Steve Dooner

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.

MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

Exports of U.S. farm products declined by 60% after the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1929.

Countries retaliated with tariffs of their own, then turned to other sources for key U.S. farm products—such as wheat, pork, and cotton.

Exports did not fully rebound until after World War II.

Scowling, bitter sexual predator versus optimistic leader with ideas and integrity.

Why would the good people of New York City choose that bitter old man over the visionary young man with hope?

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

Here’s why Democrats must impeach FCC chair Brendan Carr over Jimmy Kimmel This is how we get media coverage that helps us!

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Yes 🙌!!

THE DEAN'S REPORT by: @deanobeidallah.bsky.social

You guys, I’m not an economist I didn’t even graduate from college, though I do have an advanced degree (but not a fancy one) and even I know this is not a good sign

Normally, my understanding of this is that a cheap dollar increases foreign investment
but since we’re so unstable as far as economic policy (subject to the whims of one man) i just don’t foresee that happening
Hope im wrong

Do you have access to the EPSTEIN Files? Want to be inducted into the Whistleblower's Hall of Fame, be glorified in history as the Savior of Democracy & have an annual holiday named in your honor?
All of this can be yours if you simply: #LeakTheEPSTEIN-Files!*

*victim's names redacted, of course

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu:

“Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”

Museums, well known for having exhibits about the future

So yes

Stephen King came to the reading tonight. And I very nearly almost didn’t cry. Held it together to the point that people after were like you did such a good job not crying!

I AM crying in my hotel now because he’s amazing & so kind & he liked my story & I can’t, my whole life, his books…

🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”

I’m with sandwich guy.

NEWSOM: “We are asking the voters for their consent to respond to what’s happening in Texas.”

There will be a special election this November in California.

Mamdani on Cuomo: "I don't need to do much to make the governor appear extremely dislikable."

Delroy Lindo in Sinners. A Black man in 1930s clothing in a wooden building

I FINALLY saw Sinners!!!

10/10, as I knew it would be.

They were all great. Especially Delroy Lindo. I had no idea he was in it and he was brilliant as always. That scene in the car telling the story and then singing the pain… incredible.

Newsom: He is a failed president. Who else sends ICE at the same time while having a conversation like this? Someone who is weak, broken. His weakness is masquerading as a strength. The most unpopular president in modern history.

The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 called for dismantling the NOAA, which provides warnings of natural disasters, such as the deadly floods in Texas. The irony is that Heritage wanted these cuts because it’s angry that NOAA helps prove the reality of climate change--the thing causing floods.

Is the Washington Post trying to become The Onion?

Tariffs.
Stock market down.
Medicaid slashed
Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans.
National guard and marines deployed in LA.
No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine
Bombing Iran

This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.

In history.

4 months ago, AOC.

They knew.

WE KNEW!!!!!1

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional.

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The other day I was rewatching Rules Don't Apply (lovely film, very underrated in my opinion) and I thought about this one, another good Howard Hughes movie.

Holy shit Chuck Schumer just went OFF about Noem’s actions:

“Are the Democrats weak & behind the times? Does Macy’s tell from Gimbels? I’ve written a terse letter and as soon as we mimeograph a million copies everyone’s gonna wake up tomorrow and find one rolled up in their milk delivery!”