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Seeing those Reddit posts from Americans genuinely surprised about Temu's price hikes and going "Wait WHAT tariffs?" has given me a sobering realization as to just how badly "Nothing ever happens" brain permeated the American electorate. People literally did not pay attention period!

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TELSEY begins tracking price increases over the past week. Some highlights: * Abercrombie jeans: up 33% * Amazon Echo: up 38.5% * Target / Barbie doll: up 42.9%

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Absolutely great stuff from @resnikoff.bsky.social. The idea that YIMBYs lack a theory of power is laughable. Half of YIMBY public output is ABOUT social power and trying to figure out WHY barriers to building have been implemented and HOW to best face them www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The first general strike of this revolution should be Democrats shutting down Congress until the charges against Judge Dugan are dropped and Pam Bondi resigns. From there it can grow to regime change, but that's a fine start.

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Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

submitted 2 days ago • 397 comments

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

submitted 5 days ago • 363 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

submitted 13 days ago • 813 comments

Democrats need to say out loud that everyone involved in these kidnappings will go to prison. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

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More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

submitted 16 days ago • 1176 comments

"The Truth is, These are Not Very Bright Guys, and Things Got Out of Hand"

submitted 16 days ago • 242 comments

United States Disappeared Tracker: 1214 and growing. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

submitted 19 days ago • 106 comments

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

submitted 20 days ago • 258 comments

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

submitted 20 days ago • 118 comments

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

submitted 20 days ago • 152 comments

From the Discord.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Boy, Americans at the airport duty free shop are gonna be going wild. "I'll take that coffee, some bananas, a little chocolate, this list of medications, four tires and that pallet of lumber."

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Vladimir Putin is the most successful investor in the history of the world.

submitted 22 days ago • 183 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 22 days ago • 1113 comments

I mean, true, but not by changing statutory rates...

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submitted 24 days ago • 32 comments

I’m a big man who rides the subway every night because I’m not a terrified hysterical neurotic

submitted 24 days ago • 2825 comments

i may be unserious, hysterical and woke, but my strategy of “taking trump seriously no matter how insane he sounds” has paid more analytical dividends than the alternatives

submitted 26 days ago • 116 comments

Bet y'all miss pronouns now, motherfuckers.

submitted 25 days ago • 52 comments

Goodbye chocolate Goodbye vanilla Goodbye coffee Goodbye tea Party and Leader demand sacrifices

submitted 26 days ago • 81 comments

There is about to be a staggering amount of smuggling into the United States. In addition to searching for fentanyl, the 25,000 customs officers at America's land crossings, airports, and seaports will also have to watch for Nintendo consoles, Android phones, and jars of cloves.

submitted 25 days ago • 105 comments

I'll just leave this right here

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Tariffs are a magic wand that makes everything cost more and makes everyone poorer. I hope you enjoyed my Ted Talk.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Let a hundred Wisconsins bloom.

submitted 26 days ago • 189 comments

If we were conquered and under hostile occupation, what would the government do differently? Would an occupation government that wanted to crush the United States as a vibrant, prosperous country with influence around the world do anything differently?

submitted 26 days ago • 146 comments

It would be smart for someone in Democratic leadership to state clearly that these actions are illegal, that they'll be rolled back as soon as possible, and that anyone abetting these crimes will be prosecuted. Might put the spine back in a few people who are "just doing their job."

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

Don't donate to texts. Even if they're legit it encourages them. I just mark them all junk now.

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful: - Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored - Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored - Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored

submitted 28 days ago • 588 comments

The kind of person that kills dogs.

submitted 32 days ago • 3574 comments