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Some positive news, restoring at least a little faith in the U.S. public.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Still hard to believe we voted for fascism with unemployment at 4.2%, the strongest performing economy in the rich world, & inflation, at 2.4% PCE in Nov 2024, closer to target than 85% of the months since we established it in 2012: bsky.app/profile/mcop.... Verily, a marvel of political economy.

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

After all we've seen in the past 3.5wks, I cannot believe anyone is confused about this. Musk. Owns. Trump. Trump sold Musk the functions of the Presidency; in return, Musk spent $250M to ensure Trump won instead of dying in prison. Trump just licenses his name to the deal: POTUS in name only.

submitted 7 days ago • 138 comments

If only there had been some kind of warning - on.ft.com/40Zncmv

submitted 7 days ago • 214 comments

Why did Trump have himself put in charge of the Kennedy Center? Because he knows that the educated and cultured people who patronize it despise him. So he seeks revenge. And he knows that his being in charge of the center will destroy it.

submitted 9 days ago • 1432 comments

Fareed Zakaria, clear as a bell www.cnn.com/2025/02/09/p...

submitted 12 days ago • 40 comments

(1/X) The media spent ten years ignoring Trump's obvious personality disorder. We were told "he's a pragmatist, a businessman". Now they are doing the same thing with Elon Musk....

submitted 13 days ago • 74 comments

MAGA morality: Put thousands of federal employees on leave, cut aid that sustains countless lives, demonize your opponents, and then enjoy the suffering of your enemies. But then - when one DOGE worker is fired for vicious racism -say, "Where's the grace and mercy in this country?"

submitted 13 days ago • 49 comments

Most of what Trump's doing was previewed during the campaign last year. It's just that he's gone beyond it. Project2025 recommended remaking and shrinking USAid, not shutting it down. Kushner riffed about Gaza development, not America taking it over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

submitted 17 days ago • 87 comments

An obvious point: Elon Musk's loyalties are to white South Africa and the Alternative fur Deutschland, not to the Declaration of independence or the Constitution of the United States.

submitted 18 days ago • 41 comments

I think both these things can be true: -Moves by Trump himself are 99% performative, destructive, bluffing, bigoted, bottomlessly stupid, usually fail even on their own terms. -Meanwhile what Musk, Vought, FBI/DOJ/State et al are doing is genuinely ominous IMO.

submitted 18 days ago • 39 comments

Trump is and always has been an abuser. He’s always acted like the abusive spouse or parent. He inflicts cruelty, pain, and violence as he tells you how much he loves you and it’s for your own good. Any reprieve or act of kindness is meant to throw you off and feel grateful, thinking he’s changed…

submitted 19 days ago • 28 comments

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

submitted 19 days ago • 1978 comments

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

submitted 20 days ago • 1098 comments

And it is downright foolish to think that the Vietnamese could ever have defeated the USA or the Afghans have defeated the USSR! We live in an age where policy makers wear their ignorance proudly.

submitted 20 days ago • 133 comments

Thread. Important.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

At löst one government agency is still working

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

Corporate leaders who were fine with Trump sadistically imposing mass suffering on vulnerable groups as long as they got their tax cuts deserve every last bit of what this madman is now unleashing on them with these tariffs. Assholes.

submitted 20 days ago • 97 comments

There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.

submitted 21 days ago • 853 comments

Let's get in good trouble... as John Lewis would say

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

No mystery what we're seeing here: -Illegally withholding spending/nullifying contracts -Purges of law enforcement and prosecutors -Taking bribes for lenient treatment while threatening enemies with persecution -Pardoning violent/paramilitary allies -Granting vast powers to an unelected billionaire

submitted 21 days ago • 51 comments

Here's your lede: With bodies still being fished out of the Potomac River, Donald Trump went on a partisan, racist and entirely unsubstantiated rant today, blaming diversity hiring and Democrats for Monday’s calamitous collision between a passenger jet and a military aircraft..

submitted 23 days ago • 63 comments

"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H. L. Mencken, who died on this day in 1956

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

I'm really impressed by the remarkable clarity of this message. "While we cannot say what was in [his] heart when he did this" that doesn't prevent us from saying it was wrong and crossed a very clear line. Exactly. A breath of fresh air compared to all the excuse-making on Elon's behalf.

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments

There seems to be some confusion about what the un-recission of the spending freeze means. This NYT piece seems to explain it: The EOs remain in force directing agencies to look for what they're pretending to call "savings," but that's not the same as a freeze

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/a...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments