Krystal Ball
@krystalball.bsky.social
Host of Breaking Points and Krystal Kyle & Friends
Everyone should be prepared for the fact that whereas with Iraq, anti-war protesters were smeared as traitorous terror lovers, this time we will also be smeared as bigoted anti-semites.
June 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Everyone should be prepared for the fact that whereas with Iraq, anti-war protesters were smeared as traitorous terror lovers, this time we will also be smeared as bigoted anti-semites.
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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
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A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds.
@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.
wid.world/news-article...
@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.
wid.world/news-article...
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality - WID - World Inequality Database
In a new study, Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty examine patterns of global imbalances, current account surplus/deficit and net foreign wealth accumulation over more than two centuries.
wid.world
June 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
As Trump’s popularity drops and backlash mounts, he will turn even more authoritarian. The techniques he’s tested on immigrants will be turned on American citizens.
Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
April 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
As Trump’s popularity drops and backlash mounts, he will turn even more authoritarian. The techniques he’s tested on immigrants will be turned on American citizens.
Centrists have caused a profound shift among the base of the Dem party through their cowardice in the face of Trump’s authoritarianism. In January Gallup found a plurality of Dems wanted the party to be more moderate, a new poll finds that the majority now want the party to be more progressive.
April 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Centrists have caused a profound shift among the base of the Dem party through their cowardice in the face of Trump’s authoritarianism. In January Gallup found a plurality of Dems wanted the party to be more moderate, a new poll finds that the majority now want the party to be more progressive.
Trump doesn’t give a shit about coal miners. His admin is destroying mine safety and ending black lung protections so that more young miners can slowly suffocate from this horrible disease. youtu.be/7XHir3o1SLY
Trump BETRAYS Coal Miners w/ Chainsaw to Black Lung Health
YouTube video by Breaking Points
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April 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Trump doesn’t give a shit about coal miners. His admin is destroying mine safety and ending black lung protections so that more young miners can slowly suffocate from this horrible disease. youtu.be/7XHir3o1SLY
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There's something weird happening where The Discourse about the tariffs is about how Trump is trying to return us to 1950's and 1960's, the manufacturing heyday of America, but he's not! He' been very very explicit about this. He wants to return us to the 1890's. That's a different project!
April 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
There's something weird happening where The Discourse about the tariffs is about how Trump is trying to return us to 1950's and 1960's, the manufacturing heyday of America, but he's not! He' been very very explicit about this. He wants to return us to the 1890's. That's a different project!
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Would require a significant investment and money but would be a great idea.
When a person is abducted, there's a number to call to report & identify. A habeas petition challenging the abduction is electronically filed in that district, by a lawyer admitted in that district, within 30 minutes of the call. Anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day.
Nothing else is good enough.
Nothing else is good enough.
hello! i am very curious if anybody is building a rapid response network to file habeas shell petitions for nice people before ice can take them out of state?
April 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Would require a significant investment and money but would be a great idea.
The Supreme Court has effectively sentenced more innocent people to be disappeared into Bukele's torture dungeon. Disgraceful capitulation to fascism.
Tonight the Supreme Court made it possible to have m ore cases like Andry's, by requiring that people challenging Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act file individual habeas corpus lawsuits.
Many people in detention don't have any money to hire a lawyer. They won't be able to do this.
Many people in detention don't have any money to hire a lawyer. They won't be able to do this.
Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head.
He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison.
Bring them back!
He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison.
Bring them back!
April 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The Supreme Court has effectively sentenced more innocent people to be disappeared into Bukele's torture dungeon. Disgraceful capitulation to fascism.
It’s hard for me to hold in my head the breadth of the destruction, chaos and outright evil from this administration. Trump is fully backing a genocide and threatening with arrest or deportation those who oppose it.
April 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
It’s hard for me to hold in my head the breadth of the destruction, chaos and outright evil from this administration. Trump is fully backing a genocide and threatening with arrest or deportation those who oppose it.
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social wondering if I could interview you?
March 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social wondering if I could interview you?
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As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.
Really think about how twisted this all is.
Really think about how twisted this all is.
March 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.
Really think about how twisted this all is.
Really think about how twisted this all is.
This person sicced a fascist government on a student protester and is now trying to nuance troll his way out of culpability.
March 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This person sicced a fascist government on a student protester and is now trying to nuance troll his way out of culpability.
MAHA UPDATE: the Trump admin just made a lawyer for Abbott Labs head of food safety. He (unsuccessfully) defended them from charges that premies became catastrophically ill from their formula. Same company caused a formula shortage when they shut down a plant for unsanitary conditions.
March 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
MAHA UPDATE: the Trump admin just made a lawyer for Abbott Labs head of food safety. He (unsuccessfully) defended them from charges that premies became catastrophically ill from their formula. Same company caused a formula shortage when they shut down a plant for unsanitary conditions.
Don’t worry everyone! The famously selfless rich and powerful are just looking out for your best interest. Sure they’re crashing the econ, raising prices, gutting Medicaid, funding crypto scams and letting white collar criminals endlessly rob you but trust them, it is all for your own good!
March 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Don’t worry everyone! The famously selfless rich and powerful are just looking out for your best interest. Sure they’re crashing the econ, raising prices, gutting Medicaid, funding crypto scams and letting white collar criminals endlessly rob you but trust them, it is all for your own good!
The ideological glue that holds Trump 2.0 together is literally just outright theft. Whether it’s taking Ukraine’s minerals, Elon stealing multi billion $ contracts or Trump forcing taxpayers to backstop crypto billionaires bags.
March 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The ideological glue that holds Trump 2.0 together is literally just outright theft. Whether it’s taking Ukraine’s minerals, Elon stealing multi billion $ contracts or Trump forcing taxpayers to backstop crypto billionaires bags.
I think Elon's threats of funding primary challenges against any non-compliant GOP has may have fully ended the era of Tea Party/Freedom Caucus rebellion. Massie the last man standing on being an actually ideologically committed deficit hawk. Everyone else will just do as they're told by Trump/Musk.
February 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I think Elon's threats of funding primary challenges against any non-compliant GOP has may have fully ended the era of Tea Party/Freedom Caucus rebellion. Massie the last man standing on being an actually ideologically committed deficit hawk. Everyone else will just do as they're told by Trump/Musk.
When they say “free market” they mean monopolies, union busting, govt handouts for giant corporations and the ability for oligarchs to rob ordinary people with impunity.
February 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
When they say “free market” they mean monopolies, union busting, govt handouts for giant corporations and the ability for oligarchs to rob ordinary people with impunity.
GOP comes together to pass a monstrous budget that will pave the way for tax cuts for the rich at the expense of Medicaid and SNAP. Congrats guys. Way to stick it to the working class and serve your billionaire masters.
February 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
GOP comes together to pass a monstrous budget that will pave the way for tax cuts for the rich at the expense of Medicaid and SNAP. Congrats guys. Way to stick it to the working class and serve your billionaire masters.
Keep up the pressure it's working!
February 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Keep up the pressure it's working!
Can’t say I’m surprised. Joy, Alex and Ayman (and @mehdirhasan before) were all critical of Israel and now they’ve all been canceled. No dissent from the pro-genocide consensus will be tolerated.
February 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Can’t say I’m surprised. Joy, Alex and Ayman (and @mehdirhasan before) were all critical of Israel and now they’ve all been canceled. No dissent from the pro-genocide consensus will be tolerated.
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I’ve been warning that the Tech Bros want the S.F. Presidio for a “freedom city”. Now this. 👇 1/
Trump issued an executive order to drastically shrink the Presidio Trust, the federal agency overseeing San Francisco’s Presidio, a national park site at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge.
February 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I’ve been warning that the Tech Bros want the S.F. Presidio for a “freedom city”. Now this. 👇 1/
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Doctor and medical scientist here. My quality project at the VA, planned for a year, was a virtual telemedicine clinic for *all* vets, but because it included services for specific minorities, it was killed by this regime after they took power.
This is literally happening.
This is literally happening.
February 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Doctor and medical scientist here. My quality project at the VA, planned for a year, was a virtual telemedicine clinic for *all* vets, but because it included services for specific minorities, it was killed by this regime after they took power.
This is literally happening.
This is literally happening.
Elon just fired workers at the board investigating Tesla for safety issues. Robber baron running the country as his own personal plaything.
February 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Elon just fired workers at the board investigating Tesla for safety issues. Robber baron running the country as his own personal plaything.
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There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Don’t believe the self-made myth.
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Don’t believe the self-made myth.
February 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Don’t believe the self-made myth.
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Don’t believe the self-made myth.
Washington Generals ass political party
February 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Washington Generals ass political party