Asked my smart economist friend about how #TrumpTariffs help Americans or even the rich, because I couldn't see it, and he said, "It doesn't. He's destroying stuff. It doesn't benefit anyone...except our enemies."

Make like the South Koreans. And the Israelis.

Show the world that we can stand up for ourselves.

April 5, everywhere:

handsoff2025.com

Hegseth says women are a liability in combat. Gabbard says DEI puts lives at risk. Waltz warns DEI will destroy military readiness.

Then they all turn around and share classified war strategy in a Signal thread.

They don’t fear “low standards.” They fear accountability.

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.

I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

Yea, when you put the show behind a paywall, no wonder you are loosing audience.

theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...

In America, we don’t pledge loyalty under threat of consequence.

President Trump is considering declaring a national “economic emergency” to justify implementing a series of universal tariffs and establishing the Department of Government Efficiency.

I find it a tad ironic that Trump may let Elon Musk's dweeby minions root through Medicare payment systems, supposedly to root out fraud, when Trump himself granted clemency to perhaps the biggest Medicare crook in US history.

"...a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."

FDR 1938

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

Absolute insanity. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

just start saying this plainly to more people

i'm serious.

On 21 March 1933 Adolf Hitler was officially sworn in as chancellor of Germany. The same day he pardoned 8,000 Nazis, who had committed violent acts, starting with the failed Hitler coup on 8 November 1923.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

Our first "It Can Happen Here" video of the new era. Maybe we should rename it "I Told You So." Please give it a look and repost to share with others.

youtube.com/shorts/T4CCV...

Sunday’s Zoom with @hcrichardson.bsky.social was full of wisdom on how to navigate 2025—focus on what you can control, find your people, and never stop learning. So, what’s your game plan to make it through the year?

@peter-berger.bsky.social just made the most important video you can watch today? this week? this year?

🚨STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WATCH IT🚨

s/o to the rest of the production/reporting team too: @timothypmurphy.bsky.social @samveep.bsky.social @jamespwest.bsky.social

Sitting Congressman calls for *deportation* of clergy member for daring to include in her sermon a plea for Trump to show mercy to immigrants.

Totally normal, well-adjusted human being stuff here. Truly.