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Soon, the American economy is going to be nothing but various grifts, each trying to get you to put your face in an ever increasing bowl of ice water.

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fucking sucked at the time as well tbh! the wine moms were right! orange man indeed bad! sorry their analysis wasn't intellectually sophisticated or edgy enough but they were correct!

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Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...

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If the stock market dropped 8% in a week under President Sanders he'd actually get couped.

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IDK remember that time he stole little kids' parents

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If you take seriously the idea that we need to have zero trade deficit with every country, we better get to helping massively develop every poor country until they’re rich enough to afford our high value manufactured goods. Sounds like a job for USAID.

submitted 18 hours ago • 30 comments

/r/smallbusiness is full of stories like these right now, including from owners who have tried to domestically source products but there are no manufacturers in the U.S. that are set up to make their products

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We warned you they wouldn’t just go after the “criminals.” They have quotas to fill so scooping up the people who tried to do it right by paying taxes and filing for green cards are right there in the system. Box checked. Great chat with @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social tonight on @M at 11pm ET.

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Commodifying activism helped no one. "Brands no longer sought to be loved – they demanded to be supported, treated as movements rather than commercial entities. Do you stand with Nike against racial injustice? Support Hellmann’s in the fight against food waste?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The History Books Purged From the Naval Academy's Library 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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When people ask, “isn’t [later president X] like FDR” the most important way in which the answer is “no” is that Roosevelt’s presidency wasn’t just about Roosevelt’s own electability; with Jim Farley he built a generation-spanning party apparatus with a clearly defined way forward

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The thing about Ilhan Omar is that she is an extraordinarily patriotic American.

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“It’s exactly this wise and farsighted policy regime that’s being reversed right now: they are destroying everything that kept the world relatively prosperous and safe for the past 80 years.” www.unpopularfront.news/p/franklin-d...

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This guy of all people should've appreciated Bidenomics more

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One of the funniest aspects of Trump's dumb tariff formula is how he's screwing over countries on his side while letting some with decent governments relatively off the hook

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Finally got around to watching Anora last night and, while they weren't that deeply explored, I'm surprised some of the class themes weren't really part of the discourse around the film (although I avoided a lot of the discourse for spoiler reasons)

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#AmericaHatesMusk

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How the Trump coalition beyond MAGA is splintering in the face of actually existing Trumpianism—is featured in today’s Chartbook Top Link. Click the link in the comment to visit.

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These tariffs are also going to cause a huge crime spike, aren't they? Just like the last stagflation crisis.

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#HandsOff rallies are happening all over the country.

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Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

submitted 21 hours ago • 598 comments

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

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Reason number 223.06 on why not to privatize social security.

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We are about to endure the most chaotic attempt at manufacturing consent of all time

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“In 2012, in Arizona v United States, the highest court in the land ruled that “as a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain in the United States”. Got that? Not. A. Crime.” From my new Guardian op-ed:

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Hey look at this, there's allegedly a cartel to artificially increase the price of construction equipment rentals for the last 15 years, something that for some reason hasn't come up in the entire debate about housing prices! llz8rh0l.cdn.imgeng.in/wp-content/u...

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it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers

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but I thought RFK wanted to do more for chronic illnesses

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So basically Trump is conspiring with a dictator to confine American residents in defiance of law, which is known in common parlance as “holding hostages”

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this is why shipping migrants to third party countries is inherently a due process violation. it very literally removes them from the realm of legal process entirely.

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I must not be the first person to bring this up But there has never been a more vindicated guy

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How it feels to start over on Bluesky with zero followers again

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Here is a reminder that a nontrivial chunk of new Trump voters genuinely thought they might be getting another round of stimulus checks with Trump in office, because they loved the economy (and the COVID economic response) when he was president.

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TRUMP TAKE SWITCH

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