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Boris Epshteyn—indicted Trump election conspirator and not actually a member of the government—is personally negotiating Trump's Big Law shakedowns, per WSJ

submitted 19 minutes ago • 17 comments

"oh no, this'll make the right wing mad!" Buddy they get into a frothing rage over like, cereal mascots and cartoon characters and the mere existence of gay people and what oil a French fry is cooked in and women knowing how to read, etc. They'll get mad anyway, no matter what. Tell em to fuck off

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

“All I wanted for the rest of my days was to smugly walk around Harvard in my lifted-heel cowboy boots while owning the libs and raking in speaker fees from the rubes and it was just lovely and such fun and now you’ve gone and ruined it, absolutely ruined it”

submitted 1 hour ago • 35 comments

"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 hour ago • 38 comments

Trump has simultaneously made the dollar insanely cheap while destroying all the things that benefit from a cheaper dollar (tourism and buying American products).

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

WSJ: “.. The crypto tycoons that previous administrations pursued for helping the U.S. government’s foes move their funds—Russian sanctions evaders, Islamic terrorist groups, Mexican drug cartels—are now doing business with the president and members of his inner circle.” www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

submitted 1 hour ago • 28 comments

It'll be terrible if we get our media Orbanized, and all the more terrible because it'll have been accomplished with the subtlety of a vuvuzela.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Look, at this point if you're a Republican who is OK with the president attacking and threatening to shut down a news show for covering him in a way he doesn't like, you don't actually believe in anything resembling America. Just admit you want a dictatorship.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

This is insane.

submitted 436 days ago • 54 comments

Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

submitted 11 hours ago • 255 comments

The same guy who wants to be the Antisemitism Police at Columbia and they're letting him do it.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

The President openly calls for his loyalist apparatchik at the FCC to use state power to punish media for critical coverage

submitted 10 hours ago • 19 comments

“This could touch off a constitutional crisis” The crisis is here. It has been touched off.

submitted 11 hours ago • 13 comments

I don’t know about you guys but I’m so excited to find out what fucked up new tariff “policy” Trump and his traveling circus of dipshits comes up with tomorrow.

submitted 12 hours ago • 65 comments

“.. judging only from price action, we are suddenly witnessing a comprehensive turn away from US assets (stocks, USTs, corporate credit and the dollar). this is the single most important theme to monitor over coming weeks. .. for the moment capital is flowing out of the US.” - GS Desk/Pasquariello

submitted 14 hours ago • 225 comments

We’ve heard this all before from you, Mr. Miller. In your world, immigrants are to blame for everything. And now you’re willing to make it harder for 80% of married women to vote over your anti-immigrant obsession. Just own it.

submitted 15 hours ago • 61 comments

The good news is that these morons are well on their way to destroying the legitimacy and functioning of the executive branch that they require if they are to rule America by force. The bad news is that they're going to break the entire fucking executive branch this way, down to the lowest levels.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

I am literally begging Dems to understand that "Trump is doing the good thing badly!" is the stupidest and absolute worst position to adopt under the present circumstances.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Detective TV shows in a nutshell

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Lutnick, this morning: the consumer electronic tariff exemptions are temporary. Anonymous sources: Lutnick doesn't know what he's talking about. He's making us look incompetent. Trump, in the evening: those tariff exemptions are temporary.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

And cis, hetero, white guy who actually has a fucking clue what is going on, I realize that I have a lot less freedom to say what I want now that Trump is President and they're disappearing dissidents to black sites without due process.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

How is anyone supposed to invest in US when the tax rate (secretly) changes dramatically hourly at the whim of an unhinged corrupt autocrat?

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Serious point: This might be the most interventionist American government in my lifetime. The price of just about every good reflects the good thinking of the Commissars in Washington DC implementing their 5-year plan for National Greatness, rather than market forces.

submitted 19 hours ago • 58 comments

In retrospect this was such a funny weekend for Bill Maher to claim that Trump is actually calm and coherent behind the scenes

submitted 16 hours ago • 47 comments

Remember when a Cabinet secretary would say something and you could just assume it reflected the unified thinking of an administration and not merely one tiny part of a six-sided screaming match?

submitted 19 hours ago • 26 comments

We just need to turn the negative productivity of scientists at NASA and IRS auditors that DOGE fired to gainfully making shoes in Nike factories reshored from Vietnam. This is the groundbreaking economic thinking of communist purges from Mao to Pol Pot with a sprinkle of American Exceptionalism.

submitted 23 hours ago • 59 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 22 hours ago • 65 comments

"The economy is Jew daycare to keep women from having babies" is a new variant to me...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

No tariffs on semiconductors, smartphones and computers is so very yesterday. If we want to build the economy of the future, we'll have to apply new tariffs on those items in a month or so. Business demands predictability, and Lutnick is here to help you predict it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 26 comments

They’re in such a cult bubble that they can’t understand why so many free-thinking people voluntarily give of their time to oppose him.

submitted 22 hours ago • 65 comments

bill mahers only audience at this point is conservatives who have become addicted to going “wow even bill maher agrees with us”

submitted 23 hours ago • 34 comments

every one of these deregulated markets guys is a regulated market guy who hasn’t been punched in the face yet

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

It is very good question and one I’ve been asking for months. If there is an international agreement with El Salvador for these renditions, the Trump administration is legally required under the Case-Zablocki Act to share it with Congress. To my knowledge, they have not done so.

submitted 1 day ago • 112 comments

The principle at stake here is so fundamental it predates even Magna Carta in English law, and before that stretching all the way back to Rome, and has its similarly ancient equivalents in every legal system in the world, because it's the inherent bedrock foundation of what courts and laws are for.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Trump is also saying that the once the US has rounded up individuals, with minimal or zero due process, on whatever pretext they choose, they can send them out of the US to face torture, death, life imprisonment, slave labor or other fates that are unconstitutional or illegal in the US.

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

Trump: I am the strongest, most powerful person ever! The whole world lines up to kiss my ass! Courts: Return Kilmer Abrego Garcia from the El Salvador torture prison you sent him to Trump: Sorry. No can do. Totally out of my hands

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

the transfer to El Salvador of US deportees is, per Pres Bukele, a straight up contract that has “nothing to do w/foreign policy.” The fees we are paying makes their entire prison system “sustainable.” Don’t see how US can make argument that bringing A-G back is some sensitive foreign policy matter

submitted 1 day ago • 373 comments

Trump holding his EOs in the garden like a waiter showing you the specials at the worst restaurant in hell.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This is basically conceding that the executive branch is sentencing random people to death with no due process or ability to reverse an error

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

Lol

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Again, the DOGE stuff is so stupid it's making me insane. Musk brought in a group of mostly intern-level tech hacks, gave them authority over all actual govt personnel, and they immediately start fking up in the most intern-ass script kiddie ways you can think of. This is why his rockets explode.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Jews collaborating with MAGA are fools that don't recognize these Nazi-loving MAGA, once they finish going after blacks & immigrants, will line up Jews and send them to the ovens without skipping a beat. Just look at the Naval Academy purging Maya Angelou but keeping Mein Kampf on the shelves.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments