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@retiredmatthak.bsky.social

Retired, politically independent, usually don't say much but will when I feel it's needed! My comments are my opinions, you can have your own! Oh and more gray than my avatar!

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I'm now wondering if these tariff numbers are cooked too!
If not more than half of the money coming into the treasury is from US taxpayers! So much for dropping prices Felon-President Trump!

04.08.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I would say I agree, except that the authoritarianism isn't creeping in this is boldly walking down the street, daring, even taunting anyone to challenge them! This is a push to create government in their own image rather than a democratic one!

03.08.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't his comment like the pot and kettle?

03.08.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWe take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...β€œWomen in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”

Melinda Gates

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My son Griffin knew that "Car 54, Where Are You?" is one of my all-time favorite comedies & drew this for my birthday. The likenesses of Fred Gwynne & Joe E. Ross are absolute perfection & he even included the theme song! I treasure it as one of my most prized possessions.

Thanks Griff πŸ™

❀️, dad

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I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.

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Hassett says the economy is good if you just ignore the jobs report: "While the jobs numbers had this big kind of mysterious revision, if they didn't have the revision, then the jobs numbers were fully consistent with the 3% GDP growth we also saw last week."

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A British crow is asking passersby if they're alright.

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This person went to VA urgent care for something unrelated to reproductive health and was asked a bunch of NEW required questions about their birth control use and ability to bear children.

WTF kind of under-his-eye bullshit is THIS?!!

03.08.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 363    πŸ” 216    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 22

I got fired from my job at the Ice Cream factory.

I refused to work on Sundaes

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Hmmm, on what grounds?

03.08.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Soooo, does that mean if the new guy doesn't like the numbers he'll ask/tell them to revise it? I don't get it!

03.08.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Remember, 2/3 of the Senate must agree. If not, it's for not!

03.08.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

From my memory, the job numbers come out of raw data, once the numbers are in then the work begins to dig into what and where the numbers come from and why. The report is then adjusted up or down depending on what the analysts found! No smoke or mirrors, just numbers!

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Can anyone say quid pro quo?

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Five Years What I’ve done and what I’ve learned

Five years ago today, I saw a monster, partially of my own creation, threatening American democracy. Now, it is about to swallow all of us whole. I will keep warning about it until there is no one left to listen.

Thanks to all of you for your support.
www.mind-war.com/p/five-years

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Great work, John Roberts. You’ve played a key role in wrecking our beloved country.

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The United States is torturing immigrants. Do you care?

Because if you're American, this is being done in your name.

I'm a daughter, granddaughter, great-granddaughter of immigrants. What if they did this to my family? What if they did it to yours?

#OnYourSide

03.08.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5328    πŸ” 2540    πŸ’¬ 285    πŸ“Œ 119

Every member of the GOP should be removed from office for violation of their oath of office!

03.08.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is fun.

03.08.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4759    πŸ” 860    πŸ’¬ 378    πŸ“Œ 67

Michael Van Landingham, a former CIA analyst involved in drafting the 2017 intelligence report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, has publicly defended the assessment’s conclusions.

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At this year’s summer picnic, we honored Managing Editor @amygage.bsky.social as she steps down after a transformative tenure at Streets.mn.

Check out our Reel for Co-chair @eriknoonan.bsky.social and Amy's remarks.

www.instagram.com/reel/DM4B_6z...

03.08.2025 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The recent discussion of DOJ β€œburn bags” should be a warning to everyone calling for the release of the Epstein files: They may no longer exist. This is, after all, a very ham-fisted cover-up.

03.08.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 12366    πŸ” 3343    πŸ’¬ 686    πŸ“Œ 145

He lost an election and refused to accept the results.

He forced the Smithsonian to lie about American history.

He fired the head statistician bcuz he didn’t like the jobs numbers.

He can’t handle the truth. We elected the biggest pussy/coward/sore loser in all of human history.

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Beautiful colors of red, orange, purple, yellow and pink in many shades at sunset in Minnesota.

Beautiful colors of red, orange, purple, yellow and pink in many shades at sunset in Minnesota.

Beautiful shades of color in the sky last fall at sunset in Minnesota
πŸŒ…πŸŒΈ
#Photography
#Photographer
#BlueSkyArt
#EastCoastKin
#Sunset
#Nature
#Beautiful
#Minnesota

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