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chrissyl.bsky.social
Old enough to know better! Have loved Twitter for the opportunity to engage with smart interesting people from across the world. Interests: history, literature, knowledge, politics (where it offers hope). Need optimism.
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'This is what the end of empire looks like.' 18 mins of @mollyjongfast.bsky.social and I basically losing our minds with despair as we survey the damage of Liberation Day. youtube.com/watch?v=upjw...

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

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submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

submitted 6 days ago • 218 comments

From our Treasury: “We’re moving from the hard currency of pebbles to the 21st century of currency known as “Cryo-currency”. We will be releasing a Gov supported memechunk of ice, which may become valuable, or may melt tomorrow. It’s really an exciting gamble that’s sure to pay off for a few of us.”

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

Wow. This is 🔥🔥 Trump & his Cabinet should be strapped to their chairs and made to watch this on a loop. Victor Gao: “China has been here for 5000 years. Most of the time, there was no United States and we survived.” 🇨🇳 He beautifully trashes JD Vance too. (🎥 Channel 4 News)

submitted 7 days ago • 75 comments

Strategic genius. My @smh @theage cartoon.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

See, America – THIS is how you do elections. www.theguardian.com/...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Heard Island Government announces 800% tariff increase on all goods from the United States. Announcement was sent to US Commerce, Trade Director Redmon. Our PR team is currently sitting on eggs, so if any of you could tag news outlets or journalist friends, please do. #FlippersUp

submitted 7 days ago • 64 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The Kamay spears come home to Dharawal land more than two centuries after James Cook took them

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Just about every economist has explained why Trump's tariffs are irrational, if considered in economic terms. But Trump's tariffs are about political power, not economics. This is the protectionism of the protection racket. My Eastern Eye column this week www.easterneye.biz/donald-trump...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

The credibility of the US government is completely shot. Gone. Annihilated. Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration. Ever.

submitted 9 days ago • 2338 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04... “America is taking a break from reality and we should move on.”

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I posted the video over 2 years ago. People thought he was bluffing I guess.

submitted 15 days ago • 1004 comments

"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." Often misunderstood by Coalition members, Winston Churchill's famous quote was to do with tariffs. #ausvotes richardlangworth.com/tax-prosperity

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I need to know if there are any realistic alternatives to Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple and Adobe. I have a big trade deficit with them and I’d like to diversify.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Franz Kafka would have appreciated ICE’s justification of their Venezuelan deportations, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social. A lack of evidence against an individual apparently “highlights the risk they pose”. www.prospectmagazine...

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

My response to the Liberals negative advertising campaign.

submitted 29 days ago • 35 comments

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

Wrote something real quick because it felt urgent. Share if you think it will help. notthisway.substack.com/p/we-must-fi...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

If we let this happen, POTUS shrinks the First Amendment, makes every American's right to stay in the country insecure, & so makes speaking truth to power & political action much riskier. He's pushing to see if Americans support him in or stop him from exercising such power. What will we do?

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

It used to be called "sovereign risk" — now Donald Trump is serving up a textbook example of how to smash business certainty with his fickle policies, write @keanebernard.bsky.social and Glenn Dyer.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

The White House, not even DHS, the White House itself apparently, is directly deciding which permanent residents should be detained and deported based on their political speech. If this doesn’t scare you about the state of our democracy and liberties, I don’t know what will.

submitted 39 days ago • 83 comments

“Australians have long been told that hosting U.S. military bases makes the country safer, but at what cost?” theaimn.net/how-us-milit...

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments