annes tone

Trump’s campaign pitch to Americans used to include “what do you have to lose” and the answer is that no one has ever had more to lose and few have ever been so reckless with what they have

Missouri gives ‘one of the biggest millionaire tax cuts’ this year, report says This year, Missouri became the first state in the country to tax income but not capital gains. That could present a challenge as the state prepares to face a budget shortfall.

Missouri became the first state in the country to tax income but not capital gains…

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Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

I put off doing the inevitable…I called my insurance provider.

My current premium is $480. It will be almost $900 next year.

Thanks, Trump voters.

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

Andrew Cuomo, Scraping and Scrambling, Is Still Running as Andrew Cuomo

Anyway, great story that reads like an obit for Cuomo's political career www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

He is not mad.

Do not write that he is mad.

Sketch with watercolour of four rabbits riding bikes with one at the front going forward left, all rabbits wear jackets and scarfs

Beatrix Potter, Four rabbits on bicycles, 1895 #womensart

Or why it’s treated as being legal: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

DOJ Scrubs Jan. 6 Attack From Court Record After Suspending Career Prosecutors Read more here.

This is next level authoritarianism.👇

"Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post."

As a teenager pissed off about politics, @talkingpointsmemo.com became my go-to website. Really grateful for @joshtpm.bsky.social and @allegrak.bsky.social for letting me take part in the 25th anniversary retrospective on how the internet changed media.

How We Lost the Trade War Tariff uncertainty may be waning, but the damage will persist

Krugman on how Trump lost the trade war paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-we-los...

Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.

This Day in Labor History: October 30, 1837. Nicholas Farwell, a train engineer toiling for the Boston and Worcester Rail Road Corporation fell off a train while at work and had his hand crushed by the train. Farwell sued the company for damages. Judge said, nope! Nothing for the injured workers!

So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

“… Republicans are the ones who hold all the power here. They could choose to partially fund the program. They could choose to work w/the Democrats and end the gov’t shutdown. The fact that they’re hurting their own voters out of sheer stubbornness is despicable.” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

DOJ Puts Prosecutors On Leave For Accurately Describing Jan. 6 Attack Read more here.

The Justice Department locked two federal prosecutors out of their devices and placed them on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol.”
https://bit.ly/3X6Q6iU

Art of the Deal.

Trump-Xi meeting shows price of confrontation was too high for both sides Outcome appears closer to truce than durable peace but outline of broader diplomatic relationship is visible * Five key takeaways from Trump-Xi meeting When Donald Trump launched his trade war against China in April, threatening tariffs as high as 145%, the Chinese government said it would never bow to blackmail and vowed to “fight to the end”. The question now is whether the consensus reached between Trump and Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday means that the fight really has come to an end, and if so on whose terms. Continue reading...

Trump-Xi meeting shows price of confrontation was too high for both sides

As always, it’s possible Trump has changed everything & this is going to end & 🇨🇳 or 🇪🇺 are going to replace 🇺🇸/the dollar as the fulcrum of global finance. It’s just, if that’s going to happen, I have a few questions about things like financial markets, safe assets, capital controls, etc:

“He was very strong on congratulating me.”

Data protection rules ‘completely out of control’, Meta tells Government Facebook owner asked Government to lead pushback against data protection laws at EU level

At a time when US-based social media companies are platforming far right extremism in the EU, Meta is trying to get the Irish government to front their assault on EU privacy laws.

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Photo of JPMorgan's New NYC Office Layout Gets Instantly Roasted For Its Dystopian Vibes—And The Memes Are On Point

Is this really what it's come to?

Reporters must stop accepting this. Options:

-Laughing at him. Long and hard (combine with others)
-"It's your job to be informed"
-"How can Americans take you seriously when you always claim ignorance?"
-"I've never heard a speaker claim ignorance so often"
-"Nancy Pelosi knew what was happening"

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

Trump nominee at U.S. export bank withdraws amid scrutiny of Russia ties Bryce McFerran is a senior executive at a steel-trading business co-owned by one of Russia’s richest oligarchs and is married to a member of a Russian family with extensive ties to the Kremlin.

One of the most difficult things abt the Trump Admin.

It's beyond question he's corrupt and happy to harm the US.

What ISN'T clear is what he considers too scandalous to pull off.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

SIDE-BY-SIDE

The original sentencing memo against Taylor Taranto

Then... the new sentencing memo against Taylor Taranto, just submitted by Justice Dept

Reference to Jan 6 is eliminated