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From the editor-in-chief of The Economist. Great read.

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OMG. I was wondering that as the tariff numbers made no sense, but this is even dumber than I thought. I mean, this is "fail your econ 101 class and have to go meet with the professor" bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 187 comments

didn't realize that -- so a $200 billion tax increase on the good we import from China. That comes to $1,300 per household. Should make everyone happy

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Dead people telling the President to pursue a trade war with an uninhabited island is real George III territory

submitted 1 day ago • 227 comments

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

submitted 1 day ago • 883 comments

This is a United States Senator MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities BANKS: You probably deserved it MACK: Why did I deserve it? BANKS: Because you look like a clown

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So it's not tariffs. It's "Tariffs Charged to the U.S.A. Including Currency Manipulation and Trade Barriers". In other words, they just made the "tariffs" number up.

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The administration’s key demand is not just that they can send anyone they like to a foreign labor camp, it’s that you will accept without question their assertion that the people they choose are dangerous menaces who deserve it. They want your unquestioning obedience.

submitted 3 days ago • 244 comments

Absoluuttinen tuloliikkuvuus romahtanut myös Suomessa. Selvästi harvempi 30-vuotias saavuttaa nykyisin vanhempiensa tulotason. Kuva: @tonijuuti.bsky.social esitelmä DEMOGRAPHY Talks -webinaarissa.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

“The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up.”

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Are all government accounts on X just troll accounts now? This is from the official House Foreign Affairs Committee—the same committee responsible for foreign aid, global HIV/AIDS policy, security assistance, and national security. This is how they choose to represent themselves.

submitted 4 days ago • 1563 comments

Diversity initiatives were meant to overcome the old patterns of nepotism, so I guess it makes sense that the enemies of diversity are big fans of nepotism.

submitted 5 days ago • 208 comments

For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.

submitted 6 days ago • 163 comments

Congrats again, everyone, for the last 40 years of pretending that the Republican Party cares about debt & deficits (bsky.app/profile/mcop...). Once again, behold the unparalleled parsimony & explanatory power of the Dennis Green Unified Theory Of 🇺🇸 Politics:

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Same, little pepper, same

submitted 8 days ago • 97 comments

When Harald Sente wor plannes en the groupe chatte

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

In a 6-day period just before the 2016 election, the New York Times ran 10 front-page stories about the Hillary Clinton email "scandal." Let's see how many front-page stories the Times runs in the next week about the Trump regime mistakenly sharing war plans with a journalist.

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

Look what happens when a democracy allows itself to have nice things.

submitted 11 days ago • 112 comments

this is a straightforward delusion

submitted 16 days ago • 928 comments

Joe Gallina: If you could speak directly to Donald Trump, what would you tell him? Gov. JB Pritzker: What does Vladimir Putin have on you?

submitted 16 days ago • 619 comments

Fun fact: Republican state control is associated with a startling rise in the 'FoxBook' diet — news delivered from Facebook and Fox News. economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/01/31/p...

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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

submitted 19 days ago • 246 comments

”Tähän sisältyy se riski, että jos Euroopassa lähdetään rahoittamaan puolustuspanostuksia leikkaamalla ihmisten hyvinvoinnista, niin aivan varmasti sitten sementoidaan Euroopassa Putinin ja Trumpin eurooppalaisten liittolaisten, eli äärioikeiston nousua” www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/li...

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed. Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance. My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

submitted 19 days ago • 520 comments

TL snapshot

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When Trump's agency heads ripped into Musk inside the WH, what they really revealed is that DOGE is on the verge of unleashing governing catastrophes that they don't want to take the blame for. On the pod, @katearonoff.bsky.social and I dig deep into this dynamic: newrepublic.com/article/1925...

submitted 25 days ago • 58 comments

Whoa, no way. But but but Trump and Musk keep telling me everything's an economic paradise when contracts aren't enforceable, you have no market regulators, trade agreements don't matter, tax evasion is rampant, and the state arbitrarily deploys violence against perceived enemies.

submitted 25 days ago • 18 comments

Hey remember that time a bunch of losers got mad at a lady who made a video game about depression and it led to several thousand federal employees losing their jobs

submitted 26 days ago • 139 comments

Vance mistook Ukraine for the Republican congressional caucus

submitted 34 days ago • 146 comments

"Emmehän voi hankkia patruunia, terästä ja lentokoneita sillä, mitä meidän lapsemme mahdollisesti ansaitsevat." Risto Ryti eduskunnan valtiovarainvaliokunnassa keväällä 1938.

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

Lots of "Very Serious People" don't want to admit what is plain and obvious and in front of our eyes and explains so much: Donald Trump and Elon Musk are two of the most ignorant and uninformed people to ever be allowed near public office anywhere in the western world. It's obvious to all of us.

submitted 36 days ago • 403 comments

I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta.

submitted 35 days ago • 36 comments

Käsillämme on myös kapitalismin kriisi. Oikeastaan on käynyt niin, että taloudellisen eriarvoisuuden kasvun varaan viime vuosikymmenet nojannut valtajärjestelmä vain päätti kaapata myös liberaalin valtion poliittisen koneiston käyttöönsä. Tähän mennessä sitä oli vain ohjailtu. #yhteiskunta

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

submitted 36 days ago • 156 comments

Seems like the relevance of this Reagan-era Herblock cartoon has risen by 200%. Washington Post, 12/22/1988.

submitted 37 days ago • 240 comments

En ole suuri Starmer-fani ja koko kolmannen tien sosiaalidemokratia on keskeisesti avannut kannatusta äärioikeistolle. Silti voi Corbynilta kysyä, miten Euroopassa pitäisi reagoida tilanteeseen, jossa autoritaariset hallinnot alkavat jakaa maailmaa etupiireihin. Mennä plakaattien kanssa torille?

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

Tässä olisi aidosti tärkeä juttuidea. Käytännössä Suomella on ollut aivan keskeisessä diplomaattisessa tehtävässä ihminen, jolta on jäänyt ymmärtämättä asemamaansa politiikassa tapahtuneet olennaiset muutokset ja niiden seuraukset Suomelle. Olisi kiinnostavaa kuulla, miten näin on voinut käydä.

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

Jep. Näin on. Todistettu tilastollisesti myös 30-luvun Saksasta, natsien suhteen: natseja kannatettiin eniten niillä alueilla, joilla oli harjoitettu kovinta talouskuripolitiikkaa. Olen vuosia pelännyt, että tämä tiedetään ja ymmärretään äärioikeiston johdossa oikein hyvin.

submitted 39 days ago • 11 comments

"Miksi Euroopan nuoret naiset äänestävät niin paljon vasemmistoa?" Johtuisiko siitä, että oikeiston suurin trendi on viimeisen vuosikymmenen ollut tunkkaisen sovinistinen laita- ja äärioikeistolaisuus, joka pyrkii romuttamaan naisten oikeuksia. Miksi naiset äänestäisivät omaa etuaan vastaan?

submitted 39 days ago • 14 comments

Die Linke ist die stärkste Partei bei den Jungwähler:innen. 25 Prozent der 18- bis 24-Jährigen haben der Partei hre Stimme gegeben. Auf Platz 2 folgt die AfD mit 20 Prozent. Der Überblick und alle weiteren Ergebnisse: https://der.spiegel.de/3XdbtQa #btw25

submitted 39 days ago • 9 comments

This is real. And I have never seen the competence, morals, standards and communication strategy of any government collapse so fast.

submitted 40 days ago • 290 comments

Musk's desire to colonize Mars is and always has been fraudulent. Even if it were not a bad option among the now-fantastical options for extraplanetary colonization, Musk actively does not want to do any of the development that would enable anything more than landing, planting a flag, and dying.

submitted 40 days ago • 6 comments

"casually" is the key word here. As @abenewman.bsky.social and I say - www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/o... - the Trump administration seems to assume there is no cost or risk to weaponizing infrastructure for short term advantage.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

Last week, JD Vance gave Europe an ultimatum: it can align with the Trump administration, or face its wrath. To comply, Europe needs to embrace the extreme right, repeal tech rules the US “will not accept,” and allow Silicon Valley to dominate its market. It should tell the US to take a hike.

submitted 41 days ago • 42 comments

“Attitudes to gender, decisions on taxation and migration, are debated…They should not transform conservatives into anti-democratic far rightists. And yet the leaders and intellectuals of the modern conservative movement have become extremism’s useful idiots.” nickcohen.substack.com/p/why-conser...

submitted 41 days ago • 20 comments