From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's trade war has cost companies more than $34 billion in lost sales and higher costs, according to a Reuters analysis of corporate disclosures, a toll that is expected to rise. www.reuters.com/business/tru...

I am a staunch free speech supporter. But after ten years of freaking out about woke students deplatforming right-wing speakers, I don't have the energy to pivot to criticizing a fascist president for launching an all-out attack on free expression at universities.

We’ve become so desensitized to corruption that the Attorney General who spent years lobbying on behalf of Qatar approved a private jet gift from Qatar and it’s not even in the top 10 scandals of the week.

Stop taking this administration at its word

Lol my dude @daveweigel.bsky.social Biden gave entire addresses the media refused to air. When he did give press conferences, journalists like yourselves wasted time asking him about Trump. You are addicted to him. www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...

The article describes the DeSantises as having a priority to cut programs for the poor, then claim they are reducing govt spending while taking that money for themselves, their own campaigns and their rich friends’ companies. That should sound familiar as it’s the same DOGE, Trump playbook.

If you’re attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke about the toddler cancer patient they just disappeared despite her being a citizen. Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.

Kristi Noem billed South Dakota taxpayers more than $640,000 in personal travel-related costs, including a six-day trip to Paris, a bear hunt in Canada, a trip to Houston for dental work to fix her smile, and a book tour. But she can afford a $50,000 Rolex for a prison porn photo op in El Salvador.

The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...

the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed

The administration is flagrantly violating Article I and Article III of the constitution on an hourly basis now. Whatever you want to call the system of government that represents, it's neither "democracy" nor a "constitutional republic."

BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion federal BEAD program that aims to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept. He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:

Schumer's whole plan, in his words, is "I am focused on bringing Trump’s numbers down, his popularity down, exposing what he has done to America and what he will do," but when asked about specifics like Columbia & Khalil, he leaps to Trump's defense while admitting he doesn't even know the details.

Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is doing a national town hall tour. On Saturday he stopped in Omaha, Nebraska, where the crowd was thrilled to welcome him. Gov. Walz was happy and excited to meet with voters, but noted Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon’s failure to face his…

MAGA in a single image

"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say

Signs you might be a far white authoritarian party (#3138):

The Real Level Set! Do us all a favor, America. Next time, don’t stay home. Get your ass to the polls and make sure your family and friends do too. That’s what Black folks do.

more and more i think the trump's actual revenge tour is against the american people www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/b...

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

Literally impossible that @nytimes.com did not know about this person’s political activity when he was interviewed. It’s misleading to the public.

Could someone place an order for 100 more Jasmine Crocketts for overnight delivery to the Democratic Party thx in advance

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

If you’ve been scolded by the Pope AND by the Auschwitz Memorial in the same week, it’s time to take a minute and reconsider your choices.

“Because the career incentives of elite opinion journalism are such that there will always be upwards mobility for someone like me who criticizes Democrats more than Trump”

There are a lot of things going on with Target’s financial performance (mostly: it’s a poorer shopping experience than it used to be and vs Amazon) but it’s also one of the clearest examples of execs pursuing conservative “anti woke” ideologies that have alienated loyal consumers.

This is a good time to remind everyone that this administration hasn't done anything for anyone. It has literally only taken away things we've already paid for and fired and sued people. Oh and the quid pro quo with Adams. That's the extent of what they have done. Kinda nuts.

Trump’s economic policy is explicitly recessionary. Drastic reduction in govt spending plus tariffs equals recession. Journalists should call this out @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

The news won’t report on it, and the opposition won’t talk about it, but OVERT, OPEN white supremacy and neo-Nazism are the ideologies guiding the White House right. They’re not disguising it in policy, and they’re not hiding their interactions with Nazis and white supremacists.

These dummies could have had a compliant corporate Dem with literal Uber lobbyists on her staff and instead they did school shootings and measles

The order effectively bars celebrating anyone who happens to be Black, which is clearly the goal, for those not paying attention.

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

They’re doing project 2025, just like we said they would

None of the MSM coverage I've seen of RFK's confirmation comes close to explaining how loony he is and how loony this is. And they worry about losing trust.....

Because when republicans win, they always have a mandate. And when Democrats win, they have a duty to reach across the aisle. This is consistently how their victories are portrayed, no matter the margin.

Dems are pretty moderate already, but I think most voters don't know that because Dems are associated with the most unpopular beliefs on the left while voters simply will not believe republicans are extreme even when they hire outright white supremacists bsky.app/profile/sema...

Eric Adams is so obviously corrupt - and this deal in itself was so blatantly corrupt - that even Trump’s handpicked people won’t do it. Adams has got to go. Hochul, come ON.

Nobody can actually explain why presidential behavior that would have been A1, 144-point scandal for weeks in any other other presidential term - INCLUDING TRUMP’S FIRST - is suddenly barely noteworthy. It’s incredibly clear this is true, but no one in media seems curious what’s happening.

Love this. The idea that Dems have gone “too far left” on these things is taken as gospel in Washington but isn’t really reflected in any voter polling

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

Pretty damn good framing for Dems

The question is why was Popular Information the first to break this news and not all the legacy prestige papers that dominate Washington?

Nearly a trillion dollars would go directly from the poor in need of medical care to millionaires and billionaires. That's who they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

We are literally reliving 2017. Am I not the only one seeing this?

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.