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It's going to be interesting to see how much nonsense, like many of his choices, is tolerated. Some one or some thing will be just a step too far, wonder what it will be.

Some people won't be confirmed, but it sounds there is no "too far" with him in general

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Joyce Vance‬ ‪@joycewhitevance.bsky.social‬
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Jane Mayer writes that Trump DoD nominee Pete Hegseth was drunk at work in prior jobs & tolerated & participated in sexual harassment while ignoring at least one employee complaint of an assault. Gotta go.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-des ... et-history

He drugged and raped a woman ("allegedly"). A bit beyond sexual harrassment.

He is also a white suplemacist who was removed from Biden's inauguration because his superiors thought he was a threat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth

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This is the complement to the import map that was previously posted and shows exports on a state by state basis.

I had to look up what Nevada is trading with Switzerland. It's gold (the world's biggest refinery is in Switzerland)

[Suliso]

What is being sold to Belgium and France?

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What is being sold to Belgium and France?

Connecticut to France: Aircraft, spacecraft and parts (Sikorsky, Rotair and a few aerospace companies are based in CT) - I think mostly helicopters (?)
Delaware to Belgium: Pharma
Utah to Hong Kong - also Gold
Louisiana Brazil: Imports and exports raw materials + imports coffee
Hawaii to Australia: Fruit, coffee, nuts


It looks like this map is looking at volume of trade rather than volume of imports, which is what is going to matter more in the immediate. If you look at imports only (I couldn't find a recent pretty map), top importers are China, Mexico, Canada and Germany (+Japan for Hawaii).

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emptywheel
‪@emptywheel.bsky.social‬
The white paper Hunter's attorneys released has a bit more detail on how the local state trooper worked with the gun shop to release the gun form in advance of the 2020 election.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...



Prosecutors contest some of this.

But the allegation that the gun shop owner doctored an ATF form and then released it in 2020 raises REAL questions abt disparate treatment with Alexander Smirnov, who is basically accused of doing same.

[ti-amie]

What is being sold to Belgium and France?

Connecticut to France: Aircraft, spacecraft and parts (Sikorsky, Rotair and a few aerospace companies are based in CT) - I think mostly helicopters (?)
Delaware to Belgium: Pharma
Utah to Hong Kong - also Gold
Louisiana Brazil: Imports and exports raw materials + imports coffee
Hawaii to Australia: Fruit, coffee, nuts


It looks like this map is looking at volume of trade rather than volume of imports, which is what is going to matter more in the immediate. If you look at imports only (I couldn't find a recent pretty map), top importers are China, Mexico, Canada and Germany (+Japan for Hawaii).

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-us ... 21352.html

[mmmm8]

What is being sold to Belgium and France?

Connecticut to France: Aircraft, spacecraft and parts (Sikorsky, Rotair and a few aerospace companies are based in CT) - I think mostly helicopters (?)
Delaware to Belgium: Pharma
Utah to Hong Kong - also Gold
Louisiana Brazil: Imports and exports raw materials + imports coffee
Hawaii to Australia: Fruit, coffee, nuts


It looks like this map is looking at volume of trade rather than volume of imports, which is what is going to matter more in the immediate. If you look at imports only (I couldn't find a recent pretty map), top importers are China, Mexico, Canada and Germany (+Japan for Hawaii).

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-us ... 21352.html

That one's from 2015. The latest I found was 2019 (similar data) but I'd imagine things may have changed both due to time and COVID supply-chain issues.

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[Owendonovan]

In a way, I enjoy this f you from Biden. In another way, the pardon is being used for all the wrong reasons. What's the point of laws if anyone who has broken ANY of them, can get a get out of jail free card if grease the right hand?

[ti-amie]

Who's gonna tell him?

[Owendonovan]

As a gay man who lived through AIDS in 80's and 90's, there will never be anything the GOP can redeem themselves in my view. I can't with gay republicans, I have mostly contempt for them.

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Sandi Bachom
‪@sandibachom.bsky.social‬
As a mother, 37 years sober, and lost my only son to addiction, I will tell you, if Biden hadn't pardoned Hunter, they would have killed him. They would put him on trial, they would have made his life a living hell, they want him to use again. He was the #1 target for FOUR years at the rallies.

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Michael Martinez :verified:
@michael_martinez@c.im
Joe Biden did the right thing in pardoning his son Hunter, who was legitimately targeted for a political-motivated investigation. They couldn't get him on the crimes they kept going on about for years and finally had to settle for a gun control violation (lying on an application) and tax evasion.

The incoming GOP-controlled Congress was going to make hay from the Hunter Biden story for the next 2-4 years. At the same time, they have actively buried Donald Trump's treason, child rape, attempt to overthrow the government, and the fact that he tanked the U.S. economy TWICE the last time he was President.