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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Sep 15

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.

There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Cargr @cargru.bsky.social · Aug 1

Yup, now he's going to start cooking the numbers. We are very far down the authoritarian road, this will be the end of trusting any numbers that come out of the BLS (or any other govt institution for that matter, we will see how long the fed holds out). 😞

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Aug 1

In case you had any doubt, Trump admits that he’s just firing the BLS commissioner because accurate jobs data made him look bad. Instead of fixing the economy he wants to attack the people who measure it.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Aug 1

And we're officially at the end of being able to trust the jobs numbers in this country ever again.

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Cargr @cargru.bsky.social · Aug 1

Wow, who would have thought that slashing government, deporting people, and creating extreme uncertainty (and increased costs) with all the tariff nonsense *might* be bad for the labor market?!?! 🙄 🙄 every economist and everyone with a brain. #economics #trumponomics #recession #tariffs #disaster

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 14

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.

The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

www.nytimes.com

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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · May 5

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Cargr @cargru.bsky.social · May 2

US is in its great leap forward era. Or maybe it's the ISI era? Either way, it will go just as well as it did in china and south america. Which is, very badly. #greatleapbackwards #importsubstitution #economicdecline #China #southamerica #USA #era

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Armin Wolf @arminwolf.at · Apr 30

Historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social on the first 100 days of Donald Trump‘s second term:
„I don’tknow of any definition of fascism honestly in which he doesn’t fulfill all the criteria.“
Full interview (24 min) with Austrian TV (ORF) in English:

Exklusiv-Interview: US-Historiker Timothy Snyder bei Armin Wolf | ZIB2 vom 29.4.2025

YouTube video by ORF Zeit im Bild

www.youtube.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Apr 30

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

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Cargr @cargru.bsky.social · Apr 22

This is such a #grievance presidency. What all these people really need is #therapy. Instead of dealing w/ their own insecurity&inadequacy, they decided to take it out on the rest of us. It's the definition of damaged people damaging others, instead of being mature and healing themselves. #love

Cargr @cargru.bsky.social · Apr 21

The stock market is an economic indicator, but its the real economy that actually matters. Declining car sales, decreased tourism, less consumption...that's what matters, and that's what's really painful. And cant be manipulated. Divest, fully. #divest #boycott #realeconomy #stocks

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · Apr 20

They’re not “deporting” people, they’re kidnapping them and sending them to foreign prisons. Concentration camps. They’re paying these countries to imprison humans. It’s human trafficking.

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Armin Wolf @arminwolf.at · Apr 20

Ich kann mich an keinen Politiker erinnern - und schon gar keinen demokratisch gewählten -, der solche „Ostergrüße“ veröffentlicht.
Es hat wirklich was Soziopathisches:

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Cargr @cargru.bsky.social · Apr 20

We are literally back in 1933.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

#tariffs #fascism #badolddays

Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs

By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards—and drove up the price of eggs 600 percent.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · Apr 17

If you're negotiating about what kinds of people the American SS is allowed to blackbag and whisk away to a foreign gulag, you've already lost

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Apr 15

Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Apr 12

Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff

Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Apr 12

Here's an updated look at all Trump's 2nd-term tariffs, accounting for today's exemption for phones & computers

The overall US tariff rate is now 25%, down from 29% pre-exemption but still 10x what it was before Trump took office
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a graph of the tariff rate on 2024 import mix rising significantly to 25% across the first three months of Trump's term

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Cargr @cargru.bsky.social · Apr 4

Looks like we're in the era of vibe governing. What a time to be alive.
#vibeengineering #vibegovernings #chatgpt #fafo #tariffs #marketmeltdown

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Democracy and Freedom @allthingsdemocracy.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Joyful Trouble @mini-marshmallows.bsky.social · Apr 3

Once again Kamala Harris was right about everything. 👇 Hope all you who refused to vote for Kamala are proud of yourselves right now. 🙄 #Tariffs #JoyfulWarriors

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Wild Geerters @steinkobbe.bsky.social · Apr 3

It's crazy to witness the man that will go down as maybe the worst US president of all time in real time and knowing everyone defending him now will pretend like they were never really on board with it after he dies in the very near future

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Cargr @cargru.bsky.social · Apr 3

I didn't see annexation talk of Canada or greenland coming, but:
-screwing Ukraine, abetting Russia
-tariff & trade war
-alienating allies
-ruining economy
-corruption, greed, incompetence
-dismantling democracy, ignoring courts
-illegal detainments/deportations

Was obvious. You voted for this.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Apr 3

I keep reading through tue multi page reciprocal tariff list and i still can’t find Russia or Belarus.

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