@paparaatzi.bsky.social
Remember Liz Truss? The UK PM who couldn't outlast a head of lettuce? A certain US politician with a similar last name has a worse record than Truss. Why are we riding this roller-coaster of chaos?
"he's revealed a fundamental fragility in the American economy, which is that if we elect a leader who brings forward an economic program of destruction, our political institutions are not strong enough to stop them."
April 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Remember Liz Truss? The UK PM who couldn't outlast a head of lettuce? A certain US politician with a similar last name has a worse record than Truss. Why are we riding this roller-coaster of chaos?
So, after closely documenting the timing of Witkoff's flight to Russia.. and meeting with Putin.. in the middle of the night.. at the moment of the attack.. CBS only questions whether the encryption of the Signal App is secure??
Oh.
As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia - CBS News
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e...
As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia - CBS News
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e...
As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia
As top Trump Cabinet members sent texts in a Signal group chat, CBS News analysis shows one of them, Steve Witkoff, was in Russia.
www.cbsnews.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
So, after closely documenting the timing of Witkoff's flight to Russia.. and meeting with Putin.. in the middle of the night.. at the moment of the attack.. CBS only questions whether the encryption of the Signal App is secure??
It's been 15 years since an insurance company could deny you coverage for a pre-existing health condition.
Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
March 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It's been 15 years since an insurance company could deny you coverage for a pre-existing health condition.
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There's a severe spine shortage in senior management of many organizations.
March 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Many
A fiscally conservative friend of mine surprised me by suggesting support for a 75% top marginal tax rate. 75% seems outrageous now, but the top rate has been higher. The wealthiest Americans in 1940 paid up to 81%. In 1960 it rose to 91%.
March 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
A fiscally conservative friend of mine surprised me by suggesting support for a 75% top marginal tax rate. 75% seems outrageous now, but the top rate has been higher. The wealthiest Americans in 1940 paid up to 81%. In 1960 it rose to 91%.
And a cry arose from the heartland.
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
March 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
And a cry arose from the heartland.
A constitutional right or civil liberty stripped from one of us simply for exercising it is lost to all of us. It no longer exists.
They disappeared a man right off the streets just like Putin for exercising his free speech. They won’t stop at immigrants. We are all targets now. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
They are disappearing people in the U.S.
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil is meant to send a message and strike fear
open.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A constitutional right or civil liberty stripped from one of us simply for exercising it is lost to all of us. It no longer exists.
Fear.
Trump is mentally unfit. Why won't major media give him the "Biden treatment"?
Trump is mentally unfit. Why won’t major media say so?
As well as being a would-be dictator, he’s unhinged and incompetent.
www.stopthepresses.news
March 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Fear.
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According to the #eggsky index, as of March 07, 2025 08:21 AM CST, the price of #eggs is $10.33.
Sample size: 1045
That's a 114.32% difference since Trump became president.
How much did you pay for eggs?
#eggflation
Sample size: 1045
That's a 114.32% difference since Trump became president.
How much did you pay for eggs?
#eggflation
March 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
According to the #eggsky index, as of March 07, 2025 08:21 AM CST, the price of #eggs is $10.33.
Sample size: 1045
That's a 114.32% difference since Trump became president.
How much did you pay for eggs?
#eggflation
Sample size: 1045
That's a 114.32% difference since Trump became president.
How much did you pay for eggs?
#eggflation
The current US regime cares nothing for alliances, democratic values, or free trade. What they crave is empire and conquest. Trade wars won't satisfy them. While it horrified me to say it, Panama or Greenland may be first in line.
March 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The current US regime cares nothing for alliances, democratic values, or free trade. What they crave is empire and conquest. Trade wars won't satisfy them. While it horrified me to say it, Panama or Greenland may be first in line.
These words have to mean something.
I’m a big fan of JVL, but I can’t abide this.
Those words meant something, and whatever the current circumstance, I’ll spend the rest of my days trying to make sure they mean something again.
Those words meant something, and whatever the current circumstance, I’ll spend the rest of my days trying to make sure they mean something again.
Trump was right. We truly are a nation of suckers to have believed this shit.
March 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
These words have to mean something.
Breaking our intelligence services is foolhardy. Either you believe there is no threat or you are the threat.
The politicization and weaponization of both the CIA and the FBI at the same time sets the country up for another intelligence failure on the scale of Pearl Harbor or 9/11. A joint essay by me and @tim-weiner.bsky.social: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/patel-ratc...
Patel, Ratcliffe Set Up U.S. for a National Catastrophe
A rare joint essay on the dangers inside the battle for the soul of the FBI and CIA
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Breaking our intelligence services is foolhardy. Either you believe there is no threat or you are the threat.
Imagine all the winning after 2 months!
According to the #eggsky index, as of February 28, 2025 09:03 AM CST, the price of #eggs is $9.32.
Sample size: 625
That's a 93.26% difference since Trump became president.
How much did you pay for eggs?
#eggflation
Sample size: 625
That's a 93.26% difference since Trump became president.
How much did you pay for eggs?
#eggflation
February 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Imagine all the winning after 2 months!
It seems vaccines have worked too well. If a disease goes away for a few generations, people lose the perceived benefit. We're definitely in the FAFO era.
February 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It seems vaccines have worked too well. If a disease goes away for a few generations, people lose the perceived benefit. We're definitely in the FAFO era.
Wow! This explains better than anything else I've read how the US became a vassal state of Russia in one short month.
🎯🎯🎯 THIS! Patrimonialism accurately describes dumpster’s style of government. Putz-in used to govern like this, so no surprise.
dump &friends look at the US as their personal possession to do with as they want. Laws? PPFFFT.
How do we fight this?
PUBLIC OPINION and ACTION!
HAMMER HIS CORRUPTION!
dump &friends look at the US as their personal possession to do with as they want. Laws? PPFFFT.
How do we fight this?
PUBLIC OPINION and ACTION!
HAMMER HIS CORRUPTION!
One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
www.theatlantic.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Wow! This explains better than anything else I've read how the US became a vassal state of Russia in one short month.
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Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked.A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Quote shared via Kindle: "Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want,...
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February 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked.A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
a.co/a5lBS35
a.co/a5lBS35
Does the First Amendment Freedom of the Press still exist if the media can't or won't fight to keep it? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘A true free-speech emergency’: alarm over Trump’s ‘chilling’ attacks on media
Warning comes as FCC, chaired by Trump ally and Project 2025 author, orders investigations into US media groups
www.theguardian.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Does the First Amendment Freedom of the Press still exist if the media can't or won't fight to keep it? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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All of a sudden, I'm less fond of bananas.
Proper parliamentary use of the word bananas.
Murphy: "Let me say that again. The man that my Republican colleagues are about to vote to lead the FBI believes there is irrefutable proof that the agency he is about to lead secretly organized the violent assault on the Capitol. That is bananas. My Republican colleagues know that."
February 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
All of a sudden, I'm less fond of bananas.
Long live Dark Pence! Dude found his testicles again.
I did an event in IN a few weeks ago where I said that on 1/6/21 Mike Pence saved the country (for now) by being one of very very few who stood by his principles under maximum threat.
Dark Pence is back.
February 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Long live Dark Pence! Dude found his testicles again.
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social Please share with your followers. open.substack.com/pub/quartzev...
The Urgent Need for Televised Opposition Hearings
Unmasking Trumpism
open.substack.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social Please share with your followers. open.substack.com/pub/quartzev...
So, it seems we've entered the upside-down reality where we treat our allies as adversaries and cozy up to dictators? I can't say I'm a fan.
February 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
So, it seems we've entered the upside-down reality where we treat our allies as adversaries and cozy up to dictators? I can't say I'm a fan.
Forget about the price of eggs. Stagnation anyone?
I need people to play attention to this 👇 and to what I said on Thursday
www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t...
The destruction of politics is coming for the economy
www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t...
The destruction of politics is coming for the economy
February 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Forget about the price of eggs. Stagnation anyone?
US says 'US-Russia agree to address irritants to bilateral relationship.' I have questions. Surrender Ukraine, of course. Weaken NATO? Sure. Give Russia control of the Arctic Ocean? This explains the harassment of Canada and Greenland. It seems Putin's investments in Trump are paying off in spades.
February 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
US says 'US-Russia agree to address irritants to bilateral relationship.' I have questions. Surrender Ukraine, of course. Weaken NATO? Sure. Give Russia control of the Arctic Ocean? This explains the harassment of Canada and Greenland. It seems Putin's investments in Trump are paying off in spades.