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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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Ron Hacker @ronhacker.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
“.. Some of the judges noted that large swaths of the nation’s complex and longstanding trade procedures would essentially become superfluous if the president could simply .. impose tariffs of any size and duration.” 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
ROSENBERG: “.. The one development nobody is talking about is what will happen on Thursday, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the federal circuit begins to hear oral arguments in the case of whether the President’s tariff actions are legal.” ..
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
“.. Watching Donald Trump try and fail to move the news cycle past Jeffrey Epstein this week was like watching an octopus spray ink and get eaten anyway: a wonder of evolution failing with the strategy that always worked for him.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
(Politico) - The president can sue you, but you can’t sue him. It seems like an absurd thing to say but that’s effectively the reality of our legal system today ..” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 23/07/2025
I expect a lecture from @lastweektonight.com about this very topic when they return.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy... "That's just how it is."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This is going to come as news to the President. 🤡 www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
That’s an oldie but a goodie. 🤡
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Reminder: Republicans are facilitating a massive transfer of wealth to the richest Americans while making cuts that would rip away healthcare and food from millions of people. It's Robin Hood in reverse.
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Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' Really Screws the Poor
The Congressional Budget Office finds that the poorest 30 percent of households will lose billions of dollars thanks to
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“.. Trump keeps claiming that all the wars that broke out under his predecessor .. would never have happened on his watch, because he .. is so strong and universally respected. Well, here is a close US ally, Bibi, ignoring Trump’s wishes ..” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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jtickel STAND WITH UKRAINE @tickedoff.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
all hail Brian Beutler's conquering substack title "The Greedy Hubris of a Repulsive Creep." nails it. one more time for pleasure: THE GREEDY HUBRIS OF A REPULSIVE CREEP www.offmessage.net/p/the-greedy...
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The Greedy Hubris Of A Repulsive Creep
More Americans—and elected Republicans—should know what’s up with this psycho.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
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Aruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Oof I didn’t even think of this.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“.. 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
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Opinion | Trump Wants to Be a Strongman, but He’s Actually a Weak Man
He is still dangerous, though.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Strangely, Roberts doesn’t name the “democracies” that, he says, shoot protesters.
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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Yes I’m still laughing at this. They never stopped when my guy tripped, so I’m not gonna stop now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Trump's culture wars and public spats with his former billionaire buddy provide cover for the most corrupt and self-dealing presidential administration in American history.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
We got two months of pre-tariff pull-forward in auto sales. Now, the biggest monthly decline in five years. $GM $F $STLA
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
While America’s front doors are closing to China, back doors are opening in the form of personal payoffs to Trump that result in alternative routes for America’s advanced technology to reach China. robertreich.substack.com/p/while-am…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/06/2025
HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents
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Anti-Trumpism @forabettertomorrow.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The hub of criminality is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Call your representatives and demand investigation of Cryptogate and more. Take to the streets! Your guide to Cryptogate, Trump’s $4 billion corruption scandal that’s 10 times bigger than Watergate www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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Your guide to Cryptogate, Trump’s $4 billion corruption scandal that’s 10 times bigger than Watergate | Will Bunch
Here's an in-depth guide to the key players, companies, and deals behind Donald Trump's scheme to cash in on his presidency.
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Steve Liesman @steveliesman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
So there are allegedly 11m undocumented immigrants, and Trump goes after the half million we let in who are here legally and documented as part of his effort to go after undocumented criminal gang members ? I got it. Or may he just doesn’t like people with any color in their skin.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/05/2025
Gold standard science
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White House Health Report Included Fake Citations
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with,” Keyes told NOTUS .. “We’ve certainly done research on this topic, but did not publish a paper in JAMA Pediatrics on this topic .. or with that title.” @notusreports.bsky.social www.notus.org/health-scien...
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The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
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Steve Liesman @steveliesman.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
If tariffs keep the fed from cutting, Trump should scrap them and take the rate cuts. US would save $280b annually w/ a 1 pp decline in its avg rate. Stocks could soar and cap gains taxes could kick in. Foreigners would really “pay” about 1/3rd, unlike the fake claim of their tariff payments.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
RASKIN: ".. Publication of this [dinner guest] list will also let the American people know who is putting tens of millions of dollars into our President’s pocket so we can start to figure out what — beyond virtually worthless memecoins — they are getting in exchange .." @washingtonpost.com
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House Democrat launches investigation of Trump’s meme coin dinner
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland demanded that President Trump turn over the names of the guests at the White House dinner for top investors in his meme coin.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Gov. Hochul:
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
WSJ: “.. The lowest-earning seniors already pay no federal income taxes, so they wouldn’t benefit. The highest earners make too much to qualify.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.
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Evan Osnos @eosnos.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Around D.C., the new going rate is well-known: $5 million for a one-on-one dinner with Trump, but gov-affairs execs have “no clue where the money is eventually going,” one said. Another told me it’s “outer-borough Mafia sh*t.” My new piece is out @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder
The greed of the new Administration has galvanized America’s aspiring oligarchs—and their opponents.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Page One: @nytimes.com @peterbakernyt.bsky.social
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
NYT, page one: The “$1.5 billion golf complex” and “Trump skyscraper .. are the Trump family’s first projects in Vietnam — part of a global moneymaking enterprise that no family of a sitting American president has ever attempted on this scale.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/05/2025
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God @thegodshow.com · 23/05/2025
Trump announces 50% tariffs on Europe, just days after Greenland signs a mining deal with Europe. 👇👇👇 www.thegodpodcast.com/p/greenland-...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
SEN. MERKELEY: ".. Anyone who thinks those 220 people .. just really craved to have a digital equivalent of a baseball trading card, well, you’re a little off the mark. They absolutely want to buy influence over U.S. policy.” @sykescharlie.bsky.social charliesykes.substack.com/p/an-orgy-of...
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"An Orgy of Corruption"
The $Trump coin dinner.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Yeah that tracks. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Yeah that tracks. 🤡 @ryanlcooper.com itep.org/analysis-of-...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
INBOX: Bloomberg publishes an “atlas” to the Trump family’s “money-making machine”: “.. In any other era, this scale of presidential moneymaking would threaten to be the story of the year, but political uproar has hogged most of the attention.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Politico @politico.com · 21/05/2025
Tax cuts in House Republicans’ megabill would lead to increased assets for the richest Americans, while reducing them for the lowest-income households, a new analysis found.
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Wealthy gain, low-income people lose from GOP megabill, analysis finds
The report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is already fueling Democratic accusations that the legislation is a giveaway to the rich.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 21/05/2025
"News organizations should have long ago stopped affording the Trump administration such credulous coverage," writes @natashalennard.bsky.social. interc.pt/4javKOw
A photo of Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., exiting ICE’s Delancey Hall immigration prison on May 9, 2025, in Elizabeth, N.J., overlaid with the headline, "Trump Is Prosecuting a Congressional Democrat for Doing Her Job. The Media’s Response: No Big Deal."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Senate Republicans are fast-tracking the GENIUS Act, which would greenlight a financial system enabling the ultra-rich to exploit unstable crypto schemes. The rest of us will be left holding the bag. Every Senate Democrat must vote against Trump's corrupt crypto scam.
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