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This, from today’s WSJ, would make a good economics exam question: “This idea that you can break trade, and not break the capital flow side, is a fantasy,” said Steven Blitz, chief U.S. economist at GlobalData TS Lombard.” #economy #markets #economics @wsj.com

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The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports.

submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

“I can…assure you that were this a Republican president…targeting Democrats, I at least would speak out just as vigorously against it because if we are going to respect rule of law, the apparatus of the federal government cannot and should not be used as a partisan tool to bludgeon your enemies."

submitted 6 days ago • 172 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 8 days ago • 7 comments

I'm seeing grown-ass adults marvel at how high stocks jumped today - they must think their mom actually vanished when she played "peek-a-boo."

submitted 13 days ago • 238 comments

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

submitted 16 days ago • 154 comments

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

submitted 18 days ago • 1282 comments

And while the bodies of U.S. servicepeople are coming home

submitted 18 days ago • 91 comments

Trump has ample warning from financial markets of how harmful his tariffs will be. He is proceeding anyway, because the only way he can feel alive and fulfilled is by intentionally hurting people.

submitted 23 days ago • 111 comments

I may be mistaken, but I don’t think most Americans thought they were voting for a foreign policy where Russia is our boss and Canada is our enemy. Yet that’s what we’re getting.

submitted 26 days ago • 452 comments

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

submitted 49 days ago • 1206 comments

Unconstitutional. Appropriations bills are laws. If the president is not bound by them, he can make laws by fiat and is acting like a dictator. No Democrat can vote for any appropriations or debt ceiling bill while this is happening.

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Even with massive crimes in broad daylight, there's a whole realm of further crimes, hidden the way crimes normally are. Three cheers for normalcy, right?

submitted 53 days ago • 22 comments

Tom Friedman: "This is a total perversion of U.S. foreign policy practiced by every president since World War I. My fellow Americans, we are in completely uncharted waters, led by a president, who — well, I cannot believe he is a Russian agent, but he sure plays one on TV."

submitted 53 days ago • 595 comments

“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social. Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj

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Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

submitted 53 days ago • 2230 comments

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.

submitted 53 days ago • 960 comments

America has switched sides. therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

submitted 53 days ago • 64 comments

I think Trump might’ve lost Dave.

submitted 54 days ago • 637 comments

DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b Annual increase in deficit: $900b Cuts to Medicare: $880b

submitted 56 days ago • 190 comments

they think russia is big and powerful because it occupies a lot of space on a map

submitted 55 days ago • 239 comments

Here is a 2018 conversation between Jeff Bezos and German publisher Matthias Döpfner at a Business Insider event. Presumably, he is as crimson as a Washington State cherry today:

submitted 55 days ago • 373 comments

MSNBC worries about the perception that they’re not fair to R’s while Fox eats an $800m libel settlement to preserve its ability to lie about Ds. That’s the asymmetry that gives illiberalism a structural advantage. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

submitted 56 days ago • 953 comments

NEW: A Houston man and Jan. 6 defendant has been arrested for a child sex crime -- two weeks after he was pardoned by Trump and released from a six-year prison stint for assaulting police with bear spray and a metal whip.