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I know that we all know this but I have to say it anyway - why the fuck would a business eat at 10% increase in the cost of doing business? How would they? Is there a business that has that much of a profit margin that they can “eat” a 10% increase?

submitted 14 hours ago • 16 comments

Focus on things that make you happy, spend less time reading and watching things that make you angry.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk's attorney Mahsa Khanbabai confirms ICE improperly tried to make her wear an ankle monitor: "Despite an 11th hour attempt to delay her freedom by trying to force her to wear an ankle monitor, Rümeysa is now free and is excited to return home, free of monitoring or restriction."

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 2 days ago • 627 comments

Awesome. Finally!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Make it make sense

submitted 2 days ago • 672 comments

“The controversial 1,000-bed facility is owned by the private prison company GEO Group, which entered into a 15-year, $1 billion contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February.” $1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company. www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...

submitted 2 days ago • 904 comments

Best response to idea that habeas corpus can be suspended for immigrants: “Stephen Miller is not a lawyer but he plays a s‑‑‑ty one on TV. No one in their right mind would take his advice seriously, but sanity is in short supply in this administration,” the aide said. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Menendez Jr: They feel no weight of the law and no restraint on what they should be doing. And that was shown in broad daylight today when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress standing behind me. How is this acceptable?

submitted 2 days ago • 926 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 2 days ago • 1433 comments

Disappearing an elected official.

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

He’s currently plating the Oval Office in gold while selling luxury dinners at his private golf club to rich foreigners who buy his personal crypto token. You know, poor people shit.

submitted 2 days ago • 124 comments

newsrooms of the world did u know that when Rümeysa Öztürk gets out you can pay her to write an editorial, and then publish it? did u know that if all of you did this it would be a whole thing and a good one

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

This post is such a rich text 1) Trump is clearly making it up as he goes. There's no plan 2) He barely knows what's happening in his own administration 3) Posting something like this publicly speaks to the complete decision-making dysfunction that we also see in Signalgate

submitted 2 days ago • 326 comments

Minor League Baseball teams: email [email protected] if you’re interested in a rebrand! After one lucky team agrees to some simple terms, we will use all of our resources and stupidity on giving them a makeover, no questions asked (by them). Get in touch for very few details!

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

submitted 3 days ago • 294 comments

Voluntarily willing to die for a country that openly hates you is patriotic af

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

The US-UK trade "deal" today was nowhere near a major reduction in Trump's massive trade war—accounting for the partial exemption for UK cars, the exemption for British steel/aluminum, and the exemption for British airplane parts, overall US tariff rates only fell a total of 0.06%

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

There's a hearing today at 5 PM ET in Judge Boasberg's court for the comprehensive amended complaint to release everyone at CECOT citing that Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act is unlawful.

submitted 4 days ago • 99 comments

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

submitted 4 days ago • 601 comments

If Kamala Harris—a Black and Southeast Asian woman—were president during this level of economic chaos, inflation, and global instability, Republicans would be screaming for impeachment hourly. Trump gets a pass because he’s a white man throwing tantrums for their team.

submitted 5 days ago • 208 comments

The love and care Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili are showing for Pop absolutely warms my heart.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Because rebuilding an ancient prison is cheaper than paying another country to take innocent people.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Gregg Popovich: "I'm no longer a coach. I'm El Jefe." 😂

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Quite the payoff

submitted 7 days ago • 81 comments

This WaPo investigative report is absolutely chilling and damning. It lays bare exactly why Judge Boasberg is so incensed. Lee Gelernt is a hero for making the record he has. Trump’s 48-hour scramble to fly migrants to a Salvadoran prison www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Auto manufacturing employs 4.4 million American workers. Small businesses employ more than 61 million.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

This hits hard—and says everything about where we are right now. A Yale professor says he’s relocating to Canada to continue his democracy work. When asked why not stay in the U.S. and fight, he says he has two Black sons and he’s the son of a Holocaust survivor—and this is an “anti-Black moment”.

submitted 8 days ago • 233 comments

Great job for working so hard to focus on a business degree everyone. Now give that dream up and become a factory worker. Insane man.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Tyler Fitzgerald has a fractured rib. I have a fractured rib. Did he also get his fracture when his teenager headbutted him in the ribs during a friendly parents v. players soccer game? I'll have to ask around, but it can happen to anyone.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

The S&P 500 is off to its worst start to a presidency since Gerald Ford took over after Watergate in 1974 - worse than the post-tech bubble drop under George W. Bush. 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗔 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗬 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟰 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗦𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡 𝗚. 𝗪. 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗛 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments