@catcatbear.bsky.social
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Today is a good day for everyone to learn about ADS-B Exchange (which includes aircraft that you won’t see on FlightAware:
globe.adsbexchange.com
globe.adsbexchange.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Today is a good day for everyone to learn about ADS-B Exchange (which includes aircraft that you won’t see on FlightAware:
globe.adsbexchange.com
globe.adsbexchange.com
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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
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It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.
Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
wrd.cm
May 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.
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WATCH— @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “Why are you making fun of smart people that calculate things?”
Jessica points out Trump is making it seem like he paused all the tariffs but the Yale budget lab says those remaining will cost each 🇺🇸 household $4400, the highest tariff rate since 1909.
Jessica points out Trump is making it seem like he paused all the tariffs but the Yale budget lab says those remaining will cost each 🇺🇸 household $4400, the highest tariff rate since 1909.
April 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
WATCH— @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “Why are you making fun of smart people that calculate things?”
Jessica points out Trump is making it seem like he paused all the tariffs but the Yale budget lab says those remaining will cost each 🇺🇸 household $4400, the highest tariff rate since 1909.
Jessica points out Trump is making it seem like he paused all the tariffs but the Yale budget lab says those remaining will cost each 🇺🇸 household $4400, the highest tariff rate since 1909.
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So from my uniquely weird perspective after living in the UK through Brexit, being in India during Modi's demonetization, and living in Brazil when the real tanked during the Bolsonaro administration, I can confidentally say that Americans do not and can not understand how bad this is going to be.
Every damned word of this 4-graf brief, except “By WSJ Staff,” should scare the bejeesus out of you this morning.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
April 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
So from my uniquely weird perspective after living in the UK through Brexit, being in India during Modi's demonetization, and living in Brazil when the real tanked during the Bolsonaro administration, I can confidentally say that Americans do not and can not understand how bad this is going to be.
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ICE's leader said that his dream is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages
story via @jerodmacevoy.com
story via @jerodmacevoy.com
ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: 'Prime, but with human beings'
ICE officials describe Amazon-style deportation system at Border Expo, seeking private contractors to implement mass removal operations
azmirror.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
ICE's leader said that his dream is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages
story via @jerodmacevoy.com
story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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Our tax dollars are building concentration camps
this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Our tax dollars are building concentration camps
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You heard the man, everyone send in a dead fish
April 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
You heard the man, everyone send in a dead fish
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Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head.
He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison.
Bring them back!
He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison.
Bring them back!
April 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head.
He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison.
Bring them back!
He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison.
Bring them back!
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🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧Get him boys!!! 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧
April 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧Get him boys!!! 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧
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If your response to yesterday’s millions of people marching is that they were all paid operatives…you’re desperate, deluded, and scared.
And lying.
And lying.
April 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
If your response to yesterday’s millions of people marching is that they were all paid operatives…you’re desperate, deluded, and scared.
And lying.
And lying.
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The Trump tariff tax will cost the average family nearly $4,000 per year — the largest middle-class tax increase since 1968, all while congressional Republicans are voting on a budget that gives more tax breaks to the wealthy.
The American people deserve better.
The American people deserve better.
April 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The Trump tariff tax will cost the average family nearly $4,000 per year — the largest middle-class tax increase since 1968, all while congressional Republicans are voting on a budget that gives more tax breaks to the wealthy.
The American people deserve better.
The American people deserve better.
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When RFK Jr says America has the highest chronic disease burden in the world, he's really comparing us to the OECD countries below.
Wanna guess what everyone one of those countries has that the US doesn't?
Wanna guess what everyone one of those countries has that the US doesn't?
April 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
When RFK Jr says America has the highest chronic disease burden in the world, he's really comparing us to the OECD countries below.
Wanna guess what everyone one of those countries has that the US doesn't?
Wanna guess what everyone one of those countries has that the US doesn't?
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April 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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A perfect example of how tariffs increase prices on things that don’t have tariffs on them.
Used car prices *had* been falling. And then Trump announced fat car tariffs. CarGurus data shows almost every brand (with notable exception of Tesla) seeing higher prices on used cars in last 30 days: www.cargurus.com/research/pri...
April 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A perfect example of how tariffs increase prices on things that don’t have tariffs on them.
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Q for Lutnick:
Find a single iPhone factory where "millions of human beings are screwing in little screws"
I've been inside a lot of these places. He is now proving that he never has. Even 5 years ago you'd see people monitoring robots, and doing quality-check. not the little screws
Find a single iPhone factory where "millions of human beings are screwing in little screws"
I've been inside a lot of these places. He is now proving that he never has. Even 5 years ago you'd see people monitoring robots, and doing quality-check. not the little screws
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Q for Lutnick:
Find a single iPhone factory where "millions of human beings are screwing in little screws"
I've been inside a lot of these places. He is now proving that he never has. Even 5 years ago you'd see people monitoring robots, and doing quality-check. not the little screws
Find a single iPhone factory where "millions of human beings are screwing in little screws"
I've been inside a lot of these places. He is now proving that he never has. Even 5 years ago you'd see people monitoring robots, and doing quality-check. not the little screws
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It’s not about impressing people w/power.
It’s about showing everyday people that there’s a force of resistance.
That they’re not alone.
And that sense of shared purpose is the soul of resistance.
Dictators want people to feel isolated & hopeless & alone.
And that’s a lie.
Protests prove it so.
It’s about showing everyday people that there’s a force of resistance.
That they’re not alone.
And that sense of shared purpose is the soul of resistance.
Dictators want people to feel isolated & hopeless & alone.
And that’s a lie.
Protests prove it so.
That's not to say they're useless. They are critical for movement building. But to pretend that these mass protests change anything in and of themselves is foolish. It has to be combined with institutional power.
April 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It’s not about impressing people w/power.
It’s about showing everyday people that there’s a force of resistance.
That they’re not alone.
And that sense of shared purpose is the soul of resistance.
Dictators want people to feel isolated & hopeless & alone.
And that’s a lie.
Protests prove it so.
It’s about showing everyday people that there’s a force of resistance.
That they’re not alone.
And that sense of shared purpose is the soul of resistance.
Dictators want people to feel isolated & hopeless & alone.
And that’s a lie.
Protests prove it so.
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I literally, like, literally literally, spit out my coffee
April 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I literally, like, literally literally, spit out my coffee
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Last night, we introduced amendments to prevent tax breaks for people making over $100 million per year.
Then $500 million per year.
Then $1 billion per year.
Senate Republicans voted down every single one.
Then $500 million per year.
Then $1 billion per year.
Senate Republicans voted down every single one.
April 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Last night, we introduced amendments to prevent tax breaks for people making over $100 million per year.
Then $500 million per year.
Then $1 billion per year.
Senate Republicans voted down every single one.
Then $500 million per year.
Then $1 billion per year.
Senate Republicans voted down every single one.
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April 5, 2025
April 5, 2025
It’s been quite a week.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
April 5, 2025
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WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK!?
April 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK!?
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