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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 3 days ago • 717 comments

I wonder if giant megacorps who can afford to purchase access to the president getting tariff exemptions will be good or bad for small businesses 🤔

submitted 4 days ago • 174 comments

What if there was an opposition party that just said "If you give us a majority in congress we'll remove these freaks and criminals from power"

submitted 4 days ago • 185 comments

Wowzer!

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Trump is waging war against professionals, intellectuals, scientists, education, writes Franklin Foer. We've seen this movie before - in Mao's China www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 4 days ago • 77 comments

This seems important. The building trades are relatively conservative (though they endorsed Biden and then Harris), and many of their members are white working class voters who Trump wants to win over & claims to act in the interests of.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

NASDAQ call volume spiked minutes before the 90 day tariff pause was announced. Not a good look at all.

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

The very same people who drove manufacturing overseas by shopping at Walmart are now the idiots who think tariffs will bring manufacturing back.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

“There are already signs that Trump’s economic policies are stamping out the Biden factory boom: During the first quarter of 2025, clean-energy companies on net canceled more construction projects than they had canceled in all of 2023 and 2024” @citizencohn.bsky.social

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“Major law firms have bent the knee to Trump—yet the influential Democratic attorneys who work at them keep collecting lucrative paychecks.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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Let's repeat it for folks in the back. When Bill Clinton cut 300,000 + jobs from the federal workforce, he did it with the APPROVAL of Congress after review and a VOTE! He did NOT illegally take it upon himself to drastically slash entire agencies and programs - with NO plan for continued service.

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i am like 80% serious when i say that woke is the only thing that kept this country together

submitted 12 days ago • 443 comments

Who did this?

submitted 13 days ago • 1452 comments

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

submitted 13 days ago • 3293 comments

What happens at the next Treasury auction?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I posted the video over 2 years ago. People thought he was bluffing I guess.

submitted 14 days ago • 1004 comments

This is going to hurt a lot of people this summer, next winter, next summer ... "A study published in The Economic Journal last year found that roughly 17 percent of U.S. households spend more than one-tenth of their income on energy." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/c...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Burn it all to the ground and buy up the land and water and minerals at rock bottom prices. This a fire sale for the oligarchy. How do I know? They’ve already done it to rural America…

submitted 14 days ago • 607 comments

Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯! "You journalists need to get your balls back"

submitted 15 days ago • 682 comments

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

submitted 15 days ago • 1114 comments

It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.

submitted 15 days ago • 1377 comments

I was thinking that none of those numbers made sense, but holy fuck this is insane

submitted 15 days ago • 668 comments

It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory. Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.

submitted 15 days ago • 4769 comments

FWIW, my general assumption is that most of the public has fairly weakly held views on trade policy and fairly strongly held views on cost of living

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Your kid has measles. An airplane just fell in your back yard. Your coworker who is American is in an El Salvador jail. The pentagon is a working group chat. And your boomer parents lost Medicare and social security. America 2025.

submitted 23 days ago • 56 comments

Welcome to all our new followers! 💚

submitted 25 days ago • 418 comments

More people waking up to the realization they voted for the devil because they didn't bother to understand the details. The devil is always in the details.

submitted 27 days ago • 652 comments

One of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law

submitted 29 days ago • 229 comments

This seems ungood. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 31 days ago • 46 comments

I truly hope that one silver lining we take from this coup is that voters begin to understand that when you vote for president, you’re not just selecting one person. You’re selecting all the judges they’ll appoint, and the entire cabinet.

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Are you following all your favorites at The Bulwark and its extended cinematic universe?

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This is soooo bad for North Dakota.

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Canada has long been one of the United States' closest trade partners, but North Dakota Farmers Union President Mark Watne argues that Trump’s tariff policy is putting that relationship at risk. 🎙️ Don’t miss the full episode of Plain Talk: www.inforum.com/podcasts/pla...

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For many younger farmers, recent tariffs could be the breaking point. ND Farmers Union President Mark Watne shares the concerns he’s hearing from the next generation of producers who may not be able to weather this economic storm. 🎧 Hear the full conversation: www.inforum.com/podcasts/pla...

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Dr. Bill Cassidy, you could have stopped this. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

submitted 38 days ago • 57 comments

Bad idea.

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Donald Trump was the first president in a century to preside over net jobs loss during his first term and unsurprisingly he's picking right up where he left off. Congrats, America.

submitted 42 days ago • 220 comments

SpaceX’s Starship explodes during test flight.

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