So, companies have four business days to paint some shovels gold and start ground-breaking on some new multi-billion dollar manufacturing plants.

This is personal to me. My dad worked his entire life but still couldn't afford the care he needed, and delayed going to the doctor at the cost of his own life.

Gold has quietly gone from just over $2,700 an ounce on Trump's inauguration day to just over $3,700 an ounce now. A third of that increase has happened in the last month. People are worried.

The H-1B fee will critically impact the medical field. And that's not even the worst thing in this list.

It's like watching a demented old guy rant and rave and wave around a loaded shotgun. You have no idea what's going to happen next, you just know that it'll be bad.

FYI. Horst Wessel was a member of the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, who became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murder in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany. Joseph Goebbels elevated him into a martyr for the Nazi Party. www.avclub.com/sinclair-abc...

In some places, you need your passport to prove citizenship so that you can vote. Revoke passports for people who speak against the Empire and voila, they're disenfranchised. truthout.org/articles/new...

Just finished Dan McClellan's excellent book "The Bible Says So" and ready to start on John Fugelsang's new book "Separation of Church and Hate". The books have a common theme: Many people who call themselves Christians are running around saying the Bible says this and that when it just ain't so.

Four students were shot today in a Colorado high school. In a separate incident, Charlie Kirk was shot, too. abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-...

Man, I wish I had some Lee Leens! So I could be cool like the high school and college guys. Golly. (November 1970)

He's a walking STD prevention ad, and she is what every parent dreads their daughter becoming. A sellout with no morals whatsoever

Nauseating.

The Scopes Monkey Trial began 100 years ago today. So I guess I'll re-watch this classic film, which is itself 65 years old. I've come to appreciate actor Fredric March. He humanizes Matthew Harrison Brady. Brady's still a jackass, but he's not a cartoon villain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGt7...

Frum: What a tariff is, is the equivalent of hitting yourself in the head. And he’s saying to the world: “We will not stop hitting ourselves in the head unless you all agree to hit yourselves in the head.”

Ted Cruz says there is a time to have political fights, but now is not that time. It's never that time. How are we doing on guns? Since there hasn't been a mass shooting today, maybe now is a good time to talk about it. Because when there is a mass shooting, that's a bad time to discuss.

This is fucked. We should expect other countries to start asking the same of us, or at least requiring a visa for travel, in retaliation. This practice won’t make us any safer and will help Palantir build a social media surveillance system that will be turned on us.

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

if we're truly worried about sleeper cells, why are we devoting so much time, effort and money to rounding up and deporting cancer-stricken children? this is going to be the stupidest fucking war ever

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

I used to be a big fan of SpaceX. Now, not so much. Massive props to the SpaceX engineers, but their boss is evil. Rooting for Elon's Starship feels much like rooting for the Nazis to finish their V2 rocket.

Well we still have famine to look forward to. How great for us.

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

These people are just wrong about literally everything.

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

This is honestly hard to watch.

Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office. Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.

Are we great yet?

In a healthy information environment, this would be front-page news.

It was 80 years ago this month that Nazi Germany surrendered to the US and its allies. Many thousands of men and women in uniform died to bring about V-E Day on May 8. It would have been nice if our sacred war dead had been at least mentioned in this Memorial Day post. 😡

Here we go. If you're under 65, it's time to book a 3-day flight to Canada. And don't tell CBP the reason for your visit. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

OMG. Linda's letter is a ridiculous screed that hits all the usual MAGA bullet points. I'm honestly surprised that it doesn't mention furries and litter boxes. It tries to be sarcastic in places, but the random capitalizations and sentence fragments get in the way.

So, when Jesus returns, what gun do you think he'll go for? I'm thinking not the AR-15 but something more like the Israel Weapon Industry TS-12 semi-auto shotgun. Because Jesus is all about killing large numbers of people quickly, right? Right??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfE0...

I went through some toiletries in our bathroom. Flosser sticks: Made in China. Disposable razors: Made in Mexico with steel from Canada. Everything that we use for personal hygiene is imported or has parts and containers that are imported. Even unexpected stuff is going to soar in price soon.

Susan Rice on Pete Hegseth attacking DEI while betraying his own incompetence: "If you're a white, Christian, cisgender, macho MAGA man, you can be as dumb as a rock and be deemed qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. That's apparently what we've learned from this episode."

It's funny how when you ask them why they think Pope Francis was "too woke" and request specific examples, they always wound up describing Christ's teachings without a hint of self-awareness.

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

The Trump regime keeps upping its Big Lie about wrongly deported Maryland dad Kilmar Abrego Garcia because their entire dictatorial enterprise hinges on proving their ability to crush this one human Until Kilmar is free, no one in America is free. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/kilm...

In a horrific Newsmax interview, Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka says that anyone advocating for Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be returned to the U.S. could be viewed as "technically aiding and abetting" terrorists. "Do you love America, or do you hate America? It’s really quite that simple."

JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

A beautiful song from 1993, referring to the Rodney King beating, but perfectly applicable to the situation now. It ends with a wonderful guitar solo from Tom Morello, followed by a delightful sing-along. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXa...

Here’s the best way to understand what’s happening. Trump genuinely wants to impose a 19th century mercantilist model that would crash the economy and destroy the global trading order but the idea is just so colossally stupid and destructive, he can’t actually do it. So we get this.

Free trade is terrible because it killed the middle class so we need to use tariffs to destroy the economy so we can remake it but tariffs are bad which is why we instituted them because we want other countries to remove theirs so we can have free trade which is great, actually.

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I'm not understanding why the stock market is so exuberant about the 90-day "postponement" of tariffs. 1. Trump added another 10% to the tariffs on Canada and Mexico 2. The tariff on China is now 125% 3. We'll have to go through all of this again in 3 months This is still a disaster.

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line