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if that crypto bill passes the recession will be funny

gad saad is what unresolved trauma looks like

Trump is now directing federal law enforcement officials to seek sanctions against attorneys or law firms that challenge his actions in court. The admin currently faces more than 130 lawsuits. The move is the latest action that aims to punish judges and lawyers taking positions against Trump.

liberation day is ominous

it turns out elon was actually the soyboy

apathy - not economic problems is how governments fall

trump has singlehandedly crippled the military industrial complex

this is the modern equivalent of arabs for trump

benefit of trump and co moving so fast is that they're gonna crash out faster than other authoritarians

treaty of trumposillas (2025) trump gets the americas putin gets the rest

people say AI keeps improving exponentially NOPE llms are the biggest bait i've ever seen we're not getting robots, either at least for 20 years in fact, i'd argue most "AI" stuff isn't even AI, but rather just specific structures larping as AI

every day is a rollercoaster

treating hard right points as normal discourse has rotten our politics

Extraordinary rendition is a euphemistically-named policy of state-sponsored abduction in a foreign jurisdiction and transfer to a third state.

the vast majority of eugenicists would be sterilized under their logic

of course rufo is arguing against non whites when he's with an asian woman CLASSIC

clearly the israelis protesting netanyahu are antisemitic

did coors support the bud light boycott (joseph coors founded heritage) holy sh it was them

accusations in a mirror eventually become cloudy

alberta stop

Paul Weiss and Columbia are taking exactly the wrong actions in acceding to Trump, and they are among the entities most well-positioned to fight back. These are legacy-shaming decisions by the leadership of both, and those far less powerful will now, and surely in short order, pay the price.

yarvin is an idiot

walz is way more impressive than i thought

look into virtual private servers might need one soon

watch the alberta montana border i feel like they're planning something

the silicon valley ai worshipping cult stuff is so incredibly strange i'm not even sure how to approach commenting on it

A useful cheat sheet “I never unfriend people over politics” (h/t; mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/...)