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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 2h

since it doesn't exist as an organization, it probably doesn't matter that Trump doesn't know the name

ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 4h

And pretty much zip about it from MSM. Where the hell is all the handwringing we saw over Biden?

ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 6h

@cnn.com @pbsnews.org l @stephruhle.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @velshi.com where are all the reports of this man’s deteriorated mental state? He signed an EO *last week* designating “Antifa” as a domestic terrorist organization. Now he seems not to even know the name!

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 2h

Good luck -- keep the world informed here.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Marty Olliff @martyolliff.bsky.social · 5h

The first emotion you feel when hearing the President of the fucking U.S. of A should NOT be pity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 5h

Chicago isn’t licking boots. No Trump No ICE No Troops.

Last minute protest downtown.

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Dave Urban @davidjohnurban.bsky.social · 5h

The dementia has left the building.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

Hello?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Andrew Jennings @andrewkjennings.com · 5h

When you’re pushing back against circular-investment concerns . . . .

CNBC @cnbc.com · 5h

CoreWeave CEO pushes back against circular investment concerns

CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator discussed his company's deals with a number of artificial intelligence giants in a Wednesday interview with CNBC's Jim Cramer.

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Dave Urban @davidjohnurban.bsky.social · 5h

The dementia is getting so much worse every day.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Anne S Kim @anne-s-kim.bsky.social · 5h

Trump canceled the USDA's annual report on household food security. But that won't hide the suffering he's causing.

My latest @washingtonmonthly.com:

washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/08/a...

An American Hunger Crisis Is Coming

Trump’s cruel and disastrous policies—slashing food stamps and hiking inflationary tariffs—are creating an American hunger crisis.

washingtonmonthly.com

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Frank Moraes @franklycurious.bsky.social · 6h

There will be egg on your face when his plan comes out in 2 weeks! Or is that over because "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated!"?

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 4h

I wish you luck.

Brian Galle @bdgesq.bsky.social · 5h

The "practical hurdles" of taxing wealth are much less than you think! I have a whole book about this coming out next month. So, why not all of the above? There's no reason these policies have to be substitutes rather than complements.

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Scott @thegopisfubar2024.bsky.social · 7h

Every. Single. Day

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 5h

It's Trump's dementia talking. You almost feel sorry for Republican politicians, they have to pretend this dufus is making sense.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5h

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 6h

The best way to get a wealth tax is to make government-granted patent monopolies shorter and weaker cepr.net/publications...

Weakening Patent Monopolies: The Most Effective Wealth Tax

A wealth tax faces huge legal and practical hurdles. The better solution is to prevent extreme fortunes through smarter market and patents.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 6h

Donnie Boy has been saying he wants to make Obamacare better for almost a decade. He still hasn't come up with his plan or even shared his "concepts of a plan."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "Democrats want to approve healthcare for illegals coming into our country, many of them coming from prisons and mental institutions and drug dealers. We don't want that for our people because that's gonna destroy the healthcare that we already have. We'd like to make Obamacare better."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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coffeetumbler.bsky.social @coffeetumbler.bsky.social · 11h

@halsparks.com @pkrugman.bsky.social @deanbaker13.bsky.social fyi techxplore.com/news/2025-10...

Solar energy is now the world's cheapest source of power, study finds

Solar energy is now so cost-effective that, in the sunniest countries, it costs as little as £0.02 to produce one unit of power, making it cheaper than electricity generated from coal, gas or wind, ac...

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 12h

In his demented state, Trump is very confused. He thinks he can get a Nobel Peace Prize for starting wars on American cities www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · 11h

Wow. My University of Washington colleague Amy Hagopian was expelled from APHA for her pro-Palestinan advocacy. 🧵

academeblog.org/2025/10/07/w...

What to Do When Your Professional Association Breaks Your Heart

BY AMY HAGOPIAN Public health professionals are charged with responding to humanitarian crises. When hospitals are bombed, when children are deliberately starved, when doctors are assassinated, we’…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 10h

I am not into rankings, and really not into city rankings, which often use bad methods, but during this very important federal-Texas invasion week, it's worth boosting this one.

www.cntraveler.com/gallery/best...

9 times in a row for best big city in US.

And Portland is #4 this year.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 14h

@deanbaker13.bsky.social discusses it in a lot more detail in chapter 5 here
deanbaker.net/books/rigged...

Dean Baker: Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer

Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, shows that the upward redistribution of income in the U.S. over the last four decades was not the result of globalization and th...

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