@elizalex.bsky.social
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Americans (usually wholesalers or retailers) pay tariffs directly when goods are received at port.
Then, the cost is passed all the way down the line to consumers.
Then, the cost is passed all the way down the line to consumers.
a stammering Bessent refuses to answer Mark Pocan's question about who pays tariffs
May 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Americans (usually wholesalers or retailers) pay tariffs directly when goods are received at port.
Then, the cost is passed all the way down the line to consumers.
Then, the cost is passed all the way down the line to consumers.
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April 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Horsford is PISSED. This clip is worth watching.
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
April 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Horsford is PISSED. This clip is worth watching.
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Less than three months ago, Jamie Dimon on Trump's tariffs: Probably no big deal. "Get over it."
Now: Oops.
We need better capitalists.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/b...
Now: Oops.
We need better capitalists.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/b...
Jamie Dimon sounds the alarm bell on tariffs | CNN Business
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has issued a blunt warning about President Donald Trump’s tariff policy: It threatens to raise prices, drive the global economy into a downturn and weaken America’s standing i...
www.cnn.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Less than three months ago, Jamie Dimon on Trump's tariffs: Probably no big deal. "Get over it."
Now: Oops.
We need better capitalists.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/b...
Now: Oops.
We need better capitalists.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/b...
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Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.
Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
April 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.
Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
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This one should be an award winner
Tariffs will be lifted on penguins who agree to be completely white.
by Stephen Miller
by Stephen Miller
April 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This one should be an award winner
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Oops... He accidentally said what he meant.
Sen. Bill Cassidy: "Is there some way that we cut Medicare so that it's-- excuse me, reform Medicare."
#MedicareForAll #medicare #ohio #PeopleOverProfit
Sen. Bill Cassidy: "Is there some way that we cut Medicare so that it's-- excuse me, reform Medicare."
#MedicareForAll #medicare #ohio #PeopleOverProfit
April 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Oops... He accidentally said what he meant.
Sen. Bill Cassidy: "Is there some way that we cut Medicare so that it's-- excuse me, reform Medicare."
#MedicareForAll #medicare #ohio #PeopleOverProfit
Sen. Bill Cassidy: "Is there some way that we cut Medicare so that it's-- excuse me, reform Medicare."
#MedicareForAll #medicare #ohio #PeopleOverProfit
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Got this tip as well
Day 72: DOGE Came For the Federal Payroll System
Over the weekend, Elon's Musk stormtroopers raided the Department of the Interior and took over a major payroll system.
Over the weekend, Elon's Musk stormtroopers raided the Department of the Interior and took over a major payroll system.
Day 72: DOGE Came For the Federal Payroll System
Over the weekend, Elon's Musk stormtroopers raided the Department of the Interior and took over a major payroll system.
www.progresspond.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Got this tip as well
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Kendall Brown, Oklahoma constituent fighting for her husband (active duty soldier currently in Yemen), fighting for herself and her country…
Great video showing how it’s done!
@kendallyb.bsky.social
Great video showing how it’s done!
@kendallyb.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Kendall Brown, Oklahoma constituent fighting for her husband (active duty soldier currently in Yemen), fighting for herself and her country…
Great video showing how it’s done!
@kendallyb.bsky.social
Great video showing how it’s done!
@kendallyb.bsky.social
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When you send innocent people to a foreign gulag, you are not fighting terror. You are practicing it.
NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.
March 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
When you send innocent people to a foreign gulag, you are not fighting terror. You are practicing it.
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Would like to report some gang tattoos.
March 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Would like to report some gang tattoos.
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March 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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If court orders are being ignored, we’re having that constitutional crisis that everyone’s been worried about.
We’re there, folks.
We’re there, folks.
March 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If court orders are being ignored, we’re having that constitutional crisis that everyone’s been worried about.
We’re there, folks.
We’re there, folks.
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DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
March 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
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Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
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Not hypothetical anymore
March 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Not hypothetical anymore
Schumer! If not now, when? Your days of leadership must come to an end. You blinked, you sold out, you are history. Not good history, but history. This is not generational. This is ALL of us.
March 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Schumer! If not now, when? Your days of leadership must come to an end. You blinked, you sold out, you are history. Not good history, but history. This is not generational. This is ALL of us.
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With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
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So don't want to be the bearer of bad tidings: but DOGE canceled the lease on the facility that processes and stores all the nuclear waste created by the US military. Sorry. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...
DOGE D’oh: Nuclear Waste Facility Edition
As DOGE continues it’s federal government wilding spree, purportedly searching for examples...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
So don't want to be the bearer of bad tidings: but DOGE canceled the lease on the facility that processes and stores all the nuclear waste created by the US military. Sorry. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...
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In positive news, if you want a data point of how the new SECDEF is viewed by the troops, the group chat with some former Guard friends has started using “Pete” as a slur against officers, ie, “Your CO scheduled a ht/wt for right after block leave? That’s a real fuckin Pete move”
March 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
In positive news, if you want a data point of how the new SECDEF is viewed by the troops, the group chat with some former Guard friends has started using “Pete” as a slur against officers, ie, “Your CO scheduled a ht/wt for right after block leave? That’s a real fuckin Pete move”
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Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."
March 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."
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One of our best security experts sums it up:
Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.
March 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
One of our best security experts sums it up:
So if Republicans refuse to meet constituents in person, can't we use technology to create and deliver town halls to them virtually? I'm thinking like the choir rehearsals that were conducted over zoom during COVID.
March 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
So if Republicans refuse to meet constituents in person, can't we use technology to create and deliver town halls to them virtually? I'm thinking like the choir rehearsals that were conducted over zoom during COVID.
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The market is tanking, Trump just launched a trade war, we told Cyber Command to stand down against Russia, Trump is rolling out a massive crypto scam, and drug dealers have started selling eggs because the profit margin is better. You aren’t distracting us with culture war BS.
March 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The market is tanking, Trump just launched a trade war, we told Cyber Command to stand down against Russia, Trump is rolling out a massive crypto scam, and drug dealers have started selling eggs because the profit margin is better. You aren’t distracting us with culture war BS.