in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Traveling so had to hit the nearest #NoKings demonstration. Here’s New Brunswick, NJ. We walked up and down both sides and roughly counted 1300 in attendance.

Well I’m glad I’m not flying this week!

In absolute earnest, I think terror of “elitism” has put a powerful vocabulary for describing what’s going on here out of play. These people are vulgar, thuggish, unsophisticated, crass, unschooled, unreflective. They are low in a sense that has nothing to do with income, & it’s fine to say so.

This fall will be the first big stress test for US clothing retailers. Trump announced his first big round of tariff hikes on April 2 ("Liberation Day"), after most stores received their spring/summer deliveries. It's an open question how they will handle fall/winter deliveries with 10-145% tariffs.

I understand most people don’t want to leave X because that’s where most other people still are. That just means that it’s a collective action problem; it can be overcome with organizing that brings people together towards non-cooperation. If we can’t even get off X, how can we stop fascism?

In effect, Grok has answered the question: What sort of logically internally consistent worldview does it take to produce content that won’t routinely offend MAGA sensibilities. And the answer is “a Nazi worldview.”

Our only hope is to draw the line now. To stick up for our friends and neighbors, our co-workers and loved ones, who are undocumented and being hunted. If morality or empathy for them is not enough to motivate you, fine. Then let this be your motivation: if you don’t draw this line, you are next.

Data is clear that most GOP voters won't blame the GOP for any of this, but you don't need most. You don't even need a plurality. 1 out of 15 is the house flips. 1 out of 10 and the senate flips.

Introduced the kids to Field of Dreams tonight. On the eve of July 4th, it felt necessary to remember the good of Americana and magic. Also, the scene at the school board meeting decrying the book banners as fascists still slaps.

granting anonymity to a eugenicist nazi using stolen data to expose a then-teenager having filled out his college applications to the best of his knowledge, for which he received no additional gain, everyone involved in publishing this should be fucking ashamed of themselves

I keep getting some combination of this post despite multiple explanations about it. So again: Hospitals operationalize Medicaid finances far into the future. Budget cuts, layoffs, project cancellations, closures, etc. will begin -immediately.-

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

ICE just keeps thinking the videos of these arrests don’t exist. We can see that Lander never laid a hand on anyone.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

A few thousand at Glendale City Hall “No Kings” rally.

Pope Focaccia IX.

again: The man's belief that imports is bad is insane. it really doesn't matter what motivates it (i think it's racial animus towards Foreigners, personally), because he's never gonna let it go. we have to accept that the president is genuinely insane and go from there. bsky.app/profile/sky....

Had half an eye on the #MetGala and Ashley Graham’s outfit is the first outright no. The tailoring is off and the color is just blah.

Trump won't stop raising tariffs. He hasn't gone 30 days without imposing new tariffs of some kind, and has indirectly revealed his plans for tariffs on up-to-$670B in drugs, semiconductors, electronics, lumber, copper, & more www.apricitas.io/p/the-clues-...

I’m really questing Ivanka’s birthdays growing up.

We all looked under our empty trees and exclaimed “Jesus Christ!” And that’s how Donald Trump put Christ back in Christmas.

A regime that so aggressively curtails and ignores fundamental rights for one group today will not hesitate to violate and suspend them for others tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow. It’s never far from “illegal aliens” and “alien enemies” to “the enemy within.”

This infuriates me. Temporarily put aside the ICE issues: this person was failed by the education system. And anyone looking at that signature should have known he was illiterate.

Policy professor here, so let me clarify this: -Presidents *sign* an executive order. -They *pass* gas.

I was shocked recently to learn that many people had never read (or seen) Pride and Prejudice. We need to get this as a critical text in the U.S.: an entire book about having your preconceived notions and world views confronted and then *changing your mind* because of new facts.

Every word of this.

Proof of life. Since this taping, Senator Van Hollen also did not find it. @gbhnews.bsky.social #AbregoGarcia Full recording here: www.youtube.com/live/6C7cmNz...

2020. Today.

I’m wondering how many marriages will fail because of this economic disaster that more men than women voted for.

FUNDSTRAT tonight: “.. in the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers. .. A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”

& it's been stated before, but voters already don't like Trump's behavior/personality, and just tolerated it because they thought he was good at running the economy! If he proves he actually was a moron all along by destroying the economy, it can get ugly for him really quickly.

you could’ve had fun black winemom and a roaring economy, instead you demanded this senile dipshit because someone made fun of ai on twitter short pier, long walk

Cultists and their media bubbles. We need an investigation into why so many people are susceptible to cults. Can we educate our way out of it? Medicate our way out of it?

Feeling very much like I did in early March 2020. I paid attention this time as well and since January have started a garden and slowly built my supply of some essentials (the good tp, my tea preference, sugar, etc.). It won’t be enough but it is better than being hit with the worst all at once.

The faster number goes down to an arbitrary point, the sooner we can get to Congress overruling Trump and Trump lashing out.

Just did my first dexa scan and am horrified to learn just how little bones weigh.

the stock market only does this when it senses extreme danger from its natural predator—Republicans in control of the government.

As I said repeatedly before the election, voting for authoritarianism because you think it’ll boost the stock market just means you’ll end up with a broken democracy and a broken economy.

Looking for the private sector to absorb laid-off federal workers — at the very moment you’re paralyzing sentiment with tariffs — is some A+ sequencing. 🤡 www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/l...

List of countries not subjected to tariffs: Russia Belarus North Korea Cuba They apparently took the time to impose tariffs on several uninhabited islands, so the omissions are extra noteworthy. If you spot others please flag!

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

Closely inspecting the list of tariffs/countries posted by the White House, Trump did not put tariffs on Russia. Ukraine's tariff is 10%, the EU's is 20%, and every American ally is on the list. But not Russia.

At this moment, I’m very glad I started my kitchen garden two months ago (and expanded it this weekend). Will it be enough for a whole family? No. But it will bring some joy and sustenance.

No but to be real it is hugely relieving to me that Elon Musk can't actually buy an election