Sect 122 requires “fundamental international payments problems” (large/serious BOP deficits or imminent/significant $ depreciation). Max 150 days unless Congress extends. Must be broad & uniform. If litigated, weak point is clear pretext: using a BOP statute for general trade protectionism.

Les Wexner's attorney during the House Oversight Committee deposition on Epstein: "I will fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words."

Godspeed you! Sweet valentine @unraveltime.bsky.social

Trigger happy laser guy gotta blow something up!

Predatory usury nonsense dressed up as consumer friendly innovation. This is a just a personal loan for your rent.

Called it: www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Feels like given DHS making up stories about what we can plainly see in the murder videos, we have to just presume every other death under their purview is also murder.

I dont know the story behind this Pissed Jeans cover, but it must be shared with the world. youtu.be/sFo1aFxUZmc?...

The precedent here is very simple. You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action – that’s a federal issue. That guy is protected by absolute immunity. He was doing his job. I’ve never seen anything like that. It would get tossed out by a judge. -Vance 1/9/26

My god that photo is context

Judge skewers Trump, Noem, Rubio over deportations of pro-Palestinian activists. Judge William Young (Reagan) denounces 'breathtaking' conspiracy against free speech, Trump an 'authoritarian' & says he appears to fear freedom. w/@kyledcheney @hassankanu www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Saddened and outraged by the news today? Emotional regulation doesn't mean denying your feelings. First, be aware of them. Then find an appropriate way to channel them. My start: I wiped some tears and messaged my rep in Congress for substantive action. @emilyrandallwa.bsky.social

Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One https://theonion.com/every-trait-disqualifying-ice-agent-from-previous-jobs-ideal-for-current-one/

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

For perspective. The normal rate is .5 percent. or 1 in 200. This is 1 in 5.

Was just lamenting AI rent collusion and other housing issues after an eviction hearing this morning. We live in a modern day serfdom - concentrating capital ownership and finding the maximum pain points for consumers. This government is actively making things worse while claiming the opposite.

What actors facial expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life?

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

Are you goddamn kidding me. "Speaker Mike Johnson presented attendees of a closed-door conference meeting with list of 10 possible policies that could get votes in the coming weeks or months, according to five Republicans in the room. ....one bullet point that simply said, 'Innovation.'"

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion. The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”. Which is why the rage. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Enshitification narrowing my options! What's a better alternative to Spotify? Quboz? www.qobuz.com/us-en/discov...

Silicon Valley innovators working on....AI phrenology?

The Trump-Vance admin’s rule politicizing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program is a direct and unlawful attack on nurses, teachers, first responders, and public service workers. So we’re suing.

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

No Kings in Port Orchard, WA. The vibes were good, friendly, and peaceful. Several hundred for a small city.

There are only 41,000 coal miners in the United States. By way of comparison, there are 100,000 **registered** yoga teachers, 361,000 Starbucks baristas and 265,000 faculty and staff members working for the University of California system alone.

Well looks like they met for this — Ed Martin sent a letter to the FBI agent who testified during Alex Jones trial about seeing the Sandy Hook children dead. Martin asked if the agent had a financial incentive. The rest is hard to parse. Martin wrote asking to keep the letter private.

Sinclair is asking Jimmy Kimmel for an apology? They have it backward. They owe him an apology. #FreeSpeech #BringJimmyBack

Living in a world where Brian Kilmeade suggests involuntary lethal injection for the homeless is not grounds for Fox News to fire him, but Jimmy Kimmel suggesting Kirk's kill is MAGA is grounds for govt compelled cancellation. At what point is the frog boiled for the "both sides" crowd?

My whole plan for any kind of middleclass life is being obliterated by the oligarchy's calvinball rug pull.

BOAR ON THE FLOOR! BOAR ON THE FLOOR! C'MON DUFFY, YOU, BOAR ON THE FLOOR!

Secretary Rubio and Secretary Noem can’t have it both ways. If Haiti is stable enough to end TPS, why are US private military contractors preparing for combat operations in Port-au-Prince? @warnock.senate.gov and I are demanding answers by August 15. You can’t deport people into a war zone.

Justice Kagan cuts to the chase: "By means of [its repeated, unexplained grants of emergency relief to the Trump administration], this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another."

An objectively terrible lawyer but nepotism/cronyism is the new norm. Madness every day. www.businessinsider.com/e-jean-carro...

It's not even close for me.

posters going up in Philly and some other cities

The WH is proposing $890 million in cuts to English Language Acquisition programs

The @cpsc.gov, a federal agency dedicated to keeping unsafe products out of our homes, is now under threat, say lawmakers and safety advocates.

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

EXCLUSIVE: Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.