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t0ussaint
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You should do nothing that in the universal doing, renders it counter-praxis
27+yrs teaching Leadership/Cost Control/HACCP
#CapitalismIsKillingYOU
Retired caregiver for sister w/ MS
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t0ussaint @t0ussaint.bsky.social · Nov 29
150M+ people voted to cosign genocide, to continue sending our money to wipe out a people.
And what will you get for your genocide? Unless u have a small biz or factory, trump/harris couldnt care less abt you. The system has failed, what's next?
#freepalestine #gaza newsie.social/@toussaint/1...
there isnt just one thing, some silver bullet to solve this. we have to shoot all our 'bullets'. i think the #1 thing we can do to break up this system is to withdraw our consumerism, it drives all of this. Then we must save that money for a strike fund, while we are joining/forming unions of every type. Then we must withdraw our labor, together. This is the only way. We can NOT do this with guns, we must educate/radicalize all our friends & neighbors #Solidarity they will never see that coming
t0ussaint.bsky.social
when i was 13 we moved to louisiana right off the Ouachita river, so all the neighborhood kids would go fishing together and we would see those lil guys. but we thought they were wild or feral dogs so all the parents told us to stay away, but kids, so we used to leave fish for them when we leave
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
t0ussaint.bsky.social
48 separate corporate actors

along w/ their parents, subsidiaries, franchisees, licensees and consortium partners across sectors are identified in the Special Rapporteur’s report, including weapons manufacturers, technological corporations, financial institutions and construction and energy firms.
UN Security Council resolution a violation of Palestinian right of self-determination and UN Charter, UN expert warns Press releases UN expert calls for urgent response on child trafficking in conflict situations GENEVA – Israel’s genocide against Palestinians is being sustained by a system of exploitative occupation and profit, a UN expert warned today in a new report to the Human Rights Council that reveals how corporate profiteering and monetary gain has enabled and legitimised Israel’s illegal presence and actions. “In the past 21 months, while Israel’s genocide has devastated Palestinian lives and landscapes, the Tel Aviv stock exchange soared by 213 percent (USD), amassing $225.7 billion in market gains—including $67.8 billion in the past month alone. For some, genocide is profitable,” said Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
t0ussaint.bsky.social
tradingeconomics.com/united-state...
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/currency
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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aljazeera.com
At least 13 civilians, including 11 children, were killed in the Israeli strike on Ein El-Hilweh camp.
UN calls for probe into Israel’s strikes on Lebanon
At least 13 civilians, including 11 children, were killed in the Israeli strike on Ein El-Hilweh camp.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
The Fed can lower interest rates — but can they lower the mortgage application REJECTION rate?

(via Ben Emons)
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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financialtimes.com
Jury trials in England and Wales to be scrapped except for most serious cases on.ft.com/3LY1Ceq
Jury trials in England and Wales to be scrapped except for most serious cases
Proposed changes unlikely to apply for trials of serious offences such as rape and murder
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
t0ussaint.bsky.social
when i need to look up a recipe i go to allrecipes.com and look up the top 5 and get a sense of what everyone is doing and what steps ppl are saying are critical.
November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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danielzhao.bsky.social
Paid my rent today and got a sports gambling ad afterwards 🤔
Screenshot of Venmo post-payment offer for DraftKings
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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blogwood.com
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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anon-api.bsky.social
"Detained for standard questioning"?!

3 days in custody?!

WTF. This is cruel and unusual punishment for NO CRIME.

www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
ICE detains University of Oklahoma professor with H-1B visa, colleague says
The professor was detained on his way to an academic conference in Washington DC.
www.newsweek.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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972mag.com
Israel is set to destroy our guesthouse. But Masafer Yatta still welcomes all who resist

Mohammed Hureini’s family has hosted hundreds of activists, journalists, and politicians in At-Tuwani. If this demolition proceeds, half of the village may be next.

www.972mag.com/at-tuwani-gu...
Israel is set to destroy our guesthouse. But we still welcome all who resist
My family has hosted hundreds of activists, journalists, and politicians in At-Tuwani. If this demolition proceeds, half of our West Bank village may be next.
www.972mag.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The UAE is buying the West's silence over its 'race war' in Sudan, says top general - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-buying-wests-silence-over-its-race-war-sudan-says-top-general
The UAE is buying the West's silence over its 'race war' in Sudan, says top general
Yasser al-Atta, the Sudanese army's second-in-command, tells MEE that ceasefire talks should exclude Trump envoy Massad Boulos
www.middleeasteye.net
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
Trying to speedrun authoritarian consolidation...
jlray.bsky.social JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 3h
The latest from YouGov (n ~ 8.4k) -- Not great. Almost half of Republicans think the military should follow illegal orders if they come from the President

today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
t0ussaint.bsky.social
The composite manufacturing index dropped to −15 in November from −4. Two of its three component indexes decreased. The shipments index fell notably to −14 from 4 and new orders decreased to −22 from −6.
the employment index increased slightly to −7 from −10. www.richmondfed.org/region_commu...
https://www.richmondfed.org/region_communities/regional_data_analysis/business_surveys/manufacturing
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
t0ussaint.bsky.social
😵‍💫 you are geting sleepy SLEEPY...
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
The thing to watch in Trump's plan is the incentive to self-degrade insurance by offering the difference between a higher & lower subsidy in a Health Savings Account. That will have limited use, worsen everyone's insurance, and likely push people into middleman schemes. prospect.org/2025/11/25/t...
The way Trump gets around that is by using the cash promise as an incentive for people to downgrade their insurance. Under his plan, if someone on the insurance exchanges shifts from a “gold” to a “silver” or “bronze” plan, they will get the difference in subsidy placed into a tax-exempt Health Savings Account, from which they can purchase health care. This may sound attractive—you get your money to do with it as you please!—but it’s just a recipe for worse coverage and more uncertainty. The lower tiers of ACA plans come with increased out-of-pocket expenses and higher deductibles, which the HSA account is unlikely to offset. The administration apparently wants Congress to appropriate additional “cost sharing reductions” to lower out-of-pocket costs, but that feels like the one thing House Republicans would insist on keeping out of the plan. So people will be enticed into making their insurance crappier in exchange for “cash” tied up in a savings account with limited utility. (UPDATE: Friend of the Prospect Andrew Sprung checks in to note that even the cost sharing reductions idea is a poison pill, designed to eliminate something called “silver loading” that states have used to make ACA plans cheaper and boost enrollment.) It will also affect everyone who stays in their gold and silver plans. The individuals who want to keep their good coverage are likely sicker patients who know that they need to use insurance over the course of a year. If everyone leaving the better plans is relatively healthier, it makes the “risk pool” of those who remain sicker on average. That will almost certainly raise the costs of that insurance over time. The HSA money, meanwhile, could end up flowing to a new set of schemes that either promise to close gaps in the bad ACA plans or offer emergency room coverage or some other patch. These could easily herald a return to the bad old days before Obamacare, when insurance was of dubious value when called upon. Trump has been changing federal rules to promote short-term “junk insurance” plans with limited benefits that trick customers into thinking that they are more comprehensive. Because the plans would exist outside of the ACA framework, for example, they may not cover so-called “pre-existing conditions,” and may exempt basic things like mental health and maternity care.
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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edroso.bsky.social
"The GOP will flinch from more than doubling health insurance premiums—at least if middle-class people and up are the most affected—but only if they can also make the insurance worse, and make poor people pay more."
ddayen.bsky.social David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3h
The Trump health care proposal that would extend ACA subsidies for 2 years has been put on hold by House Republicans who can't stand seeing people covered. But that plan had a lot of stuff in it that would worsen insurance and raise prices, @ryanlcooper.com and I write.
Trump’s Obamacare Plan Is Still Not Great - The American Prospect
The Republican plan to more than double premiums is gone, but the insurance will get worse, and the poor will pay more.
prospect.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
I enjoyed being in the FT again with Rana, going in the wayback machine to talk about the old Democratic Study Group and why the bifurcation of politics and policy is what created the (self-)importance of people like Larry Summers.
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
Only a handful of the millions of people in this vast place are aware that the fate intended for you, Sister Angela, and for George Jackson, and for the numberless prisoners in our concentration camps-for that is what they are—is a fate which is about to engulf them, too. White lives, for the forces which rule in this country, are no more sacred than black ones, as many and many a student is discovering, as the white American corpses in Vietnam prove. If the American people are unable to contend with their elected leaders for the redemption of their own honor and the lives of their own children, we, the blacks, the most rejected of the Western children, can expect very little help at their hands: which, after all, is nothing new. What the Americans do not realize is that a war between brothers, in the same cities, on the same soil, is not a racial war but a civil war. But the American delusion is not only that their brothers all are white but that the whites are all their brothers.
October 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
We also have a deep dive into credit unions, which began as an alternative to increase community lending and now have behemoths that act more like big banks, including by purchasing banks wholesale and making them tax-exempt.
This is from freelance writer Adam Willems:
prospect.org/2025/11/25/c...
Credit Unions Go Large and Go Rogue - The American Prospect
Intended to bolster local access to lending, large credit unions today are swallowing up community banks. A Trump purge has reduced their oversight.
prospect.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Worst current-conditions print since March 2021.

#ConferenceBoard
fintwitter.bsky.social FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 3h
*US NOV. CONSUMER CONFIDENCE 88.7; EST. 93.3
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
t0ussaint.bsky.social
youtu.be/QM_68b7FbI0?...
Sonic the Hedgehog but it's Japanese Jazz Fusion
YouTube video by Phantasia Records
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November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
t0ussaint.bsky.social
case against letitia is so bad its prob over, but the comey case might come back cause he has a lot of haters out there like me that want him to go down, so their might be another prosecutor out there who wants to make their name by bonking this gop pinata. esp b/ its up to interpretation if he lied
janenorman.bsky.social Jane Norman @janenorman.bsky.social · 5h
Senior U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie in South Carolina wrote that Attorney General Pam Bondi did not have the authority to make Lindsey Halligan the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia--thus it's all invalid, writes @fischler.bsky.social for @statesnewsroom.com DC
fischler.bsky.social Jacob Fischler @fischler.bsky.social · 20h
Judge drops James Comey and Letitia James charges, saying prosecutor Lindsey Halligan is serving 'unlawfully.' Story for @statesnewsroom.com:
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
t0ussaint.bsky.social
carville is the democrat lynchpin to the gop stranglehold on the south, particularly Louisiana. he helps them keep us poor b/ he gets a bigger cut & he gets to ride in Mardi Gras. but now that he is FINALLY near death, he wants to do the only thing left, the right thing, taking no responsibility ofc
If you’re a student of history, the French Revolution is in the American wind. While the stock market soars, Mr. Trump and decades of corrupt and morally bankrupt Republican economic agendas have splintered the very heart of the American economy. The few are getting vastly richer while a crushing tide drowns the many. Yet even as Mr. Trump’s approval sinks to a low point of his second term, Republicans continue to place their faith in an economy built on pillars of sand, while the people scrape by day after day. This can change. It’s time we as a party do, too. Le peuple se lève.
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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gregdaco.bsky.social
🤯 While US #retail sales are up 16.1% since January 2022, inflation-adjusted retail sales are up... 1.1%
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM