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Randy Barbee💙🇺🇲🇺🇦 @randylb.bsky.social · 10h
Nailed it 👌
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h
Charlie Angus: In just a year and a half, Canadian purchases of vehicles made on the American side of the border dropped 30%. If you take the American export auto economy, Canada’s number one. If you take the next 10 countries and put them together, it’s still less than Canada at number one.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 10h
Looks like the wheels are coming off the MAGA mobile www.kansas.com/opinion/gues...
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2nd Republican former Kansas gov. backs Democrat Hamilton for Senate | Opinion
Mike Hayden joins Bill Graves as second GOP former governor to endorse Adam Hamilton, a Democrat, against Republican Sen. Roger Marshall.
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Ed@Retired In CrazyTimes @ed-retired.bsky.social · 9h
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Gold convertibility does not eliminate inflation; it limits discretionary monetary expansion 10-2-26
YouTube video by All Things Financial
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Pivot Podcast @pivotpod.bsky.social · 16h
“I respect the senator for taking his shot. He was just 750 miles off.” @profgalloway.com and @karaswisher.bsky.social have some fun with Sen. Eric Schmitt’s viral mix-up between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes during his questioning of Jack Smith.
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Ed@Retired In CrazyTimes @ed-retired.bsky.social · 11h
www.reddit.com/r/economy/s/...
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From the economy community on Reddit: Top Treasury official tells Americans unhappy with the economy to "maybe change the channel and try to find some of the good news out there"
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Mary @mfbrodie.bsky.social · 19h
Can we now agree that Republicans don't know how to manage an economy? Or are we still pretending that trickle down economics works?
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16h
The richest 0.1% of Americans have more than doubled their immense wealth since 2019 — per WSJ.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 19h
Garnet is absolutely right here. More than that, #SCOTUS has made it clear, over and over again, that it is not going to let states use its "original" jurisdiction to sue other states in contexts in which the underlying question *can* be litigated in the lower federal courts. This is one of those.
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The New Voice of Ukraine @english.nv.ua · 16h
Russia has placed Ukrainian drone commander Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, ex-minister Oleksii Reznikov and intelligence chief Oleh Ivashchenko on its international wanted list
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Russia puts former Ukrainian ministers, intelligence chief and drone commander on wanted list
Russia’s Investigative Committee has placed former Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, former minister Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s spymaster Oleh Ivashchenko, and Unmanned Systems Forces Comm...
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Ed@Retired In CrazyTimes @ed-retired.bsky.social · 16h
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Trump Says Iran Strikes Targeted Nuclear Sites and ‘Drug Factories’
Donald Trump has given a bizarre and incoherent new justification for why he launched a war against Iran. While speaking at a midterm rally in Durant, Oklahoma, on Thursday night, the 80-year-old pres...
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Ed@Retired In CrazyTimes @ed-retired.bsky.social · 16h
www.instagram.com/reel/Dd9S2qw... Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), a Cuban-American hardliner from Miami,
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 16h
This isn't about being gay/bi. It's about their consistency of being a hypocrite that needs to be shined upon.
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General Strike @ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · 16h
Are all the billionaires right wing lunatics? They seem to be buying up everything. We need to break up all these consolidated corporations too.
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General Strike @ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · 16h
More people should sue these liars. They have a lot to lose. They became very rich telling lies. Benny got caught being paid by the Russians to spew propaganda.
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 30/09/2026
The attacks on Jack Smith expose something far bigger than one ugly Senate hearing: a collision between personal political loyalty and America’s constitutional system… hartmannreport.com/p/the-final-...
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The Final Stage of a Strongman’s Takeover Is Turning the Law Against the People Who Defended It
The attacks on Jack Smith expose something far bigger than one ugly Senate hearing: a collision between personal political loyalty and America’s constitutional system…
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 18h
The surest way to escape oil shocks, dictatorial petrostates, and endless energy wars is brutally simple: stop consuming and subsidizing their oil…. hartmannreport.com/p/did-trumps...
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Did Trump’s Iran War Just Blow a Hole in Big Oil’s Future?
The surest way to escape oil shocks, dictatorial petrostates, and endless energy wars is brutally simple: stop consuming and subsidizing their oil….
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 01/10/2026
The deeper story isn't the $500. It’s what happens to democracy when politicians steeped in pay-to-play politics start treating ordinary citizens like one more constituency to be won over with money… hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-500...
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Trump’s $500 Checks Reveal the GOP’s “Billionaire Theory of Democracy”: Everything Has a Price
The deeper story isn't the $500. It’s what happens to democracy when politicians steeped in pay-to-play politics start treating ordinary citizens like one more constituency to be won over with money…
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16h
Great story by @gillianbrockell.com about progressives on the Chicago city council forcing a private equity firm trying to buy city parking meters to divest from Omni Air International, the charter airline that did ICE’s longest & cruelest flights. The spun-off Omni is now in huge financial trouble.
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a city contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The family of Renee Good have filed a wrongful death lawsuit and a civil rights conspiracy lawsuit against the MAGA regime and MAGA officials including dog murderer Kristi Noem, white supremacist Stephen Miller, Nazi thug Gregory Bovino and more. Good, sue them all, they murdered her.
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Ed@Retired In CrazyTimes @ed-retired.bsky.social · 17h
Save Social Security Fire Congress
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 19h
Trump's "Golden Age" 🤣🤣 Reported today: US adds disappointing 29,000 jobs and unemployment ticks up to 4.2% in September apnews.com/article/jobs...
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US adds disappointing 29,000 jobs and unemployment ticks up to 4.2% in September
U.S. employers added a disappointing 29,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up last month, the government reported Friday, a month before voters go to the polls in pivotal midterm elections at a...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 19h
The genesis of "The Indian Question" episode? Bo French's viral, racist tweet about Desi college students cheering on the University of Texas football team Rufo & Keeperman basically defend the tweet for over an hour
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 19h
Rufo has hosted 86 episodes with Keeperman — the latest being "The Indian Question" — undoubtedly a reference to the "Jewish Question" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 19h
New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Ed@Retired In CrazyTimes @ed-retired.bsky.social · 17h
looks like DC
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/09/2026
Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.
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Catincognito skeeting since 07/3/2023 @catincognito.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What a concept... How about the hypocrisy of these stations running his propaganda ads Shameless and unforgivable... Fuck msnow and CNN
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GJRboston @gjrboston.bsky.social · 19h
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 19h
Oh, it’s on now! Crane-on-crane slap-fight! #birds
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19h
An all around weak -- but not tragic -- payrolls report for September. +29k jobs created, about 60k below expectations. Revisions made both July and August look weaker, too. Over the past 3 months, we've an average of a mere +17k per month.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 19h
That’s the extensive quantity (Q) margin. Intensive Q margin = average hours. Average workweek hours for private-sector steady at 34.4 hrs. Normal.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 19h
Prime age (25-54 years old) EPOP at 80.7% measures core labor market strength, omits folks on fringes of work. Up 0.3 pp from Jul-Aug. Down 0.2 pp from record-high of 80.9% in July-Sept 2024. Never higher than this during 2002-2022 (80.6% high) Constrains job growth without immigration
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 19h
+29K jobs gained last month (mid-Aug to mid-Sept). -60K jobs in revisions of prior 2 months. The big picture
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 19h
How will Fox Business spin this?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
CNBC on the September jobs report: "A bit of a disappointment. Expecting 90,000, comes in at 29,000. And we see two month revisions down 60,000 ... average hourly earnings -- this is a big miss. Big, big miss. We were expecting up three tenth. This comes in at one tenth."
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Wendy the Woke @nomorex61.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Since assuming office in 2015… out-of-state trips to places such as the California wine country, Caribbean resorts and European tourism hot spots” Paxton wants to continue to grift off taxpayers, Talarico wants to work to work for Texans. #Sheshed apnews.com/article/ken-...
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Inside Ken Paxton's jet-setting lifestyle: California wineries, European hot spots and ski resorts
When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched his campaign for Senate last year, he skipped the local pageantry.
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Ed@Retired In CrazyTimes @ed-retired.bsky.social · 19h
Save Social Security End Government Entitlements Fire Congress
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Republican Congressman Mike Collins signals his intent to end Social Security: "[Old people need to] get off of Social Security [and] get back into the workforce."
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 01/10/2026
"We denounce before the entire Bolivian population this intervention that is being carried out illegally."
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Days After Rubio Pulls Visa, Agents in Bolivia 'Kidnap' Attorney General Who Charged 'MAGA's Man in LatAm'
The Bolivia Public Prosecutor's Office denounced the "kidnapping" of their attorney general, Roger Mariaca, after he was detained at the airport. Is this a political move by the US government to silence investigations into drug trafficking? Join the fight against corruption and injustice in Latin America. #JusticeForMariaca
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 01/10/2026
"These lawsuits are the beginning of the ultimate legal weapon in uncovering the truth behind this unlawful use of deadly force and the nefarious conspiracies behind the invasion of American cities by American law enforcement officers," said a lawyer for Renee Good's family.
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Renee Good's Family Sues Over Trump-ICE Conspiracy Plus 'Unconscionable and Unconstitutional Use of Force'
"These lawsuits are the beginning of the ultimate legal weapon in uncovering the truth behind this unlawful use of deadly force and the nefarious conspiracies behind the invasion of American cities."
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 01/10/2026
"This despicable effort to legalize most killings of endangered wildlife would essentially mean open season on species already on the brink of annihilation," a Center for Biological Diversity campaigner said of Trump's attacks on the Endangered Species Act.
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Conservation Groups Ramp Up Fight Against 'Despicable' Trump Assault on Endangered Species
Conservation groups updated their legal challenge to the Trump administration's recent harmful changes to the Endangered Species Act.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 01/10/2026
"Sam Altman says we need to slow down development to ensure the safety of humanity," one campaigner said of OpenAI's CEO. "Yet he is allegedly firing the very people hired to keep us safe."
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'Looks Like They're Firing Whistleblowers': Alarm as OpenAI Reportedly Ousts Safety Researchers
"Sam Altman says we need to slow down development to ensure the safety of humanity," one campaigner said of OpenAI's CEO. "Yet he is allegedly firing the very people hired to keep us safe."
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 02/10/2026
"Either they'll do something very proper and smart, or they won't be around very long," Trump said of Iran's government.
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US Plans to Send Third Aircraft Carrier, Thousands More Troops, to Mideast for Possible New Strikes on Iran
"Either they'll do something very proper and smart, or they won't be around very long," Trump said of Iran's government.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 19h
Putting food on the table and a roof over your head is hard enough without greedy corporations squeezing you for all you’re worth, writes @lindsayowens.bsky.social of @groundwork.bsky.social.
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We Need a Shoppers' Bill of Rights to Protect Us From 21st Century Price Gouging
New technology is enabling companies to reinvent the rip-off right under our noses; we need new laws to protect us.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At least 56 people have died in ICE custody during Trump’s second term. According to ICE’s internal reviews, detention staff did not provide sufficient medical care to at least six of those detainees. ICE has now taken down those reviews from its website. What other cruelty is ICE trying to hide?
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ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of il
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 19h
🇺🇸 #BREAKING U.S. Sept Nonfarm Payrolls: 29K, [Est. 90K] Sept. Unemployment Rate: 4.2%, [Est. 4.1%] Sept. Average Hourly Earnings (MoM): 0.3%, [Est. 0.3%] Sept. Average Hourly Earnings (YoY): 3.0%, [Est. 3.2%] #US #NFP #Nonfarm
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LurchAddams👊🇺🇸🔥 @dvcondreay.bsky.social · 19h
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Truckers Are ‘Just Trying to Hang On’ When a Fill-Up Tops $1,000
Truckers are among the hardest hit by the soaring cost of diesel fuel. High prices are forcing some to stay on the road for months and others to park their rigs.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Over 4,000 Texans showed up for James Talarico in Ken Paxton's home county 👀
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