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andrewmacrae.bsky.social
Retired liberal, computer programmer, writer of short and long mysteries and science fiction, 3D printing enthusiast. Theater hound, would-be wood-worker. Former Midwesterner now living in a ultra-red county in a very blue state.
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This is your warning: Trump's tariffs are going to negatively impact supply chains just like Covid and prices are going to rise. President Biden's team spent years repairing supply chains to fix inflation. Trump is smashing all of that to smithereens in under 100 days.

JUST IN: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold administration in contempt of court for defying his order to turn around planes, demands new details in order for officials to “purge” their contempt. Details TK

Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue: "Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT." She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”

Watch Chuck Grassley just get the shit heckled out of him at town hall www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

I suggest everyone become very, very familiar with this piece by law Professor @david.noll.org. I suspect you will be referring to it often. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...

THREE MILES DOWN takes place in 1974-75. It's got the Cold War, a sunken Soviet sub, the Hughes Glomar Explorer, Watergate...and the alien ship that sank the sub. www.amazon.com/Three-Miles-...

pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

@21stcsuffragettes.bsky.social

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Trump is talking about shuttering publications and networks he disagrees with. He's talking about deporting and imprisoning Americans who dissent. This is unprecedented and undemocratic. Wake up America.

The Chinese media are making fun of the American president.

Make it make sense

Seems pretty clear that doge is a total scam

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Great to see Detroit’s Pages Bookshop continue under new ownership! Wonderful indie bookstore and community gathering place! www.freep.com/story/news/l...

The CDC's cruise ship inspectors have been laid off, as well as agency's head epidemiologist for investigating cruise ship outbreaks That baffled health officials since this program is paid for by cruise ship fees, not taxpayer dollars www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

We’re doomed.

The entitled narcissistic and sociopathic pathology runs deep.

Mike Johnson just voted to cut Medicaid. Nearly 40% of his district relies on Medicaid.

After massive public backlash, the Social Security Administration is rolling back its disastrous cuts to phone services. This is a huge victory for the public against DOGE's rampage. Keep up the fight.

NEWS: The House narrowly voted to approve the GOP budget blueprint by a vote of 216-214, which aims to make massive cuts to Medicaid and give massive tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans.

The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens. The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago. Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.

Congrats to Big Balls, Skeeter and the rest of the Musk Minions for making this happen.

Paxton’s wife just introduced a bill in the Texas Senate that would require photo ID to purchase a sex toy. For real. I wouldn’t joke about something like this.

I met with 2 business owners today who spent the past 7 days trying to find alternative products (for most items, there aren't any) and adjusting their pricing to take into account the Republican Tax increase caused by Trump's Tariffs. 7 days of work for them & their employees, reversed by a tweet.

Peter Navarro is the Pete Hegseth of economic policy. #Maddow

We are at this level of stupid

China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c...

If you’re a North Carolinian, you can check whether your name or the names of anyone you know is on the list of the 65K voters whose votes may be tossed. You could have an opportunity to fix it if so. thegriffinlist.com

Canada's own Neil Young. Keep on rocking in the free world Neil. #handsoff #elbowsup

“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥

Welcome to the dumbest administration

He did it because those tux-wearing bastards never once said "thank you."

Well this seems like a fantastic plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

I wonder is SpaceX is upto the challenge.

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025

Sen. Peter Squelch (Black Faced Shealthbill party) addressing congress today. He is attempting to champion a resolution to sell penguin eggs in return for tariff renegotiation. So far, he’s received cold shoulders and some Senators who’ve even flipped the bird, in a typically polite Ice House.

TOMORROW April 5, we’re uniting to say HANDS OFF! Join citizens across the country to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented incompetence & blatant criminality. DO IT FOR THE PENGUINS! Go to app.sosha.ai/s/mkKNZwsa

WHAT THE F**K!

Here he is today, deeply concerned about economic hardship caused by his tariff scheme.

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):