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One other thing about ignoring Trump's parade: It's a way of shunning your MAGA neighbors who want you to freak out over it. They crave that anger from you, that emotional engagement, because all fanatics (in the words of Le Carre) harbor secret doubts. Don't take that bait.

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It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

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Both statements are from last night. Note difference between how Trump characterizes conditions in LA ("RIOTS AND LOOTERS"), vs how the LAPD does ("Peaceful Protests")

submitted 18 hours ago • 28 comments

Another really good, concise, punchy summary of Trump's National Guard move:

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Most people have absolutely no clue how drugs are actually identified, proven, and developed in the US. Reasonably so, because it's a little convoluted, due to policy decisions we made ages ago.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Detailed legal nerdery on Trump's National Guard move. This is bad, but it's incremental bad not big dyno move bad:

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lmao The Sun has a livestream of the “LA riots” on YouTube and when you click on it it’s a bunch of troops standing around doing nothing you can literally hear birds singing in the background what a time to be alive

submitted 19 hours ago • 226 comments

LAPD STATEMENT: “The protests remained peaceful… without incident…”

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

Via "One First," my quick write-up of President Trump's "Presidential Memorandum" purporting to federalize 2000 California National Guard troops; the relevant legal authorities for doing so; and how the move is both a modest and dangerous escalation of what's going on in and around Los Angeles:

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These are one sentence apart. Words, what do they mean. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...

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Pretty clearly setting the stage to use the Insurrection Act to crack down on domestic protests within the US.

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And this was after Bakke was rejected twice from UC Davis. Just absolute refusal to accept he simply wasn't qualified.

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And inept. DOGE is demonstrably, recklessly inept.

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Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

submitted 1 day ago • 1496 comments

it is sort of fascinating that there is a direct line from the election of the first Black man to the presidency to Trumpist hegemonic suicide

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

AI has proven itself bigoted against PoC and Women in hiring and healthcare contexts, too.

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If you're still subscribing to the NYTimes, you maybe should ask a real ethicist about that.

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What a stupid effing waste. $_Millions pissed away to feed the ego of a bloated tangerine sex pest.

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Speak up. It’s easy.

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

WOW. Breaking news from ABC that has the potential to cast serious doubts on today’s indictment of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

submitted 2 days ago • 157 comments

Retiring at the end of the month, Philly Fed chief Patrick Harker tells me in an interview that rate cuts are still possible later this year. But more ominously, he says key data quality policymakers depend on is "not good...we’re increasingly flying blind, or at least half blind.”

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A former D.C. police lieutenant convicted of leaking information about a police investigation to the leader of the Proud Boys group on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, was sentenced Friday to 18 months behind bars.

submitted 2 days ago • 1367 comments

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Dan Davies is the Dorothy Parker of economics writing. A few people (not many) might offer comparable insight. But nobody does it as quotably. open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...

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Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions. It's easy - here is how: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

Stellar round-up and reporting here. The "In Congress" review of our deregulatory binge is the stuff of nightmares if you're well-acquainted with the regulatory sins enabling the sub-prime collapse (~2007-2010).

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Before anyone gets too excited about this, see below. Elon is not on our side. He’s on Elon’s side. Which means they’re going to get back together. & what important developments will we have missed in the meantime? Ukraine? ICE detaining kids? The budget passing?

submitted 2 days ago • 238 comments

DOCTORS would balk at this task (devising simple logical rules to distinguish "directly contributes to care") and they're the domain experts! The bottomless dipshittery required to unleash this shit AI toy is OFF the CHARTS. I thot DOGE was shit, but it's so, SO much worse than i thot.

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