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the best part is that he is actually genuinely really mad about this, because Cuellar has broken the golden rule of Trump deals: he gets to stiff you, you don’t get to stiff him

also we are now in a place where rather than deny obvious quid pro quos the president is loudly crashing out online when someone does not provide the quo, so that’s fun

🇺🇸 trifectas get <one> shot at doing something

Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem

Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem

The platform must be <immediate> institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said

The authoritarian problem is the problem of the rich controlling everyone else’s lives, and the rich will never, ever solve *that* problem. The rich and powerful persuade society from birth that society is rightful oriented from top to bottom in a hierarchy of superiority.

No that I understand but that's not an argument about a risk of deflation

Trends in infectious disease mortality in the United States during the 20th century - PubMed Although most of the 20th century has been marked by declining infectious disease mortality, substantial year-to-year variation as well as recent increases emphasize the dynamic nature of infectious diseases and the need for preparedness to address them.

Ah, the good old days before we believed that the germ theory of infectious disease showed it was harmful.

"Infectious disease mortality declined during the first 8 decades of the 20th century from 797 deaths per 100000 in 1900 to 36 deaths per 100000 in 1980."

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9892452/

I am going to mask because I want to get fewer colds & other flawed ideas A new form of arrogance

Pro-infection:

"It is natural to be infected repeatedly with respiratory viruses— if we got fewer infections what would that mean for auto-immunity for cancer? We have no clue. We have no idea if we would actually live longer or healthier lives trying to dodge seasonal runny noses and coughs."

Politics is beneath them. It's *our* job, we the amorphous 'voters', to self-organize, maybe via social media. Politics is dirty, tainting. They prefer fantasies that the news media who mostly hates them & loves the right are their hired PR team and we are here to donate money to commercial buyers.

the reason they keep thinking they can get sufficient numbers of conservative / Republican / white male working class voters by running candidates who appeal to them & less if not hostile to others is they think those voters (and thus people) are better and they care about them and not the others

If every single election that you lose is the fault of the left not showing up for your candidate, the answer isn't to nominate the guy the left says they will never back unless your goal is not to win

Plus it wasn't like the normal sorts of fantastic FIFA corruption for petrostate monarchs etc where there's actual money & ownership involved.

He knows he made them do it, so that's most of the bragging.

the FIFA thing is amazing, it is way way way way worse than if Obama had constantly bragged about his dumb Nobel peace prize, a thing Obama and any reasonable person would not do in that situation

What about higher prices because of imposed (and often unpredictable taxes) by the government via tariff policies? Surely if X% of a price rise is due to imposed tax costs by the government, and that tax cost were halted (i.e. tariffs stopped), a corresponding lowering of prices is not deflation?

Journalists like me have since Jan used the term “lawless” a lot to describe this administration because u got pick your words carefully because not everything that is “lawless” is necessarily “a crime” but this pathetic gang is making it super fucking easy for us often, given all the Criming

wow the guy whose fake businesses survived by money laundering for the Russian mafia and who got Russia's help in getting elected and whose entire family profits from untraceable cryptobribery aligns with Russia's local imperial interests, who woulda thunk it

Kremlin says new US security strategy accords largely with Russia's view The U.S. National Security Strategy described Trump's vision as one of "flexible realism."

Kremlin says new US security strategy accords largely with Russia's view reut.rs/4qefvUL

Senator says ICE ‘attack dog’ caused ‘horrific’ injuries to unresisting man as he was detained Patty Murray of Washington state said ICE agents lied to Wilmer Toledo-Martinez to lure him outside before dog attacked him

“An ICE agent lured Wilmer out of his home under false pretenses, posing as a construction worker who claimed to have hit Wilmer’s car and needed him to step outside to verify." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Jeffries’ Strong Floor and No Ceiling: We Need to Fix the Roof Owen Libby promotes old policies, like UBI and patent monopolies, as new solutions that still favor the rich.

"It makes no more sense to want a large financial system than to have a hugely expanded trucking sector where many millions of people are moving goods around from place to place. " cepr.net/publications...

One thing about the Oklahoma student thing that struck me - and yes I know the whole point is not to actually learn, it’s so conservative organizations can keep institutionalizing brain dead hysteria - is that if you are a conservative staunchly religious student one reason I don’t think you should…

Another entry in "nazis are good, except liberal nazis, who are bad"

One aspect of the "affordability" story that the great minds who write on this shit seem unable to see is that Trump and his rich friends are trying to end work from home and force people back to the office. This is equivalent to an 8% pay cut, but I guess that's too simple.

Trump Crazy #54,278 and Glimmers of a Post-Trump World Trump’s latest abuses, collapsing conspiracies, GOP defections, and signs of a post-Trump political landscape.

There are glimmers of a post-Trump world. JP Morgan CEO saying he wasn't going to bribe Trump was a big deal cepr.net/publications...

I keep returning to Astra Taylor's construction (the title of her fantastic book) "Democracy may not exist, but we'll miss it when it's gone." It's really the perfect way of explaining liberalism's false but necessary promises

Legal teams are having to work ‘miracles’ to get immigrants out of detention - The Boston Globe As more people await hearings behind bars and with a shortage of immigration judges, legal cases take more work and time.

"The baseline is that millions of people don’t have attorneys, and then the ones that do, for the attorneys to even find their clients is incredibly difficult."

A fully inhumane system

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/m...

This is so perfect. No one have any doubts at this point about what Elon Musk really represents.

the most ceaseful of fires that has ever been cease fired, Donald Trump should get at least three Home Depot Triple Titanium peace prizes for this

BREAKING: At least 373 Palestinians have been killed and 970 wounded since the start of the ceasefire in October, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

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There is a limit to "voters should have known.. the thing my campaign consultants were giving me mixed messages about"

Sure voters should have known trump would be evil on deportations but the opposition party was not telling them that