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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 32m

wow guys I am starting to think tariffs are not useful tools to force down China's trade surplus

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 37m

🇨🇳CHINA’S SEPTEMBER EXPORT GROWTH HITS 6-MONTH HIGH Y/Y IMPORT GROWTH HIT A 17-MONTH HIGH. CHINA SOYBEAN IMPORTS HIT RECORD HIGH FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER AT 12.87 MILLION METRIC TONS. SEPTEMBER COAL IMPORTS AT NINE-MONTH HIGH OF 46 MLN METRIC TONS. #CHINA #SOYBEAN #COAL

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2h

noice

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2h

picking a fight with derek guy in 2025

the "well, did it work for those people. No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but. But it might work for us"

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2h

Wow there are hiccups in completely redoing the entire global shipping network based on Trump's random ever-changing executive orders. Surely this is UPS' fault.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2h

1) truthnuke

2) I think it's funny to consider seven months a long time to prep for a complete-and-total overhaul (really abolishment) of the de minimis program

3) UPS did not have seven months to prepare because the Trump admin has changed the de minimis rules like 5 times at this point

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 3h

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 5h

I believe The Mouse will find a way to stop this but it would be extremely funny if SB79, the bill allowing apartments to be built near transit stops throughout California, ends up allowing homes near Disneyland because the monorail is technically transit

Text that reads “in smaller cities, defined as cities with a population less than 35k residents, only the quarter mile area of the TOD zone is covered. And if a country becomes an urban transit county after January 1, 2026, only heavy rail, light rail, and eligible commuter rail will be covered—not BRT.

AHEM! While airport people movers are not covered, it remains unclear whether the Disneyland monorail is covered”

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 5h

incredible

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 6h

Finally reading McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom, such a good book
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Joey Politano

Joey Politano has 145 books on Goodreads, and is currently reading Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy by Carola Binder, Battle Cry ...

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 6h

God you gotta love Ulysses Grant

As for provisions, Grant remembered what he had learned after Van Dorn’s destruction of his supply base the previous December. This time he intended to cut loose from his base, travel light, and live off the country. Although civilians were going hungry in Mississippi, Grant was confident that his soldiers would not. A powerful army on the move could seize supplies that penniless women and children could not afford to buy. For the next two weeks the Yankee soldiers lived well on hams, poultry, vegetables, milk, and honey as they stripped bare the plantations in their path. Some of these midwestern farm boys proved to be expert foragers. When an irate planter rode up on a mile and complained to a division commander that plundering troops had robbed him of everything he owned, the general looked him in the eye and said “Well those men didn’t belong to my division at all, because if they were my men they wouldn’t have left you that mule”

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 11h

My “don’t worry about China, it will all be fine” shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt

A tweet from Donald Trump that reads “Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT”

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

The Arc de Triomphe was also commissioned as Napoleon was winning some of the most important battles in European history! We’re making one to aura farm about wars we won like 75 years ago, ones we all have monuments for already, I guess? Stupid!

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

I mostly think it’s funny nobody in Trumpland can come up with an original monument idea. Not like we haven’t stolen European iconography for our monuments before but “we should just make our version of the Arc de Triomphe” is extra dumb

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

people talk about Long so much I felt like I had to read it, very excited to understand more about him

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

Oh in construction not in the housing stock tbc

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

High immigration, higher per capita construction than the US, and a 3:1 ratio of apartments to single family homes are working wonders

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

Liberty, New York Bound

A picture of an Acela Liberty departing DC Union station

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

also rapidly urbanizing (1.8k->2.4k->3k over the last 40 years) in a way the US is not (1.8k->2k->2.2k)

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

Also new book haul

A picture of three books, "Kingfish: The Reign of Huey Long" by Richard White Jr, "Russia Against Napoleon" by Dominic Lieven, and "The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War" by David Gates

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

Another book review: I enjoyed Jinwoo Park's "Oxford Soju Club", a short & punchy thriller about a collapsing North Korean spy cell

The novel makes good use of rapidly-shifting perspectives and thematically deals with Korean immigrants finding their own identity
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