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1. …while the cat’s awaymarket’s closed…the mice will play?

   trump to stock brokers:

   — Cullen (@hellocullen.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T05:58:15.260Z

   The Speaker of Iran’s Parliament fact checks Donald Trump:

   “The Strait of Hormuz will not remain open.”
   

   …in a best laid plans of mice & men sense these men are clearly mice…but…like…not hitchhiker’s guide mice that run everything from the 5th dimension where the planet is the maze in the experiment?

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   • at some point the stockmarkets just going to stop believing trump right?…..right?

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     • No, because 2008 taught them that they will ALWAYS get paid.

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       • yeah…im still pissed off about that one….i lose my job and the bankers what caused it get bailed out and bonuses?
         wtf man

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     • …at the risk of it coming off glib or flippant

       Every time mainstream news outlets quote the sitting president of the United States, they are introducing misinformation into Americans' news ecosystem.It's really as simple as that.

       — Judah Grunstein (@judah-grunstein.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T22:16:23.816Z

       …it’s

       — Michael E. Mann (@michaelemann.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T22:41:00.869Z

       …not just the stock market

       Be sure to read the whole thing.

       — Colin Peters (@colinpeters.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T23:25:52.064Z

       …although he does sort of think of the lens he views things through to be “the market”

       Barely more than a decade ago, Florida proudly and with a bipartisan vote passed in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants who had been brought here as children and grew up in Florida. DeSantis’ Lieutenant Governor was actually a champion of the bill.Things changed fast.

       — Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T23:43:13.489Z

       …while

       HahahahahahahahaOh my!Is this an opening para or is this an opening paragraph?This alone should end any normal human cabinet secretary.

       — Flying Mezerkis (@bananapantz.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T01:07:56.300Z

       …not actually betraying any understanding of that bar the stuff that “unusual whales” account was birthed to post about

       BREAKING: Just 20 minutes before Trump's announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was open, massive trades hit the market.Investors sold a combined 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures, ​a $760 million bet that oil would go down.These orders were much larger than anything else at the time.Unusual.

       — Unusual Whales (@unusualwhales.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T03:55:08.790Z

       …speaking of which

       BREAKING: Meta to cut 8,000 jobs, 10% of workforce, in major bloodbath next month, per NYP

       — Unusual Whales (@unusualwhales.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T02:00:16.019Z

       …anyway

       I’m sure this is unrelated to the fact that last month data workers revealed they were asked by Meta to review video from Meta Ray Bans of user’s intimate moments like having sex or using the bathroom.
       Kenyan firm sacks more than 1,000 workers after losing Meta contractMeta paused work with Sama last month after allegations about staff viewing private scenes filmed by smart glasses

       …however you stack it up…seems like…your point stands?

       So Trump causes a war that creates a massive oil shortage and closes the world's most important shipping lane, which causes stocks to fall, then announces the war is over three or four times, even though the shipping lane is still closed, and stocks.. rebound to higher than they've ever been before?

       — Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T01:51:37.446Z

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       • P.S.

         …sounds like a tanker & a container ship have reported getting strikes today

         Revolutionary Guard Corps gunboats have fired on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.

         — Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T12:07:53.359Z

         …shortly after this part

         USS Gerald R Ford has entered the Red Sea accompanied by two destroyers, AP reports.

         — Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T11:35:51.627Z

         …gonna be a *long* weekend, I guess?

         Wonder what this means for the ceasefire agreement. “A tanker in the area has reported coming under fire by two Iranian gunboats and a container ship has been hit by a projectile, the UK Maritime Trade Operations Centre says.”www.bbc.com/news/live/cq…

         — Phil Carpenter (@photojvideoj.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T13:05:20.431Z

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   • More like children and we’re talking mostly paste eating ones at that.

     These are the kind of people that pooh pooh experience and skill because they know they don’t have it. A number of the really stupid MBAs I encountered in my working life had the same mentality. Experience and skill don’t matter no matter the job because in their minds everything was a commodity (except them.)

     And the reality is that their skill set of cost cutting and enshittifying everything is more common than actual skills.

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   • Iran says it has closed the Strait of Hormuz again, citing U.S. blockade

     And … it’s closed again. The orange fool and his drunken lackey have succeeded in giving Iran more power and influence than it’s ever had. There’s no way they’re not going to make the entire world pay.

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     • Yeah, I know, but he’s not wrong.

       Outside of all the death and suffering and devastation, it's extremely funny that Trump decided that there was no real harm in giving Iran an "off" button for the global economy to get out of the war he started, and Iran immediately began mashing the button every week and making a different demand

       — Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T13:02:59.356Z

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       • Sure, right now it's frankly reasonable stuff like "stop bombing Beirut" and "stop blockading us" but there's not really a limiting principle here, is there? Why not demand a fleet of luxury cars every week? Or like, Guam? Unless Trump is willing to invade outright not much anyone can do.

         — Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T13:07:24.955Z

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2. Why you crying, Caitlyn?

   I looked down real deep and nope still can’t find any single fucks to give about Caitlyn Jenner’s plight. She sold out her community because she’s rich and thought she’d be excluded from it all. Same fucking mentality as my MAGAt relatives (or any immigrant MAGAt) because they thought they were the “special” ones.

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   • So let me ponder this a second.

     Jenner: Republicans hate trans people.
     Jenner: I. as a trans person, will give Republicans my full unwavering support.
     Jenner: Republicans are being mean to me and someone needs to make them stop.

     That is a special kind of stupid.

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     • Fueled in huge part by narcissism, I suspect.

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3. …uh…so…is he mad they said his staff called a breaching squad to get in & wake him up when he was dead to the world during work hours?

   I know we are so far past the point of even pointing this out but it is wild that the fbi director is threatening to sue people over a news article

   — Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T12:29:08.383Z

   …or…is this all just going to make him…umm…drink more?

   i think too that he also understands on some level that he’s attracted less flak than the others in the admin because he’s kept his head down and just slacked off. but when your boss is infamously paranoid and vindictive and you’re director of the FBI…

   my theory with Kash is that he is smart enough to know that his girlfriend will leave him if he isn’t providing her with a certain lifestyle and that the man he has bound himself to is a senile fascist who betrays everyone he ever works with, and that this is why his drinking has gotten worse.

   ….you’re gonna have to go to work at some point, he didn’t put you there so you could have airsoft games with the HRT operators

   the kind of work that the President will want you to do will put you between a rock and a hard place:

   1. do something flagrantly illegal, stupid, and dangerous and have POTUS throw you under the bus

   2. refuse to do something flagrantly illegal, stupid, dangerous and POTUS throws you under bus

   and when you get thrown under the bus, as james says, you’re not gonna be able to use government vehicles to cart bae around.

   …either way…hangovers seem a certainty for kash going forward?

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   • Or he’s just an alcoholic.

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4. Greatest nation in the world!!!

   

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   • Nonsense. A senile orange man who lies told me that America is in a Golden Age. If you can’t trust a senile orange man who lies, who can you trust?

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     • …works best delivered in a northern irish accent…but I heard a comedian from that neck of the woods observe drily

       who could have expected that an orange man would have a problem with the pope?

       …so…I guess some principles *are* transitive…& you can trust those?

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5. Huh. Imagine that. The most unpopular cretin in decades can’t manage to fill a church in a historically red state.

   Trump greeted by empty seats at Arizona rally leaving supporters ‘totally shocked’: report

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6. Who would have thunk I would actually be relieved these assholes are not retiring but here we are…

   

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   • There was never a chance that either of these two fucks would retire. Thomas is not going to cut off his right-wing income stream, and Alito is so fucking arrogant that he just wouldn’t. Alito may croak, though. So it’s still a concern.

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7. Speaking of climate change…I haven’t heard a peep about this on any news platforms! This part of the world & Polynesia is so fucked w/ climate change getting worst…

   https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/04/a-super-typhoon-just-devastated-the-mariana-islands-months-before-peak-storm-season/

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