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So like that one garbage can in Portland has been on fire for 5 years now.

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump The FBI has fired at least three special agents who worked in connection with former special counsel Jack Smith's probe of now-President Donald Trump.

The FBI took personnel action against three special agents who worked in connection with former special counsel Jack Smith's probe of Donald Trump, firing at least two of them.

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

Gallego: "The president is an idiot. He doesn't actually understand how the military works."

Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration. These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up. Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All of these powerful people trying to save their own skin have effectively multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Mission accomplished, time to cash in

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

Steve is nagging at the universe's unanswered fruit-related questions again.
Stop it, Steve. It's a fruitless endeavour.
#SteveThoughts

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

Outrageous.

Fun fact: Comey also prosecuted Martha Stewart.

Leaking case updates before charges are brought is against department policy. Here's why you should hold a press conference instead.

by James Comey

Breaking: Comey announces new investigation of crooked Hillary’s emails on the eve of his indictment.

What would King Lear do?

James Comey is about to learn his lesson.

by Susan Collins

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Donald Trump is about to have me indicted on bogus charges. Here’s why I’m still glad I got him elected in 2016.

by James Comey

Online right-wing rhetoric began shifting last night from saying the left-wing must be destroyed because someone on the left supposedly killed Charlie Kirk to saying the left-wing must be destroyed because there were people on the left who celebrated his death.

In case anyone was wondering.

They really think we don’t all know who started this 🤡

Dems would pass national fair maps today. Republicans won’t. That’s all you need to know about who is responsible for the redistricting war.

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing theonion.com/protest...

US Consumers to Bear Brunt of Tariff Hit, Goldman Economists Say The impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on consumer prices is just getting started, according to research by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., adding more uncertainty to a Treasury market that has been...

".. Consumers in the US have absorbed an estimated 22% of tariff costs through June, but their share will rise to 67% if the latest tariffs follow the pattern of levies in previous years .."

@bloomberg.com
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Because nothing screams “qualified diplomat” like a guy whose entire foreign policy experience is yelling at women from his car.

Pls read & subscribe....
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Let's focus on qualifications: Antoni finished grad school 5 years ago at Northern Illinois with no distinction. Dissertation: No focus on labor or data collection. Zero publications. One lifetime citation (by a former colleague).

This record would not earn you a job as junior economist at BLS.

Trump Wants a Bureau of MAGA Statistics | National Review President Trump has nominated an unqualified economist to take over one of America’s most important statistical agencies.

EJ Antoni, Trump's latest retaliatory nominee for Labor Commissioner, is the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation who has been a relentless booster of Trump’s policies and has "demonstrated time and again that he does not understand economic statistics." www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-...

"Utterly unqualified": Trump BLS pick gets panned by economists left and right Conservative economists cited examples of Trump's BLS pick appearing to misunderstand data he would be responsible for.

"I've been on several programs with him at this point and have been impressed by two things: his inability to understand basic economics and the speed with which he's gone MAGA," one conservative economist said of Trump's BLS pick.

If Big Balls ends up being the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of our descent into whatever this is… idk man, maybe that actually completely checks out for 2025 and where we are as a country

When Big Balls gets roughed up, they call in the National Guard.

When people get shot in daily mass shootings, they do nothing.

Headline doesn’t say the party but it’s pedo stuff so they didn’t really need to, did they?