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Seems bad.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

The international student purge has come to my alma mater. This article highlights a problem that public universities like Penn State have if they try to protect their students— the campus and classrooms are technically public property. ICE doesn’t need their permission to be there

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

🎶 Because the list (the list) does not exist Because the list does not exist 🎶 ~ Hall and Oates on tariff deals

submitted 6 days ago • 578 comments

BREAKING — All FDIC employees just received an email confirming DOGE presence at the agency. "The DOGE team has neither requested nor been granted access to sensitive bank information." We'll see how long that remains true. Text of email shared with me:

submitted 6 days ago • 130 comments

If I don't stop clenching my jaw I'm going to break my teeth. FFS.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Joe Kernen tried to “well actually” Elizabeth Warren on tariffs and price gouging … and it didn't go well for him.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: An unsigned interagency agreement calls for the Dept of Labor to reimburse the US DOGE Service up to $1.3 million for work done by four DOGE affiliates over 18 months. Musk has previously stated that DOGE staffers would cost taxpayers nothing. from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social:

submitted 7 days ago • 85 comments

This isn’t a trade war against China and the rest of the world. It’s an economic war against working class America.

submitted 8 days ago • 598 comments

Very seriously - this is why the Canadian govt has repeatedly said they do not comment on the American administration's social media or TV comments. They only respond to official documents sent to them. This is why. This White House is chaos.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

submitted 7 days ago • 1937 comments

Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true? BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime? BONDI: leaves

submitted 8 days ago • 1997 comments

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

submitted 10 days ago • 846 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 129 comments

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

submitted 10 days ago • 1089 comments

DOD is apparently ending military education for Army personnel

submitted 12 days ago • 152 comments

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen

submitted 12 days ago • 313 comments

Jesus. Heads up NC voters.

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

My Royals cheering needs to be quiet...I have a napping cat on my lap and he won't be pleased with exuberance.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Whoa.

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

submitted 12 days ago • 339 comments

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

submitted 12 days ago • 195 comments

How the fuck are we this stupid?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

submitted 12 days ago • 3293 comments

MSNBC just showed a montage of world leaders calling the USA idiotic, illogical, hostile, unhinged.... literally never seen anything like this. From the shining city on a hill to an object of global derision and contempt.

submitted 13 days ago • 1039 comments

From a source at NIH: “Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed. The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad. Everything is stopped”

submitted 13 days ago • 43 comments

The white men fantasizing about the return of American manufacturing don’t actually think they or their kids will be working in the factories. This is their American individual idealism at work: they believe there will always be someone else working hard for their benefit

submitted 13 days ago • 88 comments

Man it is really hard to be living in the USA right now and getting news about how South Korea deposed their president for staging a coup and then their Supreme Court just said yup, definitely the right thing to do there.

submitted 13 days ago • 214 comments

People need to fucking hammer Trump over this. Our soldiers died in an accident, the host country's president even honored them, but their own president can't be bothered?? Are you motherfucking serious?!! 😡😡

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

It's been interesting watching the US reactions to Carney vs Canadians. Canada is very much just stressed because this is an election month (yes month, I know we're adorable), but so many Americans online have been looking to Carney to explain the tariffs. I found this fascinating, and a bit sad

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

submitted 13 days ago • 971 comments

Oh.

submitted 13 days ago • 1251 comments

Two episodes in. The first episodic TV I've watched in probably a decade. I'm enjoying it immensely!

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

"Ms. Loomer, a Sept. 11 conspiracy theorist who is viewed as extreme even by some of Mr. Trump’s far-right allies, apparently wields more influence over the staff of the National Security Council than Mr. Waltz, who runs the agency."

submitted 13 days ago • 133 comments

Why do we continue to elevate stupid people?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

To ALL PROTESTERS BE VERY GOD DAMN VIGILANT STARTING NOW INTO THE FUTURE! TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS! THINGS ARE LIKELY GONNA GET REALLY REALLY HEATED AND IM PRETTY SURE PEOPLE WILL GET HURT EVEN IF THEY ARE PEACEFUL. PROTECT ONE ANOTHER!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

submitted 13 days ago • 1187 comments

Have they put one of these on the Capitol or the White House yet?

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submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

Recall this is after the White House fired an AUSA directly based on Laura Loomer’s tweet. The administration is making important decisions based on the whims of a bigoted lunatic. I mean even more so.

submitted 13 days ago • 63 comments

NEWS: Whirlpool Corp. announces Iowa's largest layoff of 2025 in Amana manufacturing facility. Nearly 1/3 of the company’s workforce in the Iowa facility will be let go due to current market conditions.

submitted 13 days ago • 941 comments

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I had to drive my parents 200 miles to a Social Security office, but at least I know that immigrants are getting sent to torture prisons in El Salvador.

submitted 13 days ago • 204 comments