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Atticus

@atticuspund.bsky.social

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Husband, father, immigrant, liberal, believer in science, observer of facts, and prone to outbursts of sarcasm. I'd rather learn from other peoples' mistakes. Saorfaimid sinn féin ón gcos ar bolg.

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Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · Jul 15

Let's just keep reminding ourselves ...

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Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

Such a winning businessman. I'm sure that American Corporations and citizens will profit from the loss of market and employment. It's what Republicans do, while increasing our national debt by $2T. It's called tRump change.
who's gonna notice?

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

I love the reference... you must be old like me!

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

Because we have all that taxpayers' money to spend now that we've cut healthcare costs for the care of poor people. Fuck them, right?

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

Just makin' Muricah grate agin... tRump style.

Wait 'til this shit happens to you and then you won't be so goddam complacent.

Wake up, people. Before it's too late.

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me this is imagined and not really happening in the United States of America.
We are so totally fucked when this passes for acceptable in a freedom loving democracy.
It's clear that, as agents of the state, law enforcement is becoming the enemy of the people.

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

S&P Down 1.54%
Making America Great Again.

You keep telling yourself that, Donny!

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like another craven idiot pandering to the orange blob, clueless to how utterly stupid he sounds.

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Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

#uspol
And so the the insanity continues with a predictable market reaction. Down 1.5%

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Threatens New China Tariffs, Sees ‘No Reason’ to Meet Xi

US President Donald Trump threatened a “massive increase” of tariffs on goods from China, citing recent “hostile” export controls on rare-earth minerals, and said he saw “no reason” to meet with Chine...

www.bloomberg.com

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Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

Foreign troops on US soil. Another first for making America Great Again.

WTF!

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Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

Well, statistically, this would mean a much higher incidence of autism amongst Jews.
So, I'm excited to know what those statistics reveal and what the Israelis are doing to treat the condition. You'd expect them to be at the forefront of Autism Research.

Oh right! More RFK Jr. brain damage.

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant!

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for that brief moment of tranquility.

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

Phew! What a relief that we've removed another MS13, child-raping, drug-smuggling, people-trafficking, pet-eating immigrant from our streets to make America Safe Again.

Or so tRump would have us believe.

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

"for promoting democratic rights" - the complete antithesis of tRump's behavior. He's too disconnected to realize that this would be an automatic disqualification for him.

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

Because he's too busy traveling to Gaza to survey all the new property he's about to acquire.

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

The think tank’s listed goals include ... “plant[ing] Jesus in every space.”!
Well that certainly invites colorful responses.
I'm sure the most obvious response from non-Crustians will be apparent to all.

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile the tRump administration is giving a $20B to Argentina.

It’s been delivered by an administration that promised to put America first, to a country with a track record of squandering other people’s money and defaulting on its own debts.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bessent’s Big Gamble on Argentina Has a Narrow Road to Pay Off

For Scott Bessent’s $20 billion bet on Argentina to pay off, a lot of things have to go right – things that in the past, in Argentina, have tended to go wrong.

www.bloomberg.com

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 2d

"Cuba has the lowest level in the world of acetaminophen use and it has the lowest autism rate in the world. This is not dispositive, this is not proof. We are doing studies to make the proof.", RFK Jr.

They're going to "make" the proof. That just about says it all.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Trump blames Tylenol for autism. Science doesn't back him up

The president and his deputies tied autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy, presented a cancer drug as possible treatment and said the FDA would change labeling. There's little strong scientific...

www.npr.org

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 2d

And if I had to confront either of them, I'd consider that a bad trip.

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 2d

“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence,” a federal judge, William Young, wrote in a blistering 161-page First Amendment ruling handed down last week.

So, ICE are terrorists, a federal judge has ruled.

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Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 2d

Note to Hegseth... this is what you're deploying?
This doesn't seem to be the fighting fit machine you boast of.
No fat-shaming intended - just irony

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 2d

Once again, Republicans, aided and abetted by the USC, endorse extra-judicial killings.
Imagine, in the course of his duties as president, he declares YOU a terrorist. He can have you killed legally without consequence.
How many Americans will be accused of being Antifa?

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 2d

#uspol #antifa
Follow the carnage as it unfolds in Portland where Antifa are eating their pets.
Oh the horror!

Sigh.

www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/w...

Webcams around Portland - meteoblue

Current webcams for Portland. Check if it is currently sunny, rainy, cloudy or even snowing in Portland

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Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 3d

Ah but the SC has said that tRump is above the law on matters related to his Presidential duties.
Yup! We're screwed.

Atticus @atticuspund.bsky.social · 3d

And they're eating their cats... again!