Mika
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Just looking for material to keep the mind entertained and the demons away
The nerve they have to say that the House reconciliation bill will benefit working families.
I created this graph using yesterday’s report from UPenn’s Wharton: budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/...
I created this graph using yesterday’s report from UPenn’s Wharton: budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/...
May 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The nerve they have to say that the House reconciliation bill will benefit working families.
I created this graph using yesterday’s report from UPenn’s Wharton: budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/...
I created this graph using yesterday’s report from UPenn’s Wharton: budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/...
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A real patriot does NOT believe that American businesses need a tariff wall to shield them from foreign competition.
A real patriot knows that American business can carry their own weight because they are innovative and risk takers.
And what made them that way?? Competition.
A real patriot knows that American business can carry their own weight because they are innovative and risk takers.
And what made them that way?? Competition.
April 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
A real patriot does NOT believe that American businesses need a tariff wall to shield them from foreign competition.
A real patriot knows that American business can carry their own weight because they are innovative and risk takers.
And what made them that way?? Competition.
A real patriot knows that American business can carry their own weight because they are innovative and risk takers.
And what made them that way?? Competition.
“Whatever 19th-century image President Trump may have of a concert of great powers, he’s proving the limits of his influence by penalizing friends and rewarding enemies in increasingly desperate efforts to produce quick wins”
Kori Schake, American Enterprise Institute.
Kori Schake, American Enterprise Institute.
March 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
“Whatever 19th-century image President Trump may have of a concert of great powers, he’s proving the limits of his influence by penalizing friends and rewarding enemies in increasingly desperate efforts to produce quick wins”
Kori Schake, American Enterprise Institute.
Kori Schake, American Enterprise Institute.
Trump’s plan is to sell off federal buildings to his millionaire investor friends (who will be forever in his debt) to get cash for big tax breaks. Meanwhile, all these agencies, with workforces reaching unsustainably low levels, will be forced to pay a bunch of money to lease space INDEFINITELY!!
Non-core property list
Learn about our lease cost avoidance plan and its successes.
www.gsa.gov
March 5, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Trump’s plan is to sell off federal buildings to his millionaire investor friends (who will be forever in his debt) to get cash for big tax breaks. Meanwhile, all these agencies, with workforces reaching unsustainably low levels, will be forced to pay a bunch of money to lease space INDEFINITELY!!
A good summary of Trump’s second term
February 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A good summary of Trump’s second term
We reached a whole new level
February 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
We reached a whole new level
Treat federal employees like Meta or X workers, PAY THEM like Meta or X workers
Plenty of people make the switch to federal employment because of job security and the home-work balance afforded by working 40 hours/week, no more.
Trump is taking both of those things away.
I say SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Plenty of people make the switch to federal employment because of job security and the home-work balance afforded by working 40 hours/week, no more.
Trump is taking both of those things away.
I say SHOW ME THE MONEY!
February 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Treat federal employees like Meta or X workers, PAY THEM like Meta or X workers
Plenty of people make the switch to federal employment because of job security and the home-work balance afforded by working 40 hours/week, no more.
Trump is taking both of those things away.
I say SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Plenty of people make the switch to federal employment because of job security and the home-work balance afforded by working 40 hours/week, no more.
Trump is taking both of those things away.
I say SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Tariffs raise costs for everyone, but the burden on the poorest 10% of households is 5.2 times the size of the burden bore by the richest 10%.
That’s over $1K in higher costs, for those that have a $18.8K annual income
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From today’s PIIE report:
That’s over $1K in higher costs, for those that have a $18.8K annual income
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From today’s PIIE report:
Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China would cost the typical US household over $1,200 a year
The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical policy solutions.
www.piie.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Tariffs raise costs for everyone, but the burden on the poorest 10% of households is 5.2 times the size of the burden bore by the richest 10%.
That’s over $1K in higher costs, for those that have a $18.8K annual income
🤯🤯🤯
From today’s PIIE report:
That’s over $1K in higher costs, for those that have a $18.8K annual income
🤯🤯🤯
From today’s PIIE report:
And then we judge women for doing all sorts of procedures to try to look younger
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www.eeoc.gov/federal-sect...
January 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
And then we judge women for doing all sorts of procedures to try to look younger
www.eeoc.gov/federal-sect...
www.eeoc.gov/federal-sect...
Trump is stripping of each of us (women, minorities, immigrants, disabled, federal workers, and counting) the value of being an individual: each person in each group is the same as the next; and worse, they are all equal because all of us have zero value.
𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐬.
𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐬.
January 31, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Trump is stripping of each of us (women, minorities, immigrants, disabled, federal workers, and counting) the value of being an individual: each person in each group is the same as the next; and worse, they are all equal because all of us have zero value.
𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐬.
𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐬.
The administration knows that the federal workers most likely to quit are the most employable; but Trump thinks so little of public workers that to him NONE of them are worth keeping 🤮
www.axios.com/2025/01/28/t...
www.axios.com/2025/01/28/t...
Trump offering buyouts to all federal workers, source says
It's an acceleration of Trump's already unprecedented purge of the federal workforce.
www.axios.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The administration knows that the federal workers most likely to quit are the most employable; but Trump thinks so little of public workers that to him NONE of them are worth keeping 🤮
www.axios.com/2025/01/28/t...
www.axios.com/2025/01/28/t...
Who knew that it can take hundreds of years to build Inclusive Political Institutions, but only a week to destroy them
A controversial idea to hand even more power to the president
Impoundment is about to come a step closer
www.economist.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Who knew that it can take hundreds of years to build Inclusive Political Institutions, but only a week to destroy them
Don’t fret, the only reason the Chinese built an AI model for a fraction of the cost is because they are free-riding on investments made by U.S. companies, as per ush..
China Market Update: Deep Seek “Deep-Sixes” Global Semiconductor Stocks
So much for the quiet pre-holiday trading session as Asian equities were mixed though Australia was closed for Australia Day, Indonesia was closed for Al Isra’ wal-Mi’raj, South Korea was closed for t...
www.forbes.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Don’t fret, the only reason the Chinese built an AI model for a fraction of the cost is because they are free-riding on investments made by U.S. companies, as per ush..
Thank you, U.S. government, for showing us that when you have corrupt and selfish people in charge, the Whole is actually Less than the Sum of its Parts
January 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Thank you, U.S. government, for showing us that when you have corrupt and selfish people in charge, the Whole is actually Less than the Sum of its Parts
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Most immigrants Trump targets have been here 10+ years, paying taxes, raising families, contributing to our communities.
Mass deportation would devastate our economy and tear apart the social fabric of America.
https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/
Mass deportation would devastate our economy and tear apart the social fabric of America.
https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/
January 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Most immigrants Trump targets have been here 10+ years, paying taxes, raising families, contributing to our communities.
Mass deportation would devastate our economy and tear apart the social fabric of America.
https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/
Mass deportation would devastate our economy and tear apart the social fabric of America.
https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/
“US voters have both decimated the implicit threat that a political leader will be removed from office for criminal self-dealing, and hollowed out the threat that voters will oust them in the next election”
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January 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
“US voters have both decimated the implicit threat that a political leader will be removed from office for criminal self-dealing, and hollowed out the threat that voters will oust them in the next election”
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“I had a feeling that there were people watching what was happening and wondering, Was anyone going to say anything?” Bishop Mariann Budde explained. “Was anyone going to say anything about the turn the country’s taking?”
So, she took a breath, and spoke. nyti.ms/3WtmNY2
So, she took a breath, and spoke. nyti.ms/3WtmNY2
January 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
“I had a feeling that there were people watching what was happening and wondering, Was anyone going to say anything?” Bishop Mariann Budde explained. “Was anyone going to say anything about the turn the country’s taking?”
So, she took a breath, and spoke. nyti.ms/3WtmNY2
So, she took a breath, and spoke. nyti.ms/3WtmNY2
I almost never agree with Trump’s economic policies, but I do like that his AI investment plan includes:
-increasing the share of defense spending that goes into AI, and
-deprioritizing export controls of AI models and advanced computing ICs
-increasing the share of defense spending that goes into AI, and
-deprioritizing export controls of AI models and advanced computing ICs
Here’s What’s in ‘Stargate,’ the $500-Billion Trump-Endorsed Plan to Power U.S. AI
Tech giants are backing a massive effort, announced by President Trump and dubbed the Stargate Project, to add data centers across the U.S.
www.scientificamerican.com
January 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I almost never agree with Trump’s economic policies, but I do like that his AI investment plan includes:
-increasing the share of defense spending that goes into AI, and
-deprioritizing export controls of AI models and advanced computing ICs
-increasing the share of defense spending that goes into AI, and
-deprioritizing export controls of AI models and advanced computing ICs
Forget about distributed generation, distributed computer chips is the future
Training AI models might not need enormous data centres
Eventually, models could be trained without any dedicated hardware at all
www.economist.com
January 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Forget about distributed generation, distributed computer chips is the future
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Do heat pumps work in sub-zero temperatures?
Our analysis of all field studies we could find from around the world concludes yes: "Measured performance data show that heat pumps can provide the most efficient heating in many cold climates around the world."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our analysis of all field studies we could find from around the world concludes yes: "Measured performance data show that heat pumps can provide the most efficient heating in many cold climates around the world."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Do heat pumps work in sub-zero temperatures?
Our analysis of all field studies we could find from around the world concludes yes: "Measured performance data show that heat pumps can provide the most efficient heating in many cold climates around the world."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our analysis of all field studies we could find from around the world concludes yes: "Measured performance data show that heat pumps can provide the most efficient heating in many cold climates around the world."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A reminder for those of us who are always running an imaginary deficit because we’re not being as productive as we could be
January 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A reminder for those of us who are always running an imaginary deficit because we’re not being as productive as we could be
That’s bc you won’t hear an Economist say what ppl want to hear: that all of their problems are caused by external forces; that all will be solved by cutting taxes, closing the border & imposing tariffs; and that at the end times will be as good as their biased view of a world they’re misremembering
Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence? (Gift Article)
Economists have long helped to shape policy on issues like taxes and health care. But flawed forecasts and arcane language have cost them credibility.
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
That’s bc you won’t hear an Economist say what ppl want to hear: that all of their problems are caused by external forces; that all will be solved by cutting taxes, closing the border & imposing tariffs; and that at the end times will be as good as their biased view of a world they’re misremembering