Does anyone believe this sh*t?

"A billionaire income tax garnered the most support across party identification....two out of three (67%) Americans supported the tax including 84% of Democrats, 64% of Independents, and 51% of Republicans. In national polls, a wealth tax had similarly high levels of support."

More evidence that negotiating with fascists buys time, but not safety. www.golocalprov.com/news/Brown-R...

Actual 2025 tariff rates are, to date, far less than statutory rates, but the costs of the tariffs are mostly borne by the US – estimated tariff pass-through to US prices in 2025 is 94%. Tariffs on imports act like a 1 to 2pp tax on US manufacturing. brentneiman.com/research/GN2...

Most realistic tweet

Good morning and happy Saturday. This is your holiday week reminder that it is in fact Saturday! 😂😂

So many positive externalities from a billionaire tax!

It was a dozen tomahawks ($1.2 million each) to create some craters in fields in Northern Nigeria and give the White House a Christian nationalist Christmas message.

Can someone please turn this fraud machine off?

Elon’s white knight “cyber” simp Mike Benz/Frame Game tries to defend Russia, is loudly and stupidly wrong. A play in 3 acts.

If you think Russia is a security or geopolitical threat, supporting Ukraine is a cheap way to bleed Russia.

NATO chief Mark Rutte warns a China–Taiwan war could push Russia to strike Europe at the same time. He says Russia’s small gains in Ukraine came at huge cost—and backing Ukraine now is far cheaper than facing a stronger Russia later.

I saw something that said 60% of folks who lost their jobs in development sector this year have not yet found another one. Saw another thing that said that 25% of people who lose their jobs after age 50 never find another another job.

When nobody loves you www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Every time I go to the mall in holiday season, I become Walt Whitman.

A thread on losing dads. open.substack.com/pub/patrickw...

Jfc

I honestly think this was the best gift I received. A selection of fine seltzer from my 15yo.

Merry Christmas!

What? What? You're being weird. It's totally normal.

Send help.

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Below is the contingency list of programs that will now get funding. It includes the childcare subsidy program, the pay equity fund for childcare workers, affordable housing, and $21 million to delay benefit cuts for some people on the D.C. Healthcare Alliance program.

Marco Rubio is an historically bad Secretary of State. He's making history here. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Saying Bari Weiss is bad at her job is misunderstanding what her job is. Delong with a good observation. open.substack.com/pub/braddelo...

Did one Trump loyalist complain about the President being a pedophile and a rapist? Or was it just handled badly?

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Good thread here. total incoherence and rake-stepping from Trump on tariffs. And he's also made tariffs the centerpiece of all foreign and economic relations, so the pollution is comprehensive.

SURPRISE!

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Versions of this story are playing out in many countries in Africa, which has a young, underemployed population and is supplying a lot of low and moderately-trained staff to more developed countries. This is a big and important trend, reflects demographics. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w...

Radio Free America broadcasting from sites along the US-Canada border. Trump tried to jam the signal but DOGE fired all the technicians.

Oh so it wasn't trans people?

“When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Yes. Vance is worse than Trump.

America was greatest when it was an agrarian society with a small manufacturing sector. Trump is achieving this greatness.

I recently walked into a bar, and as the door opened as blast of cigarette smoke overcame me. It was like walking into 1985. My eyes started watering and my throat tightened up. The owner said she's one of a couple hundred bars in PA with a waiver. They have to apply ever 6 months. 1/

The heavy hitter liars of X are pushing Georgia stolen election rumors equating procedural violation around election workers signing tabulator machine tapes, to missing signatures on mail-in ballots. They’re playing clips of the Trump-Raffensperger call as if it was normal. No Community Notes.

The only pictures of Donald Trump looking relaxed and happy are with Epstein. They were best friends. It was probably the only emotionally intimate relationship Trump ever had.

This feels like ICE operators get credit toward their quotas for making arrests, but don't get any consequences for making bad arrests.

Didn't match the type. So ugly and half-assed. Like everything he does.

He's putting his idiot name on the Kennedy Center. But, to be honest, I'm more outraged, really ENRAGED, that he put his ugly name on the US Institute of Peace. Both will be wiped away, like birdsh*t from a windshield, as soon as he's gone. But, my anger will never be quenched.

Todd Blanche rn

worried about the economic disruption and jobless economy that AI will cause? There's one old-fashioned tool that can handle it. open.substack.com/pub/theargum...

when you can't call a thing its true name and you write and write and write around it.

This is a pretty good take on the Trump NSS by @adamtooze.bsky.social. It's actually 3 distinct regional approaches (probably written by different factions): 1. Great power accommodation with regions of influence. 2. US just owns Latin America. 3. Ideological warfare with and within Europe.

Taking a big old sip of coffee in the morning

Incredible stuff here.

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...