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I hope I can look back on this period as paranoia but when you peek into EU/CAN media spaces there’s a *lot* of clear-eyed talk of treating the U.S. as a rogue nation that will at the very least force its businesses to spy and poison their politics. www.theregister.com/2025/02/26/e...

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Do the math on this and the U.S. hospitality industry could start losing several billion dollars a year just from Canada. Europeans are reading about tourists getting detained and harassed by feds in airports and the President is insulting them, too. Tariffs doing great. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The illegal mob shakedown of Columbia University balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

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I hear melodies as scale degree numbers and now I can visualize that for people long suffering me trying to explain it. mrclay.org/sequence/son...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The next two years is all about whether the courts will buckle to let the executive branch be de facto lawless. So far the courts and media coverage aren’t acting as deterrents.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

You may not recognize it at first, but life in this country will never be the same if people stop coming from abroad because they are not guaranteed protection under the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 246 comments

It’s time to consider that any history not printed is endangered by this movement.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The tariffs are Trump's personal toys. They generate daily drama and cause business and world leaders to rush in and nicely beg him for relief. It's terrible for the economy and our future, but what fun it must be to affect global trade with a pen on a daily, even hourly basis!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Some pretty stunning answers here from DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar in today's interview with NPR's Michel Martin, in which Edgar equates pro-Palestinian protests with terrorist activity and can't point to any crime committed by Mahmoud Khalil: npr.org/2025/03/13/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 77 comments

The other day I discovered there's a three-em dash. ⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ Pretty awesome.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

It's hiking prices, hurting business and 401(k)s, killing U.S. tourism, and nudging us into recession, but "tariff" is a beautiful word because millions get to figure out the good-at-business guy is deluded about business. ...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The Grifter-In-Chief is using the White House as a backdrop for a Tesla commercial to help boost Elon’s failing company. This is corruption in broad daylight.

submitted 9 days ago • 191 comments

Sick garage rock comp youtu.be/9uXans_qHSY?... @jney.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

submitted 13 days ago • 1316 comments

Google basically now working towards killing the open web. “Agree to be crawled by our content stealing bot or we won’t send _anyone_ to you.”

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This is the most unfunny joke, ever. Trump is effectively casting doubt on Article 5 of the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty, undermining the NATO alliance and hinting to Moscow that the US might not back up the UK should Russia attack it.

submitted 21 days ago • 96 comments

Trump thinks Zelenskyy needs to be nicer to Putin, the criminal who invaded his country unprovoked and killed hundreds of thousands of people for no good reason. Incredible.

submitted 20 days ago • 851 comments

[Fareed Zakaria giving latest commentary] Sooo, uh, the Trump admini... fu... [widely opens eyes] woooo boy [reaches down, puts bong on table, takes a rip] Americans [cough] Just hold your loved ones.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments