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rafcavallaro.bsky.social
Artist, husband, father, left politics, dog and cat person, former archaeologist, amateur musician & songwriter.
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If you want elected Democrats to "fight" you best understand that it will be *Black* Democrats on those front lines. And so you best have their backs when they're unconstitutionally asked to suffer the consequences. Defend Rep @replamonica.bsky.social My latest in @thenation.com

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I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

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Page One must have been crowded. So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡 @schooley.bsky.social

Y’all watching @60minutes.bsky.social? The whole Trump law firm extortion scheme is being explored as well as the split among law firms - those fighting and those who “made a deal.” @marcelias.bsky.social is laying it out.

Trump's post is a federal crime. 26 USC § 7217.

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The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

Spotted in a strip mall in Waltham, MA.

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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

They used to call it a stove. A stove! Such an old fashioned word. I brought it back though. I said we’re touching the stove! Biden wouldn’t touch it, he was too sleepy! Sleepy Joe, remember that? Well we’re touching the stove now, putting my hand on it and maybe, quite possibly, my face!

What I do not think the Washington understands is that it’s not Trump in himself that’s discrediting us to the allies. Every now and then in a democracy, the people elect a turd. It’s that the Constitution gives them a Mad King Removal button and they are too cowardly and cynical to press it.

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This man does not drop f bombs lightly. When he does, you best listen.

The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.

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