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@richardson-thomas.bsky.social

Retired IMF economist

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"A bespoke Federal Reserve exception."

22.05.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 239    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

All of the #Signalgate participants violated not only national security but also the law on maintaining public records, and must therefore be indicted.

22.04.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hosting the Olympics and World Cup are going to be impossible. What athlete in their right mind would risk coming to the US now?

06.04.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 8161    πŸ” 2924    πŸ’¬ 428    πŸ“Œ 193

Too slowly.

31.03.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I cancelled Spotify because of him. Never looked back.

30.03.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He should resign. Why should he be let off the hook for criminal behavior?

28.03.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How a party loses its soul:

Respectable Republican Condi Rice visits Kristi Noem.

Noem stages a sick photo-op in El Salvador with deportees as props. Some of them were law-abiding U.S. immigrants, now imprisoned in that hellhole.

No respectable Republican criticizes Noem.

27.03.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1315    πŸ” 260    πŸ’¬ 187    πŸ“Œ 24

What about JD Vance?

27.03.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All of them must resign

26.03.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Tesla Secret That Exposes Elon Musk’s Whole Game The car company’s big business in regulatory credits shows Musk’s mantra has always been β€œGovernment handouts for me, not for thee.”

Tesla, the supposed future of clean energy, isn’t just making money by selling electric carsβ€”it’s making a fortune off a regulatory loophole.

21.03.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 161    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 7

Great takedown of a charlatan

20.03.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GOP state Sen. Justin Eichorn arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with a 16-year old girl β€’ Minnesota Reformer Eichorn’s arrest complicates efforts by Senate Republicans to expel DFL Sen. Nicole Mitchell from the upper chamber.

GOP lawmaker Justin Eichorn (R-MN) has been arrested on felony charges for soliciting sex from a teenage girl.

He had previously spread claims that Democrats and LGBTQ people were trying to groom children.

18.03.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 8888    πŸ” 2845    πŸ’¬ 923    πŸ“Œ 559

Makes sense

17.03.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

We need a broadcast vehicle for respondingβ€”something like what Cuomo did every day during early COVID. What is the state of the crisis, why x or y done by Trump is illegal, and what we are doing about it.

06.03.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump and Putin, sitting in a tree…

04.03.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | This Never Happened With an American President Before Trump’s behavior in the Oval Office with Zelensky was an unparalleled break with American foreign policy.

Nailed it

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

01.03.2025 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 31667    πŸ” 5898    πŸ’¬ 1770    πŸ“Œ 276

@govwesmoore.bsky.social : Maryland stands with Ukraine too

01.03.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

True

28.02.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely awful. I will finally cancel my subscription

27.02.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Big Big Scandal Brewing at DC US Attys Office There’s a big, big scandal brewing beneath the already big scandal of...

BIG: DC Metro Police decided they had sufficient evidence to arrest sitting GOP Congressman and sent warrant request to USATTY's office. Acting USATTY Martin, who's been explicitly acting as Trump's personal attorney, ignored it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-b...

25.02.2025 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4288    πŸ” 1686    πŸ’¬ 116    πŸ“Œ 154
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Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

22.02.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 58239    πŸ” 16442    πŸ’¬ 2764    πŸ“Œ 1125
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Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

21.02.2025 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 18291    πŸ” 6243    πŸ’¬ 1412    πŸ“Œ 1452

FYI:

20.02.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wrong question.
If you get a grant from XYZ, you make plans. If XYZ reneges, even partially, you make different plans next time.

20.02.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Insane

20.02.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

America: how it’s changed.

The 46th President of the United States called Vladimir Putin β€œa murderous dictator.”

The 47th President called Volodymyr Zelensky β€œa dictator without elections.”

20.02.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 537    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 2

Snowflakes (or maybe cornflakes?)

18.02.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is where we are folks: Trump is siding with Putin, calling for new elections in Ukraine, presumably, so Zelensky can be replaced by a Putin puppet. He also blamed Ukraine for the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine! Remarkable and incredibly embarrassing for our country. I stand with Ukraine πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

18.02.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 788    πŸ” 194    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 23

πŸ––

18.02.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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