gehred.bsky.social
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They said we'd have a record-beating economy, and they were right - largest two days of wealth destruction in nominal dollar terms *ever*:
April 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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If only the Constitution granted the legislature power to regulate commerce with foreign nations
Cruz: Tariffs are a tax on consumers, and I'm not a fan of jacking up taxes on American consumers.
April 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Trump watched golf instead of attending a ceremony for the return of four fallen soldiers. He calls heroes who died defending our nation suckers and losers. He boasts his Vietnam was avoiding STDs in the 70’s. See the pattern yet?
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Apr 4
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will end a mortgage rescue plan that has saved many veterans from needlessly losing their homes, the move could strand thousands of others who need help.
Trump's VA is ending a rescue program that's saved 17,000 military veterans' homes
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will end a mortgage rescue plan that has saved many veterans from needlessly losing their homes, the move could strand thousands of others who need help.
www.npr.org
April 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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"Trump underperformed among wealthy Republican donors while mobilizing new non-wealthy donors. Trump also diversified the donorate, especially by education. That is, Trump built an unusual coalition of wealthy and non-wealthy donors."
With correct link: Just published on APSR First View: "Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base" by Sean Kates, Eric Manning, Tali Mendelberg, and Omar Wasow. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
April 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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NEW 🧵

A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:

1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.

These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
April 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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(trying to) manage the mad king
Several sources tell me a passel of high profile tech and also finance leaders is making a trip to Mar-a-Lago to read Trump the riot act — um talk common sense — to him on the tariffs. Their million dollar donations to the inauguration is turning into billions in losses.
a black and white photo of a baby wearing a hat looking out a window .
ALT: a black and white photo of a baby wearing a hat looking out a window .
media.tenor.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The only relevant political point is that Republican members of Congress are all supporting these tariffs 100%. They could stop them at any moment. Each day is on them. Everyone with a messaging bullhorn needs to make that clear. They can pull the plug now or pay the price at the polls next year.
April 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Unconstitutional. Appropriations bills are laws. If the president is not bound by them, he can make laws by fiat and is acting like a dictator. No Democrat can vote for any appropriations or debt ceiling bill while this is happening.
Breaking news: President Donald Trump has decided to pause all future deliveries of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine in an extraordinary move aimed at pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the negotiating table with Russia.
Live updates: Trump administration to pause deliveries of military assistance to Ukraine, officials say
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Trump's actions pushing up recession risk dramatically in futures markets kalshi.com/markets/kxre... polymarket.com/event/us-rec...
March 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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March 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Incredible levels of grift and corruption happening right in front of us
A lucky trader just happened to put in a $200m trade with 50x leverage a few hours before a Trump pro-crypto announcement. The price of crypto jumped and this person made hundreds of millions. Pure luck I’m sure.
March 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Is this about personal freedom or the free market
The Washington Post that we once admired is gone.
March 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
January 31, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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#Sleep deprivation weakens the brain's ability to suppress unwanted thoughts and memories:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39739795

How? REM sleep strengthens inhibitory control of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (from new imaging study).

#psychology #psychiatry #science #mentalhealth #pmhnp
January 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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This is a symbolic victory, but it’s a real warning sign that there are four solid Supreme Court votes to allow Trump to do anything at all. America’s democracy hangs by the thin thread of Roberts and Coney Barrett’s feelings in any given case.
BREAKING: SCOTUS, ON 5-4 VOTE, WILL NOT STOP TRUMP'S FRIDAY SENTENCING IN NEW YORK COURT.
January 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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So just to be clear these Paramount Executives are discussing paying money to the incoming president of the united states with the specific intention of influencing an official action of the government?
Holy cow. Executives at CBS’s parent company have discussed settling Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News/60 Minutes, because they need the Trump administration to sign off on a planned corporate merger. www.wsj.com/business/med...
January 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Republican Rep. Mike Waltz, who called TikTok "CCP spyware" last year, now - as Trump’s pick for national security adviser - says it's a "great platform that many Americans use and has been great for [Trump's] campaign"
January 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Sounds familiar
Miller's strategy is to basically overwhelm America with cruelty so that people just shrug and say "it can't be helped."
January 17, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Consuming political content on TikTok is associated with being more Trump-y, more pro-Russia, and more antisemitic even after quite strong demographic/attitudinal controls.

From a content perspective R videos get more views than D and also R content is also more effective on per impression basis.
January 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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What’s often missing in the never ending nba tv ratings discourse is that 80% of the leagues most popular stars play in the western conference.

I am a huge fan but at 38 I am not staying up for a regular season tilt btw the spurs & lakers that starts at 10:30est
December 31, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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Good news for #lithium: linked to same risk of medical problems as valproate/lamotrigine (except hypothyroid) in supersized, 10-yr observational study:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38663126

Follows other studies that challenge assumptions about lithium and renal health.

#bipolar #depression #psychiatry
December 2, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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Even though there are no legacy Republicans left, I'll send this out into the ether like a radio call into outerspace looking for life
November 30, 2024 at 8:52 AM
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Also this
December 1, 2024 at 3:32 AM