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well if there is one thing whose awesome power republican presidents respect and are powerless in the face of it's a central american nation's national sovereignty

submitted 8 hours ago • 31 comments

the other insane thing about these new tariff exemptions is that they exempted the machinery used to make semiconductors because that’s obviously counterproductive to re-shoring semiconductor manufacturing but have not extended that logic to all the other types of machinery

submitted 13 hours ago • 36 comments

this is quite the photo and caption www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

submitted 14 hours ago • 583 comments

I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:

submitted 19 hours ago • 109 comments

This is happening in spite of the fact that the president is not in charge of the Smithsonian. It's not an executive branch government agency, rather it's chartered by Congress and under a board of regents created by statute, none of whom are even appointed by the president.

submitted 19 hours ago • 82 comments

This is the Fighting Oligarchy tour, should have been more clear.

submitted 14 hours ago • 28 comments

Given the discourse here today, really recommend this deeply reported and complex piece about birth rates. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 14 hours ago • 216 comments

Trump exempting computers & phones from the tariffs today means that Chinese-made laptops now have lower tariffs than European Cars, Mexican Steel, & Canadian Lumber. Also means Vietnamese-made laptops have a lower tariff than Ethiopian coffee, Indian tea, & Guatemalan bananas

submitted 15 hours ago • 95 comments

A costume absolutely hates to see DHS Secretary Kristi Noem coming.

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 193 comments

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 1 day ago • 2247 comments

WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?

submitted 1 day ago • 2397 comments

ALERT: Big Firm Lawyers, I have a proposition for you. (Please read through, serious proposition). As noted in the previous post, I'm very very interested in getting copies of the "agreements" big firms are making with Trump. (My encrypted channels below.) Or at least what is circulated to ...

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

NEW: For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir reps, along with dozens of IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API” that would potentially allow intentionally siloed IRS data to be viewed in one place. @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Big one for military folks ... Hegseth's Pentagon looking to hand on-base grocery stores and shops designed to save service members and their families money to the private sector. Story by @ktoropin.bsky.social + @tomnovelly.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 131 comments

If my old friend @steveliesman.bsky.social & I end up on TV together, means it’s time to pay attention to the economy. We’ll join @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social 8pET @msnbc.com. Please join us.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

We keep hearing about "agreements" btw Trump and law firms or Trump and universities. Where are they? What are they? Are they really committed to paper? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-a...

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

🚨NEW: The NC Supreme Court's GOP majority will retroactively nullify 2,000 to 7,000 ballots from military and overseas voters unless they quickly prove their identity—but only those who voted in a few Democratic counties. Could overturn Justice Riggs' victory. appellate.nccourts.org/orders.php?t...

submitted 1 day ago • 406 comments

New from me at Cato: Trump's penalty orders have taken a scary new turn, selecting targets for having taken a stand on behalf of the integrity of the U.S. election system, and ordering the Dept. of Justice to investigate an evidently innocent man, Chris Krebs. /1 www.cato.org/blog/new-rev...

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

"Pete Belton, 44, from Ilkeston says he was shocked to find his forearm featured in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document used to help identify alleged members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a transnational criminal organisation." www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

NEW on @npr.org: A DOGE staffer working in the Social Security Administration has been pushing questionable claims about noncitizens voting — apparently using data that court records suggest DOGE shouldn't have. More on the claims and the latest in DOGE access concerns:

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

Eleven foreign students at the University of Texas, El Paso have had their visas cancelled by the Department of Homeland Security. These cancellations are part of the nationwide attack on campus activism and international students studying in the. U.S. My story for the El Paso Times.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

“The customs official canceled Ms. Petrova’s visa on the spot and began deportation proceedings.” One way to understand Trump effect in govt: an ever widening circle of people, like low-level customs officials, get to make categorical decisions abt lives of others. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

I cannot emphasize enough that drawing huge conclusions from markets that are gyrating through volatility as is currently the case may as well be reading auguries from the guts of some unfortunate chicken.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Trump has perfected the art of Pareto Worsening, a change in allocation making at least one person worse off without making a single person better off. Trade war, Medicaid cuts, science cuts, there are no winners here, only losers.

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

I reviewed Chiris Hayes' book The Sirens' Call for the TLS. It helps make some sense of the madness, but of course there is so much madness to consider.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Chat, is it good when Treasuries are trading at a risk premium to such bedrocks of safety as "Greek and Italian government debt?"

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

interesting how rapidly academic freedom and free speech disappeared from the conversation after dominating it for years and years www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

Trying to highlight as many of these takes as I can. Yields rising + dollar falling + equities falling can persist together under the dollar system if things are very (!!) bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

It's from the Yale Budget Lab. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fis...

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

I would say more broadly that as policy you really shouldn’t allow government officials to accuse people of terrorism anonymously.

submitted 1 day ago • 395 comments

The obscenity (and the menace to Jews) of these officials pretending any of this police state assault on our constitutional order has anything to do with concern about antisemitism is off the charts. Just diabolical.

submitted 2 days ago • 113 comments

The thing about this guy is that he’s a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal.

submitted 1 day ago • 245 comments

Over 650 known cases so far, and most have nothing to do with pro-Palestinian advocacy. The admin seems to be engaged in a breakneck effort to kick out every foreign student who has had even the most minor interaction with the police possible, including for TRAFFIC CITATIONS and JAYWALKING tickets.

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

Every day of delay is another day in which Abrego is being held in a foreign torture prison that the gov't has conceded he should not have been sent to.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

WaPo surveyed manufacturing workers. By a 57-22 percent margin they say tariffs "would hurt rather than help their job/career." And among Trump voters, fewer than half think the tariffs will personally help them www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Seriously, who voted for this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_65n...

submitted 2 days ago • 415 comments

Federal spending is up under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

"_all_ the wage growth since 1979 happened in just two episodes when the unemployment rate was allowed to stay low for extended periods (the late 1990s and post-2014"

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I think this is a pretty good bet.

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments