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the China tariffs were a large, slow-moving gun fired at the economy and the bullet is still in the air

submitted 11 hours ago • 55 comments

obviously Bukele has given his spin, but if a single senator can spring Kilmar for margaritas, then it has become exceptionally awkward for the President and his entire executive branch to insist there's nothing they can do to get him back to the US.

submitted 14 hours ago • 53 comments

I enthusiastically aid and abet terrorism.

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

Apparently the Eighth Amendment is a “critic”.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

20 million is about twice the highest estimates, and even if it were true it would not justify removing people without due process, let alone sending them to a gulag for life. The Constitution puts mandatory restraints on government to restrain amoral lickspittles like this bsky.app/profile/sky....

submitted 2 days ago • 106 comments

The White House is claiming it can take away anyone’s rights without due process and throw them in a foreign prison forever. What could be higher stakes than that? This is the trap, you fool: Talking yourself into accepting the end of rights in America because standing up for them might be hard.

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process. If you aren’t outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

fox and the gop have sold latino migrants as all being scary af ms-13 members. its the same thing nazis did with jewish people. repeat: it is the same thing nazis did with jewish people. the. same. thing.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

submitted 3 days ago • 1006 comments

I hate to be that guy, but this is the five-alarm fire, and every elected Democrat and frankly, every Washington reporter should be ringing the bell. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. Nobody with a voice should give this administration a moment’s peace about it.

submitted 4 days ago • 123 comments

Again: it is supposed to be commonly accepted non partisan morality that “id rather let a hundred guilty men go free than imprison one who was innocent” but this administration and its party are gleefully inverting that premise and then some

submitted 5 days ago • 74 comments

But it's not the inability of institutions. It's the learned helplessness of Congressional Republicans.

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

This is, in addition to very obviously denying people benefits and clearly excluding the vast majority of seniors, a violation of federal law on accessibility, especially since X requires users to log in and agree to the terms of service to see published content.

submitted 6 days ago • 106 comments

The fact that #SCOTUS hasn't yet ruled in Abrego Garcia isn't proof of how the justices are going to rule. But the longer it takes, the more it suggests that there isn't a majority of the Court who views this dispute with the same urgency that so many of us do. And that's a problem unto itself.

submitted 7 days ago • 416 comments

That Lindsey Graham quote about “if we elect him, he will destroy us, and we will deserve it” runs around my head like a rabid weasel.

submitted 8 days ago • 50 comments

Remember Trump is using emergency legislation for the tariffs. So the measures that were urgent and necessary to meet that emergency have now suddenly become non-urgent and unnecessary. If US congress and courts properly held president to account for misuse of emergency powers, this would matter.

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

JFC. WE ARE STILL WORSE OFF. We still have at least 10% global tariffs. Businesses can’t make decisions, as they don’t know what tariffs will be 90 days from now I usually say Trump is great at repackaging the status quo as victory but this is significantly worse than pre-Liberation Day status quo

submitted 8 days ago • 305 comments

Farms: well-known for their ability to rapidly change what, and how much, they produce.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

This American carnage starts now.

submitted 9 days ago • 54 comments

Just working their way down the list.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

submitted 10 days ago • 1272 comments

Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies. They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.

submitted 11 days ago • 526 comments

All I’m saying is that President Harris wouldn’t have us looking at the futures market on a Sunday night.

submitted 11 days ago • 616 comments

The equivalent here isn’t “doctor gives penicillin for infection,” it’s “barber gives leeches to treat ill humours.”

submitted 11 days ago • 144 comments

Perhaps an interesting question for the journalists who interview Secretaries Bessent and Lutnick next: “How much money did you lose last week?”

submitted 12 days ago • 62 comments

The Trump administration in a single skeet.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 13 days ago • 207 comments

Cumulative losses since trade of closing on 4/2 (immediately before Trump announced his Tariffs): Dow Jones Industrial Average: Down 8.2% S&P 500: Down 10.6% NASDAQ Composite: Down 11.4% Roughly 10% of the equity wealth of Americans disappeared in two days.

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

Self inflicted wound that anybody who cared to could have seen coming.

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

Decline is a choice. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

submitted 14 days ago • 50 comments

Trueism: Presidents don't have a lot of impact on the economy. Fine Print: Because most don't do totally insane things.

submitted 14 days ago • 176 comments

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

submitted 15 days ago • 301 comments

Fine 2025 writers. I admit the framing crisis in The Phantom Menace isn’t as dumb as it sounded at the time. I’m sorry, please stop.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Once again, Congress could simply decide Article I still matters & pass a new trade law that repeals Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, & the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977. He's only a mad king if Congress lets him.

submitted 59 days ago • 7 comments

Trump is basically pressing all the “do not touch” buttons simultaneously: mass layoffs, increasing prices, undermining consumer and international confidence. Not sure what else he could be doing to trigger a recession, let alone longer term US decline

submitted 15 days ago • 83 comments

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

submitted 15 days ago • 511 comments

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

submitted 16 days ago • 169 comments

It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

submitted 15 days ago • 44 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 15 days ago • 962 comments

We now need the House to act on this. You need to call your Rep, ESPECIALLY if they're GOP. Don't tell me it won't do any good. Don't concede the fight in advance. Just fucjin call their office and leave a quick voice mail saying you want the tariffs gone.

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

As mind-numbingly stupid as this all is, perhaps the stupidest part is all of his party going along with the mad king like it's normal. Congress could end these tariffs before they start, but the whole party has gone stupid.

submitted 15 days ago • 47 comments