Jordan Weissmann
@JHWeissmann
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Covering federal agencies and consumer affairs for Yahoo Finance. Ex-Semafor, Slate, Atlantic. Got tips? Email [email protected]. Signal: jhw.54
Washington, DC
Joined June 2009
Imposing a rule: If we are having a conversation, and you tweet at me 3 times or more in a row without my responding, you're getting blocked as a matter of principal, because it's annoying and a sign you are probably a psychopath.
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Ah yes, we were definitely better off in the free market utopia of quack patent medicines and child labor.
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One good, non-political reason New York might not be investing in Israeli government bonds anymore is that US Treasuries now offer higher yield.
šØ NYC Mayor Eric Adams is accusing Comptroller Brad Lander of effectively divesting from Israel by choosing not to reinvest in Israeli bonds. In a letter sent today, First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro is requesting a formal review of that decision to be completed within a week. ā¬ļø
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It sounds like the entire idea was based on a misunderstanding of what those 2015 documents contained, but doesnāt trace the claim back to a tweeter zero.
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Does anybody know where the claim that Epstein kept a literal client list originated? Thereās a 2024 Vox article explaining that it emerged when a bunch of old civil suit documents were being unsealed, but Iām curious who made the claim first.
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One of Americaās most famous nepo babies has thoughts about other peopleās job security.
One thing I never realized until I moved to the DC area is the absolutely insane amount of people who think they are entitled to a job in government - forever. It is part of the rot in DC and they need a reality check about how the actual world works.
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Lol this thread has now attracted a bunch of client list true believers who are absolutely not the group it was intended for.
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People seem to think Iām asking for an actual reason. No ā I think this list probably just doesnāt exist. Iām asking what reason Democrats would come up with for their version of the lore.
@JHWeissmann To protect Bill Clinton and who knows who else.
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So hereās the other thing ā how many Dems actually realize that the crank theory is that Epstein blackmailed politicians on behalf of Mossad?.
@JHWeissmann You are such a rube dude. 1) because Clinton and many incredibly powerful democratic elites are also implicated, and 2) because it would expose how much of our policy decisions have been dictated by foreign and domestic intelligence agencies via blackmail.
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Like, if youāre a Dem, this is a chance to crack Trumpās base of cranks and maybe even win a handful of them back. You want him tweeting all day about Epstein!. But then, what? Is the argument that Merrick Garland was too principled about documents?.
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I absolutely understand why Democrats want to fan this Epstein controversy, but if Trump is hiding incriminating info, whatās the explanation for why Biden didnāt order it released?.
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RT @mattyglesias: If these guys want to testify to congress that they were just making this stuff up for years and explain why they decidedā¦.
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RT @provisionalidea: One of the weirder things about tech right VCsā broadsides against universities, unions, and Arab states is that the tā¦.
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This is extremely stupid, but also another example of how tech hiring practices lead a lot of people in that industry to assume every other business and government office is full of dead wood.
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The Theodore Roosevelt monument is by far the most underrated one in DC.
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A useful reminder: For all the talk of how the US economy has been financialized, manufacturing value add is still a bigger portion of GDP
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Itās also just generally insane to describe a multi-faceted economy like the US as suffering from āDutch Diseaseā.
The US doesnāt export the dollar. It exports financial and software technologies. The reason US assets are craved globally is multifaceted, but primarily āUS-centric global financial architecture backed by US militaryā and āUS tech innovationā. Investors want exposure to
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Zeke Emmanuel essentially says itās time for Democrats to go big with a program that looks like Medicare Advantage for All.
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