Proof positive that Stephen Miller spent the better part of freshman year being unceremoniously hoisted up by the ankles and having his head dunked in the toilet. 💯

The economic stupidity coming out of the White House is cartoonish at this point.

The United States ended FY 2025 with $30.287 trillion of debt. That is likely 99.9% of GDP, up from 98.2% last year. Note CBO's January forecast was 99.9% of GDP. In June CEA projected that if OBBBA passed it would fall to 96.2% of GDP this year.

When you've lost Grover Norquist....

Florida and Texas real estate markets are toast.

The former US ambassador to El Salvador, and current ambassador to Mexico, Robert Johnson, had someone fired from the US embassy in order to help cover up Bukele’s gang pact with MS-13.

These increases will drive many, many people to drop their ACA health policies. Republicans know that they can't drive a stake through the heartcof the ACA - they tried and failed at that - so now they've found a new way: strangle it to death.

Please be kind. Help if you can.

This seems pretty impirtant.

Wow!

Pew has been putting out some great research on housing lately.

The past few weeks have been very instructive in explaining how Trump took over the GOP. Huge swathes of the Democratic Party — especially media entrepreneurs — hate its leadership and think it doesn’t “fight” enough and will embrace anything that feels like fighting back.

At the state and local level, people mainly care that the political leaders provide practical solutions - if there are potholes, they want them filled. At the national level, people want programs that advance the common good. They don't care if politicians are honest as long as they're effective.

Why do you all think the goal is to have a well run public college?

Here's the killer follow up question: Why?

Why Democrats may be missing the boat on the shutdown. Trump is indifferent to the pain of others. Republicans in Congress will be feeling some heat though, at least until they manage to shift the blame to Democrats.

The most predictable result of tariffs isn't higher prices; it's more lobbying. And that's just what we got - in unprecedented fashion:

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥.” – 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘔𝘶𝘪𝘳 The same goes for human society.

If you have to lie to support your position, it's not a good position. This fight is over cuts to Medicaid for Americans and massive cuts to Obamacare subsidies, which will jack up the price of health insurance for millions of Americans. Make the case for those cuts instead of lying.

The Trump admin claims it wants reduce the number of H-1B visas going to large outsourcing firms (Infosys, Cognizant, etc). But its proposed H-1B reform would actually *increase* visas to large outsourcers by 8%.

A bit of a surprize here. U.S. private employers cut 32K jobs in September, per ADP. Annual rebenchmarking reduced totals by 43K, showing hiring momentum continues to fade, confirming that companies have been slow to higher. This can most likely be attributed to elevated economic uncertainty.

Make it make sense, please?!

Yeah ok, good luck with that. So the problem is bias *from* Wikipedia (lol) messing up AI, and so the answer is... to use AI to build a new crappy Wikipedia clone? Every time Musk talks confidently about things I know about, he reveals how clueless he is.

In case there's any doubt about what Trump's tariffs are going to do to farmers. Even if he threw in the towel today, the damage he has done to farmers is going to last for quite awhile - at least several years - but he's not going to stop.

Geez, you'd think that a billionaire wouldn't have to shoplift from Target, but who ya gonna believe, Sam or your lying eyes? 🤣

The Bismarck has been sunk!

Also, "Today, a reporter asked me whether we’d know when the country had reached a state of authoritarianism. My reply: 'We’re already there.'" Read the whole thing; it's short.

They're not wrong. In addition to Scott's quote here, they had bumper crops this year, so when they have a higher than normal supply to sell, they're closed out of their most lucrative markets. It's also a shame that the $2B of crops that USAID used to buy from them isn't can't be sold this year.

America is both crazy and crazy rich.

I think most people are pretty self-centered when it comes to the economy. They say the economy is bad when what they mean is "the cost of groceries has gone up 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦". As long as they're not effected, it's academic, but when shutdowns happen, everyone feels it pretty quickly.

Reagan-appointed U.S. District Judge Paul G. Young on ICE wearing masks: "ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence." "In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police." Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So this inept and corrupt governor is admitting he can't lead and solve his own problems. Also Tuesday for MAGA.

Big day today for regular people in Florida.

Nothing screams "success" like this. The last time horse cavalry was used was at the start of WW2.

Gasoline supply is 20% of normal. Ukraine has been successful in reducing gasoline production by an incredible 80%!!!

American military leaders after the Trump speech.

If they hadn't done it before, every intelligence agency in the world is now drafting a memo to their heads of government, advising that the US military is commanded by an unstable, narcissistic, misogynistic incompetent with anger issues, and a perceptibly declining dementia patient.

The amount of energy that MAGA Central is going to put into spinning this wet, low energy mess into a scorched earth speech could keep the Texas power grid up and running this winter.

The Economist maps Russia’s hybrid-warfare attacks across Europe. As NATO's Secretary General said not too long ago, "Europe is not at war, but it is not at peace."

Sure. Left wing terrorism is at an all time high, going from 3% of domestic terror fatalities to 4%. Right wing terrorism on the other hand has dipped to an all time low of 95% So technically, yeah.

Passive aggressive level 100 this is how we roll in the PNW 🤣 Protesters in Portland are going ice fishing with donuts as bait on fishing polls, holding dance offs in front of ICE barricades in goofy costumes and just being incredibly annoying to ICE there's no violence from protesters whatsoever.

Don't ever forget this.

perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.

Admirals and Generals no doubt texting each other " This should have been an email." I'm sure they're looking forward to hearing from the Commander-in-Chief later, too. This is embarrassing.

Farmers handed Trump their trust like seeds to a hailstorm. That 78% loyalty now fertilizes their own financial ruin—a harvest of irony only this admin could cultivate. Since April's tariffs, China hasn't bought US soybeans—exports at 20-year lows. Bankruptcies doubled by March '25 as

The current HUD landing page. I've also checked the DOJ and DOD websites. Of the three, HUD is the only one doing this so far but I wouldn't be surprised to see something similar go up on all government websites.

THE Democratic talking point has to be "Republicans own the White House, the Senate, and the House. There are some things we want to see and we won't sell out hardworking Americans, but this is a Republican show. We've been put in the bleachers just like you have."

The biggest reform of the H-1B visa program might be to systematically enforce its provisions as they stand - something that has never been done before; the DOL has always approached enforcement on a case-by-case basis and only after a complaint has been received.

This has been a truism for at least 100 years and Democrats need to remember it. Promise working class voters that they'll get higher wages and better benefits and then deliver.

Total Global Inflation by Country Since 2020 🚨