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Trump Turns His Back on the Markets. It Could Break MAGA. The president has tried to acknowledge the stock market’s fall without backing off from the policies that triggered it. He’s playing with fire www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

We’re not “heading” towards fascism. We’re there.

submitted 57 days ago • 36 comments

What. The. Actual. F. I guess Republicans in Congress are okay with this? “Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

submitted 57 days ago • 50 comments

Sad to see this happen.. crankyflier.com/2025/03/11/t...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

9 years ago, Musk got big coverage for saying that his target for manned flights to Mars was 2025. 2025 has arrived. Those flights to Mars have not. Instead Musk has destroyed a social media co, is destroying a car co, and is wrecking US govt + US economy. www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-swi...

submitted 61 days ago • 225 comments

“Anyone caught checking them can and will be deported,” he warned.

submitted 62 days ago • 60 comments

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 61 days ago • 104 comments

For fucks sake.

submitted 62 days ago • 40 comments

This is all, of course, lies

submitted 62 days ago • 36 comments

I'm usually the first to say that presidents receive way too much credit and blame for economic conditions that they have little power to control or influence in the short-term. Not this time. This is 100% self-inflicted by the president and totally unnecessary.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

#OligarchEra 🇺🇸

submitted 62 days ago • 24 comments

“Musk himself is toxifying the Tesla brand,” Winter says. “We’re just helping him.” @wired.com @alexwinter.com $TSLA www.wired.com/story/whats-...

submitted 62 days ago • 32 comments

The scale of corruption being perpetrated right now is almost beyond the limits of imagination. This is just one example, almost certainly not the greatest.

submitted 63 days ago • 73 comments

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

submitted 62 days ago • 31 comments

US aid to Ukraine since Feb 2022 totals $128 billion, mostly older weapons, not cash. The crypto industry is seeking a bailout of $100 billion from the US Treasury. That is cash. Remember that when crypto CEOs accuse anyone else of "grifting." www.cfr.org/article/how-...

submitted 64 days ago • 57 comments

The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster. Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔

submitted 65 days ago • 2509 comments

New in PN: Trump’s "Crypto Reserve" is a world historical grift "It’s a kind of farm subsidy, but for billionaires making digital magic beans instead of food."

submitted 65 days ago • 241 comments

Trump inherited an economy that was firing on all cylinders. Now, just weeks into his tenure, the outlook is far gloomier -- and the sudden deterioration is due almost entirely to his policies and the uncertainty they have created. @colbylsmith.bsky.social #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/b...

submitted 65 days ago • 98 comments

Like bird flu, stupidity can be contagious www.wsj.com/business/egg...

submitted 65 days ago • 148 comments

Apartheid Lex Luthor is trying to fire everyone who's not a white male in the federal government www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

really reassuring that the spaceX guy is taking over the FAA

submitted 66 days ago • 23 comments

One way to think about this administration is: Trump's last full year in office was a global pandemic with no known cure that filled hospitals with dying patients and shut down the entire in-person economy. And firms think the current business environment has more uncertainty.

submitted 66 days ago • 22 comments

It takes a unique kind of genius to fuck up the US-Canada relationship.

submitted 66 days ago • 176 comments

I see tomorrow is Friday. Is Friday going a tariff day, or a some-tariffs day, or a no-tariffs day? Or will it be some other kind of day, like an annex-Greenland day, or a Hannibal-Lecter-wants-to-have-you-for-dinner day, or an Arnold-Palmer-size day, or something else? I just can’t keep track.

submitted 66 days ago • 3727 comments

You hate to see it... couldn't happen to a nicer guy! </end sarcasm> www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/b...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

The fundamental weakness of Elon Musk is lack of it.

submitted 67 days ago • 403 comments

Just a couple of sociopaths justifying their cruelty.

submitted 67 days ago • 447 comments

I borrowed this metaphor, but I don't know from where paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-is...

submitted 67 days ago • 54 comments

This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

submitted 68 days ago • 1895 comments

#OligarchEra 🇺🇸 > @hadasgold.bsky.social

submitted 67 days ago • 23 comments

REUTERS: “.. in the last two weeks alone, DOGE has deleted hundreds of claimed savings, including some of the largest items it had previously boasted about.” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

submitted 67 days ago • 19 comments

(WSJ) - Stagflation has entered the chat. 🇺🇸 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

submitted 67 days ago • 25 comments

Trump promises tax cuts for everyone. The tax increases he imposed today would wipe out any tax cuts the bottom of 40% of Americans would receive. This doesn’t count additional import taxes he’s considering or the cuts to Medicaid and nutrition assistance.

submitted 68 days ago • 13 comments

ADP: "Policy uncertainty and a slowdown in consumer spending might have led to layoffs or a slowdown in hiring last month. Our data .. suggests a hiring hesitancy among employers .." www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

submitted 67 days ago • 19 comments

My response to the Democratic response. This is not the time for normal politics.

submitted 67 days ago • 115 comments

In case you're wondering why sepsis rates have surged among pregnant women in places like Texas: www.kff.org/womens-healt...

submitted 68 days ago • 20 comments

Arsonist wants us to celebrate him for trying to put out the fire he started.

submitted 68 days ago • 6 comments

If you didn’t see this coming you haven’t been paying attention

submitted 68 days ago • 49 comments

Let me say @fahrenthold.bsky.social is a national treasure. Also he can do math. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...

submitted 69 days ago • 91 comments

Trump is a traitor who wants to turn us into Russia so that he can rob our country the way Putin has robbed his. Even more pathetic, though, is that Silicon Valley is willing to help him & sell out everything that’s made them rich just to get their crypto scams bailed out.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

If by funny you mean disgraceful and embarrassing, sure

submitted 69 days ago • 9 comments