Steve Ross

@vibinc.bsky.social

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Father and Husband. Former blogger turned cranky old man.

A satirical parody in the style of "Where's Waldo", that asks the viewer, "Where's Mitch", referring to Former Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell of KY, who hasn't been seen in public in over three weeks.
A bluesky post from @fintwitter that says:"SPACEX SHARES OPEN AT $172 IN NASDAQ DEBUT VS IPO PRICE OF $135 PER SHARE.
HOW WE GOT HERE Over the past decade, the Democratic campaign industry and its funders have become obsessed with massive, shiny output numbers from traditional tactics. Millions of calls made and hundreds of thousands of doors knocked. Yet this fixation with output has created an illusion of progress that fails to answer the questions that determine electoral success: "how many voters were meaningfully contacted? What was the impact of those conversations, and what was the follow up? Which voters did we not reach through these traditional tactics and how are we effectively engaging those voters in other ways to ensure they turn out?
Image from the movie The Princess Bride, depicting character Vizzini played by Wallace Shawn, saying his trademark word, "inconceivable".
Image from the 2000 Presidential election recount in Florida. It shows a man, holding a magnifying glass up to a punch style ballot. The magnifying glass is positioned so his eye looks HUGE in the photograph.
An image of Muhammad Saeed Al-Sahhaf, AKA Baghdad Bob, former spokesman for the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq circa 2003.
A chart from the Migration Policy Institute that shows deportation from 1993-2024.
Headline from the Washington Post: Rubio takes on most challenging role yet: Viceroy of Venezuela
A meme image of Whoopie Goldberg from the movie Ghost, with the text, "Greenland, you in danger, girl".
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Federal Reserve Consumer Price Index since 9/2015