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it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

submitted 6 days ago • 1038 comments

someone tell alex thompson that he has a great chance to cover a president in mental decline if he wants to take it

submitted 7 days ago • 120 comments

i've always been, basically, a pragmatic center-left person, but seeing what stratospheric wealth accumulation has done both to the people who accumulated it and the society they seek to control with it has genuinely radicalized me hard into significantly more punitive tax policies for the wealthy

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

tfw you want to have a chilling effect but you do everything so incompetently that all you do is piss everyone off that you intended to scare

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

Emet has the best monologues in a game filled with great monologues.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

As I like to point out, in programming your LLM-generated product can be tested with the "compile" button (plus various kinds of testing and staged deployment) while in law your LLM-generated product is tested with the "file in court" button and that's way too late.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Oh thank fuck

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The thing that I keep coming around to with this Ukraine proposal is this idea that the US security guarantees means anything. Its the stated policy of this administration that Europe rearm and fund its own defense; what future US role are they even bargaining with?

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

My view is that serving as the people's representative and taking an oath to the Constitution both impose a solemn obligation on you, and if you're too scared to discharge that obligation then you should resign.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

You like Andor (according to the New York Times, which is wrong) because you think it’s a substitute for going to protests I like it because it’s a story that takes the deeply rich and engaging imaginative alternate world of Star Wars seriously We are not the same

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

none of these people - and I really cannot stress this enough - have any idea what they are doing

submitted 14 days ago • 44 comments

The reason organized labor loves tariffs, broadly, is that they think its a trade off where the rest of the country gets poorer and they get richer and they say so explicitly and we're to treat it as selfless service to their members instead of nakedly arrogant self interest

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

nobody thinks Dick Durbin is running again and we just have to hope that includes Dick Durbin

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

submitted 21 days ago • 28 comments

watching tech hardware news go interview hardware manufacturers about the tariff meteor obliterating their businesses while repeatedly saying “this isn’t a political report” and it works because their chud viewers have brains like egg and everyone else is catching the wink

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

No one should be above the law, most especially the President. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional. They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

submitted 22 days ago • 362 comments

it is critically important that people remember that bukele doesn't do any of this without united states money. kadyrov doesn't gargle putin's balls for free and bukele doesn't gargle trump's for free, either. demand that your member of congress answer for that money, they're not (yet) the duma.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Right but the tariffs are going to fucking destroy the UAW membership's jobs.

submitted 25 days ago • 16 comments

This thread had me thinking today about depression, anxiety . . . and gratitude. I was thinking about gratitude because it occurred to me I am in trial, juggling important things in a half-dozen other cases this month, but . . . I’m fine. In fact I’m finding joy in life. /1

submitted 27 days ago • 28 comments

If you weight 2024 imports by the 10%/"reciprocal" tariff amount announced last Wednesday (with China at 54%, Mexico/Canada at 0%), the total tariff rate would have been 21%. Today, with China at 125% and Mexico/Canada at 10% along with ~everybody else, the rate is 26%.

submitted 27 days ago • 24 comments

Look at the market to bask in the astonishing sights, do not look at your own retirement savings account, is the rule I'm following. This is a spectator sport.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Unlike a lot of people I don't think tariffs end the US's status at the top of the global financial system, but I do think that the EU will suddenly be a lot more of an attractive option, and if I were the Brits I'd be looking at getting back in.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

A thing you realize when you do economics poasting on this website is that people love to lie their fucking asses off about their economic experiences

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

People logged onto this website to bitch about how bad that recovery was the entire time it was happening and anytime I take this place too seriously, I remember that

submitted 27 days ago • 20 comments

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to certain items cease to be available at any price

submitted 28 days ago • 253 comments

Seeing a lot of anger over people in ICE detention having to eg file habeas claims on their own. There are existing efforts to support these folks: not just full legal rep, but partial assistance (easier to scale). Here’s one volunteer network (full disclosure: my org) immigrationjustice.us

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

finance media is the most incredibly boring thing on earth except for when we are living in interesting times you do not want financial media to be riveting

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

Ackman went from being the 5th-most annoying asshole on that platform to writing good posts.

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

If we’re doing Reconstruction 2, a huge part of it should be forcing these guys to bend the knee to social democracy. They get the order needed to do business but guess what, fuckos? Order comes from laws which are enforced.

submitted 30 days ago • 10 comments

i will not under any circumstances accept "told you sos" from kara fucking swisher

submitted 32 days ago • 10 comments

ok, everyone can now use the word “decimated” in its literal sense. As in: “Donald Trump et et al decimated the stock market in 2 days through ignorance, nationalism, & disconnect from consensual reality”

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

Again, the end of free trade is very, very bad for all of us, and anyone who believes otherwise is a ratfucking dimwit who only wants life to get more expensive for every American. Being anti-trade has been one of the biggest screw ups of the American left over the last several decades.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

god i'm tired of "the real reason trump does [x]" articles, we've been through this for an entire presidential term already, he does this shit because he's stupid, i don't need the very clever boy brigade to voxsplain it to me

submitted 33 days ago • 25 comments

despite it all I am still basically optimistic that we can make our lives better and that we can still repair the world

submitted 33 days ago • 50 comments