When a government institution---and, yes, the Fed is an arm of the state--has a 97% failure rate on its core mission (maintaining the purchasing power of the peoples' money), it's long past time to pull the plug.

Source: David Stockman, former Budget Director, Reagan administration

Sad news hearing of the passing of Ismael Ahmed, who was behind Concert of Colors in Detroit and hosted the WDET weekly show, ‘This Island Earth’

www.concertofcolors.com/about

U.S. treasury secretary shows support for Alberta separatist movement | Hanomansing Tonight Columnist Rob Breakenridge says Albertans are feeling puzzled after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent endorsed Alberta's separatist movement and said the province should join the U.S.

Ironic that Bessent was a partner at Soros Fund Management…he also weighed in on the Alberta separatism ‘movement’ which is a ridiculous non-starter as they’ll lose if they went independent

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

He didn’t seem overly confident in his answers on ABC #ThisWeek did he?

WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment

"I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to
assess the victim.

At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

“A piece of ICE” he fantasizes about that term, doesn’t he?!?

Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group: “First Davos i’ve ever heard us CEOs worried about the possibility of Europeans boycotting American goods.”

Pressure works.

Prices in NPR's basket rose 5% on average last year

“Almost half the items on NPR's shopping list got more expensive in 2025. Some price increases, notably on items made in China and Vietnam, appear to be tariff related. Other price hikes had to do with weather events.”

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Wasn’t there a movie about that? Started with ‘I’?

And that’s not even half of the corruption and chaos‼️

YouTube video by Hoog how to disable a robot dog if it attacks you

Longtime @WDET.bsky.social donor here with a suggestion for you & Ann Delisi on today’s WDET Cats and Dog fundraiser - How to stop a robot dog:

youtu.be/6MUrF_G7KlM?...

Peter Hamilton, Canadian voter who leans right on @cnn :

“Biggest thing for Canada is, we have friends all over the world.

How many friends does America have right now?” #canpoli #cdnpoli

Agreed but buy from Costco, the Walton family led to this debacle.

Any farmers out there that can speak to whether they can get info for planting season ? Or loans to help them get through this ?

Are federal offices open to even process loan requests ?

Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Tariff Spin in Leaked Call Stunner In a call with auto CEOs, the president warned them against raising prices. Isn’t that an admission that his argument for tariffs is bogus?

Trump is privately warning CEOs of automakers not to hike prices when his tariffs hit. This blows up Trump's lies about the tariffs, because it shows he knows they'll push up costs in the US, and knows "other countries" don't pay them!

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1933...

Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’ Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.

“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

At a Fort Gratiot, Michigan Aldi stored doing my best to foster international dialogue between American #MAGA and Canadian #ElbowsUp sides…was fun meeting Jim!

#ElbowsUp
#ElbowsUpCanada

#ElbowsUp
#ElbowsUpCanada

I needed this today

Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later

My last official photo.
I have been honoured to serve people for 21 years.
I am not going off into the sunset.
Steve Earle rings in my ears,
"The revolution starts now in your own hometown. What are you doing standing around?Follow your heart. The revolution starts now."
#resistance #elbowsup

Senator Mark Kelly has served our nation in the Navy, in outer space, and now in Congress. Elon Musk has done nothing in service to America and is actively working to dismantle it, weaken it, and hand the pieces to our adversaries. He is the real traitor and needs to be stopped.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on CNBC telling same MAGA lies about Canada putting 250% tariffs on U.S. dairy imports…FALSE, tariffs kick in only after the US has hit a certain Trump-negotiated quantity of tariff-free dairy sales to Canada each year – USMCA

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

X / Twitter down for a third time — live updates on the massive outage Users all over can't access the social network... again

🤡 🤣 X / Twitter is currently down for a third time — live updates on the massive outage

www.tomsguide.com/news/live/x-...

Meanwhile Texas parents are embracing the brainworm

bsky.app/profile/ther...

The 1-800-959-9338 number on the donations page doesn’t work here in London Ontario and no one answers the WDET 313 number listed in maps…wanted to donate $100 but only by phone

vivre Quebec this March 12-14!!

Canadians planning a major egg delivery to Secretary of State Marco Rubio when he visits Québec on Mar 12-14. Eggs in Canada still at $2.37/carton.

#ElbowsUpCanada
#Never51