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Direct impacts to Colorado's 7th Congressional District and Park County from the Republican passed budget guidance (not yet negotiated with Republicans in the Senate) They need the $ they have budgeted (for more tax breaks for the wealthy!) coming from slashing SNAP and Medicaid. Heartless.

let’s give it a shot.

my SIL is there at the rally, right up front. they had performers! Neil Young, Joan Baez, others.

My T-shirt explains etc.

Yuri Gagarin did the first human spaceflight on April 12, 1961. Happy International Day of Human Space Flight.

the cluelessness … it burns!

Many years ago, at a security brief the briefer used the word “com-promise”, demonstrating he didn’t know what a compromise was, and didn’t know what he was saying was not a word. Respect 🫡

US Government: an analogy to titration: working, working, working, working, working, not working.

I'd really like to see this as an xy bubble chart, showing export $ vs import $ as (x,y) and bubble as the size of the tariff.

via CNBC: Small investors continued to buy stocks on balance. Retail traders sent around $8.8 billion in net inflows to the U.S. stock market between last Thu and this Tue. JPMorgan said Nvidia received about 6 of every 7 retail dollars sent into individual stocks on balance between 4/2 and 4/9

hike yesterday, at about 11,000' in Pike National Forest. A much lower than typical snow year, but still plenty of dense, melted down snow on the ground. Some moose tracks (and snowshoe tracks from a couple of weeks ago)

Why the hell does everything have to happen at once?

Evangelical Christians, act now to get your golden calf lapel pin!

Join our Rep Brittany Petterson for Community Coffee, Thursday April 17th, 8:30am in Alma. Location after RSVP: pettersen.house.gov/forms/form/?...

via Paul Krugman: When it comes to taking the pulse of financial markets, amateurs talk about stocks, but pros talk about bond and currency markets. That’s because bond and currency markets are generally less driven by emotion. And these markets are both signaling major loss of faith in America.

via axios: Flashback: The trade war with China during the first Trump administration ended with an agreement. Among other things, China said it would buy $200 billion worth of American imports. That didn't happen.

Damn.... coming up in heritage auction. Calvin & Hobbes 12th ever strip original art featuring first appearance of Spaceman Spiff! Amazing. There's no Hobbes sadly, but what a great piece! #comics #art