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submitted 2 hours ago • 15 comments

One President wildly exceeded his authority by forgiving some student loans; a different President barely scratched the surface of his authority by disappearing anyone he pleases without trial to a foreign gulag. Constitutional law is a serious intellectual enterprise.

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

submitted 1 day ago • 218 comments

I need to draw the line from “Trump promises to withdraw from Afghanistan but under a timeline that foists it onto Biden; Biden withdraws and it’s messy but press coverage overdoes it so Biden never recovers; Trump re-enters office and promptly sentences Afghanis who helped our war effort to death.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Big update from the Movies News account...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

The cuts "would kill the much-anticipated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory seen as on par with [Hubble & JWST] that is already fully assembled and on budget for a launch in two years." Would also apparently close NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Huge, HUGE loss for science.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird

submitted 2 days ago • 184 comments

10 yr yield is 7 bps higher than it was when Trump yanked reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday because he purpotedly was "watching the bonds"

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Very informative chart from Washington Post

submitted 2 days ago • 187 comments

Some of the nicest families and children I have met over the years have spectrum disorders. The families are often more engaged than the average family (partly out of necessity) and they are always so kind and loving to everyone around them. Fuck you if you voted for this.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

One day apart.

submitted 3 days ago • 323 comments

Nice to see Ben Shapiro’s wife having some influence tbh

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

So the basic jist here is through Trump's various insanities the Dow is only down 5,000 from its peak instead of 8,000 and I think that's very impressive, like an alcoholic going from 8 beers a night to 4. But I also don't think said metaphorical alcoholic should be setting tariff rates.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

submitted 4 days ago • 395 comments

For the record, trillions were lost, panic gripped Wall Street., Main Street and the globe and all we got were phone calls. And we’re left with high tariffs that are still forecast to reduce growth and boost inflation. Doesn’t seem much like victory to me.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

So, to be clear we are now at: China: 125% tariffs Mexico 35% tariffs Canada 35% tariffs? EU -- who fucking knows? 10%? 35%? Entire rest of the world: 10% Stock market: FUCK YEAH!!!!

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Very, very happy that at least with Patel it looks like he's lazy as shit and just wants to grift.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

So increased tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada, continued tariffs on retaliating countries (like the EU), but reduced 10% tariffs on the Heard and McDonald Islands, so the S&P is up by like 5% over the last few minutes. Sure. Whatever.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Fascinating that under Biden the Dow went from 29,348.10 to 43,487.83 due to legislation like the Chips and Science Act and the Infrastructure law While it’s plunged to about 37,750 in the past week because of the Trump tariffs Yet MAGA claims it’s the Biden policies that are disastrous

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

submitted 4 days ago • 407 comments