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As of today, import taxes (aka tariffs) have hit their highest level since the Great Depression. Americans are now expected to pay an average of 18.3% more for imported products. Remember when Trump ran on lowering costs?
August 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all. It comes at a time of near-record inequalities of income and wealth.

This budget bill is a nightmare.
The Worst Bill in History
Trump’s giant budget-busting, Medicaid-shattering, shafting-the-poor-and-working-class, making-the-rich-even richer bill
robertreich.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
People with Republican representatives, please call them and stop this disastrous budget bill. youtube.com/shorts/lyDKw...
Bankrupting America
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtube.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.
Shocking But Not Surprising Strikes Again (and Again)
The Caprices of the Oligarchs Shocking but not surprising is a phrase I've often reverted to in the past eight years, for things that are both hideous and predictable, maybe transgressive against the...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
February 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Friends with Republican Congress members, please call your leaders. Or, better yet, visit their local offices, and demand they stop the coup. My leaders are Democrats and have no power right now. I called them anyway, but Red States have more influence! indivisible.org/resource/no-...
CALL NOW: Tell Senate Republicans No More Rubber Stamps for the Trump-Musk Coup
indivisible.org
February 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
February 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/vot...
Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City
It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...
www.mcsweeneys.net
February 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM
The Palestinians said they would begin rehabilitating the derelict property by “clearing out all of the stolen documents and returning them to their rightful owners.”
Palestinians Propose Taking Ownership of Mar-a-Lago
“Right now, Mar-a-Lago is a mess,” the Palestinian spokesman said.
www.borowitzreport.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM