Less than 2 weeks in and 25% tariffs our close allies + 10% on China.

Plus a (credible) promise that they will go even higher when there is (inevitable) retaliation.

It’s hard to decide if this is worse economic policy or foreign policy.

We’ll see if Trump caves to the market.

Why the fuck are we talking about making Canada a 51st state, while Puerto Rico and Washington DC are RIGHT THERE WAITING????

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.

—Louis Brandeis, Former Justice of the Supreme Court

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Pete Buttigieg told Democrats to not allow themselves to be so outraged by the Trump administration that they would neglect working for their constituents. “We cannot be mesmerized by the worst things that we see happening,” Buttigieg said.

Dr. Mack literally wrote the book on end of the universe scenarios, and she did it with brilliance, good humor, and enough bone-chilling fear to make it scary. And, well, fun.

Anyways, if you want a crisis, read her book.

NGC 7331 and the Deer Lick Group is an unbarred spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Always captured from my backyard.

🔭 ED127 Apo f/7.5
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⏲️ 4h40 exposure
🖥️ Siril + Gimp

The Western Veil Nebula, also called the Witches Broom Nebula, from last night. Not a great capture of it - I had to push the processing quite a bit to bring it out. Settings and details in the alt. #Astronomy #Astrophotography #Space

Decoupling healthcare and survival income from employment is key. Regardless of your job, each person deserves a fighting chance with a basic income floor and affordable healthcare.

Instead of providing mere survival, our jobs should fuel our passions and dreams beyond survival.

Mike Johnson, the current GOP nominee to be Speaker of the House, started his legal career by opposing no-fault divorce in Louisiana.

So weird how as soon as the pandemic started it became very immediately clear that things like socialized medicine and giving people money so children don’t starve actually work really well but now that it’s been a couple years we have to all pretend we didn’t notice that

The @nytimes.com should issue a correction of this factually incorrect claim that Biden and Trump “met with striking auto workers.” Trump held a campaign rally at a non union shop and did not lend support to the strike. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/u...