Container bookings from China to the United States are nosediving. @financialtimes.com (via Kevin Gordon) - ThreadSky

I’m a Lyft driver in the greater SF Bay Area. I’m going across the Bay Bridge multiple times a week. The bay is usually packed with cargo ships. It’s pretty empty lately

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elcorintio.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Same in LA. Traffic is pretty good lately. No container trucks on the freeways.

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freeferrix69.bsky.social•4 hours ago

To avoid layoffs, Harbor Freight is cutting hours for employees. The shit is getting real. Real fast.

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pahoward.bsky.social•2 hours ago

This will kill trucking and logistics companies-Trump has dementia and others Russian agents are running White House

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mistagain62.bsky.social•7 hours ago

So I guess that means the Orange King won’t be collecting much in tariffs. How will he justify billionaires tax cuts now? And how does he explain no toys on the shelves this Christmas?

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sueryanmn.bsky.social•3 hours ago

It's Biden's fault... 🙄

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mlkadrie.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Empty shelves… this time no pandemic to blame. Just one moron and his enablers

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pcollirigger.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I hate to be cynical, but we've been here before. "Maybe NOW everyone will see what we've all seen for the last 10 years!"

Trump will blame China and even use the anti-China pandemic vibe to go after them. They look different, making them a great target.

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johnyaya.bsky.social•4 hours ago

He's already blaming Biden, Powell, China.

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baluartedemocracia.bsky.social•6 hours ago

But what will be the argument for this? "China is not bending to our bullying ways, how dare they?"

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pcollirigger.bsky.social•6 hours ago

"China wants to continue to take advantage of us, and we can't let them. This is like the virus they attacked us with in 2021!"

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jeffp018.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Yes and this will be eaten up by the ~30% of voters who are hard-core MAGAts, but they are a lost cause and don't matter. The people who will notice the empty shelves, however, are the ~25-30% of the electorate that barely pays attention to politics and votes on "vibes." That's who wins elections.

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pcollirigger.bsky.social•4 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/raymondnorman.bsky.social/post/3lnv7pdpjqi24

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sfmp.bsky.social•5 hours ago

The 36% of eligible voters who were too lazy to get their lazy asses off the sofa are also to blame, albeit not as much as the Koolaid swilling MAGAt cult members. 🤨

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nycblu.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Any news on Trump's Made In China crap he sells?

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mom2yellowlabs.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Oh, I’m sure it’s all exempt from the tariffs.

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thethaiguy.bsky.social•3 hours ago

The shit will hit the fan when the inventory that was front loaded pre tariff run out and existing tariffs remain. companies will not ship goods into US and hold off anymore production. Not only will shelves be bare but price will also go up. In the end consumers will pay.This was always a tax on us

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thethaiguy.bsky.social•3 hours ago

How does that track compared to other years in the same period? Shipping usually run much higher prior to CNY and and then dips before slowly ramping back up. I’m not saying that’s the case here but curious how this year compares to other years.

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omegamom.bsky.social•3 hours ago

The chart is year over year percent change. So, for the first week of April, shipping is 40% lower than it was last year at the same time.

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stefanrossieau.bsky.social•1 hour ago

How about that huh. Who is actually surprised when the theoretical shit hits the reality fan?

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phoenixflame1965.bsky.social•5 hours ago

This is also a graph of Trump’s approval rating.

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hopefordemocracy.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The GOP doesn’t care

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scottymarshy.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Josh Marshall wrote extensively about the alarming current status of shipping. Damage has already begun. And Bessent saying this morning that China has to make the first move. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
https://bsky.app/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3lnsh2tw32k27

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somerandomdave.bsky.social•2 hours ago

China has made the first move (if rolling around on the floor laughing at the idea they're going to grovel to the orange buffoon for a percentage of their foreign trade that was already small counts as "making a move")

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realmovieev.bsky.social•4 hours ago

there will be no trucks to buy the gas to carry the eggs

this is the house of cards donold built

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azdotconnector.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Layoffs will rise
Proportionally.

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sburr741600.bsky.social•3 hours ago

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l-edwards.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Let's hope China does not start laying ships up

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steve-bs.bsky.social•3 hours ago

But they will, right? Less containers, then less ships, then canceled routes, then ships up for maintenance, or just up.

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l-edwards.bsky.social•2 hours ago

They can use loss of hire and collect insurance money

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labsp61.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Bad news for all those English speaking truck drivers

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rez-uk.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Supply shock inflation inbound. Que Trump blaming Powell as the reason for higher prices.

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portfoliocarmel.bsky.social•7 hours ago

📌

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missflangerhanger.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Oopsie

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auntievigilante.bsky.social•8 hours ago

"Bringing manufacturing back to the US" - we're all going to be manufacturing our own soap, sewing our own clothes and growing our own survival gardens.

Thanks MAGA!
#tariffs

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pdxreigns.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Locked in the United States...what does your state have to trade? Oregon.

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sueryanmn.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Ok, that is great!

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milkweed.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I think my mom got rid of her sewing machine a few years ago. Dammit.

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kysemma.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Wondering where he will collect his billions in tariffs, nothing is coming in 🙄

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the-old-dog.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Who coulda thought?

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rickybrad.bsky.social•8 minutes ago

Ships in the middle of the Pacific are headed here, essentially empty.

Those shortages will begin in the first half of May.

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kevinskyline.bsky.social•10 hours ago

And yet analysts after analyst on cnbc telling viewers to buy stocks.

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nowwhatdidhedo.bsky.social•6 hours ago

They always say that why would they say anything different? They’re in the job of selling stocks not having you sell yours.

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kevinskyline.bsky.social•1 hour ago

very true.

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indistinguished.bsky.social•6 hours ago

We are liberated from the containers!

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culture-lovers.bsky.social•3 hours ago

https://culture-lovers.eu/blog/2025/5/2/the-case-for-a-serious-china-strategy-thomas-friedmans-vision

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mccoydatiff.bsky.social•8 hours ago

This I can confirm from colleagues having hard times with their jobs as space managers on ships.. it's always supposed to be as full as can be, but ingenuity in 3D Tetris doesn't compensate for no blocks to play with.. 🫩
You ain't getting any new style stuff, so it'll be Barbie, Ken, GI Joe for 🎅🏻🌲🥺

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mooretee.bsky.social•10 hours ago

will 47felon Cave ?

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bevy-b.bsky.social•7 hours ago

He doesn't care. He is on a power trip and it has blinded him to reality. Trump spoke of "a little pain." This must be it.
But Walmart, Target and Home Depot care. Those CEO's and others are going to be speaking up when they see their bottom line crashing.
Caving would be a smart move,

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icuk.bsky.social•4 hours ago

They got rid of DEI. screw them

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gastropoda.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Good thing Home Goods already has Fourth of July crap on display…

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tasteaccountant.bsky.social•8 hours ago

It may be our last!

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richardlaya.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Last year was our last.

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enoch6211.bsky.social•8 hours ago

This is the smoking gun we have been looking for to answer “How the hell did this happen?” Right-wing extremist dialogues were censored online, so they moved them to group chats. And then SecDef blew the whistle on the alt-right tech bro dark web that is Signal. A must read. https://tinyurl.com/bdewsaxv

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terrybsrq.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Dominos. No containers, no product, no trucking, no distribution, empty shelves

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papato4.bsky.social•9 hours ago

That may be true, but all that “winning.”

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john-gardi.bsky.social•4 hours ago

If America wants to rebuild its industrial base in the immediate future, I know where there's large deposits of flint to get them started. 😏

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middlerage.bsky.social•10 hours ago

And instead of dealing with this at 4:28am Trump is rage-posting about his FAKE approval ratings.

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glorydayzzz.bsky.social•3 hours ago

What a psychopath

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kaitensatsuma.bsky.social•9 hours ago

He did deal with it: this is I presume their intended outcome

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moderately-grouchy.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Negative Criminals

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taliesinnola.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It makes so much sense that Trump is one of those guys that can't spell "lose".

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johnyaya.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I hate him but to be fair it's one of the English language's worst tricks

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sfmp.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Where's Luigi when we need him most...

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fleurdelinguist.bsky.social•10 hours ago

My god, we are abandoned

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onewheeldoin200.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Americans abandoned themselves, and Americans are the only ones who can save the country now.

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johntruth68.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Do you have one for the rest of the world ?

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satrielle.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Could anyone kindly provide my lazy ass with a link to the article?

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bonfire25.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Good to know Bessent "isn't worried" about empty shelves.
Man-this guy really sucks on television 🙃

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ud3x.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It's on purpose i guess.

What do you think would happen if he'd go on live TV and tell the Amercans...

'Everything is going down the drain, brace for impact... "

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bonfire25.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Smart money already knows this, so his bumbling just makes it worse. He should just stay off the air until he has something concrete to announce.

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themeanstroke.bsky.social•8 hours ago

…it’s not just television

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bonfire25.bsky.social•8 hours ago

lol true. ceo of worst hedge fund performer in the entire world as treasury sec't. what could go wrong? 🙃

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leslierob007.bsky.social•8 hours ago

we ain't buying....

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allanschlosser.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Threatens the jobs of U.S. dockworkers (ILA) and truck drivers (Teamsters) alike.

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candooo.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I thought i wouldnt need my “toilet paper spiked bat” again…

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mark0000.bsky.social•4 hours ago

True. But it is also worth looking at the amount shipped from January to now compared to prior years. It was very substantially higher; implying a significant amount of stockpiling in anticipation of tariffs. How long will the stockpiles last? How much of that was big companies vs small businesses?

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felinesareperfect.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Excellent question. I just want to know when my wife will hit me on the head with the frying pan, because I didn't get her anything on her shopping list. Time to go fishing.

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filetofsoul312.bsky.social•9 hours ago

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darjeelingltd.bsky.social•8 hours ago

My cousin who is a truck driver was wearing a “F- Kamala” shirt before the election. Gonna check in with him real quick.

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johnyaya.bsky.social•4 hours ago

You can buy him this shirt

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dystopianeggs.bsky.social•8 hours ago

What was his reason for FK tee? I’m genuinely curious.

I think the Dems need to get past the GOP are racists and misogynist.

Why did my 16 and 18 year old colored nephews think that Trump was the better choice? Crime, Groceries and Gas.

They never paid for any of that 😂

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pang5.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Hang on...colored?

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dystopianeggs.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Old school term

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pang5.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Yeah...Strom Thurmond old.

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dystopianeggs.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Facts

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leo575.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Not just republicans. A whole lot of registered democrats and independents preferred another four years of Trump to the thought of Harris.

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darjeelingltd.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Statistically this isn’t the case. In the swing states way more Republicans voted for Harris than democrats voted Trump.

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darjeelingltd.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Also unfortunately there’s a good deal of misogyny making a resurgence in young men so I wouldn’t rule it out.

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darjeelingltd.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It’s because he’s a misogynist and racist. I wish I could say it was otherwise but it genuinely was that who is this black + woman who wants to be president. He’s in his 30s and it was macho shit.

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dystopianeggs.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I believe you aren’t wrong. However, I don’t think that’s the whole story. We had ~30 to 40% Arab Americans, Latinos, and Asians, voting for him.

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darjeelingltd.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Latino men voted for Trump Latino women voted for Harris and the breakdown was pretty stark.

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cachobweeney.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Maybe he can swap some Trump meme coin at the bank to make his house payment? Lol, no. (I've got a cousin like that too).

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shoishto.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Please report back with their response.

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mellofellow.bsky.social•7 hours ago

And stocks are moving up this morning. Wall Street is just eternal optimists, I suppose.

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kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Nobody knows why this is happening.

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bombaycrone.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Wow! Walmart's going to feel the pinch. 7/8 of their shelves are filled with crap from China.

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lesliesherman.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Not to mention MANY people are boycotting WalMart after they bent the knee regarding DEI. Walmart is all but DONE! Stick a fork in them….

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bombaycrone.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Walmart in Sam's Club are both vulnerable at this point.

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4ann-marie.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Tourist shops are feeling it too. They're screwed.

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sgaylestevens.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I hate Walmart

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bombaycrone.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I haven't shopped at Walmart in 9 years. Once I realized who they were owned by they were toast. I also gave up Hobby Lobby because of the monetary support of the Republican Party.

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sgaylestevens.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I don’t think I’ve ever been in hobby lobby or chick-fil-a. I don’t shop at Walmart.

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lesliesherman.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I’m a crafter, and have shopped at Hobby Lobby. Loved that store….but haven’t shopped there since discovering their agenda…won’t shop at Walmart anymore since they bent the knee….but I CAN proudly say, I’ve NEVER eaten at a Chick-fil-A.

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bombaycrone.bsky.social•3 hours ago

We have a Chick-fil-A close to where I live but every time I go past there on the rideshare the drive is empty. I don't think it's catching on here.

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bombaycrone.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Before the arthritis in my hands got so bad I was a hobbyist; Hobby Lobby used to have amazing deals because they could buy in volume. I will spend more money going someplace else before I give my money to Republicans.

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lesliesherman.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I have severe arthritis in my hands, and am an avid crafter. Mostly knitting and crocheting.
I had cortisone injections in my thumb knuckles, and 3 days later my hands were like new!!
You should consult your doctor to see if it may be an option?

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sgaylestevens.bsky.social•3 hours ago

My hands are getting bad as well. Have trouble pouring collodion plates. Working on sculpture and cyanotype instead.

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ricosuavejd.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I get the feeling Spirit Halloween stores won't be so prevalent this year.

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2scatterjoy.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Plus all the dollar stores. And Target. Their entryway cheap Spot is all from China.

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leighchevaux.bsky.social•3 hours ago

You know what? It's not all crap. Some products are very good quality for the price.

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bombaycrone.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Quality for the price of something made by somebody in China making 2¢ a day.

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kenhes.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Do you know the actual booking figures? Rather than year on year change.

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pottersville.bsky.social•10 hours ago

That's more of a drop-off than COVID at its worst.

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kwijybo.bsky.social•4 hours ago

He used a machine gun.

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culture-lovers.bsky.social•3 hours ago

https://culture-lovers.eu/blog/2025/5/2/the-case-for-a-serious-china-strategy-thomas-friedmans-vision

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tomcivitello.bsky.social•4 hours ago

That seems normal. I think we're all excited for this holiday season when we get to buy entirely American made, entirely American sourced products. Whatever the hell those are.

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beihai.bsky.social•3 hours ago

buy Amish. all handmade. a real 19th century type Christmas.
you want a bridge, they sell bridges.
https://www.amishmarketplace.net/

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realwoody.bsky.social•3 hours ago

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felinesareperfect.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Those american products are "alternative products," like "alternative facts." ie, bs.

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capitalistfool.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Meanwhile this morning Bessent said it was up to China to start solving the tariffs crisis.

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ajm01.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I feel like I am living in a mirage - on one hand i read that the futures 2-3 weeks out are imploding and we will soon be living in a dystopian empty shelf world on the other hand I read the dear leader is capitulating and blinking and appeasing the ceo class in the backroom...so which is it??!!

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aozora-aonami.bsky.social•8 hours ago

He will be looking for a face saving climb down but China is not going to give it to him...

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estabon-vadesi.bsky.social•10 hours ago

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jinkelheimers.bsky.social•8 hours ago

"I know what I'm doing."

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wendella.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I'm sure there was nothing important that would have been on those containers, nosirreebob.

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dransct.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I wonder if many truckers voted for Trump... 🤔

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hermannschapek.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Die werden dann halt auf Nähmaschinen umgeschult.

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cocobeansservant.bsky.social•1 hour ago

I live in Hawaii and we pretty much pay more for everything at the big box stores than folks on the mainland . I buy local produce at the farmers markets but everything else from Walmart because it’s cheaper . This is going to hit us pretty hard . FDT ..

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gary-va.bsky.social•4 hours ago

And yet Jim Cramer says we will not see a recession. . .

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steve-bs.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Things may get ugly.

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azgreg.bsky.social•3 hours ago

What about container bookings from other Asian countries?

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p0lyrtist.bsky.social•1 hour ago

No prob. As housing gets more expensive, we non-plutocrats can all live in those containers!😂

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gremlinjess.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I give it a year before Americans are killing and eating each other in the streets

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starwielder.bsky.social•40 minutes ago

Pffft, like it would take that long. I think you underestimate how many people there are out there who have been just praying to hear the Purge siren.

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gremlinjess.bsky.social•38 minutes ago

Oh I absolutely believe the killing will start sooner than that, I just don't think the cannibalism will be a first defense against the apocalypse

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go-birds2025.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Toilet paper emergency!!!!!!

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sueryanmn.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Already stocked up.

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hughjacks-again.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Last time the supply chain failed trump was president. When will they realize God hates trump? 😉

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etienneguy.bsky.social•6 hours ago

📌

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kittycan.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Trump is evil and stupid. Here, we see the stupid in action.

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kim326.bsky.social•2 hours ago

I was near the port of LA yesterday and I’ve never seen so few ships in port or offshore. And most of the offshore ones looked to be oil tankers, not container ships.

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cenbe.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Anyone know how this compares to the drop in shipping during COVID?

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discouragedbylife.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Good. The constant drumbeat of idiocies has done nothing. The dismantling of important safeguards in our government has done nothing the absolute only thing that will work is economic collapse. Only that will move the needle with his billionaire backers. FA must be followed by FO.

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ricosuavejd.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Like covid, but completely self inflicted.

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