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

I’m a dedicated investor, a believer in capitalism, so I don’t say this lightly, but it would have been better to have put it under a mattress since Trump came in.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

US Inflation is up again and the US markets are down again. While the rest of the world’s markets are basically outpacing us. 👊🇺🇸🔥

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

There are only two things at stake over the next 3.75 years: everything you hold dear and everything you take for granted.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s really difficult to be a scientific researcher in public health and to experience the weapons grade contempt that many of our fellow Americans seem to have for us. Not for our jobs, but for us as human beings. It’s incredibly dangerous and they are being fed red meat by this administration.

submitted 1 day ago • 100 comments

The Senate voted Thursday to strike down a rule capping most bank overdraft fees at $5, a measure adopted late last year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that had been expected to save Americans billions of dollars per year.

submitted 19 hours ago • 409 comments

What the STEFANIK nomination pull means: sustained pressure on any one or two GOP reps to make them fear losing their seats more than the MAGA mob means stopping the Trump legislative agenda. Focus, people. You can smell the fear.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Stefanik gets demoted back to the North Country because Waltz and Gaetz Florida house seats are suddenly competitive? Say it ain’t so…

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Lee Zeldin is a 🤡. A 🤡 who is trying to kill you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Actually, the NYC subway is getting safer and congestion pricing is working.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Measles cases in Kansas more than doubled in the last week, bringing the tally to 20, while another outbreak in Ohio has sickened 10 people, local public health officials reported on Wednesday. Health officials have worried that a Texas measles outbreak may be seeding others.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

Wait, what? www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I like forgiveness and grace as much as anyone but this is the presidential administration of wrath and retribution. So, let those lying f’ers have it. 👊 🔥 🇺🇸

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t need to be on a Signal chat to know there are going to be MAGA attacks on the media in 3, 2, 1…

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Torpedoeing Fannie and Freddie programs meant to provide assistance with down payments and closing costs for first-time homebuyers should really help the housing affordability crisis.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Tracy Flick be lying

submitted 2 days ago • 1521 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) - US consumer confidence falls for 4th straight month as economic expectations about the future fall to a 12-year low.

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

If it weren’t so predictable that they would lie, mimimize it, and then attack the media…

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

PBS and NPR having to defend themselves to Marjorie Taylor Greene is like a quadratic equation having to explain itself to a minus sign.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If only it weren’t so predictable what MAGAworld would do when caught in their incompetence: deny, lie and attack the media.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Grateful for your years of service, Finn – and that the ACA helped you and your daughter get health care.

submitted 5 days ago • 550 comments

At the Mike Lawler empty chair town hall in Peekskill, 102 year old Dee in danger of losing her Medicaid, heard FDR on the radio in 1935 when he created Social Security. @indivisible.org

submitted 5 days ago • 548 comments

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

submitted 6 days ago • 759 comments

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

submitted 6 days ago • 887 comments

How is this okay?

submitted 6 days ago • 2792 comments

The temptation is to be exhausted, to be numb. We must not be exhausted or numb. We must rage and ignite the rage of others daily.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Judge Reyes exploded at a DOJ lawyer in a hearing on Trump's transgender troops ban: "I am not going to abide by government officials saying one thing to the public - saying what they really mean to the public - and coming in here to the court and telling me something different like I'm an idiot."

submitted 6 days ago • 63 comments

A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and corruption in Russia and was published eight months after he died in prison, won a National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.

submitted 7 days ago • 71 comments

DOGE has attacked life-saving programs, including: -Malaria & HIV/AIDS prevention -NOAA forecasting & FEMA disaster response -USDA food safety -FAA aviation safety -FDA flu vaccine research This will result in needless suffering — all to pave the way for billionaire tax cuts.

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

Oil executives at the White House today to see if they can get anything for their $75 million investment.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what we call a constitutional crisis.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing bird flu to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Veterinary scientists said that would be inhumane, dangerous and have enormous economic consequences.

submitted 10 days ago • 998 comments

This is all to pay for a tax cut for very wealthy people

submitted 14 days ago • 283 comments

Forget about the penny, Trump just dropped a dime on the economy. 📉

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Shut it down.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Advice for fighting it out on social media: 1.) Lean into your ethos: go with what you know. Speak from whatever experience you have 2.) make it local so people can think about the immediate impact on them and their communities.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

FAFO, indeed.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

CODE RED: Donald Trump is trying to shut down the Department of Education. We're fighting back.

submitted 16 days ago • 206 comments

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments