Profile avatar
bplumm01.bsky.social
1,492 posts 306 followers 1,227 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

President Trump has promised to attack drug gangs and called for the death penalty for street dealers. But he has also pardoned more than 20 people serving time for serious drug crimes, some involving violence.

This story is wild. Sacramento PD went to the hospital after *she was T-boned* and interviewed her for hours and concluded she was drunk and tried to charge her even though nothing was in her system and doctors said she was behaving normally. 😮😮😮😮

Counterpoint: you actually did vote to deport moms. What part of “mass deportations now” did you not understand?

Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

Texas adds 9 new measles cases in W.TX-centered outbreak, to total of 738; 94 hospitalizations; 2 deaths NM remains at 79 cases; 7 hosp; 1 death OK remains at 17 cases KS adds 6 cases to 64 US total for 2025 is at least 1,128 cases per @cnn.com tally

*spit take*

🔔

“More intense than previously known” Wrong, we knew

you say you want to bring manufacturing back to the US and also you want the US to be more like the state that has never had a manufacturing base in its entire history—unlike, say, New York

Once again, it's not "doxxing" to report the name of a government employee.

JOHNSON: TAX BILL WILL REDUCE DEFICIT, IF YOU DO THE MATH RIGHT

What take would you choose to argue on jubilee with total confidence that you’d crush 20 opponents?

The suspension of #tariffs imposed under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act would represent a significant easing in the average US #tariff rate

if funding for the obbb was figured using promised tariff revenues, that should be an issue

"Elon Musk to leave role in government which, in every court case, the government claims that he does not have." -- needs to be in more headlines

the possibility that video exists of him either a) hopping up there, or b) climbing up there is very high

TMZ: The Secret Nuptials of DCs Power Throuple

thanks 12 states

so Musk out and he’s taking Stephen Miller’s wife with him? do I have that right

Seeing as Emil Bove personally fired me from DOJ in retaliation for prosecuting January 6 rioters, I don’t think he should be confirmed to a lifetime seat as a federal judge. But that’s just me.

absolutely gonna blow his top

Crypto industry-funded polls have claimed that as much as 28% of American adults currently owned crypto in 2024. Coinbase in particular loves to throw around claims of 20%. Federal data has just come out putting the figure at... 8%.

Trump gets asked about the #TACO trade: 🌮 @followtheh.bsky.social

the taco trade is based on him folding so raising tariffs in response to this pantsing would be perpetuating the taco trade