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"Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening." – J.G. Ballard, *High–Rise* Proud middle-aged GenXer. Wikipedia administrator and local Democratic Party official here in my part of upstate New York. GO DEEP STATE!!
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In one small way, it seems, the tariffs on China are having the desired political effect: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/w...

The more Americans need to talk about class, the more we talk about race or any other social divide, part XXVII: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If Gavin Newsom wants to make everyone take him seriously as a 2028 hopeful again, he can pardon Sirhan Sirhan so he can FINISH THE JOB!

I wrote about how social media platforms can combat hate and harassment without censorship if they actually want to. X has no interest, but others could do a lot more. Gift link:

David Brooks quotes The Communist Manifesto. Bill Kristol says the Abolish ICE movement deserves and apology. Wild times we live in.

As noted before, and as predicted in this space, this is *still* not working out for Trump: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

If Bukele won't free this man, it is time that not only do we protest outside the Salvadoran embassy and all its consulates, we boycott Salvadoran goods. tradingeconomics.com/el-salvador/... I'm sure Trump and MAGA will be totally on board with that. "America First", y'all!

Trump: "Well, we don't make any drugs ..."

The BBC went out to some backwater burg in NoWhere Ohio to find so-called ordinary everyday people who SUPPORT the tariffs. *These* are the "Middle Americans" we are all supposed to genuflect before and and apologize to for calling "deplorables"? "Very fine people"? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Followup to my earlier post about the car dealership: We took delivery of the car today, for cash. The lady running the finance department told us that their offered rates jumped by *two whole points* overnight Monday. Enough that one buyer had to reconsider.

What I haven't seen pointed out about Hegseth's apparent copying of the attack plans is that he is not just SecDef. He is a LtCol in the Army reserves. A commissioned officer. This means he should face not only criminal charges but dismissal from service.

I wonder how loud the anti-Hegseth grumbling is *really* getting among Republicans ... www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Today, just like that, my wife and I went out to buy her a new car from a non-American maker. We chose today because of the obvious reason: get it done before Black Wednesday. The sales guy agreed ... he said they're looking at $12K hikes on most of their models 1/

No one so far in this Jasmine Crockett "Governor Hot Wheels" brouhaha has pointed out that we do not even know for sure that Abbott is genuinely disabled. He has steadfastly refused to release the medical records related to this so-called injury for *years* despite repeated queries.