Property rights would kill the industry. Does that tell you what the industry is, finally??
HappyToast@happytoast.co.uk · last yr.The latest in a long line of terrible humans seeing if they can destroy people lives before asking if they should. If only sociopaths were seen as bad instead of rewarded.
Again, folks seem not to grasp how much this is a total collapse of the Constitutional order. A random private citizen is running the "Cabinet" meeting of POTUS & the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments, & going around unplugging large portions of the government. And we're all just 🤷♂️
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2y agoThis man is barely even a formal government employee, let alone elected or Senate-confirmed. A total failure of the Constitutional order, just broadcast & normalized by every major media outlet.
Three things worth knowing about the current fiscal debate: 1. When they're talking about savings, the numbers are usually billions (though sometimes millions). 2. When they're talking about tax cuts, the numbers are usually trillions. 3. A trillion is a thousand times larger than a billion.
The government punishing a law firm for defending a client seems like the kind of tyranny we fought a revolution against.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW: President Trump moved Tuesday to punish a law firm for providing pro bono legal services to Jack Smith as he prepared to face a potential investigation from the Trump administration. He is stripping security clearnces and govt funding from the firm. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
I might have asked this before but if you buy a pickup are you required to sign something that says you will back into every parking spot
Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending www.economist.com/finance-and-... From The Economist
Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending
DOGE has so far disrupted everything in government bar the deficit
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In a functioning democracy, a President who pardoned a mob that assaulted the Capitol while trying to overturn the election, and who then fired the prosecutors who put them behind bars, would be removed from power.
Old Guard Democrats on the hill need to get over their prejudice against digital media and content creators if they want to amplify their messages. Get on every podcast every day. Build audiences. Create a massive digital messaging network. Adapt or get left behind.
The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research! That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
to recap: — Trump was *for* the TikTok ban — which the GOP Congress passed — and the GOP Supreme Court upheld — and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway — so that Trump could "save" it — and the media fell for it we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
Trump has made tens of billions of dollars from a fake social media company that has no revenue and a meme coin that is literally nothing, like actual nothing, like it has no use at all and doesn't actually exist on Earth in any way, and I think that's great!
Melania Trump declined Jill Biden’s invitation for tea at the White House, and yet I haven’t seen a single Republican call her out for disrespecting “protocol.”
✨GOOD NEWS ALERT✨ A young Black woman from the University of Minnesota, Salma Abdi, just won THE TOP PRIZE for college students studying #economics. This is a big deal because Black women don't even make up 1% of economics #phd graduates. She is a member of @sadiecollective.bsky.social 💜 #econsky
DAWSON GARCIA - logo three beats the buzzer and Michigan, first B1G win for the Gophers, first B1G loss for Michigan
Four takeaways from Jack Smith's special counsel report on Trump's attempt to overturn his loss of the 2020 election. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...
Takeaways From Jack Smith’s Report on the Trump Election Case
Jack Smith wrote that Donald Trump would have been convicted had the case been allowed to proceed and explained why he didn’t pursue charges of incitement of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
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1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox General Mills Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft
10 corporations that kept their promises after January 6, 2021
After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, hundreds of corporations took action to communicate to the public that democracy itself was more important than maximizing their po...
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Someone recently asked me what's the point of having two or three buttons on a tailored jacket if the bottom-most button isn't meant to be fastened? It's easier to understand style if you think of it in terms of social language, not purely as function. Let me give you some examples. 🧵
In Kenya, India, Brazil and dozens of other countries, snakes vie for the same land, water and sometimes food as people, with devastating consequences. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/h...
In Africa, Danger Slithers Through Homes and Fields (Gift Article)
Venomous snakes bite millions of people each year, killing at least 120,000. Many of them are poor people in rural areas of Africa without easy access to treatment.
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NYFed paper: Trump's previous tariff announcements caused large declines in US stock market returns, and had a negative effect on the U.S. economy that is substantially larger than past estimates libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2024/12/usin...
Two years ago today we were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for protecting The US Capitol on January 6th 2021. Almost 4 years later the efforts to downplay, whitewash and minimize what happened appear to be succeeding. I won't ever stop standing up to them.
The Venn diagram between “seed oils are evil”, “statins are evil”, “sunscreen is evil” “fluoride is evil”, and “vaccines are evil”… is a circle.
Tfw you forget you’re the one who signed the USMCA (oops!) www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump promises a 25% tariff on products from Mexico, Canada
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive order imposing a 25% tariff on all products coming in to the United States from Mexico and Canada.
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oh lmao this is real. alt text: Tweet from Elon Musk: It is laughably easy to take down fighter jets. “Stealth” means nothing if you use elementary AI with low light sensitivity cameras. They aren’t invisible.
Keubiko 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦💪@keubiko.bsky.social · 2y ago🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌
I don’t know how the gophers game will end except that’s it’s gonna be so, so stupid
