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This is just like 2008 -- except that in 2008, the government was trying to stop the crash, whereas now, the government is literally causing the crash.

submitted 10 hours ago • 200 comments

@60minutes.bsky.social finds no evidence of criminal records in US or any other country for 75% of Venezuelans kidnapped and rendered to El Salvador. Of the rest, 22% had non-violent arrests for things like traffic violations.

submitted 11 hours ago • 52 comments

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

submitted 11 hours ago • 124 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 9 hours ago • 798 comments

Republicans in Congress can repeal every tariff tomorrow and take Trump’s tariff authority away from him. But they choose not to. So every Republican in Congress owns EVERY SINGLE BIT of this. You can’t hide from the voters forever.

submitted 13 hours ago • 418 comments

Not joking: as of today Donald Trump is the absolute greatest destroyer of wealth the country has ever had

submitted 11 hours ago • 581 comments

In a nutshell:

submitted 21 hours ago • 39 comments

What a fucking dope.

submitted 13 hours ago • 753 comments

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

submitted 12 hours ago • 806 comments

Who needs covert Kremlin propaganda when we can now get it openly, from the member of Putin's inner circle who was visiting Washington last week?

submitted 15 hours ago • 177 comments

Well this seems like a fantastic plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1374 comments

Keep in mind — he claims this is all being done to boost 🇺🇸 manufacturing… but Biden actually did that 👇🏽 And his tariffs are actually hurting companies that are planning factories here and making them rethink their plans, despite what he’s saying: www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

submitted 13 hours ago • 29 comments

At least they're not threatening to also take away your Social Security as your 401K gets tanked. Oh wait.

submitted 15 hours ago • 64 comments

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

submitted 13 hours ago • 877 comments

The administration is a perfect storm of dumb people who enjoy inflicting pain and are addicted to psychotic cruelty and quadrupling down. It ends in total ruin if you don't impeach him.

submitted 14 hours ago • 835 comments

Makin’ history is nothing new for this guy

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Someone should make a film about a mad king, say in the late 18th century, whose arbitrary rule and foolish decision-making inspired people in one of his colonies to create a political system in which power would be distributed more widely so as to avoid the harms of such mercurial policy making.

submitted 14 hours ago • 51 comments

Mainstream media is doing a woefully inadequate job of highlighting the horrors ICE is committing across the USA. My hunch is that is by design.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

As the economic news keeps coming out over the coming weeks keep one thing in mind: this is the fault of one man and didn’t need to happen.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2351 comments

Booker: "What this president is doing is violating our constitutional principles, violating the fundamental rights of people in order to punish them to carry out his own retribution plan ... Donald Trump is saying, 'ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for Donald Trump.'"

submitted 22 hours ago • 132 comments

We're on track for another market bloodbath tomorrow.

submitted 15 hours ago • 89 comments

Hosting the Olympics and World Cup are going to be impossible. What athlete in their right mind would risk coming to the US now?

submitted 17 hours ago • 372 comments

SUMMERS: “This is the biggest self-inflicted wound we’ve put on our economy in history. … Until we have a reversal, I think we’re going to have a real problem.” @larrysummers.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NwD...

submitted 18 hours ago • 95 comments

At this rate, things are going to get much, much worse.

submitted 16 hours ago • 389 comments

These idiots crashed the best economy in the world in less than three months.

submitted 15 hours ago • 24 comments

In 3 sessions, S&P 500 futures have plunged about 15%. Legit market crash

submitted 16 hours ago • 322 comments

Donald Trump has done many bad things to damage our country. But he has turned his attention to our elections. He is trying to undermine free and fair elections in 2026 because he knows that if Democrats sweep into office, they will check is authoritarian plans.

submitted 22 hours ago • 119 comments

WSJ: “.. Tariff-swollen building costs helped to kill a $300 million plastics recycling plant in Erie, Pa., that had been in the works for four years.” @wsj.com 🇺🇸 www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

submitted 19 hours ago • 118 comments

If your response to yesterday’s millions of people marching is that they were all paid operatives…you’re desperate, deluded, and scared. And lying.

submitted 18 hours ago • 434 comments

Chico Arango scores first, now Josef Martinez. San Jose Earthquakes up 2-0 early vs DC United. #SoccerSunday ⚽️

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Yes, businesses absolutely need to show the tariff at the checkout screen. Don't hide it into the cost of the product.

submitted 23 hours ago • 148 comments

lol www.cnbc.com/2025/04/06/k...

submitted 20 hours ago • 141 comments

Trump’s own voters are turning on him.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2116 comments

#NYCFC making two changes in the 40’. Minnesota United controlling the match, up 2-0 at Yankee Stadium on TV. #SoccerSunday

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

So far, Trump has lost $9 trillion in stock market value in an attempt to fix a $1.2 trillion trade deficit. It’s not possible to fully articulate the stupidity currently governing the USA.

submitted 18 hours ago • 39 comments

Shows you the character of Treasury Sec Scott Bessent. Bloomberg reports he was excluded from the small group that came up with Trump‘s tariffs, yet he is out this morning parroting what he knows is bullshit talking points and lies!

submitted 19 hours ago • 13 comments

Authoritarian Party Line Alert. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 20 hours ago • 172 comments

Climate change is causing more and more extreme weather events, and makes them substantially more dangerous when they happen. Lots going on in the world today, but this problem doesn’t abate when we don’t talk about it. Time for lots of positive action & Infinite Resistance to bad policies. ∞Ω

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

This is the honor and respect that Lithuania’s highest ranking officials and citizens presented American fallen soldiers while their Commander-in-Chief played golf instead.

submitted 21 hours ago • 104 comments

There is absolutely no way the US can host the World Cup or the Olympics

submitted 21 hours ago • 443 comments

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

submitted 20 hours ago • 567 comments

Tim Walz: "It's not a 'woke policy' to provide food for children to get breakfast and lunch, and we get better outcomes from that. They defined things on their terms that weren't true ... we got timid."

submitted 22 hours ago • 604 comments

It’s time for Congress to reign in the Mad King. These tariffs haven’t even hit for real and the world is off the rails. Politically, it’s helpful to Dems, but this is why I’m not a good politician b/c I care too deeply about the harm on all people, even on those that hate my very existence.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1561 comments

Booker: "I've never seen an administration in my lifetime do something so monumentally wrong and that so staggering hurts American people."

submitted 22 hours ago • 430 comments

Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.

submitted 23 hours ago • 428 comments

The Treasury secretary's advice to people worried that their retirement savings are being wiped out is to just not look at their accounts.

submitted 22 hours ago • 53 comments

Question: Why didn’t Trump impose tariffs on Russia like he did on the rest of the world? Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett: “There is an ongoing negotiation with Russia and Ukraine. And I think the president made the decision not to conflate the two issues” (Trump imposed tariffs on Ukraine)

submitted 23 hours ago • 215 comments