The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Desert Storm

I also don't think raking leaves and picking up trash are conducive to good morale

I know a few more, but mostly because I'm a college student. Even on a very left-wing campus, they are heavily outnumbered by progressive liberals

That’s true but commies are not really much of a factor irl. You see them a lot more on social media compared to real life

Trump Tariffs Cause Chaos on Ebay as Every Hobby Becomes Logistical Minefield Buying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas just became far more complicated, slow, and expensive.

Buying anything from overseas is about to get more expensive, more logistically complicated, slower, and overall more annoying. Film photography community, retro games community, people into skincare already seeing chaos on eBay. eBay sellers locking US buyers out.

www.404media.co/trump-tariff...

I think the thing here is apparently no one in civil society, particularly the business side, wants to be the first to say the music is slowing. Everyone is gambling on being able to ride out the storm without the bottom falling out, but by doing so they increase the chances that it actually does

How long do you think the charade will last?

what can you even say

I think a lot about the phrase "a well armed society is a polite society" because it's implicitly premised on this kind of "freedom as domination" that everyone will be polite to you otherwise you shoot them

Noticing a pattern here.

Who else would put an IR laser on a M1917?

happy Fourth, everybody. this country is still worth fighting for.

but like in a liberal, non-MAGA kind of way 🇺🇸

I hope it won't come to that but it looks more and more likely...

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>they voted for “anti-war”
>more war

The realist case for abandoning support for a war that was crippling your second largest strategic competitor so you can start a conflict that will consume an order of magnitude greater amount of resources and could have been solved through diplomatic means.

-by JD Vance

"They’re taking Shirly": An Army sergeant thought his family as safe. Then ICE deported his wife. For tens of thousands of US service members with undocumented family members, there’s no guaranteed protection from immigration raids.

“I find it unconscionable that someone could step up to serve, voluntarily, in our military and be willing to sacrifice their life for our country only to have their families torn apart.”

This article first appeared @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social

George Carlin on abortion (1996):

“Conservatives want live babies so they can raise em’ to be dead soldiers.”

This is our documentary moment. 💙🇺🇸

W Dubious

“We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can [and] do read worthwhile books.”

-- W. E. B. Du Bois

Unfortunately I can imagine something like that with how the world is going

A bald eagle died somewhere yesterday

We were told the mineral deal would deter Russia from targeting U.S. businesses - something supposedly beneficial for both the U.S. and Ukraine. So what happened to that assumption? It seems Russia doesn't care. No one takes tough talk seriously when it's never backed by action.

We should have sent everything at that parade to Ukraine

Time for your homework on MENA and APAC kids :)

the entire rw media ecosystem including things like fox news, are completely beholden to the monster they created and nurtured. audience capture is a helluva drug