Daniel Convissor
@danielconvissor.bsky.social
Family man. Advocate for safe, efficient transportation, land use, and, well, everything. Director of @biketarrytown.bsky.social.
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Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal
Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied
apple.news
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
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“Hopefully the Republicans may hear us” may be the dumbest sentence I’ve heard uttered since her colleague from Maine said Trump “learned his lesson” after his first impeachment.
Democratic Senator Shaheen says "Hopefully the Republicans may hear us."
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“Hopefully the Republicans may hear us” may be the dumbest sentence I’ve heard uttered since her colleague from Maine said Trump “learned his lesson” after his first impeachment.
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A felon freed by Trump in his first term is sentenced again, this time to 27 months after a judge found that he sexually assaulted a nanny, swung an IV pole at a nurse and dodged tolls in his Lamborghini and Ferrari. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...
Felon Freed by Trump Is Sentenced Again, This Time to 27 Months
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A felon freed by Trump in his first term is sentenced again, this time to 27 months after a judge found that he sexually assaulted a nanny, swung an IV pole at a nurse and dodged tolls in his Lamborghini and Ferrari. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...
$200? How about $0.
Breaking News: Major League Baseball put a $200 cap on wagers for individual pitches after two Cleveland pitchers were charged with rigging bets. nyti.ms/4o7ELdT
M.L.B. Limits Bets on Individual Pitches After Gambling Charges
Two Cleveland pitchers were accused of colluding with bettors. The league and its gambling company partners have put a $200 limit on wagers on individual pitches.
nyti.ms
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
$200? How about $0.
Walking the dog is a good thing.
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Walking the dog is a good thing.
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No it won’t. It doesn’t have that kind of money. Are they playing with the gullible Trump or did he just make this up?
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
No it won’t. It doesn’t have that kind of money. Are they playing with the gullible Trump or did he just make this up?
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What the hell are we doing?
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What the hell are we doing?
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Shocked! 🙄
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
Supermarket Billionaire Reacts To Mamdani’s Win
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
www.forbes.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Shocked! 🙄
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It’s worse than you think. This is his lawyer Rita Glavin who has been paid tens of millions of dollars to smear me and the other women who came forward. She has led his taxpayer funded litigation abuse of us all.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It’s worse than you think. This is his lawyer Rita Glavin who has been paid tens of millions of dollars to smear me and the other women who came forward. She has led his taxpayer funded litigation abuse of us all.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
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"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
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Chad’s wife is a federal judge who was appointed by Trump and confirmed despite a Not Qualified rating from the ABA. She issued a nationwide block on Biden’s public transit mask mandate and also struck down a ban on guns in post offices. No complaints about activist judges from Chad then?
At #FedSoc, just-departed Bondi chief of staff and acting DOJ No. 3 Chad Mizelle urges Congress to step up campaign to impeach federal judges who've blocked Trump policies. Mizelle also rejects Roberts' stance that rulings can't be grounds for impeachment. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Chad’s wife is a federal judge who was appointed by Trump and confirmed despite a Not Qualified rating from the ABA. She issued a nationwide block on Biden’s public transit mask mandate and also struck down a ban on guns in post offices. No complaints about activist judges from Chad then?
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Sleepy Hollow needs these.
I was in a section of West Harlem (by City College) that is part of the pilot program for these new bins. I hope the new Mayor expands this, and it truly will be one of the better parts of the Eric Adams legacy.
Look at how nicely these fit into the city streetscape, even if a few car owners cry.
Look at how nicely these fit into the city streetscape, even if a few car owners cry.
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Sleepy Hollow needs these.
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"There is a significant element of U.S. conservatives (who talk about Hungary) with the same tone a small child might use to describe Walt Disney World, or a wealthy adult might talk about the violent sci-fi delights of Westworld: places where all your fantasies can come true."
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"There is a significant element of U.S. conservatives (who talk about Hungary) with the same tone a small child might use to describe Walt Disney World, or a wealthy adult might talk about the violent sci-fi delights of Westworld: places where all your fantasies can come true."
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"Faced with this dilemma—where do you get a trillion dollars quick?—OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps." prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to:...
prospect.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"Faced with this dilemma—where do you get a trillion dollars quick?—OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps." prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...
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So much winning!
Trump Media, parent of Truth Social, had just $973,000 in sales in the third quarter, down 4% from last year. Its loss for the quarter expanded to $54.8 million from $19.2 million in 2024Q3.
www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...
Trump Media, parent of Truth Social, had just $973,000 in sales in the third quarter, down 4% from last year. Its loss for the quarter expanded to $54.8 million from $19.2 million in 2024Q3.
www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
So much winning!
Trump Media, parent of Truth Social, had just $973,000 in sales in the third quarter, down 4% from last year. Its loss for the quarter expanded to $54.8 million from $19.2 million in 2024Q3.
www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...
Trump Media, parent of Truth Social, had just $973,000 in sales in the third quarter, down 4% from last year. Its loss for the quarter expanded to $54.8 million from $19.2 million in 2024Q3.
www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...
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If we on the left view them as this big amorphous, scary, extrajudicial totalitarian force of evil, we miss what's happening on the ground, fractures that are emerging, weak points that can be taken advantage of, irresolvable contradictions that imperil the implementation of their vision
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
If we on the left view them as this big amorphous, scary, extrajudicial totalitarian force of evil, we miss what's happening on the ground, fractures that are emerging, weak points that can be taken advantage of, irresolvable contradictions that imperil the implementation of their vision
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it's that they legitimately don't have a future, capitalism is cannibalizing civil society and ripping out all the wiring to find the last bits of profit it can before the whole thing snaps. It's not creating new jobs or possibilities for these young men! It's SO FUCKING BAD that they sit online
November 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
it's that they legitimately don't have a future, capitalism is cannibalizing civil society and ripping out all the wiring to find the last bits of profit it can before the whole thing snaps. It's not creating new jobs or possibilities for these young men! It's SO FUCKING BAD that they sit online
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The 6th Circuit has been competing to be the most anti-trans circuit in America and is now carving out a right to bully transgender kids.
Despicable.
Despicable.
BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.
Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The 6th Circuit has been competing to be the most anti-trans circuit in America and is now carving out a right to bully transgender kids.
Despicable.
Despicable.
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(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
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Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system"
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
New College of Florida shows soaring expenses as state targets 'woke waste'
A report by Florida DOGE found that Sarasota's New College is the most financially inefficient school in the university system.
www.heraldtribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system"
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
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DHS stopped automatically archiving officials’ text messages.
Now to save messages — as law requires— officials gotta…
-take a screenshot.
-send it to their work computer
-run the file through a program there
-repeat
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Now to save messages — as law requires— officials gotta…
-take a screenshot.
-send it to their work computer
-run the file through a program there
-repeat
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
DHS stopped automatically archiving officials’ text messages.
Now to save messages — as law requires— officials gotta…
-take a screenshot.
-send it to their work computer
-run the file through a program there
-repeat
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Now to save messages — as law requires— officials gotta…
-take a screenshot.
-send it to their work computer
-run the file through a program there
-repeat
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
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NEW: New York has been quietly preparing for a potential Trump deployment of troops & agents to NYC.
Hochul, business, activists mobilized - meeting, discussing lawsuits, talking to LA/Chicago.
+ New details on Canal Street raid.
W/ @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
Hochul, business, activists mobilized - meeting, discussing lawsuits, talking to LA/Chicago.
+ New details on Canal Street raid.
W/ @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
New York Prepares for a Potential Trump Immigration Crackdown
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
NEW: New York has been quietly preparing for a potential Trump deployment of troops & agents to NYC.
Hochul, business, activists mobilized - meeting, discussing lawsuits, talking to LA/Chicago.
+ New details on Canal Street raid.
W/ @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
Hochul, business, activists mobilized - meeting, discussing lawsuits, talking to LA/Chicago.
+ New details on Canal Street raid.
W/ @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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🚨NOT GUILTY! D.C. Jury ACQUITS sandwich thrower.
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
🚨NOT GUILTY! D.C. Jury ACQUITS sandwich thrower.
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Subway should absolutely create a sandwich combo meal called The Dunn Deal.
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Subway should absolutely create a sandwich combo meal called The Dunn Deal.