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APOLLO: “.. Consumer Confidence Is Weaker than During the 2008 Financial Crisis .. “.. sentiment is declining rapidly both for households making more than $100,000 and less than $100,000 .. “.. Consumers’ worries about losing their jobs are at levels normally seen during recessions ..”

submitted 22 hours ago • 107 comments

So Trump is using Garcia’s status as an El Salvadoran national to justify doing nothing at all to facilitate his return to the U.S. as required by the 9-0 April 10 SCOTUS order. In the meantime these thugs are planning to designate part of CECOT Prison in El Salvador as U.S. territory!

submitted 21 hours ago • 102 comments

This is minor, and given that all else going on, might even seem benign. But nonetheless: a sitting President attending a UFC match with 4 senior cabinet officials and the richest man in the world is completely nuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

submitted 18 hours ago • 285 comments

Art of the deal 🤣😂🤣😂

submitted 18 hours ago • 190 comments

Congress has the power to stop this economic chaos right now. Here’s the plan to end Trump’s game of red-light, green-light with worldwide tariffs:

submitted 18 hours ago • 61 comments

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

submitted 1 day ago • 616 comments

ICYMI: I was thrilled to stand with @deluzio.house.gov, Rep. Pat Ryan, and @repangiecraig.bsky.social to launch the Monopoly Busters Caucus! We know that so many big corporations and mega-mergers screw over workers. So we’re standing up and fighting for a fair, pro-worker economy.

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

The first known exoneration tied to the reality cop show “The First 48” had multiple hallmarks of a wrongful conviction, our reporter @jlussenhop.bsky.social explains. One example: young witnesses being interrogated for a long time, without parents or lawyers involved.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Welcome to our everyday hell, fund managers.

submitted 18 hours ago • 316 comments

Buried lede: Trump’s handling of the economy: March 2: 51% approve, 49% disapprove. March 30: 48% approve, 52% disapprove. Now: 44% approve, 56% disapprove. www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-tr...

submitted 21 hours ago • 57 comments

"I really think we're helped a lot by the tariff situation that's going on, which is a good situation, not a bad. It's great."

submitted 5 days ago • 353 comments

On the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing…

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Unacceptable behavior by our government. We're supposed to take their word for it? No trial? Not even indictments? We MUST show up at congressional offices and demand that this trafficking stop. Posting online isn't nearly enough.

submitted 17 hours ago • 18 comments

From Fox Business analyst, after Howard Lutnick said this morning on the Sunday shows that the tariff exemptions on tech were only temporary.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1025 comments

The AP could do a great public service by actually publishing these memos (if it’s able to do so)

submitted 18 hours ago • 40 comments

I am 6-foot-1 and 190ish pounds. Trump is significantly more obese than me. This is Orwellian bullshit that signals a pure, uncut contempt of all citizens and media. No one believes this bilge. He's a very fat, increasingly senile, elderly man and likely a stroke victim.

submitted 17 hours ago • 83 comments

DHS sent an email to a US citizen demanding that they "immediately" self-deport, from @couts.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/homela...

submitted 17 hours ago • 22 comments

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

submitted 22 hours ago • 614 comments

Bring back everyone who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. No one should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

submitted 19 hours ago • 94 comments

There's a reason ICE agents wear masks in the street. From Kristi Noem's war-crime propaganda to the airport officers harassing innocent tourists, the MAGA deportation regime is not just immoral but increasingly criminal Someday, there must be justice. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 18 hours ago • 167 comments

NAVARRO: “It’s not an exclusion.” WELKER: “The White House called it an exclusion.” NAVARRO: “We had the biggest rally ever.” WELKER: “The market is still down from Trump’s tariffs announcement.” Finally some immediate pushback to the spin.

submitted 17 hours ago • 58 comments

Pretty clear now Trump and Miller are proud of this Salvadoran gulag they've built, and are not going to give it up. It's complete madness. bsky.app/profile/asha...

submitted 17 hours ago • 14 comments

Standing up to a bully is the only way to stop him. Why does the bully currently control all branches of government? They let him. Let that sink in. Gov. Mills is fighting the bully. Together, we can be like Gov. Mills. #MomSky #FightFascism

submitted 18 hours ago • 18 comments

Forget about the legal case. A man was wrongly deported and placed in a notorious prison with leaders of a gang out to get him. Anyone with an ounce of basic human decency would fix the mistake and return that man to the United States

submitted 21 hours ago • 835 comments

“The whole world has decided that the U.S. government has no idea what it’s doing,” said Mark Blyth, a political economist at Brown University and co-author of the forthcoming book “Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b... Gift Article

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

Living as a blue dot in a very red area. Having taken an oath to the constitution, facing fear and speaking the truth despite possible dire consequences is absolutely essential in saving our nation. This New York Times essay echoes my sentiments. 👇

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

Can we dispense with the fiction that Trump is earnestly trying to bring back American manufacturing now? He's just a pudding brain who is doing this for narcissistic and corruption-based reasons. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

How Fox this morning frames Russia’s latest missile attacks against civilians: “Both sides now accusing each other of violating the 30-day cease fire agreement.”

submitted 1 day ago • 586 comments

This happened 48 hours after Witkoff met Putin in Moscow: New - Russian missiles hit the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy in the deadliest attack this year, killing at least 31 people, including two children, as residents gathered for Sunday church services, according to President Zelensky.

submitted 23 hours ago • 38 comments

Led by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong at #Coachella, Green Day continued its tradition of changing the lyrics of the line “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda,” making it “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda.” www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

submitted 19 hours ago • 12 comments

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submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1366 comments

This Is Your Social Safety Net on DOGE.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Arson at the home of the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania on the first night of Passover. Seems like the Trump administration might be looking for anti-Semitism in all the wrong places.

submitted 19 hours ago • 61 comments

Be Not Afraid www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/o...

submitted 19 hours ago • 36 comments

That’s the national emergency??????????????????

submitted 19 hours ago • 564 comments

L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week. R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday. Putin’s stooge.

submitted 1 day ago • 1189 comments

Seems pretty clear that doge is a total scam

submitted 21 hours ago • 912 comments

"moscow can end its criminal war any day by pulling troops back to russia. If 🇺🇸 want to be treated with respect, we must stop projecting weakness and offering ourselves up for ridicule." my latest for @thehill.com #UkrainianView thehill.com/opinion/inte...

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

🔥 “Bill Maher has been wack for a long time” If you watch one Maher takedown today after he got played by Trump (glazing him after one dinner) — make it this one from @tiffanydcross.bsky.social

submitted 19 hours ago • 69 comments

Feels like it should’ve been a bigger deal that the Arkansas voucher application program literally asked voucher users if they wanted “a different racial mix of students” Especially since it was @SarahHuckabee that came to push @GovBillLee’s scam

submitted 19 hours ago • 28 comments

Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death theonion.com/man-who...

submitted 19 hours ago • 130 comments

#BREAKING: Over 36,000 people rallied in Los Angeles today in support of @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social’s OLIGARCHY TOUR — setting a record as their largest stop on this tour.

submitted 1 day ago • 444 comments

This is not Constitutional, not even a little bit, not by any reading of the document. But will the courts come to the rescue? Anyone who deserves to be on SCOTUS would trow this out, in any time in the last 50+ years. But can you really trust people like Brett Kavanaugh or Amy Coney Barrett?

submitted 19 hours ago • 16 comments

Savings accounts, pensions, working class 401ks, all of these have been decimated by Trump. He is building policy off the crackpot ideas of one disgraced economist, Peter Navarro, and we are all paying the price. Watch @therickwilson.bsky.social here: t.co/CfwAJVZWOt

submitted 18 hours ago • 112 comments

Bernie Sanders Spoke at Coachella and the Crowd Went Wild.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I’ve been reporting on health insurance denials for more than a year. Last fall, I stumbled across a lawsuit that, with interviews, revealed one insurers’ playbook of secret lists, special deals and lowball payments. 👇

submitted 18 hours ago • 12 comments