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BREAKING: The budget office projects that the GOP's big bill will cut taxes by $3.7 trillion and add $2.4 trillion to deficits over 10 years.
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BREAKING: The budget office projects that the GOP's big bill will cut taxes by $3.7 trillion and add $2.4 trillion to deficits over 10 years.
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“If a farm family voted for Trump, believing that his policies were good,” writes @davidfrum.bsky.social, “it seems strange that they would then demand that they, and only they, should be spared the full consequences of those policies”:
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Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"
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US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.
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Day One has turned into Day Seven, and those eggs are getting even more expensive. cnn.it/4h8W4s4
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Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 2022, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social visited Holocaust monuments across Germany to see how the country memorializes the sins of its history—and what America can learn about atonement. theatln.tc/yofyQRA4
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After five years of uncertainty and turmoil, the U.S. economy is ending 2024 in arguably its most stable condition since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Yet the economic outlook for 2025 is murky, for one major reason: President-elect Trump.
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@dkpittsburghsports.com Give Pickens his $$ back! They all do this on first down
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From @theathletic.bsky.social: No 4 Nations Face-Off team is deeper than Team USA. This is America's golden hockey era — and its tournament to lose. nyti.ms/3ZBIPKi
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Local union leaders in Pittsburgh are furious after Trump voiced his intent to block the U.S. Steel-Nippon deal on Monday. Steelworkers Local 2227 Vice President Jason Zugai, who spoke at a Trump rally in October, said Trump's statement was "frustrating" and "like a gut punch.”
@levarburton.bsky.social Why is there intermittent dubbing of your voice on Trivial Pursuit? It's very obvious and I figure it's because of a bad live recording.
Wow, where to begin with this madness
Trump HHS nominee RFK Jr.: If you give Black children “resilience” then “the inevitable racism” will “bounce off” them like they are “the Avengers” because “they will be immune to it” and “then we don’t have to stop racism altogether, because we’re never going to be able to do that.”
Prevalent in the rural North too
"Now, 60 years later, ProPublica has found that many of these private schools, known as 'segregation academies,' still operate across the South — and many are once again benefiting from public dollars." By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social / @mrsimon22.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/miss...
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