Michelle Miller
@transition-kitchen.bsky.social
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Well if we have to have tariffs then might as well make up numbers somehow
I had been reluctant to amplify the theory that Trump's "reciprocal tariff rate" for a given country was based on the dumb calculation: (bilateral trade deficit) divided by (imports from that country)
But now USTR has confirmed it. Brief 🧵
But now USTR has confirmed it. Brief 🧵
April 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Well if we have to have tariffs then might as well make up numbers somehow
Liberation Day? @economist.com says more like Ruination Day
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Liberation Day? @economist.com says more like Ruination Day
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I feel that if, in 2010, you had told me that Citizens United would lead to someone literally giving oversized $1 million checks to voters in exchange for their votes, I would have called you a delusional conspiracy theorist. And I would have been wrong.
genuinely feel insane
March 31, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I feel that if, in 2010, you had told me that Citizens United would lead to someone literally giving oversized $1 million checks to voters in exchange for their votes, I would have called you a delusional conspiracy theorist. And I would have been wrong.
As relevant as ever? youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ?...
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by RATMVEVO
youtu.be
March 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
As relevant as ever? youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ?...
WTF Chuck
Yes! Thank you Ben and MeidasTouch for speaking up and taking a stand on this💪🏼..
Democrats need to unite in all out defiance..
Use the little leverage we have!!
Buck up Chuck!
@meidastouch.com
@meiselasb.bsky.social
Democrats need to unite in all out defiance..
Use the little leverage we have!!
Buck up Chuck!
@meidastouch.com
@meiselasb.bsky.social
Grow a spine, Chuck.
March 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
WTF Chuck
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The story so far:
Just so we’re all following
1) Elon spends ~$300M to elect Trump
2) Trump gives him the federal government
3) Elon guts the agencies that regulate his companies
4) Trump holds an infomercial for Elon’s cars on the White House lawn
5) Elon gives Trump another $100M
1) Elon spends ~$300M to elect Trump
2) Trump gives him the federal government
3) Elon guts the agencies that regulate his companies
4) Trump holds an infomercial for Elon’s cars on the White House lawn
5) Elon gives Trump another $100M
March 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The story so far:
There. Fixed it
March 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
There. Fixed it
There. Fixed it
March 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
There. Fixed it
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If Democrats had the Republicans' messaging discipline, "President Musk" and "Vice President Trump" is all you'd hear.
March 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
If Democrats had the Republicans' messaging discipline, "President Musk" and "Vice President Trump" is all you'd hear.
🎶 It’s beginning to look at lot like Russia (sing with me)
A one-stop-shop for state sponsored oligarch control
✅ State run media-X/Twitter
✅ Mobility-Tesla, Hyperloop
✅ Communications-Starlink/Czarlink
✅ Military-Cybertruck/Swastikars
✅ Government OS-Grok AI
✅ Interplanetary-SpaceX
What else?
A one-stop-shop for state sponsored oligarch control
✅ State run media-X/Twitter
✅ Mobility-Tesla, Hyperloop
✅ Communications-Starlink/Czarlink
✅ Military-Cybertruck/Swastikars
✅ Government OS-Grok AI
✅ Interplanetary-SpaceX
What else?
It's Czarlink, not Starlink.
March 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🎶 It’s beginning to look at lot like Russia (sing with me)
A one-stop-shop for state sponsored oligarch control
✅ State run media-X/Twitter
✅ Mobility-Tesla, Hyperloop
✅ Communications-Starlink/Czarlink
✅ Military-Cybertruck/Swastikars
✅ Government OS-Grok AI
✅ Interplanetary-SpaceX
What else?
A one-stop-shop for state sponsored oligarch control
✅ State run media-X/Twitter
✅ Mobility-Tesla, Hyperloop
✅ Communications-Starlink/Czarlink
✅ Military-Cybertruck/Swastikars
✅ Government OS-Grok AI
✅ Interplanetary-SpaceX
What else?
@aoc.bsky.social says: for the budget fight, focus on members in:
- swing seats
- Energy & Commerce
- Ways & Means
- swing seats
- Energy & Commerce
- Ways & Means
This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.
There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP
Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP
Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
@aoc.bsky.social
Please explain what just happened. Is there no way to stop this w the reconciliation to be used by GOP to get around the filibuster? Are we sunk?
Please explain what just happened. Is there no way to stop this w the reconciliation to be used by GOP to get around the filibuster? Are we sunk?
March 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
@aoc.bsky.social says: for the budget fight, focus on members in:
- swing seats
- Energy & Commerce
- Ways & Means
- swing seats
- Energy & Commerce
- Ways & Means
Every time a career lawyer is pushed out, you can assume they were told to do something illegal.
BREAKING — FEMA Acting Chief Counsel Joshua Stanton has been put on administrative leave & walked out of the building after being given the role *just last week*, an agency source tells me.
Previous chief counsel Adrian Sevier had been with FEMA since 2000 and was office's longest-serving chief.
Previous chief counsel Adrian Sevier had been with FEMA since 2000 and was office's longest-serving chief.
March 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
It’s not just the lying - it’s that no one expects to be so consistently, flagrantly, and flexibly lied to. It’s not just lying, it’s using lies as a rhetorical device against the honesty and common decency of most folks
No one's doing this better than JB right now.
Donald Trump is lying to you.
March 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
It’s not just the lying - it’s that no one expects to be so consistently, flagrantly, and flexibly lied to. It’s not just lying, it’s using lies as a rhetorical device against the honesty and common decency of most folks
“This is going to be great television”. Who even says that?!? Not a President, surely. Not a President to an ally. Nuff said, I think
March 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“This is going to be great television”. Who even says that?!? Not a President, surely. Not a President to an ally. Nuff said, I think
The irony of all this strongman posturing while smashing and grabbing is that it leaves the US open to be an easy target for anyone with ill intent, while making enemies of just about everyone.
Or should we assume that was the plan all along?
Or should we assume that was the plan all along?
March 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The irony of all this strongman posturing while smashing and grabbing is that it leaves the US open to be an easy target for anyone with ill intent, while making enemies of just about everyone.
Or should we assume that was the plan all along?
Or should we assume that was the plan all along?
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Gene Hackman was proud of the fact Richard Nixon put him on the "enemies" list and I think we can honor him and whatever joy his career has given you by living our lives in such a way that evil people know our names and think of us as enemies.
February 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Gene Hackman was proud of the fact Richard Nixon put him on the "enemies" list and I think we can honor him and whatever joy his career has given you by living our lives in such a way that evil people know our names and think of us as enemies.
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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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Zelenskyy: "When they, for example say that Ukraine is almost destroyed, that our soldiers run away, that they are not heroes, that the president is a dictator, what is the reaction? It's not about me. The reaction is, where is the friendship between Ukraine and the US?"
March 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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This is what ardent NYT _conservative_ Bret Stephens is saying.
Anyone with any sense knows that today was an absolute disaster and disgrace for the United States.
Anyone with any sense knows that today was an absolute disaster and disgrace for the United States.
March 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This is what ardent NYT _conservative_ Bret Stephens is saying.
Anyone with any sense knows that today was an absolute disaster and disgrace for the United States.
Anyone with any sense knows that today was an absolute disaster and disgrace for the United States.
Only a bully and and abuser would demand that you lick his boots because you need help and then turn around and kick you in the guts
Lindsey Graham immediately following up an Oval Office meeting at which Trump and Vance disgraced themselves and the United States with a call for Zelenskyy to leave Ukraine's presidency only makes me feel more strongly that this whole event today was pre-planned and in service of Kremlin interests.
February 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Only a bully and and abuser would demand that you lick his boots because you need help and then turn around and kick you in the guts
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"Outgroup Avoidance" w/ @aasiegel.bsky.social & Alex Scacco is conditionally accepted at @thejop.bsky.social! I am rly proud of this paper & I think it has important implications for folks studying prejudice reduction and depolarization! Check it out!
www.chagaiweiss.com/papers/inpro...
www.chagaiweiss.com/papers/inpro...
February 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"Outgroup Avoidance" w/ @aasiegel.bsky.social & Alex Scacco is conditionally accepted at @thejop.bsky.social! I am rly proud of this paper & I think it has important implications for folks studying prejudice reduction and depolarization! Check it out!
www.chagaiweiss.com/papers/inpro...
www.chagaiweiss.com/papers/inpro...
I have questions for scholars of conflict, polarisation, and hegemony.
We’ve never managed to heal hate, racism, and supremacy. Recent measures seem to only suppress it, send it underground to simmer until something unleashes it and fans the flames.
What have we learned about what to do?
We’ve never managed to heal hate, racism, and supremacy. Recent measures seem to only suppress it, send it underground to simmer until something unleashes it and fans the flames.
What have we learned about what to do?
Wow.
As one German said, "Americans de-Nazified Germany at the end of WWII and now you are re-Nazifying Germany," in response to JD Vance's meeting with the head of the AFD rather than the sitting German Chancellor.
~David Brooks on @pbsnews.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuox...
As one German said, "Americans de-Nazified Germany at the end of WWII and now you are re-Nazifying Germany," in response to JD Vance's meeting with the head of the AFD rather than the sitting German Chancellor.
~David Brooks on @pbsnews.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuox...
Brooks and Capehart on the Trump administration’s challenge to the judiciary branch
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I have questions for scholars of conflict, polarisation, and hegemony.
We’ve never managed to heal hate, racism, and supremacy. Recent measures seem to only suppress it, send it underground to simmer until something unleashes it and fans the flames.
What have we learned about what to do?
We’ve never managed to heal hate, racism, and supremacy. Recent measures seem to only suppress it, send it underground to simmer until something unleashes it and fans the flames.
What have we learned about what to do?
Why is good will dispensable? In the long game of politics, you need friends and more friends than enemies, right? So far, this administration is making enemies on *most* fronts. Is this a deliberate goal to flip the allegiances? To become BRICSA (BRICS + USA)? Surely not just ignorant arrogance?
Sen. Roger Wicker on Hegseth: “He made a rookie mistake in Brussels. I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool."
Take a seat, senator. It's too late for buyer's remorse. You singlehandedly made Secretary Hegseth a reality.
Take a seat, senator. It's too late for buyer's remorse. You singlehandedly made Secretary Hegseth a reality.
Hegseth’s Bruising 72-Hour Debut Overseas
It was a crash course in geopolitical realities as the new defense secretary stepped onto the world stage.
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Why is good will dispensable? In the long game of politics, you need friends and more friends than enemies, right? So far, this administration is making enemies on *most* fronts. Is this a deliberate goal to flip the allegiances? To become BRICSA (BRICS + USA)? Surely not just ignorant arrogance?