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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 2h

In the end, Trump will just do whatever the highest bidder or biggest influence wants. If someone else gains power and wants something different, he'll reverse course. I think that explains a lot of what's going on.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 2h

Today I finally realized that we can't ever truly understand the motivations of this regime because there's not a single ideology or logical paradigm. Often, it's just the intersections of individual greed, narcissism, and hate. That's why their actions often seem so hard to interpret or predict.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. Increasingly, the behavior is exactly the same regardless of whether our "conspiracies" are true.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 1d

As Sarah Kendzior and others have explained, the scandals and stupidity are often bait for the media to distract everyone from the extraordinary crimes he commits. Though, yes, he is never acting alone and has plenty of super rich handlers who are definitely smarter than him.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 1d

Much of what Trump shows us is an act, and in fact there is leaked video of him congratulating colleagues who made bank "buying the dip" during his April tariff tantrums.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 1d

Trump knows these tariffs are trashing every aspect of the economy, including agriculture. That seems to be the point. Create instability and drive everyone deeper into desperation.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 2d

Years ago, scientists warned us that Covid would create an "unfathomable" crisis of longterm illness that included diseases not typically diagnosed as "Long Covid." Now a fight over exploding healthcare costs has shut down the government. These two things are connected.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 4d

Unfortunately, shorting is dangerous for us normal people who don't get texts from president tangerine's insider trading group.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 4d

Four times the size of the subprime bubble. And you can bet that the same jerks touting this crap are also going to start shorting it soon.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 5d

And don't worry, almost everyone will still be talking about the same stuff when you get back.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 5d

I'm finally one of those people who says, "Turn off the news and go outside," not because you can't handle the news, but because you already know how bad it is.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 6d

The big companies that designed new war crimes technologies in Gaza are the same ones buying up all of our apps and media and helping the Trump regime zip-tie kids and throw them into vans in Chicago. It's all connected.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/from-gaza-to...

From Gaza to Chicago, It's All Connected

The fascist military occupation is here.

www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 6d

I don't care if Taylor Swift owns her masters. I care that her private jet alone emits 1,000 times more carbon than the average person in one year.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 6d

This week, the president and the secretary of defense told every American general they want to use American cities as military training grounds. They've been using Gaza as a training ground and war crimes laboratory for the last two years. This was always the plan.

Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 6d

The big companies that designed new war crimes technologies in Gaza are the same ones buying up all of our apps and media and helping the Trump regime zip-tie kids and throw them into vans in Chicago. It's all connected.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/from-gaza-to...

From Gaza to Chicago, It's All Connected

The fascist military occupation is here.

www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 6d

Yep, and yesterday we saw that evil repelling from black hawk helicopters in Chicago. Already here.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 6d

The big companies that designed new war crimes technologies in Gaza are the same ones buying up all of our apps and media and helping the Trump regime zip-tie kids and throw them into vans in Chicago. It's all connected.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/from-gaza-to...

From Gaza to Chicago, It's All Connected

The fascist military occupation is here.

www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 6d

Indeed, the pandemic showed them how to condition a population to accept mass death and suffering. They sort of stumbled into it with Covid. In Gaza, they weaponized and honed it. We certainly see it. Others are finally starting to wake up.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 6d

And honestly, if they did, good for them. A fascist government needs to be shut down. I know it's not that simple, but rhetorically speaking...

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 6d

People who don't see the connection between what's happening in Gaza and what's happening here, they're a big part of the problem. Part of not caring about other people is also failing to see how their problems are eventually your problems.

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 7d

1/5 Elon Musk and David Sacks are attacking Wikipedia again.

They say they will replace it with “Grokipedia.”

Why? Because quick, free, independent fact-checking is their enemy.

They cannot control it. And that terrifies them

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Marieke @dollemarieke.bsky.social · 7d

Ook in Nederland werd en wordt erg laconiek gedaan over covid bij kinderen.

Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 7d

"Although Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the federal health secretary, has said healthy children do not need Covid shots, the study authors and other medical experts said the evidence suggests otherwise."

“Being vaccinated decreases your risk of subsequent infections and development of long Covid."

Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds

www.nytimes.com

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 7d

It's true, though as you suggest, there's a difference between promises of fortunes and threats to your family. I agree that many of us would make impossible choices if the stakes were high enough, but not out of pure greed.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 7d

The worst part: They don't seem to grasp that this entire thing oozes psyop vibes, as in the Saudi royalty know what an epic own it is to buy our comedians and pay them to spew all this horrible, anti-human garbage.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 7d

They defend themselves by saying any of us would do the same in their position. Well, some of us *have* been offered money to sell our opinions and our platforms, and we said no. And we've also endured the punishment that comes with saying the truth. So, screw them and their superficial cynicism.

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