Kacy Colston
@kacyc.bsky.social
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Tariffs will be a potent and unilateral mechanism for reintroducing systematic corruption into our economy.
First, Trump can raise or lower tariffs unilaterally.
Second, he can grant exemptions, forcing people, corporations, localities, nations, and foreign actors to seek reprieve on bended knee.
First, Trump can raise or lower tariffs unilaterally.
Second, he can grant exemptions, forcing people, corporations, localities, nations, and foreign actors to seek reprieve on bended knee.
Trump’s tariffs give him a new way to dole out reward and punishment
The president's latest power grab will devastate America's economy—and its democracy.
www.motherjones.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Tariffs will be a potent and unilateral mechanism for reintroducing systematic corruption into our economy.
First, Trump can raise or lower tariffs unilaterally.
Second, he can grant exemptions, forcing people, corporations, localities, nations, and foreign actors to seek reprieve on bended knee.
First, Trump can raise or lower tariffs unilaterally.
Second, he can grant exemptions, forcing people, corporations, localities, nations, and foreign actors to seek reprieve on bended knee.
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The idea that tariffs will bring manufacturing jobs back:
Building a factory takes long term planning & 3-5yrs to complete.
By then we will have a new President with their own agenda or Trump may back off of these sooner.
Why would a CEO make a massive investment like that w/so many unknowns?
Building a factory takes long term planning & 3-5yrs to complete.
By then we will have a new President with their own agenda or Trump may back off of these sooner.
Why would a CEO make a massive investment like that w/so many unknowns?
April 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
The idea that tariffs will bring manufacturing jobs back:
Building a factory takes long term planning & 3-5yrs to complete.
By then we will have a new President with their own agenda or Trump may back off of these sooner.
Why would a CEO make a massive investment like that w/so many unknowns?
Building a factory takes long term planning & 3-5yrs to complete.
By then we will have a new President with their own agenda or Trump may back off of these sooner.
Why would a CEO make a massive investment like that w/so many unknowns?
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Here are some nice mushrooms
March 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
“Thirty years ago, on 5 December 1994, at a ceremony in Budapest, Ukraine joined Belarus and Kazakhstan in giving up their nuclear arsenals in return for security guarantees from the United States, the UK, France, China and Russia.”
Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994. Now it's asking why
It's 30 years since Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear arsenal. Some now question why they did.
www.bbc.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Thirty years ago, on 5 December 1994, at a ceremony in Budapest, Ukraine joined Belarus and Kazakhstan in giving up their nuclear arsenals in return for security guarantees from the United States, the UK, France, China and Russia.”
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Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today, local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.
60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.
www.npr.org
March 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today, local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.
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Trump and Musk's dismantling of government "has a very familiar smell to it. It’s the stench of the kind of vulture capitalism that has demolished newsrooms across the country in a quest for greater revenue for shareholders." ICYMI @justinglawe.bsky.social:
Vulture Capitalism Comes for Democracy
The playbook Trump and Musk are following to dismantle government resembles the one used to pick apart America’s newspapers.
www.thebulwark.com
March 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trump and Musk's dismantling of government "has a very familiar smell to it. It’s the stench of the kind of vulture capitalism that has demolished newsrooms across the country in a quest for greater revenue for shareholders." ICYMI @justinglawe.bsky.social:
My clearest memory of DST starting in 1966 was of the classroom clocks catching up in the middle of the morning - clunk clunk clunk.
March 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
My clearest memory of DST starting in 1966 was of the classroom clocks catching up in the middle of the morning - clunk clunk clunk.
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.
February 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.
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Many are participating in a 24-hour economic boycott on February 28th to protest the ongoing actions of the Trump administration and to send a message to corporate America. “No online shopping or in person. No Amazon, no Walmart, no Best Buy.” [kottke.org]
The February 28 Economic Blackout
A broad range of Americans are organizing a 24-hour economic boycott on February 28th to protest the ongoing actions of the Trump administration and to send a message to corporate America. From The People’s Union USA w
kottke.org
February 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Many are participating in a 24-hour economic boycott on February 28th to protest the ongoing actions of the Trump administration and to send a message to corporate America. “No online shopping or in person. No Amazon, no Walmart, no Best Buy.” [kottke.org]
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Rest In Peace
Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack
February 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Rest In Peace
Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack
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Good morning
be the change
be the light
eat some chocolate
🔥
be the change
be the light
eat some chocolate
🔥
February 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Good morning
be the change
be the light
eat some chocolate
🔥
be the change
be the light
eat some chocolate
🔥
A final nail in the coffin…
Opinion: End of an era at 285 Broad Street
The impending auction of the Hartford Courant’s longtime home at 285 Broad St. is a testament to an unmitigated greed that has ended the storied newspaper’s physical presence in the city.
ctmirror.org
January 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
A final nail in the coffin…