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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2h

🧵3/3 #Trumpflation Hits for Everyone Not Rich

US Economy Depends on the Rich as Everyone Else Cuts Back:

A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 14d

US Economy Depends on the Rich as Everyone Else Cuts Back #ABlueView🧵1/3

Given #Trumpflation the rich are the only ones who can still spend:
"Well-off people have increased their spending far beyond inflation, while everyone else hasn’t. The top 10%... now account for 49.7%..."

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2h

🧵2/3 #Trumpflation Hits for Everyone Not Rich

Consumers "have no inclination to increase their spending... They’re unsure about what’s going to happen, when those tariff effects really are going to hit them.” www.wsj.com/economy/...

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2h

#Trumpflation Hits Groceries for Everyone Not Rich #ABlueView🧵1/3

From 8/24 to 8/25 coffee increased 20.9%, ground beef 12.8% & bananas 6.6%. "Coffee in August hit $8.87/lb on average... Ground-beef prices [rose] to a record $6.32/lb & steaks were up by more than $1 a pound."

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 5h

🧵3/3 15 Blue Governors Create New Public Health Authority

"... immunizations children are required to have & which measures to take to stop... an infectious disease. More than three-quarters of CDC funding goes to state and local health departments." www.wsj.com/health/h...

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 5h

🧵2/3 15 Blue Governors Create New Public Health Authority

"... policy changes by the Trump admin. are putting their citizens at risk."

"While the [Feds] set policies & funds public-health programs... most public-health authority in the U.S. is with states. They decide which..."

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 5h

15 Blue Governors Create New Public Health Authority #ABlueView🧵1/3

#BlueStateOpposition
"The public-health resistance to HHS... is growing. Governors across 15 states... are forming a new public-health alliance to detect & respond to disease threats, saying federal-funding cuts & ..."

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

Posters for No Kings on Oct 18: the Likely Largest Protest in US History. Will You Be There? #ABlueView🧵1/4

Organizers expect "Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history..."

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 23h

NYT "There's No Larger Strategy", Just Incoherence #ABlueView🧵1/3

"He has repeatedly seesawed between retaliation & reconciliation, rattling markets, sending businesses scrambling & leaving questions about whether he has a larger strategy." www.nytimes.com/2025...

#BrokenTimes #Sanewashing

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 23h

🧵2/3 Game Theory Shows Trump is Courting Disaster

Trump claims his flip flops are brilliant 'strategic uncertainty' not expert-disdaining, historically-illiterate, short-attention narcissism.

Read why Trump's approach will fail & why we're likely headed for trouble: www.emerging-strateg...

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 23h

NYT "There's No Larger Strategy", Just Incoherence #ABlueView🧵1/3

"He has repeatedly seesawed between retaliation & reconciliation, rattling markets, sending businesses scrambling & leaving questions about whether he has a larger strategy." www.nytimes.com/2025...

#BrokenTimes #Sanewashing

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand what may be ironic.

A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

Just to clarify, I didn't make the editorial cartoons, professional cartoonists did. My contribution as a "meta-cartoonist" is to editorialize by grouping cartoons together to tell a story.

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

Great idea!

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

Posters for No Kings bsky.app/profile/ablu...

A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

Posters for No Kings on Oct 18: the Likely Largest Protest in US History. Will You Be There? #ABlueView🧵1/4

Organizers expect "Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history..."

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

🧵4/4 Editorial Cartoons You Can Use at #NoKings

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

🧵3/4 Editorial Cartoons You Can Use at #NoKings

To make a poster out of any of these images, I have successfully used the Poster Printer app to turn cartoons into big posters using my home printer: apps.apple.com/us/ap...

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

🧵2/4 Editorial Cartoons You Can Use at #NoKings

"... organizers put the tally at ~3M... [While] data scientist G. Elliott Morris estimated... total attendance at up to 6M [which is ~2% of the U.S. pop.]" tinyurl.com/y9uwwsat

My personal hope: 3% of our 350M, or 10.5M attend

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

Posters for No Kings on Oct 18: the Likely Largest Protest in US History. Will You Be There? #ABlueView🧵1/4

Organizers expect "Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history..."

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2d

"Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear” #ABlueView🧵1/2

A WSJ story with the above headline (tinyurl.com/bdf5r72a) had 2 amazing admissions about the end of the #SeparationOfPowers

"Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an 'iron fist'."

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Wants a Prize. Gazans Want Peace. #ABlueView🧵1/3

Trump, confusing a temporary truce w/permanent peace, wants a Nobel. He does deserve some credit for forcing a nascent 2 state solution deal on Netanyahu but deserves to be wholly condemned for not doing it a lot earlier.

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

🧵3/3 Palestinians Are Unlikely to Get Peace

The problem for the Palestinians is that this is a complicated deal over time with lots of moving parts and short-attention-span, historically-illiterate Trump has made himself the key actor in the middle of it!

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

🧵2/3 Trump Wants a Prize.

How many Palestinian & Israeli lives would have been saved if he forced the deal a year ago (which, btw, is very similar to the one Biden tried to get at the end of his term)?

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Wants a Prize. Gazans Want Peace. #ABlueView🧵1/3

Trump, confusing a temporary truce w/permanent peace, wants a Nobel. He does deserve some credit for forcing a nascent 2 state solution deal on Netanyahu but deserves to be wholly condemned for not doing it a lot earlier.

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2d

🧵2/2 Trump, With Republican Complicity, Neuters Congress

"Steve Bannon... likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial."

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2d

"Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear” #ABlueView🧵1/2

A WSJ story with the above headline (tinyurl.com/bdf5r72a) had 2 amazing admissions about the end of the #SeparationOfPowers

"Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an 'iron fist'."

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