Scott Travers
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Scott Travers
@scott-travers.bsky.social
Carbon Farmer
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April 11: “The phones are ringing off the hook.”

July 6: “Many of these countries never even contacted us.”

@atrupar.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...
June 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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How many times in your life have you heard a member of Congress or someone on TV say “we can’t afford it” when talking about something small but very important? It’s been happening my entire life. We can’t afford it? They’re putting seven times the annual budget of the EPA into immigrant detention.
June 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Seen at Jan. 6 Riot Flown Above Government Agency in DC
The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
www.wired.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
June 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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KENNEDY: If Vietnam came to you and said, 'You win. We're gonna remove all tariffs and all trade barriers. Would the US please do the same?" Would you accept that deal?

LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do

KENNEDY: What's the purpose of reciprocity then?
June 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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When your only standards are double standards.
June 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Next time someone in Congress glibly dismisses your need for healthcare, remember that they have some of the best healthcare in the country. And it was paid for by YOU.
May 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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May 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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In 2024, Biden signed into law a $105 billion measure designed to end a shortfall in air traffic controllers.

In 2025, Trump came in and instead began firing hundreds of them.

So you can see how *clear* it is that Biden is to blame for the shortage now.
May 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.
Frank Conniff
May 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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For Trump’s office: 24 karat gold.

For you: #TwoDolls 🤡
Trump to Carney: "You see the new and improved Oval Office. As it becomes more and more beautiful with love and 24 karat gold. That always helps too."
May 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Musk has fired 100+ specialized fed employees, installed DOGE overseers, devastated programs on idealogical grounds, handicapped soc sec, & pissed off 🇺🇸 voters.

"He's taken [US gov] down to the foundations in lots of places." - The damage will FAR outlast his presence.

www.cnn.com/2025/04/26/p...
‘Just never been anything like DOGE’: Inside Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of government in Trump’s first 100 days | CNN Politics
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has been Donald Trump’s battering ram during the president’s first 100 days, slashing the federal government and trying to bend its remnants to Trump’s ...
www.cnn.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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“No matter what you have done before,” Professor William McBride wrote to Annapolis’s Superintendent Adm. Yvette Davids, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
How the U.S. Naval Academy Is Bending the Knee to Trump (Gift Article)
Even before the presidential election, the school began preparing for Donald Trump’s potential return to power. Now faculty members are resigning in protest.
www.nytimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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FUNDSTRAT tonight:

“.. in the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers. .. A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”
April 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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All I’m saying is that President Harris wouldn’t have us looking at the futures market on a Sunday night.
April 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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I can't tell you how much I wish this wasn't correct
“Americans built the richest and most prosperous society ever to exist, and one part of that was the creation of an endless stream of handheld entertainments, which told them they were miserable and impoverished, and consequently the country committed immediate political and economic suicide”
April 7, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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What if you’re so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?
April 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Something is fundamentally wrong with America when millions of dollars can’t buy you a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, the respect of your children, the silence of your baby mammas, or a functional penis implant.
April 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Why is Pete Hegseth bringing his wife to top security meetings and hiring his brother at the Pentagon? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth’s wife reportedly attended meetings with foreign defense officials
Defense secretary, already under fire for chat group blunder, faces new scrutiny for having wife in high-level meetings
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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This from a billionaire who drives health care workers and scientific researchers out of their jobs and then mocks them online
Musk: I mean, have you Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price.. What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like who derives joy from that?
March 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Kristi Noem billed South Dakota taxpayers more than $640,000 in personal travel-related costs, including a six-day trip to Paris, a bear hunt in Canada, a trip to Houston for dental work to fix her smile, and a book tour. But she can afford a $50,000 Rolex for a prison porn photo op in El Salvador.
Kristi Noem refused to say who financed some of her travel. It was taxpayers who were on the hook
An Associated Press analysis of recently released travel records found more than $150,000 in expenses tied to Noem’s political and personal activity.
apnews.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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I honestly cannot express how awesome it is that the DoD was putting out these statements at the literal exact same time that the Secretary of Defense was negligently transmitting classified information on an unsecure platform to a journalist.

It's just utterly amazing. What a time to be alive.
ACCOUNTABILITY IS BACK
March 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM