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It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

100 men vs. 1 gorilla?

How about the working class against the oligarchy?

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.

This is the real fight we need to be talking about.

They're so clueless about basic security.

U.S. economy shrank in early 2025, as tariffs sapped growth GDP shrank in the first quarter, a new report shows, offering a look at how tariffs are reshaping spending patterns and changing the economy.

Breaking news: The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of 2025, contracting by an annualized rate of 0.3 percent, a stark reversal after nearly three years of solid growth, as tariff-related uncertainty upended spending patterns and raised fears of an impending recession.

ICYMI — Maddow runs through the 100 day Fox/YouGov numbers on Trump’s approval—a total disaster for him.

This one stood out for me:

Q: “Can Trump ignore SCOTUS if he thinks they overstep constitutional authority?”

A: NO — by a 49-point margin.

Americans aren’t quite ready to crown Trump king.

Due process means you have to go in the right order: sentence 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 verdict 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 trial 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 charges 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 investigation: the simple straight line of justice. No one wants a world where accusations bring sentences before the facts are even known. That's a world where witch hunts happen, vigilantes, lynchings, careers ending over gossip, even the innocent swept up in hysteria. Right? You don't want that. No one wants that. 𝑹𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕? Let's keep due process.

Due process means you have to go in the right order: sentence 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 verdict 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 trial 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 charges 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 investigation: the simple straight line of justice.

No one wants a world where accusations bring sentences before facts are even known.

𝑹𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕?

Let's keep due process.

Donald Trump's RIGHT, switching the clocks back and forth is a stupid and costly waste! If only he felt the same about tariffs. 🙄

For my US military people. Remember that your oath is to the Constitution. 🇺🇸

Cian Westmoreland @CianMW lf you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline, There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel.:1-877-447-4487

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings.

Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"Winning."

Styxy found a good spot. 🖤

MAGAs trying to explain how crashing the American stock market is actually a genius move saving America

Although about half of them are now just muttering "Trust!"

Making America's Great Depression Again.

Detail of the Trump tariffs list of countries, listing Taiwan and China as separate countries.

Little detail: in its tariffs list the Trump administration recognised Taiwan as a separate country from China. I applaud but I suspect they didn't mean to, they just didn't think about it because they're not very good at that.

Even back in the 80s there were shit people in our cohort. That's half of what we were raging against.

Photo of Depression era poverty stricken family. MAGA! RESTORING AMERICA TO EVERYTHING IT ONCE WAS. BEFORE THOSE GODDAMN LIBERALS SCREWED IT ALL UP WITH THEIR SOCIAL PROGRAMS, UNIONS, AND MINIMUM WAGE!

MAGA! RESTORING AMERICA TO
EVERYTHING IT ONCE WAS.
BEFORE THOSE GODDAMN LIBERALS
SCREWED IT ALL UP WITH THEIR SOCIAL
PROGRAMS, UNIONS, AND MINIMUM WAGE!

👋 This from the guy who runs around a stage waving a chainsaw crowing about the aid programs for poor Americans he's slashing. 🙄

👋 This from the guy who runs around a stage waving a chainsaw crowing about the aid programs for poor Americans he's slashing. 🙄

👋 This from the guy who runs around a stage waving a chainsaw, crowing about all the aid programs for poor Americans he's cutting out.

The image is a screenshot of a post on X by The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ ). The post reads: "Federal immigration authorities detained a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University. The government hasn’t filed any charges against Rumeysa Ozturk, who was in the U.S. on a student visa, her lawyer said. Read more: on.wsj.com/3E3AM0b." Below the text, there is an image showing a person in a hoodie detaining another person in a white coat and headscarf outside an apartment, with a car and another person in a cap nearby. The image caption reads: "off-campus apartment."

This should chill everyone in this country to the bone. All she did was write an OpEd the administration didn’t like. This is fascistic suppression of free speech.

Wisconsin attorney general sues Musk over $2m election giveaway - BBC News Musk has pledged a giveaway for Wisconsin voters who sign his political committee's petition ahead of a key supreme court election in the state.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This op-ed could lead to me being deported from America | Berna León I could never have imagined that writing a critical piece about the government could put me at risk of deportation

Land of the Free? Not so much.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...

More adventures in incompetence.

www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines: Measles: Bef: 530,000, Aft: 47 Mumps: Bef: 160,000, Aft: 429 Rubella: Bef: 50,000, Aft: 3 Diphtheria: Bef: 20,000, Aft: 2 Smallpox: Bef: 30,000, Aft: 0 Polio: Bef: 16,000, Aft: 0

Vaccines save lives.

Pete Hegseth TEAM UPDATE: TIME NOW (1144et): Weather is FAVORABLE. Just CONFIRMED w CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch. 1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package) 1345: "Trigger Based" F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME) - also, Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s) 1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package) 1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier "Trigger Based" targets) 1536: F-18 2nd Strike Starts - also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched MORE TO FOLLOW (per timeline) We are currently clean on OPSEC. Godspeed to our Wariors 19m G

If this battle information WASN'T classified then Hegseth et al are even more jaw droppingly stupid and incompetent than the incident itself indicates.

“1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package)” “1345: ‘Trigger Based’ F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME – also, Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s)”

Atlantic publishes the details that Tulsi claimed under oath did not include specific attack information.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Teen member of Musk’s Doge staff provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show Edward Coristine, who is 19, is among members of Doge effort that has been given access to official networks

#shocker Not just incompetent, also dishonest. Feel OK with this kid in your private data?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tesla has $1.4 billion that seems to have gone astray Accounting experts say there are plausible explanations for the discrepancy as Elon Musk tries to rally the EV giant.

Just the guy you want in charge of your Social Security account. 🙄
fortune.com/2025/03/23/t...