Kacoco 🌻

Kacoco 🌻

@kacoco1.bsky.social

🏴‍☠️Country over party; Native Floridian; No cultists; RTs are not endorsements. No DMs (Will block). Go Noles!!!❤️💛🖤

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Garrett M. Graff
@vermontgmg.bsky.social

The funniest thing about the Trump admin is how all of the "eff your feelings" and "cry harder lib" alpha males turn out to be the whiniest saddest snowflakes, unable to handle a negative picture and walking about in ill-fitting shoes to not upset Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

washingtonpost.comPentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photosDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staff took issue with photos taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out press photographers from two subsequent news conferences.

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Justin Wolfers
@justinwolfers.bsky.social

I'm not quite sure what to call this — a video essay, an explainer, an econ lesson, or something else. It's my attempt to explain the economics of war — economic theories of how and why war occurs — and to use that framework to better understand our current moment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=416b...

youtube.comForecasts About War Are Usually Wrong—Here’s The Pattern, And Why You Should Worry | Justin WolfersWhat if the most reassuring line in politics—“this will be quick and controlled”—is actually the biggest warning sign? War is brutally costly, so the economist’s puzzle is simple: if both sides know…

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Adam Klasfeld
@klasfeldreports.com

Good morning form New York. As Trump's war in Iran rages, prosecutors want to close the case of the biggest Iran sanctions-busting scheme in U.S. history. Trump and Erdogan spent roughly a decade trying to end it. I'm in federal court to watch a hearing about the deal. Background buff.ly/9wcGHFz

allrisenews.comTrump DOJ wants to end biggest Iran sanctions-busting case in U.S. historyTurkey's state-run Halkbank allegedly helped launder $20 billion in Iranian oil money. Trump spent nearly a decade trying to kill the case.

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Catherine Rampell
@crampell.bsky.social

A decades-long campaign to prevent infants from dying in their sleep has become a casualty of the Trump administration’s federal workforce cuts, and doctors fear it could contribute to more infant deaths at a time when mortalities have already been rising. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

washingtonpost.comFederal purge guts infant death prevention campaign, alarming doctorsDoctors fear the potential impact of the Trump budget cuts, with the number of babies dying of SIDS or other unexpected causes already on the rise.

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Brian Tyler Cohen
@briantylercohen.bsky.social

The European Union and China are now starting negotiations to abolish EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. This is a major strategic failure for the United States.

reuters.comEU, China start talks on lifting EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, Handelsblatt reportsThe European Union and China have begun negotiations on the abolition of EU tariffs on imports of Chinese electric cars, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Thursday.

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Craig Pittman
@craigtimes.bsky.social

New College of #Florida backtracks, announces it's "postponing" the appearance of UK comic Russell Brand after he's charged with rape. They're citing both logistical challenges and "the current media climate" www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/l...

heraldtribune.comPostponed: New College backtracks after reaffirming need for Brand 'free speech' panelNew College of Florida administrators change tune, delay Russell Brand free speech panel citing media climate as a distraction from event's purpose.

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Justin Wolfers
@justinwolfers.bsky.social

Biggest mistakes I'm seeing in early reporting (thread): 1. Tariffmageddon isn't over: Lotsa tariffs to account for, but the average tariff rate is only down around one quarter. So most of the pain of Liberation Day is still with us.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social

WOW so while all the Trump tariff hoopla was going on Pete Hegseth's Dept. of Defense banned books on the Holocaust, feminism, civil rights and racism, oh and Maya Angelou’s autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" from the U.S. Naval Academy library apnews.com/article/navy...

apnews.comMaya Angelou memoir, Holocaust book are among those pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purgeBooks on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U...

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Craig Pittman
@craigtimes.bsky.social

Column: Stooge alert! #Florida's newly appointed U.S. Senator, Ashley Moody, wants SPECIALTY courts (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution) that would be fit for a dictator. www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinio...

palmbeachpost.comTrump stooge alert: Moody's idea of "specialty courts" has a totalitarian ring to itU.S. Sen. Ashley Moody of Florida says federal judges need to be replaced by a "specialty court" that handles challenges to Trump's executive orders.

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Rachel Maddow
@maddow.bsky.social

"If people start calling Donald Trump ‘Liz Truss in drag,’ it will be because he blew up his government with a financial crisis entirely of his own making..." www.marketwatch.com/story/iwas-i...

marketwatch.comI was in London for the Liz Truss debacle. 5 lessons for Trump — and all of us.If people start calling Donald Trump “Liz Truss in drag,” it won’t be because of his policies, but because he blew up his government with a financial crisis entirely of his own making.

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Craig Pittman
@craigtimes.bsky.social

Gee, it's not as if hurricane-prone #Florida has people in it who speak any other languages.

Naomi Feinstein@naomifeinstein.bsky.social

For the foreseeable future, the National Weather Service will no longer provide weather and forecast alerts in languages other than English.

miaminewtimes.comNational Weather Service Suspends Forecast Alerts in SpanishA NWS spokesperson confirmed that the agency's contract for translation services lapsed on April 1 and has yet to be renewed.
Kacoco 🌻
@kacoco1.bsky.social

A violent felon whose sentence was commuted by President Trump was arrested Friday and charged with violating the terms of his supv rel after he was accused of a string of crimes including assaulting a 3-year-old child. Great job, America! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/n...

nytimes.comFelon Freed by Trump Is Sent Back to Prison After Child Assault Charge (Gift Article)Jonathan Braun, a drug smuggler, on Friday made an obscene gesture toward people in the courtroom and complained about his legal representation.

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David Corn
@davidcorn.bsky.social

Chasing after his fake donors was a fun story. I don’t think we ever learned the full extent of his fraud.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social

JUST IN: Justice Department seeks 87 month sentence for George Santos.