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This, right here, is why tariffs cause depressions.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

1/ Commerce Secretary Lutnick is saying stupid things about tariffs, including that tariffs do not cause prices of domestically-produced products to rise. He is wrong. Tariffs cause all prices to rise, including domestically-produced products. Let me explain (using Economics 101).

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

Thank you, Lithuania 🇱🇹 for honoring the US soldiers who died during a training exercise fighting together, training together, a lot of stories in our shared history RIP Staff Sgt. Troy Knutson-Collins, 28; Staff Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr., 25; Staff Sgt. Edvin Franco, 25; Pfc. Dante Taitano, 21

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

New York Times, October, 1890 "Let the facts, which are multiplying every day, tell who it is that pays the onerous tariff taxes. They will answer that the American people pay these taxes and that the burden of them rests most heavily upon the poor."

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.

submitted 4 days ago • 111 comments

Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

Crawford: Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections, and our Supreme Court.. Wisconsin stood up and said that justice does not have a price, our courts are not for sale

submitted 5 days ago • 520 comments

Look who's talkin 'bout "...in complete violation of our Constitution..."!!! Har-de-har-har - dat's a good one

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

US women deserve better

submitted 7 days ago • 81 comments

"The SAVE Act must never become law. It would exclude millions of American citizens from voting. It is one of the worst voting bills in the history of Congress. Members of Congress must reject it." — @seanmorales-doyle.bsky.social WATCH: bit.ly/4lbEx50

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

"If this many different judges in this many different courts appointed by this many different presidents are blocking this many policies promulgated by the same president, we ought to be able to agree that the problem is the policies—not the judges." www.stevevladeck.com/p/136-settin...

submitted 7 days ago • 58 comments

The asshole who talked about putting USAID "into the woodchipper," and childishly grinned when prancing around with his chainsaw, is now having hurt feelings because Tim Walz made fun of him. Even Trump is going to recognize pretty soon that this is a "brand-image minus" for him.

submitted 8 days ago • 184 comments

FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.

submitted 9 days ago • 86 comments

I hope Waltz didn’t lie to Trump. That would be bad.

submitted 9 days ago • 188 comments

Get vaccines, folks. Check your own MMR history Vaccinate your kids Explain to people who are reluctant to vaccinate their kids the abject danger their kids are in now that we are below “herd” immunity protection in many communities No one needs to die from vaccine-preventable childhood diseases

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Florida– there are two critically important special elections coming up on April 1st that could bring some sense of balance, some sanity back to Congress. Vote for Gay Valimont (FL-01) & Josh Weil (FL-06). We need these two voices of reason in the US House. We’re one week away. Make a plan to vote.

submitted 12 days ago • 79 comments

This is a critical point everybody in the media should be amplifying:

submitted 13 days ago • 145 comments

This segment from @maryannefranks.bsky.social is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute. Spread it far and wide.

submitted 12 days ago • 56 comments

Rep. Ted Lieu: “You could put pilots at risk… they could have been shot down.” Trump’s SecDef Pete Hegseth sent war plans to a journalist—a reckless, dangerous breach of national security. And the White House is still downplaying it. American lives were put in danger. We need accountability.

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

🚨 CBS News has received an internal NSA bulletin from Feb 2025 warning staff NOT to use Signal app for sensitive info, citing vulnerabilities to Russian hackers. These docs were sent pre-Houthi chat scandal with Jeffrey Goldberg.

submitted 12 days ago • 1100 comments

Grateful for the overwhelming support in Milwaukee tonight. Get out and vote early, Wisconsin!

submitted 14 days ago • 29 comments

Can you IMAGINE if Kamala Harris did something like this. Don't EVER say a WORD about DEI. So far we see a bunch of white male clowns making a mistake so egregious as likely to warrant a criminal investigation in a normal world. Imagine a lowly military grunt doing this.

submitted 13 days ago • 139 comments

About to have a real time test of the media If this kind of breach happened under Biden, it would be the story for days No high-ranking official — especially the president — could make public appearances without facing tough questions Let’s see if that happens now

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.

submitted 14 days ago • 825 comments

Oh.

submitted 15 days ago • 94 comments

NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term. It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.

submitted 18 days ago • 127 comments

5pm ET, hearing on Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act and the defiance of court order. The public can listen by telephone. Let the number of callers show we are paying attention.

submitted 20 days ago • 85 comments

I’ve temporarily taken the paywall off this article, in the hopes that it can raise awareness about how to push back effectively against Trump—and also how to understand the world we’re heading toward: competitive authoritarianism.

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

The president has no unilateral power to slash the budget passed by Congress. We cover every aspect of the argument for presidential impoundment power and show that nothing in the Constitution, federal case law, or American history supports it. Summarized: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/musk-and-v...

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

I'm not a lawyer, but I would strongly recommend that blue state AGs and legislatures start today figuring out how to make treason and intentionally violating judicial orders state level crimes, with appropriately harsh punishments.

submitted 21 days ago • 38 comments

Thanks to President Trump, we are finally cleansing our country of … kidney-transplant specialists who “fly through the night to pick up donated organs before performing emergency surgery” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 97 comments

ICYMI — Trump’s social security commissioner sounds the alarm about SS being in peril from DOGE, and again says millions of dead people are not getting checks despite what Trump & Musk have said. www.propublica.org/article/reco...

submitted 22 days ago • 56 comments

@raskin.house.gov

submitted 22 days ago • 34 comments

The SAVE Act’s impact on voter registration processes would affect tens of millions of Americans. Here's why Congress should reject it:

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

submitted 24 days ago • 1508 comments

I'm a no on cloture, I'm a no on the CR, and I'm a no on giving Elon Musk and Donald Trump a slush fund to rig the government for billionaires like themselves at the expense of everyone else.

submitted 24 days ago • 541 comments

“.. As a reminder, energy and critical minerals sold by Canada to the US are byproducts of explicit US efforts to reduce reliance on the Middle East and China. The notion that bilateral energy deficits with Canada are ‘subsidies’ is economically, politically and geologically illiterate.” - JPM 🇨🇦

submitted 26 days ago • 20 comments

Y’all. Stop. Skeeting. About. The PR. Stunt. Staaaaaaaaaaaaawp.

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

Elon Musk's plan to cut the Social Security Administration's staff by 50% would cause 37,000 more Americans to die each year waiting to receive their disability benefits while the average wait time to collect these benefits would jump to 412 days. That is beyond unacceptable.

submitted 30 days ago • 446 comments

Donald Trump is a lunatic. But what’s worse than that is every single Republican elected who has the power to push him out of office right now is sitting on their hands. Impeach. Convict. Now.

submitted 30 days ago • 40 comments

More here: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

WAPO: “.. The Army Corps of Engineers colonel responsible for releasing water from two California reservoirs at President Donald Trump’s direction in January knew that it was unlikely to reach the southern part of the state as Trump had promised, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.”

submitted 30 days ago • 84 comments

people nationwide need to study what's happening in Montana to protect trans kids and their families

submitted 31 days ago • 81 comments

Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor’s response to interim US Attorney Ed Martin’s letter calling the school’s curriculum “unacceptable.” Bravo.

submitted 31 days ago • 50 comments

“.. In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. .. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four?” - “1984” www.barrons.com/articles/soc...

submitted 33 days ago • 228 comments

Former SSA Commissioner @martinomalley.bsky.social: It's interesting to me that the people that are going after waste, fraud, and abuse would do away first with the division, whose job it was to guard against improper payments, waste fraud and abuse... This is totally irresponsible.

submitted 32 days ago • 28 comments

Donald Trump is lying to you.

submitted 33 days ago • 523 comments

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

submitted 33 days ago • 3310 comments