@gplott.bsky.social
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Someday we’re going to invent batteries that can store energy and it’s going to be awesome. 🤡
Burgum to CNBC: "The intermittent sources, the unreliable and expensive sources like solar and wind -- you don't know when the wind's gonna blow, we do know when the sun is gonna shine and it's not 24 hours a day."
September 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Someday we’re going to invent batteries that can store energy and it’s going to be awesome. 🤡
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Soybeans are collapsing because China isn’t buying them. The farm economy is in deep trouble. Because of our needless trade war that we are clearly losing.
Maybe farmers will wake up
Maybe farmers will wake up
September 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Soybeans are collapsing because China isn’t buying them. The farm economy is in deep trouble. Because of our needless trade war that we are clearly losing.
Maybe farmers will wake up
Maybe farmers will wake up
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15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.
Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.
We must overturn Citizens United.
Every day, it corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy.
Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.
We must overturn Citizens United.
Every day, it corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy.
April 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.
Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.
We must overturn Citizens United.
Every day, it corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy.
Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.
We must overturn Citizens United.
Every day, it corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy.
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A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
March 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
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"The Roberts Court has systematically rewritten the rules of American politics...most of the long-standing guardrails against excessive corporate power and theocratic influence have been dismantled." @mikepod.bsky.social breaks down SCOTUS' new status as an instrument of minority rule.
There's Nothing Supreme About the Roberts Court
Today’s radical decisions have been delivered exclusively by justices handpicked through a pipeline designed to ensure ideological loyalty to corporate and religious elites
contrarian.substack.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"The Roberts Court has systematically rewritten the rules of American politics...most of the long-standing guardrails against excessive corporate power and theocratic influence have been dismantled." @mikepod.bsky.social breaks down SCOTUS' new status as an instrument of minority rule.
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Trump and Musk are doing a $350 billion pump and dump with your tax money. Trump’s “Crypto Reserve” is a money laundering scheme and you are being robbed blind.
March 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Trump and Musk are doing a $350 billion pump and dump with your tax money. Trump’s “Crypto Reserve” is a money laundering scheme and you are being robbed blind.
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ZELENSKYY: The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent
WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe?
ZELENSKYY: Yes
WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe?
ZELENSKYY: Yes
February 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
ZELENSKYY: The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent
WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe?
ZELENSKYY: Yes
WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe?
ZELENSKYY: Yes
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Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
February 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
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"What you're seeing being constructed here is essentially a kleptocracy, in which the billionaires in this country are going to steal from the poor and the middle class."
Democratic Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social unleashes on the Trump cabinet on 'Mehdi Unfiltered' this week.
Democratic Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social unleashes on the Trump cabinet on 'Mehdi Unfiltered' this week.
‘Kleptocracy’ in the Making: Democratic Senator on Trump and His Billionaire Administration
Sen. Chris Murphy says billionaires like Musk are really in charge, while Mehdi presses him on TikTok and Gaza.
zeteo.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"What you're seeing being constructed here is essentially a kleptocracy, in which the billionaires in this country are going to steal from the poor and the middle class."
Democratic Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social unleashes on the Trump cabinet on 'Mehdi Unfiltered' this week.
Democratic Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social unleashes on the Trump cabinet on 'Mehdi Unfiltered' this week.
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A fair question.
December 24, 2024 at 10:40 PM
A fair question.
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From the time Citizens United vs. FEC was decided (January 21, 2010) it only took 14 years before the United States was purchased.
December 16, 2024 at 6:59 PM
From the time Citizens United vs. FEC was decided (January 21, 2010) it only took 14 years before the United States was purchased.
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I don’t take credit for this meme, but I do co-sign.
December 7, 2024 at 1:12 PM
I don’t take credit for this meme, but I do co-sign.
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This is an oligarchy.
The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER
Stop the oligarchy
The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER
Stop the oligarchy
December 7, 2024 at 2:08 AM
This is an oligarchy.
The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER
Stop the oligarchy
The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER
Stop the oligarchy
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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
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We warned them…..
November 27, 2024 at 2:52 PM
We warned them…..
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A tariff is a TAX.
The company pays it — then passes along the cost as a price increase to YOU.
So Donald Trump is raising YOUR taxes 25% — in January.
The company pays it — then passes along the cost as a price increase to YOU.
So Donald Trump is raising YOUR taxes 25% — in January.
November 26, 2024 at 12:42 AM
A tariff is a TAX.
The company pays it — then passes along the cost as a price increase to YOU.
So Donald Trump is raising YOUR taxes 25% — in January.
The company pays it — then passes along the cost as a price increase to YOU.
So Donald Trump is raising YOUR taxes 25% — in January.