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andrew

@americanzoomer.bsky.social
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Computer knower. Urbanism advocate. Hobbyist economics nerd. Accused Volcker shill.

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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Arizona State:
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 06/09/2026
I'm deadly serious about this: every Republican should be shown this photo on TV and asked if they repudiate/reject/renounce Musk. And if not, why not.
Musk doing his Sieg Heil salute
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Tish Bri
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 20/02/2026
*TRUMP’S GLOBAL TARIFFS STRUCK DOWN BY US SUPREME COURT
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/12/2025
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
“.. The US economy is in a hiring recession. Almost no jobs have been added since April. “Wage gains are slowing. “710,000 more people are unemployed now versus November 2024.” @byheatherlong.bsky.social
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 05/11/2025
Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Speaker Mike hasn’t been into work in 3-plus weeks, and hasn’t spent a full week at the office since July. “Been a little busy” he says, with what? Keeping cucumbers over his eyes so he can pretend not to see anything?
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/09/2025
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
dan bongino and kash patel unconscious on the ground after bonking their heads together as they both bent down to examine what is later determined to be their own footprints. with a coconut sound and a flash of light.
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A Simpsons cutout with frame 1 showing a top notch suburban BBQ pit and the words “yeah that’s one fine-looking democracy” and frame 2 showing a mess of a building project of the same BBQ pit with the words “why doesn’t mine look like that?”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/09/2025
over time I believe this will end up being one of the most unpopular things the administration ever does a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
~80 percent~ drop in mail to the US because Trump is taxing every single small package anyone might want to send someone here.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I'm still surprised there is basically no mainstream reporting on what repealing the de minimis exception is going to do to the US. International shipping will either be cost prohibitive or stopped totally. No more US orders really ruins small businesses in the EU and Asia.
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Trump order ends global tariff exemption for low-cost goods
The de minimis exemption had allowed goods valued at $800 or less to enter the US without paying any tariffs.
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Federal takeover of DC isn't about crime Shaking down Harvard isn't about antisemitism Tariffs aren't about reinvigorating U.S. manufacturing Sacking the head of BLS isn't about getting the numbers right DOGE wasn’t about government efficiency It’s all about gaining and keeping power
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Can’t have bad monthly job reports if there is no monthly job reports. Can’t have bad economic data if there is no economic data.
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a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it .
ALT: a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it .
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Flanders being intimidated by Jimbo, Doplh and Kearney on motor scooters
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Public data is the foundation of economic research & analysis. Transparent revisions are a normal part of that process. Attacking BLS for political reasons like this will have immense costs in terms of public trust even if, as likely, Trump can't get the manipulated data he wants.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today
I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
MAGA economics consists of jumping off a very high cliff and shouting "Gravity isn't real!" for the 8 seconds it takes for the body to smack into the earth below.
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A weak jobs report. The US economy added only 73,000 jobs in July. That's way below expectations. May and June revised down by -258,000 (!)
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
How it started. How it's going.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED @reuters.com
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Where Congress is gridlocked, fiscal policy is a circus, and Wall Street is addicted to sugar — Powell at least tries to be the grown-up: 🔹 He’s pragmatic, not dogmatic 🔹 He’s calm in chaos 🔹 He’s not chasing legacy — just trying to hold the institution steady in a dysfunctional political era
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/06/2025
*whispers* liberals and leftists making alliances to take power away from centrists is good, actually
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
democrats in array
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
NYT found the “big beautiful bill” would be the largest transfer from the poor to the rich in a single law since at least 1990. In fact, it would be the largest transfer *ever.* Reagan’s low-income cuts were MUCH smaller - and his tax cuts were done separately. And before him, nothing comes close.
Regressive bills
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Current G.O.P. bill
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2017
Obamacare repeal*
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1997
Tax and budget acts
Unclear
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1996
Welfare act
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No change
Progressive bills
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Inflation Reduction Act
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Build Back Better*
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Affordable Care Act
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Clinton budget act
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H.W. Bush tax act
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Regressive, but all gain

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First Trump tax cuts
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Obama tax cuts
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W. Bush tax cuts
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"Elon is leaving" was a propaganda campaign designed to fool the rubes. DOGE is embedded in the government and Elon's minions still answer to him.
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Republicans saw that a college education causes students to not be republicans anymore and have spent twenty plus years laying the groundwork to permanently solve that particular problem.
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
It's might be next to impossible to develop AI that sounds credible but also pleases Elon Musk
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
One of the most important things everyone should have learned from the first three months of DOGE cuts. Government is actually less wasteful than even the most pro-bureaucracy technocrat could have imagined!
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Standing in front of a big wheel [spins wheel] MOVIES! [spins wheel again] Made OVERSEAS! [spins wheel a third time] Are a NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Not to predict the future, but a thing that’s gonna happen is the DOGE guys / goons are gonna bury themselves inside the federal government, particularly at GSA and the treasury payments system and courts will slow-walk attempts to remove them, probably for years.
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Who could have guessed that alienating your company’s core customer base by getting super close with a 80 year old who’s never had business acumen and is one of the most polarizing figures currently around *wasn’t* such a genius marketing idea, Elon?
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
It's so funny that nobody has time for Kanye West right now. He's got a brand new outrage cycle all prepped and ready to go, but everyone is so tired.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 17/04/2025
the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Gilded Kitsch, Temu Consumerism, and AI Slop: Aestheticism in the Age of Trump
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The president sold the federal government to a billionaire, who with his accomplices at DOGE has been stripping it for parts for the last 3 months. If I were a opposition party I would be loud and clear that everyone involved in this will at minimum be prosecuted.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2025
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I am starting to wonder how the Supreme Court feels about giving Donald Trump immunity for official acts now that one of those official acts is telling the Supreme Court to shove their ruling and that he’s not constrained by law he doesn’t agree with.
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Trump on the phone to top NYC law firms: “Yeah, we need a couple million dollars worth of pro bono legal work to help us build some prison camps in Central America and kidnap Americans who say inconvenient things and send them there.”
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Yes I set $10 trillion on fire but it was for a good reason: so that ~700 billionaires can get richer on a pump and dump with the whole economy
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andrew @americanzoomer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Sometimes when I point out that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are incompetent, I get asked, "How did they make so much money?" Many often confuse wealth with competence. Elon's father owned a gem mine in South Africa. Donald's father gave him over $400,000,000. Both born with a golden spoon.
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