Alittlejazzbird
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i keep thinking about a post i saw from someone who basically said “never mind tariffs making things more expensive, people don’t realize there are lots of things that will simply cease to be available at any price”
The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours:
April 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
i keep thinking about a post i saw from someone who basically said “never mind tariffs making things more expensive, people don’t realize there are lots of things that will simply cease to be available at any price”
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Look if we’re ignoring Supreme Court rulings then every American woman has a right to an abortion again
April 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Look if we’re ignoring Supreme Court rulings then every American woman has a right to an abortion again
And there doesn’t appear to be a single thing anyone can do about it. 😡
NBC News confirms: An IRS employee affiliated with Elon Musk's DOGE has accessed an IRS system that holds sensitive taxpayer information. @msnbc.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
And there doesn’t appear to be a single thing anyone can do about it. 😡
Excellent thread, and a reminder that America has faced authoritarian creep before.
One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
November 20, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Excellent thread, and a reminder that America has faced authoritarian creep before.
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Just to be clear: the incoming Trump administration is going to war against their own Republican senate majority and the constitution's advice and consent provision so they can make a man investigated for ***sex trafficking a minor*** into the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country.
November 15, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Just to be clear: the incoming Trump administration is going to war against their own Republican senate majority and the constitution's advice and consent provision so they can make a man investigated for ***sex trafficking a minor*** into the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country.
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Leonard Leo’s new conservative movement is declaring war on liberal America. After their success with overturning abortion rights, they’re now setting their sights on everything from gay marriage to access to contraception.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Meet Leonard Leo – Trump’s most powerful weapon in his religious war on woke
With ties to the controversial Project 2025 and as a kingmaker of the Supreme Court, the faith-driven operator is the spider at the centre of the new conservative movement declaring war on liberal Ame...
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Leonard Leo’s new conservative movement is declaring war on liberal America. After their success with overturning abortion rights, they’re now setting their sights on everything from gay marriage to access to contraception.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...