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It is important to understand what a complete and unqualified failure Elon Musk and DOGE has been. (📸 Wall Street Journal)

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I did a video with @vanityfair.com about Trump and tariffs

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lord willing we will one day prosecute miller for crimes against humanity

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It’s astounding that the White House’s position appears to be that they’ve never heard of, you know, “negotiating” or “asking.” As if we have no way to reach the El Salvador president and no leverage. So much for The Art of the Deal!

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"Trump and his advisers may not appreciate that the U.S. is a debtor nation and needs to attract foreign capital to fund its massive budget deficits. The Trump trade wars may be alienating the very buyers the country needs." www.barrons.com/articles/bon...?

submitted 8 hours ago • 12 comments

Arson at the home of the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania on the first night of Passover. Seems like the Trump administration might be looking for anti-Semitism in all the wrong places.

submitted 8 hours ago • 56 comments

Whooping cough (pertussis) cases have skyrocketed by more than 1,500% nationwide since 2021. Deaths tied to the disease are also up — hitting 10 last year, compared with about two to four in previous years — and cases are on track to exceed that total in 2025. 👉 Read more: propub.li/3XZxXVn

submitted 11 hours ago • 68 comments

Again: it is supposed to be commonly accepted non partisan morality that “id rather let a hundred guilty men go free than imprison one who was innocent” but this administration and its party are gleefully inverting that premise and then some

submitted 9 hours ago • 45 comments

“We’ll see” as economic policy. What could possibly go wrong

submitted 8 hours ago • 25 comments

NBC is actively making its viewers dumber by having him on.

submitted 9 hours ago • 94 comments

Frequent victories, like that North Korean guy has frequent victories. 🤡

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Trump is waging war against professionals, intellectuals, scientists, education, writes Franklin Foer. We've seen this movie before - in Mao's China www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 10 hours ago • 65 comments

"Trump has an obvious weakness that makes America weak. He places the American economy at risk for the sake of a personal foible, a visible vulnerability." snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-psy...

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

Lawlessness and shamelessness.

submitted 2 days ago • 118 comments

One of the striking things about the Abrego Garcia case is that would be trivially easy for the government to demand his return and give apologists an easy talking point: "Yes, sure, mistakes happen but see, they care about getting it right & doing it legally after all." But nope.

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

So, a hypocrite then. Shocking.

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"Look like" ????

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The President of the United States of America posted this 15 minutes before the announcement of the tariff pause. This would be a straightforwardly criminal message, were the rule of law currently operational in the usual way, for those with insider knowledge of major market shifting policy news

submitted 4 days ago • 78 comments

In Nazi Germany, the targeted population was encouraged to self-deport and the state sought to impoverish them to force them to leave.

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

Our president, in addition to being corrupt, is a fundamentally weak and stupid man. Weak, because he backs down after any real pushback, and stupid because he's let the whole world know his playbook.

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This is such bullshit. The Trump Administration sent him there, now they can go get him. We're going to invade Greenland and Canada, and we can't get one person back from a facility in El Salvador that we're paying them to house people from us?? If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you.

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Cowards, the lot of them.

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If you fill your military leadership with people who are either ignorant of the kinds of diverse literature purged here, ok with the purge, or, worse, excited by it… you are going to get a very specific kind of US military leadership and it does not resemble l the side that won the Civil War.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

100% This.

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Whenever you write something like this it should be antisemitism in quotes at bare minimum or in some form making clear that they’re aren’t actually cracking down on antisemitism

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Total clown show. And a pretty poor one at that. 🤡

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Boy, when you've lost the Wall St. Journal...

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“.. Furniture producers in China have seen a complete halt in orders from U.S. importers, and we’re hearing the same across toys, apparel, footwear, and sports equipment. .. Almost everything is on hold as it relates to China business.” @loriannlarocco.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/t...

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A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

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So, um, what exactly is being tariffed this hour? I swear I've lost track. As some smart people have said, this is the stupidest way to run an economy.

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Mostly the graft, really.

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And graft

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"No one man should have all that power. But there is an obvious solution..." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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He's right: Trump's little experiment taking the country back to 19th century economics has been a disastrous clown show. Funny, if it weren't for the fundamentally and globally weaker position the US is now in.

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Stupid. Also self-destructive. Also really, really stupid.

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You gotta pay attention, but this is really good. h/t @neilirwin.bsky.social “Any country other than the US precipitously raising and lowering tariffs, gutting its Internal Revenue Service and nonchalantly considering territorial grabs would have seen smoking-hot capital flight months ago.”

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 226 comments

Pretty much says where this Administration is on the whole white supremacy thing.

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When the head of ICE starts talking about how great it would be to have Amazon Prime for shipping human beings to a concentration camp in El Salvador that no one ever leaves, you’ve gone way past “it could never happen here.”

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Looks like there is administrative fraud involving falsely deceased people, but it's the fascist government commiting the fraud. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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