Looking forward to the Fox News segment that explains how this is different from Mamdani’s city-run grocery stores.

Btw, one of the worst policy traps in developing countries is when they try to subsidize the price of fuel. It becomes a huge and invisible fiscal burden, and when you can no longer afford it, it gives way to huge price increases sparking civil unrest.

This is why things like national petroleum reserves should only be used to cushion temporary shocks, not manipulate the price of fuel long-term.

The more I read, the more this sounds less like the “Trump Administration initiative” it’s been described as, and more like a private publicity/marketing stunt by a few gas stations.

I think the line of logic here is Groceries = Communism = Bad Gas = American = Good

I suspect the biggest difference is that Mamdani and his family is not getting some backdoor cut.

As a senior myself (& former, thank gods, Michigander), agree this is pandering to the perniciously ignorant. Al-Sayed is just another DSA wolf pretending to 'care about the people' with the same slop that the GOP used to wreck the state for decades. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/07/the-...

The notion we get to imprison people indefinitely without trial in a foreign prison, at our behest, is something the signers of the Declaration would revolt against.

Nor are they combatants in an ongoing war, which could at least be argued for the Guantanamo detainees.

Every day during the entire history of the US we’ve had merchants offer sales, people start new businesses, companies expand, foreigners invest in US enterprises & buy products from the US. But until now we’ve never had a president claim that every bit of it was because of him.

Was there a note attached? For example, “you know what to do” translated into multiple languages

the press is starting to think that maybe the president is fucking insane

They like being mean to liberal women. They think liberal women are cringe and think it is cool to make fun of them, even when this means being pro-rape. They are just a different flavor of Republicans, in that they are only against people they dislike and are for nothing at all.

Also his approach to Afghanistan

oh god just realizing Pizza Hut's path to renewed relevance is become xillennial Old Country Buffet

do NOT hire anyone from isurium brigantum to install your mosaic, I asked for a floor depicting the foundation of rome and this is what they delivered. the wolf doesn't even have tits!

hold on, about to chat with mcconnell

in other words, the enemy is fighting a war you started

how does the appropriations bill get through if the chair of the panel that controls military appropriations is currently undead?

there will be lawyers *VANCE: DOL HAS STARTED DOZENS OF H1-B VISA SUBPOENAS TODAY *VANCE ON H1-B VISAS: BIG CORPORATIONS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF IT

Just my take but typically large-scale retaliations that are genuinely large and genuinely retaliatory don't get leaked ahead of time. *IRAN TO LAUNCH 'LARGE-SCALE RETALIATORY' OPS ON US BASES: NOUR

this kind of seems better for everyone, if I’m being honest

because after Hungary closed up shop, London is the epicenter of the International Right-Wing Money Crimes scene

this is just straightforwardly hostage-taking. like sorry yes your campaign is about your principal!

🚨 Ooops, he missed this 👇 post. Quite the ad for his ‘Leaders We Deserve’ op, oh, I mean PAC. 🙄

"Gun safety." Hogg, STFU. You CELEBRATED Mary Peltola's loss in Congress because she wasn't sufficiently pro-gun control, but a guy who opposes an assault rifle ban is your bestie? What a difference a white penis makes. Again.

RFK Jr. is clearly in the Elon musk zone where he has: -enacted policies that have killed tens of thousands of people -is a laughably corrupt person who has committed tons of crimes next Dem president needs to figure out a way to ensure both of them spend the rest of their lives in a prison cell

Every minute Platner waits to get out helps Susan Collins. He and his people are in it for themselves, not the cause.

Before President Obama, Sanders was content to collect his check for naming post offices. A Black man reaching a level of power (and, popularity) he could never hope to achieve himself really sent him into a complete spiral. Then, to be thwarted by A WOMAN?? He’s been in a rage ever since.

Beginning to think Ryan Grim didn't advance Tara Reade's story out of a deep commitment to stopping sexual assault.

All feedback is anonymous. That should go well. Also, I may or may not have sent my own.

It ain’t a “grassroots movement” if your candidate was fished out of a lake then cooked up in a lab.

The Platner campaign, presently

I feel like this GIF just needs one of those dudes bailing water INTO the boat to make this completely appropriate.

They are calling De Gaulle the most vindicated man in Europe.

“we’ve said from the very beginning that this campaign was never about graham”, maybe it should have been, because then you might have done some extremely basic due diligence on him *at any point in the last several months*

if it's never about Graham then his role in the process of replacing himself seems pretty straightforward.

There are some advantages in trying to find a populist guy given the clear statement of the electorate, but the idea of giving a formal role to the people pathetic enough to still be working for Platner rejects itself.

The station in this story (lot is actually 1422 Dreshertown Rd) is owned by Mountain Portfolio Owner PA, LLC, a real estate holding company that, as of a September 9, 2024 bankruptcy filing, was owned and managed by Blue Owl Real Estate Capital, LLC, one of Blue Owl Capital's funds.

After 16 years of Viktor Orbán's rule, Hungary's state television has suspended its news broadcasts for restructuring. The main state TV channel, M1, displayed a black screen with the following message: "Public media must not lie. We apologize for doing so for many years."

The H-1B thing has become a fixation on right-wing social media and is almost always tied to anti-Indian racism, so Vance is encouraging racism against his own wife and children here.

My take? Fuck all these guys. They had a chance to make a graceful exit and refused, now they should never work a respectable campaign again.

(Protecting trans kids is good obviously) And the others are just popular slogans, like you said Even if some of them are good ideas, they are very broad and generalized, more or less on purpose

Medicare for All. Stopping endless wars. Fare-free transit. Protecting Trans Kids. Lowering costs for working families across this country. This is what we are fighting for. Join us.

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

Absolutely everyone around Trump knows that he's an impotent joke

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

If his mommy set him up with a hobby farm to grow microgreens for her restaurant he would have never taken off. It was “oyster farmer” that got him all those headlines, all that free media. Editors, producers, reporters, pundits, they all loved the macho coding of the Gorton’s fisherman.