In case you were wondering who still visits America in the Trump era, it's a litigious German dude who can't handle the salsa at a Times Square taco stand.
The tabloids cover absolutely every time a tourist is harmed in NY.
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This remake of I Care A Lot sucks
Whoops the number "omitted several aspects of the operation" brb gotta find a cash machine
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A counterpoint to today's Howard Schultz coverage
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People say being a dad is hard but most of it is just going from room to room turning off lights that have been left on.
The public usually has a sense that problems are the incumbent party's fault, but it's rare to have specific, highly visible / attributable things like tariffs and the Iran War driving up prices.
One of a million things most voters simply don't believe could be a partisan issue
"You, too, can be a lone, rugged wolf rising above the masses of sheep. (At least until the listeria gets you.)"
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Conventional wisdom that an administration would care about stock market performance is tied to conventional wisdom that an administration would neither manipulate markets nor trade on inside information.
It's stupefying how much less obligation they feel to offer any evidence of their claims than the Bush admin did, and that even the claims only come after the war has begun.
This is a weird counterfactual when we actually know what Obama did vis a vis Iran and what the reaction was.
What do *you* think happened in Iran after we overthrew their Democratically elected government in 1953?
It’s time the New York State Comptroller gets out of private equity and invests in homes New Yorkers can afford. We can do that.
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How about we double down with higher gas prices in an election year?
Remember that one time when we sent 360 tons of US cash to Iraq?
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Trump has promised to cover these costs but "Providing political risk insurance for shipping in the Strait of Hormuz could cost over $300 billion"
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Whom bomb?
We bomb’d them!
Immediately after this, Trump asked Inter Miami leadership if he could hold their Messi. He put the Messi in his pocket and did not return it.
Need a 3rd party app for Windows that makes the shut down command shut down the computer.
Is it possible to come down on both sides of this argument? Returning to 90s-level taxation in the USA is a simultaneously banal and massive proposition. So is a public healthcare option.
It feels like a long-term disaster to have a guy in the WH who's obsessed with building big, impressive-looking things when we can plainly see in Ukraine what the future of war will look like.
I deleted a snarky version of this so I can earnestly ask @lukebroadwater.bsky.social why cite a guy censured for lying to Congress about Iran-Contra / also one of the architects of the Iraq war?
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"The pay for the top lawyers in these firms can run into the eight figures, and that kind of money can buy a host of rationalizations"
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Replacement cost for 3 F-15s is slightly more than what Trump is withholding from Minnesota Medicaid.
Did we rename it again? Is it the "Department of Special Military Operations?" Who can keep up anymore.
Now receiving a second print newspaper
Turned on WFMT and they're playing Marcus Roberts's arrangement of Yamekraw and I so needed it at this moment.
Exactly why I never splurged on metal tape. I should have gotten a Kenwood deck with ATCS, would never have had to to worry about bias again.
