Trisha

Trisha

@trishei.bsky.social

💙A blue soul no longer living in a blue dot within a sea of AZ crimson. The Emerald Isle is now home.🇮🇪 💙| Retired math and science educator | Lifelong Democrat | Artist | Flower farmer | Traveler | | #Resist | I swear a lot | BLM |💙

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Where is the Republican budget? By law it was required to be passed and in place by Sept 30th. Anyone seen it? Got any idea what might be in it? Why the f-ck is the House taking a month long vacation without getting their work done? Dems ready to negotiate. Rs remain on vacation.

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As Heather Cox Richardson writes, The Epstein story is about more than the sex trafficking of girls. It's also about rich and privileged people evading accountability for breaking the law." People like Donald Trump, in other words.

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🚨BREAKING: In a major escalation, Iran’s parliament approved closing the Strait of Hormuz, according to state TV. That decision will likely require approval from Iran’s top security body, the Supreme National Security Council. About 20% of global oil consumption passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

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Replying to @aoc.bsky.social

So, states should be expected to deal with small issues like Cat 5 hurricanes which only kill a few thousand people and only cause a few billion dollars in damage. But they need marines to help manage a few cars on fire and some broken windows. Got it.

Insanity.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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To understand what the GOP is forcing through at midnight: •Gutting $880 billion from Medicaid •Gutting $500 billion from Medicare •Gutting funding for SNAP (food assistance) •Gutting clean energy protections, which will also cost 400,000 jobs 1/2

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Jamie Dimon says the *best case* scenario for the US is now a recession. Cool, cool. From the best economy in the world to a self-inflicted recession in 4 months. Gotta be some kind of record.

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It’s still going to cost them “less” to outsource while it costs us “more” to purchase goods. They dgaf.

adonis (and cait)@cait.bsky.social

you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead

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Replying to @mcuban.bsky.social

"More than 1,200 scientists who responded to a Nature poll — three-quarters of the total respondents — are considering leaving the United States following the disruptions prompted by Trump. Europe and Canada were among the top choices for relocation." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leavingMore than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

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So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social

International tourism is worth $200 billion every year to the US economy. Sorry, *was.