The two presidential candidates that terrify Wall Street the most
“It can’t be Warren and it can’t be Sanders. It has to be someone centrist and someone who can win.”
... ‘a top exec’ at a large bank.’
I would say both are centrist given how far to the right we’ve ‘drifted’.
Extraordinary: 🔗📼 In a Nutshell
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The Supreme Court may kill Roe v. Wade as soon as this week.
Conclusion and Spoiler Alert:
”Roe v. Wade will die a quiet death, and the Supreme Court won’t even have to kill it.”
The juxtaposition caught me out @bestoftimes … how big are His TVs I wondered? Then I realized that it was another wonderful @robertbrook photograph.
“Out of his element.”
… the Times reported.
“Out of his mind.”
is more accurate.
Trump’s ‘Axis of Evil’: Pompeo, Bolton & Abrams
I’ve ‘picked a side’ Pompeo … not yours.
You are part of an isolationist administration, so why throw your weight around here?
Rhetorical question … I know it’s the oil. It’s always the oil.
Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand
”The aim of Founders, clarified by the accompanying text and by the piece’s lurid illustrations, was not simply to evade the apocalypse, but to prosper from it.”
Europe ‘coming apart before our eyes’, say 30 top intellectuals
Pro-Europeans “no longer have a choice. We must sound the alarm against the arsonists of soul and spirit that, from Paris to Rome, with stops in Barcelona, Budapest, Dresden, Vienna and Warsaw, are playing with the fire of our freedoms.”
Reskilling 1.4 million workers due to automation will cost $34 billion
Finally someone talking about the issue society faces, though personally I think 1.4 million is a lowball and at only per head price of around $25,000, I think the final answer is going to be well north.
The deal also means the roughly 800,000 federal workers who’ve been furloughed or forced to work without pay since Dec. 22 will begin getting paychecks …
“very quickly or as soon as possible,”
tRump
Serious thought. IWatch becomes my sole cellular device and I then have an iPad, iPad mini or iPod Touch as my secondary device that is wifi or piggy backs on my watch’s 4G connection.
Invasion Day - the new Australia Day?
Protesters blast Australia′s national day
I wonder when this movement will catch on in America?
Refreshing honesty .. from Alex Karp, CEO Palantir
”You’re not supposed to go exactly explain what you’re doing, what’s wrong with it,"
“You’re supposed to be a complete a–hole and that’s how you get funding.”
‘a romantic’ is very different to ‘aromantic’ (that’s people who don’t feel romance) … those little spaces of nothing are SO important.
The Usual Suspects must have one hell of a back story!
Courtesy of @xkcd … so true … so funny
Basecamp CEO Jason Fried says venture capital funding destroys startups
File in the ‘not wrong’ bucket.
Hong Kong moves to criminalize insults to anthem
While in America the national anthem is insulted pretty much every day - and no one bats an eyelid…
Facebook is a damaging to your health as cigarettes, say tech experts.
I was never a fan of smoking - but I never knew it was bad for democracy.
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