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lower highs and lower lows

Literally impossible to imagine a better endorsement for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social than this

#maximumwage newrepublic.com/article/1961...

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#MartialLaw Trump admin engineering a "domestic terrorism crisis" in order to declare martial law and suspend elections? Ready for your king?

This is insane. Utterly insane. @markzaidesq.bsky.social @nationalsecuritylaw.org

they'll get it passed for the oligarchs that own them

#maximumwage It's simple, outlaw billionaires. Minimum wages make no sense without a corresponding maximum wage.

I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers. Easy money, no risk. Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.

#WMD #Trump

You live in a country where they are banning Shel Silverstein and Calvin & Hobbes

Russian spies in the White House? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

DAWN PROJECT: “.. Musk’s ‘robotaxis’ are so pathetic that they require more attention and supervision than an infant. The only thing sabotaging Tesla’s robotaxi is the dangerous, defective and mentally unstable Full Self-Driving AI software running it." $TSLA dawnproject.com

The U.S. has been policing bribery all over the world for nearly half a century. But President Trump has said that our anti-corruption laws are crippling American businesses. On our latest episode, is bribery making a comeback? buff.ly/QamI1vK

I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

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Interviews with local business guys are like, "I voted for the dictator on day one but I didn't think that meant a secret police would take my best workers to a black site."

🔥 The NAACP won’t invite Trump to its national convention in July—marking the first time in its 116‑year history that a sitting president has been excluded. NAACP President Derrick Johnson: it’s “a waste of our time and energy to give a platform to fascism” www.blackenterprise.com/naacp-exclud...

That’s an oldie but a goodie. 🤡

#trump #parade #feelthebern

#trump #parade 😂

#trump

The #GOP position is that they would die anyways. Right #joniernst ? The #MAGA mass murder / mass suicide cult is just getting ramped up.

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👀 Remember these ~distributions~ on Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”? Then, boy, do I have news for you. Taking the bill and tariffs together, the bottom **80%** of households are worse off, @budgetlab.bsky.social found.

$TSLA

🔥 There it is. 🔥 #WSJ www.wsj.com/opinion/chin...

“IF THEY SPIT, WE WILL HIT, and I promise you they will be hit harder than they have ever been hit before. Such disrespect will not be tolerated!”—trump. Yet he pardoned more the 1500 violent criminals who attacked me and my colleagues.

“.. strong, confident regimes are largely not in the habit of meeting protests with military force .. The Trump administration seems to have exactly one tool at its disposal — blunt force — and it’s clear that it has no plan for what happens when Americans do not fear being hit.” @jamellebouie.net

Researchers are tracking the impact of tariffs on consumer prices in real time — and even as policy gets tweaked, prices are mostly heading higher.

When you tariff steel — but forget that’s what pipes and drills are made of. 🤡 @financialtimes.com #DrillBabyDrill www.ft.com/content/2497...

GOLDBERG: “.. I desperately hope that Trump’s attempt to quash protest ends up fueling it. Those who want to live in a free country may be scared, but they shouldn’t be cowed.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

“.. The resolution is nonbinding but suggests that evangelicals have long-term ambitions to dismantle an institution that many Americans now accept as a basic right.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

"I voted for lawless, anonymous, masked, and unchecked police" is one hell of a jump from "eggs cost too much."

Media platform for Nazis: Free exchange of ideas Media platform for non-Nazis: Bubble

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

#iceprotests The tariff debacle exposes Trump for what he is, stupid and weak, so the admin creates a diversionary spectacle by turning guns on the domestic population

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Watching $TSLA shares fold this week — even as the market rallies — suggests some holders had bought as an expression of MAGA support. @michaelsantoli.bsky.social

#elon #trump (F)elon must really not understand how the world works. This ending was so obvious from the beginning. If #Tesla wants to get back in the game they need to dump this clown sooner rather than later.