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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 9h

a little bit of central planning, as a treat…

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/t...

Trump administration will set price floors across range of industries to combat China, Bessent says

China has driven foreign competitors out of business over the past two decades by using its market dominance to slash prices, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 1d

south america first

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How is this rescue package America first?

TRUMP: It's really meant to help a good financial philosophy where Argentina can be successful again

james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 1d

this article reads erroneously to me as if jeff actually wanted a functioning paper rather than the death of it

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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 5d

he’s just so senile

james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 5d

the s&p “500” is too diverse it’s gotta go

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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 5d

maga actually is for make argentina great again

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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 6d

e pluribus not unum

james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 6d

sink it - the whole state of florida

james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 6d

Hajrá!

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 6d

The Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, known for his postmodern, dystopian novels, is the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for literature: on.ft.com/43dn191

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 8d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 7d

how much of the media’s inaccuracy is willful versus the overuse of faulty ai to outsource writing without any real knowledgeable editor playing a role? six of one half dozen of another?

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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 7d

portland - hell on earth

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 8d

bucking tradition? legal precedent? why whitewash the authoritarianism?

NPR @npr.org · 8d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 14d

republicans in control of presidency, the senate, and the house as the government shuts down:

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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 18d

yet jimmy kimmel gets fired while right wing talking head jesse watters calls for literal violence and america’s elites shrug

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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 26d

do the teamsters like hate unions?

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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · 29d

the world will miss an independent fed

james @tambacounda.bsky.social · Sep 10

pure political intimidation as dol oig opens probe against bls for releasing numbers that displeased the dear leader

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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · Sep 10

elite silence lets bad things happen so i support all that speak out even if they are not the ones you’d expect to be by your side - fed independence is critical!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Sep 9

“.. The question being asked in both Washington DC and New York is whether [Ken] Griffin’s intervention will encourage more critical business leaders to speak publicly.”

@thetimes.com
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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · Sep 10

maga sycophant making baseless claims about accuracy of the jobs data - it’s called benchmarking and it’s an annual process done by capable civil servants who continue to be vilified for telling the truth about the economy

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Secretary Chavez-DeRemer statement on BLS preliminary benchmark revision

www.dol.gov

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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · Sep 10

what an abomination of a university to be so craven

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Sep 10

Columbia reminds the Columbia community that any criticism of the government of Israel or of its military operations in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen or Qatar will be deemed a violation of University policy. communications.news.columbia.edu/news/stateme...

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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · Sep 8

ok expectations

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james @tambacounda.bsky.social · Sep 8

it’s vital that papers of record like the new york times report clearly and this is a positive note but much more to be done

John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · Sep 7

The U.S. Open asked that news organizations not cover protests of Trump's appearance. The NYT did anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

Trump Is Met With Mostly Boos at U.S. Open as Security Delays a Match

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 6

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

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