Jeff
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Jeff
@ArkansasOracle
You can give sight to the blind, but you can’t force them to see.



The very top of the wealth distribution is really the only group that truly benefits from this system. That said, I actually like your argument because it aligns closely with the mindset of neoliberal voters, which I’ve often mentioned when talking about the working-class right-wing vote. People tend to believe that under capitalism, they too can become rich…



Seed oils: Are they even correlated with bad health? I assembled ALL of the available NHANES data and linked as much as possible of it to the National Death Index and found that... It's not. Seed oils aren't even correlated with problems.

To be clear, I want ICE everywhere. Airports. The Social Security office. The DMV. Water parks. Grocery stores. Truck stops. The tiddy bars. Can you imagine how much that would improve the experience everywhere?




If there is a genre I truly hate in the @nytimes it's the frequent pieces featuring folks with multi-millions in assets and multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars in yearly household income describing themselves as middle class, and being credulously understood that way, while professionals with healthy six figure incomes engage in poverty larping because, of course, if these other people are "middle class" then they must themselves be "poor" or "working class" or "just getting by." More here: musaalgharbi.com/2025/01/01/how…


BlackRock CEO Larry Fink on Monday urged investors to resist the temptation to time markets, arguing that staying invested through periods of turmoil has historically delivered far stronger returns. cnb.cx/4uD9vaS









Ares is capping withdrawals of its $10.7B Strategic Income Fund. The fund is enforcing its 5% quarterly limit after investors tried to pull out of 11.6% of shares.




Ultimately the failure of Bidenomics was simply betting against this
















