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The only thing that’s going to get you fired from a Trump 2.0 cabinet is disloyalty to Trump. No act of incompetence, mismanagement, criminality, or malfeasance can get you fired. As long as you are loyal to Trump, you can pretty much do anything.

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Pete Hegseth is a pretty despicable human being, on top of the other, many deficits he brought to the Pentagon But you should be even madder at the 50 senators who knew Hegseth was an alcoholic, a serial abuser of women, and a poser massively unqualified for the post and yet voted for him anyway

submitted 4 hours ago • 233 comments

The CFPB has returned BILLIONS to consumers who were victims of financial schemes, but the richest man in the world wants to destroy it. A judge paused Musk’s plan because it would “decimate the agency.” This pause must become a full STOP.

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PANTHEON: DOGE “is falling well short of its goal to slash federal spending, reducing at least one major near-term downside risk for the economy. “.. real-time data .. suggest federal spending has been roughly 10% higher since President Trump was inaugurated than in the same period a year earlier.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 52 comments

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rampi...

submitted 10 hours ago • 253 comments

The question in my story last week... www.economist.com/united-state...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

#VerdictWatch Will a Trump slap down calm the markets?

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This is laughable. 🤡

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In each of the last 3 recessions (2001-03, 2008, covid), markets bottomed after there was both a fiscal and a monetary response. Right now the Fed's on hold and the White House is actively hurting the economy...

submitted 11 hours ago • 29 comments

If we close down more than 1,000 points on the Dow today it will mark the 20th time in market history. 16/20 will have happened with Trump as President.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3087 comments

You guys, Elon Musk is mad you’re all so mean to him. 🤡 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 hours ago • 112 comments

Everyone notice how their MAGA family, friends, neighbors and business associates have gotten pretty silent these days?

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Like everything else, they will distroy it from the inside out.

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Thanks to Elon Musk and his nighttime crew of computer hackers and misanthropes at DOGE, the door is closing on chances for countless young adults with disabilities to live with dignity and self-sufficiency. We must stop this fanatical destruction of opportunity for young people with disabilities.

submitted 14 hours ago • 54 comments

🍃💨 It's time for Congress to puff, puff, pass legislation to end the criminalization of cannabis and close the book on the failed War on Drugs once and for all.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

The dollar is starting the week down against every major currency in the world, with the exception of the Turkish lira

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

Manufacturing employs 11m, tourism 12m. #richkid #amateur

submitted 1 day ago • 570 comments

This is ominous. I can’t see a single ship coming into or going out of the Golden Gate.

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I keep thinking about how Justin Fox described this moment of economic uncertainty as one in which "uncertainty has never felt this uncertain." Just think, the world economy is currently looking at an unusually-wide distribution of possible outcomes for Key policy issues in the US -- tariffs, the...

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In addition to giving the contract to himself and so stealing public money the very concept of this thing is a crazy level boondoggle www.reuters.com/business/aer...

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Very creative, San Francisco! 8647 ✊

submitted 2 days ago • 278 comments

And the grifts keep coming

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EXCLUSIVE: Following up on ProPublica piece on Thiel startup RAMP hunting for the motherlode govt payments contract, as of yesterday a DOGEr & Ramp employee, Roland Shen, is now inside Treasury's Bureau of Fiscal Service, the US Govt's central payments hub. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rampi...

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NYT: “.. Like the other 11 children, Abdo starved to death in the weeks after President Trump froze all U.S. foreign assistance, said local aid workers. .. American-funded soup kitchens in Sudan, including the one near Abdo’s house, had been the only lifelines ..” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments