Prices since Trump took office:
-Groceries: ⬆️ 2.7%
-Utilities: ⬆️ 11%
-ACA premiums: ⬆️ 26%
-Overall consumer prices: ⬆️ 3%
Trump: “I don't want to hear about the affordability.”
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Prices since Trump took office:
-Groceries: ⬆️ 2.7%
-Utilities: ⬆️ 11%
-ACA premiums: ⬆️ 26%
-Overall consumer prices: ⬆️ 3%
Trump: “I don't want to hear about the affordability.”
Every time I see a scientist or doctor is running for office, I get a little more hopeful this nightmare will end soon.
07.11.2025 19:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“the affordability” 🤦♀️
07.11.2025 19:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And Open AI now wants government secured loans, AI is destroying us.
07.11.2025 17:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks for the inflation, Trump. 🤬
05.11.2025 19:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They’re MAGA *normal*.
05.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Retired teacher here (38 years). I loved my career, but teaching is dangerous and scary and life-threatening now.
05.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
05.11.2025 12:49 — 👍 16400 🔁 2998 💬 258 📌 161Translation: “I’m too stupid to be media literate.” MTG.
05.11.2025 16:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Show me Trump’s cabinet standing at attention while kissing his ass. He can have one or the other but not both.
05.11.2025 14:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm so tired of people saying Democrats shouldn't move too far left when the GOP has moved so comfortably to fascism.
03.11.2025 19:23 — 👍 519 🔁 108 💬 36 📌 7In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
03.11.2025 08:18 — 👍 278 🔁 106 💬 17 📌 16MAGA Brady Bunch. 🤮
01.11.2025 21:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"The new billboards are designed to inform troops of legal resources … 'The [Southern Command] strikes … represent the most blatantly illegal act that this administration has had the military carry out.'"
taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/
Heading to Glacier? If so, don’t forget you need a ticket for Going to the Sun Road. Are you familiar w/ Rails to Trails? The Hiawatha trail straddles Idaho and Montana and is super fun.
30.10.2025 00:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I save the image. Thanks!
29.10.2025 22:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’ve written a few leaf poems. This one is from last month in Grand Teton National Park.
29.10.2025 22:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’d love that idea to share w/ colleagues.
29.10.2025 22:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Works for me.
29.10.2025 21:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In other words she’s what Trump calls a loser.
28.10.2025 05:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Dear God, I listened. The people who needed to listen didn’t.
27.10.2025 21:54 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0*name
27.10.2025 19:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In other words, Trump is acting like and wants to be a king, a dictator, an authoritarian strongman.
27.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He’ll never take it again if he learns the bane! 🤣
27.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hate breeds hate.
27.10.2025 05:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Trump hates our eyes, so he burns them w/ images of his fat glutes wobbling in his faded blue suit. 🙄
26.10.2025 21:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Genius. #EastWing
25.10.2025 02:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ONG! These data centers should never be built in the desert. Arizona is in a water crisis. And data centers are noisy and destroy water supplies. 😩
25.10.2025 01:10 — 👍 41 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0The only thing he does is rage. He’s never worked a day in his life, so of course he isn’t tired.
24.10.2025 23:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have one slight disagreement with this post.
There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy.
And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.