Good article on why Disney is well positioned to weather out widespread cancellations of its streaming services. However, it notes that a broader and more sustained boycott effort of all things Disney could make a difference. www.marketwatch.com/story/boycot...

MAGA: Trump is not a king! Also, MAGA and current FBI Director:

Watch Republican hypocrisy at its ugliest. These politicians spent their careers fighting tariffs. Now Trump snaps his fingers, and they can’t sell out fast enough.

By 2029, the world of white shoe law firms will be divided up into two easily discernible groups for demanding clients with significant legal matters to choose from: those that believed in the rule of law and in their abilities to successfully defend it and those that didn't.

I don't really see the difference between failing to properly secure a firearm in your home and failing to vaccinate your child. Although, come to think of it, parents who fail to secure a firearm in their home are only jeopardizing their own child's safety. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.

We finally have a President who was born in Africa, and the "Obama was born in Africa!" people are curiously quiet.

I'm willing to bet that if someone records a decent-looking video on a shoestring budget claiming that USAID was sending $1.3M in tanning beds to Brodo Asogi, uploads it to youtube, and posts its link to X, it would go viral among Trumpies in less than 24 hours. Somebody please test my theory.

So Musk couldn't find the racist posts on his own platform by the guy he hired, but he's going to unearth waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government? www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...

Oh look, the President's approval rating is already under 40%.

Palestinians: We're not leaving our ancestral homeland and we'll fight a bloody war for 70 years and strap on suicide vests if that's what it takes. Trump: Okay, but what if you all just leave, I bulldoze over the entire land and build some beautiful condos like the world has never seen before?

Let me guess. They're going to greet us as liberators in Gaza, right?

Yesterday the US Postal Service announced it would stop accepting and delivering packages from China. No explanation provided. Less than 24 hours later, this morning, USPS announced they were reversing the decision. Again, no explanation provided. Elon Musk is the worst president ever.

Wait. Isn't Canada's commitment to step up enforcement at the border just going to make it harder for Americans to sneak into Canada? What does Trump think CBSA does? patrol the border to catch people sneaking out of Canada to enter the US?

Trump's tariff war is like holding up a gas station until they agree to sell you gas while you wet your pants.

An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.

I'm going to have a really good belly laugh if Denmark turns around and sells Greenland to Canada.

1930s: Tariffs against imported sugar decimated Cuba's economy. That propelled Castro regime to replace a US-friendly government. It was about 30 years later, after the Soviet Union filled the void with a trade partnership with Cuba, when the Cuban missile crisis put us on the brink of nuclear war.

Good luck explaining the economics of international trade to people who thought Mexico was going to pay for the wall -- and maybe still do.

BREAKING: Judge McConnell blocks Trump administration temporarily from blocking grants/loans to 22 states and DC that sued over funding "pause." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Effective tomorrow morning, Trump has issued a new Executive Order requiring the sun to rise from the east.

Gen. Milley enlisted the year that Pete Hegseth was born.