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Again, folks seem not to grasp how much this is a total collapse of the Constitutional order. A random private citizen is running the "Cabinet" meeting of POTUS & the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments, & going around unplugging large portions of the government. And we're all just 🤷‍♂️

submitted 74 days ago • 184 comments

Three things worth knowing about the current fiscal debate: 1. When they're talking about savings, the numbers are usually billions (though sometimes millions). 2. When they're talking about tax cuts, the numbers are usually trillions. 3. A trillion is a thousand times larger than a billion.

submitted 74 days ago • 14 comments

The government punishing a law firm for defending a client seems like the kind of tyranny we fought a revolution against.

submitted 75 days ago • 48 comments

I might have asked this before but if you buy a pickup are you required to sign something that says you will back into every parking spot

submitted 87 days ago • 15 comments

Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending www.economist.com/finance-and-... From The Economist

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

submitted 92 days ago • 132 comments

In a functioning democracy, a President who pardoned a mob that assaulted the Capitol while trying to overturn the election, and who then fired the prosecutors who put them behind bars, would be removed from power.

submitted 99 days ago • 54 comments

Old Guard Democrats on the hill need to get over their prejudice against digital media and content creators if they want to amplify their messages. Get on every podcast every day. Build audiences. Create a massive digital messaging network. Adapt or get left behind.

submitted 101 days ago • 685 comments

The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research! That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?

submitted 109 days ago • 185 comments

to recap: — Trump was for the TikTok ban — which the GOP Congress passed — and the GOP Supreme Court upheld — and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway — so that Trump could "save" it — and the media fell for it we really do live in the dumbest fucking country

submitted 112 days ago • 615 comments

Trump has made tens of billions of dollars from a fake social media company that has no revenue and a meme coin that is literally nothing, like actual nothing, like it has no use at all and doesn't actually exist on Earth in any way, and I think that's great!

submitted 112 days ago • 14 comments

Melania Trump declined Jill Biden’s invitation for tea at the White House, and yet I haven’t seen a single Republican call her out for disrespecting “protocol.”

submitted 115 days ago • 824 comments

✨GOOD NEWS ALERT✨ A young Black woman from the University of Minnesota, Salma Abdi, just won THE TOP PRIZE for college students studying #economics. This is a big deal because Black women don't even make up 1% of economics #phd graduates. She is a member of @sadiecollective.bsky.social 💜 #econsky

submitted 122 days ago • 5 comments

DAWSON GARCIA - logo three beats the buzzer and Michigan, first B1G win for the Gophers, first B1G loss for Michigan

submitted 115 days ago • 22 comments

Four takeaways from Jack Smith's special counsel report on Trump's attempt to overturn his loss of the 2020 election. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...

submitted 117 days ago • 18 comments

Vikings

submitted 118 days ago • 6 comments

1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox General Mills Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

submitted 124 days ago • 907 comments

Someone recently asked me what's the point of having two or three buttons on a tailored jacket if the bottom-most button isn't meant to be fastened? It's easier to understand style if you think of it in terms of social language, not purely as function. Let me give you some examples. 🧵

submitted 124 days ago • 138 comments

In Kenya, India, Brazil and dozens of other countries, snakes vie for the same land, water and sometimes food as people, with devastating consequences. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/h...

submitted 125 days ago • 7 comments

this is a dril tweet

submitted 135 days ago • 1121 comments

This one wins

submitted 138 days ago • 337 comments

NYFed paper: Trump's previous tariff announcements caused large declines in US stock market returns, and had a negative effect on the U.S. economy that is substantially larger than past estimates libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2024/12/usin...

submitted 155 days ago • 17 comments

Two years ago today we were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for protecting The US Capitol on January 6th 2021. Almost 4 years later the efforts to downplay, whitewash and minimize what happened appear to be succeeding. I won't ever stop standing up to them.

submitted 156 days ago • 1704 comments

Iconic

submitted 158 days ago • 36 comments

Here is what Kushner admitted to when he pled guilty.

submitted 162 days ago • 817 comments

The Venn diagram between “seed oils are evil”, “statins are evil”, “sunscreen is evil” “fluoride is evil”, and “vaccines are evil”… is a circle.

submitted 166 days ago • 3 comments

Tfw you forget you’re the one who signed the USMCA (oops!) www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 167 days ago • 123 comments

oh lmao this is real. alt text: Tweet from Elon Musk: It is laughably easy to take down fighter jets. “Stealth” means nothing if you use elementary AI with low light sensitivity cameras. They aren’t invisible.

submitted 168 days ago • 32 comments

I don’t know how the gophers game will end except that’s it’s gonna be so, so stupid

submitted 169 days ago • 5 comments

Someone blocked me on Bluesky. I will write a column about how it illuminates the inadequacy of Bluesky. Then when people make fun of me for that, I will write about that. And so forth, as many times as it works. I am a journamalist.

submitted 170 days ago • 152 comments

The snow is so pretty!

submitted 170 days ago • 4 comments

When I was a professor at University of New Hampshire, I used to teach a class on contemporary metamodern multimedia in which I would play this video for students. Giant screen; small, darkened seminar room...it would leave us all speechless. Including me—every time I saw it. Hope you feel as I did.

submitted 174 days ago • 56 comments

This is the last view of the sun in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, until January 23rd. There will be no sunrise or sunset for the next 66 days. @alaskawx.bsky.social

submitted 174 days ago • 46 comments

We are literally doing that!!! Please answer your phone!

submitted 187 days ago • 13 comments