#squawk box

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

FINALLY

Squawk Box delivers an Appropriate Theme

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alix Breeden at Daily Kos:

Linda McMahon’s WWE days might be over, but she’s still putting on one hell of a show.  Without missing a beat, the secretary of education proudly told CNBC Wednesday that the Trump administration doesn’t have a problem with what universities research—as long as it aligns with President Donald Trump’s agenda.  "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish,” McMahon said. She berated Harvard, specifically, for its alleged antisemitic environment on campus—a talking point that Trump and his cronies have been using to justify pulling billions of funding from Harvard in the past few months.  Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem even stepped in to announce that the Trump administration is barring Harvard from enrolling future international students and forcing current international students to transfer or lose their legal status. Fortunately, this attack was swiftly blocked by a federal judge.  However, attacks on higher education have become commonplace since the beginning of Trump’s second term. Funding for research has also seen major cuts, and—due to Trump’s war on diversity, equity, and inclusion—federal grants have also gotten the axe. 

[...] But for McMahon and Trump, threatening critical funding to these schools is just one big show. “I think the president is really looking at this as, 'Okay, how can we really make our point, and what are the things that Harvard and other universities are doing that we have to call attention to,’” McMahon said.

On CNBC’s Squawk Box Wednesday, US Dept. of Education head Linda McMahon says she has no problem with university research programs… as long as it toes the MAGA line.

McMahon makes Betsy DeVos-- herself an awful head of the US DOE-- look good in comparison.

From the 05.28.2025 edition of CNBC's Squawk Box:

See Also:

NCRM: University Research OK Only if ‘In Sync’ With Trump Goals: Top Administration Officials

[ezdrools]

You draw Sada like I'd find her rummaging through my cupboard at 2 am like a beast if I forgot to lock my backdoor and I appriciate it a lot

im glad i could provide thats what ive dedicated myself to o7

she does this btw^

[thisdrinkinglife]

Joe Kernen on his holidays in Europe

[pyrepaladin]

do you have the artists permission to be reposting their stuff here?

i commissioned these pieces, so i would hope so. i make sure to credit them

[litcityblues]

I know some people weren't too hot on Season 3 of Ted Lasso, I loved it.

Shogun was incredible.

[windydrawallday]

While walking your merry way during this night of Halloween, a sudden cold and playful breeze left near your feet... 🍂🍂🍂

A Magical CANDY HUNT Card to fill! [FINISHED]

Welcome, everyone! From my dearests stray cats, to the roaming raccoons and crows that dive between my work and reblogs now and then: I'm inviting all of ya to my first Trick-Or-Treat Ask Box Game 🎃🎃🎃

🎉🦇🎉🦇[UPDATE: Card COMPLETED, YAY]🎉🦇🎉🦇

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD these little graphics for FREE HERE ➡️ [Itchio Page] ⬅️ (Donations are optional) Thank you for all!

This time I decided to put an extra fun (and motivational) twist to it:

All you need to do is to leave and ask off anon (I won't count any anon ask for this event, obvious reasons I hope) on my inbox saying in any way "Trick-or-treat".

⚠️PS You can only ToT ONCE! The idea is to use this as an excuse for interaction, even if ephemeral.

Then, I'll reply to you with one of the six Candy Items I drew especially for this event (that I will pull with the aid of Random.org).

And that's it!

Now, what's different from usual ToT games here? Well, every time one of you pulls a new item, I will update this post with the unveiled candy until all of them are unveiled!

And then what will happen? The prize for everyone will be having access to these cute graphics in full high res! I will leave it as a free-to-use set of PNGs to download on my Itchio/Kofi page for all of you to enjoy forever 🧡

⭐ Other extra rules to take into account:

I'm not searching to roleplay or go too deep in interaction, but be free to use this as an excuse to draw/write scenes with your OCs/Sonas if it inspires you! [Corny] will be happy to eat help you during the hunt!

This event will last until the whole card is filled but! I'll reply a bit more after the 31 ends so, bear with me if I don't reply to yours in time (I'm still working during these days).

That's it! I hope I can make some company to ya with this, or just fill the moment with fun in case you are like me dealing with the flu and with rain keeping you away from venturing outside, sigh. Anyways.

Happy Halloween and good luck! 🦇

[sparrowsortadrawzzz]

me when I Megatron spoon

[seilnakyle]

i don’t suggest catwoman fans involve themselves in twitter discourse in general bc it’s not worth it. you could say anything and they’d screenshot it and call it racist. ideally you should ignore and not give them attention because they want to catch fans in a bad moment to push a kind of agenda. most users aren’t even reading what catwoman fans have to say and just follow along mindlessly with what mutuals / the tl tells them. just let the comics fall back into place wrt selina and bruce and it’ll speak for itself.

that’s rlly how i feel after being back on there for a bit tbh you can’t argue with them bc all they do is act ignorant and try to shift it to racism, their only argument. twitter still twitter lol not worried abt, i mean i used to deal with Depp stans daily, this is nothing 🤣

They’re compensating w all the squawking bc no matter what it’s not gonna change things for their fave or make Selina any less the IT girl ✨

All this bc of that single Hush panel…🤭

[turqrambles]

I hate that one "actually Lilo and Stitch didn't have THAT big of an opening, the media is lying to you" post that's been circulating on Tumblr because it's basically reassuring people with a flat out lie of no, the abhorrent movie isn't actually doing well when in reality Lilo and Stitch 2025 is currently the second highest grossing movie at the domestic box office of 2025, its current theatrical run is at pure profit now, and it's projected to end its run on 1.1 billion dollars...

Stay informed. Posts that say "the media is lying to you" could, in fact, be lying to you.

[carriecarriecatgirl]

......im normal........come closer

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Aaron Rupar at Public Notice:

MAGA-friendly CNBC host Joe Kernen dropped an interesting nugget right as Squawk Box went to commercial break on Tuesday. “Well, Trump canceled, and he was going to come on,” Kernen said. Not only did Trump once love going on CNBC, but Kernen’s revelation comes on the heels of Trump declining or canceling a number of other high-profile opportunities to make a pitch to voters on mainstream TV. Trump refused to debate Kamala Harris a second time, which would’ve aired on CNN. Trump then refused CNN’s offer to host a town hall. And Trump of course also recently backed out of a 60 Minutes interview. The explanation for all this is not that Trump has suddenly become camera shy. It’s that his campaign undoubtedly realizes his rapidly degrading condition doesn’t play well with audiences beyond the MAGA cult. As a result, they’re retreating to the safer terrain of nonstop rallies and fawning Fox hits.

Losing a step or three

The reason Trump’s campaign isn’t keen to get him in front of swing voters on mainstream platforms was on stark display Tuesday when Trump did a rare event that wasn’t a festival of sycophancy. By any objective standard, Trump’s Economic Club of Chicago interview was a disaster. He came out of the gates with an asinine proposal for 2,000 percent tariffs on imported cars, then was quickly reduced to insulting the moderator, Bloomberg’s John Micklethwait, when Micklethwait rightly pointed out that his his economic proposals are an inflationary disaster. 

Trump repeatedly refused to answer questions Micklethwait asked him, instead going on self-absorbed rants about how Google is unfair to him or about how he could do a better job as Federal Reserve chairman than Jerome Powell. By the end of the event, Trump had veered into making an impassioned defense of the big lie and his coup attempt, bragging about his crowd size on January 6 and absurdly claiming the events of that day were just “love and peace.” 

While Trump’s devoted fans might applaud him for starting fights with moderators and trying to own the libs, most everyone else can see that his policies are bad and his presentation is worse. Micklethwait’s pointed questioning helped expose those realities. And that’s why Trump is intent to do everything he can to avoid more settings like that until election day.

[...] These rallies may energize his base, but beyond that they mostly end up providing fodder for damaging video clips like the ones above. Trump, however, reliably gets help from a mainstream press that too often sanewashes his speeches for readers and viewers who aren’t watching them live and may not spend a lot of time on social media. The New York Times, for instance, described Trump as “swaying soberly” during his musical “detour” in Pennsylvania, adding that he’s known “for improvisational departures.” The WSJ’s headline about the event read “Trump’s Pennsylvania Town Hall Ends in Concert,” as though the plan all along was to have Trump behave like a maniac. ABC News’ TV report on the bizarre spectacle was even worse, with a reporter praising the “almost intimate” atmosphere and noting “people were having a good time. It did not seem out of the ordinary.” (It was very much out of the ordinary.)

But it’s harder to spin something that hundreds of thousands or millions of people are watching, like the debate in which Kamala Harris dominated Trump so thoroughly that MAGAs are still spreading conspiracy theories to try to explain it away. And so the Trump campaign is circling the wagons.

[...] Tellingly, instead of taking CNN up on its town hall offer, Trump opted to do a prerecorded “town hall” with sycophantic Fox News host Harris Faulkner that will air later today. Kamala Harris, meanwhile, is doing a Fox News hit of her own tonight, and she’s also reportedly in negotiations to appear on Joe Rogan’s podcast. She’s out there trying to make a case to voters who aren’t already part of her coalition while Trump ensconces himself in safe spaces.

Aaron Rupar’s Public Notice post today highlights why Donald Trump’s campaign is stowing him away in safe spaces where he won’t be facing real challenges, as when he does veer out of the right-wing bubble like with John Micklethwait of Bloomberg this week in Chicago, Trump crumbles for the world to see.

Recently, he has backed out of appearing on CBS’s 60 Minutes, the proposed Trump v. Harris CNN debate (that have since been repurposed as town halls… at least for Harris), and CNBC’s Squawk Box (a place where he repeatedly loved to go on).

[ezdrools]

I have a feeling you like sada a bit too much.............That scares me

someone has to do it

[hawnks]

I forgot to pack my PILLOW

[crabussy]

VERY UPSET ABOUT RUIN

[litcityblues]

Season 1 of Reacher was good enough to convince me to come back for more and Slow Horse is just incredible, full stop.