Marc Santoro

when people try to parse eg a Nazi salute with “he was referring to / ironic reference” nonsense think of sex. let’s say you and I fuck, but my engagement is ironic — I’m doing it because I’m making reference to a previous discussion about fucking. are you less fucked now? me neither

Every adult before:

“Be careful what you do and say on social media! It could hurt your career!”

Many of those same people, now infected with MAGA brain worms:

“Cancel culture strikes again! Repeatedly tweeting bigoted statements toward Indian people shouldn’t have any consequence at all!”

Democracy is low-information voters condemning you to hell and thanking your lucky stars you were able to take part in the process.

The most likely story for why Trump won is that a lot of low-information American voters remembered prices, including the cost of housing, being lower in 2019 and voted for him thinking he'd take the economy back to that.

Oops?

This is exactly it. Maddening.

In fairness, he tweeted. I mean “Truthed”. And granted, he acted like some rando boomer opining incoherently on the internet rather than the chief executive in charge of this shit, but he said something.

‘bout time we did a comparative statistical analysis of the crime rates, including violent and fatal crimes, between Trump pardons and the undocumented people

Idk what to do with this guy and the abundance of people who somehow manage to believe he isn’t a flailing, impulsive toddler whose only consistent value is being a sadistic prick

Everyone really should go back to calling them weird. All of the time. Yes, they have power now, and can and will do a ton of damage, but they're also weird as hell and are already humiliating themselves.

Rule of thumb: before joining the stock market freakout, zoom out. #deepseek #nvidia #media

And yeah, regulation and subsidization generally correlates with higher prices and less value.

The worst industries in this chart have grotesque public/private economic models where the government contributes easy money and shields corporations from risk, allowing them to cash in as middle men.

Interesting, and thank you for sharing.

Curious to see the data that said Clinton deported more? This is as a percentage of estimated total number of undocumented immigrants, but I’d be surprised if the denominator and absolute number of deportations were higher during the Clinton years.

Both Biden and Obama deported at historic rates, yet politicians and the media still allowed that to be construed as “open borders”. The bipartisan cowardice of Americans on immigration is despicable.

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IRAP on New Parole Attacks: “An Attempt to Run Roughshod Over the Law in Order to Remake the United States Without Immigrants” | International Refugee Assistance Project

NEW: The Trump administration’s actions on parole this week are an abject example of applying a thin veneer of legality to advance its deeply bigoted agenda to scapegoat and expel as many immigrant members of our society as it can.

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Same with military, people of the faith, and or select members of the groups he tokenizes periodically.

Not every conservative judge is a complete partisan hack but we’ll
see. His own court has struck him down before but the boundaries are eroding. Birthright citizenship is as cut and dry as it gets in the constitution, so whether that gets traction in any of the courts will be a good test.

Amazing how dull and void of wit that guy is

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if any Democrats besides AOC want to weigh in about the misrule that's already been prevalent over this first week that'd be pretty cool

This is absolutely insane, even under the most charitable interpretation.

Oh good

A source at the NIH clinical center tells me that the freeze includes a freeze on procurement. This means that the center, which is a hospital, can’t can’t procure food or medical supplies for patients.