Polo
@mablung11.bsky.social
Husband. Father. Amateur mechanic. Inept video-gamer. Wannabe musician. Infamous.
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Opinion | Trump’s crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Opinion | Trump’s crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man
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Think of steel as flour for the manufacturing economy. A tariff is like a flour tax: the mill might add 1,000 jobs, but factories using flour cut around 75,000. That’s what happens when you tax an input instead of solving the real problem.
November 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Think of steel as flour for the manufacturing economy. A tariff is like a flour tax: the mill might add 1,000 jobs, but factories using flour cut around 75,000. That’s what happens when you tax an input instead of solving the real problem.
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A sneering midwit with inherited wealth got the facts wrong, and accused an honest public servant—Lisa Cook—of fraud. His meddling created a crisis well beyond his portfolio, undermining the Fed.
Bill Pulte can do the right thing and resign.
If merit still matters, he should be fired.
Bill Pulte can do the right thing and resign.
If merit still matters, he should be fired.
The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters.
Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.
These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.
These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show
A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
A sneering midwit with inherited wealth got the facts wrong, and accused an honest public servant—Lisa Cook—of fraud. His meddling created a crisis well beyond his portfolio, undermining the Fed.
Bill Pulte can do the right thing and resign.
If merit still matters, he should be fired.
Bill Pulte can do the right thing and resign.
If merit still matters, he should be fired.
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Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
Bessent States That Trump Might Announce a National Housing Emergency This Fall to Tackle Increasing Prices and Falling Supply
September 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
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Compromise suggestion: The President can redesign the Cracker Barrel logo, and the Fed can set interest rates.
August 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Compromise suggestion: The President can redesign the Cracker Barrel logo, and the Fed can set interest rates.
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Think of BLS data as the economy’s highway system: invisible, vital, taken for granted. Corrupt it, and every decision—from Fed policy to plant openings—crashes.
Good stats → Good choices → Higher living standards.
Bad stats → Bad choices → Lower living standards.
Good stats → Good choices → Higher living standards.
Bad stats → Bad choices → Lower living standards.
August 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Think of BLS data as the economy’s highway system: invisible, vital, taken for granted. Corrupt it, and every decision—from Fed policy to plant openings—crashes.
Good stats → Good choices → Higher living standards.
Bad stats → Bad choices → Lower living standards.
Good stats → Good choices → Higher living standards.
Bad stats → Bad choices → Lower living standards.
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Next month’s job numbers are the street you grew up on and the last thing you ate.
August 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Next month’s job numbers are the street you grew up on and the last thing you ate.
A textbook case study for why we have independent central banks.
Tim Scott: "Our employment? Almost at full employment, 4.1 percent. What else do we need to have this economy on fire? We need lower interest rates."
July 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A textbook case study for why we have independent central banks.
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When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field
Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....
www.newyorker.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
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In a 2000 oral history, one Kerr County resident remembered when his father, in 1959, tried to warn a new resident about building a house close to the river.
“It’s going to surprise newcomers when we get another flood like the ’32 flood," he said.
By @loganjaffe.bsky.social
“It’s going to surprise newcomers when we get another flood like the ’32 flood," he said.
By @loganjaffe.bsky.social
Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks.
After a tragedy, records from local archives can help us understand how a community understands itself. Here’s some of what we learned following the devastating July 4 flooding in Texas.
www.propublica.org
July 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
In a 2000 oral history, one Kerr County resident remembered when his father, in 1959, tried to warn a new resident about building a house close to the river.
“It’s going to surprise newcomers when we get another flood like the ’32 flood," he said.
By @loganjaffe.bsky.social
“It’s going to surprise newcomers when we get another flood like the ’32 flood," he said.
By @loganjaffe.bsky.social
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Wu: "It's a 500 year storm that keep hitting every year. We're saying there's something wrong with that. You're not supposed to have 500 year events every year. And every time Dems offer up legislation to say 'let's do something about this, let's save lives,' it's uniformly rejected on party lines"
July 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Wu: "It's a 500 year storm that keep hitting every year. We're saying there's something wrong with that. You're not supposed to have 500 year events every year. And every time Dems offer up legislation to say 'let's do something about this, let's save lives,' it's uniformly rejected on party lines"
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Enten: "You don't have to be a mathematical genius to know that these are horrible, horrible, horrible numbers. Washington Post, -19 points, Fox News -21 points...to quote Sir Charles Barkley, 'terrible terrible terrible'...it's one of the most unpopular pieces of legislation that I have ever seen"
June 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Enten: "You don't have to be a mathematical genius to know that these are horrible, horrible, horrible numbers. Washington Post, -19 points, Fox News -21 points...to quote Sir Charles Barkley, 'terrible terrible terrible'...it's one of the most unpopular pieces of legislation that I have ever seen"
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When Republican voters learn that the "Big Beautiful Bill" takes from the poor to give to the rich, they oppose it.
June 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
When Republican voters learn that the "Big Beautiful Bill" takes from the poor to give to the rich, they oppose it.
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When you read about each zig and zag of the Administration's tariff policy, remember to compare it with the status quo they inherited: Low tariff rates from just about every major trading partner, a reputation for stability and reliability, and our trade policy reinforcing our foreign policy.
May 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
When you read about each zig and zag of the Administration's tariff policy, remember to compare it with the status quo they inherited: Low tariff rates from just about every major trading partner, a reputation for stability and reliability, and our trade policy reinforcing our foreign policy.
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Trump's obsession with bilateral makes no sense, and it's the responsibility of his economic team to explain that to him. (I don't know if they're failing, or not even trying.)
April 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Trump's obsession with bilateral makes no sense, and it's the responsibility of his economic team to explain that to him. (I don't know if they're failing, or not even trying.)
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NEW: On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.
This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.
propub.li
March 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.
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REPORTER: Can you say unequivocally that down the line, there won't be cuts to Medicaid programs?
MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.
MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.
February 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
REPORTER: Can you say unequivocally that down the line, there won't be cuts to Medicaid programs?
MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.
MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.
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There is nothing in the Constitution that forbids drug use by shadow presidents, so the Democrats would have no Constitutional basis for impeaching Elon Musk.
by Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley
February 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
There is nothing in the Constitution that forbids drug use by shadow presidents, so the Democrats would have no Constitutional basis for impeaching Elon Musk.
by Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley
So how much did his dad have to contribute to get him into the Econ department at Penn?
Trump on why the Fed should listen to him: "I think I know interest rates much better than they do."
January 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So how much did his dad have to contribute to get him into the Econ department at Penn?