This UK seller is transparent about how a transaction would work. Trump's reciprocal tariff certainly looks and feels like a tax to me.
01.11.2025 12:52 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@markpbarry.bsky.social
Power engineer and project developer by recent trade, learner and amateur economist for fun.
This UK seller is transparent about how a transaction would work. Trump's reciprocal tariff certainly looks and feels like a tax to me.
01.11.2025 12:52 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0101.2 kg gold toilet
With apologies to Maurizio Cattelan and his actual intentions, I note that the artist has created a very accurate visual representation of the Trump administration
01.11.2025 12:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It's been 38 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
The non-military version of "stolen valor."
30.10.2025 21:23 โ ๐ 8919 ๐ 1850 ๐ฌ 827 ๐ 198The President of the United States is so upset about his failed campaign for a Nobel Prize that he's now trying to claim someone else's prize as his own.
Pathetic.
First, tariffs are taxes on Americans - we pay them not South Korea. And, that's not what they agreed to.
30.10.2025 20:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is all not very Christian of Mike Johnson. And I think of him more as a "smirking, hypocritical puppet" than as a "duplicitous twit", but both descriptions fit
30.10.2025 19:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0She's 100% on-brand from RFK's perspective
30.10.2025 19:23 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Trump is also especially confused by magnets: โYou know, the new thing is magnets. So instead of using hydraulic that can be hit by lightning and itโs fine. You take a little glass of water, you drop it on magnets, I donโt know whatโs going to happen,โ Trump said.
30.10.2025 19:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"[Not using the funding already allocated to keep SNAP going] is a decision the president is making--on his own--to allow people to go hungry."
29.10.2025 20:12 โ ๐ 4853 ๐ 2048 ๐ฌ 188 ๐ 67Iโm surprised that coach Tommy was on this side of the issue, though to be fair he might not have known what he was voting for. Permanent daylight savings time would have meant that Tommy would not have had to figure out how to reset his wristwatch twice a year.
29.10.2025 00:20 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0These two idiots would have been laid off today if they worked at UPS, Amazon, or even the DoD. Itโs only dad enabling their grift.
29.10.2025 00:13 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Who are these anti-science luddites? WTAF was exactly my thought process
29.10.2025 00:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0As the dumbest senator, Tommy is in way over his head here. Dignity is just a tertiary concept for him
29.10.2025 00:07 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The biggest red flag is that after taking this last one ..they recommended an MRI
28.10.2025 23:11 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Just to be clear whoโs to blame for SNAP cutoff:
1. Trump admin claims that a $5B emergency fund canโt be used for it.
2. Thune said Trump wants to use SNAP cutoff as leverage.
3. 22 Dem states filed a lawsuit about it.
4. Dems willing to join many Rs for SNAP bill but Thune is blocking vote.
Whoโs mom? Trump or RFK jr?
28.10.2025 23:51 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Or Trump might be too addled and Kim wonโt take the risk
28.10.2025 23:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Epstein Files arenโt the only thing Donald is covering up.
28.10.2025 19:33 โ ๐ 3469 ๐ 1162 ๐ฌ 276 ๐ 81Commission members apparently were not fond of Krylon gold spray paint or Hobby Lobby appliques
28.10.2025 22:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Ken Paxton filed the suit to raise his profile with gullible voters for his inevitable run for Governor. His clever conceit is that the suit asks the drugmakers to prove a negative, but Texas is not going to win.
28.10.2025 22:39 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The same chart with a line for "Canada" also please?
28.10.2025 22:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Most stranded gas is in places with no electric transmission lines and no fiber. Doug Burgum is guilty of some magical thinking here. #energysky
28.10.2025 22:34 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I rode the 1 train with Linsey Davis on the way to our ABC News interview yesterday, and talked about how in the wealthiest city in the world we can't simply accept that people have to sleep on the streets or the subways.
It's not a question of resources. It's a question of political will.
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28.10.2025 17:05 โ ๐ 6190 ๐ 1813 ๐ฌ 379 ๐ 119Do you think the monkey might run for a seat in Congress to avoid going back to the lab? Or make a 2026 Senate run against Cindy Hyde-Smith, a racist bigot known for legislation that gets overturned in the courts? If elected to the Senate, the monkey would likely rank above Tommy Tuberville in IQ
28.10.2025 22:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sound up
28.10.2025 22:01 โ ๐ 28 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Coach Tommy is in over his head here. He might not be able to pass the cognitive tests that Trump claims he aced.
28.10.2025 22:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Grift should be taxable as ordinary income. Do we think the Trumps will cheat on their tax returns?
28.10.2025 21:19 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What he means is that "No American, Serving in Congress and Receiving Full Pay and Benefits During the Government Shutdown, Should Go to Bed Hungry" He's a self self-absorbed hypocrite beholden to Trump
28.10.2025 21:02 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0