Carol Mathias

Carol Mathias

@mathiasecon.bsky.social

Retired Econ teacher. Opinions are my own. Landscape pic in profile by Redwine Photography. Find the cat button on Etsy!

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A huge crater in the road: this is what the Pivdennyi (Southern) Bridge in Kyiv looks like after russia's attack last night The metro line runs over this bridge, which Taya takes to work every day

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Mark Carney on EU associate membership: "The good news is it doesn't matter about specific names or nomenclature. What matters is the difference that it will make to lives of Canadians."

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🇮🇱 Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of misleading the public about Iran’s nuclear capabilities, calling him “a man living in illusions.”👇(ALT)

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Trump’s bid to steal a DC public park and turn it into an elitist golf course has been blocked. When many institutions kowtow to the dictator, federal district courts are holding the line.

Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social

VICTORY: A federal court just put the chainsaws down at East Potomac Park The plan was to turn a public park into a private tournament course for Trump & wealthy golfers. The trees stay while we fight it out in court @democracydefendersfund.org & partners are on the case 👇- TN

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To those saying that if Democrats take control of Congress they should ‘do the right thing’ and be better than Republicans and not embark on ‘revenge’ by trying to impeach Donald Trump…I say, it’s not revenge.

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The man who has spent more money on politics in the last 2 years than George Soros has in his entire lifetime never says anything positive about his guy Ken Paxton. But he does serve up a steady diet of this stuff.

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The good news is that we are winning in court. The bad news is that we have to win every case. Trump only needs to subvert one election to break democracy.

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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Fucking facts. Democrats are held to a much higher standard than the Rapepublicans. While they "smash and grab", we're expected to clean up behind them. Every.Single.Time.

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Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

The remote rendezvous in August highlights the remarkable relationship between a son of the US president and a businessman with ties to the Kremlin. ft.trib.al/9g7wnme

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Before the 2008 crash, Wall Street hid massive financial risks using accounting tricks. Now Big Tech appears to be following the same playbook. Americans and our entire economy are at risk because Trump’s regulators are choosing to look the other way.