John Spangler
@johndeu.bsky.social
Don’t look up!
Trump's budget proposal for NASA zeros out the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2 & 3), which would mean an early end to tools that provide detailed information on carbon dioxide emissions and plant growth.
npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
Congress could still save these programs.
npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
Congress could still save these programs.
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
npr.org
August 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Don’t look up!
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Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social,
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
July 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social,
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
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Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010 to increase the number of Americans with health insurance and decrease the cost of health care. And it’s worked – the uninsured rate in Washington dropped by about 10 percentage points from 2011 to 2023. (1/2)
July 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010 to increase the number of Americans with health insurance and decrease the cost of health care. And it’s worked – the uninsured rate in Washington dropped by about 10 percentage points from 2011 to 2023. (1/2)
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Rolling Stone continues to teach a masterclass in headline writing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
July 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Rolling Stone continues to teach a masterclass in headline writing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
May 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
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Dimon in January on tariffs - “get over it”
Jamie Dimon says the *best case* scenario for the US is now a recession.
Cool, cool. From the best economy in the world to a self-inflicted recession in 4 months.
Gotta be some kind of record.
Cool, cool. From the best economy in the world to a self-inflicted recession in 4 months.
Gotta be some kind of record.
April 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Dimon in January on tariffs - “get over it”
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Trump has signed more than 120 executive orders since taking office. These orders aren’t law, but you wouldn't know that from the headlines.
'It’s the media’s responsibility not to leave the public with a false impression,' @sulliview.bsky.social writes
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/trump-pret...
'It’s the media’s responsibility not to leave the public with a false impression,' @sulliview.bsky.social writes
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/trump-pret...
Trump pretends he's a dictator — and the credulous media too often nods along
His endless executive orders often are presented as actual law. They're not.
margaretsullivan.substack.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Trump has signed more than 120 executive orders since taking office. These orders aren’t law, but you wouldn't know that from the headlines.
'It’s the media’s responsibility not to leave the public with a false impression,' @sulliview.bsky.social writes
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/trump-pret...
'It’s the media’s responsibility not to leave the public with a false impression,' @sulliview.bsky.social writes
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/trump-pret...
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Aaaaaaauuuuggghhh
for the second time today, Trump goes on a bizarre (and false) rant about how tariffs made the country the richest it ever has been between 1870 and 1913
April 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Aaaaaaauuuuggghhh
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Resistence is NOT futile
Marriott’s CEO said it straight: “We welcome all… we create opportunities for all… that’s who we are as a company.”
He went back to his hotel to find 40K emails from Marriott associates worldwide saying “thank you.”
Plenty of CEOs talk. Capuano showed up.
Marriott still has my business.
He went back to his hotel to find 40K emails from Marriott associates worldwide saying “thank you.”
Plenty of CEOs talk. Capuano showed up.
Marriott still has my business.
April 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Resistence is NOT futile
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This is all true.
It’s also true that Musk and his minions aren’t actually saving the government much at all, if anything
It’s also true that Musk and his minions aren’t actually saving the government much at all, if anything
Striking stat from @kellycnbc.bsky.social on this:
The rise in treasury yields since Trump’s tariffs were announced leads to an increase in US debt interest payments that is larger than all the DOGE savings.
The rise in treasury yields since Trump’s tariffs were announced leads to an increase in US debt interest payments that is larger than all the DOGE savings.
April 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is all true.
It’s also true that Musk and his minions aren’t actually saving the government much at all, if anything
It’s also true that Musk and his minions aren’t actually saving the government much at all, if anything
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The amount of nonsense this is is very high.
Trump: "Prices are coming down, not going up. Only the fake news says they're going up. The only thing that's even are interest rates and if we had a Fed chairman that understood what he was doing, interest rates would be coming down. He should bring them down."
April 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The amount of nonsense this is is very high.
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As DOJ argues that federal courts have no authority to order "any particular acts of diplomacy," I want to remind everyone that SCOTUS let Matthew Kacsmaryk seize control of Biden's border policy for 10 months and micromanage diplomatic negotiations with Mexican officials. slate.com/news-and-pol...
April 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As DOJ argues that federal courts have no authority to order "any particular acts of diplomacy," I want to remind everyone that SCOTUS let Matthew Kacsmaryk seize control of Biden's border policy for 10 months and micromanage diplomatic negotiations with Mexican officials. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Sorry, America. We can pay cancer research teams or we can pay to fly Trump and his entourage to a UFC fight in Miami. We can’t afford both.
April 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Sorry, America. We can pay cancer research teams or we can pay to fly Trump and his entourage to a UFC fight in Miami. We can’t afford both.
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This past week, the Chinese learned
1) exactly where Trump's pain points are;
2) how much to squeeze them before he flinches;
and
3) how little America's partners and allies want to help this president.
Highly useful information.
1) exactly where Trump's pain points are;
2) how much to squeeze them before he flinches;
and
3) how little America's partners and allies want to help this president.
Highly useful information.
April 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This past week, the Chinese learned
1) exactly where Trump's pain points are;
2) how much to squeeze them before he flinches;
and
3) how little America's partners and allies want to help this president.
Highly useful information.
1) exactly where Trump's pain points are;
2) how much to squeeze them before he flinches;
and
3) how little America's partners and allies want to help this president.
Highly useful information.
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Fact check: true www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
'Economically Indefensible': Trump's Bad Tariff Math Was Too Stupid To Implement
No one in the Trump White House wanted to take credit for the administration’s “extremely bad” tariff math, which has been paused for now.
www.rollingstone.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Fact check: true www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Not a plan... just the Yips.
Many Donald Trump supporters “claimed that this was the plan all along, suggesting that dropping the tariffs against the rest of the world would only further isolate Beijing,” but Trump himself gave away the game, @jonlemire.bsky.social and @russellberman.bsky.social write:
The Art of the Retreat
Trump’s abrupt pivot from his planned global trade war was touted by allies as grand strategy. The president’s own words suggested otherwise.
bit.ly
April 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Not a plan... just the Yips.
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Donald Trump has a long history of market manipulation. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
April 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Donald Trump has a long history of market manipulation. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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April 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx
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Republicans' billionaire tax cuts would cost more than 4 major pieces of recent federal legislation *combined*—AND it would be bigger than programs like Medicare Part D & ACA subsidies that millions of people rely on.
The GOP is essentially creating a social safety net for BILLIONAIRES.
The GOP is essentially creating a social safety net for BILLIONAIRES.
April 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Republicans' billionaire tax cuts would cost more than 4 major pieces of recent federal legislation *combined*—AND it would be bigger than programs like Medicare Part D & ACA subsidies that millions of people rely on.
The GOP is essentially creating a social safety net for BILLIONAIRES.
The GOP is essentially creating a social safety net for BILLIONAIRES.
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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@nbcnews.com what in the name if all that is holy are you doing with this headline. Disgraceful
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so
President Donald Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call that he was “not joking” about a third term, adding that “it is far too early to think about it.”
www.nbcnews.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
@nbcnews.com what in the name if all that is holy are you doing with this headline. Disgraceful
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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If Dems fail to make Signal leak an incessant story demanding resignations/impeachment, it would be a mirror image of Benghazi, her emails, etc. In face of GOP zone-flooding, Dems cowered instead of calling bullshit; now when GOP says Signal leak is NBD, a failure to push back would be catastrophic.
March 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If Dems fail to make Signal leak an incessant story demanding resignations/impeachment, it would be a mirror image of Benghazi, her emails, etc. In face of GOP zone-flooding, Dems cowered instead of calling bullshit; now when GOP says Signal leak is NBD, a failure to push back would be catastrophic.
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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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With Donald Trump’s tariff policy, a new theory is making the rounds on Wall Street, Rogé Karma writes. "The grand bargain that Trump is supposedly planning to strike has even been given a name: the Mar-a-Lago Accord."
The Wild Trump Theory Making the Rounds on Wall Street
QAnon for tariffs
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
With Donald Trump’s tariff policy, a new theory is making the rounds on Wall Street, Rogé Karma writes. "The grand bargain that Trump is supposedly planning to strike has even been given a name: the Mar-a-Lago Accord."
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One day soon at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets. Your secrets.
Cybersecurity analysts call this Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
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Cybersecurity analysts call this Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
wrd.cm/4iyJdjP
The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
www.wired.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
One day soon at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets. Your secrets.
Cybersecurity analysts call this Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
wrd.cm/4iyJdjP
Cybersecurity analysts call this Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
wrd.cm/4iyJdjP