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“What are they all doing? ‘A whole lot of nothing,’ one South Texas National Guard soldier said.” “This is the scene lately along the U.S.-Mexico border, where President Trump quickly declared a national emergency upon taking office, rushing thousands of active-duty soldiers here."

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If I were single, I would give serious thought to going myself (apart from having a job I love here). I've lived in several countries and speak the language in a couple, so it wouldn't be a culture shock by any means. Always an option in the back pocket.

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Yeah, the newspaper that wouldn't endorse anyone against Trump. I throw out the front section of my Sunday NYT as soon as I open it. No desire to hear their sanewashing. And their editorial board lost all right to say anyting to anyone about anything. Zero credibility or integrity. Ditto WaPo.

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MILLER TABAK: “Consumer confidence is starting to plunge .. “.. Services PMI below the magic 50 “.. retail sales .. worst decline in over two years “.. downbeat guidance that $WMT provided “.. layoff announcements from .. $CVX and $LUV “.. consumer related stocks .. telling us the same thing”

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FAFO

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Very interesting thread, but it's the same massive blind spot that caught Democrats last fall. Narratives about our immediate experiences absolutely do come from our personal experience.Telling people "The economy is great!" when 5-10% of key swing voters knew their experience was NOT lost the race.

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This is how real analysis works. Many if not most people do NOT have the patience to work their way through something without neat, absolute answers. Ask me how I know.

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Spotted on facebook.

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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

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Wait until the MAGA morons find out that Trump doesn't care about responding to crises at home either. Climate change disasters will hit the red states hardest. Pandemics too.

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JennaLaineESPN @JennaLaineESPN The people who think blocks are a badge of honor when all you’re doing is taking two seconds to protect your peace and wipe their existence from memory. It takes me longer to throw away a pair of socks with holes in them, as it actually served a purpose in my life.

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We are arms dealers to terrorists.

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And so it begins. Not going to the KC will be a fine fuck you to the orange turd. Hopefully some of the shows get booked at other venues instead. Local voters won't patronize Chairman Trump's little fantasyland.

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The KC will be an empty shell once the shows with existing ticket holders run out. No one decent will want to perform there, and the existing customer base will abandon it. Going to the KC will be like buying a Tesla in this region now. Gonna look stupid.

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If younger folk aren't buying because they can't, then it's not surprising many turned against the "establishment" that produced good macro economic numbers but ignored them.

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When the hedgies are worried.... www.cnbc.com/2025/02/21/s...

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My students know "One conversation, please" is their cue to tune in and stop side chats. Anyone who continues gets called out by name and asked to stop in front of everyone. Doing that consistently sets clear boundaries for high schoolers. Raising my voice for a quick "Yo!" is the most I ever need.

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Ya know, Great Britain at least had several decades of comparatively dignified decline (i.e., not stripping the country for parts) before it became a laughingstock. The United States decided to skip all of that and jump straight into cannibalizing itself.

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McCormick is quoted at this town hall as saying "I didn’t have to come here," in case you are wondering what some politicians think of their own constituents.

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Yeah, Trump's plan sucked. That's why you IDIOTS voted for it. FAFO's a bitch "Town halls from Georgia to Wisconsin to Oregon grew heated this week as voters showed up to vent, outraged at the firing of federal workers and DOGE’s access to sensitive data."

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It never ceases to amaze me how we went nuts after 9/11 to clamp down on illicit activity then sat back and let a platform worth hundreds of billions arise unregulated. It's not a partisan issue. Everyone did it. But it's prima facie crazy. You couldn't offer a better vehicle or fatter target.

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Oops.. The Nation: “This will ultimately hurt hundreds of thousands of people—many of them Trump voters. It turns out that military veterans are disproportionately represented among the DOGE cuts, because they disproportionately work in federal jobs. Two-thirds of veterans voted for Trump in 2024.”

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This gets it too.... "Many voters were desperate for a straightforward alternative to what they saw as the stale establishmentarian liberalism of the Biden-Harris administration. So they projected its opposite, as they understood it, onto their only other viable option."

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chimed in online after Canada beat the United States in the 4 Nations Face-Off final. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

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"This reveals Mr. Trump’s economic agenda for what it is: not bringing jobs back home or even boosting American manufacturing, but making the rich richer. To do this, Mr. Trump has one main goal: to shift the tax burden away from corporations and the wealthy. With tariffs, he is doing exactly that."

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The first way we will all know whether or not the Dallas Cowboys have grown up to a point where they are willing to take things seriously will be if there is an extension for number 11 in the near future. If they wait... well. That will say a lot. www.bloggingtheboys.com/2025/2/20/24...

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The widely held assumption among the previously non-political Trump voters I know that made them inclined to vote MAGA was this: All politicians are corrupt liars. Now they are content to be governed by the most corrupt, lying-est people imaginable. But at least they're not politicians, right?

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