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I like this. Let's riff. What are the alternatives? If the $4.50 is an issue, you could buy a coffee maker and brew your own. Another option? Stop drinking coffee (which might actually be good for you and you would adjust) or cut back. Replace the coffee with warm water and hydrate more.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Seems to me this could be answered by 195 targeted emails (or fewer - who had tariffs levied on them and if they didn't why would they be part of the 75?) to a list that I imagine the UN has. Or, even the state department. Or, even some large multinational. Somebody going to get on this?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Posting to my timeline if only to come back and read/listen to it.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I just want a president who will keep his thumb (or heel) off the economy and let the economy take care of itself. We were doing (generally) fine 4 months ago.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

AI is worth it if only for these kinds of things.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Set up a GoFundMe. I'm in.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

submitted 20 days ago • 970 comments

Bingo

submitted 20 days ago • 424 comments

It's (only) been 65 days.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Can we get a do-over? I just want a do-over.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not sure where it would be reported, or whether I would trust the reporting now, but I will be very curious to see whether tax payments on April 15th or thereabouts are materially lower than they've been in the past, all other things considered.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

so, see how bernie is passing the torch to the younger generation? see how he's creating space for AOC by using his name, then allowing her to lead? see how SOME older people act like caring elders, and others act like half-dead, out-of-touch narcissistic control freaks? be more like bernie.

submitted 33 days ago • 411 comments

Fact: They didn’t fear what breaking the Dept of Education would do to their kids. Their kids are in fancy private schools. They are dismantling the Dept of Ed so our kids have no choice but to be undereducated and work for their kids.

submitted 33 days ago • 964 comments

I like this.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 38 days ago • 1525 comments