Precisely

Billionaires are deliberately jacking up prices. Why? To make it difficult-to-impossible for people to buy sustaining resources. Why? Because it is easier for billionaires to have control over people. Desperate people do desperate things. Desperate people will do just about anything to eat.

Especially in these places, because a great deal of the goods are imported.

Exactly!!

Excellent point about the consumer being the onus-bearing party in tariffs.

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I love brain-y games. This cryptogram game is one of them; and, when one completes the cryptogram, one gets a quote from a prominent person in history. Fun AND educational.

I love @rbreich.bsky.social He's such a master at stating facts so succinctly that they can't even be twisted to be misconstrued. Please follow him. He's a true champion for Democracy and government that works for the people.

Americans, not other countries, paid Trump's tariffs in 2025 finance.yahoo.com/news/america...

Jesus Christ said to care for the poor because we would always have them. Right-wing populism blames the wrong group for poverty. Greedy people cause poverty. Every. Single. Time.

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French prosecutors are reviewing the Epstein files and ties to French nationals to determine any criminal wrongdoing.

None of this is normal

Minnesota shooting of Venezuelan man is the latest where video evidence contradicts ICE accounts www.yahoo.com/news/article...

An interesting historical fact: there was virtually no patriarchy among Native American Tribes. Tribes were either matriarchal or egalitarian. Our Founding Fathers established an egalitarian form of government that they expected would be reflected and protectd by society at large.

So the United States will only use empty warehouses to house people it wants to terrorize, not people it wants to shelter from the cold. We really are not a very good-natured country.

Teen girl whose Chicago father was detained in an immigration case dies from a rare cancer www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Just an interesting tidbit: I have always been distrustful of John Roberts. With the recent issues that Trump is focusing on regarding deregulation, one doesn't have to wonder why SCOTUS allows him to do what he wants. Here's where it started.

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Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."

When retirement is 19 credit cards and $40,000 in debt away finance.yahoo.com/news/retirem...

ABC: Do you still have confidence in Pam Bondi as AG? MASSIE: I don't think Pam Bondi has confidence in Pam Bondi. She wasn't confident enough to engage in anything but name calling in a hearing. So no, I don't. She was responsible for the document production.

One of the more striking features of, not only the #EpsteinFiles, but also recent history, is the presence of, & the increase in, women as pedophiles. Psychologists/law enforcement have minimized women's roles in the sexual abuse of others. I know how wrong they have always been.

SUNY New Paltz: “On Feb. 4, former national security official and intelligence expert at the CIA Steven Cash gave a lecture on the threats facing democracy in the United States today.” oracle.newpaltz.edu/former-cia-a...

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

The stock market is not the economy. 🤷

Ghislaine Maxwell lied on her US citizenship application. She checked the no box when asked if she had ever procured anyone for prostitution. She had been trafficking since 1994. This could get another 25 years added to her sentence.

Definitely never address him as president. #USDemocracy

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A quick minute of #scarf #knitting on 2/14/25. #knitsky

People who engage in arts and crafts are true artists. They bring beauty through their gifts. Please appropriately appreciate them.

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I think we are going to have a Democratic-controlled Senate. And all we will need for the leadership of that Democratic Senate to do is hold actual, real, impeachment trials. As the Constitution requires. Not the bullshit fake trials like the ones that the Senate held in 2020 and 2021...

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Excellent question, #SCOTUS

Excellent observation

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Two ICE-Gestapo killers have been placed on leave after lying under oath about a violent encounter they supposedly faced during their seige in Minneapolis. They face termination and criminal charges. Good, they aren’t agents, they are terrorists. They should all be sent to jail.

Republicans are manipulating every government report coming out of the Trump administration. Republicans are pumping billions of taxpayer $$ into the stock markets. Noticed when the markets crash like yesterday, Trump just releases a positive report to bounce them back, like today! Manipulation.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Absolutely pathetic and weak...."the right people " always translates to criminals for the Trump regime.

Truly a pathetic display of shameless self-promotion & a bit curious, especially on the heels of the history-making #BadBunny performance. Backstreet Boys Make Petition for Super Bowl Halftime Show, Say They'd Bring Out Britney Spears, Other 2000s Stars (Exclusive) www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Happy Birthday to an American hero, Frederick Douglass. Let us invoke his tenacious and righteous spirit.