August West
@j-harding.bsky.social
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School: Radio, TV, Film
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Here for:
La Resistance 👨🎨, econ & fin trends, art & a song.
No DMs. Twit ban Oct ‘22
School: Radio, TV, Film
Lived My Dream: Nat’l Radio Promo Warner Bros Records, Burbank CA
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The Trump administration can slash hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the Supreme Court decided Thursday. https://to.pbs.org/41RWWf5
Supreme Court lets Trump cut $783 million of health research funding amid anti-DEI push
The high court majority lifted a judge’s order blocking $783 million worth of cuts made by the National Institutes of Health to align with Republican President Donald Trump’s priorities. The high cour...
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August 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The Trump administration can slash hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the Supreme Court decided Thursday. https://to.pbs.org/41RWWf5
If you got busted for pot 20 years ago don’t think you can take a weekend trip to Canada and get back into the U.S.
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News 9 exclusive: NH resident unable to return from Canada after being stopped at border
A man who has lived in the United States since he was 3 and raised a family in New Hampshire has found himself blocked from returning home from Canada.
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July 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
If you got busted for pot 20 years ago don’t think you can take a weekend trip to Canada and get back into the U.S.
www.wmur.com/article/excl...
www.wmur.com/article/excl...
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5/Medicaid cuts don’t just threaten individual coverage; they threaten jobs and local economies. As #EGgrantee @robertmanduca.bsky.social writes, Medicaid fuels a bigger part of the local economy than the biggest industry in many U.S. states. equitablegrowth.org/medicaid-and...
July 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
5/Medicaid cuts don’t just threaten individual coverage; they threaten jobs and local economies. As #EGgrantee @robertmanduca.bsky.social writes, Medicaid fuels a bigger part of the local economy than the biggest industry in many U.S. states. equitablegrowth.org/medicaid-and...
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4/ Health care is the largest U.S. industry by employment with strong job and wage growth – one of the U.S.’s “middle-class jobs engines” per EG’s @kevinrinz.bsky.social in today's NYT.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Health Care Remade the U.S. Economy (Gift Article)
Medicine is now the nation’s largest employer, but its growth may be slowing.
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
4/ Health care is the largest U.S. industry by employment with strong job and wage growth – one of the U.S.’s “middle-class jobs engines” per EG’s @kevinrinz.bsky.social in today's NYT.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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3/ But there are other risks to the U.S. job market and the One Big Beautiful Bill is…a big one. Let’s zoom in on health care as an example...
July 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
3/ But there are other risks to the U.S. job market and the One Big Beautiful Bill is…a big one. Let’s zoom in on health care as an example...
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2/ There are signs of cracks in current economic conditions, though. Employment is falling in industries with the highest exposure to the administration's tariffs.
July 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
2/ There are signs of cracks in current economic conditions, though. Employment is falling in industries with the highest exposure to the administration's tariffs.
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1/ U.S. labor market is proving resilient despite recent best efforts to weaken it through uncertainty, cuts to federal spending, and rising costs.
July 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
1/ U.S. labor market is proving resilient despite recent best efforts to weaken it through uncertainty, cuts to federal spending, and rising costs.
Local news will have a place in telling the story. People still watch it. Especially older people on a fixed budget that cannot afford cable news.
And I hope these folks will vote in the midterms.
And I hope these folks will vote in the midterms.
Curtis is a small town of 900 people in rural southwest Nebraska. The Curtis Medical Center announced yesterday it is closing, after more than 30 years. It is the only health care provider in the community.
They blame Trump’s Medicaid cuts.
They blame Trump’s Medicaid cuts.
Rural southwest Nebraska clinic closes, blaming expected Medicaid cuts
McCook-based Community Hospital said it is shutting down its clinic in Curtis, a town of about 900 people.
www.klkntv.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Local news will have a place in telling the story. People still watch it. Especially older people on a fixed budget that cannot afford cable news.
And I hope these folks will vote in the midterms.
And I hope these folks will vote in the midterms.
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They know exactly what they’re doing.
Cruelty becomes easy when empathy is replaced with spectacle. Dehumanization, moral disengagement, and cultish loyalty let people justify or even enjoy violence. In fascist movements, suffering isn’t hidden, it’s displayed - to both entertain and control.
Cruelty becomes easy when empathy is replaced with spectacle. Dehumanization, moral disengagement, and cultish loyalty let people justify or even enjoy violence. In fascist movements, suffering isn’t hidden, it’s displayed - to both entertain and control.
July 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
They know exactly what they’re doing.
Cruelty becomes easy when empathy is replaced with spectacle. Dehumanization, moral disengagement, and cultish loyalty let people justify or even enjoy violence. In fascist movements, suffering isn’t hidden, it’s displayed - to both entertain and control.
Cruelty becomes easy when empathy is replaced with spectacle. Dehumanization, moral disengagement, and cultish loyalty let people justify or even enjoy violence. In fascist movements, suffering isn’t hidden, it’s displayed - to both entertain and control.
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📄 NEW: Mass media is pushing the false narrative that Musk has 'left' government to focus on his companies. But the reality is that Musk fronts a cartel of related and accelerating interests. My latest.
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Musk Isn't “Gone” — and Tech Fascism Is Running Rampant
Musk wants us to believe he's "left government" to focus on his companies. But the broader tech fascist movement he's enabling is moving forward at astonishing speed.
america2.news
June 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
📄 NEW: Mass media is pushing the false narrative that Musk has 'left' government to focus on his companies. But the reality is that Musk fronts a cartel of related and accelerating interests. My latest.
america2.news/musk-isnt-go...
america2.news/musk-isnt-go...
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If Republicans really think they can get away with this, they need better advisors. 2026 cannot come soon enough.
Boyle: "This is really the breaking news ... because of the size of the deficits, because of the paygo act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion. The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare."
May 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If Republicans really think they can get away with this, they need better advisors. 2026 cannot come soon enough.
#econsky
TikTok TikTok Team Trump
29% week over week drop in Asian freight to LA and Long Beach ports.
Longshoremen, warehousing, trucking, rail, logistics will be the first to go idle.
Bessent told a group China riff unsustainable
Video at bottom of article worth
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/b...
TikTok TikTok Team Trump
29% week over week drop in Asian freight to LA and Long Beach ports.
Longshoremen, warehousing, trucking, rail, logistics will be the first to go idle.
Bessent told a group China riff unsustainable
Video at bottom of article worth
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/b...
Chinese freight ship traffic to busiest U.S. ports, Los Angeles, Long Beach, sees steep drop
Freight vessel traffic from China bound for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is down sharply as Trump's tariffs and recession fears hit trade.
www.cnbc.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:35 AM
#econsky
TikTok TikTok Team Trump
29% week over week drop in Asian freight to LA and Long Beach ports.
Longshoremen, warehousing, trucking, rail, logistics will be the first to go idle.
Bessent told a group China riff unsustainable
Video at bottom of article worth
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/b...
TikTok TikTok Team Trump
29% week over week drop in Asian freight to LA and Long Beach ports.
Longshoremen, warehousing, trucking, rail, logistics will be the first to go idle.
Bessent told a group China riff unsustainable
Video at bottom of article worth
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/b...
#econsky
Bessent says since its IMF week in DC, “maybe he’ll bump in Chinese officials but nothing is scheduled”
New 20 min interview.
finance.yahoo.com/news/why-the...
Bessent says since its IMF week in DC, “maybe he’ll bump in Chinese officials but nothing is scheduled”
New 20 min interview.
finance.yahoo.com/news/why-the...
Why the latest stock market pullback feels right
Markets need more clarity on tariffs. Bottom line.
finance.yahoo.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
#econsky
Bessent says since its IMF week in DC, “maybe he’ll bump in Chinese officials but nothing is scheduled”
New 20 min interview.
finance.yahoo.com/news/why-the...
Bessent says since its IMF week in DC, “maybe he’ll bump in Chinese officials but nothing is scheduled”
New 20 min interview.
finance.yahoo.com/news/why-the...
April 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
April 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
#econsky
More gloom and doom unfortunately.
I’m not convinced that Besset’s idea of lowering the 10 year rate and paying less interest on the debt, as a starter tactic, is gonna work long term.
tinyurl.com/muf2cy4
More gloom and doom unfortunately.
I’m not convinced that Besset’s idea of lowering the 10 year rate and paying less interest on the debt, as a starter tactic, is gonna work long term.
tinyurl.com/muf2cy4
First-quarter GDP growth will be just 0.3% as tariffs stoke stagflation conditions, says CNBC survey
The Rapid Update, averaging forecasts from 14 economists for GDP and inflation, sees first quarter growth registering an anemic 0.3%.
tinyurl.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#econsky
More gloom and doom unfortunately.
I’m not convinced that Besset’s idea of lowering the 10 year rate and paying less interest on the debt, as a starter tactic, is gonna work long term.
tinyurl.com/muf2cy4
More gloom and doom unfortunately.
I’m not convinced that Besset’s idea of lowering the 10 year rate and paying less interest on the debt, as a starter tactic, is gonna work long term.
tinyurl.com/muf2cy4
GOLDMAN hikes its odds of US recession to 35% — from a prior 20%.
The move reflects “the sharp recent deterioration in household and business confidence, and statements from White House officials indicating greater willingness to tolerate near-term economic weakness in pursuit of their policies.”
The move reflects “the sharp recent deterioration in household and business confidence, and statements from White House officials indicating greater willingness to tolerate near-term economic weakness in pursuit of their policies.”
March 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
@cnn polling
AOC tops list for Dem direction
AOC tops list for Dem direction
March 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
@cnn polling
AOC tops list for Dem direction
AOC tops list for Dem direction
This poll will only get worse considering it was taken prior to Schumer position on opposition.
Dems want real change.
Not the same Schumer shit.
Dems want real change.
Not the same Schumer shit.
March 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This poll will only get worse considering it was taken prior to Schumer position on opposition.
Dems want real change.
Not the same Schumer shit.
Dems want real change.
Not the same Schumer shit.
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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.