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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bellwether: CA’s regular gas today $5.9732/gal vs $4.6402/gal yr ago (+28.7%). Diesel is $8.0956/gal vs $5.1602/gal yr ago (+56.9%). Gas prices hit CA/🇺🇸 HHs & commerce: Port of LA’s busiest container port in No Am, #16 globally, handling +40% of all 🇺🇸 containerized cargo. gasprices.aaa.com?state=CA
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
President Biden, who is battling cancer, stood at attention at the 9/11 memorial in NYC. The current POTUS was dozing off at the Pentagon 9/11 memorial. The headlines & photo in the Irish Star speak for themselves: www.irishstar.com/news/politic...
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Gas prices and his volatile diplomatic relations with Canada are impacting the Greater Los Angeles Area, the third-largest metropolitan economy in the world. enewspaper.dailybreeze.com/infinity/art...
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Gas prices curtail holiday travel
Gas prices curtail holiday travel
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Gas prices and volatile diplomatic relations with Canada are impacting the Greater Los Angeles Area, the third-largest metropolitan economy in the world. enewspaper.dailybreeze.com/infinity/art...
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Gas prices curtail holiday travel
Gas prices curtail holiday travel
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Bellwether: CA’s regular gas today $5.7820/gal vs $4.6062/gal yr ago (+25.5%). Diesel is $7.6034/gal vs $5.1273/gal yr ago (+48.3%). Gas prices hit both HHs & commerce. Port of LA, busiest container port in No Am, #16 globally, handling +40% of all 🇺🇸 containerized cargo. gasprices.aaa.com?state=CA
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This should raise some eyebrows: www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
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More ultrawealthy in Trump's administration than those in previous 3 presidents combined, report shows
In all, 57 Trump officials are worth at least $100 million, including 17 ambassadors and the remaining 40 in senior posts across the executive branch.
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Professor Richardson’s letter is a powerful reminder of our history, as we prepare to celebrate the 4th of July.
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July 2, 2026
On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed a “Resolution for Independence” declaring “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are ...
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Sen. Chris Murphy’s 100% right: “[DT]’s betting corruption’ll be so constant..we stop hearing it…We can’t let it happen…once corruption becomes normal, it becomes permanent…WH isn’t a business opportunity…. presidency isn’t a license to steal from Americans…government of the 🇺🇸 belongs to Americans.”
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July 1, 2026
Today President Donald J.
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
USSC “upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship , rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.” apple.news/ABxccMl3tRSe...
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Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s proposed limits — The Associated Press
The Supreme Court has upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people in the United States illegally or t...
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
“Philippines’ 5/7/26 major 7.8 EQ, followed by 3 6.0 EQs isn’t being flagged for tsunami info by USGS. Why? It’s exactly type of EQ event we’d expect to be flagged…[for] possible tsunami info, & yet it’s not…no blue flag icon/no link to tsunami.gov on the EQ.” quakefeed.substack.com/p/tsunami-th...
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
On today’s D-Day landings anniversary, Hegseth refused to participate in the international ceremonies commemorating the fallen for their sacrifice, & called on our allies to do more for their own defense. He also analogized present-day immigration to a D-Day invasion: bsky.app/profile/lepa...
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Ezlifelin @ezlifelin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I'm a Ca. and am offended by how he is trying to buy our state office.
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
CA’ 2026 economy overtook Japan’s & now ranks as the world’s 4th largest economy by GDP, performing better than US overall: m.economictimes.com/news/interna...
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California overtakes Japan to become world’s 4th-largest economy - here’s what changed
California economy 2026: California's economy has surged to become the fourth largest in the world, overtaking Japan, driven by strong growth in the tech and healthcare sectors, booming venture capital funding, and significant contributions to the US stock market.
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
It will always remind me of 47’s signature featured on that 50th birthday book Ghislaine Maxwell compiled for their friend, Jeffrey Epstein.
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
EIGHT DOLLARS A GALLON. Downtown Los Angeles. Today. Trump promised to lower gas prices on Day 1. Instead he started a war with Iran and gas in LA just topped $8. This is sticker shock. This is his fault. #TrumpsGasProblem​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Great article and points on Cuba: fair.org/home/its-tak...
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‘It’s Taken for Granted That Cuban Sovereignty Doesn’t Matter’: CounterSpin interview with Reed Lindsay on the war on Cuba
"It's our government, with our resources, that is essentially playing a huge role in causing the suffering in Cuba."
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Interesting view & analysis from abroad of the US’s current & near-term situation by Pierre Gervais, Professor of American Civilization, University Sorbonne Nouvelle: bsky.app/profile/onef...
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Our southern is calling it an unprovoked, illegal, illegitimate war: bsky.app/profile/circ...
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“Voters respond to exhaustion.” thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
First of all, the Iowa is now the only maritime museum open to the public on the West Coast, docked at Berth 87 on the LA Waterfront in San Pedro, near the LA Cruise Terminal. Second, his golf course is about 7 miles away, sitting on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Rancho Palos Verdes.
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Trump Goes On Bonkers Riff On Battleships That Includes The Literal Plot Of A Hasbro Movie
Trump went on a bonkers riff about battleships in which he longed to recreate a key plot point of the Hasbro movie Battleship.
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This is how it’s done when you hold people accountable in the the Epstein case. If France and Great Britain can do it, the US can do so as well: 🔴 Un diplomate français mis en cause dans l'affaire Epstein, le ministre français des Affaires étrangères annonce saisir la justice ➡️ l.leparisien.fr/kzjO
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Affaire Epstein : la justice saisie après la mise en cause d’un diplomate français
Le chef du Quai d’Orsay a par ailleurs annoncé la conduite d’une enquête administrative et lance d’une procédure disciplinaire.
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This is worth watching w/respect to what’s happened overnight in Venezuela and what’s at stake: www.youtube.com/live/7JXQhff...
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Today's News, January 3, 2025
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Le Parisien @leparisien.fr · 30/12/2025
L’écrivaine et journaliste spécialiste des questions de climat avait annoncé un mois plutôt être atteinte de la maladie.
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La journaliste Tatiana Schlossberg, petite-fille de John Fitzgerald Kennedy, est morte à 35 ans d’un cancer
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17/12/2025
October 2025 saw fifty more cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes committed by Trump and his administration. They're up 580 since he was sworn in last January.
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Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: November 2025: Atrocities 530-580
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This is an exhaustive—if not, exhausting—list of what 47 has done just during October 2025. It’s worth a read for a sense of the extent of 47’s behaviors & the havoc he’s causing. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oct...
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Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: October 2025: Atrocities 467-529
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Lawrence O’Donell was right after all. Watch his ‘A’ block on 11/10/2025: www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
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Lawrence: With Trump's shutdown ending, Dems are closer than ever to forcing Epstein files release
As five more Senate Democrats joined Republicans to pass a compromise bill to end the shutdown, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how Speaker Johnson is the “big loser in this compromise” because not...
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The President of the US & commander-in-chief celebrated Veterans’ Day with the traditional laying of the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He also gave a speech which showed he doesn’t really understand the origins of Veterans’ Day. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-honors...
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Trump Honors Fallen by Giving Veterans Day New Russian Name
The president announced at Arlington that he was renaming the holiday.
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
If you’ve not already seen it, Lawrence O’Donnell’s ‘A’ block last night was longer than usual and worth watching for a different take on the recent Senate Dems’ votes on the Trump shutdown: youtu.be/_XMoWnnLR1E?...
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The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell 11/10/25 | 🅼🆂🅽🅱🅲 BREAKING NEWS november 10, 2025
YouTube video by Kanal Çare
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
If you need a good laugh today, read this post and all of the comments! It’s worth it. 😂
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
“[C]oup already happened. Leading scholars of democratic backsliding now classify US as a competitive authoritarian regime [in]early stages…Understanding where we are on the authoritarian spectrum determines what we’re fighting for and what tactics actually work.” open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
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Between Democracy and Dictatorship: Where We Are and How Long We Have
There won’t be a day when we wake up and the Wikipedia page suddenly says “The US is a Fascist Christian Ethnostate.” That’s not how authoritarian takeover works for people living through it.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2025
If you or anyone you know is wondering what is REALLY going on with the shutdown… Watch every second of this. I Promise it’s worth your time. #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown
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Sharon Carbine @sharoncarbine.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Extremely astute analysis of FASCIST felon Donald Trump's REAL motives for government shutdown & Trump's related threats. Gentleman's account on TikTok: @blackfactsmatter.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/09/2025
Trump delivered an embarassing performance at the UN general assembly | Mohamad Bazzi
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Trump delivered an embarassing performance at the UN general assembly | Mohamad Bazzi
This was Trump unfiltered and unleashed – as he has been since the start of his second term, with no restraint and no need for even the mildest niceties
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86-47 aka Limehawk @limehawk1.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I would hope that we would as a country, use the South Korean model as a way to handle martial law. Fingers crossed I guess.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/06/2025
Four times over the weekend Stephen Miller referred to the LA protests as an "insurrection." Not because it was one but because he, Trump and Homan were looking to gin up a pretext for clenching the federal government's fist against its opponents.
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Opinion | Donald Trump vs. California (and everywhere else)
What happened in California this weekend was another facet of the president’s effort to quash critics.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Greetings! I’m at Mariachi Plaza in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. A crowd of several dozen are here protesting against immigration raids within the community. An organizer warming up the crowd. Crowd is very energetic. On assignment for @lapublicpress.bsky.social
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
But for nearly the entirety of the Paramount stand off, the only ones using weapons were ICE. Once in a while a protester would throw a canister back at them.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Of course the LA Times makes it look like a full on riot instead of showing that the mostly peaceful protesters were literally and constantly assaulted by ICE agents. The majority of fires that were started weren’t by the public but by ICE firing into the crowds and canisters starting fires. 🧵
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"The federal government is sowing chaos so they can have an excuse to escalate." Governor Newsom just now.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 08/06/2025
The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 08/06/2025
LA authorities are able to access law enforcement assistance at a moment’s notice. We are in close coordination with the city and county, and there is currently no unmet need. The Guard has been admirably serving LA throughout recovery. This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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This Los Angeles port is among the first casualties of Trump’s trade war
The number of shipping containers that sailed into the nation’s top container port last week was roughly one-third lower than during the same period last year.
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
www.ocregister.com/2025/05/09/f...
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Freight shipper says ‘millions’ of businesses in peril from China tariffs
“I think a lot of companies will fail if this goes on longer,” says Ryan Petersen, CEO of Flexport in San Francisco, of Trump’s trade war.
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
When I first posted this yesterday, April 11, I took this info from the NOAA research arm site. Today, it’s not there?🧐
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
ICYMI: “Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website”…in order “to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.”
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Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Well worth it to read this piece by David Rothkopf: open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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Help Wanted: Leader of the Free World
A very important job is now, unfortunately, available.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand
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everythingistolong.bsky.social @everythingistolong.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Really good article on why Elon Musk is vulnerable to a sustained boycott of Tesla. They worked against apartheid. Surely they could work against one South African. slate.com/business/202...
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Americans Are Actually in a Position to Make Elon Musk Feel Our Rage
His car company is in a precarious spot.
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maverick72.bsky.social @maverick72.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
We are witnessing USA’s democracy dying in darkness. Never dreamt to see that here. We’ve taken so much for granted.
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