ThisManKnits

Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.

you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead

15 euros for 360kg of topsoil. It’s worth it to go to the “dump”. Ours (I live in Germany) is a huge recycling plant. It’s wonderful.

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

Everyone involved in the Alien Enemies Act "deportations" (kidnapping) is a depraved monster. This poor man and his family, my god.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Musk Makes Last-Minute Plea on Eve of Wisconsin Election Trump’s “first buddy” quite literally begged voters to side with him.

A “stressed” Elon Musk appealed to Wisconsin voters in a last-minute tele-town hall appearance on Monday night, just hours before polls are set to open in a state-level Supreme Court election that Musk has described as “the future of everything.”

and the Constutution

Trump is using the power of government to punish opponents. They’re struggling to respond | CNN Politics President Donald Trump is using the power of the federal government to intimidate or neuter potential sources of opposition to him: The legal establishment, academia and prominent cultural institution...

I’m old enough to remember when people who called themselves “conservative” said they believed in something called … geez, what the heck was it … I used to know this … oh yeah, now I remember— … “limited government.”

In Turkey, authoritarian president faces burgeoning protests

In Turkey, authoritarian president faces burgeoning protests

Why DOGE Could Actually Increase the Deficit Some of Musk’s haphazard cuts will produce tiny savings in terms of salary while forfeiting much larger ones down the road, costing the government money.

“DOGE won’t just fall short of Musk’s deficit-reduction goals. It will, in all probability, increase the deficit,” Jonathan Chait writes. Are the deficit-reduction efforts just a pretext for ideological warfare? theatln.tc/0zdiT2Hb

Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...

remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

Every time I see a cybertruck in the wild it's like sorry I don't believe a real person bought one of these with their own money. These are paid actors

‘White Lotus’ Star Reveals Scene That Was Cut After Trump Win Season three star Carrie Coon revealed that her character was supposed to have a child who was “non-binary, maybe trans.”

A star on Season 3 of The White Lotus revealed in a new interview that the show’s creators opted to cut one storyline in particular after Donald Trump won reelection last November.

Just clicked on the Elon Musk town hall and literally the first thing I heard him say was The Great Replacement Theory, which he previously pulled back from when the entire world told him it was both antisemitic and categorically false

But now he needs to buy our votes again, so

When you lose at yarn chicken, simply decide to go another way. From TextileGarden on IG. Nice. 🧶

#knit #knitting #knitsky #knittingidea #yarnchicken #design #knitdesign #designing #interesting #options

What's a difference between Canadians and Americans?

Canadians are aware of the difference.

Musician Who Quit Kennedy Center Gives Major Trump Warning The president became chairman of the center in February.

A musician who quit the Kennedy Center after Donald Trump took over as chair earlier this year issued a chilling warning about the president’s “authoritarian instinct.”

So, how do you know if a country is in a constitutional crisis?

So, how do you know if a country is in a constitutional crisis?

Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’ Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.

“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”

FFS

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

Proud of journalists & outlets still standing up to power in the face of threats while Big Law, corporations, and other institutions capitulate:

Wired, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Miami Herald, Techdirt, Marisa Kabas, the Unpoulist, ProPublica, MSNBC.

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BREAKING - WilmerHale BEATS Trump, wins restraining order

Order stops Trump from blocking Wilmer attys from gov buildings — and forcing gov agencies to strip contracts from Wilmer clients — to punish them for hiring Robert Mueller

Trump keeps LOSING almost every court decision

Judge releases detained Venezuelan couple with temporary protected status The judge said the detention of the couple was baseless and unlawful.

“There is no reason why they’re being held,” the judge said.

“If this was a criminal case. … I’d throw you out of my chambers.”

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

We will not be distracted.
We will not be discouraged.
We’ve got our eyes on the prize.

And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve.

The time to organize is now.

OcasioCortez.com

Looks interesting - I'll look it up. Thanks.

He really needs to go public as far as he can.

Moskowitz: Rather than giving a long speech, I feel like I can just use this. So, that’s a fist, an American flag, fire. From now on, when we do things where we agree, I just hold this up.

JUST IN: American Oversight is suing Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe et al, saying their messaging via Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act.

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