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I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

submitted 42 days ago • 409 comments

Let the Chinese languish in the 18th century industries of chips, smartphones, computers and personal electronics - safe behind the tariff wall, the US shall regain superpower status by dominanting the jobs of the future: little paper napkin and sock manufacturing.

submitted 42 days ago • 21 comments

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

submitted 51 days ago • 965 comments

If Trump really thinks every other country has "raped" the US then he should want to pardon them all. If he's being consistent.

submitted 52 days ago • 9 comments

Funny how it works. We have all these “lab leak” articles always starting with how they were “silenced”, “censored”, etc, etc. Yet, for years, all we hear about is the lab leak. Same nonsense over and over. Those truly being silenced are the scientists doing the work. Including in the NYTimes.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Maybe it was a ‘Roman’ tweet…

submitted 71 days ago • 80 comments

If there was any left who thought there was 4d chess going on, this should be the final proof that it's total chaos. There's not even a fig leaf pretend deal here.

submitted 79 days ago • 45 comments

MAGA freak on #r4today defending JD Vance by echoing far right talking points from the UK - calling migrants an invasion. Are we joining the dots yet? They want our anger directed at homeless foreigners instead of the billionaire bully boys who are looting the whole world.

submitted 79 days ago • 52 comments

"Washington has become the court of Nero, an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a jester high on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service. This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States."

submitted 79 days ago • 103 comments

@privateeyenews.bsky.social on top form as usual this issue.

submitted 80 days ago • 117 comments

Perfect, just perfect. 👏 @mortenmorland.bsky.social

submitted 83 days ago • 3 comments

This was the plan all along

submitted 84 days ago • 171 comments

This is a President who skipped a World War One commemoration because it was raining talking to one who has stood in front of a fresh mass grave of his own people.

submitted 85 days ago • 13 comments

What a disingenuous line this was from Vance today: "you guys are going around...forcing conscripts to the frontlines because you have manpower problems" meduza.io/en/feature/2... 1. Yes, that's how total wars work 2. This admin—like last one—ASKED Ukraine to expand conscription

submitted 84 days ago • 45 comments

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

submitted 84 days ago • 2225 comments

A timely moment to remember that Donald Trump dodged the draft & JD Vance wondered a few short years ago whether he would turn out to be 'America's Hitler'...

submitted 85 days ago • 99 comments

No-one could imagine Trump speaking to Putin like that. Which is one of the reasons that just happened.

submitted 85 days ago • 45 comments

I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.

submitted 85 days ago • 272 comments

Praise for the war criminal, a punishment beating for Zelensky.

submitted 85 days ago • 128 comments

“I don’t want advantage” sums up the position of this administration in talks so far. And no sign at all that the Kelloggs of this world have any traction at all.

submitted 85 days ago • 11 comments

The most shameful day for the United States of America in any of our lifetimes.

submitted 85 days ago • 133 comments

Never in the field of human conflict has so much been written about 0.2% of GDP.

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

"Under weaknesses, you've put 'Accidentally stopped the fight against Ebola'?"

submitted 87 days ago • 21 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 96 days ago • 2244 comments

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

submitted 96 days ago • 1227 comments

Anyone who claims that ‘woke ideology’ is a threat in the same league as Russians pinging drones into Chernobyl, is an oxygen thieving lickspittle who should ignored, shunned and discounted

submitted 98 days ago • 20 comments

I know everything feels grim right now but let's be realistic. These people are idiots. They're going to tank their economy. They're going to fuck-up every deal they sign. They're going to leave America looking shattered and deranged. And all those who supported them will look as idiotic as they are

submitted 98 days ago • 1263 comments

So awesome that the meritocracy hired a guy who doubts germ theory and has no science or medical training. youtu.be/AV3uAR2u3WE

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments

There's been flashier clips of the current insanity, but this quietly demonstrates the current disintegration of US gov't standards like no other. - Did Musk meet Modi as CEO or gov't? - You talking about me? - Musk. - Dunno. Business probly. - Did Modi know which? - Dunno. I'll ask him. 😶

submitted 99 days ago • 28 comments

Given Trump likes to portray himself as a hard man in a deal, this reveals which side he's on: Russia's.

submitted 101 days ago • 43 comments

With RFK Jr, it’s all about the grift; there is nothing more.

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

A.M. - Oh, shit, China can science too? [US stocks crash]. P.M. - Fuck it, let’s halt all of science in the U.S [🤪😵‍💫📉… 🤷‍♂️]. Nice one. wapo.st/4gfgcHQ

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

An awful response on at least four different levels. Morally and intellectually, she's an absolute shell.

submitted 121 days ago • 7 comments

Great point here. Trump is creating a hostile environment for talent that leans liberal. We can't pay as well, but there are not school shootings and we aren't being run by anti science fascists.

submitted 121 days ago • 24 comments

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

I can see the media is at it again, failing to give Trump an ounce of credit for all the oligarchs who bought a place at his inaugaration and didn't throw a Nazi salute.

submitted 123 days ago • 3 comments

Towards the end of this episode, @maitlis.bsky.social does an excellent job of pinpointing the key dynamics in play were not just race, but class and misogyny also. Throughout, Andrew Norfolk provides the best account and analysis you are ever likely to hear on this topic: youtu.be/AHntVVOQRGY?...

submitted 135 days ago • 3 comments

“£60 million is being spaffed up the wall on some investigation into historic child abuse. What on earth is that going to do to protect the public now?” — Boris Johnson, speaking on LBC in March 2019.

submitted 138 days ago • 4 comments

Odd that we have a patronage system in which actual experts get gongs that come with no power while Toby Young, Nigel Biggar and a load of party hacks become parliamentarians.

submitted 144 days ago • 14 comments

Brilliant

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

FWIW, I’m sympathetic. Farmers have had a rough decade. But they need to propose solutions: ‘HERE is how to target those using land as a tax dodge’. If they rock up with Clarkson and Farage, and the demand is “nobody should pay any tax because <sings Jerusalem>” be prepared to lose some of the room.

submitted 183 days ago • 19 comments