TamTam
@bun2484.bsky.social
“When you have more than you need, build a longer table, not a higher fence.”
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April 15, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Although cost is an important reason why businesses choose to source from China, #CornellILR professor @elifriedman.bsky.social says lower wages have become a less important aspect of China’s manufacturing strength as the country has moved up the value chain. 1/2 www.wired.com/story/tariff...
Why It’s Impossible for Most Small Businesses to Manufacture in the US
American companies that make everything from keychains to mattresses say Chinese manufacturing is superior, and tariffs won’t be enough to shift production to the United States.
www.wired.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM
April 15, 2025 at 4:05 AM
"If we buy coffee from Costa Rica and they buy nothing from us (which isn’t true, but just as an illustration), in no sense has Costa Rica taken advantage of America. We gave them dollars and they gave us coffee in return. That is called commerce."
On Trade and Tariffs, Trump’s Stubborn Ignorance Shines Bright
The president can't be taught. And we’re suffering for it.
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April 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Now that Wall Street correctly believes, in light of his tariffs, that Trump is insane, is it really going to look with favor upon the law firms that shamelessly caved to him?
Asking for a profession.
Asking for a profession.
April 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Just as a refresher:
President Obama, 8 years: Dow Jones up 149%;
unemployment rate down from 7.8% to 4.7%.
President Biden, 4 years: Dow Jones up 39%;
unemployment rate down from 6.4% to 4.0%.
President Obama, 8 years: Dow Jones up 149%;
unemployment rate down from 7.8% to 4.7%.
President Biden, 4 years: Dow Jones up 39%;
unemployment rate down from 6.4% to 4.0%.
April 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
If a deranged president intentionally destroying the country's economy with a ludicrous obsession (and misunderstanding) of tariffs *isn't* justification for invoking the 25th Amendment, I honestly can't imagine any scenario that would be.
April 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Idiots. Makes you wonder about the bias and motivations of the applicant pool. 🤔
April 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Idiots. Makes you wonder about the bias and motivations of the applicant pool. 🤔
We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy.
Third time’s the charm, I guess.
Third time’s the charm, I guess.
April 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
April 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
March 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Warnock: They are busy attacking ordinary people. They don’t understand what it’s like to ration your prescription drugs or what it’s like to try to figure out how to afford groceries. In the words of that prophet who just spoke at The Super Bowl: They not like us
March 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
POTUS and VPOTUS “showed the U.S.-led alliance something it needed urgently to know: The national-security system of the West is led by two men who cannot be trusted to defend America’s allies—and who deeply sympathize with the world’s most aggressive dictator.”
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At Least Now We Know the Truth
It’s ugly, but necessary to face.
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February 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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February 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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February 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Ottawa purchases 500,000 doses of bird flu vaccine for people at higher risk, by @kellygrant1.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #H5N1
Ottawa purchases 500,000 doses of bird flu vaccine for people at higher risk of catching virus
The majority of the doses will be handed out to provinces and territories, which will decide when and where to deploy the shots
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is extraordinarily dangerous. Tomorrow, the legacy media will ask Republican officials about this. Those officials will lie and obfuscate. And the legacy media will move on.
That is part of the crisis we face.
That is part of the crisis we face.
February 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Reposted by TamTam
NEW: Shortly after Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked her to drop the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the state’s 2021 voter suppression law, S.B. 202.
I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.
I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.
Raffensperger Asks Federal Government for Help Suppressing Voters
Read more.
www.democracydocket.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
NEW: Shortly after Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked her to drop the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the state’s 2021 voter suppression law, S.B. 202.
I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.
I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.
SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.
The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.
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February 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Reposted by TamTam
Dear @Doge
If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing
If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing
February 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Dear @Doge
If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing
If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing
“Unless these cruel and immensely counterproductive actions are reversed, . . .future generations will marvel that it wasn’t China’s actions that eroded U.S. standing and global security, paving the way for Beijing to become the partner of choice around the world.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...
Opinion | Samantha Power: Killing U.S.A.I.D. Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere
The attacks on the agency are cruel and counterproductive.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
MIKE LUCKOVICH APPRECIATION POST
@mluckovich.bsky.social is one of the greatest political cartoonists of all time. Thank you for 3 decades of scathing satire, remarkable insight and helping us all laugh to avoid weeping openly. 🙏
Your longtime fan, Mar🐫
@mluckovich.bsky.social is one of the greatest political cartoonists of all time. Thank you for 3 decades of scathing satire, remarkable insight and helping us all laugh to avoid weeping openly. 🙏
Your longtime fan, Mar🐫
February 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
January 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
@emptywheel.bsky.social
Marcy Wheeler applies her signature combo of dogged research and precise analysis to tell us what the public record already provides as to what is in volume 2 of the Smith report The closest we will be coming for now.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/19/f...
Marcy Wheeler applies her signature combo of dogged research and precise analysis to tell us what the public record already provides as to what is in volume 2 of the Smith report The closest we will be coming for now.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/19/f...
Found! Dozens of Damning Documents about Trump's Hoarding of Classified Documents! - emptywheel
If you want to know how Democrats failed to make more of a political case against Trump during the election, you can start with the fact that Dan Goldman knows almost nothing about what was made publi...
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January 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is disgraceful behaviour even for the GOP 🤦🏻♀️
BRENNAN: Do you expect though that Republicans will still help Californians in need even if they don't like their local politics and the party?
SEN. BARRASSO: I expect there will be strings attached to money that is ultimately approved ...
SEN. BARRASSO: I expect there will be strings attached to money that is ultimately approved ...
January 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is disgraceful behaviour even for the GOP 🤦🏻♀️