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princess-vimentin.bsky.social
🧪What did Felon 47 accomplish 100 days? Tanked the stock market. Displayed economic illiteracy. Crippled academic institutions and life saving science research. Went after the NIH, DEI, academic journals. Hired incompetent loyalists. Spread propaganda. We have a destructive fascist government.
This image starkly depicts some of the parallels between Mao's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and Felon 47( F47)’s actions in 2025. The Cultural Revolution (or the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution) took place from 1966 to 1976 in China. Mao urged the party to cleanse itself of its ‘class enemies’: ‘capitalists’ such as landowners and shopkeepers, but also artists, farmers and university professors. Often their family members were tainted by association and persecuted. Gangs of students and Red Guards attacked people wearing “bourgeois clothes” on the street. Intellectuals and party officials were murdered or driven to suicide. Schools and universities were closed and churches, shrines, libraries, shops and private homes ransacked or destroyed. China’s economy was violently destroyed. In 2025, F47’s actions are similar. He has used the DOJ to attack institutions of higher education and science research- Harvard and Columbia are examples. New NIH policies are forcing individual recipients and institutions to “certify” that they will not allow DEI related programs of activities. This is a new flavor of authoritarianism. Even the Chinese see it: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/business/china-donald-trump-cultural-revolution.html This image is from: https://substack.com/home/post/p-160185300 Here is a good article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/11/the-cultural-revolution-50-years-on-all-you-need-to-know-about-chinas-political-convulsion
April 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Any traders with inside information that Trump was going to walk back his tariffs — some of them, presumably, Trump family members and cronies — just made a fortune.

It all feels like chaos until you look more closely at who is winning.
April 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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deanblundell.bsky.social
The thing I love about @bsky.app is I don’t have to ramp myself up to deal with death threats after wishing everyone “Good Morning.”

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November 19, 2024 at 8:17 PM