Paul Knudson

The Trump Administration is vowing to stop Leftist hate speech, which apparently includes directly quoting Charlie Kirk.

We cancelled ours today.

The Washington Post is horrible. Hopefully you can do real work at a place like Pro Publica.

Your title doesn't make sense

Opinion | The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked

The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

For an old design the Mach E sells well.

Trump threatens 50% tariffs on EU and 25% penalties on Apple as his trade war intensifies President Donald Trump is threatening a 50% tax on all imports from the European Union as well as a 25% tariff on Apple products unless iPhones are made in America.

apnews.com/article/trum... threatens 50% tariffs on EU and 25% penalties on Apple as his trade war intensifies

This is an outstanding book. My students are going to read several chapters from it this fall in my new class on social conflict

My students are gonna be reading part of this book this fall.

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Reminder: Dr. Oz had to pay $5.25 million to settle a class action suit for promoting phony weight loss cures.

He is a conman. No wonder Trump likes him.

Now he's in charge of running Medicare and Medicaid.

This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.

Will American voters ever learn that Republicans are awful for the economy?
Reagan = 1987 stock market/ S & L crash
Bush Sr. = commercial real estate crash
Bush Jr. = worst financial crash since 1929
Trump 1 = Covid crash
Trump 2 = tariff crash, possible fiscal crash.

Americans already losing jobs to tariffs - 900 laid off as Stellantis idles plants Stellantis has paused production at two assembly plants in Canada and Mexico in response to tariffs, leaving thousands of Americans...

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She appears to have been taken to an ICE facility in Louisiana, against a judge’s orders

White House acknowledges ‘inadvertent’ leak involving top Trump officials The Atlantic reported that its top editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally added to a group chat where Trump’s national security team plotted attacking Yemen.

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How does this even benefit the government or the financial industry? People will default on their loans. It's very stupid policy.

If Democrats can't make something out of a billionaire member of the president's cabinet talking to billionaire podcast hosts about how people can go a week without a social security check then they should probably disband.

Former commissioner of Social Security Administration is warning Democrats to get their shit together to stop DOGE, saying he believes that DOGE has already taken 90 percent of of the actions necessary to crater the social security system.

This is just a temporary reprieve. They’re most likely going to lay these same people off in 60 days again. Same with the USDA. They’ll just follow the proper protocol.

RFK Jr Is Running Away From the One Thing He’s Ever Been Right About Microplastics really are a public health emergency. But instead of talking about his signature issue, he’s babbling about irrelevant moral panics and being dangerously vague about a measles outbreak.

As recently as 2024, denouncing microplastics was a key part of RFK Jr.’s political identity. Yet, he’s part of an administration doing more than any in history to dismantle every mechanism that we could use to address this danger.

John “Paddy” Hemingway, Last Surviving Pilot of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105 A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help stave off a Nazi land invasion of Britain.

John A. Hemingway, Last Survivor of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/w...

So if you're a tourist visiting the US, and ICE decide you're a Venezuelan gang member, they can put you immediately onto a plane to El Salvador where you'll be locked in prison for a year with no charges, no hearing, no trial, no right to consult a lawyer, no phone call?

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

Canadian "American Pie" actress detained by ICE, "held in chains for hours" Jasmine Mooney said she was trying to renew her visa at the U.S.-Mexico border when she was detained.

www.newsweek.com/jasmine-moon...

Trump’s Commerce Secretary Confirms Plan to Gut Medicare—and More Howard Lutnick has revealed Donald Trump’s true plans.

Trump’s Commerce Secretary Confirms Plan to Gut Medicare—and More newrepublic.com/post/191740/... via @newrepublic.com

Republicans cut Democrats entirely out of their process for the CR, didn't want any of our input, and would have been blamed by a majority of the American public for a government shutdown.

There was no reason to cave to them.

Chuck Schumer has to go.

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Rick Wilson Has an URGENT Message for Chuck Schumer: SHUT IT DOWN!

@therickwilson.bsky.social has an urgent message for the Dems: SHUT IT DOWN!

Watch:

Trump Amplifies “No LGBTQ” Symbol Using Nazi-Era Imagery in Military Ad Post Trump’s Truth Social post has a pink triangle overlayed with a prohibition symbol

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I am quite sure that around 80% of Americans want to keep the Education Department and the same for USAID. Are we really going to let 20% of the dumbest people in the country completely dismantle our federal government?