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Letters to the Editor: Trump has presided over the two longest shutdowns, but Democrats are to blame? - Los Angeles Times
05.11.2025 13:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Made a slight update.
29.05.2025 03:10 — 👍 51 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 1
These various initiatives and policy changes are often regarded as discrete problems, but they comprise a unified assault. The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science. If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us. Like the inquisitors of old, who persecuted Galileo for daring to notice that the sun did not, in fact, revolve around the Earth, they believe that truth-seeking imperils their hold on power.
The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
27.05.2025 12:34 — 👍 3041 🔁 1075 💬 66 📌 80Just went into a brand new McDonald’s that was the most depressing looking restaurant I have been in. Very plain and uninviting. And no one to take order, removed drink station, nothing on the wall. Not sure why a company like McDonald’s would make these business killing mistakes.
04.05.2025 16:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I would say unbelievable, but it’s completely believable.
According to Trump, January 2024--when Biden was in office—was Trump’s market.
Meanwhile, April 2025—while Trump is in office—that’s Biden’s stock market.
Some idiot is going to say this makes sense, too.
1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.
31.03.2025 17:38 — 👍 2703 🔁 669 💬 106 📌 109Amidst the Signal chat war plans v. attack plans hair-splitting, I thought the Trump administration was all about "peace" and not dropping bombs on anyone.
26.03.2025 19:51 — 👍 1505 🔁 208 💬 78 📌 7
NEW: The WIRED crew takes you inside the first 6 weeks of DOGE, laying out in great detail how Elon Musk installed loyalists across government who gained access to our country's most sensitive computer systems.
“This is a digital coup,” one USAID source told me.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
I kind of think Governor Newsom should be governing and not podcasting. How does he have time for this when he is supposed to be running the state of California?
12.03.2025 16:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How Trump treats immigrants who are here legally: bsky.app/profile/cram...
06.03.2025 12:34 — 👍 431 🔁 119 💬 11 📌 5
Trump destroys a stellar economy.
GOP pushes back on Musk
Government by treason makes the US the pariah of the world
Seems even the right wing owned mass media is finally catching on.
news.yahoo.com/news/finance...
"A little disruption" is what Trump calls economic hardship for all Americans outside the 1%. "A little disruption" is code for "it's going to hurt you more than it hurts me." "A little disruption" is a warning that the folks living in the billionaire bubble are going to make your lives miserable.
06.03.2025 14:06 — 👍 474 🔁 175 💬 23 📌 16DOGE's "savings" is like saying, "I've saved hundreds of dollars by never changing the oil or replacing the brakes in my old car."
22.02.2025 15:15 — 👍 561 🔁 99 💬 23 📌 9Seems like saving Democracy is going to come down to a handful of GOP representatives more afraid of a mob of angry seniors in their district than one angry senior in the White House.
22.02.2025 16:02 — 👍 1144 🔁 222 💬 49 📌 19
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Like the environmental disasters of the 1970s, the PFAS crisis is alarming enough that politicians who might otherwise oppose regulation want the government to do something about it, Zoë Schlanger writes:
06.02.2025 19:12 — 👍 134 🔁 37 💬 14 📌 2
LA TIMES: “.. In other words, the release of water this time of year .. means that growers are likely to have less water stored in the reservoirs this summer, during a year that so far is among the area’s driest on record.”
@latimes.com
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Trump paid a price to persuade Maduro dictatorship to accept repatriated Venezuelan migrants. What? One guess: Trump will try to replace tariffed Canadian oil with de-sanctioned Venezuelan oil. The two products are similar, I'm told. Gulf coast refineries can substitute one for the other.
01.02.2025 19:55 — 👍 476 🔁 131 💬 46 📌 20
Trump's trade war sounds a warning of the decline of American greatness www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
01.02.2025 17:56 — 👍 902 🔁 208 💬 52 📌 12
Just had to post this because it seems so appropriate for anyone in DC right now.
Wish I could get the Village People to sing it during the inauguration 😂
youtu.be/surb8FzjWfg?...
Forever Never Trump
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
i feel like there should be a person who's job it is to show up the first day of shooting, sit the director and the cinematographer down in a room and say "whatever you're about to do, it does not need to be that dark."
12.12.2024 22:22 — 👍 8316 🔁 618 💬 307 📌 77
As many are seeing, a significant earthquake struck off the coast of Eureka, CA. I felt the shaking in Chico, the building I was in was swaying for a good minute. Tsunami warnings are in effect in coastal areas in California to southern Oregon.
05.12.2024 19:26 — 👍 59 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0
6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...
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