Jim Burroway

I wonder when we’ll start seeing people mysteriously falling out of windows.

Somebody dared Trump to see if he could engineer another COVID crash without there being any COVID.

Per WSJ's editorial yesterday: "Unbridled Tariff Man was always going to be a big economic risk in a second term, and here we are."

WSJ endorsed Trump. Who did they think they were dealing with?
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Even on the bad old other site, with its Musk-arranged algorithms, paid accounts and bots, outrage over Trump and Vance’s conduct yesterday is coming across loud and clear.

Opinion | Putin Wins the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office Spectacle Vice President Vance starts a public fight that only helps Russia’s dictator.

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comes out swinging against JD Vance.

Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin

WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."

At least a few people are making noise.

Looking like a dork aside, hurting grandma, the economy, and the military without much thought is definitely peak MAGA.

If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.

Kristi Noem Says $200 Million DHS Ad Campaign Thanking Trump Was His Idea Donald Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said he instructed her to make ads that “thank me for closing the border.”

We can't afford air traffic controllers, but we can afford a $200 million government ad campaign thanking Trump. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump's Deportations Will Hit American Workers, Too Previous expulsions of migrant laborers have proven economically harmful—even for the people the policies were supposed to help.

Fewer immigrants =fewer jobs
Studies show that when deportations increase, the US construction, childcare, and farming industries shrink. Less growth means fewer opportunities for everyone.

The Times of London (owned by Rupert Murdoch, by the way) published this clever cartoon today with the eagle in the Presidential Seal replaced with a parrot, saying “Putin is right! Putin is right! Squawk!”

The free world would be laughing if it weren’t so horrified.

Fact check: No, Zelenskyy doesn't have 4% approval as Trump claims; it's over 50% President Donald Trump last night joined Russian President Vladimir Putin in claiming Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lacks legitimacy.

Zelenskyy is more popular than Trump. Meanwhile Trump is Putin’s marionette, repeating Kremlin propaganda.

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But Zelenskiy didn’t start the war. Putin did. And Trump is rolling over like a bitch in heat.

There are many ways to set up the conditions for WWIII. As with Munich in 1938, this is as good as any.

Washington Post backs out of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ ad order The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause.  The group …

Democracy dies in darkness.

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This is why you fight these cowards.

The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.

Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.

He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

What does it mean that Secretary Rubio is agreeing to allow Russia to restore its previous levels of staffing at its US diplomatic facilities?

Well, the staffing levels were reduced by expelling intelligence officers.

Starmer 'ready' to put UK troops on ground in Ukraine to protect peace Sir Keir Starmer said securing a lasting peace in Ukraine was "essential" to deter Vladimir Putin from future aggression.

Impressive. The UK steps up.

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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

Democrats being feckless again.

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

Trump team to start Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Saudi Arabia Zelenskiy wants a U.S.-Europe joint strategy before any meeting with Putin and Trump.

And Zelenskyy isn’t invited.
Munich 1938 -> Riyadh 2025

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Just because this needs to be said regularly: the patriotic American thing to do is to esteem our Canadian friends and neighbors, guard and respect Canada's right to self-determination, and condemn aggression and bullying whether domestic or international in nature.

Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?