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You guys will never guess what happens to internationally-focused companies when you raise their input costs, anger their customers, & inject chaos into their lives. Ok, fine, you'll guess. www.wsj.com/opinion/trad...

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Just another beautiful day in Mother Russia. 😮‍💨

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

“... Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garber announced in a message to affiliates Monday ...” Glad to see one university standing up.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

They're going after the terrorists and criminals alright. 🙄

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Steve Ballmer, one of the world's wealthiest people but someone who typically doesn't take vocal stands like this, pressuring the Trump administration —>

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

This is the weakest an American president has ever looked on the world stage, just being proudly cucked by El Salvador. It's no surprise. For a malignant narcissist like Trump, the cruelty is the point. Now, the ball is squarely in the courts of the Supreme Court and Congress.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

As far as the DOGE people are concerned, kids with disabilities are nothing but excess baggage. Kind of reminds me of another group that sent them to the camps because they weren't fit to be members of the master race.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Seems like excellent advice for the present moment.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Who did they think was buying twinkies before www.wsj.com/articles/twi...

submitted 18 hours ago • 36 comments

Their family motto ought to be "Never miss an opportunity to swindle the gullible." 🧵

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

O'NEILL: ".. What the current US administration fails to understand is that other countries’ growth and development can make Americans themselves even wealthier. Perhaps, someday, Americans will elect leaders who can comprehend this basic economic insight." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...

submitted 18 hours ago • 19 comments

Looks like we now are in the same status as China.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Talk about a win-win! 🙄

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Finally, a restaurant made for me

submitted 18 hours ago • 49 comments

Peter Thiel enters the conversation.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

"Involuntarily celibate" has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?

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We must keep reminding ourselves that the effects of Trump’s tariffs haven't hit Main Street heavily yet. There's been a modest (compared to what's likely to come) increase in prices, a few thousand job losses, & some small business closures. The real test will come 3-6 months from now.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Can't disagree with this.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump must be running out of liars willing to work for him. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Here's my forecast of where the Trump tariff war will end up: He'll negotiate outcomes that are basically identical to the very low (and often zero) tariffs we already have. And declare that he's managed to negotiate low tariffs. Perhaps a political win, but definitely no economic gain.

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

Hallucinations are a symptom of the DT's. Just sayin'.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

they silenced him because he told the truth

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Well, there goes my hope of a quiet week where we can all get a few nights of blissful sleep uninterrupted by nightmares of what new hellscape we'll find ourselves in when we get out of bed.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Rubio has always been a liar and a chameleon - adjusting his stated views to whatever direction the polls are blowing at the moment. It seems that, like JD Vance, he no moral or ethical code whatsoever.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

The President of the United States didn't like last night's 60 Minutes news broadcast so he's hoping his appointee will destroy the company's business in retaliation. Totally normal.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

"I believe part of the answer lies in a fundamental aspect of our humanity: the urge to destroy that from which you feel excluded. This urge, I think, is crucial to understanding politics. Yet hardly anyone seems to recognise it. Hardly anyone, that is, except the far right, who see it all too well"

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Progress marches on.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is worth reading.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We are very close to dictatorship right now. Not "authoritarian rule", outright dictatorship. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Serious point: This might be the most interventionist American government in my lifetime. The price of just about every good reflects the good thinking of the Commissars in Washington DC implementing their 5-year plan for National Greatness, rather than market forces.

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

And we complain about potholes in our roads! This is not an isolated instance in Russia. Almost every kind of goods move by rail because the road network is so bad. A country can't have a strong military without a strong economy & Russia's economy is on life support. 🧵

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These fires and the fires yet to come this year, plus Trump’s tariffs, are going to put property insurance out of reach of many homeowners unless the state somehow subsidizes it. If they can't get insurance, they can't get mortgages, and without mortgage financing, there won't be much home buying.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Is this the best cold email subject line in history?

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I dunno ... it looks to me as though he's on the north side of 250 to me. But I totally believe this doctor. After all, doctors - particularly Navy doctors - never lie. 🧵

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