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@Doomer_Armus @junior_miller

@Teslarati Yup.

Who uses a Wall Connector in their garage to charge their Tesla at home?

@AndrewSiciliano This is a fact.

Andor is the greatest Star Wars show/film ever made. Yes, it's better than Empire Strikes Back. Enjoy your May the 4th.

@DreamDividend Thoroughly explained. Thank you for the post.

Here are all the ways Trump has increased prices in the last 12 months 1) Tariffs (the biggest, most direct driver) What happened: Trump imposed broad new import tariffs (often 10%–50%+) across many goods in 2025. How that raises prices: Tariffs are basically a tax on imports U.S. companies pay them → pass costs to consumers Evidence: ~90% of tariff costs were paid by U.S. consumers and businesses Tariffs raised overall prices by about 2.3% in the short run Fed research found tariffs added direct “dollar-for-dollar” price increases They accounted for ~10.9% of inflation in 2025 Real-world examples: Appliances, electronics, and furniture prices rose noticeably Steel/aluminum tariffs increased costs of goods like appliances 👉 Bottom line: This is the clearest policy-driven price increase. ⸻ 2) Higher costs for U.S. businesses → pass-through inflation Tariffs don’t just hit imports—they ripple through the economy. Mechanism: Higher input costs (materials, parts) Supply chain disruptions Companies raise prices to maintain margins Evidence: Imported goods became ~6.6% more expensive; domestic goods also rose ~3.8% Companies faced hundreds of billions in extra costs, much of it passed on 👉 Even “Made in USA” products can get more expensive because inputs cost more. ⸻ 3) Trade war / retaliation effects Other countries often respond with their own tariffs. How that raises prices: U.S. exporters lose markets → lower efficiency Supply chains shift → higher costs Less competition → higher domestic prices Evidence: Trade restrictions reached the highest level in decades Economists widely expected higher inflation + lower real income from tariffs ⸻ 4) Energy prices (partly tied to foreign policy) What happened: Oil prices spiked during conflict with Iran Impact: Gas prices jumped ~40% to ~$4+ per gallon Energy feeds into: transportation food manufacturing 👉 This isn’t purely a “policy lever,” but geopolitical decisions contributed. ⸻ 5) Interest rates staying higher (indirect effect) Tariffs → inflation → Federal Reserve response. Mechanism: Higher inflation → Fed keeps rates higher Higher borrowing costs →: mortgages car loans credit cards Evidence: Inflation remained above target (~3–3.5%) Policies contributed to higher inflation and interest rates overall ⸻ 6) Specific sector tariffs (targeted price spikes) Some industries saw very direct price increases: Clothing (especially hit by tariffs) Appliances & electronics Potentially pharmaceuticals (proposed tariffs up to 100%) 👉 These cause uneven inflation—some categories jump more than others.

@IAmSophiaNelson I’m woke AF. Proud of it.

If being "woke" means what it meant in the '90s when the term was first introduced. It meant to be aware. Awake. And astute about subtle and overt racism. I am WOKE as hell! And proud of it! It never meant what MAGA has adapted it to mean: a war on white rights. And white Americans. Or their freedom. #America250 #RedefiningFreedom

Ohioans: do not vote for ANY Republican in this state. EVERYTHING that is wrong with Ohio falls at the feet of Republicans because they have been in power forever in this state. They also refuse to honor the will of the voters.

@grandmabear44 You get a follow and a retweet for this post.

@TonyGrossi Just slogged through 18 at Forest Hills in Elyria.

Great temp but another grind on NEOhio courses. Wind, high rough.

@PhenoMVP Harden needs to shave his beard before the game tonight to change his playoff mojo.

Dawg if we lose to the Raptors tomorrow with THIS path to the finals…

@BGNHoops If I were Harden I would shave the beard before this game tonight. Switch up the mojo.

Harden has a chance to completely change the “doesn’t show up in the playoffs” narrative if he has a masterclass in Game 7. This Game 7 will be one of the most important games of his career. I know he won’t let me down.

@NickCaminoWKYC They need to win one game at home.

The East feels wide-open suddenly which makes the #Cavs situation all that more frustrating…

@SteveOnSpeed $2.2 million

How much net worth do you need to consider yourself wealthy?

@DreamDividend 23% will gladly pay $7 a gallon, have no healthcare plan, ignore grift and molestation accusations, and illegal wars as long as Trump demonizes the “others”.

And 23% are….. illiterate, stubborn, or lost?

@DailyMail This snake oil salesman has never won an election.

Bombshell clip of struggling Republican saying Jesus is NOT the son of God goes viral in crucial red state race trib.al/VAwQrdl

@ChildPleez007 Ditto.

SAME!!!!

@MrPitbull07 @Darlene35084473 This is a great post that taught this old dog a thing or two about his favorite artist of all time, 💜

Prince was thirteen years old when his father put him out of the house. He spent weeks moving between relatives, couches, and corners of Minneapolis that offered no permanent place for him. Then his best friend Andre brought him home to a brick house at 1244 Russell Avenue North on the north side of the city. The house was already crowded. Bernadette Anderson was raising six children alone, working long hours at the YWCA while trying to earn a degree she barely had time to study for. She let him stay anyway. She understood what it meant to have nowhere to go. Bernadette had been a foster child herself, separated from her sisters after her parents became ill with tuberculosis, moving between homes as a child. She had married at fourteen and had her first child at the same age. By the early 1970s she was a single mother of six, working constantly, building a life through determination and very little help. She called his mother, talked it through, and made space. He shared Andre’s bedroom for a few months. Then they cleared the basement, and it became his. That basement had concrete walls, low ceilings, and little light. It had a stereo, a piano, and whatever instruments they could find. Two radio stations did most of the teaching. KQRS-FM played Joni Mitchell and Carlos Santana late at night, and KUXL-AM carried the funk and soul records that would shape his sound. Bernadette had one rule. The same one she gave her own children. He had to finish school. Beyond that, she let him be himself. He was small, barely five foot two, with large eyes and a quiet presence that only changed when he picked up an instrument. In that basement, with Andre on bass, Linda on keyboards, and Morris Day on drums, the band that would become Grand Central practiced nearly every night. Bernadette would come home from work, hear the noise through the floor, shake her head, and start cooking. "It sounded like a lot of noise," she later said. "But after a few years, I understood how serious it was." Jimmy Jam came through that basement. So did Terry Lewis, Alexander O'Neal, and Morris Day, who would later lead The Time. That basement in North Minneapolis became the birthplace of what would be called the Minneapolis Sound, one of the most distinctive styles in American music. In 1977, he left 1244 Russell Avenue with a Warner Bros. contract that gave him creative control over his first three albums and ownership of his publishing rights. He was eighteen years old. The deal was unheard of. His debut album For You was released on April 7, 1978. He played all twenty-seven instruments himself. Six years later, in the summer of 1984, Prince became the first artist in American history to hold the number one film, the number one album, and the number one single at the same time. All three were Purple Rain. He was twenty-six. By 1995, he was famous enough to challenge Warner Bros. publicly. He wrote the word SLAVE on his face and changed his name to a symbol, because the company still owned the master recordings of music that had begun on Bernadette’s basement floor. He spent two decades fighting for those rights. He won. What the public did not fully see while he was alive was that the boy who had once been taken in spent his life quietly taking others in. After Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012, Prince invited Van Jones to Paisley Park. From that came Yes We Code, a program to prepare low-income young people of color for careers in technology. Prince funded it quietly, asking that his name stay out of the spotlight. After Freddie Gray died in Baltimore in 2015, Prince flew in and performed a Rally 4 Peace concert. He debuted a new song, "Baltimore," and used the proceeds to fund jobs for local youth. He sent money to families in need. He supported organizations bringing solar energy to underserved communities. He helped musicians who had fallen on hard times. He made calls to people in trouble and never spoke about it publicly.

He dropped out of the presidential race after a 4th place finish in Iowa. He essentially quit DOGE on day one. He relocated his business interests to Texas shortly before announcing his run for governor. How long before he quits on Ohio?

@PrezLives2022 Did someone mention Texas?

Vivek Ramaswamy who moved his business to Texas, called Ohioans lazy and mediocre, and stated Ohio is a good state, but not the best state. Now this guy wants to be my governor. Ohio is not fooled. #VoteAmyActon

@DavidPepper Too bad the party Vivek hopes to represent are antivax loons

Vivek Ramaswamy is a shameless scammer. While he has spent his entire campaign attacking Dr. Acton and Gov. DeWine for their response to the pandemic, it turns out Vivek himself—a biotech billionaire— 👉🏼 made millions on the COVID vaccine 👉🏼 wanted to segregate the population based on vaccine status 👉🏼 wanted to establish a national COVID-19 registry 👉🏼served on Ohio’s COVID response team and then paid to have it scrubbed from Wikipedia Ohioans need to know the truth about this guy.

@TeslaNewswire Sweet. Is that a wrap?

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