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I haven't followed the whole story but l don't think there's a single person on earth who more obviously looks like a rapist than Andrew Tate.

submitted 8 hours ago • 17 comments

Bracketing the substance of the underlying case, the procedural posture going on here is completely insane and unprecedented.

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

I know I keep banging on about this, but it's simply unfathomable to me that legitimate news organizations continue to participate in the WH press pool.

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

This whole thing would have been too over the top for a law school hypothetical where the goal was to figure out the most brazen and undeniable way to violate the Appointments Clause imaginable.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

If I were a Democrat, and I saw Trump do a purge of high-level generals who were women and people of color and wouldn't be "yes men," I wouldn't vote to advance JD Vance's college friend for Secretary of the Army. And yet....16 Democrats just did so

submitted 3 days ago • 652 comments

Ben Parker and @stanveuger.bsky.social discuss Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s plans to check on the gold at Fort Knox, what it’s there for, and their schemes to increase the value of BitCoin. www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-and-t...

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

The right spent 8 years mocking liberals for saying Trump wanted to be a fascist dictator and then one month into his second term they’re using Napoleonic language to say he’s the living embodiment of the Constitution and laws don’t apply to him

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Reminder to submit your papers on topics related to the economics of state and local government finances, fiscal federalism, and related themes by February 27th: www.nber.org/conferences/... Conference to be held September 11-12, 2025.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Being unable to answer this question is absolutely insane and completely without any precedent in American history. DOJ's official position is that the chain of command flowing from POTUS to DOGE not only doesn't pass through Musk, but they don't know who is in charge of it.

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

Hadn't heard from Kotkin since he poked his head up during the height of covid to say that it was going to permanently "kill cities." 5 years later and residential demand in cities is higher than ever. weird how he keeps getting room in major newspaper to be wrong!

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

🗓️ TOMORROW at 1:15 PM ET: EU #trade chief @marossefcovic.bsky.social is in Washington, and he is speaking with the American Enterprise Institute about economic security, trade policy, and EU-US cooperation. You don't want to miss this. RSVP: bit.ly/4hGxor9

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

one of the stupidest things i have had the misfortune of reading today and i am sharing it with you.

submitted 10 days ago • 1814 comments

In the coming weeks, a lot of slow-on-the uptake folks are going to begin belatedly realizing Trump is both an inept moron and a dangerous autocrat. Our great civic challenge in these trying times will be calmly welcoming them aboard instead of primal-screaming in their faces.

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People often describe Trump’s foreign policy as “transactional,” but as Vance’s speech illustrates it is in fact heavily value-based, with some mild corruption mixed in.

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Somewhat amusing that McConnell is now easily the most leftwing Republican senator

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“ah, there is a mass mobilization taking place of sincere, angry, average people who are not as cool and sophisticated as I believe myself to be: instead of seizing this moment to organize for the left, I will instead spend the next decade making fun of their hats.”

submitted 272 days ago • 35 comments

So far in the last 24 hours, Russia's gotten: - a sympathetic ear/voice installed as DNI - the release of a crime boss - Hegseth ceding Crimea to them - Trump offering a WH visit - The US acting as middleman rather than Ukraine ally

submitted 15 days ago • 252 comments

“Tariffs, when imposed, of course raise the price level mechanically. But they affect inflation today even when they are merely likely to be imposed in the future. There are two mechanisms through which this happens.” www.aei.org/economics/ev...

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reminder to study juche

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Greatest West Coast intellectual

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This is like Kendrick and Drake if both of them were Drake.

submitted 17 days ago • 82 comments

And when they say “at the height of the country’s financial crisis,” it’s because he took it there.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

"Gaza development plan" is such an Orwellian turn of phrase, such an abuse of language to normalize a proposed ethnic cleansing

submitted 16 days ago • 105 comments

My “This is not a quid pro quo” footnote is bringing up a lot of questions already answered by my footnote.

submitted 17 days ago • 45 comments

who would have predicted that the crime mayor and crime president would end up in cahoots

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

New by Mikkel Davies and me for @foreignpolicy.com—fiscal policy in Brazil (and elsewhere) and its struggles foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/10/b...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The British experiment in self-government continues

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I think people overestimate the role of calculation, and underestimate the role of motivated reasoning. Republican judges are just as much as a part of the right-wing ecosystem as anyone else, and as ideas become mainstream and then orthodoxy, they're just as susceptible to polarization.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

submitted 20 days ago • 169 comments

Maybe orchestras and companies that normally perform at the Kennedy Center should find one of the many other venues in Washington to perform at? I suspect many of us would prefer to attend concerts, theater, etc., in an atmosphere of freedom, not under the patronage of a wannabe tinpot dictator.

submitted 19 days ago • 55 comments

Something I’ve always wanted from the NYT, but that I can’t remember it ever doing, is for the newspaper to show some professional indignation about being grandiosely lied to.

submitted 20 days ago • 99 comments

After these two weeks I’m starting to understand why those guys can’t compete with TikTok

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LISTEN: Judge Coughenour condemns Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship. It is “apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore…for political or personal gain.” Part 1:

submitted 21 days ago • 76 comments

Here is the White House’s own justification for its sudden evisceration of the entire foreign aid agency worldwide, in secret on a Saturday night. It’s a quickie list of a few ragebait links to sites like Breitbart. They concern minuscule sums of money that could be addressed with trivial reforms.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Elon’s making up and insane conspiracy theory about @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and USAID that is all the rage over on MAGA Twitter. I break down the anatomy of conspiracy theory and show how none of it, not even a whiff of it, is true. It’s just how authoritarians play the game.

submitted 22 days ago • 84 comments

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

submitted 22 days ago • 807 comments

Teamsters president denounces credit card providers and praises Senator who wants to put a lid on rates. Yet the union itself partners to offer a branded membership credit card whose interest rates can top 27 percent, and "makes millions from it." [Dominic Pino, NRO]

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

First time we’ll have a CEA made up of three mainstream economics PhDs since 2019, by my count.

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