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it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

submitted 10 hours ago • 843 comments

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1282 comments

You are absolutely free to drive your car, Sean. You just have to pay $9, a small price to pay for brining a living room on wheels into the densest, most transit-rich city in the country.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Our loss will be Canada’s gain. 🤡 #EmptyShelves

submitted 2 days ago • 290 comments

help clean up the streets

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Coming October 21st... "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile." A new book about how cars ruin everything and what we can do to fight back. Pre-order here: www.lifeaftercars.com

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

Can anyone tell me why Trump is deliberately destroying the United States?

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

💯

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

We are so fortunate to have such a wise and compassionate leader of the free world.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.

submitted 11 days ago • 1769 comments

Disgusting, school-yard bully, fascist shit right here.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 12 days ago • 8492 comments

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

submitted 14 days ago • 1160 comments

Very bad that mainstream media keeps accepting the premise the Trump admin is “cracking down on antisemitism”. Everyone knows none of this has anything to do with “antisemitism” it has to do with snuffing out any dissent over Israel’s genocide in Gaza and purging brown people from society

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

”white supremacist book purge” is exactly right. it goes along with the segregationist purge of the service academies.

submitted 18 days ago • 44 comments

Please don't share this with everyone you know.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Majority of attempts to ban books in U.S. come from organized groups, not parents.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I mean, this is the only way to cover Kennedy. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/w...

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Boston could be Gouda!

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

Thank god for the GS research team. Stupid is as stupid does. The economics research team at Goldman Sachs said in a note... that, as a result of President Trump’s announcement of a 90-day pause on global “reciprocal” tariffs, it was no longer forecasting a recession:

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I really want to know who is benefitting from Trump's brazen market manipulations. @warren.senate.gov any ideas?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

What a fucking idiot. #dumptrump

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The simultaneous crash of the stock market and the bond market is super ominous. But also a totally foreseeable consequence of this insane tariff policy. So is it incompetence or part of a plan to crash the economy? An increasingly important question.

submitted 21 days ago • 669 comments

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

submitted 21 days ago • 2263 comments

Martin Wolf is not messing around here www.ft.com/content/d96d...

submitted 22 days ago • 81 comments

I think it’s very funny that one of the go-to defenses for Trump’s very stupid version of mercantilism is “he’s had these views for forty years.” Oh well, then we absolutely gotta let him wreck the global economy if he’s believed this nonsense for long enough.

submitted 22 days ago • 530 comments

China continues trolling the US with new videos. Here’s one - “US sweatshop factory”

submitted 22 days ago • 701 comments

Go back in time and tell yourself that one day the fucking MTA will do more to stand up to authoritarianism than Congress, the Supreme Court, and Columbia University combined

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

I feel every word of this in my soul

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments

New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town. I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

submitted 23 days ago • 64 comments

In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.

submitted 23 days ago • 2363 comments

For the better part of the last decade, a great many people have tried really hard to make Donald Trump make sense in some broader political and historical context. But at the end of the day he's exactly what he appears to be: a rich psycho who's failed at everything in life except self-promotion.

submitted 23 days ago • 40 comments

We elected a man everyone who matters in this country knew was an idiot. The bulk of them refused to say so openly and directly — either because they thought he could do something for them or because there are political and journalistic norms against speaking that way.

submitted 23 days ago • 367 comments

“sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something” says Trump while administering lethal injection

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

One small man. One small man crashing the economy of the entire world. No congress. No judicial. No checks. No balances. No constitution. Just one small man, and his smirking sycophants, burning it all down.

submitted 23 days ago • 52 comments

As the economic news keeps coming out over the coming weeks keep one thing in mind: this is the fault of one man and didn’t need to happen.

submitted 24 days ago • 2767 comments

There's a strange belief on the right that manufacturing jobs are the holy grail of working-class jobs. When, in reality, generations of factory workers worked hard to send kids to college so they didn't have to work on the line. They didn't want their families to work on the line forever.

submitted 24 days ago • 35 comments

My heart goes out to every international student in the United States. Foreign students have helped make American universities the best in the world. Without them America will suffer.

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

Never forget and never forgive the oligarchs and MAGA twitter grifters who led this country into collapse.

submitted 24 days ago • 180 comments