Cop: "How many beers have you had, Ben?"
Me: "Just the one, officer"
Meredith, from the other room: "Are you talking to a make-believe police officer in there? Are you drunk?"
Me: "Yes...and yes"
A question I would like answered is whether Larry Summers blew a billion-dollar hole in Harvard's endowment with an interest rate swap trade in 2006 because he thought it was a good idea, or because his very good friend Jeffrey Epstein, who was dabbling in rates at the time, did
A wild plot twist I was not aware of until today: JE's redemption from Bear Stearns High-Grade Structure Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage fund (real heads know this one) due to his impending arrest might have, uh, actually been the proximal cause of the GFC?
I am ending my campaign for Minnesota Governor. I describe why in the below video. Please watch until the end. (It is 10 minutes, 52 seconds.)
Thank you,
Chris
Most disturbing part of the Renee Good murder was the rhetorical shift from any pretense of her being a danger to the ICE agent to just accumulating evidence of her being on the left as justification for her death.
The excessive force, incompetence, unnecessary violence, and genuinely authoritarian-looking actions of these masked ICE is not a blip. They are a pattern. Just in the last 10 minutes with a quick search of "ICE" on X it is stunning all the video evidence out there (thread):
I’m old enough to remember him saying he was democratizing this app when he bought it; now he’s creating a hierarchy where you literally pay for the right to harass and abuse people. Wretched stuff.
CNBC did an excellent report on Medicaid and Medicare fraud in a similar manner but with better sourcing than Nick Shirley 2 years ago, and it never went viral because it didn't have an anti-immigrant angle to it and the fraud was in a red state https://t.co/YWkNryJ9ff
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