Discontinuous Permafrost

Ugh, this hurts my heart

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

The Economics of Smoot Hawley 2.0, Part II This trade war is really a class war

Krugman: Tariffs can raise real wages only if they lead to an expansion in labor-intensive manufacturing. And America has barely any labor-intensive manufacturing left. High as they are, Trump tariffs won’t bring any significant amount of that manufacturing back open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

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We can be better than this. I know we can.

Start a trade war with China. Escalate when they retaliate. Repeat until a near-embargo. Meet to agree on a 90 day pause. Get nervous about that agreement, so re-meet to re-agree to that 90 day pause. As the 90 day pause draws to a close, meet to agree to a 90 day pause.

A sack of potatoes has a purpose.

The correct news headline for this is not "Trump to Lay Out His Plan for Reducing Crime in Nation’s Capital" (Bloomberg) or "Trump to speak at White House on violent crime in D.C." (CNBC), but rather "President Lies About Crime in DC."

News outlets are obligated to maintain a grip on reality!!

This Is Exactly What Has Been Done….

A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:

Still explaining: How do tariffs work, and who pays?

literally the only counter argument you need is “jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly inspect your childs genitals”

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

They offer certainty in a world of unknowns.

“Trump calls our trade deficits a ‘50 year emergency’ — that’s an oxymoron… I have a chronic, incurable trade deficit with my barber. I buy a haircut from her, she buys nothing from me.”

Conservative George Will clowns Trump’s trade war, says Congress has abandoned their duties

The truth about the safety and efficacy of vaccines is not novel or sexy, even if they are the greatest achievement ever in disease prevention.

A conspiracy theory about vaccines, OTOH? That will get some traction.

This is why social media companies have a duty to fight misinformation.

On Vaccines, Kennedy Has Broken Sharply With the Mainstream While many officials and scientists embrace other parts of the secretary’s agenda, his stance on vaccines is alienating allies who fear a public health crisis.

On nutrition, Jeffrey Dahmer has broken sharply with the mainstream.

Must not be investigated Trumps enemies’ taxes fast enough.

This is so pathetic

Yes, but we’ll all have to work 2-3 jobs to afford groceries. So they have that.

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

A conservative nation ...and the tragic path of the rightward road

I’ve never understood conservatism. As a lifelong liberal whose role models were my FDR Democratic mother and grandmother, I always appreciated the need to combine common sense with justice and compassion.

Being liberal does not mean endorsing wasteful spending. Being liberal does not mean...

my friend’s kid got wings from a flight attendant and he’s telling everyone he’s an honorary pilot

Perez: The governor's coordinating the Texas department of public safety with the FBI, the president—this is really the type of coordination that could have been used when Texans needed it during the recent floods.

A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year. The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive. threads.com/@unapologeticallyzae

The same kind of common sense that says if you are orange that you are a pedophile. Oh- wait, that might just be true.

If you live in/represent a Blue State, want to gerrymander the FUCK out of your state, support and are willing to fight for a national anti-gerrymandering law you are principled, consistent and doing exactly the right thing.

Prices are high. They’re about to get higher.

Businesses are struggling. They’re about to feel the pain even more.

And yet there’s no plan. No strategy. Just chaos.

YouTube video by South Park Studios Introducing the Director of Homeland Security | South Park

"South Park" strikes again.

Noem is hit hard. (I lost track of now many puppies she kills in these 22 minutes.) As is Charlie Kirk and every right-wing male podcaster. Trump's mini-manhood is back, and so is Satan as his sex-mate. And Jesus doesn't look happy.

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JFC what a bunch of freaking a$$holes. I hate these people.🤬