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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 09/08/2025

with alt text added. as a public service and encouragement to all.

Tweet From
Andrew Cuomo @andrewcuomo

Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, assemblyman @ZohranKMamdani, are occupying her rent-controlled apartment.

You grew up rich and married an even wealthier woman. You’ve had weddings on 3 continents. You own property in LGTBQIA+ murderous Uganda. You make $142,000 a year plus stipends, and your wife works too, meaning you together likely make well over $200,000. No matter which way you cut it: Zohran Mamdani is a rich person. You are actually very rich.

Yet you and your wife pay $2,300 a month, as you have bragged, for a nice apartment in Astoria. That should be housing for someone who needs it.

We are in the middle of a historic affordability crisis. Millions of low-income New Yorkers need this apartment and an apartment like it. Yet your apartment remains rented to rich people who don’t need it.

Today, I am calling on you to move out immediately and give your affordable housing back to an unhoused family who need it. Leaders must show moral clarity. Time to move out.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 09/08/2025

version with alt text as an encouragement and a public service.

Tweet From: Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom

Had a conversation last night with a former supporter of mine who's a big MAGA/Trump guy. It became clear to me after 20 minutes or so that, for him, the Constitution is a serious impediment to the Christian nationalist America he wants. So, for him, the Constitution has to go. Not the first time I’ve heard this from a Trump follower. But I still get seriously bummed out every time I do hear it.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 09/08/2025

TLDR; Trump will have a government censor in the newsroom at CBS and the parent company is ok with it because it got the Skydance/Paramount merger approved. Reposted what @chancethelawyer.bsky.social was reacting to with alt text to encourage folks to do the same.

WASHINGTON, August 7, 2025 — FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez issued the following statement in response to the closing of the Paramount-Skydance merger:

“Today marks the final chapter of a dark moment in our nation’s history. After months of cowardly capitulation, including an unprecedented payout to settle a meritless lawsuit in exchange for regulatory approval, Paramount and Skydance have completed their merger, and ‘New Paramount’ will be created.

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“More alarmingly, the company agreed to never-before-seen forms of government control over newsroom decisions and editorial judgment—actions that violate both the First Amendment and the law. A government-sanctioned ‘truth arbiter’ will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists at CBS do not criticize this Administration or express content that conflicts with its agenda. That should alarm anyone who values the core democratic principle of a free and independent press.

“All of this is being carried out under the guise of combating so-called ‘media bias,’ a term which, in practice, appears to encompass anything or anyone who disagrees with this Administration. Never mind that those now feigning concern over media bias are the same individuals who have spent the past decade attacking journalists whose watchdog duties distrust their partisan goals. The net effect will be less scrutiny of those in power and fewer ways American people should hold them accountable.

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“I urge others to take notice and find their courage. And I will continue to call out cowardly conduct that undermines the First Amendment—not just of journalistic independence but of public independence.

“Because if the First Amendment is to mean anything at all, it must mean that no government—regardless of party—gets to decide what is true, who gets heard, or which voices are silenced.”

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 07/08/2025

President Trump is trying to rig future elections by running a fake mid-decade census with a) There is no way this is remotely legal. Like that matters b) It will cost billions. Like that matters c) it takes several years to do a census. Initial planning for the 2030 census is already in progress.

Truth Social post from @realDonaldTrump.
"I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024. People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
1.28k ReTruths
4.66k Likes
Posted: Aug 07, 2025, 7:22 AM

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 26/07/2025

Reposted with alt text because I laughed out loud for real

blackboard with "A Wise Doctor Once Wrote" in printed letters

and then some completely incomprehensible "cursive"

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 24/07/2025

boosting with alt text because it is damn cute and to show folks just how easy it is to do alt text. Not nagging @jooliaghoulia.bsky.social , just using something cute she posted as an example to others

Fluffy cat in a store refrigerator full of beverages with a sign on the window saying :
please don't break the window,
the A/C is on. He has water and is listening to his favorite music.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 18/07/2025

This is fascinating. Weaponizing the DOJ indeed. reposted the images with alt text to encourage @gregsargent.bsky.social and others to do the same.

Schiff flatly denies the claim. His spokesperson says Schiff has always been open about owning year-round residences in both Maryland and California. Keeping one residence in a home state or district and renting or owning a second place to stay in or around D.C. is standard for members of Congress.

But where did the allegation initially come from? A Los Angeles Times reporter obtained a memo authored by the Fannie Mae Crimes Unit and sent to the head of the Federal Housing Finance Authority (FHFA), which oversees the government-backed Fannie Mae. The memo lays out the basis for those charges, but as the Times piece on this reports, the memo nowhere says that Schiff committed “fraud,” as Trump claimed.

Even more interestingly, the memo also says this inquiry resulted after the FHFA’s office of inspector general (OIG) made a “Document Demand” from the Fannie Mae Crimes Unit—a demand for documents related to “all” loans “associated with” Schiff.

Experts in how inspectors general function said in interviews that this chain of events seems unusual and troubling. The FHFA inspector general obviously investigates mortgage fraud, they noted, but they asked how—and why—this inspector general might have come to make this specific request involving this specific U.S. Senator’s loans.

“From beginning to end, this process is highly irregular,” Michael Bromwich, a former Justice Department inspector general who’s still well regarded by government insiders, told me.

Making this stranger, these issues involving Schiff have been aired before, during his 2024 Senate campaign, when multiple of Schiff’s Fannie Mae loans and residences came to light. As CNN reported at the time, his spokesperson argued that it was appropriate to describe both residences as primary because they both function that way for the Schiffs (and also to distinguish them from a vacation home).

The Fannie Mae memo itself is squirrelly with its charges. It claims that Schiff “possibly” misrepresented his homes on multiple loans. Read through Trump’s whole tweet on this and it’s clear that someone or other created a tidy package of these charges and handed them to Trump—or whoever wrote this tweet—to translate into this missive. How did that happen?

Experts also point out that the memo shows that the response to the inspector general’s request was forwarded to the head of FHFA—William Pulte, a Trump political appointee and loyalist.

“It is extremely unusual for the response to any IG document request to go to the head of the agency rather than back to the OIG—I have never heard of that,” Bromwich told me. “So far as I know, it is unprecedented for such raw information to be forwarded to the White House. Responses to OIG requests simply don’t go to the White House—ever.”

Did anyone at the White House urge this inspector general to make this document request involving Schiff? Did anyone at the White House quietly hint to Fannie Mae that it should criminally refer this matter to DOJ? Is anyone making an offhand suggestion to DOJ that it open a criminal investigation on this basis?

“The creation of an investigation into a high government official is extraordinarily unusual for a Fannie Mae inspector general,” Don Kettl, former Dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, told me. “What drove this through the bureaucracy? What drove it to DOJ? How did the story find its way into the president’s social media feed?”

Making this worse, this tactic is already emerging as a model. As Talking Points Memo’s David Kurtz points out, Trump alleged mortgage fraud against New York attorney general Letitia James, who sued the Trump Organization for fraud, via similar channels. “Inspectors general are supposed to serve as checks on the president, but it looks like Trump is weaponizing them to attack his political opponents,” Brown University professor Corey Brettschneider, an expert on presidential power, tells me.

Meanwhile, over at The Bulwark, Jonathan Last writes about another sordid tale involving a former FBI special agent who was pushed out because he was friends with someone on Trumpist FBI director Kash Patel’s enemies list. As Last notes, this couldn’t happen without little-known functionaries below Patel being willing to carry out dubious orders.

So on this Schiff matter, are any Trump political appointees at FHFA or Fannie Mae proving, shall we say, very receptive to White House suggestions of investigative targets? Are they eagerly moving these suggestions through the bureaucracy?

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 30/06/2025

So, these adorable critters were following me around the KFC parking lot yesterday when I was doing my #UberEATS thing. It was hilarious. I only got a couple in this shot but there were about 25 of them following me. Other people were taking pics of the parade.

Several Canada geese in a parking lot looking hungry.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 26/06/2025

reposted with alt text as a public service and to encourage others to do the same when they see something that has merit but the OP forgot to add the alt text.

Tweet from Matt Walsh (the conservative one)

40 percent of New York City's population is foreign born. Not just second and third generation immigrants. Foreign born. Almost half the city wasn't born in this country. NYC isn't an American city anymore by any reasonabl definition of the term. It's a tragedy and a disgrace.

posted at 6:@28 am 6/25/2025 - 2.8 million views.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 16/06/2025

Reposted with alt text to encourage @andrewjweinstein.com to do the same because this is a great catch. #accessibility and no Gen AI was used in the creation of this, I used tesseract in a little python script to do the OCR. And yes, I will absolutely post the script to github at some point

Truth Social Post from Donald Trump:

Our Nation's ICE Officers have shown incredible strength,
determination, and courage as they facilitate a very important
mission, the largest Mass Deportation Operation of Illegal Aliens in
History. Every day, the Brave Men and Women of ICE are subjected
to violence, harassment, and even threats from Radical Democrat
Politicians, but nothing will stop us from executing our mission, and
fulfilling our Mandate to the American People. ICE Officers are
herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power
to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest
Mass Deportation Program in History.

In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and
deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los
Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of
Illegal Aliens reside. These, and other such Cities, are the core of
the Democrat Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to
expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare
State, robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking
American Citizens. These Radical Left Democrats are sick of mind,
hate our Country, and actually want to destroy our Inner Cities —
And they are doing a good job of it! There is something wrong with
them. That is why they believe in Open Borders, Transgender for
Everybody, and Men playing in Women’s Sports — And that is why |
want ICE, Border Patrol, and our Great and Patriotic Law
Enforcement Officers, to FOCUS on our crime ridden and deadly
Inner Cities, and those places where Sanctuary Cities play such a
big role. You don’t hear about Sanctuary Cities in our Heartland!

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 13/06/2025

reposting because I think it is cute and to encourage @papatj.bsky.social to add alt text when they post.

Button saying:
Trump is the worst president since Trump

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 10/06/2025

This is me as I drive around Wilmington. Not sure if I feel cute but it does show that I look kinda happy

Smiling man with red shirt over black Tshirt and wearing a cap.
Clearly driving a car

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 07/06/2025

Adding alt text so we can all appreciate the dumb in full and encouraging @thebhp.bsky.social to do the same. Also adding that his statement may be true, but hebephilia and ephebophilia really aren't much better

Screen cap of a Tweet from Peter Schiff:
I'm not saying it wasn't a crime. I just saying it's not pedophilia. When I was in college I had sex with underage girls. That doesn't make me a pedophile.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 07/06/2025

The comments in this thread are instructive for CIS folks who aspire to actually be helpful to trans folks. Even the most well-meaning thoughts can go awry if you haven't thought them through and looked at them from the eyes of someone who is actually trans. (alt-text added) 1/3

Screen cap of a Tweet by simone Biles responding to a transphobic tweet by Riley Gaines:
"You're truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive or creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgener category in all sports.
But instead you bully them
One thing's for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 05/06/2025

boosting with alt-text because this is absolutely true and to encourage @berkie1.bsky.social and others to add alt text

A three-circle Venn diagram on a black background. The top-left circle is dark blue with the label “I Want Stable Services,” the top-right circle is green with the label “I Want Low Density,” and the bottom circle is red with the label “I Want Low Taxes.” Where the blue and green circles overlap at the top center, a teal area is labeled “High Taxes.” Where the blue and red circles overlap at the lower left, a maroon area is labeled “More Density.” Where the green and red circles overlap at the lower right, a brown area is labeled “Service Cuts.” In the very center, where all three circles intersect, a dark gray area reads “Does Not Exist” in red text.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 03/06/2025

Why is the idiotic woman staring at the camera. Everything is a photo op with her. Pay attention, she is going to run in 2028 if Trump doesn't try to. #KristiNoem #ICEBarbie

Kristi Noem at the wailing wall in Jerusalem.
She has her hands on the wall and is staring directly into the camera

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 01/06/2025

Reposting with alt text because it is true in all respects and to remind folks that alt text is easy.

The words "Deportation without habeas corpus is human trafficking"
in white on a red background.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 01/06/2025

boosted with alt text both because it is great and to gently remind folks how important alt text is. Without it, the OP is meaningless.

Breaking: Republican MAGA congressman Bill Huizenga says DON'T call his office to complain.

In case you still want to, here's his number: 202-225-4401

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 31/05/2025

Reposted with alt text to show @gtconway.bsky.social just how easy it is.

screen cap of a post by carrie johnson with text:

Veteran lawyers have reached a curious conclusion about President Trump's deals with big law firms this year: they do not appear to be legally valid.
Trump since coming to office has punished certain firms for their past clients or causes, stripping them of security clearances and government contracts, while trumpeting deals with others.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 28/05/2025

added alt text to the map and boosting being this is scary as hell if it is true.

Map of Germany and surrounding countries

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 24/05/2025

Alt-Text added because a) it is very cute and b) to encourage @bodegacats.bsky.social to think more about #a11y

Bodega glass door with a grey and white cat behind it.
On the door is a hand-lettered sign reading "No Dogs Allowed, we have a cat"

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 23/05/2025

PSA alt-text since @atrupar.com doesn't like to do them and this is kind of important.

Screencap from Donald Trump.
I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone's(sic) that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else. If that is not the case, a Tariff of at least 25% must be paid by Apple to the U.S. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 22/05/2025

it is so fucking bleak out here. I just keep looking at my pets for inspiration.

Black Cat staring at a computer monitor with a comparator circuit on it.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 22/05/2025

Sigh Bend, don't break. We are all in this together. For those who need it, here is some cute

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 17/05/2025

reposted with alt text because it is too cute not to share and to encourage the wonderful @peipolitical.bsky.social to add it as well. #a11y

Pierre Poilievre standingall by himself outside Canadian Parliament buildings with song lyrics
"I'm just a lonely boy, Lonely and Blue, I'm all alone, with noting to do"
overlaid

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 15/05/2025

I am the one in the upper left. Susan (not on this platform) is the one with "the look", Brian (not on here) is the red head ,Jo (on here some times) is the itty bitty one. This must be 1977 or 78.

4 children of various ages in vintage 1970's garb.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 14/05/2025

Reposted with alt text as an #a11y service because it made me laugh

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 13/05/2025

Adding Alt Text as a public #a11y service because this is the best purse I think I have ever seen.

Woman in black formal dress walking down street in NY while texting on her phone.
Her purse looks like a zebra!

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 13/05/2025

Added Alt Text because it is a nice continuation of the common meme to do a little #a11y encouragement.

donald trump pointing at a brown man and saying "careful mate, that foreigner wants your cookie" to a white man in a white construction hat.
The white man has a plate with one cookie on it and Trump has a plate with a pile for cookies and a 747 aircraft. The brown man has nothing.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 13/05/2025

The face of someone who is never gonna click on your substack link because monetizing one Nazi is monetizing one too many Nazis

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 03/05/2025

I found the oldest one of these I could, this one is 4 years old (I think). Seeing this all over today and so I am offering up one with a bit more #accessibility baked in.

Image of:
Man, it must be so hard to come to this country and learn English.
For example; there is a silent K in the word "Knight", 4 silent K's in the word "Knickknack", and 3 silent K's in the word "Republican."

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 29/04/2025

A better clip of the political epitaph of Pierre Poilievre #cdnpoli

Election results from Carleton electoral district in the 2025 election. It shows the top 10 or so candidates including the fact that Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre lost his seat to Liberal Bruce Fanjoy

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 29/04/2025

My favorite clip from last night's Canadian Election. Pierre Poilievre was defeated in his own riding. #cdnpoli

Selected results from the Canadian electoral riding of Carleton showing the winner was the Liberal Bruce Fanjoy

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 27/04/2025

If, like me, you are sometimes forgetting to do alt text, there is a handy setting in the accessibility section to require it. see, isn't that easy?

screenshot of the accessibility settings on bluesky showing the check boxes to require alt text when posting a picture.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 27/04/2025

This is hilarious. Any guesses on how successful they will be? Any guesses on how many suppliers they drive out of business?

Several paragraphs about how Albertsons, a supermarket chain, is telling suppliers to eat tariff-related cost increases.
It contains a lot of details, and I would suggest a search for "Albertsons tariffs" to see news stories.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 27/04/2025

as a public service, I added alt text because omg @kairyssdal.bsky.social is right that this is #nonsense

From Truth social or Twitter a screen cap of the following text:

TrumpReposter @trumpreposter.b... • 34m (1/2) When Tariffs cut in, many people's Income Taxes will be substantially reduced, maybe even completely eliminated. Focus will be on people making less than $200,000 a year. Also, massive numbers of jobs are already being created, with new plants and factories currently being built or planned. It will be a BONANZA FOR AMERICA!!! THE EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE IS HAPPENING!!!

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 27/04/2025

Added Alt Text and am not just hinting. Vote Liberal in the election on Monday. You saw what a disaster we had down here because folks didn't show up. Don't make the same mistake so many Americans did. #cdnpoli

Canadian prime minister Markl Carney scratching his grey cat under the chin while sitting on a white sofa

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 27/04/2025

Added alt text and while I don't know if I got the oldest edition of the meme, this one is 4 years old. www.reddit.com/r/terriblefa...

6 eggs looking at a sunny side up fried egg with one of them saying "he died last fry day. Thank God he wasn't beaten. Don't worry, he went over easy. he's now on the sunny side. He's definitely in a better plate.

Link to oldest I could find

https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/ieh72v/ruined_my_morning/

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 26/04/2025

Look, the Great tailed grackle does have a tail. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

Great tailed grackle. Blue/black bird with a tail as long as the rest of its body

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 26/04/2025

I happily follow each of these gentlemen and the fact that they are capable of this kind of interaction is a large part of why I do.

A conversation between Anil Dasha and Kevin Kruse where they are at cross purposes but still remain human with each other.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 26/04/2025

more to this is the incredible churn. Circulating supply is worth $2.99B, trading volume yesterday was, oddly enough, $2.99B Yes, you read the correctly.

A screenshot of the Official Trump token’s Coinbase page showing two panels:

Market Stats:
• Circulating supply: 199,999,400.523 TRUMP
• Market capitalization: $3.046 billion
• Fully diluted valuation: $15.178 billion
• 24 h trading volume: $2.972 billion
• 7 d trading volume: $31.501 billion
• 30 d trading volume: $86.351 billion
• All-time high price: $74.27 per TRUMP
Coinbase
Coinbase

Performance:
• Popularity rank: 34
• Market dominance: 0.11%
• 24 h volume change: +0.63%
• Overall 1 year price change: +1.41%

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