James Markey

it's hard to imagine a moment when the political economy of MAGA was laid bare more starkly than "faced with a revolt of his base over his associations with a notorious child-trafficking rapist, the leader tries to stanch the bleeding by promising to unleash the police against the Black underclass."

"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

The funniest part is that his entire driving force for every decision he’s made in the last ten years is to become the most liked, most popular little birthday boy of all time. And it’s literally made him despised around the world.

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

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Every day is an adventure in new peak weirdness.

Chart of 5m % change in China CPI for durable consumer goods since 2000

Wild chart IMO

Iraqis watching Americans complaining about a Republican President deploying troops to stand on corners

david rose grew up in our community. his mom was an icu nurse at emory. his wife is pregnant and he had two kids. please share this & help if you can.

Biggest scandal in American history but our nazi-captured press still refuses to give it that kind of coverage

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.

“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

every generation gets the one it deserves

1st Look at Local Housing Markets in July Tracking local data gives an early look at what happened the previous month and also reveals regional differences in both sales and inventory.

1st Look at Local Housing Markets in July
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ICE is hiring! US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team. Open positions include: Senior Goon Racism Enforcement Office Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time) Experience with children a plus usajobs.gov

From this month's edition of The Onion.

Just give Trump a shiny object and say nice things and you too can keep your supply chain

Immigrants without a criminal record who’ve been here for years working & contributing to their communities, are being grabbed & detained in filthy conditions in overflowing cages. No way do most Americans support this. Hey Democrats, make Alligator Alcatraz a big 2026 issue.

Their NIH Grants Are Back. But Nothing Is Back to Normal. Researchers say that picking up where they left off is complicated — scientifically, financially, and logistically.

Chronicle of Higher Education story on NIH grant terminations

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I want to be fair:

Not all Trump enablers and apologists are pro-sex trafficking.

Some are merely anti-anti-sex trafficking.

I think it's really worth noting that this concentration camp was opened one month and three days ago.

This woman saw enough horror in that time to quit and tell the public what she saw.

Which suggests that it's not as bad as we think, or as bad as we can envision from her description—it's worse.

I see, so according to this report, the American regime demands a foreign firm bail out and transfer IP to an ailing domestic firm as a condition of market access. Like what the PRC does, except thoroughly illegal under domestic law.

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development

The denial of science.

The avoidable future death of uncounted Americans.

The luddites.

Crack pot policy.

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my singular test is can you just walk into a place and say hey and mix in. can you just walk into a place and be normal.

most republicans, as far as i can tell, cannot do that, so they want to burn the world down. because they are just not a fun hang.

Finally, a united nation.

“.. S&P analyst Tom Libby called it ‘unprecedented’ to see the runaway leader in customer loyalty fall so quickly ..

“.. ‘I’ve never seen this rapid of a decline in such a short period of time,’ he said.”

@reuters.com $TSLA
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Guys you can just say it WILL make it more unaffordable, you aren't the future director of the BLS

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If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized.

If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

The family of Virginia Giuffre responds to the Maxwell prison move: "President Trump has sent a clear message today: Pedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter."