"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women."  —FDR, 1932

Good morning 🫡

Shameful

I promise that a majority of us in the EU would welcome you with open arms. Canada is a steadfast ally who can be trusted.

Absolutely, I'm Swedish and the general opinion here is that we can't trust the US as an ally anymore.

The president is hawking fragrances while the State of Florida is celebrating its first concentration camp by handing out swag. I'm rooting for the asteroid now more than ever. #DontStopBelieving 🤞

i cannot emphasize enough that if you thought trump would bring the war to a close or even make headway on a peace agreement then you are among the dumbest people alive www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The rest of the world has run out of patience with Trump.

The USA is running out of patience with Ukraine for being bombed by Russia.

Same shit, different century. Who will be left to speak out for us when they come for us?

I love this! 👇🏻

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

I thought this was an Onion headline. I had to double check 🤦 Fiddling while Rome burns comes to mind

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

Trump accidentally called his estranged former National Security Adviser, H.R. McMaster — and then cursed him out when he realized what had happened, according to CBS News on Wednesday night. Phones are hard ... allegedly. www.rawstory.com/trump-hr-mcm...

Historians wept. 🗃️

How are you americans handling this bullshit? it's one lie after another while destroying the country.

All this "fraud" and yet still not a single fraud charge filed.

It's alteady happening here in Sweden. Lots of ppl avoid "made in the U.S.A." things. Lots have cancelled Amazon Prime and our local grocery store has put Canadian flags by the maple syrup etc.

What deal? I ask with all the open-minded good faith I can muster. As far as I know, the US did not make any trade deal with any country. Even in the most generous interpretation, what deal? What did the US achieve with threatening, imposing, then partially rescinding tariffs?

NEW: An unsigned interagency agreement calls for the Dept of Labor to reimburse the US DOGE Service up to **$1.3 million** for work done by four DOGE affiliates over 18 months. Musk has previously stated that DOGE staffers would cost taxpayers nothing. from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social:

So close to getting it. 🔥 abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

I guess I wasn't invited to this particular Signal chat, but it's clear that a group of people found a reason to start buying about 20 minutes before the tariff pause was announced. Is this the clearest evidence yet of insider trading and mass market manipulation around the tariffs?

Pronouns aren’t real?

I don't think people realize that in important respects tariffs are now higher & more inflationary than what was announced on last Wednesday. Since then we've gone from 54% to 125% on China, our 3rd largest trading partner. That outweighs delaying the increases on 70+ others.

Think about how much of an entitled prick you’d have to be to think calling other human beings “peasants” when you’re the Vice President is an ok thing to do. The world’s worst diplomat strikes again. Also: we don’t borrow money from them. That is nonsense.

New on @MSNBC: The White House will not release the list of 75 countries that have reached out on trade deals, despite requests from NBC News.

Therapist to Karoline: "Are these countries in the room with us now?"

The credibility of the US government is completely shot. Gone. Annihilated. Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration. Ever.

I wonder if Republicans have convinced themselves that showers no longer work because they can never get the stench of unpatriotic complicity off themselves.

Call me skeptical, but I don't think putting a pause on retaliatory tariffs on Saint Pierre and Miquelon, The Falkland Islands, Fiji, Norfolk Island, and Chad is going to counteract the over 100% retaliatory tariffs on our biggest trading partner, China. Seems the markets are being a bit silly.

The Clown Show continues …

Crockett: It has taken Texas’ largest measles outbreak in 30 years with more than 500 confirmed cases and the deaths of two children for the secretary of health and human services to say what we already knew. The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the vaccin

When the President of the United States is on social media screeching "BE COOL!" to the entire world, what sort of idiot does one have to be not to realize he has lost the plot completely and the nation is not in secure hands

So what? They can sell off the chunk of the US dollar they own and tank it. That's what, Mensa.

Who better to lead a counterterrorism center than someone who has aided and supported the right-wing paramilitary movement?

I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”

Very Well Said AOC….

Think about how he had that info on the same device as the Signal app. You know…an unclassified phone.

… did the entirety of the US suffer a massive and simultaneous blow to the head? How is this okay with the “but her emails” crowd?

Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed. That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF. I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.

Truer words were never spoken.

I just heard on French radio “Because the United States is no longer an ally.”