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Just so we are clear - despite this guy’s fawning over Donald Trump, this mess is Trump’s making. He appointed the incompetent television host to head the DOD.

submitted 8 days ago • 49 comments

Judas Iscariot got paid off around Easter. Why shouldn’t I? by Donald Trump

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

this is monstrous but it's also just not true. i know that gets lost but the permission structure here is "other countries do this," so it's at least worth acknowledging: no they don't.

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

kinda puts the kibosh on Alito's argument that there was no need to move quickly

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's Iron Dome: yet another way to make Elon Musk even richer at the taxpayer's expense substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Trump tariffed every country, even penguins, but not Russia. He said it’s because he’s negotiating the wars end. But he DID tariff Ukraine. Hmmm

submitted 9 days ago • 463 comments

International students contribute $44 billion to the US economy annually, creating 1 job for every 4 students enrolled. Higher ed is America’s 10th largest export industry. A finance professor explores how their impact reaches beyond big cities to small towns like Mankato, MN.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

You don't need to strip search & detain & deport too many white European tourists to crush the tourist industry.

submitted 9 days ago • 49 comments

LOL at the chief economist at Apollo (>$750B in assets under management) inventing the term "Voluntary Trade Reset Recession" to avoid calling it what it is, the "Trump Recession." This isn't some rational economic plan with thoughtful tradeoffs, it's one dude's malice and incompetence.

submitted 9 days ago • 37 comments

This dumbass. Good lord. Bring Back DEI. Hire competent people. This isn't a game, MAGA. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 72 comments

But corporations need a giant tax cut, I am told.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

American citizens keep getting rounded-up by ICE. And it's gonna keep happening. During the first Trump admin, 70 Americans were mistakenly deported. From March, by @nicolefoy.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/more...

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

Note that Trump asked for IRS investigations in his first term too: Strzok, McCabe, Comey, and he interfered directly in IRS investigation of Hunter Biden. This did not come up in Jack Smith's challenge to Trump's immunity claim, tho I raised it at the time.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

This feels like bounty hunting.

submitted 9 days ago • 80 comments

Senior Republican flounders when asked about Trump plan to deport US citizens to foreign jails

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

In his Easter message, President Zelenskyy raises an existential question that many Ukrainians have had for years: “how can we not lose faith after everything we're going through?” After all the suffering and devastation. The answer is hope — something strong inside you that keeps you from giving up

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

My weekend take on Kilmar’s case: Do Americans believe in cruelty? Are we cruel? Do we want our children to be cruel? Forget about the politics of Kilmar. This is a question about whether we are going to make Trump‘s cruelty our own. open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

submitted 9 days ago • 93 comments

“A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.”

submitted 9 days ago • 49 comments

Phoenix Ikner: I am a white supremacist. I love Donald Trump. I hate Black and brown people. Trump says universities are liberal propaganda machines. I’m convinced white people are under attack. Corporate Media: He had such a rough childhood and we just cannot fathom his motivation??? 😑

submitted 9 days ago • 62 comments

Kamala Harris: “he’s a fascist” Gen. Milley: “he’s a fascist” John Kelly: “he’s a fascist” Historians of fascism: “he’s a fascist” The NY/DC political media: “how did we all fail to see that Donald Trump was a fascist?”

submitted 9 days ago • 66 comments

Three weeks after US President Donald Trump effectively declared a trade war with the whole world, new economic forecasts and surveys will point to the initial fallout.

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

A modest proposal: Alito's half-hearted, "the Court used our procedures that we make up and can change at any time improperly" dissent shows just how weak the position of the Trump administration is here. It's so weak that even Alito knows it.

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state www.aarp.org/travel/trave...

submitted 11 days ago • 126 comments

We all know this doesn't "solve" the problem. But if nothing else, this shatters the assertion that all Democrats can do is to plead with Republicans since they are in the minority in Congress. It should be a reminder that we can, in fact, expect more from our elected leaders. Do. Something.

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

Eliminating data measurement capacity is an old Republican trick that has been used in the past as an initial step toward the elimination of various government programs. If you can’t measure a problem or the positive impact of a program addressing it, it makes it harder to justify any appropriation.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

There's no need to gather systemic data when your politics is built around the foundational assumption that the only way to solve "so-called problems" is by telling individuals to either pray harder, choose richer parents, or grow bigger bootstraps.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

What if Elon is the first autistic person RFK has ever actually met and that’s why he assumes we don’t pay taxes or go on dates

submitted 11 days ago • 112 comments

Detaining someone for overstaying after a visa revocation you didn't inform them of in the first place.....

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Owning the libs.

submitted 10 days ago • 109 comments

💯 if El Salvador wants to turn itself into a for profit N Korea, Americans should treat it like N Korea

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

I forgot how much I love this place.

submitted 10 days ago • 92 comments

Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

Friendly reminder. In the United States, criminals are entitled to due process. Even if you pay hush money rig an election, steal top secret documents, or incite a mob to overthrow the government; no matter how egregious your crimes, you’re entitled to due process.

submitted 10 days ago • 694 comments

Trump to eliminate Head Start, zeroing out funding for preschool across the country www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

250 years ago today America began its march toward independence at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The battles marked “No Kings Day, Part I.” Today millions of Americans will take part in “No Kings Day, Part II.”

submitted 10 days ago • 263 comments

(CBS News) - Trump administration officials, anticipating supply chain strains due to steep tariffs on Chinese goods, have discussed forming a working group to deal with the problems with urgency if there's no breakthrough with Beijing, multiple sources told CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

submitted 11 days ago • 161 comments

The only reason we ever became concerned with a “trade deficit” was in the 80s when Japanese car companies were eating American companies lunch. That’s it. It’s not meant to be an economic strategy. I have a trade deficit with Applebees but we’re fine

submitted 12 days ago • 718 comments

That's why they call him Comrade Trump.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Bring it you fascist fuck.

submitted 12 days ago • 180 comments

Guy who is mailing his sperm around "to reach legion level before the apocalypse" owns strategic companies in several sectors, can buy whole countries, and has read/write access to govt databases beyond Nixon and Hoover's wildest dreams. All good, I'm sure

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

submitted 13 days ago • 813 comments

Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia said in new a filing that the Trump admin has not even attempted to get the mistakenly deported man returned to the U.S. — despite orders from a federal judge and the Supreme Court. "There is no evidence that anyone has requested the release of Abrego Garcia."

submitted 14 days ago • 26 comments

Killing American universities will also increase the trade deficit, as Catherine Rampell points out www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Unfortunately, as a reality TV show star, Donald Trump was never very good with numbers.

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

“we will work to stop something that isn’t happening and then take a victory lap because the thing that wasn’t happening still isn’t”

submitted 14 days ago • 173 comments