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Seth Bernstein

@sethonearth.bsky.social
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Lifelong lib trying to make sense of how the Mad Hatter got to be president. Holding out hope for better times! Frequent admirer of pet and wildlife pics. NO DMs.

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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We are at the "Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming" stage. The protests will not stop. Trump will overplay his hand. Blue Wave 2026.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We are at the "Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming" stage. The protests will not stop. Trump will overplay his hand. Blue Wave 2026.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
They believe all of it. I hear it at my gym everyday.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Foreign students generally pay full tuition, at least at the undergraduate level. That is what pays the freight for Harvard's policy to provide full financial aid for American kids whose parents are below certain income levels. I guess those American kids don't matter.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
At this ooint, Trump's "public facade" and dark private personality are merging. This will be a delightful experience.
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Tee Vixen Sutton @vixenbite.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
MAGA sees Medicaid cuts as a legitimate federal cost containment measure, with the billions diverted into tax cuts for the wealthy as a deserved benefit to "job creators". You have to watch Fox News a lot to swallow this nonsense.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
GOP hearings attacking President Biden for not evacuating all the Afghan refugees has now been replaced by GOP bureaucrats kicking those that did make it here out of the country. I am sure they will get a warm welcome from the Taliban.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I didn't think Trump would cave to China this quickly, but the TACO stock trade worked! (TACO = Trump Always Chickens Out)
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Yes.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Medicare with 60+ million enrolled would supposedly now be required to negotiate prices... that's a huge market for Pharma. But I read that a similar order died in the courts last time he tried it in 2020.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The irony is that RFK Jr.'s Uncle Jack (JFK) came near to death from scarlet fever as a child. He was sometimes weak and sickly. Now his nephew wants kids like him put on the chopping block. Disgusting.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I know, it's sickening.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Dems overthink and struggle to articulate a clear, simple quality of life narrative that resonates. AOC and Bernie examples that Dems need to learn from.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Exactly! They bash Trump to make some cash on corporate media, while secretly pining for the good ol' days when Ronnie, W and Mitt were their heroes.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Scumbags.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Free article: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
theatlantic.com
Why Trump Paused the Tariffs
A stock-market swoon, or even a recession, might not frighten him, but the prospect of a 2008-style meltdown apparently still does.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I'm not invited either, but Krusteaz pancakes are the bomb.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
That's what happens when a country decides that the wealthy can profit from healthcare.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
From JV Last in The Bulwark. Insightful and so true. I'm going to start understanding where we are differently thanks to this. 👇
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
History has a way of teaching us some valuable lessons. Read for free. wapo.st/4kZWC5U
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Opinion | When Benjamin Franklin failed to make Canada the 14th colony
Canadians weren’t enticed by the colonists’ noble goals. Why would they want to join now?
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
1. Trump's bungling of COVID was fresh on voters' minds in 2020. Memories are short. 2. In '24, Dems acknowledged inflation but offered little hope. Trump lied and said "prices will go down Day One". Lying works, especially when delivered by a master propagandist. 3.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/03/2025
If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
We still pay taxes to finance massive tax give aways to the richest people on Earth, and to massage the egos of space junkies, kleptocrats and their hangers on. They want our money, and the regime is giving it to them.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Recessions can drive down prices. Oligarchs and billionaires love a bargain. But Trump is also stoking inflation, so we will see.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
There goes literally billions in tax revenue. What a mistake.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I will bet that ship probably sailed a long time ago. It would be surprising if they did not already have the data or at least huge amounts of it.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Lots of coverage about Tesla shares tanking because customers don’t want to be associated with a fascist etc. But what if the problem is that it’s a poorly run company whose CEO is absentee, whose most iconic product is falling apart, & that now seems to have misplaced $1.4B bsky.app/profile/bloo...
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
True.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Schumer is delusional if he thinks Republicans are ever going back to what they were pre-MAGA.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Why was Roberts silent while Trump was threatening the families and staff of the judges overseeing his many criminal cases?
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I think people are just becoming aware and realizing that the unthinkable is going to be thrust upon them. We will push back and in the long run I don't think they achieve what they want.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Prediction: Trump will decide alongside Putin what price in territory and resources Ukraine must pay to end the war, or to even procure a cease fire. The Ukrainians will be told to take it or leave it, and by leaving it they will give up US support. Catch 22.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Prediction: Trump will decide alongside Putin what price in territory and resources Ukraine must pay to end the war, or to even procure a cease fire. The Ukrainians will be told to take it or leave it, and by leaving it they will give up US support. Catch 22.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
So Elon is just a pure, innocent technorat with a love of chainsaws?
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
We're gonna find out pretty quickly, I hope.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Legitimate political discourse.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
You're fired, Fido! Such stupidity!
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Radio Free America @radiofreeameri.ca · 13/03/2025
Trump Now Demanding That Canadians Be Fingerprinted Upon Entry.
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Trump Now Demanding That Canadians Be Fingerprinted Upon Entry
The Trump administration is preparing a new travel rule that would require Canadians staying in the US for more than 30 days to register with the US government and submit to fingerprinting.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
They would do it for less.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Something (like knowing how MAGA operates) tells me that this Jeddah meeting will not go well for Ukraine. The Trump administration will weave together whatever story they choose to justify abandoning our (former) ally in favor of Putin.
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No To Racism @notoracism.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Sounds like something Trump cooked up with his buddy Vlad.
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James F. Love IV @jamesfloveiv.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Breaking: Layoffs jump 245% in February. www.rawstory.com/trump-recess...
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Announced layoffs have 'jumped to levels not seen since the last two recessions': report
Reuters is reporting that the number of announced layoffs in the United States has "jumped to levels not seen since the last two recessions."Citing data from global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray ...
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James F. Love IV @jamesfloveiv.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Veterans Betrayed. www.rawstory.com/veterans-aff...
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'Unforgivable': Senator calls Trump’s plan to fire 70,000 VA workers a 'shameful betrayal'
President Donald Trump's administration is charging ahead with his goal of hollowing out the federal civil service. This now reportedly includes tens of thousands of people at the Department of Vetera...
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Trump delivers yet another "fuck you" to the Ukrainians. US law and policy don't permit return of immigrants in good standing seeking asylum to a war zone. Trump doesn't care. He wants their death. He wants their destruction.
Trump fuck you to Ukrainians
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
There aren't nearly enough competent MAGA lawyers to fail even a fraction of the jobs she hopes to eliminate. Looking at you, Alina Habba.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Deporting Ukrainians who fled Putin .... so on-brand for this administration.
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Seth Bernstein @sethonearth.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Unless federal agencies resume taking grant applications and accepting programs to fund, there will be no money going out despite this ruling. I'm not optimistic. American innovation and leadership is being thrown under the bus.
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