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About 80 days from the peak before tariffs started to disrupt financial markets, we should see the actual consequences hit retail business stocks.
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If you'll allow me to say it, The Onion is cooking with gas today.

AI hype gut check. www.barchart.com/story/news/3...

The elephant in the room: www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/m...

Is this WWIII? apnews.com/article/iran...

I told you we’d be back

this is a good wake up call for elected Dems to realize what’s happening and what’s going to happen not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are

How internalizing Marketing segmentation as one's identity is mental illness. vegoutmag.com/lifestyle/j-...

Bluster fails to negotiate. www.axios.com/2025/06/12/i...

Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage. Just do it.

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

Quinnipiac finds quite dismal approval numbers for Trump, at month 6: poll.qu.edu/poll-release... Overall: 38/54 'on deportations': 40/56 on the economy: 40/56 on trade: 38/57 on Russia-Ukraine: 34/57 and respondents oppose the 'big beautiful' bill 27/53.

Yesterday at Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in Seattle barriers were built with scooters and bikes in front of the buildings garage exit. This comes as it was announced today that ICE will be deploying tactical teams to 5 cities in the US to assist in “mass deportations”

MEAction: “Minnesota’s Long COVID Funding Saved From Elimination” “Minnesota is the first and only State to make strategic investments in better understanding and addressing Long COVID and other infection-associated chronic conditions (IACCs), like ME/CFS…” t.co/Mjgt4SUvO9

How gleefully do you look forward to purging Christianity from US Government? 😶‍🌫️

Don't just say it's unconstitutional, remind people that the constitution is full of very good ideas designed to prevent authoritarianism, and most people who want to ignore it want that specifically because they are authoritarian.

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/s... Trump [corrected] "WE ARE [PAYING] A TOTAL OF 55% TARIFFS, CHINA IS [PAYING] 10%" 🤡

White fragility center of new NPS policy. www.npr.org/2025/06/10/n...

Dave Portnoy on NPR: average white guys are going to be assholes, but in small traditionally acceptable ways, and expect to be treated like good guys despite that, because entitlement. one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5406...

What exactly IS toxic masculinity? futurism.com/neoscope/ano...

Now everyone will go look up the book and it will make NY Times. #sighs #booksky #writingcommunity

I just watched Blade Runner. I did not remember it was set in Los Angeles, I thought it was San Francisco. And I sure didn't remember it supposed to be 2019! Boy did they get things wrong. TVs and computers were small. But they had the awesome flying cars. They also had Payphone FaceTime.

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.