Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

The Trump Administration “is using this case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop the Trump administration from imprisoning any people it wants anywhere else in the world.”

Loading quoted Bluesky post...
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

watch the video. thank goodness this 52-year-old seamstress, who stays remarkably composed for the sake of her daughter, is no longer somehow a danger to us all.

Loading quoted Bluesky post...
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

i guess we have been deliberated.

Loading quoted Bluesky post...
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

if Trump won the 2020 election, doesn’t the 22nd Amendment mean he couldn’t be elected in 2024 and therefore is not President? oh, too bad!

Loading quoted Bluesky post...
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

pretty far down the list of transparently lawless and abhorrent things this administration has done in two and a half months! but definitely on the list, for sure!

in reply to this
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

i hope your day was tariffic and not tarible.

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

surely they can paint this tape to 10%. so sad, so close.

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

was the tariff rate shift intraday, or if you paid the steeper duty this morning do you get a partial refund?

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

i remember when people used to say China’s stock market wasn’t really investable, because its movements were dominated by unpredictable choices by its government.

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

i guess there's going to be a "manufacturing boom" in a bunch of countries China very inexpensively ships to.

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

if we think of the economy as a lambo, the administration as the teenage scion of the emir.

in reply to this
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

does this mean we are no longer liberated?

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

you have it right. in the US it's generally used to refer to the full nonfinancial economy, not just retail.

in reply to this
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

our special relationship is we like to get high on main street together.

in reply to this
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

it’s really funny what people can persuade themselves of…

in reply to this
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

it’s really funny people actually persuaded themselves Musk would be the voice of sanity. i mean, he tweets. he has for a long time.

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

“it turns out that a statistical aggregate economic gain does not produce an increase in real world human well being if all of that statistical gain is captured by a single, tiny powerful interest group.” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-interna...

Link Preview: 
An International Minimum Wage: Tariffs? Why? Hello? Hello?

An International Minimum Wage

Link Preview: An International Minimum Wage: Tariffs? Why? Hello? Hello?
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

how long before this all shows up in prices at Walmart?

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

“He has to blame immigrants and the disabled, because to blame anything or anyone else would be to question capitalism. Which cannot be done.” @chrisdillow.bsky.social stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...

Link Preview: 
Governments vs capitalists: It's a nice irony that one of the most capitalistic nations on earth should be one of the few which has a government which is acting against the interests of capital. This isn't, however, merely embar...

Governments vs capitalists

Link Preview: Governments vs capitalists: It's a nice irony that one of the most capitalistic nations on earth should be one of the few which has a government which is acting against the interests of capital. This isn't, however, merely embar...
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

mastodon.social/@Meyerweb/11...

Eric A. Meyer (@Meyerweb@mastodon.social)