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"There are hardly five critics in America, and several of them are asleep. "
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okay, so now I guess we focus not on that bad thing he did but on others of the bad things he has done or is trying to do?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*

submitted 4 days ago • 254 comments

"Good men will break the nation to see if a dollar falls out."

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is high art

submitted 6 days ago • 526 comments

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

submitted 10 days ago • 834 comments

"Gains erased" would be an apt tagline for the film documenting this second Trump administration.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

wouldn't you just love to FOIA / subpoena the day's trading activity in brokerage accounts FTB of those Republicans who know what Trump's tariffs look like in advance of the 4PM announcement? #corruption

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

what booker is doing very well is making clear the difference between moral persuasion and legislative power. Democrats have the ability to harness the former, if not the latter, and while it's taken longer than I would have preferred, I'm happy to see it happening.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

But he sure plays a mean pinball

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

Cory Booker: "I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America." Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

I feel like as long as there is baseball in America, there is hope that we can be who we say we are and represent what we say we represent. At least, it feels that way on opening day.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

LOL #USMNT #ETTD

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

“And I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my friend’s voice arises, and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong?” - Ursula K. Le Guin

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

“Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it.” —Salvador Dali

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

submitted 32 days ago • 35 comments

I guess we shouldn't be surprised that MAGA will have us all drinking white zinfandel again.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 38 days ago • 1571 comments

surprising to see a man who inherited everything he has squander what America built for ~250 years in the fight for Freedom.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Re Zelensky at the WH, yet again, feminists and trauma/abuse- informed thinkers are years ahead of political analysts. There is no acceptable affect, no way to charm an abuser, and no “deal” other than playing very very dead that would change how Trump and his flying monkey Vance behaved.

submitted 43 days ago • 67 comments

People need to understand that we are in an entirely new paradigm. It is now Russia the US against Ukraine and Europe. This is not a shift in US policy, it is a transformation of what kind of country the United States is in the world

submitted 43 days ago • 127 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 45 days ago • 473 comments