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submitted 12 hours ago • 21 comments

Trump does care about the pain, chaos, and turmoil he’s causing—in the following sense: He loves it. It makes him feel powerful.

submitted 10 hours ago • 838 comments

That’s exactly what all of his “policies” are about. If you try to attribute anything else to them, you’re far off base.

submitted 10 hours ago • 262 comments

My favorite right-wing media "Why Trump stupidly causing you to lose all your money and jobs will be GOOD for you" story:

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The worst catastrophes of history are caused by men who are malevolent, ignorant, and have exceptional wills.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1157 comments

my humble opinion is that if your job is to manage risk and make big decisions about markets and you screw up your judgement this badly you should be disqualified from ever managing money and also shunned completely from speaking on the subject in public again

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“Stocks are crashing because investors are in a bad mood, and the reason they are in a bad mood is because they are not getting enough Omega-3 fatty acids,” he said.

submitted 13 hours ago • 41 comments

With the traditional 1000 point opening bell drop out of the way it’s a good time to remember that national business community and a huge amount of Wall Street got behind Trump in the biggest way.

submitted 12 hours ago • 72 comments

The let-them-eat-cake vibe of Trump golfing while our economy burns is enough to put satirists out of work. And I’d almost be able to swallow the maddening absurdity if Trump and his Republican barnacles would just admit their galactic-level hypocrisy. My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

How was YOUR weekend? #tariffs

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

Last time he told you not "not to worry" half a million Americans died of Covid.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2306 comments

The Constitution gives CONGRESS power over tariffs. Congress gave that power away to the president over the years. The Republican-majority Congress could STOP Trump's tariffs. Right now. BUT THEY ARE CHOOSING NOT TO.

submitted 22 hours ago • 69 comments

Oh the predictable irony

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

The administration is a perfect storm of dumb people who enjoy inflicting pain and are addicted to psychotic cruelty and quadrupling down. It ends in total ruin if you don't impeach him.

submitted 1 day ago • 1074 comments

The utter, blinding stupidity of one man is going to bring America to its knees

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

submitted 1 day ago • 839 comments

The reason we have universities is they're a place for people who actually know stuff - unlike the people who appear on your TV screens pretending to know things.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

I think liberals put too too much hope in getting Trump voters to turn and virtually no hope in activating 90 million people on the sidelines. They don’t like paying more either. They don’t like government services being cut or dismantled either.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Donald playing golf every weekend isn't just an opportunity to ignore the problems of the American people, it is also an opportunity to rip off the American taxpayers. Here is a bill the Secret Service got for staying at Mar-a-Lago for a few days in his first term. 42 rooms at $396.15/night.

submitted 1 day ago • 253 comments

Yes, whenever there’s an outbreak of a deadly preventable disease, the first person everyone wants to see is RFK Jr. and his wagon of tinctures and beef-tallow products.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Just about everyone in the financial world thinks Trump’s tariffs plans are a disaster. We talked to one investor named Bill who doesn’t.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Excellent piece by the great @willbunch.bsky.social. Mad king, indeed.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

If one of us stands up, they can pick that person off. If ten or a hundred or a thousand, they can pick those people off. And they're picking off people--immigrants, dissidents--to make an example of them. But if ten million people stand up, they cannot stop us all.

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

"If Congress wants to listen to the more than 1 million people in the streets — and it should — then it should first act immediately to use the power it has under the 1970s law to reverse the taxation-without-representation of a mad king, as soon as possible."

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

This man is a mendacious clown. Let’s be clear he has always been one.

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Q for Lutnick: Find a single iPhone factory where "millions of human beings are screwing in little screws" I've been inside a lot of these places. He is now proving that he never has. Even 5 years ago you'd see people monitoring robots, and doing quality-check. not the little screws

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.

submitted 1 day ago • 274 comments

Hey world - do not acquiesce to Trump. Fight back! Only way to deal with a bully.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It's critical for people to be active, getting organized at the state level not just in conventional political ways but also to operate within and buttress their state govts for Trump's coming onslaught talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/get-a...

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Donald Trump’s tariffs are the biggest tax hike in American history on working families, plain and simple.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Our local @cbschicago.bsky.social got some incredible shots of today's #HandsOff protest. Estimates are 30K+ people. joined in here in the city with many other in the suburbs and downstate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6faE...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

So proud of America 🇺🇸 today…Feeling hopeful #HandsOff

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

When I was a teenager, saw sudden spread of gatherings across the US in protest of the Vietnam war. Heartened to see sudden spread of gatherings across the US in protest of dismantling of the institutions that made America great. (Check out whole thread.)

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Very accurate...

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Exactly right

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Trump Assures Wall Street He’ll Go Back To Just Fucking Over Poor People Soon — theonion.com/trump-assure...

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In this Ohio diner, recession still means the thing that happens to your gums after years of Snus and Mountain Dew. But they do know this: Any economic hardship is worth it as long as whatever happens to Blacks and Hispanics is even worse.

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything — theonion.com/conservative...

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Cartoon

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Can you feel it? #liberationday

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The captain has turned on the middle finger sign #tariffs

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Every single pundit and Wall Streeter and analyst that was like “sure he says he massively raise tariffs but he won’t actually” should be hounded by this for decades, the way we failed to do over all the idiots who bought the OBVIOUSLY FALSE WMD lie

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments