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👇🎯 This stuff is the entire ballgame. And the fact that this hasn’t immediately ended this presidency is why none of us can seriously believe with certainty that the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, & competitive. If 👇 goes unpunished, there is literally nothing a president cannot do.

submitted 5 hours ago • 12 comments

A little personal news ... MY DAUGHTER JUST GOT ACCEPTED TO GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY'S MASTER'S PROGRAM IN CRIMINOLOGY FOR FALL 2025!

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The biggest difference between Trump I and Trump II is that Trump I didn't know what rules he can break, so he was relatively timid in asserting his authoritarian impulses. Trump II knows there are almost no rules he can't break, so being he's a lot bolder.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

There's a lot in this op-ed I disagree with, which isn't surprising—Douthat is a conservative and I'm not—but I still think he may be right in his central thesis that Trump's even more reckless style this term might actually catch up to him politically.

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I feel like this kind of thing happened over-and-over again in Trump 1.0: ● Announce scary policy ● Everyone freaks out ● Exceptions quietly announced, gutting policy ● #Trump ignores exceptions, suggests policy was implemented as announced, claims "big victory!" Feels like marketing and deception

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

But this is also a textbook Trump move, right? He talks tough, then undercuts his own tough policies, so not much happens, not he still claims to have instituted the original idea, which he claims has great results. It's marketing and deceptive advertising.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Unbe-damn-lievable "Whoa!" CNN host reacts to "scary" encounter with Trump's "secretary of retribution" www.newsbreakapp.com/n/10Jvp2wZ?&...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Fascinating discussion, and I found Owen Cass' thoughts really interesting, since he's a supporter of Trump's #tariffs, in theory if not always in practice. "This Mindless Flailing Creates Recessions": Four Economists Dissect Trump’s Tariffs www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...

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This is a better recap than the one in the Wall Street Journal. From ‘Be Cool!’ to ‘Getting Yippy’: Inside Trump’s Reversal on Tariffs www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

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Classy and understated. Kudos to you, Greatest-Ever President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump.

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Prices will rise, even with the "pause" in new tariffs What to Know About the Latest China Tariffs and What They Mean for Prices www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/b...

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Maybe, but as with everything concerning "corruption," I doubt voters will care very much, so long as things are going well for those voters. On the other hand, if the economy falters or contracts or goes into recession, yes, corruption can be a huge issue.

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Yes, yes, but Donald Trump will frame this extraordinary market rally today as evidence of his strong economic policies. Business is booming! See how messaging works? open.substack.com/pub/noahpini...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

But the "brilliance" of Trump's plans (here, as in everywhere) is that he will, supported by an entire online and Fox/NewsMax ecosystem, claim he extracted some huge benefit, that other countries came begging for a reprieve, all of which shows "America's renewed strength and respect in the world"!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

No notes. 💯

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

This is what happens when you let students set the deadline for a term paper. First, they turn in some chatGPT-esque half-draft, then they give themselves a 90 day extension.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

An Experiment in Recklessness: Trump as Global Disrupter www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Someone needs to explain all this in VERY layperson terms.

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One aspect of this that I didn't see explained in this article is what impact, if any, the tariffs have when a USA consumer orders an individual item for shipment delivery from, say, a European store. How does the USA gov't know to "tariff" it?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Other than misleadingly calling these "reciprocal" tariffs, this @wsj.com article is invaluable in explaining the new tariffs. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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The encouraging part is that it seems like we're headed back into Trump 1.0 territory, in terms of who is "the resistance." What was so confusing and upsetting to Democrats after the election was that Trump seemed to make inroads with so many reliably Democratic voters. Now, back to baseline?

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"Bond prices and yields have an inverse relationship. When the price of a bond goes up, its yield goes down, and vice versa." Why? It's times like these that I wish I understood macroeconomics better. More people are buying safe bonds! Shouldn't that make yields go up? Idgi.

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TRUMP LITERALLY ASKED ISRAELI HOSTAGES IF HAMAS WAS KIND TO THEM LIKE THE NAZIS WERE YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP newrepublic.com/post/193725/...

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

"Thermostasis + stove-touching gives them room to speak from their chests." Maybe, but a willingness to use very weaponized federal agencies to crush dissent + Trump's likely glee at seeing, say, a prominent Dem arrested / paraded before the media + Courts giving Trump cover might kill off that room

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I wonder if Trump could, acting thru a GOP-controlled Congress, push thru a law penalizing companies that choose, in response to high tariffs placed on their production centers, shift production to someplace other than the US?

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Nobody knows anything, least of all those inside the #Trump administration. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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