This is a scam to enable him to impose tariffs. He and his sycophants like Bessant will respond to objections or lawsuits by accusing their adversaries of being in favor of forced-labor.
'Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.'
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The Trump WH is starting to reap what it has sown in terms of screwing over counterparties:
-Iran can't trust a negotiated settlement so why reach one?
-Ds in Congress can't trust Trump to follow the law so why bargain w/him?
-Universities see past deals leading to future shakedowns so why make one?
"It’s almost as if Trump felt that, as a would-be dictator, he had to have his own nihilistic war, just like his idol Vlad Putin. But Trump’s 'excursion' against Iran is nothing like Putin’s years long 'special military operation' against Ukraine — it’s actually more stupid." — @davidrlurie.com
This cheesy propaganda video looks like it was created by 16-year-olds with a target audience of 12-year-olds. Is this supposed to distract us from a massacre of 165 children, squandering a billion dollars a day, Hegseth ranting about "lethality," and fast rising gas prices?
Major tone shift at ABA white collar conference boycotted by Trump DOJ: Big Law leaders took turns teeing off on diminished state of corporate enforcement & politicized prosecutions, as judges start trusting defense counsel more than gov't. My dispatch: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Imagine a world where Americans were smarter and didn’t applaud when reactionary idiot Ronald Reagan made a show out of removing the solar panels Jimmy Carter had installed on the White House. We wouldn’t now have to worry about affording to fill gas tanks next month.
A group of us in the Senate are demanding public hearings on Trump's disastrous war with Iran with Secretary Hegseth and Rubio. And we've introduced a half dozen war powers resolutions to force the Senate to vote every day on the war if the hearings don't happen.
When the United States military kills children, it makes people hate the United States, and that does the opposite of advancing our interests. Hegseth’s “lethality” obsession is stupid – from a strictly military perspective.
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"[Each is] not just a weak choice but literally the worst possible choice, the person guaranteed to do maximal harm to the interests of the country & the purposes for which their department exists. In short, we have never seen quite the collection of clowns, cranks, & crooks that Trump has assembled
A cabinet with one or two catastrophic picks like Noem, Hegseth, RFK, or Bondi would be among the worst in American history. All of them at the same time? Unlike anything we've ever seen.
My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cabi...
Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio: ICE concentration camps are an exercise in profiteering off human misery.
Savage.
And accurate.
And deserving.
Can anyone remind me which Black Mirror episode this is from? At least there's a bit of humor in the upper right corner. That's humor, right? It can't be serious, as we are all definitely doomed.
Anyone else tired of being forced to find out when they did not fuck around?
Remember when conservatives demanded the US get out of the UN because it impinged on our "sovereignty"? Looks like Trump has turned over control of our military to Netanyahu. Any objections, Republicans? Or does this fit into your rapture planning?
Thanks! Here's a handy meme.
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Probably just the result of excessive golfing
Probably just the result of excessive golfing
Same here. A debate scholarship got me out of Arkansas, leading ultimately to an academic career (for good or ill).
Same here. A debate scholarship got me out of Arkansas.
When Trump claimed Iran bombed their own girls school, seems like a good follow up Q would be - “did they bomb their own hospitals also?”
NEW: An inmate overheard guards talking about covering up Epstein’s death. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.
This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.
(🎥 Vahid Online)
With @rachellaser.bsky.social of Americans United on all the many many ways church is crowding out state, and why it all started at SCOTUS
He has better plans for his new ballroom than he has for his new war.
He's never in his life been dignified.
He wanted to double down on his disrespect for fallen soldiers.
