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The Hunger Games Begin 40 million Americans are about to lose food stamps

"It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation."

The Hunger Games Begin
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Supply-Chain Economics Beats Tariff Politics Jun Du explains how US trade policy has devastated American soybean farmers, and why the damage will be permanent.

Hysteresis.

Supply-Chain Economics Beats Tariff Politics by Jun Du @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/PZH1DI3

MAGA World Can't Believe Sturgeon-Humping Norwegians Didn't Give Nobel Prize To Heroic Peacemaker Donald Trump Do they give Nobels for whining? He certainly has a shot at that.

MAGA World Can't Believe Sturgeon-Humping Norwegians Didn't Give Nobel Prize To Heroic Peacemaker Donald Trump
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It is also unfortunate that White House leadership has decided to use American consumers as a hostage or pawn in the trade negotiations. American consumers also voted for President Trump (not sure why that's relevant).
Why aren't we expecting news on Tuesday of substantial support for our consumers?

No. There Are No Even Half-Competent Chaos Monkeys in the Trump Administration. Any Questions? Bessent needs to go. And quickly. Dan Drezner said last week that one good thing that could be said about Scott Bessent was that he was 10% less crazy than the other Trumpist chaos monkeys...

No. There Are No Even Half-Competent Chaos Monkeys in the Trump Administration. Any Questions?
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Putting the farmers on welfare can't fix this.

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

He called them all in from all over the world to "motivate" generals and admirals like this?

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Chartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy. In the first six months of 2025 China installed more than 250GW of solar power capacity.

Excellent this from Adam Tooze. open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

"I never thought the leopard would eat *my* face..."

This is the whole ball game, gang.

Putting these South Koreans in chains and detaining them for 7 days when they had valid visas and were here to help get a massive factory set up is genuinely suicidal US behavior

There's someting happening here...

AI, bruh

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?

ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles

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Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

Yes, Kevin Hassett Would Be a Very Bed Fed Chair Lying liars who lie and knowingly and deliberately say whatever—whatever—lies they believe are to their immediate advantage are not the kind of people who should chair the Federal Reserve. Any...

Way harsh but made me laugh in a not-really-sad way. open.substack.com/pub/braddelo...

Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.

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vulgar pig to turn White House into a golf motel — because fuck you, that’s why nobody asked for this

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"There is no excuse for this. Absolutely none."

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social speaks with former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who slams Senate Democrats who remain silent on the genocide in Gaza and continue to arm Israel.

Watch the full interview:
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Chartbook 399: Columbia University, the Trump administration and "ad hoc governance": Iterations of the "Unstate". On Wednesday, July 23, 2025 Columbia University announced what it called a “resolution” and “agreement” with the Trump administration.

Powerful stuff this. @adamtooze.bsky.social doesn't usually pull his punches, but here he's really telling it like it is. Excellent.

Chartbook 399: Columbia University, the Trump administration and "ad hoc governance": Iterations of the "Unstate".
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Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal — and we as a nation are directly implicated in the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

In response, the United States must stop all military assistance to Israel.

There's no moral clarity in wreaking vengeance on innocent people.

The Rich Are Not Like You and Me That's a problem for social science. And more importantly for us

The Rich Are Not Like You and Me
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Enshittification and the Bitterness of Billionaire Bros Hell hath no fury like a tech god scorned

You know Krugman doesn't write for the @NYT anymore when he starts applying Doctorow's terminology.

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At Dept of State today

Exactly: THe stories on what didn't get done bc Noem required her personal signature (in additional to call centers, the rescue teams) aren't stating clearly that one reason Noem is doing this is bc she's $1B over budget bc she has blown it all on kidnapping grannies.

Opinion | Texas Hill Country Is Underwater, and America’s Emergency Lifeline Is Fraying

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

Bessent is right. Some countries didn't contact them because they were only populated by penguins.

Opinion | Now Can We Stop Talking About What a Maverick Trump Is?

somehow one of the most underrated facts in american politics is that trump is a republican who does republican stuff www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...