AS
banner
salkever.bsky.social
AS
@salkever.bsky.social
Takes are mine. No offense.
Even Fox affiliates are piling on. Apparently, he used OpenAI to write the report (they found OpenAI citations)
May 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
What does it say about a government when this happens to the Australian wife of a serving U.S. officer? www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/05/24/i...
‘I’m not a criminal’: Military wife detained, deported at Honolulu airport
U.S. border officials denied entry for Nicolle Saroukos, who says she was "treated like a criminal."
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
May 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
May 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
In the grand tradition of journalists and celebrities sanewashing autorcrats....
April 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
How a country treats its young and its old tells you a lot about its real value. www.dispatch.com/story/news/2...
Trump funding cuts, layoffs threaten Meals on Wheels service for thousands in central Ohio
Federal funding for Meals on Wheels in Franklin County and other central Ohio counties is expected to expire in June.
www.dispatch.com
April 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
April 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
DOGE was straight up bullshit. #stuffyouwillneverseeonfox
April 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reposted by AS
$721m to help Louisiana protect itself from Natural Disaster, gone

Red Rural Recession.

www.fox8live.com/2025/04/10/l...
Louisiana officials lament Trump administration’s cuts to FEMA grant programs for storm impacts
Hundreds of millions in expected project grants evaporating
www.fox8live.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Manufacturing investment getting hammered. Inject chaos and no one wants to invest. No surprise here.
April 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The entire economic strategy of the Administration is built on cherry-picked data and a false narrative that American's are worse off. The data shows clearly otherwise. This column is by the Cato Institute - not some left-wing think tank. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
Opinion | Free Trade Didn’t Kill the Middle Class
Populists cherry pick the data to support their claim that tariffs will bring manufacturing back.
www.wsj.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM
One cartoon sums up the bankruptcy of the system.
April 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Reposted by AS
Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company

IG 3sixteen
April 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Lesotho got hit with the highest tariffs because their citizens earn less than $5 per day. THEY CAN'T BUY ANYTHING. So that's what there's a trade deficit. It just gets more and more insane.

x.com/DKThomp/stat...
Derek Thompson on X: "A lot of folks want to argue for a future-world that doesn't yet exist, in which the Trump tariffs guide us to a perfect equilibrium for US growth. But the tariff plan announced yesterday does exist. We can read it. It does not make sense and is not defensible on its own terms. https://t.co/8rbjG8LRjV" / X
A lot of folks want to argue for a future-world that doesn't yet exist, in which the Trump tariffs guide us to a perfect equilibrium for US growth. But the tariff plan announced yesterday does exist. We can read it. It does not make sense and is not defensible on its own terms. https://t.co/8rbjG8LRjV
x.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Wow. Maybe plays on Fox but does not play well anywhere else.
This is a United States Senator

MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities

BANKS: You probably deserved it

MACK: Why did I deserve it?

BANKS: Because you look like a clown
April 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Classic redirection. Fails to acknowledge massive breach of due process. You can't just grab someone off the street and send them to a foreign prison because you *think* they are a terrorist. www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
Opinion | Why Judge Boasberg’s Deportation Order Is Legally Invalid
He failed to impose a bond on plaintiffs as the law requires. Other injunctions have the same deficiency.
www.wsj.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Reposted by AS
Direct evidence of criminal election bribery under Wis. Stat. §12.11:

“‘My name’s Ekaterina Deistler,’ she said in a video posted Monday morning. ‘I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.’”
Bice: Elon Musk group removes video from $1M winner after she says she got money to 'vote'
Elon Musk's super PAC removed an X video from a $1M giveaway winner in which she said she received the money, in part, to 'vote.'
www.jsonline.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Important speech to watch....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzIWjD8xxZ4
April 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The nail in the coffin for Russia. A demographic suicide www.bbc.com/news/article...
Putin begins biggest Russian military call-up in years
Russia calls up 160,000 men aged 18-30 as it moves to expand the size of its military.
www.bbc.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
MAGA leaders see Hungary as a model. It's economy is stagnant, its population is shrinking, corruption is rampant and talented young people are fleeing the country. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
www.theatlantic.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:20 AM
What SecDef and Waltz fail to realize is the U.S. needs Ukraine as much as the Ukraine needs the US. Ukraine is now the world's leader in drone warefare. And autonomous warfare is rapidly surpassing the majority of U.S. weapons systems x.com/TrentTelenko...
x.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Reposted by AS
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.

This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
#OSINT at its best. One person with a mission can make a real data difference. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Retired J.P. Morgan Executive Tracking Trump’s Deportation Flights
A CFO turned activist has become a go-to source for understanding the administration’s immigration crackdown.
www.theatlantic.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:12 AM