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Katieboo

@k8tshires.bsky.social

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My life in France "everything will be OK in the end and if it's not OK it's not the end" John Lennon. Shitposting, both serious and unserious stuff. I do like to respond if somebody is kind enough to comment. Manners you see. Liberté Egalité Fraternité

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Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · Nov 11

Meme of young girl called Bluesky smugly grinning at the camera whilst Twitter/X burns in the background.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

News from the Authoritarians Club: the US Treasury has finalised a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina and directly bought Argentine pesos to help stabilise the country’s economy.

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Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · 10h

Aha, yes!

Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · 10h

Eugh.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 10h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · 10h

True. What a sodding farce.

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Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · 10h

😂😂

Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · 10h

😂😂. Crazy times, absolute nut jobs getting the airwaves.

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Peterson Institute for International Economics @piie.com · 13h

Inflation is going to be higher in the US in the news few years than most are forecasting, @adamposen.bsky.social says.

Find slides & watch the Global Economic Prospects event here: www.piie.com/events/2025/...

Why the inflation impact of deportation has been lagged

If 1 million+ migrants have left, how has production stayed up?
No increase in native or legal employment in the sectors which are known to be heavy users of migrant labor

What is going on?
McKibbin, Noland, and Hogan (2024) says impact should be big and stagflationary
Substitution of K or L not there in the data
Mismeasurement of net migrant outflows?
Over-counting/claims of total deported?
Or workers and families take time to make up their minds on a wrenching decision
Not sure that ICE really will come for them
Head underground but keep working
Employers do not have to pay more or invest – in fact can end up paying less
Difficult to decide when to leave

Actual financial conditions are more relevant than FFR

Inflation expectations are less well anchored

Recent past experience of higher inflation has a lasting impact (Gagnon and Kamin 2025)

Staggered salient price hikes are coming
Think like eggs under Biden
Beef, certain fruit and veg, musical instruments, toys…
De minimis imported goods
Some pharmaceuticals potentially
Energy depending upon the impact of AI demand
Durable goods (autos, furniture, construction inputs), though, are less salient for inflation perceptions

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Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · 10h

The fact that anybody can take this rabble of spivs seriously is mind numbing.

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Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · 10h

It's now so bizzare it's off the scale.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 11h

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11h

You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12h

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · 12h

Where?

Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · 12h

Awful

Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · 12h

Just wait until the whako starts on female autism... 😂

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · 12h

Reading about it it sounds the best option.
With you on dogs vs God's.

Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · 12h

I had never heard of a J pouch. Now googled it. 😪
Just saying.. *God has become dog. 😉

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 16h

Late to this by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com about changes in social media behaviours www.ft.com/content/a072...

From places of connection, to isolation and distraction is how James puts it, and that strikes me as right. Bluesky is still sort of the old way, thankfully, for now.

Have we passed peak social media?

As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away

www.ft.com

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Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · 14h

How much time can Tice spend in Dubai without residency?

Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · 14h

It's all so predictable.

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 14h

Private companies should not hold such comprehensive personal data on people. They just can't/won't keep it safe.

404 Media @404media.co · 15h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 16h

I went ahead and did the starting work for someone who wants to chase this angle. Most right-wing influencers who participated in the "Antifa" roundtable at the White House yesterday have easily provable ties to TPUSA (8 of 12). The other four need a closer look I don't have time for right now.

right-wing influencers standing for a photo together at the white house

(Left to Right)

Jack Posobiec - TPUSA employee
Seamus Bruner - Government Accountability Institute (GAI)
James Klug - TPUSA Ambassador
Jonathan Cho - TPUSA employee
Nick Sortor - Influencer
Julio Rosas - Former TPUSA, Blaze Media
Nick Shirley - Influencer
Andy Ngo - Human Events Media Group*
Brandi Kruse - Influencer
Savannah Hernandez - TPUSA employee
Katie Daviscourt - Former TPUSA, Human Events Media Group*
Cam Higby - TPUSA employee

(Human Events Media Group is closely tied to TPUSA. https://humanevents.com/about-human-events )

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Katieboo @k8tshires.bsky.social · 16h

Ha 😂

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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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