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Research Software Engineer. Electrician. Automation expert. I'm curious about a lot of things and travel by rv when possible with my family and our dogs. Politically ... sane. I do not support Fascism!
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FUNDSTRAT tonight: “.. in the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers. .. A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”

Shame on Merrick Garland Shame on the GOP Shame on SCOTUS This is how you treat a President who violates the Constitution/breaks the law.

Trump shows journalists a gold card featuring his face: “For $5 million this could be yours” He does this on the very day the market wipes out $2.6 trillion in value,while millions of Americans fear for their jobs amid a looming recession. So out of touch

Maybe next time let’s not elect someone who runs because they’re trying to not go to jail?

He couldn’t get us to do it the last time, so he made the economy drink bleach instead.

Don’t call them tariffs. Call them import taxes.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @BillBramhall )

Norman Ornstein shared this.

Jim Himes: "This administration acts with an unbelievable cocktail of incompetence and illegality."

People keep asking me if Dems are divided between left and center of party. Nope. We are divided over old and new ways of fighting. That 20th Century playbook ain’t stopping a dictator.

I'm old enough to remember when we called this Bribery: the payment of money in exchange for an official government act

Highly recommend this excellent @wired.com primer on authoritarianism from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social, with some ~subtle~ allusions to what we are seeing now in America.

House and Senate republicans are actually calling out the Trump administration for their plans to withdraw from NATO's Supreme Allied Command Europe - the primary command that oversees support for Ukraine, and the first step in abandoning NATO allies.

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism

"the plan to shrink IRS staff by up to 50% would — very conservatively — lead to a $400 billion increase in uncollected taxes over the next decade. It could easily mean more than $2 trillion in losses..." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...