atoms are enough

a sitting federal judge — appointed by trump of course — awarded a student for a paper that basically says dred scott was right and should have gone further

"The world's richest man logs onto the platform he bought to yell at the AI he had built for fact-checking conservative mega-influencer Catturd2" is a sentence so stupid that future history books may just skip this decade.

The US housing market is stalling.

Pulling every dumb, dangerous lever in reach.
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Pulling every dumb, dangerous lever in reach.

Your vote for Trump at work

I’ll say it again - when *any* politician uses the ‘I haven’t read that story’ lie about something they knew they would get asked about, the interviewer has a duty to say ‘Okay, in that case I’m going to terminate this interview and you can come back when you’re better prepared.”

A screenshot of today’s New York Times report by Peter Baker. Baker’s lede contrasts the weeks-long “scandal” after a “furor erupted over reports” in 1994 that Hillary Clinton had made $100,000 on an investment 12 years earlier with the $28 million Melania Trump is pocketing from a film deal with Jeff Bezos, which, according to Baker, nobody gave a damn about. I have annotated the screenshot to note that Baker’s reference to Clinton’s profits hyperlinks a front-page 1994 New York Times article, while Baker’s reference to Melania’s profits hyperlinks a Wall Street Journal report, because the NYT did not cover the profits.

We’re all looking for the guy who did this.

Ex-cop jailed and deported during holiday to US A former NSW police officer has described the terrifying ordeal she faced after she was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the United States – despite travelling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband.

The dead-weight loss of investing over $100B, as Republicans propose, in walls, jails, police, and surveillance tech is compounded by the economic losses from making the U.S. radioactive for foreign tourists.

Hundreds of billions likely chopped out of the productive economy, and for what?

this. thank you.

the number of 'takes' there'd be today if Krasner had lost, versus the near-absence of 'discourse' around it, is telling.

Just nonstop crimes in broad daylight

I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage.

Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.

They unlocked the doors, turned off all the alarms, dismantled the guardrails, fired the watchers, and have damaged or removed endless safeguards across the spectra of our daily existence. All so, presumably, the rich get richer, and Trump doesn't have his feelings hurt with "bad news."

Go anti-woke, go broke

Unreal. The Trump administration is disappearing migrants to places that aren't even their origin countries, then refusing to say which countries they were sent to by claiming this is "classified," then refusing to say *why* the info is classified:

HUGE. A direct rebuke to the Trump administration's practice of shoving people onto planes: "Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster."

GOP tax bill on track to add more than $2.5 trillion to U.S. deficit The figure is expected to intensify a national debate over spending and tax levels as President Donald Trump tries to push the legislation through Congress.

For a half century now, Republicans a) pretend to care about deficits when Dems are in power, as a pretext to cut spending, & b) massively grow deficits when they are in power, via tax cuts for the rich.

The mainstream political press has not just allowed this deception, they've actively colluded.

Has any major US media org seen declining public trust, and reacted with something like "MAGA/GOP will denounce us if we do anything other than lie in exactly the way they want, it's bad faith, we can't win their trust, so let's try appealing more to customers that prefer truth"?

Even one example?

Vague, toothless coverage is media trying to regain public trust.

It's just that they think "public trust" means "Republicans," the way to get it is by avoiding bias (which means saying things Republicans dislike), and the fact that trying this for years hasn't worked is not a reason to reconsider.

If political journalists are concerned not about the public’s lack of trust, but only about Republicans’, and assume right-wing anti-media sentiment is good faith criticism, not bad faith in pursuit of political power, and don’t care about anyone else’s declining trust in them, it makes more sense.

We’re all gonna die

“Did I mention we are VERY racist?”

Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US

Jeff Merkley & Schumer introduced the "End Crypto Corruption Act," which would bar Presidents, their family, senior exec branch officials, etc from issuing crypto.
That'll be introduced as an amendment to the GENIUS Act, which will fail.
Then they'll pass GENIUS, & say they did their best.
Pathetic.

Democrats Cave, Prepare to Rubber-Stamp Trump Crypto Corruption Pro-crypto senators are poised to pass a stablecoin bill, while failing to crack down on the Trump organization issuing one to collect payments from foreign governments.

BREAKING: Democrats reached a deal on a stablecoin bill that will give them a fake amendment on Trump crypto corruption that is designed to fail, so collaborators can say they did the best they could.
"Schumer 101," said one source.
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This is an awesome example of local-govt resistance to needlessly aggressive state-level interference.

becoming increasingly firmly convinced that ideas are either worth taking seriously or not, and that a lot of the societal dysfunction that the internet introduces is downstream of it making this ambiguous "haha I'm just joking...unless" rhetorical affect the default for a lot of topics

The Fed didn't use the word "stagflation", but that's what it's warning about.

Never a good moment when your central bank says that it's worried about *both* higher unemployment and higher inflation. That's a problem that monetary policy alone can't solve.