@calvinhilton.bsky.social
ICYMI: Post editorials advance Bezos’ financial interests, omit conflicts
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Starbucks' outrageous CEO-to-worker pay gap might make you spit out your morning coffee. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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If AI can't distinguish between a Doritos bag and a gun, it can't be trusted to police our communities.
29.10.2025 21:19 — 👍 629 🔁 234 💬 11 📌 6I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
Drawn by a Vast Rocky Landscape on Ireland’s West Coast www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/t...
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Today, I'm breaking down everything you need to know about how Trump and the Republicans plan to interfere with the 2026 and 2028 elections. youtube.com/watch?v=7PXQ...
12.09.2025 14:39 — 👍 2171 🔁 948 💬 59 📌 39NSS
11.09.2025 15:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BREAKING: The House just passed its annual defense bill by a 231-196 margin, bringing the U.S. one step closer to spending $1 TRILLION a year on the military.
Reminder: The House took away Medicaid and SNAP in JULY because these programs were "too expensive.”
$31 billion to prop up an industry that is destroying our planet.
Our government continues to put the interest and profits of the fossil fuel industry over the safety of Americans.
We need to end polluter handouts NOW.
welcome back polio!
03.09.2025 16:59 — 👍 100 🔁 37 💬 16 📌 3"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
—The Declaration of Independence
New in PN: @pkrugman.bsky.social on Trump's teetering economy
"The thing that’s extra damaging now is the craziness. Nobody knows what the tariff rates will be in six months. That means a lot of cash sits on the sidelines."
TRUMP TAX-RATE CUT SAVINGS TOTAL ORDINARY INCOME (2018-24) Executives Corporate Allegiance James Dimon JPMorgan Chase $12,688,508 $486,787,121 Brian T. Moynihan Bank of America $5,101,815 $194,991,245 Jane Fraser Citigroup $2,565,491 $97,440,296 David Solomon Goldman Sachs $5,543,211 $211,968,014 Charles W. Scharf Wells Fargo $3,197,516 $121,932,212 Edward Pick Morgan Stanley $4,161,864 $159,201,521 Richard D. Fairbank Capital One $7,308,157 $279,850,552 Andrew Cecere U.S. Bancorp $2,687,811 $102,144,906 William S. Demchak PNC Financial $3,514,339 $133,934,457 William H. Rogers Truist Financial $1,801,793 $68,250,541 Walter W. Bettinger II Charles Schwab $4,327,408 $165,206,328 Robin Vince New York Mellon $1,040,503 $39,149,195
Are we really cool with our government handing 12 Wall Street bankers $52 million with absolutely no idea what they'll do with it and a vague promise that it'll all trickle down eventually?
Really?
I wrote about the imaginary New Jersey windmills of Trump's mind and other topics 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/kilowatt-m...
22.08.2025 17:43 — 👍 423 🔁 116 💬 9 📌 6Trump posted on Truth Social that “We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting."
34 countries allow postal voting including Canada, the UK, & Australia.
Shocker: Trump is yet again blatantly lying to the American people.
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
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at the end of the day, the worthless scribblers of our corporate-controlled press are a bunch of gutless fucking cowards. they’re gutless cowards at the beginning of the day, too, and every second in between. you can’t tell me that reporters who deal with Donny on a daily basis don’t know they’re watching a deteriorating old shitforbrains in advanced cognitive decline. how can they not, after listening to him repeatedly prattle on about whatever fever-swamp nonsense is pinballing inside his big dumb pumpkin head, day after day? of course they know. it’s got to be an open secret that the Emperor has no brain. but they can’t say shit about Donny’s mind having gone fuckity-bye, because their livelihoods depend on pretending that America’s Mad King is perfectly normal. so they dance around Donny’s crazypants incoherence, and sanewash it as best they can. all of which makes it astonishing that the DC-insider website The Hill actually went there, and published this no-punches-pulled oped by Chris Truax.
from today’s post, in which the DC-insider website The Hill actually broaches the subject of Donny’s cognitive decline —
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/3IZi9gD
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
Let me get this straight: Trump is using millions in FEMA shelter and services funds to build the cruel and unnecessary "Alligator Alcatraz" immigrant detention facility.
The cruelty is staggering.
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/07/a-dedicated-fema-fund-will-pay-for-alligator-alcatraz/
we got another one
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The Onion NYT ad. The headline of the editorial says “CONGRESS, NOW MORE THAN EVER OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR COWARDICE”
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
flower
can you guess the plant?
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Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?
19.06.2025 23:53 — 👍 27446 🔁 8278 💬 1565 📌 719This has not aged great
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There are times for wonky policy analysis and fun musical codas. But this isn't one of them
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-no...
The Trump administration canceled $766 MILLION in contracts to develop mRNA vaccines against the flu.
Flu pandemics killed up to 103 MILLION people in the last century.
Trump has given up on protecting Americans' health.
He's leaving us defenseless against future pandemics.
Always been one of my pet peeves especially since they’re so easy to generate
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New article in Rolling Stone www.rollingstone.com/p/trump-dest...
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