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Someone in the crowd is in medical distress while nurses are on stage at the fighting oligarchy rally. The nurses rush off stage to give medical aid

Twelve days ago, I had dinner with an autocrat sending immigrants overseas without due process to a "concrete and steel pit" used to "dispose of people without formally applying the death penalty", a dinner that my friend Kid Rock set up

I won’t read substack on the train I will not read it in the rain I will not read it on my phone I will not read it far from home I won’t read even the brightest star Get out, get out, of the Nazi bar

Ideas are illegal now.

And liberals said that the phrase "Abolish ICE" was too extreme

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

It's not being eager to gulp up the slop, it's that he got advanced notice of the tariffs pause.

Tank the market with tariffs so rich people can buy low then “pause” the tariffs and all those people make vast sums of money?

These cycles of tariffs that crash the market, then a "90 day pause" where the markets surge, could make a fortune for billionaire GOP donors. Trump is handing them a sell high / buy low strategy to game the market -- while ordinary Americans sweat and lose. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

So Trump is backing down. Color me less than shocked. But he seems determined to play economic chicken with the one country he shouldn't be. Supergenius, in Wile E. Coyote sense.

Man, Blue MAGA just need to stop being delulu. Harris lost because she got 6 Million fewer votes than Biden did and overall turnout was down from 2020. Voters demonstrated apathy in polling, and the DNC ignored it and pushed the campaign to pursue Republicans rather than turn out the base.

We can ban gender reassignment surgery. Why? Because Trump’s tariffs will make you a man. And when he backs down, that will make you a woman. by Jesse Watters

You’d think when you’re claiming the richest country in the world can’t afford childhood cancer research you might wait a year before throwing yourself a 100 million dollar birthday parade. But carpe diem, suckers.

Musk talking about decking birth rates in the Roman Republic as relates to the decline of Rome is particularly hilarious because he doesn't realize that he's pegging a date before Caesar as the start, and that the "glory of Rome" falls about 50-60 years after he says birth rates became an issue.