Profile avatar
annette1.bsky.social
4 posts 107 followers 291 following
Prolific Poster

The Memorial Day Message from the President of the United States of America, in memory of those who have given their lives defending America, the Constitution, and the freedoms that we Americans enjoy on this Memorial Day 2025.

#PersonalTime 🤡

Incredible chart work. 🙏🏼 #90dealsIn90days

An X USER, to Grok: “Why are you launching into conversations about white genocide, unprompted?” 🤡

Someday, we’ll look back on DOGE as a cringy, intense novelty. Like disco or grunge. 🇺🇸

".. The act was written to help many different groups, including veterans, older people and disabled and rural communities. But Mr. Trump .. denounced the law .. raging in a social media post that it amounted to providing 'woke handouts based on race.'" @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

JPMORGAN: The UK deal “grabbed headlines today but looks limited in scope .. “.. still leaves the UK worse off compared to the trading relationship prior to Liberation Day. “We are less enthused by the recent ‘deals’ than the markets and still see a material trade war shock as our baseline.”

Call me old-fashioned, but I think it’s inappropriate for the president to call the fed chair a fool, whatever he thinks of Fed policy. Note that all FOMC voters, including the 2 Trump nominees, approved of yesterday’s decision. 77% of respondents to the CNBC Fed Survey had agreed w/ no rate change.

BLOOMBERG: “.. not traditional [free-trade agreemenr]: UK official” @bloomberg.com

🚨Reports of planned ICE activity in DC: restaurant & food delivery (May 6 -10) 🚨Informes sobre la próxima actividad de ICE en DC dirigida a trabajadores de restaurantes y delivery de comida. (del 6 al 10 de mayo) 📞 ¿Vio a ICE? Did you see ICE? MSMA (DC/MD): 202-335-1183 CASA (MD/VA): 888-214-6016

Every “invest-in-America” bit of hopium should be chased with a shot of this realism. 🇺🇸

Good for Microsoft — and good for Jenner. @nytimes.com $MSFT @jfallows.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b...

Few lawyers are willing to speak publicly about President Trump’s actions against law firms. Fear is rippling through Washington. But, despite being a target, Marc Elias is still talking. Scott Pelley sits down with him tonight on 60 Minutes.

The Alcatraz thing is a perfect illustration of Trump’s addiction to controversy and drama. He just constantly needs to invent new things to yell about.

BUFFETT, after a four-minute standing ovation in response to his retirement: “.. The enthusiasm shown by that response can be interpreted in two ways, but I'll take it ..” 🐐

There’s a new wrinkle. 👀 $DXY

SWISHER, on Trump/crypto: “.. It’s a way to pay the president under the table in ways we do not understand and will not understand. .. a coin-operated president. Like, you can give him money and not know it, essentially.” @karaswisher.bsky.social www.mediaite.com/entertainmen...

✅ DEI Update of the Day™ Shareholders from these 11 corporations have voted to reject anti-DEI proposals in 2025: American Express Apple Boeing Coca-Cola Costco John Deere Disney Goldman Sachs Levi Strauss Pfizer Visa

What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼

Your tax dollars at work. 🤡

Number of US gas stations currently selling at $1.98: zero. 🤡 www.gasbuddy.com

“We saw him in court, and we won.” #GovMills Maine

Day 21. 🇺🇸

The pill GLP-1 isn’t just about convenience. It’s a logistical breakthrough in getting the drug to the 100s of millions who are expected to face Type 2/obesity around the world in the years to come. $NVO

This deserves some good coverage: tariffs giving “cover” for other price hikes that are unrelated to trade.

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina’s second-highest court Wednesday upheld a Republican effort to gain control of the state’s election board, boosting the GOP bid to undo Democrat Allison Riggs’ narrow victory in the state’s 2024 Supreme Court race. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

*US REACHES OUT TO CHINA RECENTLY FOR TARIFF TALK: YUYUANTANTIAN there it is

“We have to get rid of the Biden ‘overhang’.” 🤡 - Trump, 4/30/25

My takeaway from this: He is so fucked.

Grotesque.

LONGSHOREMAN UNION: “.. Tariffs are taxes. These and other reckless, shortsighted policies have begun to devastate American workers, harm critical sectors of the economy, and line the pockets of the ultra-wealthy at the expense of hardworking families.” @thehill.com thehill.com/business/527...

JAPAN ECONOMY MINISTER AKAZAWA: NO CHANGE TO OUR STANCE WE ARE DEMANDING FULL REMOVAL OF U.S. TARIFFS

“Your Home Without China” 🇨🇳 An incredible interactive graphic examining which household categories rely on Chinese production: @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I am not attending parties with the White House tonight. If you want someone that mingles with Trump officials as if we are all part of a DC club, I'm not your guy. If you want to understand how to fight Trump to stop him from destroying democracy, sign up to Democracy Docket now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

Good for @theatlantic.com — this reeks of desperation for Trump and also keeps this amazing story alive. More pressure on Hegseth obvi. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

"Only a decline in Trump’s popularity can loosen the attachment of some Republican members of Congress to Trump, which is key to really limiting the damage he can do...I doubt U-turns will stop Trump’s gradual downward political slide. And that slide is real." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-in-r...

"Some officials say U.S. citizens who criticize administration policies could be charged with crimes" I always wondered how mainstream journalism would cover an impending dictatorship here. Now we know.

NBC has confirmed what we have been saying for weeks. Hegseth clearly copied classified strike schedules from a secure device to his personal phones. This alone would get a line service member thrown in prison. But when it’s SecDef we are supposed to ignore it.

OPINION: 'He hit the ball squarely into his own goal': Analyst blames Trump for market plunge CNBC’s @steveliesman.bsky.social joins @nicollewallace.bsky.social to discuss the markets' reaction to President Trump's policies. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhHM...

GALLOWAY: "I think the worm has turned. .. You’re about to see, I believe, some very high-profile business leaders and Republicans come out in the next week or two and say, ‘This is just bad.' .. this is not part of our values, this is not what it means to be an American." @mediaitenews.bsky.social

Big props to @steveliesman.bsky.social here. So refreshing to hear someone just saying it. This isn’t politics in the traditional sense, we’re blowing the whole economy up (don’t forget small businesses), for reasons that don’t make sense. youtu.be/lhHMqIbFzaA?...

At what point do Dimon and Solomon and Moynihan (Jpm, Goldman and B of A) decide they need to step up and be leaders, instead of watching passively as the train careens off the tracks?

Among the awful here: He used his personal phone. What a sloppy mess: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

APOLLO: “It normally takes 18 months on average for the US to negotiate a trade deal. .. While markets wait for trade negotiations with 90 countries at the same time, global trade is grinding to a standstill .. if current policies do not change, then the probability of a US recession in 2025 is 90%”

If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.

> @nytimes.com @colbylsmith.bsky.social 🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...