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bluepointer.bsky.social

Anti-fascist science, physics, and finance dweeb who views tariffs the way an MD views bloodletting or phrenology. Low Brass player & general fact knower. I build things and I write things. Reclaim Woke, and Slava Ukraini!

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Banana Republican actions for 4/13/2025: detaining a valid US visa holder upon return from his sister's funeral, then sending him away from his life, partner, & livelihood... after being here legally for five years. Authoritarians drunk on power isn't pretty. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Reading this story makes me so mad. Falsifying government records, on purpose, in order to harm people. If a criminal conspiracy to impair civil rights was a thing then a whole lot of people should be getting handcuffs and a jail cell. "common sense policies" my left foot

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Banana Republican outrage, April 12, 2025 edition: the Social Security Agency illegally declaring thousands of living people “dead” to suffocate their financial lives. This won’t stop at undocumented immigrants… Be alarmed, and stay alive out there.

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It took three separate visits for my elderly mother to get a “Real ID”. She was married twice & changed her name twice, which meant it didn’t match her birth certificate… common for older widowed women. Three traumatic visits with cartons of documents. The SAVE act is a cruel way to suppress votes.

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More banana Republicans at work. While this letter may have been sent to a US citizen in error who’s pissed off Pee Wee German… this letter is also representative of what fellow humans in the US might get: seven days to close your life down & leave, or face arrest. Maddening abuse of due process.

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Here’s the newest 145% version. #TrumpTariffs

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The stock market is a beauty contest. The bond market is a voting booth. Non-economist non-finance nerds in the larger world are starting to learn this.

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A few months ago, in fact on January 20th, I added "Tariff Engineering" to my list of skills on a site favored by consulting dweebs. Thanks to @tomtomorrow.bsky.social for sharing this, and to @no12no.bsky.social for sharing it with him. /1

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Nine plus hours later, and the slump begins anew.

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