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it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

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As a party, we are prisoners being held hostage by people who simply refuse to accept that their time has passed and won’t accept that others more capable right now. Stay in the Senate, but step down from leadership. It’s time for a new approach, a new face, & a new voice.

submitted 1 day ago • 2654 comments

Jamie Dimon says the best case scenario for the US is now a recession. Cool, cool. From the best economy in the world to a self-inflicted recession in 4 months. Gotta be some kind of record.

submitted 2 days ago • 986 comments

US real GDP (adjusted for inflation) shrank -0.3% q/q annualized in 1Q25, down from +2.4% in 4Q24, its first quarterly decline since 1Q22. This was below consensus expectations of modest +0.3% growth.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

US GDP for 1Q will come out tomorrow morning. The consensus expectation is +0.4%, not recession territory but a noticeable drop from +2.4% in 4Q2024. The Atlanta Fed's GDP now projection, on the other hand, is projecting -1.5%, even after making a special adjustment for atypical gold flows.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 1354 comments

The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 3 days ago • 608 comments

Abolish ICE

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ICE agents must declare themselves. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

Gordon Brown makes criminal complaint against Rupert Murdoch’s media empire www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Effective Corporate Tax Rates 1950: 50% 2025: 13% Top Marginal Tax Rates 1950: 91% 2025: 37% If you’re curious as to why the rich have so much and you have so little, these are good places to start.

submitted 6 days ago • 164 comments

A president who doesn't care about the Constitution. An attorney general with no regard for the Law, An FBI unconcerned with civil rights... What could go wrong?

submitted 6 days ago • 462 comments

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin

submitted 6 days ago • 587 comments

Arresting judges. Threatening allies. Lying about trade deals. Trying to sell campaign merch from the White House. Floating a 2028 run. Deranged. Dangerous. Undemocratic. We must retake our democracy.

submitted 6 days ago • 945 comments

He’s so good at this.

submitted 7 days ago • 275 comments

Someone should be able to apply to a place like Walmart or Target, work full-time, and be able to provide for themselves with that paycheck alone. That’s not radical, it’s rational. These corporations are making so much money, their employees should be able to pay their bills.

submitted 7 days ago • 176 comments

Today is Day 13. Still 0 deals.

submitted 7 days ago • 797 comments

A new Gallup survey shows that a record 53% of Americans say their financial situation is getting worse—the highest level of pessimism since the poll began in 2001. “Golden age”

submitted 9 days ago • 383 comments

It's illegal and unconstitutional to deport U.S. Citizens to foreign prisons. See how easy it is to go on record, Rep. Tom Emmer? Your silence makes you complicit. Call Emmer's office and tell him to grow a spine and protect American citizens. 202-225-2331 minnesotareformer.com/briefs/rep-t...

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

A 2-year-old boy was shot and killed last week with a gun that was left unsecured gun in his Georgia home, but you might not have heard about it because it’s the sort of thing that happens every single day in America. It’s long past time we did something about that.

submitted 12 days ago • 61 comments

🔥

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

We are nearing the end.

submitted 14 days ago • 691 comments

Today on "Uncanny Valley," we tell you how you can best protect yourself from surveillance technology at protests. www.wired.com/story/uncann...

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes per year — enough to end homelessness, hunger, and pay for universal childcare. 👆🏻 This is the crime wave we should be talking more about.

submitted 16 days ago • 452 comments

No! Stop this, major media! That’s _not_ what just happened! DOJ at _no_ point made _any_ commitment to “bring Garcia home,” nor did it ask for “more time” to “bring Garcia home.” It said that Garcia is in the custody of El Salvador and the court has no jurisdiction there. Get it right, dammit!

submitted 20 days ago • 324 comments

If Kristi Noem can go down to El Salvador and take concentration camp selfies, then DOJ can figure out where Abrego Garcia is. Just start jailing people for contempt of court until they find out.

submitted 20 days ago • 558 comments

Ayep!

submitted 20 days ago • 44 comments

They are obviously slow learners

submitted 20 days ago • 3655 comments

We found the voter fraud!!!!!

submitted 22 days ago • 742 comments

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 22 days ago • 1527 comments

Moskowitz: When President Zelenskyy came to the White House, we heard a lot about what he was wearing. Oh my God, the precious Oval Office—he didn’t wear a suit! I mean, here’s a picture of Kid Rock in the Oval Office—he looks like he’s about to jump over 10 buses on the White House lawn.

submitted 23 days ago • 914 comments

NEW: The Supreme Court took 6 months to decide immunity, but just 6 days to effectively strip the rest of us of due process. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-corrup...

submitted 24 days ago • 823 comments

They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

submitted 24 days ago • 1248 comments

Sotomayor is right. According to this Supreme Court, the US can now kidnap, detain, and fly legal immigrants and citizens to a foreign country's prison, even if it's a whoopsie. America, people. Freedom and stuff.

submitted 24 days ago • 802 comments

Just read this from the ‘architect’. If anyone’s clinging to some notion that there may be some credibility or method behind all this stuff, there isn’t. There really isn’t. Deluded gibberish. Take everything on face value. Four Seasons Total Landscaping x Truss x 10,000. This could turn very bad.

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Trump says the tariffs are “designed to boost domestic manufacturing” and bring back “factory jobs to the United States." Biden already did that. But the press corps' obsession with age means very few people understand how Bidenomics improved their lives. www.editorialboard.com/biden-alread...

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

RIP Clem Burke, a magnificent rock (and disco) drummer. The isolated drums of "Dreaming," which are essentially non-stop fills for the entire track--genius. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xse...

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

The Trump tariff tax will cost the average family nearly $4,000 per year — the largest middle-class tax increase since 1968, all while congressional Republicans are voting on a budget that gives more tax breaks to the wealthy. The American people deserve better.

submitted 24 days ago • 36 comments

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

submitted 25 days ago • 175 comments

By the way whenever we come out of a deep recession like 2008, the rich get richer

submitted 26 days ago • 1223 comments

Facebook and the platform formerly known as Twitter are right-wing echo chambers. Disinformation is widespread there. Don’t believe their lies and gaslighting.

submitted 26 days ago • 32 comments

Getting told to tighten my belt by a bunch of rich assholes who lie for a living.

submitted 27 days ago • 15 comments

A reminder of what Trump inherited from Biden.

submitted 27 days ago • 63 comments

Kremlin handler meets prominent asset to discuss destruction of US economy.

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.

submitted 33 days ago • 746 comments