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Seems pretty clear that doge is a total scam

submitted 19 hours ago • 909 comments

The Trump administration has canceled a Biden-era agreement requiring the state of Alabama to clean up raw sewage in poor, Black, rural communities where filthy toilet water has been flowing directly into the yards of homes where children play.

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

Great post, @mtkonczal.bsky.social. I understand that tariffs--really, trade war--generating a lasting supply shock isn't the base case, but it's a risk & an interesting, scary frame. Adjacent worries here: econjared.substack.com/p/the-fed-mu...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The divergence here from two companies with very similar customer bases is pretty wild, you do not see this sort of thing happen at scale very often.

submitted 6 hours ago • 40 comments

After watching 60 Minutes tonight, Trump calls on FCC Chair Brendan Carr to revoke CBS’s broadcast license.

submitted 7 hours ago • 835 comments

Even if you support tariffs, it is completely insane and self-defeating to have tariff rates & exemptions changing almost daily on presidential whim. Business investment is paralyzed, as are consumers. No revenue will be raised. This is why tariffs should be set by legislation. Wake up Congress.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Normally if someone tries to kill a governor, the president is briefed, calls the governor, and issues a statement committing resources to bringing perps to justice. It’s not just that we don’t expect Trump to be kind—we have to wonder if he’ll allow a real investigation at all.

submitted 8 hours ago • 38 comments

NEW: Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

submitted 6 hours ago • 74 comments

It looks very much like the Department of Homeland Security memo seeking to revoke Ozturk's visa copied language directly from the Canary Mission website. Is DHS just following the "deport list" from an anonymous website? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

submitted 6 hours ago • 41 comments

Many native-born American immigration lawyers have received official letters from the government demanding that they self-deport. Apparently DHS used a list of aliens including many who listed their attorneys’ contact info by way of a care-of address. The country’s in the very best of hands.

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

Here is a good background why you can't simply bully Europe into buying more American agri products.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Our community keeps growing. Thankful for all of you. @bsky.app liberalcurrents.com

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Another astounding @gelliottmorris.com chart of the week: the disconnect between inflation expectations and media sentiment about the economy under Trump (but not under Biden).

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

We're moving down the road to tyranny very quickly here

submitted 8 hours ago • 33 comments

Days before ICE detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept. determined that the Trump administration had not produced evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 8 hours ago • 37 comments

Nothing to worry about, just a shadowy group of mercenaries pitching a dangerous authoritarian regime to build massive for-profit gulags abroad. What could go wrong? www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

Because people are talking abt Hanania again, here’s my story exposing his white supremacist past - and, I would argue, present. Straight-up eugenicist who wrote for Richard Spencer. Wtf are we doing here, why are people so determined to make him respectable www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...

submitted 10 hours ago • 54 comments

occam's razor is that the people trying to make him respectable just agree with him

submitted 9 hours ago • 54 comments

Financial Times: "Since 1990, America has lost over 5 million manufacturing jobs. In that time, it has gained 11.8 million roles in professional and business services, and 3.3 million in transportation and logistical activities, linked to multinational supply chains." #EconSky

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

If Kristi Noem can go down to El Salvador and take concentration camp selfies, then DOJ can figure out where Abrego Garcia is. Just start jailing people for contempt of court until they find out.

submitted 2 days ago • 557 comments

NEW: A second filing today from the DOJ tells Judge Xinis that in their view, since Mr. Abrego is in Bukele's custody, she can't order them to do anything further to bring him back since that's not what "facilitate" means. They also say the deal with Bukele is classified and/or a state secret.

submitted 11 hours ago • 211 comments

I hate to be that guy, but this is the five-alarm fire, and every elected Democrat and frankly, every Washington reporter should be ringing the bell. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. Nobody with a voice should give this administration a moment’s peace about it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 101 comments

I’m not a lawyer or anything but I feel like you can draw a pretty direct line from John Yoo being allowed to slip back into the comforts of tenure and the occasional NYT oped to what’s happening with the CECOT and doj

submitted 9 hours ago • 52 comments

I'm a lawyer and this is correct. Straight line of "blatantly illegal constitutional end-runs to violate human rights" from Iran–Contra to Gitmo to CECOT paved by the only consequences the perpetrators suffering being more money, more power, and more prestige.

submitted 9 hours ago • 67 comments

Young men skipping out on college don't have many or any opportunities to meet women in organic, non-online dating contexts, which is in part fueling their susceptibility to radicalization and stunting their emotional intelligence. darrellowens.substack.com/p/how-i-beat...

submitted 22 hours ago • 14 comments

This is really important! Less IRL socialization means that men get their information about women, sex, and dating from... other men. And the ones most eager to talk about the subject are, to put it kindly, rapist pieces of shit

submitted 20 hours ago • 12 comments

international students are a lynchpin of the finances of many universities - they pay full-freight tuition and are not eligible for most types of financial aid - its hard not to read this as a particularly cruel and callous part of the right's attempt to defund and destroy America's universities.

submitted 18 hours ago • 22 comments

Nearly 300,000 new electric vehicles (EVs) were sold in the first quarter of 2025 in the US, an increase of 11.4% year over year. Despite many obstacles — and what you may read elsewhere — electric-vehicle sales continue to grow at a healthy pace. GM/Hyundai made the most gains this quarter.

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

Oh, I just realized that I should have used the baby-having conversation to plug my look at how immigration has backstopped the economy as America skews increasingly older. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Trump is using his second term to delegitimize the very concept of white-collar crime. www.axios.com/2025/04/13/t...

submitted 19 hours ago • 10 comments

Harvard Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Threat to Cut Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

NEW: DOJ doubles down on refusing to follow Judge Xinis's orders. Today's status report contains nothing new. It again fails to provide information about steps they're taking to bring Mr. Abrego back), and arguably violates her command that a declaration be made by someone with personal knowledge.

submitted 12 hours ago • 205 comments

> @econberger.bsky.social

submitted 11 hours ago • 34 comments

“..’Musk’s response shocked Europeans: ‘Be quiet, small man. .. there is no substitute for Starlink.’ “.. Berneke said her phone blew up after that. Panicked European officials wanted to know what Eutelsat could deliver in Ukraine, and how fast.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/europe...

submitted 10 hours ago • 37 comments

“.. Trump blinked twice in a ~48-hour span (the 4/9 90-day pause and the 4/11 electronics exemption), signaling to markets he is at/near an acute pain point .. the White House clearly was spooked by something last week, giving us more confidence in the SPX floor (which we think is around 5100-1510)”

submitted 9 hours ago • 39 comments

New, from me: Marco Rubio used to boast that he was banned from China, calling it a totalitarian state. Now he combines a) new surveillance capabilities to monitor and punish international students, with b) little accountability or due process. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

submitted 18 hours ago • 100 comments

The intellectual isolation of the US is a serious problem for all of us. The article features a couple of our outspoken Sydney HPS grad students. Obstacles to the brilliant trans student doing a PhD in the US are very disturbing. #STS @4sonline.bsky.social @hpspodcast.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

"What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 19 hours ago • 15 comments

CBS News poll: Americans see Trump’s tariff policies benefitting the wealthy and large corporations- not the working class or small businesses.

submitted 18 hours ago • 33 comments

The joke is… it’s not going to benefit them either. Except maybe the ones trading on advance knowledge of the mad king’s daily whim.

submitted 9 hours ago • 11 comments