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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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** SNAP Food benefits getting $ 230B cuts. That will give struggling Families with kids to spend $1.65 per DAY. Kids will suffer. Felon is throwing himself a $100M birthday parade. That’s a lot of food for hungry people🥺

submitted 8 days ago • 49 comments

I just figured out why Lutnick is indifferent to the stock market and the economy crashing.He and Cantor are long bonds.He profits when our economy implodes. It’s a bad idea to pick a Secretary of Commerce whose firm is levered long fixed income. It’s an irreconcilable… (@BillAckman) April 7, 2025

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

At this point everyone should have a lawyer on speed dial who can file a habeas petition with a few fill-in-the-blanks immediately in their local federal district court just in case. It’s that absurd.

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

Do clients really want to hire a law firm known for how quickly it rolls over? Yet, now this is Paul Weiss's well deserved reputation.

submitted 9 days ago • 324 comments

Inhumane

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I will pay any tariff for a framed copy of this

submitted 9 days ago • 581 comments

NEWS: Chief Justice John Roberts has issued an administrative stay pausing the court order requiring Kilmer Abrego Garcia, a man wrongfully sent to an El Salvadoran prison camp, to be returned by midnight tonight.

submitted 9 days ago • 821 comments

🚨 We must pass legislation like the Fairness Doctrine again. 🚨 We cannot continue to allow Fox News to lie, manipulate, distort, alternative fact, and gaslight Americans with impunity any longer! 🚨 Fox News LIES GOT US HERE!!

submitted 10 days ago • 87 comments

Now do Trump.

submitted 9 days ago • 375 comments

what a visual

submitted 9 days ago • 207 comments

I’m old enough to remember when I took out a full-page ad in the New York Times last fall to publish a letter signed by 225 mental-health professionals saying that Trump’s severe personality disorders made him destructive and dangerous.

submitted 9 days ago • 621 comments

In 3 sessions, S&P 500 futures have plunged about 15%. Legit market crash

submitted 9 days ago • 346 comments

Tom Homan is offensive to real Americans.

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From the great David Brooks of The New York Times, in the May volume of The Atlantic. Everyone should read every word of this historic piece. It's worth the price of a subscription to The Atlantic, without question the most courageous magazine in America today.

submitted 9 days ago • 330 comments

Reminder: All People Had To Do Was Fill In A Little Oval Next To The Smart Black Lady’s Name.

submitted 9 days ago • 408 comments

If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.

submitted 9 days ago • 1553 comments

Police officers entered a woman's restroom to arrest a transgender woman who was washing her hands. She was taken to a men's jail and charged with trespassing. She faces up to 60 days if convicted. This isn't about safety, it's about cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-woma...

submitted 11 days ago • 267 comments

Kind of incredible how much Trumpism really is just a dumber version of Pat Buchanan’s shtick.

submitted 11 days ago • 536 comments

Maybe the conservatives in my replies will believe me now.

submitted 11 days ago • 320 comments

This is a real exchange I just had:

submitted 11 days ago • 643 comments

A good day to, coincidentally, be wearing Levi’s.

submitted 13 days ago • 113 comments

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Always has been.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

submitted 12 days ago • 444 comments

Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

submitted 13 days ago • 413 comments

Hypocrisy is a terrible disease.

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

America just shot itself in the nuts to “own the libs”

submitted 13 days ago • 1467 comments

Any farmers out there that can speak to whether they can get info for planting season ? Or loans to help them get through this ? Are federal offices open to even process loan requests ?

submitted 13 days ago • 1207 comments

Epic!

submitted 13 days ago • 36 comments

"My message to the rest of the Democratic Party is if you are not willing to meet that bar, then step aside for somebody who will. Because we're at a moment right now where we do need people who are willing to fight, willing to show some spine, willing to break through in this media environment."

submitted 12 days ago • 480 comments

These aren't tariffs. They are a horse's head in the bed of (almost) every world government and business leader.

submitted 13 days ago • 552 comments

They have our business!

submitted 12 days ago • 1138 comments

I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?

submitted 12 days ago • 1295 comments

Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages

submitted 13 days ago • 458 comments

April 3, 2025

submitted 12 days ago • 63 comments

Also I hope we're all on this same page EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole they were ALL wrongfully deported. I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan' but NO ONE should've been sent there

submitted 12 days ago • 571 comments

Hillary Clinton would like a word.

submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

This Canadian stands with Cory Booker 👏❤️🇨🇦

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.

submitted 14 days ago • 1285 comments