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unshakeablejake.bsky.social @unshakeablejake.bsky.social · Nov 20
Shot in the dark here. Can anyone confirm or correct a latin translation to my credo Seneca quote?

Difficulties Strengthen the mind as labor does the body.

My effort at translation is...

Difficultatibus roborare mentis ut labore corporis.
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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peark.es
Great Bloomberg story on how Oracle CDS have become an incredibly busy trade. Very low spread + lots of people want a hedge + a very strong balance sheet = massive increase in volume.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Traders have piled into the company’s credit-default swaps in recent months as Oracle’s massive AI-related spending spree, its central role in a web of interrelated deals, and its weaker credit grades compared with players such as Microsoft Corp. or Alphabet Inc. have made the contracts the market’s preferred way to hedge — and bet against — the AI boom.  The price to protect against the company defaulting on its debt for five years tripled in recent months to as high as 1.11 percentage point a year on Wednesday, or around $111,000 for every $10 million of principal protected, according to ICE Data Services.  As AI skeptics rushed in, trading volume on the company’s CDS ballooned to about $5 billion over the seven weeks ended Nov. 14, according to Barclays Plc credit strategist Jigar Patel. That’s up from a little more than $200 million in the same period last year.  “As we often see in markets, liquidity begets liquidity, and once that flywheel starts it tends to keep going,” said Matt Schrager, the co-head of TD Securities Automated Trading. Oracle’s shares also reflect investors’ growing concern, losing about a third of their value from Sept. 10 through Wednesday’s close. A representative for Oracle declined to comment. To be clear, few suggest that the company, with a trio of investment-grade ratings and a roughly $620 billion market capitalization, is going to default on its obligations anytime soon. Rather, the thinking is that should investors’ confidence in AI falter, Oracle’s default swaps will surge even higher, minting a tidy profit for those who scooped up the derivatives and counterbalancing any losses they suffer in the broader selloff. AI-related stocks erased early gains on Thursday, leading a broader market selloff amid renewed concerns that corporate revenues and profits may not keep pace with the massive spending tied to the technology. Oracle shares fell as much as 5%, while its bonds largely held steady. The price on its credit-default swaps edged lower to about 1.09 percentage point.
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
djbyrnes1.bsky.social Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3d
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.

One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
JARED BERNSTEIN: “.. Manufacturing is in a real slump, with emp down 5 months in row, down 94K over past year. We haven’t seen such trends outside of recessions for years.

“.. Trump’s fingerprints are on this trend. It turns out that making factory production more expensive is bad for jobs.”
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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wyden.senate.gov
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
If he weren’t much weaker than many people act he would be giving orders instead of whining on truth social. bsky.app/profile/pale...
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
Trump: SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!
November 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.

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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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thehighsign.bsky.social
"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.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
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
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paleofuture.bsky.social
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Minnesota for soliciting sex from a minor
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
NARRATOR: Jim Jordan had previously wrestled with protecting innocent victims.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Jim Jordan: "We're all for protecting innocent victims, we're all for exposing the bad guys who did bad guys who did bad things, but ... "
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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wyden.senate.gov
The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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reuters.com
Blue Owl fund redemption freeze sparks fresh private credit jitters reut.rs/43AVOgX
Blue Owl fund redemption freeze sparks fresh private credit jitters
A fresh bout of anxiety has gripped the $3 trillion private credit market after alternative asset manager Blue Owl moved to limit withdrawals from one of its funds ahead of a planned merger.
reut.rs
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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sky.skymarchini.net
Ai Corp CDS spreads is what’s gonna kill the ai rollout, my take. Market signaling no appetite for the projects. Nobody’s gonna buy your debt (or will, but at Ccc rates…) to build another datacenter if your CDS is >100bps. Even at 60-80 it’s dicey
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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sky.skymarchini.net
I actually think coreweave is cooked, mostly due to their own choices, but idk how much they matter. Oracle teetering (CDS is at like 100bps) is what has raised my Concern
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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pamherd.bsky.social
Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...
Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.
www.statnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
This Supreme Court case in Louisiana is about one thing, and one thing only: reinstituting Jim Crow by way of ensuring that Black Americans are taxed without receiving representation in Congress.

Everything else is noise and bluster.

This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.
October 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
2017 TRUMP: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

2025 TRUMP: “Thank you, Qatar, for my free $400,000,000 personal jet!”

TRUMP, a few months later: “I'm letting Qatar be the first foreign nation to build a military base on US soil.”

www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...
President Calls on Qatar to Stop Supporting Terrorism
President Trump says the nation of Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level and that it's time to stop this funding, stop teaching hate, and stop the killing. "We ask Qatar and other ...
www.c-span.org
October 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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adamweinstein.bsky.social
I did not expect this kind of fire from Eliot Cohen, but he has Hegseth absolutely pegged www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There is a certain kind of Army officer who, after the excitement of company command, finds his career stalled, and who perhaps leaves the service as a major in the National Guard filled with bitterness and resentment. He may then dream of one day being in a position to make all the superior officers who failed to appreciate his leadership qualities, his insight, his sheer fitness stand to attention and hear him lay down the law about what it is to be an officer, and threaten to fire those who do not meet his standards. In this respect, and this respect only, on that stage Pete Hegseth was living the dream. In all other respects, however, he was ridiculous...
October 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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ianboudreau.com
Something our glorious Secretary of War does not seem to have considered is that the reason military PT and grooming standards, plus policies for EEO and abuse reporting, are the way they are is because they're necessary for recruitment and retention
September 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.
bradlander.bsky.social Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Sep 25
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
We've gone from "90 deals in 90 days" to "4 deals no one really believes".
September 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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junlper.beer
if the democratic party were led by van hollen instead of chuck schumer or hakeem jeffries right now democratic party approval rating would fly through the roof
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 18
Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."
September 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM