Jaime RG

After shutting down the federal government and voting to do nothing about an imminent health insurance premium spike, House Republicans have now gone on a multi-week vacation.

Donald Trump and the GOP just aren't for the American people.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

“.. International air travel to the U.S. is declining this year, down 7% from 2024, according to an Axios analysis of U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.”

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Switzerland's SMG plans to issue shares at 43-46 francs in IPO Swiss Marketplace Group's upcoming IPO on the Swiss stock exchange is set to take place on or around September 19, with shares to be sold for between 43 and 46 Swiss francs ($53.84-$57.60) apiece, major stakeholder TX Group said on Thursday.

Switzerland's SMG plans to issue shares at 43-46 francs in IPO reut.rs/4muTAX7

I like the rebrand.

And yet Americans largely and willfully ignore this one, very basic truth

Yellen not at all pulling her punches in this op-ed for the FT www.ft.com/content/d2ea...

Trump’s FBI Raid of John Bolton’s Home Looks Like a “Five-Alarm Fire” Thus far, little is known about Friday’s law enforcement action against a top Trump critic. But we’re seeing an escalation of authoritarian power on many fronts that has grown unmistakable.

Whatever happens with Bolton, we should keep focused on the unmistakable pattern: Trump’s manufacturing of fake pretexts for use of law enforcement and the military to target critics and consolidate power.

Do we get to call it fascism yet? trib.al/4tOmWMW

This ↓ to infinity ... if not quite a long way beyond that ...

American Gestapo

This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Remember, the jobs numbers were faked. The economy is actually very strong. But the Fed needs to cut rates. Because it should really pay more attention to the faked job numbers.

WE WILL BUILD COCOA FACTORIES!

Embarrassing us one press conference at a time.

Is Colbert’s Ouster Really Just a ‘Financial Decision’? CBS no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt.

CBS claims that its decision to cancel Stephen Colbert’s show is “financial,” but “the network that once made Cronkite the most trusted man in America no longer gets the benefit of the doubt,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues:

California professor is protester who 'hurled tear gas at ICE agents' Jonathan Anthony Caravello, a professor at California State University Channel Islands, has been accused of hurling tear gas at ICE agents during a tumultuous raid on a nearby cannabis farm.

All these media outlets presenting the story like someone showed up at a protest with tear gas and chucked it at cops rather than, you know, THROWING IT BACK.

Of course the Daily Mail would go with “unarmed black man tries to steal cop’s bullet.”

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“Democratizing access” is Wall Street-speak for “finding a new way for the little guy to lose money,” IMO.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson? Harvard undergrad, Harvard Law, magna cum laude, cum laude, and editor of the Harvard Law Review. That’s what elite talent looks like.

Charlie Kirk? Dropped out of community college.

Game. Set. Match.

The Republican Party is the verminous, bigoted party of ignorance and anti-Americanism, striving to turn this into a totalitarian blood-and-soil shithole.

It all began back in June of 2015, when a rich draft dodging rapist rode down a cheap-ass faux-gold escalator with his main whore and said he wanted to be president of the United States of America. That’s when all this fuckin’ shit started.

If any other president trashed the Fed Chair like this, it would dominate the news for weeks. But with Trump, the media would barely cover it. They’ve been normalizing his behavior for years.

Whoever wins in 2028 must commit to dissolving ICE in the same manner that Trump + Musk deleted USAID. Instantly and with no mercy the instant after inauguration

To be clear, this is what an insurrection looks like:

Never forget that the same man who called the January 6th insurrection a “beautiful day of love” and refused to lift a finger for 187 minutes to stop the horror unleashed on our Capitol has deployed the National Guard to intervene in Los Angeles to “address the lawlessness in California.”