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beware the whims of billionaires.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

defense of liberal institutions is necessary right now, AND we need to use this defense as an opportunity to ID the weak spots and rebuild them better ...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

trump blinks.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

About the DOGE attempt (bungled as always) to discipline the Vera Institute. The article is behind a paywall unfortunately.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

In his letter to the community explaining his decision to defy the Fed Gov't's demands, Harvard President Alan Garber included a link to the letter laying out those demands. Here it is: www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

submitted 11 days ago • 107 comments

Josh Rogin torches Maher for being a prop in Trump's PR stunt and it hit Bill hard. Because it's the most accurate description of what happened and completely torpedoes Maher's entire monologue on the dinner. Find the clip if you can, pure gold.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Biggest insider trading market manipulation scheme in history. They aren't even bothering to hide it.

submitted 15 days ago • 2355 comments

So far Trump has: -precipitated an emerging popular front in the US -tanked the stock market (i.e. brought the contradiction of capital to the surface) -advanced deglobalization -decentered US hegemony -spurred anti-Americanism across the globe. Is he really a left Machiavellian?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

"This isn’t an exercise in prediction. It is an exercise in clearing the mind. But it does suggest that the Trump experiment has room to run."

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

the transition is happening, it's the 'just' part that is in play. Despite the alarmism of the insurance industry, it is still very possible that capital will once again find a way to resolve the tension btw short term gain and long term stability. At everyone else's expense ... again.

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The economy Trump is crashing was already fragile and broken. It would be a mistake to celebrate it as part of a critique of what’s happening now. In 2016 inequality was at historic highs and the oligarchs already ruled. The path forward is uncharted but we know that the past unleashed monsters.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Why aren’t you wearing a suit? Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?

submitted 27 days ago • 1204 comments

London 🇬🇧👀

submitted 28 days ago • 216 comments

drain the real swamp ...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Maga is the last gasp of a dying empire.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

one of the great messaging victories of the conservative movement is how it, outside of nerds like me, successfully buried the fact that it was vocally anti-anti-apartheid

submitted 29 days ago • 161 comments

we have entered the age of weird alliances ... embrace the weirdness.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

really glad these folks are speaking out.

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submitted 32 days ago • 290 comments

In normal times, this is grounds for both immediate resignation as well as criminal charges

submitted 32 days ago • 70 comments

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

submitted 34 days ago • 4489 comments

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

submitted 35 days ago • 3850 comments

I mean, the fact that the US even responded is kind of a win for France on this one.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

i know it's kinda petty but this makes me happy.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Roberts realizing decisions have consequences.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

two problems here. one, the kind of inter-national competition tariffs signal always ends badly for everyone, no one more than the working classes of the countries involved. Two, Americans of all stripes are asked: cheap good or good jobs. and invariably answer, yes! Sorry, doesn't work like that.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Rubio is no longer welcome in this country ...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

To my Bay Area followers and anyone else in CA that is interested. The Jan 6th felons were invited and speaking at an event in Seaside. Let's show up, turn out, and scream like he'll. They are NOT welcome here. Let's turn these traitors out. #USDemocracy

submitted 42 days ago • 46 comments

“I’m a veteran. You don’t give a fuck about me!” man says as he’s escorted out of Chuck Edwards town hall. Here’s to the majority of veterans turning on Trump / republicans

submitted 43 days ago • 68 comments

sabre rattling to distract from the domestic shit show

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

the only fraud that's been uncovered is elon musk.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Not quite a Madeleine Albright moment but ...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Trump and Musk are slashing critical government programs like Medicaid and Meals on Wheels—lifelines people rely on—while turning the White House into a fucking Tesla dealership. This is not a serious government working to improve people’s lives.

submitted 45 days ago • 67 comments

Bernie Sanders: "I think this is a prelude not only to cutting benefits, but to privatizing Social Security ... why do you lie so much about Social Security? Why do you make it look like it's a broken system? The reason is to get people to lose faith in the system so you can give it over to Wall St"

submitted 46 days ago • 501 comments

At 2:47 Colin Jost dubs elon White Kanye.

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submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

submitted 49 days ago • 813 comments

what does Grok think of Musk?

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

“Thank you again. Thank you again. I won’t forget.” Neither will we.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

hmm ...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

I spoke to Senator Ruben Gallego last night about why Republicans refuse to stand up to Trump and Musk: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Qe766S/

submitted 51 days ago • 9 comments

for the rich, this is a gold rush ...

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