Chris Plourde
@cplourde.bsky.social
My days are filled with walking dogs, doing dishes, playing guitar, taking pictures, reading books, and making tv shows. Maybe not in that order.
The whole world is rearming as both Russia and the United States demonstrate their incompetence to allies and enemies alike. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Misread as passive, the Gulf is quietly ending fifty years of dependence
Iran’s attacks exposed the limits of external guarantees and the need for a Gulf-built security architecture.
aljazeera.com
DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...
Market manipulation
Financial news geek@financialtalk.bsky.social · 2d ago#Crudeoil prices fell sharply following comments from Treasury Sec. #ScottBessent which indicate positive developments on re-opening the #Straitofhormuz. #KevinHincks recaps the geopolitical headlines hitting the wire prior to Tuesday's open. youtu.be/A0OiKmnPRSk
Dems dumped Platner and Swalwell . Max Miller remains. That is the difference between the two parties.
Boy Who Cried Wolf.... Trump keeps escalating his trade threats. This time, Europe isn’t biting. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Trump keeps escalating his trade threats. This time, Europe isn’t biting.
The EU believes Trump’s latest threats are best answered with strategic patience, not retaliation.
politico.com
Bash: "Jeanine Pirro…said in a court document…that they were trying to send a man who was innocent to jail based on lies about vandalism...As chair of the judiciary committee, does that bother you?" Rep. Jordan: "If those are the facts, of course. But I don't know that those are the facts."
just incredible to watch the US president take Iran's side when my state's water systems are under cyberattack
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Absolute clown show. But the republicans are getting their soundbites, which was the whole purpose of this farce
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
When the president makes statements about the war, they are full of wishful thinking, hyperbole, and outright lies. The public needs to demand the truth from Trump and Hegseth. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The American People Need the Truth About the Iran War
The president and the Pentagon are not being upfront about what has happened in more than 20 weeks of hostilities.
theatlantic.com
BISON: “.. So the Iran war is back on, and it's like we're in March - except a TACO has already been tried and failed, and SPRs and commercial inventories are depleted.” www.bisoninsights.info
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
This is the actual unclassified version of the intelligence community’s review of the 2020 election. It is accurate. Trump will try to convince you it is not. www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/d...
dni.gov
The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump Just Did More Damage to Elections Than China
His speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released.
theatlantic.com
Assimilation isn't a prerequisite for birthright citizenship not even for naturalization, frankly. Folks that go down the assimilation train are telling you that they're a white supremacist.
Almost ever day Kevin Hassett is booked on TV where he tells easily disprovable lies. Stop platforming liars.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoHassett: "Because President Trump has made law and order a big focus of the big cities, it's much cheaper to buy insurance now because people aren't going to steal your car"
"Liz Cheney offers an honorable example of principled inflexibility, except that today her opinions effectively count for nothing." Stephens' ungraciousness to Cheney shows he never learned that it is better to be good and unimportant than evil and important. Egoism is one way power corrupts.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w agoIn @nytopinion.nytimes.com Lindsey Graham “was willing to abase himself publicly before Trump” for power and influence, our columnist Bret Stephens writes. “But he didn’t abandon his core belief in the unity of interests of democratic nations against tyrannical foes.”
The Unitary Executive must now be assumed to be as truthful as the Supreme Soviet.
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 3w agoUS Energy Secretary Wright: There will not be tolls through Hormuz.
US Energy Secretary Wright: There will not be tolls through Hormuz.
It’s not a “minefield” is just rank corruption. Speak plainly please.
oil jumped ~9% yesterday- since yesterday evening, stations buying gasoline have been paying much more- but there's a lag- stations will have waited 12-24 hours before they *start* to move higher, even then, they're already behind. Look for ~$3.90/gal maybe today, then $4 soon.
WSJ: "Trump, argued Hill, was America’s answer to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, weakening a superpower he meant to strengthen." www.wsj.com/world/europe...
