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A Trump recession has become a real possibility

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Evil beyond words.

submitted 17 hours ago • 13 comments

If you're wondering about the vibe in Canada right now, I just got served this ad for a brewhouse that is just a portrait of the White House being burned down. No text, just a bigass picture of the White House burning and a link directly to their menu lolol

submitted 2 days ago • 908 comments

Perhaps the most insidious thing President Musk is doing is decimating the federal government's production of data. This will make it more difficult for his critics to show, objectively, how stupid his policies are. Stalin did the same thing and executed a great economist named Nikolai Kondratiev.

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If the US had continued to support Ukraine, we may have been months away from the end of the war. The Russians would not have been able to continue to fight for much longer. They were making almost no progress, taking huge casualties.

submitted 1 day ago • 174 comments

Biden admin had sued Idaho, arguing that Idaho’s enforcement of near-total abortion ban during medical emergencies violated Reagan-era patient protections known as EMTALA. Case cited women who had to be flown out of state while miscarrying, because Idaho drs refused care. Trump just dropped the case

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It's a cliche by now, but think how the news media would have freaked out if people were paying $5 million for private meetings with Biden. www.wired.com/story/people...

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Bill Kristol gets this more than many elected Democrats.

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(WSJ) - The world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s unless the U.S. rows back on its plans to impose steep tariffs on imports, a senior official at the International Chamber of Commerce warned. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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“Right now it’s a coin-flip,” he said. “It comes down to whether the U.S. administration is willing to rethink the utility of tariffs.”

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NEW: The rich are paying up to $5 million to meet one-on-one with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, sources tell WIRED. This past weekend, people paid $1 million apiece to attend a dinner with the president. This is by @leahfeiger.bsky.social, @lmatsakis.bsky.social and @jakelahut.writes.news

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EXCLUSIVE(S): In pair of Lent-focused letters, major Christian leaders and denominations blast the Trump admin, call on fellow Christians to take action to protect immigrants, refugees and the poor as a matter of faith. religionnews.com/2025/03/04/c...

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This is quite a kicker in Thomas Edsall’s latest op-ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 269 comments

One of my favorite quotes from literature comes from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”: “Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” This is a snippet of a sprawling poem exploring the interconnectedness of our world. (Thread)

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JUST IN: The White House has been clear that it intends to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, and that it will be McMahon's job to oversee that effort.

submitted 3 days ago • 292 comments

NEW: One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated. The USAID programs were cut anyway. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments

Vicious, evil, and stupid. That's no way to go through life, Elon.

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One thing I am puzzled about is AARP’s weak response to this. In addition to your reps, I’d suggest registering your displeasure with AARP. They have the capacity to mobilize millions of older adults to prevent this. It’s why they’re there! www.aarp.org/social-secur...

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

It needs to be more plainly stated that Russia's goals are to destroy the West, including the U.S., that Donald Trump and JD Vance, as recipients of intelligence reports, are perfectly aware that these are Russia's goals, & that Trump and Vance are doing what they are doing w/ this knowledge in hand

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The former head of the Social Security Administration says he expects the agency to miss on some payments over the next three months, interrupting some people's benefits, for the first time in Social Security's history of eight decades: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

submitted 3 days ago • 357 comments

Let's be totally clear. The ONLY reason the Trump administration is censoring the words climate change and destroying federal climate science is to keep profits rolling into the fossil-fuel industry a little longer, at the cost of the planet.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Visually striking with gorgeous sets, top cast and ferociously evil Lee. Gloriously splashed in Kensington Gore, first class Hammer gothic. 1968 #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #hammerhorror #filmsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #horrorsky #monsterfam #film

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

this ‘jurassic park’ story 😭

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 5 days ago • 6047 comments

Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now sitting in a Georgia warehouse. Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1921...

submitted 5 days ago • 214 comments

This is gonna go like January 6th They harrumph for a day and then they remember they’re in a cult.

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

Hell yes.

submitted 6 days ago • 80 comments

Today's beatdown in the Oval Office was a turning point. Every story has an arch. It's the path the narrative takes, and a turning point that critical moment where the plot takes a major shift that alters the course of the story. Or, in this case, the course of history.

submitted 6 days ago • 141 comments

“It will be hard, but we will survive,” said Iryna Tsilyk, 42, a poet and film director in the capital, Kyiv, whose husband serves in the army. “Today, I was not ashamed of my president and my country. I am not sure that the Americans can say the same.”

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Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

submitted 6 days ago • 306 comments

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

submitted 6 days ago • 1340 comments

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri Democrat: “Today’s behavior from President Trump and Vice President Vance is the most embarrassing and shameful I’ve ever witnessed from the Oval Office."

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Are you fucking kidding me dude

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"NATO is not the thing that Russia is afraid of. Russia is afraid of democracy expanding to Russia. Why are we in NATO? Its because we are afraid of Russia. And the only thing that really works – the only security guarantee that works – is NATO's umbrella," Kaja Kallas said in an interview with AFP

submitted 6 days ago • 316 comments

The reason why I post/repost articles about terrible things happening to people in red states, and Republican legislators, activists, or Trump voters waking up to it, is to demonstrate that the possibility of political pressure and change is there. Not to gloat that they got what was coming to them.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Melvin Rogers @prorogers.bsky.social at @liberalcurrents.com , on Niebuhr. Doesn't get more self-recommending than that. www.liberalcurrents.com/if-reinhold-...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I was privileged to know Gene Hackman because he played tennis with another Gene—Gene Wilder. And that Gene told him about a little role called The Blind Hermit in our movie YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN…

submitted 7 days ago • 302 comments

I joined @pbsnews.org tonight to talk about Elon Musk ‘accidentally cancelling’ Ebola prevention And what must do to prepare for and respond to outbreaks all over the world It’s not just the right thing to do, but it keeps us all safer as well Watch ⬇️ youtu.be/4ZzNkcZe5v4

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 439 comments

Feel free to add. "Things that won't happen if Trump/Musk destroy #NOAA and the National Weather Service." Planes won't fly. Your weather app won't work or be accurate. No hurricane, tsunami, or flood forecasts or warnings. No water information for farmers. No data from earth observing satellites...

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

For the moment, I’m going to keep reading the Post — the news pages, anyway, for the same reason I read the WSJ news pages. I will not blame anyone if they choose not to. In the meantime I will point out that NPR/PBS and your local stations only answer ultimately to the public. Support them.

submitted 8 days ago • 159 comments

Gene Hackman was truly one of the greatest screen actors of all time. He almost never hit a false note. Always mesmerizing. Rest in Peace, Gene. My favorite Gene Hackman movies: The Conversation Unforgiven Night Moves Bonnie & Clyde The French Connection Superman Mississippi Burning

submitted 7 days ago • 486 comments

Andrew Tate being allowed to come to the U.S. and avoid facing trial for sex trafficking in Romania is beyond stomach-churning. This man is a HUGE influencer and uses his platform/following to further abuse women who have accused him. Now he won’t face justice, reaffirming his lies to his followers

submitted 7 days ago • 403 comments

Qanon basically came true. a cabal of pedophile sex traffickers has seized control of the state news.sky.com/story/andrew...

submitted 7 days ago • 181 comments

In my video about this I made the case that knowing there’s a 3% chance an asteroid will hit us is amazing news because at any other point in history we would have no idea at all. But it also sucks: modern life is too full of things to worry about that, previously, we just wouldn’t know existed.

submitted 9 days ago • 348 comments

This is so goddamn embarrassing. www.axios.com/2025/02/24/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 100 comments

Rep. Mark Alford tells fired KC federal workers ‘God has a plan’ at hostile town hall www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

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“This is our documentary moment” @janefonda.com

submitted 10 days ago • 228 comments