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Teachers. Lawyers. People with soft hands. Anyone with glasses. Enemies of the regime, imprisoned, then bludgeoned to death with farm tools. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuol_Sl...

Reminder: tariff revenue comes from American consumers. Not from foreign countries.

It's chilling how quickly the magat howlers have jumped on the "judges have nothing to do with the law" wagon. They have no original thought, just wingnut talking points, repeated ad nauseam.

This is the SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, who apparently has no idea how corporations actually operate.

I am generally a French press guy but the coffee I've been drinking in Vietnam and Cambodia may just lure me over to the slow-drip side. I just need to learn patience. Right away.

Typography geeks take this sort of thing seriously. www.fastcompany.com/91324550/ker...

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

The President of the United States has chosen to throw the economy into turmoil.

America is just weeks away from a mighty economic shock economist.com/finance-and-...

ICE told a Florida mom she would be deported to Cuba and separated from her still-breastfeeding daughter, a U.S. citizen. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

One more time: The cruelty is the point.

Funny thing. We're all used to seeing sales tax listen clearly on the bill. The felon wants his taxes hidden.

America has become a dangerous place not because of immigrants, but because of white men who want to hunt humans for sport.

The 10th Circuit US Court of Appeals has DENIED the govt a stay of a state-wide temporary restraining order against removing aliens under the Alien Enemies Act without 21 days notice, in a language the alien understands, advising of his or her right to bring a challenge in habeas.

Pritzker: I think all of us are deeply, deeply concerned about what's happening across the country, and of course, 100 days in, it's been, well, a disastrous administration for the American people

Walz: You have a situation where the Secretary of Health basically said it and was speaking with the language of eugenics, that some people just don't matter. People like Deanna's son or my son or those of you listening tonight. So look, this is a fight we must win.

Casar: If anyone ever doubted that Trump, Musk, Bezos, and the billionaires are all on one team, just look at what happened at Amazon today. Bezos immediately caved and walked back a plan to tell Americans how much Trump’s tariffs are costing them. Bezos who spent 40 million on Melania’s documentary

The mugshots that were missing from the White House lawn.

OpenVibe keeps luring me to add Nostr to my unified timeline feed but after looking at half a dozen recommended posts, I run into some cryptocurrency scammer. No thanks.

Ummm… Is Putin in charge, or what?! Bought. And. Paid. For. 😎✨

Trump wants to rehab the image of Columbus by destroying Columbia.

This is so funny, I might have to print it out and frame it

Open source text editor poisoned with malware to target Uyghur users

"sentiment is felt even more strongly among those who fought in the war than the general public, with 46 percent of Vietnam veterans saying they don’t believe it was justified and 41 percent saying they believe it was. " thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/thehill....

Chau Doc, An Giang, Vietnam. A visit to a fishing village. #travel

The fan mail has just been rolling in today.

I got zero anti-American vibes in Saigon the last few days. Quite the opposite. The story is harder for those who were uprooted and moved to America. 50 years doesn't heal all wounds. www.latimes.com/world-nation...

So far on this trip I've traveled by airplane, autonomous robot taxi, bus, and even a terrifying motorcycle ride with all my luggage. Tomorrow it's a sampan. Wednesday I'm set for a motorboat up the Mekong. When I "planned" this I wasn't thinking about Viet Reunification Day and May Day. #travel

The Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, went to pay his respects to the servicemembers and civilians lost in Pearl Harbor on “June 7th, 1941.” It looks good, except Pearl Harbor happened on December 7th. It seems Mr. Phelan skipped that part of history class. Only the best people, right?

Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

Again more data on container shipping www.barrons.com/articles/tar...

Thought I signed up for a regular bus but wound up in a Vietnamese sleeper coach. Luxury #travel

Traffic at the Port of Los Angeles is collapsing. The flow of inbound ships has slowed to a crawl. Retailers won’t be able to restock. Shelves will start going bare in a matter of days. The tariff shock isn’t coming. It’s already here. This is Trump’s choice for America.

Could you ever have imagined you would see a headline like this in your lifetime

It’s only getting much play in the trade/transport niche press. But pretty real product shortages beginning in mid-May or so are already locked in. They’re maybe a thousand miles out in the Pacific Ocean. Modern trade takes place in gargantuan container ships. There are very detailed records …

ICE isn't protecting anyone. It's nothing more than a manifestation of racism.

www.borowitzreport.com/p/man-who-fe...

Years ago I had a motorcycle. I never had the insane skills I see among motorcyclists in Saigon. I'm both in awe and terrified.

Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, has begun baselessly claiming that birthright citizenship is a massive welfare scam. Miller has previously endorsed a theory called “remigration” that refers to the forcible removal of non–ethnically European immigrants.

So much winning. abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/abcnews....

Trump's nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, was arrested on fraud charges in 2010 & faced lawsuits in 2 states for writing $2 million in bad checks to casinos, according to government records and court filings. www.casino.org/news/trumps-...