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The US is rapidly becoming the most embarassing country on Earth, a position previously held by Argentina, a country where a guy who talks to dog spirits started beefing with a 9 year old with autism

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Let’s Not Lose Focus….

submitted 12 hours ago • 165 comments

DEAN: Do you know when this country actually had a trade surplus? LUTNICK: About a hundred years ago DEAN: It was during the Great Depression. That's a direction none of us wants to go.

submitted 22 hours ago • 63 comments

I’m enjoying this as much as anyone, but seems very likely they do some big show of squashing the beef within, like, a week.

submitted 17 hours ago • 192 comments

The cruelty is, as ever, the point.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

The Florida Bar has filed misconduct charges against Attorney General Pam Bondi. She has been in violation of multiple ethics rules since being sworn in.

submitted 16 hours ago • 830 comments

A very very lucrative trade would be to buy a lot of Tesla stock right before some announcement of a rapprochement. If, yk, you happened to have advance knowledge of one.

submitted 17 hours ago • 74 comments

Apropos of nothing in particular: When narcissists reach the Discard Phase in a relationship, they seek to annihilate their previous source of narcissistic supply.

submitted 18 hours ago • 43 comments

Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder.

submitted 15 hours ago • 6 comments

This story is wild: Rather than just comply with court orders; the Trump admin has ICE offices and detainees living in a shipping container in Djibouti unde threat of rocket attacks wapo.st/4kPIACX

submitted 15 hours ago • 57 comments

This is f*cked up! Stories of ICE luring immigrants to hearings just to arrest them keep coming—now they’re going after kids. Martir Garcia Lara, a fourth grader from Southern California, went to a hearing in Houston with his dad. Instead of an update, they were both detained and separated by ICE.

submitted 18 hours ago • 161 comments

MMMMmmm oh god oh yeah that’s the good stuff like that

submitted 17 hours ago • 68 comments

Interview with Harvard's 2025 valedictorian, a Chinese national, while two American men fight over nothing in the background

submitted 23 hours ago • 378 comments

CNBC: You think that's gonna go through -- telling the Federal Reserve that can't pay interest to banks anymore? TED CRUZ: For nearly 100 years, until the financial crisis, the Fed paid no interest on reserves CNBC: It was put in place to ensure the stability of the financial system

submitted 1 day ago • 155 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1644 comments

oh my good lord

submitted 23 hours ago • 79 comments

DEAN: Did your department have any worry about the president growing his own business while on the job? LUTNICK: My trip to the Middle East was extraordinary. It was amazing. DEAN: I'm sure. I'm asking you, did the question of conflict of interest come up? LUTNICK: No DEAN: It is grotesque

submitted 22 hours ago • 213 comments

Another alleged TdA bust amounts to ... no evidence of TdA. www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/t...

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

submitted 22 hours ago • 2921 comments

Sounds like a job for “Too Late” Powell. 🤡

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

Incredibly cool that private employers offering low wage jobs are also providing access to affordable health insurance now! I missed the announcement, but great news all around!

submitted 23 hours ago • 50 comments

Texas hospital repeatedly sent a woman who was bleeding and in pain home without ending her life-threatening ectopic pregnancy. She ultimately lost part of her reproductive system. A fed investigation last year found hospital had violated the law. But not so under new Trump admin guidance

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

It’s not hoarding if you call it an 'asset class.‘

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

The New York Times insists on treating Christopher Rufo not as a far-right activist who has been successfully pushing an ideologically defined rightwing agenda, but as a respectable conservative voice and a serious interlocutor on key political issues. That is an active, deliberate choice.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

A functioning opposition party might be able to combine “We’ve got 10 million people that are not going to be on Medicaid,” together with “Well, we’re all going to die” into a pretty effective ad.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Cyber resilience is not a luxury for modern nations; it’s a strategic necessity. Which makes President Trump’s recent decision to gut the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) even more dangerous. New from @markhertling.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/slashing-c...

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Some economists question accuracy of recent US inflation data due to BLS staffing shortages. Hiring freeze forced survey to cut back on # of businesses where it checks prices; govt statisticians had to use a less precise method for guessing price changes more extensively than they did in the past.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Does Barro think labor unions in New York City were weaker in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s when the city was building things more easily? Is that the argument?

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Once a TV huckster, always a TV huckster. These aren't "audiences." They're people. The reason these folks didn't go on the exchanges in the first place is because they don't make enough money. Oh, and they're cutting the ACA subsidies too so even more people will lose insurance.

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

In a sweeping order, Trump banned any travel from 12 countries: Afghanistan, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. The justification for targeting mostly African and Muslim-majority countries was a mess. https://trib.al/gwpjwWt

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

The question is indeed raised and the easy answer is: all politicians lie but even more so than what we are accustomed to, it is the correct and perfectly reasonable position to take that when it comes to what this administration says or does, the response is: Do Not Trust; Verify.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Dems have a real opportunity to portray Trump as wasting resources picking up Moms and constructions workers rather than going after real criminals

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Lee: Would say it would be “illegal DEI” for a lesson plan on the Tulsa race massacre? McMahon: I’d have to get back to you Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is? McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.

submitted 1 day ago • 690 comments

New, from me: A Brown student built an AI-powered harassment machine of university staff. When the university investigated (and cleared) him, he was presented as a free speech victim. He became a right-wing celebrity, which was his goal all along. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

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Xi is aggressively owning trump right now and Xi isn’t even really doing anything; it’s like when I’m playing tag with my toddler, I just walk slowly and wait for him to trip on his own foot

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Evildoers of the world! See the face of America's mighty counterterrorism program and cower in fear! This bro means business!

submitted 1 day ago • 195 comments

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are just making shit up now!

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CBO now estimates that combination of Trump's budget bill + other parts of the GOP health agenda (e.g. allowing enhanced ACA tax credits to expire as scheduled) will increase # of uninsured people by 16 million. This is a backdoor Obamacare repeal by any other name www.cbo.gov/system/files...

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“.. thanks to his work as an adviser for the US crypto exchange, according to his financial disclosure.” @bloomberg.com $COIN www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.

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Weakest ADP employment since March 2023.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

As i noted here, Trump is trying to cover up the purging of non-whites from the federal workforce by refusing to share demographic data donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-politi...

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🇺🇸❗️ Kellogg stated that US sanctions against Russia are ready, and Congress and White House are ready to approve them: 🗣️ "I spoke with Senator Lindsey Graham. The bill is called the "Russia Sanctions Act of 2025." And I think Graham is ready to apply them."

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

worth remembering that when Trump announced a travel ban in 2017, people literally went to airports to protest. Eight years later, Trump announces a new one and it's not even front page news. We're the frogs and the water is getting awfully hot.

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