accept political differences and the total demonization of the political opposition is a toxic and dangerous brew. It looks to me as if many Democrats do not understand this is the agenda of the GOP and the right.
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I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
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After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Chris Hayes reporting that the government has just said they will stop reimbursing doctors for Medicare patients.
October 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Chris Hayes reporting that the government has just said they will stop reimbursing doctors for Medicare patients.
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Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
October 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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I totally loved this. We need to see more of it. This was in Portland BTW.
October 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I totally loved this. We need to see more of it. This was in Portland BTW.
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Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.
They make sure we have clean water.
They protect us from financial fraud.
They provide healthcare to our communities.
They make our government actually work for people.
Do not forget this.
They make sure we have clean water.
They protect us from financial fraud.
They provide healthcare to our communities.
They make our government actually work for people.
Do not forget this.
October 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.
They make sure we have clean water.
They protect us from financial fraud.
They provide healthcare to our communities.
They make our government actually work for people.
Do not forget this.
They make sure we have clean water.
They protect us from financial fraud.
They provide healthcare to our communities.
They make our government actually work for people.
Do not forget this.
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Which is the purpose the propagandists are seeking when they conflate the two, to muddy the ability to have open discussions about state-sponsored violence against an oppressed people without being lumped in with history's greatest villains.
October 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Which is the purpose the propagandists are seeking when they conflate the two, to muddy the ability to have open discussions about state-sponsored violence against an oppressed people without being lumped in with history's greatest villains.
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