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I have to believe at this point that Alito and Thomas are pleased that things are finally happening the way they've always wanted them to

submitted 18 minutes ago • 45 comments

I agree. Slo-mo, ongoing, with an administration engaged in frog-boiling

submitted 30 minutes ago • 29 comments

“In every relationship, there’s one person who loads the dishwasher like a Scandinavian architect, and one who loads it like a raccoon on meth.”

submitted 31 minutes ago • 56 comments

Note to fellow journos: If only one "economist" agrees w Trump tariffs—as evidenced by fact that this particular "economist" is now being interviewed and cited everywhere as only "expert" willing to publicly defend them—consider confirming that he's actually an "economist." Check CVs, for example.

submitted 1 hour ago • 24 comments

"The combination of tariffs and the mass cancellation of research funding threatens to lay waste to the tech and biomedical sectors with devastating precision, almost as if an enemy combatant had targeted key plants with a fleet of bombers." www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

submitted 47 minutes ago • 2 comments

I see only 2 reasons why mistakenly kidnapped, uncharged Mr. AbregoGarcia hasn't been released: 1)Trump admin wants to show there are no limits on their power & absurdity of this case makes that point; 2)he's been tortured & they don't want him to reveal what happened www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 4 hours ago • 35 comments

This once again confirms the prisoners are in El Salvador prisons at our behest and under our control.

submitted 3 hours ago • 112 comments

Plenty of complaints about Harvard over the years, but a proud Harvard alum today. wapo.st/4cH9vy3

submitted 3 hours ago • 41 comments

At least one US president cares to denounce this attack.

submitted 4 hours ago • 351 comments

She spent most of this quiet, rainy Sunday snoozing in my lap. And now I will pay for her recharging her batteries.

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

Not a good sign when the president's doctor is credulously repeating obvious nonsense about Trump's golf "championships" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u... Shades of Mao Zedong’s world record pace on his Yangtze swim

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

Crazy that this guy who South Carolina voted for 58-40 is doing exactly what he said he was going to do! (BTW the Upstate voted even more heavily for Trump than the rest of the state) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Well hello

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Commerce Sec Lutnick promised Chinese jobs "screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones” would be moved here. Treasury Sec Bessent said American dream was not cheap "flatscreens" And yet here we are: first China tariff exemptions are for iPhones & flatscreens www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

Even Kolchak knows I’m getting ready to cook

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Trump is also saying that the once the US has rounded up individuals, with minimal or zero due process, on whatever pretext they choose, they can send them out of the US to face torture, death, life imprisonment, slave labor or other fates that are unconstitutional or illegal in the US.

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

Technically, I worked in the domestic shop under Mr. Haldeman, but President Nixon asked me informally to try to sit in over on the foreign policy side to keep an eye on Henry

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Under the Trump administration, America is retreating from hard power, surrendering soft power, and yielding economic power, David A. Graham writes in The Atlantic Daily. Is this what greatness looks like?

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments