R Dean Riddlebarger
@othurone.bsky.social
Technical Consultant. Armchair Political Scientist. Aging Liberal Hippie. He/Him. On the Net since it was ARPA/Usenet.
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Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
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Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.
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Who else used to get these buttery bits of drywall when you were a kid? So dry. So tooth-cracking. So exciting.
November 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Who else used to get these buttery bits of drywall when you were a kid? So dry. So tooth-cracking. So exciting.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Complicated hippie women, have hard-earned wisdom to share. We pretty accurately represent the confusing & contradictory reality of womanhood today.
Don’t dismiss the boomer hippies.
Read, relate, learn.
🔗 tinyurl.com/3c69ruw4
Don’t dismiss the boomer hippies.
Read, relate, learn.
🔗 tinyurl.com/3c69ruw4
It’s Time We Took Hippie Women Seriously
Long before girl bosses and trad wives, these countercultural women embodied female power. Let's give them their due.
tinyurl.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Complicated hippie women, have hard-earned wisdom to share. We pretty accurately represent the confusing & contradictory reality of womanhood today.
Don’t dismiss the boomer hippies.
Read, relate, learn.
🔗 tinyurl.com/3c69ruw4
Don’t dismiss the boomer hippies.
Read, relate, learn.
🔗 tinyurl.com/3c69ruw4
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A leading federal judge quits in protest of Trump's corruption-- & to fight it
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Leaving the Federal Bench
A judge explains his reasons for resigning.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A leading federal judge quits in protest of Trump's corruption-- & to fight it
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Trump’s plan is for people to pay his banker friends hundreds of thousands more in interest on mortgages while they own a piece of your home until you die.
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Trump’s plan is for people to pay his banker friends hundreds of thousands more in interest on mortgages while they own a piece of your home until you die.
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Rent with insurance, property tax and maintenance expenses. Awesome.
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Rent with insurance, property tax and maintenance expenses. Awesome.
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Joining MSNBC at three from lovely Boston, Massachusetts to talk about this:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
www.theatlantic.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Joining MSNBC at three from lovely Boston, Massachusetts to talk about this:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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They outnumbered her, so she outmanuevered them. Harm mitigation.
Now, before mofos wake up and start blaming another Black woman for the woes of the United States that the voters created, read and understand why the "stay" happened.
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
They outnumbered her, so she outmanuevered them. Harm mitigation.
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Hard, but true. And I love Shapiro for being so direct.
Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Hard, but true. And I love Shapiro for being so direct.
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These are some eye-popping numbers:
Wheat exports down 89%
Cherries down 62%
Apples down 58%
In the housing market, tariff-driven material cost increases are estimated to raise the price of a new home by about $10,900.
Wheat exports down 89%
Cherries down 62%
Apples down 58%
In the housing market, tariff-driven material cost increases are estimated to raise the price of a new home by about $10,900.
A newly released multi-agency report from the state of Michigan warns that federal tariffs and retaliatory trade measures are driving up costs for families, homebuyers and workers across the state.
From @jonkingnews.bsky.social
From @jonkingnews.bsky.social
Whitmer-ordered report links Trump’s tariffs to rising prices and slower growth across Michigan • Michigan Advance
A newly released multi-agency report from the state of Michigan warns that federal tariffs and retaliatory trade measures are driving up costs for families, homebuyers and workers across the state. Th...
michiganadvance.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
These are some eye-popping numbers:
Wheat exports down 89%
Cherries down 62%
Apples down 58%
In the housing market, tariff-driven material cost increases are estimated to raise the price of a new home by about $10,900.
Wheat exports down 89%
Cherries down 62%
Apples down 58%
In the housing market, tariff-driven material cost increases are estimated to raise the price of a new home by about $10,900.
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hahaha and speaking of this week's cartoon
RAJU: Last week you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you?
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
November 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
hahaha and speaking of this week's cartoon
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🤣This guy does these impressions so good! Trump swears so many Black folks love him. Just one of many lies from that fucking bigot.
November 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🤣This guy does these impressions so good! Trump swears so many Black folks love him. Just one of many lies from that fucking bigot.
Boosting for my new MI friends.
Bluesky! These times are hard. If you are able and inclined, please support feeding organizations where you are… & if you can, please support ours here in Detroit & Michigan.
In 2025, no one should go hungry. I strongly believe that food is a human right.
Even $5, $10 or $20 makes a difference!
In 2025, no one should go hungry. I strongly believe that food is a human right.
Even $5, $10 or $20 makes a difference!
We just created a round-up of organizations providing food help for Detroiters! Here it is, feel free to share to anyone who needs it. 🫶🏾
October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Boosting for my new MI friends.
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#Truthbomb
“Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.” DT
“Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.” DT
October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
#Truthbomb
“Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.” DT
“Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.” DT
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📣 IT'S THE SPOOKIEST OF ALL TOM THE DANCING BUG REVIEWS!
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🎃 Two scary books, and a horrifying comic book!
📝 A peek into the writers room that's ruining your life!
🤰 BAD FETUS!
🏫 A.I. High
🎨 How to Draw Doug
👮👮 Good Cop / Bad Cop
AND MORE!
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Free for all!
open.substack.com/pub/tomtheda...
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🎃 Two scary books, and a horrifying comic book!
📝 A peek into the writers room that's ruining your life!
🤰 BAD FETUS!
🏫 A.I. High
🎨 How to Draw Doug
👮👮 Good Cop / Bad Cop
AND MORE!
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Free for all!
open.substack.com/pub/tomtheda...
🌞 Origins and Sex!
Double your pleasure
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
📣 IT'S THE SPOOKIEST OF ALL TOM THE DANCING BUG REVIEWS!
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🎃 Two scary books, and a horrifying comic book!
📝 A peek into the writers room that's ruining your life!
🤰 BAD FETUS!
🏫 A.I. High
🎨 How to Draw Doug
👮👮 Good Cop / Bad Cop
AND MORE!
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Free for all!
open.substack.com/pub/tomtheda...
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🎃 Two scary books, and a horrifying comic book!
📝 A peek into the writers room that's ruining your life!
🤰 BAD FETUS!
🏫 A.I. High
🎨 How to Draw Doug
👮👮 Good Cop / Bad Cop
AND MORE!
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Free for all!
open.substack.com/pub/tomtheda...
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Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.
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It's all hands on deck. I am shamelessly asking, one more time, for reposts and signal boost as this bird glides toward a landing in a few hours. It's gonna be a beautiful book, and there aren't going to be very many available afterwards!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
www.kickstarter.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It's all hands on deck. I am shamelessly asking, one more time, for reposts and signal boost as this bird glides toward a landing in a few hours. It's gonna be a beautiful book, and there aren't going to be very many available afterwards!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
I want what Oz is snorting or smoking. I’m on a private retiree plan - so not ACA - and will be eating $30/mo. more next year so for ACA that $13 claim is nonsense.
Q: Unless ACA subsidies are extended, the average plan will increase by somewhere around 115%
DR OZ: Where'd you get that number?
Q: Kaiser Family Foundation
OZ: They retracted that. Here's the truth. The average American who's on ACA is gonna pay $13 more than this year. That's not a big issue
DR OZ: Where'd you get that number?
Q: Kaiser Family Foundation
OZ: They retracted that. Here's the truth. The average American who's on ACA is gonna pay $13 more than this year. That's not a big issue
October 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I want what Oz is snorting or smoking. I’m on a private retiree plan - so not ACA - and will be eating $30/mo. more next year so for ACA that $13 claim is nonsense.
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If you want to support black farmers who did not vote for Trump, check these guys out. Go to their website they will ship. Spread the word and help your fellow Americans.
October 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
If you want to support black farmers who did not vote for Trump, check these guys out. Go to their website they will ship. Spread the word and help your fellow Americans.