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Old-School Conservative. I used to be a republican, now I'm a hippie. Still trying to get my picture on The Rolling Stone.
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PUNCHBOWL: “.. The shopping site will display how much of an item’s cost is derived from tariffs – right next to the product’s total listed price.” $AMZN punchbowl.news/archive/4292...

Many voters view the Democratic Party as weak, and elite centrists want that to mean "too feminine" because they gender strength as masculine. But people view the party as weak because it so rarely fights for the values it claims to hold.

🇨🇳🇺🇸IN RESPONSE TO THE TARIFF TURMOIL, MERCEDES-BENZ PLANS TO PRODUCE THE GLS IN #CHINA, WHILE JAGUAR LAND ROVER HAS HALTED EXPORTS TO THE U.S, 36KR REPORTS.

I’m confused as to how the design and execution of this tariff policy wasn’t flawless. 🇺🇸

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

“.. a two-fold brain drain: fewer foreign scientists coming to America, and American talent heading to other countries.” @axios.com 🇺🇸 www.axios.com/2025/03/31/u...

Spotify > Sirius

"GameStop echoes Strategy in doubling down on bitcoin, expects to close more stores in 2025" ...at least GameStop has it's priorities in order. 😏

Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later

Ranked as the 8th best law school in the United States by US News & World Report for 2024, Columbia choses to cower rather than defend it's rights.

TIL that Tesla insiders (executives, board members, etc) have sold *1.46 million* Tesla shares over the past 12 months, and bought precisely *zero* www.nasdaq.com/market-activ...

1/ Dan McCrum, the brilliant Financial Times reporter who uncovered the massive Wirecard fraud, has a fascinating piece up about Tesla's very weird accounting, and the red flags it throws up: www.ft.com/content/62df...

Yeah, I have my girlfriend's dinner on the table when she walks in the door, whatcha gonna do about it!?!?!?

"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit."

Yeah, real rethuglikin "Family Values", you damn right Liberals and Progressive want to stop you..!

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid