Daniel Ben-Zvi (he/him)

All of this administration are fucking insane.

Screenshot of three tweets from @JamesSurowiecki dated 2 April 2025. (1) "It's also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up numbers. South Korea, with which we have a trade agreement, is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S. exports. Nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff." (2) "Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is." (3) "Even given that it's Trump, I cannot believe they said "We'll just divide the trade deficit by imports and tell people that's the tariff rate." And then they decided to set our tariffs by just cutting that totally made-up rate in half! This is so dumb and deceptive."

Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.

On a purely personal note, I’m glad to have started my new car lease *before* Trump’s tariff idiocy took effect.

Donald Trump: the President for people who thought “Idiocracy” was *aspirational*.

In six months, Trump will be insisting that Joe Biden was responsible for the tariffs

Good Christ, if *Ron DeSantis* thinks you’re a shitty human being…

Good lord, what a fragile little waste of flesh and oxygen Elon is.

Apparently, there is a way to bypass region lock on overseas Blu-Rays on the PS5. Good to know.

this guy’s distinguishing quality is his boundless contempt for anyone who voices the slightest disagreement with him. you can see in his voice and mannerisms that he thinks he’s better than everyone around him. (which to my mind is just compensation for his palpable self-loathing)

No.

Think about how ludicrously dishonest the Republicans are - apparently immigration is out of control and there are too many immigrants but suddenly we can handle an influx of 10 MILLION foreigners, as long as they’re rich.

WATCH: DOGE *savings* are filled with huge lies/errors and take credit for contracts that ended as far back as 2005. (@MarshaBlackburn - any comment?)

Again: a charade to pave the way for tax cuts for the rich. It’s about ideology, not efficiency.

Full: www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

Kids are dying of measles. Egg prices are skyrocketing. Bird flu is out of control. Planes are falling out of the sky. Inflation is rising. Tariffs are coming. Consumer confidence is collapsing. A recession is now likely. The stock market is dropping.

Donald Trump is golfing.

The cowardice of the GOP has been astounding 👇

#TraitorTrump

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them.

Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

I doubt OfJD has a single opinion her husband hasn’t already vetted ahead of time.

Lots of "Very Serious People" don't want to admit what is plain and obvious and in front of our eyes and explains so much:

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are two of the most ignorant and uninformed people to ever be allowed near public office anywhere in the western world.

It's obvious to all of us.

Question to the UK contingent on Blue Sky: Is there a general consensus of opinion on Blake’s 7 or is it very much a case of personal choice? #blakes7

Ooh, I wonder if this is the same 4k version that Criterion is putting out in the US.

You pathetic collaborator. Grow a goddamn spine and do your job.

@cnn.com That you continue to pay Scott Jennings a salary is grotesque.

The Great Resegregation The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

Anyone ever have someone say something to you that made you think “what in the world makes you think that was an acceptable thing to say to me”?

Was supposed to leave last night at 9:45 pm LA time, arrive in Miami at
5:30 am local time. As it stands, will be leaving at 8 am *the next day* and arriving in Miami at 4:00 pm local time. JFC, @americanair.bsky.social .

Flight was supposed to leave at 9:45 pm. Am now being told it won’t be until 8 am *tomorrow morning*. And I won’t be getting any sleep because I packed my CPAP machine. FML.

RFK Jr. is already taking aim at antidepressants The new HHS secretary has made baseless claims that the drugs are addictive and cause violent behavior.

Failson with no medical training who self-medicated with heroin thinks he’s qualified to revoke access to doctor-prescribed anti-depressants that have helped save the lives of millions of people with depression.

As one of those people, go fuck yourself, Junior. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Stray thought as I wait for my plane: knowing that there are at least some fans of Who among the two groups, I’m surprised never to have heard stories of anyone from Critical Role or Dimension 20 going to Gally. They are both west coast based, after all. #gally1

Well, I didn’t get to do everything I wanted. But what I did get to do was awesome and that’s what I’m going to choose to remember. Besides, there’s always next year. #gally1

There are no words for the disgust I have at someone visiting a concentration camp and then promoting the party that is the modern inheritor of the Nazi party.

Gonna have to cut Gally short and go home tonight. Oh well. #Gally1