Dr. Talc

This was a good book on all that literatibookstore.com/book/9780593...

Here are the details and our methodology. Judge for yourself: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Ezra Klein brought it up in his Coates interview.

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

“Purposely not buying our soybeans” real Sherlock Holmes there.

Too late bsky.app/profile/bran...

Isn’t Thune, not Schumer, the Senate majority leader?

They never ask him to reconcile his Christian values with Jesus’ teachings: “And do not judge, and you will never be judged. And do not condemn, and you will never be condemned. Pardon, and you will be pardoned.”

These work just fine www.amazon.com/Bidet-Attach...

Trump ratchets up US-China trade war, promising new tariffs U.S. President Donald Trump revived the trade war against Beijing on Friday, ending an uneasy truce between the two largest economies with promises to sharply hike tariffs in a reprisal against China curbing its critical mineral exports.

China hasn’t yet approved the TikTok sale. Doubt it will happen anytime soon. Trump ratchets up US-China trade war, promising new tariffs - www.reuters.com/world/china/...

A good position to help Dems avoid Starmerism.

Fossil Fuels: The Dirty Facts Mining, drilling, and burning dirty energy are harming the environment and our health. Here’s everything you need to know about fossil fuels, and why we need to embrace a clean energy future.

“and that’s not counting the billions of dollars in climate disasters it causes.” Including our health www.nrdc.org/stories/foss...

i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems

criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:

Thinking of @gilduran.com and @kissane.myatproto.social ‘s work, as it dawns on me that the children starving today directly because of Elon’s DOGE cuts ***are in those Myanmar refugee camps because they’re victims of the Rohingya genocide that Facebook directly and knowingly enabled.***

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

If these dudes can rationalize the president imposing a trillion dollars in tariffs, there’s zero reason to take any of their analysis seriously.

Absolutely right bsky.app/profile/dann...

To be fair

Tariff revenue is operating like ship money did for Charles I, when he tried to rule England without Parliament. Like the US, only the legislature could legitimately tax the people, but Charles used innovative abuses of his powers to raise & spend money as he wanted

(He later lost his crown & head)

I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

Good summary bsky.app/profile/gbro...

Nearly 20% of younger voters won’t vote for a woman as president, new poll finds Most voters want to elect more women, but sexist double standards emerge when picturing them as president

How much of the vote gets shaved because of this www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

lol p/e 636

“The current AI boom would simply be impossible if tech companies had to pay the same tariffs that car manufacturers or homebuilders currently face.

“ .. a tacit admission that a full-scale trade war would kill America’s golden geese.”

@josephpolitano.bsky.social
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...

The Most Shocking Discoveries About ‘Slumlord’ Jared Kushner in Netflix’s ‘Dirty Money’ Donald Trump's son-in-law is the unfortunate subject of an episode of Alex Gibney's powerful documentary series.

So’s the son-in-law www.indiewire.com/features/gen...

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

And it was all tied into the lore around the men's rights activist who posed as a deliveryman to shoot a federal judge's son to death in front of her.