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Warren Buffett, the famed investor who runs the sprawling conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, described tariffs as “an act of war” in an interview with CBS.

submitted 4 hours ago • 85 comments

BREAKING: The measles outbreak in Texas has grown to 124 cases, with 18 hospitalizations, ABC News reports. Most cases are in unvaccinated people or those with unknown vaccination status. I’m starting to think that making a notorious anti-vaxxer the HHS Secretary wasn’t the best idea…

submitted 6 days ago • 546 comments

America, meet the newly appointed Deputy Director of the FBI.

submitted 7 days ago • 189 comments

Kudos to GOP Senator Thom Tillis for calling out Trump’s dangerous policy of surrendering to war criminal Putin. Now, he and other pro-Ukraine Republicans should start using their power as U.S. senators to restrain Trump as much as possible.

submitted 9 days ago • 164 comments

Trump slams President Zelensky for demanding a seat at peace negotiations over his own country’s future: “You’ve been there for three years. You should’ve ended it in three years. You should have never started it.” (Fact check: Russia started the war against Ukraine.)

submitted 13 days ago • 254 comments

🚨BREAKING: Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, was ousted after denying Elon Musk access to “sensitive files,” the Washington Post reports This. Is. Insane.

submitted 14 days ago • 207 comments

BREAKING: The DOJ has officially asked a federal judge to dismiss the corruption case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. This comes after several federal prosecutors resigned in protest rather than comply with an order to drop the case How can MAGA possibly justify this blatant corruption?

submitted 17 days ago • 88 comments

This @deadder.bsky.social cartoon perfectly sums up Trump’s stupid trade wars with our allies.

submitted 29 days ago • 130 comments

The WSJ Editorial Board slams Trump’s trade war with Camada and Mexico: “Mr. Trump sometimes sounds as if the U.S. shouldn’t import anything at all, that America can be a perfectly closed economy making everything at home. This is called autarky, and it isn’t the world we live in…”

submitted 30 days ago • 149 comments

A woman who was pardoned by President Trump for her role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced this week to 10 years in prison for driving drunk and killing a passenger in another car, nearly a year after the riot.

submitted 31 days ago • 116 comments

In a report detailing the case into President-elect Trump’s attempts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election, the special counsel Jack Smith wrote that Trump would have been convicted had the case been allowed to proceed. Here’s what we learned.

submitted 48 days ago • 23 comments

The dumbest member of Congress by far. How the hell did she win her seat by 30%?

submitted 50 days ago • 1083 comments

Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense, has called for U.S. military bases to restore the names of Confederate generals. -CNN

submitted 49 days ago • 127 comments

A New York State appeals court rejected a request by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation to dismiss part of a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit stemming from the broadcasting of misinformation around the 2020 presidential election.

submitted 52 days ago • 128 comments

Fox News host Jesse Watters: The fact that Canadians don't want us to take them over makes me want to invade. I want to quench my imperialist thirst. We live in the absolute dumbest time in American history

submitted 54 days ago • 1139 comments

After Donald Trump suggested he might take over Greenland by force, the consensus among Greenlanders appears to be bewilderment and anxiety: “This is all getting scary.”

submitted 54 days ago • 85 comments

Breaking News: President-elect Trump failed in his appeal of a $5 million judgment that he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll and defamed her.

submitted 63 days ago • 64 comments

Sit still and be quiet Donald. You were bought and paid for.

submitted 73 days ago • 10 comments

More than 75 Nobel Prize winners signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a cabinet choice. nyti.ms/41uQueD

submitted 84 days ago • 60 comments

Over the weekend, Donald Trump revealed perhaps his most dangerous Cabinet decision yet—a plan to install Kash Patel as the next director of the F.B.I. Susan B. Glasser writes about the latest appointment scandals and what they reveal about Trump 2.0.

submitted 88 days ago • 24 comments

Ronald Reagan warned against “demagogues” like Trump: “We should beware of the demagogues who are willing to declare a Trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world, all while cynically waving the American flag…”

submitted 94 days ago • 84 comments

Hegseth Once Chided Trump For Taking Military Advice From TV Personalities www.thebulwark.com/p/hegseth-on...

submitted 98 days ago • 22 comments

The House Ethics Committee obtained Venmo records showing that Matt Gaetz paid $10,224.02 to two young women who later testified against him. $250 for “being my friend.” $400 for “being awesome”. $200 “just because”

submitted 103 days ago • 40 comments

My first Bluesky post.

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments