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Retired from practicing law, then retired from teaching History and Political Science. Now, sad for my country.
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Forbes: The Qataris have been trying to get rid of that ostentatious luxury jet for five years, but no one would buy it. It costs too much to fly, costs more to maintain, and needs too big a landing strip. They had another one they unloaded on Turkey. Delicious. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

submitted 5 hours ago • 65 comments

We are doomed

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Let’s have Congress vote on it. I’d like to get some Republicans on record before the midterms.

submitted 1 day ago • 482 comments

This is absurd. Tax cuts for larger businesses and the wealthy have never worked to boost the overall economy. Tried and tried with each GOP controlled Congress. Never accomplishes what is touted

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The GOP’s “big beautiful bill” includes a clause giving Donald Trump the ability to revoke the tax-exempt status of any group the Treasury Department says is a terrorism supporter. The bill is in the reconciliation process, meaning it only requires a simple majority in the House and Senate to pass.

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

Thanks Trump. Oh, and still a heck of a job Duffy

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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. Rarely has an economic policy been repudiated as soundly, and as quickly, as President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/u-s-...

submitted 2 days ago • 115 comments

Gradually but inexorably, the WSJ editorial page is coming to terms with the fact that leader of their preferred political party is, ah, well, a bit of a grifter. Free link www.wsj.com/opinion/air-...

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

From Axios: "Trump administration welcomed white Afrikaners while ending Afghan protections" Enough said.

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Let's be clear: This is Christopher Landau, a longtime part of the conservative movement and former Thomas clerk, not some random Trumper who found his way into a job.

submitted 2 days ago • 75 comments

The Afrikaner stunt is the kind of thing that has backfired so far -- it creates legal arguments for other refugees about animus. But holy hell he's not hiding the white sheets.

submitted 3 days ago • 588 comments

China agreed to reduce the tariffs they raised in response to Trump’s tariffs after Trump agreed to lower his tariffs. Create a problem, surrender, then declare victory.

submitted 3 days ago • 298 comments

Creating a problem and then demanding praise for fixing it. A pattern.

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

1/Latest in tariff omnishambles. This is not a deal. The US just blinked. The lesson for China: US escalation cannot be maintained. For the US: we will still see inflation and the chance of recession. For the world: the end of US credibility. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/b...

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

Ethics is for losers, Trump says.

submitted 3 days ago • 172 comments

Trump says Democrats are losers for not getting hundred of millions of dollars in bribes from foreign dictators.

submitted 3 days ago • 261 comments

this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"

submitted 3 days ago • 650 comments

The GOP wanted to impeach Biden for a fake $5M bribe from Ukraine that was made up by a guy sitting in prison for lying about it, but they’re cool with a $400M plane from Qatar. Do I have that right?

submitted 4 days ago • 639 comments

The GOP Is Already Planning to Win the Midterms... by Suppressing Your Vote! www.commondreams.org/opinion/gop-...

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AOC: This administration — and Noem — spits on the American flag every time they engage in that nonsense. So I don’t want to hear anything about “America First.” These people, and this administration, are putting America last by acting like their allegiance is to a man instead of the Constitution.

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AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

submitted 4 days ago • 900 comments

When you make a Monty Python co-founder laugh out loud. 💕

submitted 5 days ago • 936 comments

He just doesn’t care…

submitted 5 days ago • 81 comments

“.. Under this deal, it will now be cheaper to import a UK vehicle with very little U.S. content than a USMCA compliant vehicle from Mexico or Canada that is half American parts.” @thehill.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social thehill.com/business/529...

submitted 5 days ago • 309 comments

These people in charge are the absolute worst people in the world.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

So Trump finally reaches the concepts of the framework of a trade deal with a country that we actually have a trade SURPLUS with. In Trump’s vernacular, WE have been ripping THEM off. So now we help them reverse that so we can run a deficit with them. Brilliant.

submitted 6 days ago • 149 comments

Grateful that the new Pope seems to share Pope Francis’ views on the current wave of nativist immigration policy.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments