Mar

YouTube video by FLAGRANT Pete Buttigieg on Trump Tariffs, Taxing Billionaires, and Republican Gays

Never watched these guys before (although knew who they were and how they’ve been having lots of right leaning guests on), but listened to this entire thing and Pete just NAILS it. Prime example of needing to go to these spaces and he’s a master communicator. Watch!

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It’s hard for me to believe this is a “radical, leftist, socialist, commie” way to think.

I feel you on this

It is 2008. I am starting my first career and watching the stock market tumble double digits in a single day.

It is 2020. I am making a career change and watching the stock market tumble double digits in a single day.

It is 2025. I am making another career change and watching the stock market tumb

"I never thought he'd take us back to 1929," sobs woman who thought she was only voting for someone who'd take us back to 1950

“The Trump Crash” - @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social I hope you are strategizing on the phone right now to nail the Dem messaging across the board tomorrow and gathering the entire Senate and House to address Americans demanding Congress take back Tariff power.

My mom’s financial planner told her we were already in one and that was before tomorrow is about to happen.

Yes! The pandemic totally warped my brain and I have trouble remembering what happened in which of the specific 5 years since which somehow also feel like 1 year and 10 years simultaneously

Let's repeat it for folks in the back.
When Bill Clinton cut 300,000 + jobs from the federal workforce, he did it with the APPROVAL of Congress after review and a VOTE!
He did NOT illegally take it upon himself to drastically slash entire agencies and programs - with NO plan for continued service.

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

This is refreshing after seeing so many posts about ‘who cares none of this will do anything’

They can influence where to get the best bread in the bread lines. (But, yes, people fail to realize how recessions cause advertising and entertainment to contract. I keep seeing young people ask why they should care unless they have $ in the stock market).

Economist cover: RUINATION DAY

Why would a leader tank his own country's economy?

It's a key part of the aspiring autocrat's playbook.

Tariffs & chaos mean more power & control for Trump.

But America has no king. The Republican-led Congress can stop this at any time.

Let your reps hear from you.

5calls.org/issue/trump-...

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

It's a fucking national murder-suicide

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Trump thought to himself ‘I bet I can make it the GREATEST Depression’

Today is one of those days I don’t want to speak to a single person who voted for Trump (not that I know many but I know a few). My mom is so nervous as someone who lives off retirement funds and small amounts of social security. My industry will be further decimated by a recession. 😡

I feel like we are all on a runaway train headed towards a cliff and all the doors are locked and a madman is our conductor.

Between Booker showing us leadership and Crawford winning (and I’m sure making Elon drown himself to sleep in Ketamine) today may have been the first good day for Dems in 2025. Now I can’t wait for the Tesla report in the morning.

You might want to tune in to @booker.senate.gov because in about 35 minutes he’s going to make history (fuck Strom Thurmond’s racist wrinkly ass)

Everyone hop onto Tik Tok and watch @booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com break the filibuster record. It’s live and he has over 260 million likes!!!!

Schumer needs to step aside today and let someone like Booker become senate minority leader.

It’s important that we DO praise Dems when they are doing more of what we want instead of just bash them when they are failing. It will encourage more to follow suit. There is a wide open gap in leadership for any ambitious Dem. And with that - THANK YOU Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary.

I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

Please stay active here on Bluesky. Dems are desperate for leaders like you right now!

Also the protests are mostly on weekends? He is so insufferable

Our economy is far larger than it was decades ago.

Where have most of the gains gone? To the top.

Any path forward must include a fight to restructure the economy toward more widely shared prosperity.

This isn’t a blue state vs. red state phenomenon. It’s a class phenomenon.

Background acting, maybe?