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It took a lot of stupid to get here but we did it

submitted 7 hours ago • 52 comments

As an American living in the UK, I wonder if most Americans realize just how much Trump has irrevocably torched opinions of the US. People are afraid to visit, see the country increasingly as an adversary, and that’s before the tariffs. This is doing long term damage—and that’s in our closest ally

submitted 2 hours ago • 159 comments

Trump’s tariff madness seems like a good time to repost this. “It’s worse than a crime; it’s a blunder”

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Can’t help but feel that if President Bernie Sanders pulled this move the entirety of American business would try to get him pushed out of office immediately.

submitted 4 hours ago • 451 comments

For those listening to this rant, those numbers are not tariffs. The European Union, e.g., has weighted average tariff rates of ~ 3% and arguably lower on US goods. So they are clearly including VATs and who knows what else? This false reciprocity is nonsense. For more: www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

Been trying to buy a ticket on British Air. The price on the website has changed twice in the past hour while I explored different options. Time to try another airline…

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Nathalie Tocci and I had a lively exchange of views on what Europe can/will/should do for Ukraine now that the US is disengaging. Check it out here: open.spotify.com/episode/56Gk...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Zhongnanhai studying the cost of Taiwan takeover, long in Xi's sights. See how insane it is to report it this way?

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Polls just closed in Wisconsin. If you're in line and reading Bluesky, I'm guessing you already know that you should stay in line.

submitted 1 day ago • 163 comments

California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Another elite fails the Lando test bsky.app/profile/bren...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

This piece by David Rothkopfvis well worth your time. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/putting-de...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I’m still mostly sanguine about the balance of power in Asia, but there are some worrisome developments of late. Latest FP column here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/01/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"America’s new guard are almost all white, all male, and mostly unqualified to lead the departments they are vandalizing. It's not just foreigners who are remaking plans. US scientists are looking abroad. Trump has given the world a giant poaching opportunity." My column. www.ft.com/content/5100...

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

Let's be clear about what is going on. The Trump administration is not combating antisemitism and university leaders are not protecting free speech. It is authoritarianism and capitulation all the way down. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

I am Jewish. I have spent literally my entire life on university campuses. I was the child of two Jewish professors. Since kindergarten I have spent exactly one year as neither a student nor a professor. I have, on occasion, experienced antisemitism. But never on a university campus.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

The leaders of academia are not equal to this moment.

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

This letter from the Harvard president bows to the fiction that the attack on higher education is about antisemitism

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Seeing Japan, S. Korea and China's flags standing side by side is WILD to me.

submitted 2 days ago • 116 comments

„Mir scheint, dass er noch weitergehen will und die Nato vielleicht sogar wirklich verlassen wird.“ Harvard-Professor Stephen Walt über Trump im Interview mit Sasan Abdi-Herrle. @abditsch.bsky.social @stephenwalt.bsky.social @zeit.de www.zeit.de/politik/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"And that's why we're firing all the IRS tax collectors and reducing the amount that corporations and billionaires have to pay -- because we're serious about getting our fiscal house in order."

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Pop quiz; how much did Donald Trump add to the national debt during his first term? Answer: Over $8 trillion.

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

This is the government the right-wing in the US wants to copy.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

The human capital flight from the U.S. is well underway.

submitted 2 days ago • 873 comments

True, though Biden certainly could have done a lot more to try to restore the deal Trump broke and instead chose not to really even try - yet another one of his many Middle East policy broken promises and failures.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

👇🎯 Today in “These fascist incompetents have absolutely no idea what makes this country rich & powerful”

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

submitted 4 days ago • 122 comments

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

submitted 3 days ago • 238 comments

"we share a conviction that our Constitution, including its First Amendment, was designed to make dissent and debate possible without fear of government punishment." Letter from Harvard Law faculty drive.google.com/file/d/1aKzG...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

This is a reminder that you can oppose 1) antisemitism, 2) the Gaza genocide, 3) the October 7 attacks, and 4) the current assault on universities, at the same time, and with no contradiction.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Funded by the US taxpayer.

submitted 4 days ago • 92 comments

The fact that Brad Schimel, who’s running to be A JUDGE — a person whose sole function is to preside over, and protect the law, is accepting ILLEGAL help from Elon Musk to win his election, is another example of how deeply corrupt they all are. Why hasn’t Brad Schimel denounced Musk?

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Elon: why are you mad at me for cutting programs that provide life-saving services so rich people like me can have a big tax cut?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Just once, can somebody in the press please point out that the President does not actually have the legal authority to annex Greenland?

submitted 4 days ago • 620 comments

👇🧵 🌲 reminder of the reality about free speech on college campuses: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Look, if you're going to bend the knee ... just bend the knee. Don't say you're tying your shoe.

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

What are we doing ?

submitted 4 days ago • 1273 comments

Are we great again yet?

submitted 4 days ago • 791 comments

Kristi Noem billed South Dakota taxpayers more than $640,000 in personal travel-related costs, including a six-day trip to Paris, a bear hunt in Canada, a trip to Houston for dental work to fix her smile, and a book tour. But she can afford a $50,000 Rolex for a prison porn photo op in El Salvador.

submitted 4 days ago • 1542 comments

This from a billionaire who drives health care workers and scientific researchers out of their jobs and then mocks them online

submitted 4 days ago • 78 comments

I can't emphasize enough how stupid and self-destructive this law is. Many of America's greatest scientific advances have come from scholars escaping repression from hostile countries. Our freedom is our competitive advantage. We are throwing that away. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 84 comments

The mass voter suppression bill will move forward in the House next week. Call your reps to tell them this is outrageous!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

As the service academies purge libraries of books Hegseth doesn’t like, remember what Eisenhower, a West Point grad, said on the matter: “Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.” www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/re...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

This is important. More than 700 Harvard faculty, with diverse views, have now signed a letter urging the university administration to "publicly condemn attacks on universities," "legally contest and refuse to comply with unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom" and +

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

It took a lot of stupid to alienate Canada but we did it

submitted 5 days ago • 570 comments

Can anyone seriously believe the Trump regime is bringing America together and making it stronger, safer, healthier, more prosperous, admired, or even envied?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Warner, like every other Democrat in the senate, voted to confirm Rubio as Secretary of State, who is leading this attack on constitutional rights.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Bad. Very very bad. Predictable. But very very bad.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Prices are soaring, your 401k is in the tank, Social Security phone lines are hours long. Instead of addressing any of that – this administration is picking a fight with Denmark.

submitted 5 days ago • 1802 comments

Writing an op-ed is not illegal activity. They are revoking visas for thought crimes and for constitutionally protected expression.

submitted 5 days ago • 405 comments