Phill Price
@phillipprice.bsky.social
Savannah, GA Musician
Toured/Recorded w/ An Albatross, Intracoastal Playboys, Armed Forces Entertainment, my twin brother Jason Painter Price, SW!MS, COEDS, Lewis & Clarke, Bedford, lots more.
Toured/Recorded w/ An Albatross, Intracoastal Playboys, Armed Forces Entertainment, my twin brother Jason Painter Price, SW!MS, COEDS, Lewis & Clarke, Bedford, lots more.
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White House restores HBCU scholarships after pressure from Ossoff, lawmakers ajc.com/education/wh...
White House reverses course on HBCU scholarships after pressure from Jon Ossoff, other lawmakers
The 1890 Scholars Program, which has been suspended, was designed to increase the number of students from rural and underserved communities.
ajc.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
White House restores HBCU scholarships after pressure from Ossoff, lawmakers ajc.com/education/wh...
The US Marine Band has been forced to cancel their participation in a program and concert with black high school musicians from across America because the president is a disgusting racist.
certain respectable, centrist pundits have said or implied that i'm basically hysterical about the idea that the trump administration is segregationist but then we get stories like this one. huh, wonder what ideological perspective might explain this decision.
Following executive orders, ‘The President’s Own’ Marine Band scraps concert
The U.S. Marine Band’s canceled collaboration with Equity Arc was to feature high school musicians of color who competed to perform with the ensemble.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The US Marine Band has been forced to cancel their participation in a program and concert with black high school musicians from across America because the president is a disgusting racist.
This dude amassed a fortune from people who love to read - and used it to destroy independent bookshops and now a major newspaper.
February 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This dude amassed a fortune from people who love to read - and used it to destroy independent bookshops and now a major newspaper.
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This hits hard…
“Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.”
You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.
“Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.”
You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.
February 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This hits hard…
“Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.”
You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.
“Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.”
You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.
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The Dallas Fed's Manufacturing Activity Index records comments every month from its respondents (factories in southern NM, TX, and northern LA). These typically run pretty far to the right of the WSJ Editorial page. Anyhow, here's what they're saying this month:
www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...
www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...
![February 24, 2025
Comments from survey respondents
These comments are from respondents’ completed surveys and have been edited for publication.
Chemical manufacturing
The dynamic tariff situation is one for us to follow and seek to understand. The approach to improve export tariffs for U.S. companies seeking to deliver goods in foreign countries is good, and we believe the current tactic of reciprocal tariffs could drive improvement for U.S. export competitiveness.
Tariff threats and uncertainty are extremely disruptive.
Computer and electronic product manufacturing
Keep lowering interest rates, please.
The overall effects of administrative change have stalled consumer and customer spending.
We are uncertain as to the full impact of tariffs related to our business. We procure parts from overseas. We have lost business opportunities for production of goods that goes to other countries as a result of tariffs. We may see new opportunities for products built elsewhere for companies who wish to shift manufacturing to the U.S. to avoid tariffs. There is much uncertainty at the moment as to how this will shake out.
With some of the new Buy America changes and tariffs incoming, we are looking at closing the business.
We are seeing broad signals of demand cyclically recovering. Personal electronics, communications equipment and enterprise business are now several quarters into a cyclical recovery. We are seeing industrial and automotive inventories cleaned out, and our revenues are returning to consumption.
Fabricated metal product manufacturing
We are starting to see old requests for quotations starting to receive purchase orders. We are still having issues filling positions.
We are still in a low-volume period but are holding steady as we’ve flexed down capacity and costs accordingly.
Food manufacturing
President Trump’s freeze on government contracts has had a dramatic impact on us. USAID [United States Agency for International Development] is our major customer. That as…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pnx2fjuannbdpy3337ggthpp/bafkreidab44c624nghp4nt57pydbnfn6nk6tl62nuhybbmq2ni7inx5kdm@jpeg)
![Miscellaneous manufacturing
Sales volumes have been trending downward in the last 28 months. We have cut hours to 36 per week, and it is not enough to get profitable. Next week, we are cutting further to 32 hours and laying off three people. The uncertainty in tariff threats and general chaos of another Trump presidency is weighing heavy on our business. All customers are decreasing or pushing out orders—taking a wait-and-see posture. Automotive OEM [original equipment manufacturer] and aftermarket represents 72 percent of our sales. The outlook from automotive OEM is that production should begin to pick up in second quarter 2025, but no firm increases have been promised. The outlook is bleak.
Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing
It is very hard to plan. Interest rates? Tariffs? Wow.
Paper manufacturing
Currently it is very slow, and we started reduced production hours in the plant. Orders are also very slow. A price increase in the industry has been delayed 30 days due to softness.
Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
Customers, vendors and ourselves are all trying to get ahead of anticipated global trade challenges. It is stressing capacities, especially with production personnel.
Primary metal manufacturing
The proposed 25 percent tariffs on steel imports will directly and favorably improve the bottom line as a domestic steel manufacturer. However, uncertainty is sky high.
It is A Tale of Two Cities. February was down compared with January, but our outlook remains positive due to the 25 percent Section 232 tariff on aluminum. This tariff is expected to slow the influx of foreign aluminum from Mexico and other countries. Currently, a significant amount of aluminum is being dumped into the U.S. market, with many countries subsidizing their exports to gain a competitive edge. The bottom line: If the tariffs remain in place, they will benefit our industry. However, if they are reversed, many companies in our sector will struggle to survive.
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February 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The Dallas Fed's Manufacturing Activity Index records comments every month from its respondents (factories in southern NM, TX, and northern LA). These typically run pretty far to the right of the WSJ Editorial page. Anyhow, here's what they're saying this month:
www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...
www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...
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So they started out with ~100 existing staffers, 60 have now resigned.
*21 FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY STAFFERS RESIGNED FROM DOGE, AP SAYS
*21 FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY STAFFERS RESIGNED FROM DOGE, AP SAYS
February 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
So they started out with ~100 existing staffers, 60 have now resigned.
*21 FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY STAFFERS RESIGNED FROM DOGE, AP SAYS
*21 FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY STAFFERS RESIGNED FROM DOGE, AP SAYS
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This seems like the sort of thing you might say when you intend to steal $2 billion in gold bars when you visit Fort Knox.
February 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
This seems like the sort of thing you might say when you intend to steal $2 billion in gold bars when you visit Fort Knox.
It took Trump’s DOJ one month to begin running cover for GOP Domestic Violence.
That we know of, at least.
That we know of, at least.
Gerrymandering at work: a moderate Dem who was on the J6 Committee gets replaced by a right wing defense contractor who abuses his mistress and gets bailed out by a US Attorney doing a Himmler speedrun.
The DC police last week sought to arrest a sitting member of Congress, a Florida Republican, for physically assaulting a woman in DC. But the US attorney’s office didn’t sign off on it. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...
February 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
It took Trump’s DOJ one month to begin running cover for GOP Domestic Violence.
That we know of, at least.
That we know of, at least.
This doesn’t even include paying someone to read and make judgements on all those emails!
Elmo is demanding that 2.3M federal employees submit 5 bullets representing their accomplishments last week (or be fired).
Fun fact. If 2.3M employees spend 5 minutes each answering that email, it will cost taxpayers $8.5M.
Your taxpayer dollars funding his harassment of Feds. Now you know.
Fun fact. If 2.3M employees spend 5 minutes each answering that email, it will cost taxpayers $8.5M.
Your taxpayer dollars funding his harassment of Feds. Now you know.
February 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This doesn’t even include paying someone to read and make judgements on all those emails!
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It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.
February 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.
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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
www.texasobserver.org
February 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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They screwed this all up.
February 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
They screwed this all up.
Pure idiocy. Misinformation will explode in the vacuum they’re creating, and not only will this prevent real docs and researchers from identifying outbreaks and saving lives, but - as we’ve seen in natural disasters - the blossoming conspiracy theories will backfire against their own administration.
Top-ranking officials with the CDC, the HHS subagency that oversees the program, told CBS News that the cuts would have a devastating effect on the country’s ability to assess blooming diseases.
RFK Jr. Just Kneecapped the CDC on His First Day
The purging of federal workers continues.
newrepublic.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Pure idiocy. Misinformation will explode in the vacuum they’re creating, and not only will this prevent real docs and researchers from identifying outbreaks and saving lives, but - as we’ve seen in natural disasters - the blossoming conspiracy theories will backfire against their own administration.
IN THE MIDDLE OF A SCHOOL YEAR
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
February 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
IN THE MIDDLE OF A SCHOOL YEAR
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the richest man in the world has decided that you don't deserve to feel safe when you fly bsky.app/profile/rick...
Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.
February 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
the richest man in the world has decided that you don't deserve to feel safe when you fly bsky.app/profile/rick...
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the richest man in the world decided that you don't deserve safe drinking water
February 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
the richest man in the world decided that you don't deserve safe drinking water
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“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
February 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
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The same kind of lie that RFK Jr. believes and promotes was used to justify medical experiments like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study - when African American men with syphilis were left untreated from 1932-1972.
February 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The same kind of lie that RFK Jr. believes and promotes was used to justify medical experiments like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study - when African American men with syphilis were left untreated from 1932-1972.
All Right Wing thought eventually boils down to Might Makes Right.
REPORTER: Do you view Ukraine as an equal member of this peace process?
TRUMP: Ummmm ... it's an interesting question. I think they have to make peace. That was not a good war to go into.
TRUMP: Ummmm ... it's an interesting question. I think they have to make peace. That was not a good war to go into.
February 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
All Right Wing thought eventually boils down to Might Makes Right.
Unelected Billionaire Charged With Cutting Government Services Also Awarded $400M Government Contract.
Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.
State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Unelected Billionaire Charged With Cutting Government Services Also Awarded $400M Government Contract.
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My inhaler is no longer covered by my insurance.
A Georgia congressman introduced a bill authorizing Trump to negotiate the purchase of Greenland, and rename it to "Red, White, and Blueland."
Denmark has consistently stated that Greenland is not for sale
Denmark has consistently stated that Greenland is not for sale
Rep. Buddy Carter proposes renaming Greenland to 'Red, White, and Blueland'
www.fox5atlanta.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
My inhaler is no longer covered by my insurance.
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The Philadelphia Eagles were named, in 1933, to honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration, part of the New Deal—the NRA’s Blue Eagle stood for protection of labor and federal oversight of the U.S. economy (pic: Library of Congress)
February 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The Philadelphia Eagles were named, in 1933, to honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration, part of the New Deal—the NRA’s Blue Eagle stood for protection of labor and federal oversight of the U.S. economy (pic: Library of Congress)
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NIH grants that created genetic medicine cured my hemophilia in 2020. Here is what the 5-years cured blood test looked like last week. Science works! I hope others get the benefits of such research before regressive Republicans send us back to the 19th Century.
February 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
NIH grants that created genetic medicine cured my hemophilia in 2020. Here is what the 5-years cured blood test looked like last week. Science works! I hope others get the benefits of such research before regressive Republicans send us back to the 19th Century.