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Triplejake
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Enjoys cats, NBA and misc
S&P 500 index funds are heavily exposed to the AI bubble. Watch out.
# Company Weight
1 Nvidia 7.2%
2 Apple Inc. 6.6%
3 Microsoft 5.8%
4 Amazon 4%
5 Alphabet Inc. (Class A) 3.2%
6 Alphabet Inc. (Class C) 3%
7 Broadcom 3%
8 Meta Platforms 2.7%
9 Tesla, Inc. 2.4%
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

via @florianederer.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This Indiana game may be a snoozer, but happy to have met Nitro Tuggle
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Post-thanksgiving sluggishness
November 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Baffled by how someone could write an article about blotting out the sun without a Mr. Burns reference.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
A dignified #caturday
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Laptop has found its highest and best use.
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Camara and Deni are so fun. Glad they're both locked up for a while.
October 25, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Scrutiny grows over Trump competence – but can an unfit president be removed?
Scrutiny grows over Trump competence – but can an unfit president be removed?
Impeachment and 25th amendment offer routes for removal – but experts say system is set up to protect the president
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
CNN: Large crowds at protests
ABC: What to know about the protests
NBC: Protests underway
Fox: Unrest looms at protests
Bari-era CBS: Trump meets with Zelenskyy
October 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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I wrote about David Brooks discovering mass movements.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/shift-chan...
Shift Change at the Wheel Reinvention Factory
Even David Brooks is welcome in our movement.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver
Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.
www.wweek.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:
We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly
Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy
steady.page
October 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Everything is shit, but pretty fun to have lived to see Indiana ranked in the top 5 in football
October 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
October 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Breaking: Some guy now aware of most revered country artist who ever lived defector.com/breaking-som...
Breaking: Some Guy Now Aware Of Most Revered Country Artist Who Ever Lived | Defector
Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications these aren’t even written by the same person who wrote the actual blog; at any rate they’re many…
defector.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Pretty instructive to compare the Oregonian's comprehensive coverage of the federal threats against Portland versus the NY Times' superficial work. It's not exactly news that the major media institutions have failed the moment, but still a bummer to see.
October 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.
September 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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War-ravaged Portland
September 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
September 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Saw these guys yesterday-- cuteness expectations satisfied.
August 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM