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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 1182 comments

Blockading our ports, hobbling our access to productive inputs, bringing back hunger, demoralizing the populace: ”What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.” – Henry George, 1886

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This whole CEO/Monarch thing is working just great. Who woulda ever thought taking political advice from a sociopath who goes by Moldbug would be a bad idea? Curtis Yarvin Fears His Authoritarian Fantasy Is Flopping. www.thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvi...

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

big shadow docket decision coming: can the us government exile you to a torture prison overseas vs no it can't

submitted 8 days ago • 368 comments

Tomorrow’s stock market will reveal how expensive it is to own the libs.

submitted 9 days ago • 313 comments

Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender

submitted 11 days ago • 390 comments

"There were many things we knew would happen… I’m not here to say I told you so.” - VP Harris. She has every right to say that!

submitted 12 days ago • 43 comments

Equity Arc, which trains young musicians of color, was set to play with the US Marine Band — until Trump's anti-DEI order canceled the show. But Chicago stepped up, and now the students will perform at @chicagosymphony.bsky.social on 4/6. Grab a free ticket and join me in cheering them on. cso.org

submitted 12 days ago • 165 comments

I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.

submitted 12 days ago • 2527 comments

In THEORY the point of jail is to make sure people show up to court - but since 2018 LASD has often failed to get them there At one point >80% of buses were broken & 1/3 of inmates were missing court dates. My latest @latimes.com is a deep dive on how it came to this www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

This is not a drill. This is not just Sunday. This is the ’dictator for a day’ guy publicly announcing on a storied legacy media outlet that he plans to overturn the US Constitution and American democracy as we know it.

submitted 16 days ago • 421 comments

As a former securities fraud lawyer, I can tell you this is 💯 true. Elon could have been stopped years ago if only we treated white collar crime like other crimes.

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

Tim Snyder: "Musk-Trump inherited a state with unprecedented power and functionality, and are taking it apart. They also inherited a set of alliances and relationships that underpinned the largest economy in world history. This too they are breaking." snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-g...

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 18 days ago • 45 comments

dear unhappy Trump voters, yes, this IS exactly what you voted for. you were just too fucking dumb to understand it

submitted 18 days ago • 125 comments

@21stcsuffragettes.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 94 comments

It’s really fascinating what happens when you remove diversity—white male incompetency is placed on full display and with no one to blame for their actions —so they just lie.

submitted 20 days ago • 207 comments

there is absolutely nothing standing in the way of more moderate democrats being aggressive opponents of the white house and holding public events highlighting their opposition

submitted 20 days ago • 327 comments

journalists should assume the admin is lying. judges should assume the admin is lying. Dems voting on appointments should assume the admin is lying. like, we should not be extending the benefit of the doubt ever here.

submitted 20 days ago • 300 comments