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Gotta say, it felt extra weird filing taxes this year, knowing they're just going into Trump's slush fund. At least my efforts results in a refund, so that's like one fewer plane ticket for deporting people without due process 🙃

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I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

submitted 2 days ago • 211 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 2 days ago • 1339 comments

Low-key obsessed with Blue Prince right now. I have a 6-sheet excel spreadsheet with notes and maps. I even had a dream one night that clued me in to a particular solution the next morning.

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i think it was descartes who famously said, “to be human is to select all the pics with crosswalks in them.”

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

It is becoming unbelievably difficult to stay both informed and sane

submitted 6 days ago • 331 comments

These retaliatory tariffs really getting out of hand

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

1) Do something autocratic 2) Wait to see how people react 3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on 4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it 5) Illegally consolidate more power 6) Repeat

submitted 7 days ago • 186 comments

People think that what Wall Street guys fear is being in the market as it crashes, but the thing that's in all of their heads is the opposite - fear of missing out on the fast market rebound as Trump turns everything around, as many did in 2020 during Covid.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Welp.... it sure was nice being able to buy stuff.

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A slack labor market also leads to bosses mistreating workers, lack of raises, lack of career advancement etc. This is why bosses hated the Biden labor market and love Trump restoring post GFC levels of worker precarcity.

submitted 8 days ago • 30 comments

"The implication...is that not only noncitizens but also U.S. citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes..."

submitted 9 days ago • 760 comments

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

submitted 9 days ago • 313 comments

I feel like I'm in one of those insane dreams where dumb shit keeps happening but you can't walk or speak or whatever. This can't be reality, right?

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HAWK TUAH: PRESIDENT TRUMP CONSIDERING 30-DAY STRATEGIC HAWK TUAH COIN RESERVE

submitted 9 days ago • 4 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

Correct

submitted 10 days ago • 86 comments

I have this theory that, admittedly, may just be me overextending my own personal experience into a broader theme than really applies, but here goes anyway.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Lots of people showing up for these protests today

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Nintendo has taken the unprecedented decision to delay Switch 2 pre-orders, blaming the impact of Trump's tariff war and "evolving market conditions." bit.ly/4iVEEjF

submitted 12 days ago • 71 comments

Unfortunately the metaphorical rocket in the cover image turned out to be a SpaceX one that's undergoing rapid unscheduled disassembly

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

We all see it don't we?

submitted 14 days ago • 61 comments

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 13 days ago • 1036 comments

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

submitted 14 days ago • 879 comments

Have we come up with a proper greeting yet for Liberation Day? Merry? Happy? May your day be liberated?

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THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

submitted 15 days ago • 99 comments

Happy Monday!

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