Kai Ryssdal
Dad, husband, host @Marketplace. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran. kryssdal@marketplace.org
- Because of course they did. Cowards
- Reposted by Kai RyssdalReuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT ALLOWS CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL MAP INTENDED TO BENEFIT DEMOCRATS
- Literally, show me the money
- Oh come the F on... "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at a congressional hearing Wednesday that the president has the right to interfere with the decision-making of the Federal Reserve."
- Clown show. @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/bes...
- Reposted by Kai RyssdalA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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- Let’s remember Lummis owns $$$ worth of BTC. Of freakin’ course she wants the government to buy.
- Reposted by Kai RyssdalNEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning. Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
- Reposted by Kai Ryssdal#SellAmerica trade: 🇺🇸
- Reposted by Kai RyssdalA staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
- Reposted by Kai RyssdalJeff Bezos has enough spare change under the seat cushions of his rocket to keep this newspaper afloat. Can't he just pretend that the Washington Post is, like, a $75 million vanity documentary
- Well look at this. This’ll be the seat Trump will use to put Watch in as Chair. www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/b...
- But were they missteps? Really?
- Reposted by Kai RyssdalYou don't reform this. You disband it, then you put it on trial.
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- Yep. Let’s call a lie a lie, gang Presumptions of good faith are naive
- Have you noticed this? I have. "The news media doesn’t seem to know how to bring anything other than wide-eyed credulity to his utterances, even after all the lies and deceit of the past decade." That's @sulliview.bsky.social at her site. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/dear-media...
- Reposted by Kai Ryssdalexactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...
- There's a presumption of good faith here that seems...overly generous
- JUST IN: Judge Tostrud lifts restraining order against Trump administraiton, concluding they're unlikely to destroy or alter evidence related to the Pretti shooting -- though he says the record is "not one-sided." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- If only there was a Congress - or something, y’know? - that had power to do something about this
- The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington will close for roughly two years to allow for extensive renovations, President Donald Trump said. cnn.it/3LLBKTp
- Unintelligible gibberish
- Reposted by Kai RyssdalThat moment when you’re reading Thucydides and hit this passage just before the start of the war: “Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquility for an apparent temporary advantage.”
- Reposted by Kai Ryssdal"Both elected branches seem to have grown uninterested in making political...arguments to the American people, & rely on both active-duty & retired officers to do it for them. Ms. Schake rightly warns that this practice undermines their long-term interest in political supremacy over the military."
- FFS
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- Its also spooking, y’know, citizens, who say it’s an abomination
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- Looks like o picked a bad day to be out sick
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- Tell me you don’t understand how the Fed works without…ohmygodnevermind
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- Your now-regular reminder that Congressional Republicans are demonstrably totally fine with him running what is - for now - the world’s most important economy this way.
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- The circularity continues…
- I don't think he's actually looking forward to questions.
- Wait, is Powell in a different room than usual?
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- This guy scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. (I mean, Bovino does, too)
- Wut?
- Reposted by Kai Ryssdal"Senator Chuck Grassley, a lifelong Iowan, has served on the Senate Judiciary Committee since 1981, when he was first sworn into the U.S. Senate." www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/chair He questioned and voted on every single justice on the U.S. Supreme Court during their confirmation hearings.
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- Tell me you don't understand how the economy works without telling me you don't understand how the economy works
- But is it a scoop? Really?
- I worry about this
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- Reposted by Kai RyssdalBREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- Not to downplay the uninformed way he does economic policy, but total - *total - South Korean wood imports to the United States in 2024 came to 15.5 million dollars
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- Think. About. Having. To do this as journalists. (And citizens)
- Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
- Tell me again history doesn't matter...
- There are four living former presidents…
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- So. No particular order… Tell me again we’re still the dependable nation. He’s proving Carney’s point from that speech in Davos Convenient the markets are closed, no? The President of the United States is a chaos agent. Republicans in Congress endorse this with their silence.
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- Honestly, what’s the matter with him?
- Dear all journalists - Just because the president has long believed [X] or has always wanted to [Y], that doesn’t make it, y’know, a thing. Or legal. Thanks.
- OHMYGOD MAKE IT STOP
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