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Scott Imberman
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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 2h
Wut
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."
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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 2h
cc MI Senate and Gov Whitmer
histoftech.bsky.social
NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3h
The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 2h
An excellent response by MIT’s President Sally Kornbluf rejecting the Trump compact.

Other universities should do the same.
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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 2h
“China has forced the administration to choose between further escalation or a humiliating climbdown.”

What Trump will actually do is what we call “escalation *to* humiliating climbdown.”
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Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 3h
China put Trump in a corner. Every way out hurts. www.barrons.com/articles/chi...
China's latest threat to clamp down on exports of rare earths appears to have blindsided President Donald Trump. The Chinese plan "came out of nowhere," Trump said Friday in a social media post. "Nobody has ever seen anything like this." Beijing's escalation of the trade fight has put the Trump administration on the backfoot at a moment of weakness. China's actions show that the U.S. is vulnerable to economic pressure, and China has forced the administration to choose between further escalation or a humiliating climbdown.
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 2h
Like this is extremely transparent.
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imbernomics.bsky.social
Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 2h
Sure, let’s keep Boeing out of the largest aerospace growth market. That will work fine.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Trump says he might put export control on airplanes and airplane parts to China
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h
UPS says it is destroying parcels sent to US customers because the Trump administration is failing to process or clear the parcels through customs. In essence, no one can figure out what the applicable tariff rules are and how they are to be applied—amidst a deluge of contradictory tweets from Trump
UPS Admits ‘Disposing’ of Parcels as Trump Chaos Creates Backlog
The president’s tariff policy has seen countless packages getting lost in customs.
www.thedailybeast.com
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Reposted by Scott A. Imberman, Simon Lester

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Trump says he might put export control on airplanes and airplane parts to China
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Reposted by Aaron Sojourner, Scott A. Imberman

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 2h
Here's the reality: On any given day the President might impose an effective embargo on trade with China. This is the second time he's done it *this year*. They may patch it up again, but the pattern has been set, and it will shape expectations for the rest of his term.
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3h
The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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Reposted by Aaron Sojourner, Scott A. Imberman, Mark Rice

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Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 3h
China put Trump in a corner. Every way out hurts. www.barrons.com/articles/chi...
China's latest threat to clamp down on exports of rare earths appears to have blindsided President Donald Trump. The Chinese plan "came out of nowhere," Trump said Friday in a social media post. "Nobody has ever seen anything like this." Beijing's escalation of the trade fight has put the Trump administration on the backfoot at a moment of weakness. China's actions show that the U.S. is vulnerable to economic pressure, and China has forced the administration to choose between further escalation or a humiliating climbdown.
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Reposted by Julia Lynch, Scott A. Imberman

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 3h
We’re outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

It’s clearer than ever before.

What’s happening in Illinois is an unprecedented, unlawful abuse of power.
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Reposted by Eric Goldman, Scott A. Imberman, David Rosnick

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 7h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 9h
Dissent and protest in the United States are unconditionally protected by our Constitution.

The new reflex to deploy military force on US soil, against Americans, is an extremely dangerous perversion of our troops.

Antisemitic lies about protesters' motives in expressing dissent are disgusting.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."
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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 10h
Constant mockery is how we win this.
oregonian.com
The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 21h
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 11h
Evergreen
two women are standing next to each other in a living room and one of them is saying `` that 's not how this works ! ''
ALT: two women are standing next to each other in a living room and one of them is saying `` that 's not how this works ! ''
media.tenor.com
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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 11h
MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
orgchart.mit.edu
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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 14h
Honestly this has a real “My ‘The Democrats caused the shutdown’ T-shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt” vibe.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 15h
If Dems are in control, why are they airing this on the airport TVs?
www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 15h
If Dems are in control, why are they airing this on the airport TVs?
www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 21h
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 21h
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 21h
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Reposted by Scott A. Imberman

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 1d
My daughter has a school assignment to write a scary story in just a few lines, and I showed her this from Clickhole, which is some of the most efficient horror scripting I've ever read.
Clickhole headline: "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It's Like to Be In Space" Astronaut Barry Wilmore, pictured in an orange spacesuit, says "“You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.”
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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1d
Merci.
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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1d
Explain this to me like I’m five.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d
It’s hard to overstate how grotesque is the prosecution of Letitia James. I hope John Roberts—who unleashed this malignant, vengeful career criminal on our beloved country—is enjoying Trump’s utter abuse of power and trashing of justice and the rule of law.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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