Brian

Brian

@elderbrian.bsky.social

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In case the distinction between tRump, Hillbilly and Zelenskyy wasn't already clear, please watch the Fox interview on Bret Baier. Zelenskyy is a real man in a real fight. Orange guy is a crude, infantile, insecure pretender.

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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.

washingtonpost.comGutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businessesU.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.

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JUST IN: The U.S. added 256,000 jobs in December, surpassing expectations and bringing the total for 2024 to 2.2 million. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.1%, and wages grew 3.9% over the past year, far outpacing inflation.

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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.

nytimes.comThe Economy Is Finally Stable. Will That Change With Trump?President-elect Donald J. Trump’s proposals on tariffs, immigration, taxes and deregulation may have far-reaching and contradictory effects, adding uncertainty to forecasts.

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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.”

triblive.com'Gut punch': Trump upsets local union leaders by opposing U.S. Steel-Nippon dealOn Monday night, President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his opposition to the proposed $14.9 billion sale of U.S. Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel Co., vowing to block the deal when he takes offic...

Wow, where to begin with this madness

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social

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

Anna Clark@annaleighclark.bsky.social

"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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