@jcut.bsky.social
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Once again, the global economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
Breaking News: The global economy is projected to slow sharply this year as President Trump’s trade policy disrupts international commerce, the World Bank said.
World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War
Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help preserve living standards.
trib.al
June 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Once again, the global economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
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Gov. Newsom has a good point.
June 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Gov. Newsom has a good point.
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Monday railed against the Trump administration’s unilateral deployment of the National Guard.
“We didn’t need the National Guard,” Bass said. “Why on earth? What are they going to do?” wapo.st/3ZphBGl
“We didn’t need the National Guard,” Bass said. “Why on earth? What are they going to do?” wapo.st/3ZphBGl
June 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Monday railed against the Trump administration’s unilateral deployment of the National Guard.
“We didn’t need the National Guard,” Bass said. “Why on earth? What are they going to do?” wapo.st/3ZphBGl
“We didn’t need the National Guard,” Bass said. “Why on earth? What are they going to do?” wapo.st/3ZphBGl
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My comments with Bundle www.bundle.app/en/finance/m...
June 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
My comments with Bundle www.bundle.app/en/finance/m...
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More than 6000 scientists have signed a declaration condemning "Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe"
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
www.standupforscience.net
June 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
More than 6000 scientists have signed a declaration condemning "Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe"
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
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Journalists arrested, government-armed group inciting violence on peaceful assembly and a president throwing himself a parade on your dime on his birthday. Go about your day knowing fascism has arrived in America.
LAST NIGHT: CNN reporter Jason Carroll detained and cuffed by police live on TV
June 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Journalists arrested, government-armed group inciting violence on peaceful assembly and a president throwing himself a parade on your dime on his birthday. Go about your day knowing fascism has arrived in America.
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Regrets. Cassidy’ll have a few.
Remember when RFK Jr. promised Sen. Bill Cassidy that he would not fire the CDC vaccine advisory panel? Guess what:
www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...
www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...
Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.
www.statnews.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Regrets. Cassidy’ll have a few.
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Congress’s bill “would RAISE taxes for low-income Americans (Those making $30k or less). Every other income group would see LOWER taxes. The biggest savings would go to people in the $500k to $1 million income group.”
@byheatherlong.bsky.social
www.jct.gov/publications...
@byheatherlong.bsky.social
www.jct.gov/publications...
June 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Congress’s bill “would RAISE taxes for low-income Americans (Those making $30k or less). Every other income group would see LOWER taxes. The biggest savings would go to people in the $500k to $1 million income group.”
@byheatherlong.bsky.social
www.jct.gov/publications...
@byheatherlong.bsky.social
www.jct.gov/publications...
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There's a lot to unpack here. But the "why do people in the developed world die from chronic diseases at higher rates than in poorer countries" is because we survive long enough to die from chronic rather than infectious disease. This is epidemiology 101. It's not a mystery.
I'm sure this is all a waste of our time.... But any medical experts out there want to watch Stephen Miller talk about MAHA and explain if there's any science here besides eugenics?
June 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
There's a lot to unpack here. But the "why do people in the developed world die from chronic diseases at higher rates than in poorer countries" is because we survive long enough to die from chronic rather than infectious disease. This is epidemiology 101. It's not a mystery.
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Please watch this….
June 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Please watch this….
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Governor Tim Walz
@governorwalz.mn.gov
"If you say you love freedom, but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege."
@governorwalz.mn.gov
"If you say you love freedom, but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege."
April 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Governor Tim Walz
@governorwalz.mn.gov
"If you say you love freedom, but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege."
@governorwalz.mn.gov
"If you say you love freedom, but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege."
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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
April 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
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"Two US officials said Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including on Russia/Ukraine and on military operations. They declined to say if classified information was posted in those chats."
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Mike Waltz Is Losing Support Inside the White House
Although Trump decided not to fire his national security adviser over the Signal group chat, Waltz’s position is tenuous, officials say.
www.wsj.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"Two US officials said Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including on Russia/Ukraine and on military operations. They declined to say if classified information was posted in those chats."
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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This is why DOGE seeks to weld AI into federal gov systems, making it difficult & costly to dislodge: ensuring a reliable revenue stream for AI bros, so their failed "innovation"--which the free market has rejected--will pay off.
Not how capitalism works: how corporatism (a form of fascism) works.
Not how capitalism works: how corporatism (a form of fascism) works.
Some astonishing numbers in here:
-OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes
-OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026
-To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years
-33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI
-5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value
-OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes
-OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026
-To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years
-33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI
-5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value
Bubble Trouble
An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.
prospect.org
March 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is why DOGE seeks to weld AI into federal gov systems, making it difficult & costly to dislodge: ensuring a reliable revenue stream for AI bros, so their failed "innovation"--which the free market has rejected--will pay off.
Not how capitalism works: how corporatism (a form of fascism) works.
Not how capitalism works: how corporatism (a form of fascism) works.
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Go off Pete 🔥….every word….this is the way….Democrats need to take notes!
March 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Go off Pete 🔥….every word….this is the way….Democrats need to take notes!
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Republicans claim to care about the debt, but they never want to tax the rich.
They only want to take it from the health care and programs for the poor and elderly — while CUTTING taxes on the rich.
It’s not about efficiency. And they don’t care about the debt. It’s a con.
They only want to take it from the health care and programs for the poor and elderly — while CUTTING taxes on the rich.
It’s not about efficiency. And they don’t care about the debt. It’s a con.
March 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Republicans claim to care about the debt, but they never want to tax the rich.
They only want to take it from the health care and programs for the poor and elderly — while CUTTING taxes on the rich.
It’s not about efficiency. And they don’t care about the debt. It’s a con.
They only want to take it from the health care and programs for the poor and elderly — while CUTTING taxes on the rich.
It’s not about efficiency. And they don’t care about the debt. It’s a con.
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
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BREAKING: The Continuing Resolution cloture motion has passed 62-38, advancing the CR to a final vote.
These are the Democrats who voted to invoke cloture:
These are the Democrats who voted to invoke cloture:
March 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
BREAKING: The Continuing Resolution cloture motion has passed 62-38, advancing the CR to a final vote.
These are the Democrats who voted to invoke cloture:
These are the Democrats who voted to invoke cloture:
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Ah the party of free speech is at it again
Trump declares at the DOJ that he believes CNN and MSNBC are ILLEGAL
March 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Ah the party of free speech is at it again
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If your senator is on this list, you need to call them NOW: push for NO on cloture. A yes vote on cloture IS a yes on the CR Slush Fund for Musk. Do not be fooled. talkingpointsmemo.com/senate-clotu...
@wyden.senate.gov what are you doing?? Join @jeff-merkley.bsky.social in voting no on cloture.
@wyden.senate.gov what are you doing?? Join @jeff-merkley.bsky.social in voting no on cloture.
March 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
If your senator is on this list, you need to call them NOW: push for NO on cloture. A yes vote on cloture IS a yes on the CR Slush Fund for Musk. Do not be fooled. talkingpointsmemo.com/senate-clotu...
@wyden.senate.gov what are you doing?? Join @jeff-merkley.bsky.social in voting no on cloture.
@wyden.senate.gov what are you doing?? Join @jeff-merkley.bsky.social in voting no on cloture.
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I want to say that I am overwhelmingly proud of the Congressional Democrats right now--and of the Senators who have made the right choice to listen to their constituents and colleagues and are voting no.
If only we had a Senate Minority Leader with that same courage and a capacity to fight.
If only we had a Senate Minority Leader with that same courage and a capacity to fight.
March 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I want to say that I am overwhelmingly proud of the Congressional Democrats right now--and of the Senators who have made the right choice to listen to their constituents and colleagues and are voting no.
If only we had a Senate Minority Leader with that same courage and a capacity to fight.
If only we had a Senate Minority Leader with that same courage and a capacity to fight.
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“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954
March 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954