Joe Blanda
@joeblanda.bsky.social
We need more #renewables & #libraries & #milkofhumankindness. We don't need more #datacenters guzzling water & energy. #KeepTheFaith #VoteBlue Take care of yourself & your loved ones, too. musician 🎸 reader & writer 📚 cat-owned 🐈
While we're busy exclaiming about all the money being spent (wasted) on the war in Iran, look at how much gets plowed into our elections. It's insane. #endCitizensUnited
Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 22h agoThese are insane numbers. If El-Sayed wins after being outspent by this much, wow, watch out!
Just the fuel cost for the Iran war, so far, is $78 billion. Add to that unknown military expenditures, as one commenter noted. If you're wondering why there's no money for health care, schools, other daily needs, this is where a lot of that money is going. And who profits?
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 23h agoBrown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Apple got a $2.2 billion tariff refund. Amazon got $600 million. Trump is sending the "refunds" to the companies, not working people. Every single cent of these refunds should go back to American consumers.
#Cornyn & #Tillis "folded like lawn chairs" . . . no surprise, really.
Jack Hopkins-The Original@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 2d agoTwo senators on their way out the door. Nothing left to lose. Total leverage. And they traded it for a memo. A piece of paper. Cornyn and Tillis folded like lawn chairs, and everybody knew they would. Again.
This is good, if true. However, new batteries technologies that don't require #lithium at all are beginning to come online. And that is better. #renewables
Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺@maxbrockbank.com · 2d agoJapanese engineers develop a technique to recover and recycle 90% of Lithium from old EV batteries.
James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."
There was "true boredom" before the 70s and 80s, but I think it's true with regard to discovering one's inner resources.
MK Forever Blue@mkforeverblue.bsky.social · 3d agoI feel sorry for people who didn't grow up with true boredom. The kind of rainy day in the 70s or 80s with only black & white films on TV, nothing to do on a hot Saturday, or empty time after a school day boredom. There was self discovery, reading, experimentation, play - and joy - in that boredom.
🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/
Control of the House came down to 7,000 votes in five districts during the last midterms. We can’t take anything for granted this year, especially as the regime threatens mail-in voting, targets registration programs, and even tries to ban states from encouraging people to vote.
🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
Bold choice to remind everyone what a nightmare Covid was as we struggle to find SAFE SALAD GREENS, two bags of groceries are over $100, and RFK Jr decides to meet this moment by launching a cooking show.
He's already backing out of the "deal" with Ukraine.
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 5d ago🚀🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump on Patriots: We have the greatest weapons in the world, and we have to be careful about giving out secrets to the weapons. You can't copy them. It is like NVIDIA—they have a chip. They say you cannot copy it.
🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ has officially handed over UNREDACTED Epstein-related records directly to federal Judge Emmet Sullivan for private review following a court order in MeidasTouch host Katie Phang’s lawsuit.
Trump DOJ Hands Judge Unredacted Epstein Records After Katie Phang's Court Win
The Justice Department now says it delivered the records directly to the judge after Katie Phang successfully challenged the government’s Epstein-file redactions.
meidasnews.com
Many Americans are going back to old “dumb” phones, and the reason is an older case that is gaining new attention after federal prosecutors charged Atlanta activist Samuel Tunick over a phone that erased itself during a CBP search.
Corporate America is quietly encouraging both Trump’s war and Trump’s tariffs. Why?
Trump's huge hidden upward redistribution
The truth about Trump's war, Trump's tariffs, and Trumponomics
robertreich.substack.com
ZANDI: “.. The longer the Iran war drags on, .. the more likely .. consumers are to pull back — and take the rest of the economy with them.”
#Talarico for Texas . . . let's go!
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 7d agoTalarico: When I get tough questions, I answer them. When Ken Paxton gets tough questions, he runs away, literally runs away from reporters, from voters, from anyone asking hard questions. If you've given an Epstein style sweetheart deal to a child predator, you should have to answer questions.
No money available for #Medicaid, #Medicare, #SocialSecurity . . . but plenty of money to keep blowing up rockets
#Medicare is being steadily eroded. Big Pharma reaps the profits.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.BREAKING WSJ: The Trump admin plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans — a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.
Another three weeks? To formulate another "F*ck you, we'll do what we want" response. With regard to Trump, the American criminal justice system allows itself to get kicked in the nuts over and over. And he happily obliges.
