Dave Kroll
Active, outdoors, biking, hiking, skiing. Nonduality, Consciousness as fundamental. Geopolitics and combatting disinfo. Boulder, CO
- Reposted by Dave KrollAnd then there's this. Trump signed a $5.5 billion gold course and resort agreement with Quatar on April 30. 10 days later he gets a half-billion airplane. apnews.com/article/trum...
- Reposted by Dave KrollSo much is misunderstood about federal spending, and where the money REALLY goes. Here’s the truth (hint: Elon isn’t helping) on the latest DeCoded! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHPk...
- Reposted by Dave Kroll“I really think fraud is not a political issue … but now, it's become political,” says Linda Miller, who spent a decade at the Government Accountability Office. She says DOGE could save taxpayers a lot of money if it focuses on foreign adversarial nation-states and organized crime rings.
- Reposted by Dave KrollTHE piece you need to read on the mega -security risk a Qatar-grifted Air Force One would represent, by @vermontgmg.bsky.social bit.ly/4jSrt3y
- Reposted by Dave KrollBribery in plain sight.
- Reposted by Dave KrollSo let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
- Reposted by Dave KrollFEMA chief David Richardson just told his staff, “Don’t get in my way, I will run right over you.” at his introductory meeting. A threat to FEMA workers who might resist Trump’s agenda. What matters now is loyalty. Obey or get steamrolled. This is how authoritarianism works—one agency at a time.
- Reposted by Dave KrollAs Trump slashes AmeriCorps, states lose a federal partner in community service. The program last year included more than 6,600 members and invested more than $44.5 million in Colorado.
- Reposted by Dave KrollYou mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.
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- Still happening regularly for me too… @bsky.app ????
- Reposted by Dave KrollIs this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.
- Reposted by Dave KrollBUFFETT this am: “Trade should not be a weapon. In the United States, we've won. I mean, we have become an incredibly important country starting from nothing 250 years ago. There’s nothing like it.”
- Reposted by Dave KrollThank you, Warren Buffet, for standing up for us! www.newsweek.com/warren-buffe...
- Reposted by Dave Kroll“I don’t think it’s a great idea to design a world where a few countries say ‘ha-ha-ha, we won’ and the rest of the countries are envious. Trade should not be a weapon.” - Warren Buffet
- Reposted by Dave KrollTake 3 minutes to listen to Draymond Green talk about Gregg Popovich
- Reposted by Dave KrollDr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
- Reposted by Dave KrollThis isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
- Reposted by Dave Kroll🚨BREAKING: Federal Court permanently BLOCKS Trump executive order targeting my former law firm, Perkins Coie. Executive Order 14230, entitled “Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP,” violates the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and is therefore null and void
- Reposted by Dave KrollCOMMENTARY: Journalism that is critical of the government is powerful. That’s why authoritarians try to stifle it. This old tie from half a world away reminds me of that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0us...
- Reposted by Dave Krollthere is no plan(et) b.
- Reposted by Dave KrollNew YouGov/Economist poll out this morning finds Trump is no longer popular on immigration. This was the last issue he had a positive net approval on. This was very easy to see coming, esp bc individual components of immigration policy are so toxic: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/should-dem...
- Reposted by Dave KrollLarry Summers told Bloomberg Trump's cuts to the IRS could cost the government $1 trillion. A Yale economist told BI that's a conservative estimate.
- Reposted by Dave KrollThe American Revolution began 250 years ago, in a blast of gunshot and a trail of colonial spin.
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- Reposted by Dave KrollThe most daming claim in this statement IMO: Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created… Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds. Correct usernames and passwords. 2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.
- Reposted by Dave KrollCartoon by Adam Douglas Thompson.
- Reposted by Dave KrollManufacturing nickanderson.substack.com
- Reposted by Dave Krollxi starting to swing the big hammers:
- *CHINA ORDERS HALT TO BOEING JET DELIVERIES AS TRADE WAR EXPANDS www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Dave KrollThe US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products.
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- Reposted by Dave KrollThe American President pardons guilty insurrectionists but allows innocent men to rot in foreign prisons.
- Reposted by Dave KrollRightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
- “Brexit did not correct any of the problems…,” said Tony Travers, London School of Economics. “Brexit made them worse… and caused profound damage to the Conservative Party, (now) rendered unelectable. Will the Republican Party be similarly factionalized after Trump?” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/w...
- Reposted by Dave KrollImagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed Are there any states offering support for their businesses ?
- Reposted by Dave KrollElections have consequences
- Reposted by Dave KrollFor days, Sen. Rand Paul has been slamming Trump tariffs. Momentum is building, public outrage is exploding — and Republican spines seem to be growing. “The whole debate is so fundamentally backwards and upside down. It’s based on a fallacy, and the fallacy is this — that somehow, in a trade,…
- Reposted by Dave KrollGot nervous for a sec. 😰
- Reposted by Dave KrollCNBC CEO SURVEY: “.. Disappointingly stupid and illogical. .. Without faith that our government knows what it is doing, it is impossible for businesses to thrive." @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/t...
- Reposted by Dave Krollwhat a visual
- Reposted by Dave KrollThis week’s Prof G Newsletter is out. www.profgmarkets.com/p/scott-s-ad...
- Reposted by Dave KrollThe Guardian reports that people at the SSA, the agency that manages benefits for nearly 70 million Americans, worry that it’s in a “death spiral” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Reposted by Dave Kroll"So Trump will impose these tariffs and sit back and wait for other world leaders to petition the king with their offerings that will ultimately expand his own power, all the while we are the collateral damage. We all get thrown under the bus; 350 million people suffer so that one man can benefit."
- Reposted by Dave KrollAs the economic news keeps coming out over the coming weeks keep one thing in mind: this is the fault of one man and didn’t need to happen.
- Reposted by Dave KrollAs seen on Slack
- Reposted by Dave KrollObama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials. Imagine if I had said to law firms that you will not be allowed into government buildings. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me
- Reposted by Dave KrollSackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE. Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
- Reposted by Dave KrollNation Ready To Be Lied To About Economy Again theonion.com/nation-...
- A good thread, worthy reminder…
- Reposted by Dave KrollThis is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.
- Reposted by Dave KrollHappy Liberation Day to all who celebrate the release of money from your retirement accounts into thin air.
- Reposted by Dave KrollDemocracy > Oligarchy
- Reposted by Dave KrollIt requires a special combination of malice and incompetence to make Canada and Denmark into America's enemies.
