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Jonathan

@jonathanlathrop.bsky.social
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Recently retired former micro business owner. After community organizing for four years I bought a used truck in 1981 and made a living moving things with it for 43 years.

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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We should call this the "Trump Effect".
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Yup, this is what occurred to me when I heard "last Merry Christmas".
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Judges have already blocked the Executive Order to this effect, let's hope they block this too.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Remember Nixon may not have gone to jail but Attorney General John Mitchell, Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman, White House Council John Dean, and about 40 others did go to jail.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Google "USAID cuts to Panama screwworm project". The Panama sterile insect breeding program was cut when USAID funds were cut in March. They are building a new facility in Texas but meanwhile the screw worms are moving north and are now in Mexico and moving into Texas.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
It's even deeper than that. The Department of Justice itself was established in 1870 in large part to enforce the civil Rights act of 1866 which was opposed by the first KKK in the south. As my father-in-law used to say "It's not one thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and over."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Ford: I’ve talked to so many people, and I tell them: don’t let this guy, Trump, ruin your life. Maybe some families have gone to Florida their whole lives—go to Florida, that’s great. But I encourage people to stay here and support local tourism. You can’t let one tyrant change your life.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The total number of mass shootings in the United States in the year 2025 so far is. 393. The last few years have shown a slight reduction from the peak in 2021. For statistics reporting gun violence in the United States see: Gun Violence Archive share.google/zb1sYPTK4irDnj9WI
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
7500 S. South Shore Dr, Chicago a 130 unit apartment building raided by Feds. Doors were broken down, all residents zip tied and detained, apartments were ransacked.... South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' share.google/plTAksthjCdT...
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South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'
A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
That or put the nukes on the roof of the white house.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Look up symptoms of frontotemporal dementia behavioral type.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
In this case it's every denial is a confirmation.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Anyone else notice the resemblance. Now we know where he got the idea of doing press conference like a TV talk show set in a living room.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
PTL club with Jim and Tammy Baker vs White House press conference.
PTL club White House press conference.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
He sounds like Claghorn Leghorn, I'm just waiting for him to say "pay attention to me boy, what do you say?"
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The states are just an agent of the federal government? Where does it say that in the Constitution?
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I agree 100% but the challenge is to get this message in front of Maga and then to get past their cognitive bias.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
190 - 75 would mean 115 did not call. They can't even make stuff up which would make them look good. It's total incompetence. I agree it was the stocks and bonds crashing at the same time which stopped him. It means we are loosing foreign investor confidence and signals inflationary recession.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Nice to see you here on sky light. I gave you a follow. Hope to see more here.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This is what taking half a billion dollars out of federal funding for food banks looks like.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Every Wednesday the community food Bank visits my neighborhood. Today they had only one table of food, mainly bread and then bags with potatoes onions and apples. In the past they have had six tables of food with, milk, cheese, canned goods, nuts, fresh vegetables, etc. but not today.
Community food bank visits my neighborhood on Wednesdays.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
You left out crash the economy...
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The market did not recover to pre-crash levels till 1954.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Funny.... Not funny ... Sad but true. In their view essentially snake oil is the cure for everything.. And in reality everything they promote is snake oil.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is what a stock market crash exacerbated by tariff increases and ignored by the administration looks like. I give you the the stock market 1929 - 1932
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
theintercept.com/2025/04/04/t...
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Trump’s Border Czar Faces Backlash in His Hometown for Locking Up a Local Family
Tom Homan is taking heat in Sackets Harbor, New York, after ICE agents detained a mom and her three children in a raid.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
“Stocks are crashing because investors are in a bad mood, and the reason they are in a bad mood is because they are not getting enough Omega-3 fatty acids,” he said😂😅🤣 ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ #canada #elbowsup #markcarneyforpm #cdnpoli #voteliberal #tariffs #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state
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RFK Jr. Says Stock Market Crash Could be Reversed if Investors Drink Cod Liver Oil
"Investors are in a bad mood is because they are not getting enough Omega-3 fatty acids,” he said.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I heard some one say today: "These protests should be more like Mardi Gras, more people woul come!"
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Mine just arrived. Will read it soon. Thanks.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
She uses all the same adjectives and adverbs as Trump. It's almost like she's trying to be ironic, satirizing the way Trump speaks. If I didn't know better I would say that was a Saturday Night live skit.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
They cut 500,000,000 from food pantries.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I fear I was depending on autocorrect.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I assumed this was a filibuster but only just learned it was a long speech for public relations purposes. It's better than nothing but I say it's time to end unanimous consent and filibuster everything. Force the Republicans make concessions for every bill and resolution. It's time to shut it down
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
My hat is off for Corey Booker, I think he is doing a great job. My question is who is next? We need to bring the Senate to a total stand still till the end of this term. There are 47 senators on our side. That is one 24 hour filibuster every month and a half. You can do it.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I'm thinking of limiting my exposure to $100 and buy a share or two of one of these inverse ETFs when TSLA ticks up, wait for it to take a dip and then sell, then rinse and repeat. I figure the worst thing that could happen is I would lose $100 and I would do my bit to bring down Elon.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I'm still in the find out phase which I always try to do first. Thanks for the information.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
When TSLA goes down these exchange traded funds go up. TSDD -2x TSLS -1x TSLQ -2x TSLZ -2x Warning this is a very risky investment. Don't bet what you can't afford to lose. Consider it gambling with benefits. I am not an advisor and this is not advice. I don't hold any of these ETFs as of now.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Absolutely... On inauguration day TSLA Price to Earnings ratio was 174, as of today it's 137, to compare Amazon is 40, Apple is 35, and of the largest most successful car companies Toyota is 8 General Motors is 6, and VW is 4.5. Tesla still has a long way to fall.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Based on the texts in the Signal Gate debacle, it would appear that Stephen Miller is the Trump interpreter with power to overrule concerns from the VP and without interference from the chief of staff his view of Trump's intentions seemed to hold sway.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
"No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseized or outlawed or banished or in any way destroyed-except by legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land." Magna Carta 1215
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It was a signal chat..not telegram.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
And didn't Trump just the other day deny that he had signed the order invoking the alien enemies Act? This is making me wonder just how fast his dementia is progressing. Does he even know what he said and what he's done?
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
When I heard Trump's reaction to the story of Jeff Goldberg being on the illegal telegram chat of his cabinet members discussing war plans, I immediately thought of VP George H W Bush's reaction to the news of the Iran Contra scandal where he said "I was out of the loop".
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
More on again off again rinse and repeat policy. I suspect he just reacts to the last thing he heard, It's government by dementia where he's not really sure what he's done and fires off orders to minions who blindly manufacture EOs for the obsession of the moment.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
www.jewishtimes.com/maryland-sta...
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Maryland State Legislature Introduces Antimask Bill
Baltimore's Jewish News, Events, Obituaries, Food, Dining
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The mask bans being promoted by democrats tend to be bans against wearing masks at protests and are aimed at those protesting events in Gaza. There was a ban like this proposed in the Maryland legislature this year. It makes wearing a mask at a protest a hate crime. The bill in New York is similar.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
If they are willing to do this to them against a judicial order the will be willing to do it to anyone. No one is safe.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Every time I hear about opposition to DEIA I remember that it stands for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility. Those who oppose those values are supporting Uniformity, Prejudice, Exclusion, and Restriction.
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Jonathan @jonathanlathrop.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The town dump a 1/2 mile away was burned almost every day. Some times the smoke would blow our way. It all changed after 1972 when the clean air act and clean water act passed. We can thank Nixon for that.
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