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Trump has introduced the "nano-tariff:" a hefty tax imposed for a few hours, then lifted after shattering business confidence.

submitted 7 days ago • 56 comments

I've read TPM daily for the last 23 years, and for the last few years as a paid subscriber. Take advantage of the birthday offer for $52.50 per year. We need high-quality independent media now more than ever.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Happy International Women’s Day to the most international woman of all: the woman trapped on the International Space Station

submitted 4 days ago • 183 comments

Great pictures from the Ukraine rally at the Ellipse today.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

A minor thing but is true nonetheless: due to silence, a large part of the leadership of intellectual foreign policy & national security studies, has abdicated any authority now or in the future. It’s gone. Completely up for grabs for the few folks who can stand up a say “No, Canada is our friend”.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

”Mutta kun todellisuuden ja puheiden välinen ristiriita kasvaa liian suureksi, rauhoittelu ei rauhoita. Päinvastoin, se pelottaa paljon enemmän. Alkaa nousta hätä: jos tässä siis koko ajan peitellään jotain ja väitetään mustaa valkoiseksi, niin mitä kaikkea ei kerrota ja miksi?”

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Trump highlights the danger of two categories of decision-making mistakes. The first is the one made by US partners in being too dependent on the US. AUKUS comes to mind, as it backtracked on a deal that would've diversifyied Aus' security portfolio. Those Scorpenes probably don't seem so bad now.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

What are the odds a media organization is barred from covering Trump for saying Russia invaded Ukraine? Serious question. Why the AP holding the line is so essential.

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

Every American should be aware that proportional representation and multipartyism is what makes it possible for pro-democracy forces to unite against extremists. A two party system is uniquely terrible at this

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

submitted 17 days ago • 183 comments

Trump/Musk cutting off communications access to the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fighting in horrible conditions, giving their lives defending Europe, as an extortion is exactly what the US is now. And they voted for it.

submitted 19 days ago • 81 comments

8x10 field camera got himself a mini-me. Now, crafting a couple of lens boards for test shoot. Any suggestions for easily accessible material instead of 4mm plywood?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Mike Johnson is desperately trying to thread the needle between budget hawks and deficit-busting tax cuts with a one vote majority, and Elon is like “Money for everyone!”

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

TFW you've blown up relations with your closest allies, just so you could sit in a room and be lectured by Lavrov for 4.5 hours.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

OMG stop it! If you invade one of your nearest neighbours, you will not be holding elections anytime soon. You're not inviting us to join voluntarily, and if it comes to that, it will be because you have gone full autocracy. Stop writing this think piece already!

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

This is all a game to The NY Times.

submitted 23 days ago • 84 comments

If your country crushes my economy, dismantles my government, and occupies my city, I will not be playing two party electoral politics — especially in favour of cowards who stood by and let it happen because they liked their midterm odds!

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

This is how WSJ framed the Bessent trip three days ago. Now we know why he sent his Treasury Secretary… because Bessent tried to squeeze $400 Billion from Zelensky. Without promising anything in return. Sicko mob tactics.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

To be honest, sometimes it's a bit funny to see multiple experts and commentators trying to second-guess Trump's grand strategy and its super-complex double agenda. The more I see, the more sure I am that it's just a generator of random phrases and ad hoc moves and that there's no plan.

submitted 25 days ago • 170 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 29 days ago • 308 comments

imagine being so bad at understanding your chosen religion that the head of that religion of 1.4 billion people personally subtweets you

submitted 30 days ago • 30 comments

Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 31 days ago • 3211 comments

During an era of failing traditional media, TechDirt is absolutely killing it covering, explaining, contextualizing what is happening. Not a surprise if you’ve read them for a while.

submitted 36 days ago • 28 comments

A bit of professional disappointment that Wired beat me to it. But glad the info is out. I can confirm the key details of this report based on my own reporting -the name of the DOGE operative and that yes the reports about read only access is categorically false. Not only does Marko have full …

submitted 37 days ago • 134 comments

IN AN ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE, People in the United States, Mexico, and Canada are enjoying a relaxing Saturday evening, doing what they do on Saturday evenings. Since the Inauguration, they have not needed to pay much attention to the news, but the Democratic Congress has been hard at work. 1/

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

Never let an American crow about overthrowing a tyrannical monarch ever again.

submitted 39 days ago • 23 comments

Breaking News from Face-EatingLeopardStan

submitted 39 days ago • 148 comments

sliding the little indicator arrow on the wall from BEFORE TIMES to TIMES

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

If I just read one million more posts tonight, I will have complete control over what comes next

submitted 124 days ago • 56 comments

New Baltic Sea cable break it seems. This time a Latvian state comms cable from Ventspils to Gotland. If anyone can find more facts such as time of disconnect it would be swell. @eldomador.bsky.social ?

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submitted 57 days ago • 169 comments

This is not the story. The story is Trump nominating a completely unfit person to run the defense department that he knows will be pliant and Senate Republicans making a choice to not give a shit. Hegseth didn't accomplish anything today.

submitted 57 days ago • 282 comments

it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories

submitted 64 days ago • 726 comments