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Levi Strauss shareholders vote against proposal to end diversity programs reut.rs/4jxBliY

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Of course congressional pensions won’t be touched.

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WH PRESS SEC LEAVITT: BALL IS MOVING IN RIGHT DIRECTION WITH CHINA

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

submitted 22 days ago • 409 comments

Ask yourself: If you wanted to bring manufacturing to the US, would you reduce tariffs on smartphones and computers that are fully made abroad, or cut tariffs on the intermediate inputs used by American manufacturers?

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

"It is plain to us, as it would have been to our grandfather, that taking action to stay off an enemies list does not advance the rule of law as embodied in the Statement of Principles, it undercuts it and emboldens those who seek to dismantle it."

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Seriously? 🤦‍♂️

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The last place you’d find me is in an Egyptian tourist submarine

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Real GDP for Q4 revised up slightly to +2.4%. Importantly, real GDI (an alternative and often more accurate measure of output) grew at an extraordinarily robust +4.5% in Q4. By all accounts, the economy was motoring along at the end of 2024, and we entered 2025 with momentum.

submitted 38 days ago • 16 comments

More evidence of government inefficiency and waste: Some idiot demanded that every federal employee email five bullet points of what they did last week, but failed to set up an inbox that could cope with that volume of incoming email, so the messages bounced.

submitted 39 days ago • 12 comments

remember when Scooter Libby was sentenced to almost 3 years in prison and fined $250k for revealing the identity of a member of the national clandestine service to a journalist just thinking about that for no particular reason as I pack the kids' lunch boxes this morning

submitted 39 days ago • 14 comments

Pete Hegseth is a farce.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Opinion | Sorry, liberals, but you try using Signal when you're drunk. by Marc Thiessen

submitted 41 days ago • 17 comments

A Cabinet of fools.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

We posted a list of all the officials on the text chain who suggested criminal charges in the past for Clinton and Biden. Pete Hegseth in 2016: “People have gone to jail for 1/100th of what – even 1/1,000th of what Hillary Clinton did... It's all criminal." www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/p...

submitted 40 days ago • 42 comments

Normal people never complain when they don't get paid. Only weirdos.

submitted 44 days ago • 121 comments

@schumer.senate.gov 🤔

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

submitted 48 days ago • 1038 comments

@schumer.senate.gov 🤷‍♂️

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Thanks to President Trump, we are finally cleansing our country of … kidney-transplant specialists who “fly through the night to pick up donated organs before performing emergency surgery” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

submitted 49 days ago • 95 comments

@schumer.senate.gov 🤔

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@schumer.senate.gov 🤔

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring

submitted 52 days ago • 72 comments

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

submitted 52 days ago • 711 comments

US agencies are defying a court order blocking President Donald Trump's ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs at businesses and organizations that contract with the federal government, groups suing over the ban said in a court filing reut.rs/4iubc3R

submitted 52 days ago • 33 comments

Wow. Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC. “I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!” Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out. We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.

submitted 52 days ago • 1934 comments

The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history. Archive is here: web.archive.org/web/20250304... Page was here: www.army.mil/asianpacific... Disgusting.

submitted 52 days ago • 157 comments

Opinion | It would be unfair to judge a 1000 year Reich by its first 7 weeks.

submitted 53 days ago • 28 comments

@schumer.senate.gov 🤔

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re a Proud Boy or an Oath Keeper convicted for seditious treason by a jury of your peers, however, you get an invite to CPAC.

submitted 54 days ago • 88 comments

Whether it's Oberlin Student Senate introducing a speech code or Donald Trump having ICE deport a pro-Palestinian permanent resident, both sides have shown little respect for free expression.

submitted 54 days ago • 7 comments

I was reading up on this recently, and it's hard to believe but it's true: nobody HAS to serve in Congress. If you're not up to it, you can resign.

submitted 57 days ago • 34 comments

remember tonight to set your clock ahead an hour. but if canada and mexico set their clocks ahead an hour, then set your clocks back an hour. except for clocks in the automotive industry and clocks made with parts already covered under the USMCA, in which case

submitted 57 days ago • 82 comments

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

submitted 58 days ago • 1292 comments