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Why Trump will fail on the economy
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Why Trump will fail on the economy
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i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
So we’re selling F35s to the Saudis. I s’pose the transfer of tech like this comes with some sort of training. I wonder if that will include how to land the plane…
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
So we’re selling F35s to the Saudis. I s’pose the transfer of tech like this comes with some sort of training. I wonder if that will include how to land the plane…
October 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Jean Arp died on this day in 1966.
June 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Jean Arp died on this day in 1966.
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your regular reminder that authoritarian populism will make your country corrupt and poor. look at Hungary
June 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
your regular reminder that authoritarian populism will make your country corrupt and poor. look at Hungary
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The Hungarian government is about to pass a law that will allow it to destroy the tiny online outlets that represent the last vestiges of independent Hungarian press
444.hu/2025/05/22/v...
444.hu/2025/05/22/v...
Viktor Orbán’s crackdown on free press does not only affect Hungary. It affects all of Europe
The so-called “Transparency Law”, currently pending approval, significantly undermines freedom of expression in Hungary — and its impacts are unlikely stop at the country’s borders.
444.hu
May 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The Hungarian government is about to pass a law that will allow it to destroy the tiny online outlets that represent the last vestiges of independent Hungarian press
444.hu/2025/05/22/v...
444.hu/2025/05/22/v...
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How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?
Im all for em
Well, this club is formed
Im all for em
Well, this club is formed
Everyone has one Mitch Hedberg joke stashed in their brain like a squirrel to sustain them whenever they need to feel joy for 30 seconds and mine is “they say the recipe for Sprite is Lemon and Lime but I tried to make it at home, there’s more to it than that”
May 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?
Im all for em
Well, this club is formed
Im all for em
Well, this club is formed
He likes tariffs because he can impose or remove them unilaterally, making them perfect for extracting payoffs from countries, corporations, or anybody willing to pay the grift to be either exempted, or have them placed on competitors. I’m astonished that this isn't pointed out more often.
April 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
He likes tariffs because he can impose or remove them unilaterally, making them perfect for extracting payoffs from countries, corporations, or anybody willing to pay the grift to be either exempted, or have them placed on competitors. I’m astonished that this isn't pointed out more often.
Gloria Steinem is 91 years old today.
March 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Gloria Steinem is 91 years old today.
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March 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Generally agree with George here, with this clarification.
The economy is at risk *because our freedoms and the rule of law are at risk.
The economy is at risk *because our freedoms and the rule of law are at risk.
That said, the Dems need to find a way to express that they understand, and impress upon others, the moment we are in, when far more than the economy (you know, like our freedoms, and the rule of law) are at stake.
March 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Generally agree with George here, with this clarification.
The economy is at risk *because our freedoms and the rule of law are at risk.
The economy is at risk *because our freedoms and the rule of law are at risk.
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MUST-WATCH: This is the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil from the perspective of his wife, who is 8 months pregnant.
This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech.
@nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social
This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech.
@nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
MUST-WATCH: This is the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil from the perspective of his wife, who is 8 months pregnant.
This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech.
@nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social
This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech.
@nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social
“JD Vance — who lectured Europeans on free speech online, while his own administration was using AI to police the web for dissent!”
The Return Of The McCarthyite Chill
Trump and Vance say they are for free speech. Yeah, right.
open.substack.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“JD Vance — who lectured Europeans on free speech online, while his own administration was using AI to police the web for dissent!”
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When has taxing the rich ever worked?
March 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
When has taxing the rich ever worked?
"Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for." - Clarence Darrow, who died on this day in 1938
March 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for." - Clarence Darrow, who died on this day in 1938
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from senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social chris murphy's recent floor speech, via @davidcorn.bsky.social ...
link.motherjones.com/public/38940...
link.motherjones.com/public/38940...
March 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
from senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social chris murphy's recent floor speech, via @davidcorn.bsky.social ...
link.motherjones.com/public/38940...
link.motherjones.com/public/38940...
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Read my former colleague Ruth Marcus, explaining why she left the Washington Post
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
Why I Left the Washington Post
Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided...
www.newyorker.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Read my former colleague Ruth Marcus, explaining why she left the Washington Post
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...