I wish these reporters would clearly point out that American consumers are paying the tariffs. China is not paying a cent in tariffs. With state backing they’ll go elsewhere for most things and ride it out for others. This is so dumb it’s embarrassing.

Dangerous Antifa in Iowa City

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Don’t tell him we have a state called New Mexico.

This is so frightening. And with the Supreme Court’s complete capitulation to the current occupant there is one left to stop this clearly illegal behavior.

Also, the facts are skeptical.

DEVO, if they want it.

Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...

‘He wonders why useful labour is so undervalued and useless labour so heavily remunerated. Is capitalism doing something supposedly foreclosed by the profit motive?’

@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is NOT true. The U.S. government said in court that it made a mistake. In public, however, they keep lying about it. Not only lying, but ramping up the lie to the point that this man is now the most dangerous monster in world history. It’s frightening how comfortable they are in doing this.

The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..

Two Dictators Walk Into a Bar... On yesterday’s sickening Oval Office summit.

"After all these years in and around politics, I’d like to think I have a pretty strong stomach, but yesterday was sickening... This was not newsreel footage of two dictators meeting somewhere far away and long ago. This was yesterday. Here in the Oval Office."

www.thebulwark.com/p/two-dictat...

If Kristi Noem can go down to El Salvador and take concentration camp selfies, then DOJ can figure out where Abrego Garcia is.

Just start jailing people for contempt of court until they find out.

Good. Now how about the same energy for these “deported” immigrants?

The tactic is clear: Lie to the media (“He is a gang member”), but tell the judge something else (“Okay, um, we made a mistake”). If you were told that you put an innocent man in a hell-hole prison, would you respond this way? This man is ill.

This is what they do: They say one thing to the media (“He’s a gang member”), and another thing to a judge (“We made a mistake”). It’s maddening that this continues to work on people.

Wouldn’t doubt it. Who is going to investigate? Not securities and exchange. This was always one of the warnings about tariffs: the shakedown motive.

Maybe you shouldn’t have endorsed him. You know, for all the honesty you care about.

The Gilded Age is his Golden Age. He really is similar to those Robber Barons in that he follows a version of Herbert Spencer’s “survival of the fittest” in which they all thought they were superior because they were rich. Tech bros doing the same.

Why do rich people think they’re smart? They’re just rich.

He can retire with my account then.

Finally some spine.

This is horrific.

Some of my favorites from the Iowa City Hands Off rally today.

Iowa City sign.

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Yes, Madison!

Iowa City today