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LizDel

@lizdel.bsky.social

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Retired librarian, information professional, and scientist. Wife, mother and Nana. A passion for cooking, genealogy, exploring and appreciating the beauty of nature, and reading good books.

  1. Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia?

    Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie.

    (Seriously, that’s the answer)

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  2. Reason 4857 why health care should never be for profit: AI DEATH PANELS.

    This is the same kind of program used to deny claims at United Health, and they want to use this for VA claims, too.

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  3. (1/X) Sometimes people ask "why does this supposedly reasonable Republican back Trump or why does this centrist spend all of this time attacking the left at a time when the right is destroying the country?"

    The answer is simple: it's because they're assholes.

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  4. "Not how children are supposed to look," says the desiccated leprechaun with the worm in his brain, the whale head on his roof, the bear cub in his trunk, and millions in his pocket from killing children with antivax propaganda.

    WTF RFK Jr.: "I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges...and I know that’s not how our children are supposed to look." www.c-span.org/program/publ...

    Screenshot of a tweet from C-SPAN https://x.com/cspan/status/1960802249053233248?s=46
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  5. Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.

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