Oy, the burn on TO just now by the great Tom Keene on Bloomberg Surveillance: “I remember going to Toronto back when the Maple Leafs were a good team” 😹😊 His business insight, wit & hockey analysis is still razor sharp
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When a government institution---and, yes, the Fed is an arm of the state--has a 97% failure rate on its core mission (maintaining the purchasing power of the peoples' money), it's long past time to pull the plug. Source: David Stockman, former Budget Director, Reagan administration
Sad news hearing of the passing of Ismael Ahmed, who was behind Concert of Colors in Detroit and hosted the WDET weekly show, ‘This Island Earth’ www.concertofcolors.com/about
About 1 — Concert of Colors
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WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group: “First Davos i’ve ever heard us CEOs worried about the possibility of Europeans boycotting American goods.” Pressure works.
Prices in NPR's basket rose 5% on average last year “Almost half the items on NPR's shopping list got more expensive in 2025. Some price increases, notably on items made in China and Vietnam, appear to be tariff related. Other price hikes had to do with weather events.”
NPR@npr.org · 7mo agoWe found the effects of tariffs and extreme weather, relief (finally!) in the egg cooler, plus one case of shrinkflation.
And that’s not even half of the corruption and chaos‼️
Agreed but buy from Costco, the Walton family led to this debacle.
Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · last yr.It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory. Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.
Any farmers out there that can speak to whether they can get info for planting season ? Or loans to help them get through this ? Are federal offices open to even process loan requests ?
Trump is privately warning CEOs of automakers not to hike prices when his tariffs hit. This blows up Trump's lies about the tariffs, because it shows he knows they'll push up costs in the US, and knows "other countries" don't pay them! New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1933...
Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Tariff Spin in Leaked Call Stunner
In a call with auto CEOs, the president warned them against raising prices. Isn’t that an admission that his argument for tariffs is bogus?
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“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”
Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’
Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later
My last official photo. I have been honoured to serve people for 21 years. I am not going off into the sunset. Steve Earle rings in my ears, "The revolution starts now in your own hometown. What are you doing standing around?Follow your heart. The revolution starts now." #resistance #elbowsup
Senator Mark Kelly has served our nation in the Navy, in outer space, and now in Congress. Elon Musk has done nothing in service to America and is actively working to dismantle it, weaken it, and hand the pieces to our adversaries. He is the real traitor and needs to be stopped.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.Senator Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat, visited Ukraine over the weekend and said the U.S. could not give up on the people there as they fight Russia. Elon Musk responded on X, calling Kelly "a traitor."
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on CNBC telling same MAGA lies about Canada putting 250% tariffs on U.S. dairy imports…FALSE, tariffs kick in only after the US has hit a certain Trump-negotiated quantity of tariff-free dairy sales to Canada each year – USMCA amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
🤡 🤣 X / Twitter is currently down for a third time — live updates on the massive outage www.tomsguide.com/news/live/x-...
X / Twitter down for a third time — live updates on the massive outage
Users all over can't access the social network... again
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vivre Quebec this March 12-14!! Canadians planning a major egg delivery to Secretary of State Marco Rubio when he visits Québec on Mar 12-14. Eggs in Canada still at $2.37/carton. #ElbowsUpCanada #Never51
Edge O. Erin@edgeoerin.com · last yr.Marco Rubio will be in Quebec City 🇨🇦 Wednesday-Friday (March 12-14). Given the 🇺🇸 egg shortage, please place however many dozen eggs you can afford in a very hot place until March 11th and then hand-deliver them to the USA Secretary of State. Let the Trade War and threat of annexation yolk be on him.
Not only does Canada share a land border with Denmark (Hans Island), but a maritime border with France (NL and St. Pierre and Miquelon Islands). Canada should join the European Union.
More embarrassing false claims taken down from the Wall of Receipts …the only persistent fraudulent thing in the DOGE investigation is…DOGE
OMG. Trump just came out and said he will not fund schools who have mandatory vaccinations. How are we supposed to protect ourselves if Poilievre gets in because he doesn’t believe in mandatory vaccinations. How are we going to make sure that PP does not cancel our vaccination mandate.