William McIntosh

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M, to detain 4k people of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Plus two citizens murdered.

~ Veterans for Peace

They're supposed to be public servants being proper stewards of taxpayer money.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested.

South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.

Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.

USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

What a joke. This piece is trash

This the skeleton key that explains the entire left-of-center political and informational environment. There is no social reward for ever saying anything nice about a mainline Democrat, so no one does. As a result, baseless antipathy towards the party completely pervades the environment.

So sad

What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s… "Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.

Dow 50,000 seems like an extraordinary headline, until... you add some context.

The aggregate stock market return during the second Trump presidency ranks as 21st out of 23 developed countries.

Here's my youtube-splaination.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

Biden was the most economically progressive president since LBJ at least, he pursued a full-employment economy at huge political risk, it worked spectacularly.

And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular

Very similar experiences. I was at Univ of Utah. Vegas weekends were a fun break from SLC

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson •22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

This is so spot on

Russell Vought raided USAID budgets he helped gut to pay for his own security The White House budget office reportedly set aside $15 million of remaining funds to protect the Project 2025 guy, according to Reuters.

Security detail provided by the US Marshals Service for budget chief and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought is being paid for by the $15M left in funding for the now gutted USAID.

Cuts in USAID will contribute to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, with 2/3 of them being children.

🔥 REP. @aoc.bsky.social IN MUNICH: “Extreme levels of inequality lead to a sense of instability and drive the ascent of authoritarianism… we have to have a working class-centered politics if we’re going to succeed and stave off the scourge of authoritarianism.”

The El Paso story is a perfect little slice of Trumpism. You take the combined incompetence of our Dep'ts of Transportation, Defense & Homeland Security and create a major public safety risk, shut down a major airport, alarm our neighbors that we are about attack them & shoot down a party balloon.

Trump Will Order Defense Department to Buy Coal Power - Inside Climate News Climate and security experts say the plan is outdated and could place the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage.

The US coal industry is $28B - about the size of Southwest Airlines - and employs fewer people than Arby's.

The public health cost is multiple times the revenue.

Let it go. Or just buy out your cronies and wind it down, I could live with that.

insideclimatenews.org/news/1002202...

note the source

Norwegian By Night, The Swerve, and Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

If you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...

Hang in there, Margo

it has been clear for months

Go with a short-throw projector

Hopefully not our city

Block!

The Mistral, a strong, cold wind in the south of France, often dried Van Gogh’s paint quickly. This demanding weather shaped his technique, contributing to his development of short, energetic, directional brushstrokes.

Legend

Let’s be clear about what the Trump regime is saying to Minnesota: “We will continue murdering your citizens unless you help us rig your election.”

It's important to note that most global unrest in the past 5 years has been caused by three 70-something white boomer losers desperate to stay out of prison.

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Editorial board? Really?

Why not do it for ideological reasons? Do you support what Bezos has done to the paper?

It bothers me how messy they are to break off a bite

If you can’t run against the fucking Gestapo, then get out of the way for those who can.