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Incurable optimist with chronic depression. Lover of facts, hater of bigotry. Proud to be an "extreme" leftist, now that there isn't apparently any other kind. He him his, but the worst you risk is confusion as I don't mind any pronoun.
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It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

100 men vs. 1 gorilla? How about the working class against the oligarchy? The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. This is the real fight we need to be talking about.

They're so clueless about basic security.

Breaking news: The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of 2025, contracting by an annualized rate of 0.3 percent, a stark reversal after nearly three years of solid growth, as tariff-related uncertainty upended spending patterns and raised fears of an impending recession.

ICYMI — Maddow runs through the 100 day Fox/YouGov numbers on Trump’s approval—a total disaster for him. This one stood out for me: Q: “Can Trump ignore SCOTUS if he thinks they overstep constitutional authority?” A: NO — by a 49-point margin. Americans aren’t quite ready to crown Trump king.

Due process means you have to go in the right order: sentence 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 verdict 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 trial 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 charges 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 investigation: the simple straight line of justice. No one wants a world where accusations bring sentences before facts are even known. 𝑹𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕? Let's keep due process.

Donald Trump's RIGHT, switching the clocks back and forth is a stupid and costly waste! If only he felt the same about tariffs. 🙄

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"Winning."

Styxy found a good spot. 🖤

Although about half of them are now just muttering "Trust!"

Little detail: in its tariffs list the Trump administration recognised Taiwan as a separate country from China. I applaud but I suspect they didn't mean to, they just didn't think about it because they're not very good at that.

MAGA! RESTORING AMERICA TO EVERYTHING IT ONCE WAS. BEFORE THOSE GODDAMN LIBERALS SCREWED IT ALL UP WITH THEIR SOCIAL PROGRAMS, UNIONS, AND MINIMUM WAGE!

👋 This from the guy who runs around a stage waving a chainsaw, crowing about all the aid programs for poor Americans he's cutting out.

This should chill everyone in this country to the bone. All she did was write an OpEd the administration didn’t like. This is fascistic suppression of free speech.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Land of the Free? Not so much. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

More adventures in incompetence. www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Vaccines save lives.

If this battle information WASN'T classified then Hegseth et al are even more jaw droppingly stupid and incompetent than the incident itself indicates.

Atlantic publishes the details that Tulsi claimed under oath did not include specific attack information. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

#shocker Not just incompetent, also dishonest. Feel OK with this kid in your private data? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just the guy you want in charge of your Social Security account. 🙄 fortune.com/2025/03/23/t...

Gives new meaning to Wankpanzer!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The incompetence is breathtaking. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

This is going to be a really bad summer for tourism and the knock on economic effects are going to be incalculable

This is Amerika.

Italy and every other European country would be well advised not to depend on military systems run by fascists. You'd think they'd be more aware, like the Germans.

For the love of truth, keep nixing the idiots who think Musk isn't being paid.

Yes, these are the kinds of thing you should be considering.

This is powerful and resonates with so many.

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If it weren't for the French Americans would still be speaking English. www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

Looking forward to this, one of Dick's more overlooked stories. screenrant.com/the-variable...

With everything happening in the US right now, how safe are scientific conferences for foreign participants in the US? I think this is something we have to discuss as a scientific community. I am hesitating to register for US meetings due to the unpredictable situation. Others who feel the same?

🎵Tomorrow, tomorrow, I'll love you tomorrow.🎶