Greetings from the Edge

Greetings from the Edge

@smokey1908.bsky.social

I’m just a girl. Standing in front of her country. Asking it to be rational.

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STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that? MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

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Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Numbers and Science are so liberal, so woke. 🤣

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

CNN: When the jobs report comes out, are you going to believe the numbers? REP. RANDY FINE: Um, I'm going to look at the numbers. Look, the people who put these numbers together are human & fallible and make mistakes C: It wasn't that they make mistakes F: Numbers always tend to benefit the left

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Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic

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We should have the House right now. Let me say it again: we should have the House. This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries. They can’t win fair, so they cheat.

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The top 1% now owns more than $54 trillion in wealth. That’s 468 times more than the bottom 50%. One man — Elon Musk — owns more than the bottom half COMBINED. This is what I mean when I talk about oligarchy.

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Newsom: He knows he’s going to lose in the midterms, and we have the opportunity to de facto end the Trump presidency in less than 18 months. That’s what’s at stake. That’s why we’re putting a stake in the ground. We’re not drawing lines just to draw lines—we’re holding the line: on democracy.

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CNN points out that June turned out to be the weakest month of jobs growth since December 2020 -- the last full month of Trump's first term

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Inflation again rising while nonfarm payrolls totaled only 73,000 for July, below even the meager market expectations for a gain of 100,000. June and May totals were revised sharply lower to near zero. The weakest pace of growth since the onset of the 2020 pandemic.

Trump managed to make it MORE expensive to build a car in the US than for manufacturers to move abroad.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Despite the fact that Ford manufactures most of its vehicles in the U.S., the company relies on parts imported from outside of the country and was also hit hard by new fees on steel and aluminum. 2/2

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Mamdani: I would say that for the former governor to have spent an entire day speaking almost exclusively about me and barely about the New Yorkers who have been killed is indicative of the very politics New Yorkers want to leave in the past.

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ATTN: If you’re a DoJ employee and have knowledge of the missing minute (or 2:53) of Epstein jail video, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

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"We're literally conducting an amazing science experiment, which is if you replaced the top of the government of the world's big hyperpower with a gang of chimpanzees from a local circus, how bad could it go?" Mike Murphy talks the long-term costs of incompetence with @timmiller.bsky.social

Still seems high…

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Trump's cratering in polls continues. Crushing new Gallup numbers: Overall approval: 37% On immigration: 38% On economy: 37% On trade: 36: Federal budget: 29% Overall approval among independents: 29% news.gallup.com/poll/692879/...

Hell yeah. Fuck yeah.

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social

Those who have a favorable view of communism: 🔴 All: 14% 🔴 18-29: 34% 🔴 30-44: 19% 🔴 45-54: 9% 🔴 55-64: 7% 🔴 65+: 2% 🔴 Black Americans: 26% 🔴 Hispanic Americans: 19% 🔴 White Americans: 12% Free Article -> usapolling.substack.com/p/gen-z-goes...

Let’s hope so

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Krishnamoorthi: My theory is that the Jeffrey Epstein stuff contributes to people’s distrust of the administration—such that they’re starting to open their eyes a little bit to the other problems that beset them.

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Replying to @fpwellman.bsky.social

With wages failing to keep pace, researchers find that consumers’ real spending power decreased by 4%, on average. The rich are getting richer and wage earning average Americans can’t even go to the movies and dinner. Explain the big picture! www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/m...

cnbc.comAmericans are losing spending power, say researchers: Most can no longer afford a 'minimal quality of life'The Ludwig Institute's Minimal Quality of Life Index found that, in 2023, only 40% of Americans earned enough money to get by in relative comfort.

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It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

Exactly!

NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

41% is still baffling to me…

Reuters@reuters.com

President Donald Trump's public approval rating on immigration fell in recent weeks to 41%, the lowest since his return to the White House, as Americans took a dour view of heavy-handed tactics, a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Wednesday found reut.rs/4nTJOQ2