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🇺🇸 US consumer sentiment just hit a record low of 44.8 due to crushing cost-of-living strains. At the exact same time, a massive healthcare safety net cliff is looming over the next 9 months. A shrinking federal health cushion is colliding with historic economic anxiety. 🧵👇 #Medicaid #Healthcare
Fox is not news, it’s evil entertainment for needy greedy trumplings
How do I feel being a minority underrepresented Democrat? Aggrieved!
It’s the humor that keeps me going - Stewart, Colbert, South Park ‘25, SNL, Oliver!! God love you all!!
Mark Hamill@markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3mo agoTHANK YOU David Letterman & Stephen Colbert for a lifetime of smart satire, laughs, speaking truth to power & sending us to bed with a smile on our collective faces. You will be missed. 🙏 #EndOfAnEra
THANK YOU David Letterman & Stephen Colbert for a lifetime of smart satire, laughs, speaking truth to power & sending us to bed with a smile on our collective faces. You will be missed. 🙏 #EndOfAnEra
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3mo ago🔥
"The Gestapo tactics of this president will not stand here."
Trump and Republicans are looting the US Treasury for personal enrichment and power; ruining the economy. The benchmark 10-year Treasury has risen sharply reaching 4.57%. The 30-year bond broke a major psychological threshold, surpassing 5% for the first time since the 2007 financial crisis.
Democratic leaders got to be SMH that they aren’t chasing those Republican scoundrels out of town with law enforcement close behind.
The worst is yet to come in 2027 I hope to hell that those with something at stake cast their vote in 2026
🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷@msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 3mo agoThey told you they would. This administration is literally trying to kill off the most vulnerable. 36% of those on Medicaid in CA are children, 40% are births, 12% are seniors (including hospice/homecare), and 8% are people with disabilities. Inhumane and Unconscionable.
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas - THIS Israeli government DOES kill civilians. Admiral Cooper’s testimony is NOT credible.
So true. We need to leave sentimentality behind and face our future.
Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3mo agoThe Iran intelligence assessment revealed more than a failed military strategy. It revealed a president trapped in a 20th century worldview while confronting 21st century crises. From drones to AI to housing to healthcare, this is becoming the defining problem. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Thomas Stockett's Baltimore Afro-American cartoon on the Voting Rights Act, August 1965.
I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing
Very cool version of this monthly global average surface temperature anomaly chart showing both El Niño and La Niña years
PPI Blowout: "The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 1.4 percent in April ... The index for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services increased 0.6 percent in April" Way above consensus!
6.0% PPI y/y is the highest since Dec 2022... time to tote out those 1970s inflation charts!
The same administration that told you America was broke that we “have to gut the Forest Service”, slash public lands budgets, and fire federal workers to save money, just spent $29 billion on the Iran war. In only a few months.
I’m guessing that the Trump Administration is causing the same back up in shipping of materials that occurred after Covid with its reckless and chaotic policies against Iran. And that we will see a return of high inflation for many months to come.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."
Fashion tip of the day: To deal with clothes moths, fill your wardrobe with thousands of tiny spiders, the moth's natural predator. To deal with the spiders, fill your wardrobe with scorpions. To deal with the scorpions, fill your closet with RFK Jr. This way, you avoid harmful chemicals.
Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The 365-day running average for global sea-ice extent is once again in "Gobsmacking bananas" territory, registering an average of 20,247,500 km² on March 12, 2025. How low will it go? The climate 8-ball says: "Sorry, my funding was cut."
ICE Secretly Hauled Mahmoud Khalil to Louisiana as Retaliation, Lawyers Allege By moving the campus activist to a new jurisdiction, ICE disrupted court proceedings and limited his legal access, his attorneys say. Jonah Valdez March 11 2025, 10:23 a.m. theintercept.com/2025/03/11/m...
ICE Secretly Hauled Mahmoud Khalil to Louisiana as Retaliation, Lawyers Allege
By moving campus activist Mahmoud Khalil to a new jurisdiction, ICE disrupted court proceedings and limited his legal access, his attorneys say.
theintercept.com
A quick update on the total climf&%kery that's taking place. Through March 11th, 2025, the monthly average global surface temperature for March, 2025 is the hottest on record. The madness of this moment is going to end horrifically for most living creatures. And that is incredibly sad.
