Zarkin.Frood
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(she/they) #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #BlueLivesDontExist Anti-facist, anti-racist, anti-anxiety. All cats are beautiful 🏳️⚧️🌈🍉
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Definitely not a bubble
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Definitely not a bubble
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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Whiteness only demands civility and grace in response to calls for accountability and responsibility for whiteness and white supremacism.
September 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Whiteness only demands civility and grace in response to calls for accountability and responsibility for whiteness and white supremacism.
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We simply cannot live in a country where the death of hate mongers is a tragedy and the death of everyone else only warrants a shrug.
September 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
We simply cannot live in a country where the death of hate mongers is a tragedy and the death of everyone else only warrants a shrug.
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In a fascist country, violence is a tragedy to be blamed on their political enemies when fascists say it is, and it's an isolated but unpreventable tragedy that must never be politicized when they say so, and it's no big deal when they say so, and it's righteous self-defense when they say so.
Nancy Mace to reporters on Charlie Kirk: “Democrats own what happened today.” When asked if that means Republicans “own” the shooting of Minnesota lawmakers she says “Are you kidding me?”
September 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
In a fascist country, violence is a tragedy to be blamed on their political enemies when fascists say it is, and it's an isolated but unpreventable tragedy that must never be politicized when they say so, and it's no big deal when they say so, and it's righteous self-defense when they say so.
Heard far-right hacks being sympathetically interviewed on NPR this morning. I got angry because who gives a shit if this guy's buddy died in a manner that he loudly and cruelly advocated for others? Fuck him.
September 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Heard far-right hacks being sympathetically interviewed on NPR this morning. I got angry because who gives a shit if this guy's buddy died in a manner that he loudly and cruelly advocated for others? Fuck him.
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Reminder...
Some entities will be putting their flags at half mast to commemorate/remember the victims of 9/11.
Do not let anyone co-opt that / let you think they are alllll in honor of some rando.
Some entities will be putting their flags at half mast to commemorate/remember the victims of 9/11.
Do not let anyone co-opt that / let you think they are alllll in honor of some rando.
September 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Reminder...
Some entities will be putting their flags at half mast to commemorate/remember the victims of 9/11.
Do not let anyone co-opt that / let you think they are alllll in honor of some rando.
Some entities will be putting their flags at half mast to commemorate/remember the victims of 9/11.
Do not let anyone co-opt that / let you think they are alllll in honor of some rando.
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What Danielle said.
According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2%
Let me put that another way.
President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2%
Let me put that another way.
President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
A thing I really need people to keep in mind: 15% tariffs are high, historically speaking. 10% tariffs are high.
The average effective tariff rate before this term was just over 2%. Anything double-digits is high!
The average effective tariff rate before this term was just over 2%. Anything double-digits is high!
August 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
What Danielle said.
According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2%
Let me put that another way.
President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2%
Let me put that another way.
President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
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BRUSUELAS: “.. Domestic electricity inflation inside the July consumer price index increased by 9.5% on a six-month average annualized basis. .. it will most likely move higher.”
#CPI ⚡️
#CPI ⚡️
August 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
BRUSUELAS: “.. Domestic electricity inflation inside the July consumer price index increased by 9.5% on a six-month average annualized basis. .. it will most likely move higher.”
#CPI ⚡️
#CPI ⚡️
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Let’s hope the NYT public editor looks into why Times reporters witnessed multiple instances of cash being handed out at the mayor’s events but didn’t write it up til they got beaten on the story by a feisty nonprofit site ….
Apologies …
We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.
Apologies …
We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.
August 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Let’s hope the NYT public editor looks into why Times reporters witnessed multiple instances of cash being handed out at the mayor’s events but didn’t write it up til they got beaten on the story by a feisty nonprofit site ….
Apologies …
We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.
Apologies …
We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.
My brother just stopped by to help with a computer issue and left me a Meshtastic device to play around with.
If SHTF and Internet/cell service gets wiped out (either through infrastructure collapse or intentional targeting) we can still communicate via mesh network.
If SHTF and Internet/cell service gets wiped out (either through infrastructure collapse or intentional targeting) we can still communicate via mesh network.
August 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My brother just stopped by to help with a computer issue and left me a Meshtastic device to play around with.
If SHTF and Internet/cell service gets wiped out (either through infrastructure collapse or intentional targeting) we can still communicate via mesh network.
If SHTF and Internet/cell service gets wiped out (either through infrastructure collapse or intentional targeting) we can still communicate via mesh network.
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One of my favorite things about Independence Day (1996) is that it's the only piece of media, fiction or nonfiction, where SETI is referred to as "S-E-T-I."
July 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
One of my favorite things about Independence Day (1996) is that it's the only piece of media, fiction or nonfiction, where SETI is referred to as "S-E-T-I."
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I am only 35 minutes into watching this but the things he has been saying for the last five minutes are such a stinging rebuke to the entire USCCB that I am now even more certain that schism that's been brewing for a while will happen in the next decade
if you're interested in getting a sense of the new Pope's background, personality, etc, here's a sit-down Q&A he did about 9 months ago #PopeLeoXIV
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U3y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U3y...
Evening of Reflection with Cardinal Prevost and Mass
YouTube video by LIVEMass StJude
www.youtube.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I am only 35 minutes into watching this but the things he has been saying for the last five minutes are such a stinging rebuke to the entire USCCB that I am now even more certain that schism that's been brewing for a while will happen in the next decade
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🧵Confirmation via a friend: Starbucks will forbid employees from masking without a medical note.
Giant US-based MAGAcorp known for union-busting, actively preventing workers from protecting themselves and the public from known workplace health hazards?
Starbucks wants you infected.
👉 #Sickbucks 👈
Giant US-based MAGAcorp known for union-busting, actively preventing workers from protecting themselves and the public from known workplace health hazards?
Starbucks wants you infected.
👉 #Sickbucks 👈
April 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
🧵Confirmation via a friend: Starbucks will forbid employees from masking without a medical note.
Giant US-based MAGAcorp known for union-busting, actively preventing workers from protecting themselves and the public from known workplace health hazards?
Starbucks wants you infected.
👉 #Sickbucks 👈
Giant US-based MAGAcorp known for union-busting, actively preventing workers from protecting themselves and the public from known workplace health hazards?
Starbucks wants you infected.
👉 #Sickbucks 👈
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Chasten and I are relieved that Governor Shapiro and his family are safe. While we wait to learn more, this much is clear: the targeting of a public official and his family - especially a prominent Jewish official on a major Jewish holiday - is unconscionable and has no place in our country.
April 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Chasten and I are relieved that Governor Shapiro and his family are safe. While we wait to learn more, this much is clear: the targeting of a public official and his family - especially a prominent Jewish official on a major Jewish holiday - is unconscionable and has no place in our country.
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Abundance™ aims to kill the antitrust movement & deter Dems from challenging oligarchy.
It wrongly pretends corporate power isnt the creator of scarcity.
Its political theory was tried in 2024 & was defeated by Trump.
Co-published with Rolling Stone 👇 www.levernews.com/abundance-is...
It wrongly pretends corporate power isnt the creator of scarcity.
Its political theory was tried in 2024 & was defeated by Trump.
Co-published with Rolling Stone 👇 www.levernews.com/abundance-is...
“Abundance” Is How Dems Lose To Trump
Ezra Klein’s new book is supercharging elites’ campaign to deter Democrats from challenging billionaires and corporate power.
www.levernews.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Abundance™ aims to kill the antitrust movement & deter Dems from challenging oligarchy.
It wrongly pretends corporate power isnt the creator of scarcity.
Its political theory was tried in 2024 & was defeated by Trump.
Co-published with Rolling Stone 👇 www.levernews.com/abundance-is...
It wrongly pretends corporate power isnt the creator of scarcity.
Its political theory was tried in 2024 & was defeated by Trump.
Co-published with Rolling Stone 👇 www.levernews.com/abundance-is...
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Being a billionaire in the United States feels basically identical whether you have $10B or $100B, but feels very different if you can sexually harass your au pair and she can quit and get a different job vs if she is desperate to keep her job and has to put up with it because the economy is shit.
it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers
This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.
April 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Being a billionaire in the United States feels basically identical whether you have $10B or $100B, but feels very different if you can sexually harass your au pair and she can quit and get a different job vs if she is desperate to keep her job and has to put up with it because the economy is shit.
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April 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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We used to have Bob Eggs, Steve Nintendo, Johnny No Plane Crash. No we have no eggs, no Nintendo, many plane crash.
April 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We used to have Bob Eggs, Steve Nintendo, Johnny No Plane Crash. No we have no eggs, no Nintendo, many plane crash.
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Man, the big huge protests in places like Boston, DC, NY, Chicago, and Minneapolis are awe-inspiring.
But my heart is gonna explode looking at these crowds of people out in tiny Maine towns and super red Alabama towns. Places where 15% of the population is on the street corner with more coming!
But my heart is gonna explode looking at these crowds of people out in tiny Maine towns and super red Alabama towns. Places where 15% of the population is on the street corner with more coming!
April 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Man, the big huge protests in places like Boston, DC, NY, Chicago, and Minneapolis are awe-inspiring.
But my heart is gonna explode looking at these crowds of people out in tiny Maine towns and super red Alabama towns. Places where 15% of the population is on the street corner with more coming!
But my heart is gonna explode looking at these crowds of people out in tiny Maine towns and super red Alabama towns. Places where 15% of the population is on the street corner with more coming!
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Less complaining about how big rallies don't do anything, more brainstorming about how to activate their attendees to get involved with targeted campaigns, direct action, and mutual aid.
April 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Less complaining about how big rallies don't do anything, more brainstorming about how to activate their attendees to get involved with targeted campaigns, direct action, and mutual aid.
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The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
April 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
March 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
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Chappell Roan’s The Giver, a song literally about lesbian topping she did as a country anthem cause she thought it was funny, used for Hockey Night in Canada’s opening tonight & it’s even funnier
March 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Chappell Roan’s The Giver, a song literally about lesbian topping she did as a country anthem cause she thought it was funny, used for Hockey Night in Canada’s opening tonight & it’s even funnier