Melanie ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ

@melbeebee.bsky.social

NC Blue ๐Ÿ”ต democracy๐Ÿ’™BLM๐ŸŒˆ feminist/pro-union/NOT giving up in ADVANCE/NOT giving in to fascists. Ret. CC English prof. Hope my students remember 2 โœ…sources/think critically. USMC WWll IwoJima daughter #bluecrew #resistance

A lot of words to say โ€œwe screwed over the American people with our illegal tariffs scheme, again.โ€ The costs of tariffs were born by consumers but the rebate will go to the shareholders. It is just theft. Worst economy for workers by choice.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com ยท yesterday

Bessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."

Trump's tariffs have failed to bring about the manufacturing export boom he promised. Consumers and businesses have been hit hard โ€” but the U.S. trade deficit was $73 billion in June, pretty much the same as the monthly average during Biden's last year.

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"Meaningful oversight of the Executive Branch isn't optional in a healthy democracy, and Jon Ossoff has demonstrated a real commitment to it." said Steven Cash, Executive Director of The Steady State.

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Iโ€™ll be relaunching my creative & mental health wโ€™shops this evening,8.30pm. Iโ€™ve taught creative classes on BBC Countryfile,the Bronte Parsonage museum,the V & A museum & Highgrove. Hereโ€™s a clip of a film I wrote & presented for BBC Autumnwatch about how being nr water improves our mental health:

El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

I worked for New Yorkโ€™s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.