kapollo
@kapollo.bsky.social
Jack of all communication trades and nerdy pursuits, based in Copenhagen. History and politics, metalhead and movie buff, retired custodian of Danish TTRPG lore.
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So let me get this straight: The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
So let me get this straight: The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?
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If & when federal courts (& SCOTUS) insist on deferring to the President's determination that deploying the Natl Guard is necessary for the enforcement of federal law, safety, etc. - please remember Trump says he's making such decisions based in part on what the CEOs of Salesforce & NVIDIA tell him.
October 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If & when federal courts (& SCOTUS) insist on deferring to the President's determination that deploying the Natl Guard is necessary for the enforcement of federal law, safety, etc. - please remember Trump says he's making such decisions based in part on what the CEOs of Salesforce & NVIDIA tell him.
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EXCLUSIVE: The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a @reuters.com review of court dockets found.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
September 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
EXCLUSIVE: The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a @reuters.com review of court dockets found.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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I never thought that government would be trying to tackle the problem that American teenagers aren’t horny enough
RFK JR: Our fertility is dropping dramatically. Teenagers in this country have the same testosterone levels as 68 year old men
April 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I never thought that government would be trying to tackle the problem that American teenagers aren’t horny enough
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
April 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
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“The damage has been done,” said George Saravelos, the head of foreign exchange research at Deutsche Bank. “The market is reassessing the structural attractiveness of the dollar as the world’s global reserve currency and is undergoing a process of rapid de-dollarisation.”
‘The damage is done’: Trump’s tariffs put the dollar’s safe haven status in jeopardy
Experts say fears about unpredictable policy are creating crisis of confidence in US bonds once seen as ‘risk free’
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“The damage has been done,” said George Saravelos, the head of foreign exchange research at Deutsche Bank. “The market is reassessing the structural attractiveness of the dollar as the world’s global reserve currency and is undergoing a process of rapid de-dollarisation.”
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90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record
Trump administration officials have described the men deported to El Salvador prisons last month as “the worst of the worst,” suggesting they were gang members involved in murder, rape and kidnapping.
www.bloomberg.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?
April 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?
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The oil price collapse tells me that the Trump recession has already begun, we are just waiting for the statistics to begin recording and measuring the downturn
April 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The oil price collapse tells me that the Trump recession has already begun, we are just waiting for the statistics to begin recording and measuring the downturn
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2) Trump has had the same impact on economic uncertainty as a global pandemic.
April 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
2) Trump has had the same impact on economic uncertainty as a global pandemic.
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The gangster state breaks new ground. Trump’s not just pardoning corporate criminals. Now he’s pardoning criminal corporations.
thehill.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The gangster state breaks new ground. Trump’s not just pardoning corporate criminals. Now he’s pardoning criminal corporations.
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Decades of national security expertise wiped away in Washington yesterday at the urging of a far-right conspiracist who was once banned from Uber for anti-Muslim rants and claimed 9/11 was an 'inside job.' wapo.st/3R3zRAu
Trump ousts members of National Security Council staff
The NSC shake-up followed a White House visit by Laura Loomer, a far-right activist who urged Trump to purge staff with hawkish foreign policy views.
wapo.st
April 4, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Decades of national security expertise wiped away in Washington yesterday at the urging of a far-right conspiracist who was once banned from Uber for anti-Muslim rants and claimed 9/11 was an 'inside job.' wapo.st/3R3zRAu
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Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
April 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
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FWIW: This teenager presented himself at a port of entry without papers, and was paroled into the U.S. to seek asylum or other relief.
Yet ANOTHER case of “had papers but not really a ‘legal immigrant’ per se.”
Yet ANOTHER case of “had papers but not really a ‘legal immigrant’ per se.”
Here’s a story about a kid-a legal immigrant to the US-who Trump deported to the worst prison in the world. The kid wasn’t in a gang & didn’t have tattoos. Your federal government in action: no due process, no common sense, no decency. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic... @texasmonthly.bsky.social
The Austin-Area Teen Trump Disappeared to El Salvador
Eighteen-year-old Daniel Terán was taken from his home and shipped to a notorious prison on the charge that he is a gang member. The government hasn't produced evidence supporting the claim, says his ...
www.texasmonthly.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
FWIW: This teenager presented himself at a port of entry without papers, and was paroled into the U.S. to seek asylum or other relief.
Yet ANOTHER case of “had papers but not really a ‘legal immigrant’ per se.”
Yet ANOTHER case of “had papers but not really a ‘legal immigrant’ per se.”
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Here, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social has exactly the right word: Stalinesque. So much of what comes out in these WH edicts sounds like it was written in the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
"This one short document hyperfocused on the Smithsonian is just 1,150 words, but it is towering in its Stalinesque ambition to walk back history and whitewash America’s past." My latest at @thebulwark.bsky.social, on butchering truth in an edict to abandon it. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-late...
Trump’s Latest Bid to Rewrite Reality
From the Smithsonian to statues, he wants to whitewash America’s past.
www.thebulwark.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Here, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social has exactly the right word: Stalinesque. So much of what comes out in these WH edicts sounds like it was written in the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
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For those of you keeping track at hime, we have moved from "he's clearly trolling , you hysterical harpies" to "I'm not joking . . . there are methods which you could do it."
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 5:31 PM
For those of you keeping track at hime, we have moved from "he's clearly trolling , you hysterical harpies" to "I'm not joking . . . there are methods which you could do it."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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This is 100% a Make the Confederacy Great Again EO. It's all abt resurrecting the statues of the generals who committed treason to join the Confederacy. I almost admire the word play audacity in the service of evil in their use of the phrase "false reconstruction" to describe their goal.
March 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is 100% a Make the Confederacy Great Again EO. It's all abt resurrecting the statues of the generals who committed treason to join the Confederacy. I almost admire the word play audacity in the service of evil in their use of the phrase "false reconstruction" to describe their goal.
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I’m sorry but I’m still thinking about the Secretary of Defense texting “We are currently clean on OPSEC” to a group chat that, unbeknownst to him, included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine.
March 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I’m sorry but I’m still thinking about the Secretary of Defense texting “We are currently clean on OPSEC” to a group chat that, unbeknownst to him, included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine.
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Okay it may seem bad that Meta appropriated the entirety of the written word without compensating or even consulting with any writers, but consider what the world got out of it: a thing you accidentally tap in Instagram
March 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Okay it may seem bad that Meta appropriated the entirety of the written word without compensating or even consulting with any writers, but consider what the world got out of it: a thing you accidentally tap in Instagram
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There's no way to take the idea of MAHA seriously without doing things like being very pro-vaccine or validating Michelle Obama on healthy eating
MAHA Is a Fraud
America has never been healthier. Going backwards is going to mean more people getting sick and dying.
www.thebulwark.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
There's no way to take the idea of MAHA seriously without doing things like being very pro-vaccine or validating Michelle Obama on healthy eating
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1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
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“The argument is that in an “America First” world, where the world’s most powerful country can’t be counted upon to have Europe’s back anymore, the EU’s studious neutrality — vis-a-vis where it invests its resources — looks like a idealistic relic of a gentler age.” techcrunch.com/2025/03/16/e...
European tech industry coalition calls for 'radical action' on digital sovereignty — starting with buying local | TechCrunch
A broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe's tech industry is calling for "radical action" from European Union lawmakers to shrink reliance
techcrunch.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:35 AM
“The argument is that in an “America First” world, where the world’s most powerful country can’t be counted upon to have Europe’s back anymore, the EU’s studious neutrality — vis-a-vis where it invests its resources — looks like a idealistic relic of a gentler age.” techcrunch.com/2025/03/16/e...