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Old white guy. Pro-democracy. Anti-deceit. Experienced pickleball player.
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Trump’s tariffs are already raising prices and hence inflation in the longer term. The Republicans last enacted damaging tariffs (Smoot-Hawley) during the 1930s that contributed to the Depression.

submitted 6 hours ago • 17 comments

If the Trump administration can get away with not facilitating Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return to the United States—as ordered by an unanimous Supreme Court—what stops them from kidnapping anyone off the streets and sending them to an overseas prison? 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

“Those of us who have lived in countries terrorized by a secret police force can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

submitted 14 days ago • 83 comments

If RFK Jr. wants public health agencies to be transparent, why would he gut the teams at the CDC and FDA that handle FOIA requests — a key way the public gains access to government information?

submitted 18 days ago • 57 comments

submitted 25 days ago • 40 comments

DOGE is working to dismantle the CFPB despite the important work it has done to protect American consumers. It seems these efforts are just an attempt to help wealthy corporate interests line their pockets and escape government regulation.

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

Krugman nails it: Incompetent AND Evil: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/incompeten...

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

The PEPPER Act would give the president and other executive officials an exclusive pass protecting them from any state or federal prosecutions. That sounds like a dangerous lack of accountability so we're calling on Congress to reject this bill.

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

Don't be afraid to call things by what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d'état figurehead. This is not an administration, this is a regime, and your country is occupied.

submitted 28 days ago • 424 comments

Republicans at a GOP town hall in Spokane, Washington, raised the Canadian flag and called on Trump to be impeached. #3E

submitted 33 days ago • 358 comments

This is disgraceful. These Native American veterans helped us defeat fascism and win WW2. Pure racism.

submitted 34 days ago • 50 comments