Eric Boehm

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives believed participation trophies were a bad idea

Trump's Labor Department admits that Trump's immigration crackdown is causing a shortage of farm workers With fewer immigrant workers available on American farms, there is a risk of "supply shock-induced food shortages," the Labor Department says.

The Trump administration said Americans would fill farm jobs vacated by undocumented workers.

That's not happening, the Department of Labor now admits.

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

DHS: Where was this lead pencil made?
ME: State of Washington, mines in South America, Malaya, and other places I don't even know about, by thousands of people who don't speak the same language, practice different religions, and might hate each other if they ever met
DHS: denied

If you ever had any doubt that rightwing media is just official state propaganda at this point, consider that Charlie Kirk was replaced on his show by the sitting Republican vice president who ‘interviewed’ White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.

Independent media!

MAGA economics is losing Trump promised that protectionism and immigration enforcement would be good for the economy. The latest jobs report tells a different story.

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Who won the Battle of Thermopylae

Absolutely love to see it. And I hope this trend catches on in other circumstances too.

🚨BREAKING:

Bread is now woke, according to Alex Phillips

What if we just let people peacefully exchange goods and services? What's the downside to that idea?

Seems bad!

If you can't come up with a winning message about how the power mad dunce emperor marching federal troops into peaceful cities is bad, you should not have a job in politics

Reporting outside the Baltimore ICE field office for @statesnewsroom.com where hundreds are gathered to protest the potential deportation of Kilmer Abrego Garcia to Uganda.

Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.

We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it.

If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.

Yup

Right, because the people doing the public executions in the Bible were the good guys?

Someone might need to re-read the gospels a few times

A mediocre life sounds a lot better than whatever the hell this is

Trump's D.C. goon squads are un-American The president ordering federal agents onto the street is not how routine policing should work, even in the nation's capital.

The president ordering federal agents onto the street is not how routine policing should work, even in the nation's capital.

So the trade deals don't actually exist, then?

If a business owner wants to understand the rules for importing/exporting, what exactly should he or she do?

Trump promised 'reciprocal' tariffs. The numbers tell a different story. In most cases, Trump's tariffs are significantly higher than the tariffs charged by other countries on American goods.

In most cases, Trump's tariffs are significantly higher than the tariffs charged by other countries on American goods.

So much for reciprocity and fairness.

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I hope it was worth it!

(It was not)

Why Is a Progressive Mega-Donor Funding Right-Wing Ideas? At a recent get-together, little lefty mags were roiled to learn that George Soros’s foundations are supporting Compact, a publication that’s flirted with authoritarianism. “It was weird to me the who...

No offense necessarily intended, but it is very funny to negatively frame The Argument for being "flush with $4 million in startup cash" when you cofounded another magazine/publishing outlet, Compact, that had a far more expensive website and Thiel/Soros funding.
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Thuggish behavior from those who are supposedly in DC to provide law and order

Opinion | The ‘chicken tax’ offers a scary lesson about Trump’s tariffs Don’t be surprised if Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs far outlast the trade war.

The persistence of the “chicken tax” suggests something about the long-term impact that Trump’s myriad new tariffs — including the dozens of country-specific tariff rates that went into effect this month — could have on the economy and federal trade policy.

The latest from @ericboehm87.bsky.social:

Opinion | The ‘chicken tax’ offers a scary lesson about Trump’s tariffs Don’t be surprised if Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs far outlast the trade war.

Tariffs tend to be quite sticky -- and some persist for decades after the political moment that brought them into existence.

That's why it's essential that Congress and the courts block Trump's tariffs before they can take hold.

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After a Lag, Consumers Begin to Feel the Pinch of Tariffs There are growing signs that President Trump’s levies are filtering through to consumer prices, as companies exhaust options for keeping them stable.

Prices rose in June on items heavily exposed to tariffs, such as home furnishings, toys and appliances, government data show.

Sorry, "Forever Domestic Peacekeeping Deployment"