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Former Fed, Anti war, ☮️Anti capitalism, Earth Lover!🌎 Science Lover, 🧬Democracy Lover. 🏳️‍🌈Pro LGBT+,🏳️‍🌈Pro Equality.🟰 Scots Gaelic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 America needs a purge and reset. Where is that damn button?🛑 And...Trump Sucks.🖕
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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

gotta admit, Jeff Bezos launching his fiance into space is pretty funny

I actually considered Coachella this year. So glad that I didn't go! 12hr wait to enter, 102°, $17 lemonade. Nope

Congress has the power to stop this economic chaos right now. Here’s the plan to end Trump’s game of red-light, green-light with worldwide tariffs:

Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg.

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

Great physical condition my arse.

and yet they come to Europe and lecture everyone on free speech

Today's Ollie's find

💯 #BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋 #BluePetPatrol💙💛🐾 #ProudBlue #Resist #Resistance #TruthWarriors #antitrump #antimaga #ImpeachTrumpNOW

How the hell do you have World Pride without trans folk?

Still a HUGE EFFIN' NOPE!BREAKING: Tesla has officially introduced the Cybertruck Long Range Rear-Wheel Drive (RWD) in the U.S. for $69,990 ($62,490 including Fed EV credit). #TeslaTakedown

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

Absolutely brutal

The EU doesn’t really do knee-jerk reactions. And when it comes to trade wars, it prepares its case, builds a consensus among its members — and saves its most painful retaliation until last. 🔗 ow.ly/JmHE50VyJsB

What the hell? They’re fighting back. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Please die, please die now

The European Union and China are now starting negotiations to abolish EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. This is a major strategic failure for the United States.

Well then, fund managers must be very slow learners.

Autism didn’t make them do it. Mental illness didn’t, either. This personal piece from The Big Picture cuts through the excuses and names the real issue: some people are just hateful, and we need to stop giving them cover.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

The only way Donald Trump is going to get people to flock to the streets cheering for him is to start the parade in this:

It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

FUN FACT: Individuals can face imprisonment, with the maximum sentence for an INSIDER TRADING violation being 20 YEARS.

Untitled, by Keith Haring, 1987, 📸 by @KCleevesPhotos

The stupid... it b-u-r-n-s...!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.