grantdoug.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Michelle and I are thinking of the entire Biden family. Nobody has done more to find breakthrough treatments for cancer in all its forms than Joe, and I am certain he will fight this challenge with his trademark resolve and grace. We pray for a fast and full recovery.

submitted 3 days ago • 901 comments

They really are vile people.

submitted 3 days ago • 1801 comments

That’s true. And it is also true that Biden should avoid defending himself on the View etc.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Why are you wondering what is behind Trump’s decisions? He is a destructive, malevolent force bent on destroying the nation. Everything he does benefits Putin. Why is irrelevant. Don’t overthink it.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Think like Buffett. During Trump 2.0, the Sept. S&P 500 futures index has reflected essentially the same level as the daily S&P 500 market close. Over 10 years, the futures index has been predictive - so given tarriff chaos, why take that risk in stocks? $ in cash equivalents. @maddow.msnbc.com

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Gosh, who would have guessed it?! China 🇨🇳 and other nations 🇪🇺have trading partners other than United States with its onerous tariffs 🇺🇸.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Dozens of Wisconsin and national elected officials have condemned the arrest of Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan — in one of the loudest objections yet to Trump’s assault on the judiciary.

submitted 26 days ago • 45 comments

Tesla investors are massively irrational. Tesla income just crashed 71%. And the stock P/E ratio zoomed to 163 times earnings?

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

On Yom HaShoah, we remember the six million Jews and millions of others killed during the Holocaust. Let the memory of those who were murdered serve as our calling to combat antisemitism and hate.

submitted 27 days ago • 23 comments

BETRAYAL www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/3a62ca4...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Rinse and repeat for the foreseeable future.

submitted 29 days ago • 782 comments

Four R senators and four R House members could announce they're caucusing with the Dems for now, and will vote for Schumer for Majority Leader and Jeffries for Speaker, because the threat to the rule of law is dire. Meanwhile, they'll work with Democrats to construct guardrails against dictatorship.

submitted 37 days ago • 891 comments

Today, the trump White House barred Associated Press reporters from attending an Oval Office event and he continues to state he will not return Kilmar Abrego Garcia. SCOTUS ruled against trump on both accounts. They gave him immunity and now he is using it. What did they think would happen?

submitted 37 days ago • 15 comments

Let’s see - we’re transporting people to incarceration camps in foreign countries without a trial. Why did someone not think of this before?! Wait, it’s coming back to me, someone did - wasn’t it in the 30s or 40s… who was that again? @gtconway.bsky.social @georgetakei.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

🤔🤦‍♂️

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Paul Krugman backs up what I’ve said: “There’s a lot of circumstantial evidence for massive insider trading around last week’s tariff announcement; the big beneficiaries from the latest move are companies that made big donations to Trump.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

In case you might be wondering about the chaos surrounding Trump 2.0, he’s a fascist aligned with Putin. The economic destruction serves Vlad. The rupture with Europe serves Vlad. The betrayal of Ukraine serves Vlad. The collapse of the dollar serves Vlad. Don’t overthink it.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Insider Trading: Apple stock tumbled 223 to 169 after Trump’s tariffs were announced in early April. Late yesterday, Trump announced smartphones produced in China would be exempted from tariffs. So how did traders know the exemption was going to happen, causing the stock to rise 18% since Wednesday?

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I hate to say this, and it gives me the chills just to think it, but CECOT is on (and not a short way down) the road to Auschwitz.

submitted 40 days ago • 1326 comments

You say one of these destroyed your city? 🌪️ 🌊 🔥 🌀 🫨 ⚡️🥵 Kristi Noem has a message for you: go to hell. “DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Trump admin. officials met this week to plan... eliminating the agency’s role in disaster recovery by Oct. 1.” wapo.st/3RbZG1h

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Look at Trump’s amazing stock market recovery yesterday!

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

"The U.S. is in the middle of two economic crises. One is being caused directly by tariffs. The other is a crisis of confidence being driven by a crisis of competence."

submitted 41 days ago • 18 comments

I will pay any tariff for a framed copy of this

submitted 44 days ago • 576 comments

READ: @frost.house.gov & @connolly.house.gov are investigating Musk's conflicts of interest at NASA, where he’s canceling contracts with SpaceX competitors, buying more SpaceX rockets on the taxpayer’s dime, and installing SpaceX employees at the highest levels of the agency.

submitted 44 days ago • 9 comments

1/ Thread, ChatGPT analytic model on past large scale protests and voting. A surge of over 1,500 large-scale protests across the US signals a strong, mobilized public sentiment. Historical data suggests such widespread protests are a robust indicator of upcoming political shifts. @maddow.msnbc.com

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

2/ Past protest waves have often boosted voter turnout—especially among younger and marginalized groups—by roughly 5–7% in key demographics, energizing the electorate significantly

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

3/ Additionally, elections following massive protests have seen electoral swings of about 2–3 percentage points in battleground states, typically favoring candidates whose platforms resonate with protest demands.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

4/ The key question is whether this energy converts into sustained voter registration and turnout. If maintained, it could reshape outcomes in the 2026 national elections, particularly in closely contested regions

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

It’s called a kleptocracy. Trump flagrantly makes it clear he has zero empathy or respect for the welfare of the American people, after personally triggering the record-shattering destruction of $6 trillion in wealth. That’s a loss of $37,500 on average for USA’s 160 million stock market investors.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

EVERYONE will hate the Tariffs, believe me. Walmart: 80% of Walmart’s products are imports! And @ 90% of Americans shop at Walmart at one time or another. Walmart processes 265 million customer transactions every darn week at it’s 4,700 retail stores, where shoppers spend $600 billion annually.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

3/ According to the Cannon model referred to in this Wapo article, Rs risk 35-50 House seats and 3-6 Senate seats in 26. Vulnerable Senators due to their State’s economies: -Joni Ernst (IA) -Tom Cotton (Ark) -Mike Rounds (SD) -Mike Braun (IN) -Thom Tillis (NC) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

2/ Now imagine you are a US Republican congressman running for re-election next year. Imagine what you would be thinking about the real peril of losing your seat as this lunatic economic damage to your constituents unfolds. Is Trump loyalty in this situation still smart politics for you?

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

1/ Approximately 160 million Americans own stocks, and in 2022 the median portfolio value was $52,000. As the markets have now lost $4 trillion in value since 11/15/2024, the average investor has lost approximately $7,000 of wealth. And the total decline may be as high as $5 trillion.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

bsky.app/profile/jbur... Good Lord.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"

submitted 47 days ago • 1102 comments

What a disaster. Sadly this was predictable after Trump’s election. The day after the election I dropped all my money out of US stocks, and fortunately made a modest positive return over the past months.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Why aren’t you wearing a suit? Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?

submitted 54 days ago • 1196 comments

Every night @maddow.msnbc.com has a first segment that runs through protests and town halls held in last 24 hrs and if you are feeling like nobody is feeling like you feel or you don’t know what to do: start by watching these and then find your people in your area. They are everywhere.

submitted 57 days ago • 58 comments

This is excellent. Typically on MSNBC etc, @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social is limited to sound bites. But here we have 30 minutes. She delivers, with laser-like precision, the historical context of past and present authoritarians, and how Trump is fully invested in the dark path of autocracy.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

there were multiple reporters outside of the institute of museum and library services today as DOGE invaded their headquarters, but not a single elected official. something to consider when thinking about who’s actually defending democracy.

submitted 62 days ago • 49 comments

You’ve a mind like a steel sieve, Bobby. “It is very worrisome for global public health to hear senior officials making this kind of statement, in contradiction to the scientific data accumulated over decades around the world." www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

submitted 65 days ago • 877 comments