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Rudi Dornbusch. Dornbusch's law: “Crisis takes longer to happen than you can possibly imagine, then happens quicker than you can possibly imagine” from @pkrugman.bsky.social newsletter on why capital markets reaction has been so muted as the pillars of US exceptionalism are destroyed.
The shooter was posting about shooting up the church for a month and the FBI was too busy doing Trump’s dirty work to flag it. Now I know for sure if that happened under a Democrat that failure is all we’d be talking about right now.
If you thought that Peter Thiel had disappeared from DC, think again. “[T]he most coveted invitation for a MAGA gay in Washington is to one of the parties that Mr. Thiel… has been throwing at his mansion near Embassy Row.” 8/28/25 … 1/
Is that the kill all vulnerable and or elderly Americans agenda? Didn’t see that one in the project 25 manifesto.
Folks enjoy the upcoming LD weekend—it’s well earned. But after that we must band together to protest the actions of the administration to degrade and undermine the institutions that made USA extraordinary. 9/6/25 is the day we show them we’re mad as hell and we’re not gonna take it anymore!! Lessgo
The only reason this country sees socialism as bad is because of the Oligarchy pushing their message.
🔵 So tragic 😭💔 Vote Blue 🗳
Band together on September 6, 2025 to show them we are mad as hell and won’t take it anymore! #9/6/2025
Band together on September 6, 2025 to show them we are mad as hell and won’t take it anymore! #9/6/2025
This politico is a clown.
Band together on 9/6/25 to let them know we’re mad are mad as hell and were not gonna take it anymore
Crackhead says what??
NEW: Trump is flying Indiana state legislators into DC to beg for a gerrymander. This proves his “strong-man” act is a sham. The president is historically unpopular, desperate, and terrified of voters.
Band together to let them know we’re mad as hell and won’t take it anymore: 9/6/25
The hits don’t quit #9/6/25
Folks enjoy the upcoming LD weekend—it’s well earned. But after that we must band together to protest the actions of the administration to degrade and undermine the institutions that made USA extraordinary. 9/6/25 is the day we show them we’re mad as hell and we’re not gonna take it anymore!! Lessgo
Just like the felon
FEMA employees were just placed on leave after criticizing the Trump regime in open letter. Their letter was meant to "sound the alarm" about inexperienced appointees and drastic cuts to agency programs. Like all tyrants in history, Trump wants to squelch dissent.
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
“.. ‘I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health,’ Daskalakis wrote in his letter.” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/hea...
The hits just keep on coming. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight. In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well. Here are from two of the resignations:
“If it can happen to her, it can happen to anyone. ... What analyst in their right mind is going to write something that in any way challenges ... what they think the administration’s view is if they think they’re going to get fired over it?” wapo.st/3JVtsXq
One measure of politicized systems is that civil servants become unwilling to provide information that their political principals dislike, putting those principals in an information bubble. This is exactly the mechanism that creates such bubbles.
Terrible news for public health. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/n... Release the Epstein files
If coverage of an authoritarian regime only focuses on the targets of that regime, and not the means by which they are targeted, and the motivations of those doing the targeting, it normalizes authoritarian processes and functionaries. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...
Why do these dudes always look like aggrieved thugs?
A Trump donor, now a regulator, leads effort to accuse president's foes of mortgage fraud
Hit the bricks, Mario! Go back to westchester
1/ A high-profile rightwing activist, who pushed to overturn Trump’s loss in 2020, has been appointed to a top position in the Department of Homeland Security helping oversee U.S. election security, I reported for @propublica.org. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/heat...
I’m with #Pritzker
Say it louder for the people in the back!!
The New York Times thought "Harvard President Might've Paraphrased Instead of Cited Many Years Ago" was the biggest story in the country for multiple days, requiring numerous top headlines and follow-on pieces. Then, as now, a noticeable variable was Black Woman in Prestigious Job.
Owner Jeff Bezos and publisher Will Lewis said the Washington Post would be reoriented around advocacy for personal liberty and free markets. Did anyone think that meant they'd prominently cover violent crackdowns on personal liberty and state intervention into free markets? If so, you were wrong.
Ride the lunatic and his acolytes is more like it
Jeffries is so disappointing.
Budget cutting conservatives? Huh? Didn’t they just pass the biggest spending bill ever? Won’t it bloat the debt even more? Smh
. A general strike only works if EVERYONE does it. You can’t sit back and expect others to sacrifice for you. Our parents & grandparents endured worse y’all are soft if you think missing work is too much. #GeneralStrike #NorthKorea #FEMA .
. So anyway 🥱 EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN .
Wish his mom had hugged this loser
JS is such a has been, does anyone watch this shite?
Do we get a big cut of spaceX?
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Great riff, Steve!!
TikTok ain't it, they keep trying to ban me for this stuff, trying out Instagram because that's where I initially got traction from someone else's account but Blue Sky feels right. Halp?
About time! Funny how this change of heart coincides with not running for reelection.
Another fail by @nytimes.com
“It’s never just Donald Trump or Trump blowing through the guardrails. It’s the fact that people - and institutions like the Republican-controlled Supreme Court - enabled him, often by eliminating or weakening the guardrails before he bulldozed right through them.” @leahlitman.bsky.social
Republican controlled House, republican Senate, SCOTUS, a number of republican governors too have failed us because they claimed to care for the US constitution and the country at large though everything they do is to undermine the public
It’s wild to me that this little clown has any following but I guess saying stupid sh!t attracts a lot of malcontents
When will the military say, enough?
Ominous: Trump and Stephen Miller are very clearly working to acclimate Americans to the spectacle of US troops in US cities, to the idea of the military carrying out domestic enforcement on US citizens. Harrowing stuff from @vermontgmg.bsky.social in this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1995...
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Americans broadly hate all of this, and we all gotta remember that when it feels like things are spinning out of control
California voters are leaning YES on the redistricting ballot. 48% in favor, only 32% opposed. People get it. The narrative is on our side. Remember: CA puts it to the voters. Texas skipped the people. Ours is a one-time fightback that returns to the commission. Texas’ gerrymandering is permanent.
Sounds like it to me!
Felon!!
Shilling is what she does. Does anyone still watch her show?
Nutlick thinks he’s so clever when we all know he’s so not. As if anyone listening doesn’t see this greasy used car salesman as nothing more than a simp for the fellow.
#Nutlick is the biggest simp for the felon. Can you believe this guy ran one of the biggest bond shops Cantor Fitz? Would you have given him any money? He seems deranged especially as he defames Mrs. Cook! I hope she files a suit against him and the admin stet!
Never forget
This sort of admission—the VP is involved in prosecutorial decisions, the "concerns" arise from political actors, and the administration knows they don't have probable cause—would have prompted the Founders to impeach everyone involved.
The futon f-er lies with a sense of impunity only found in psychopaths
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
7/ One by one, each of the DOGE members one-upped each other with outrageous — yet often inaccurate — examples of government waste. With each story, host Jesse Watters egged them on, raising his eyebrows in disbelief. Every so often, the team would burst into laughter.
Didn’t someone say, democracy dies in darkness? 🤨
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... The supermajority has granted Trump 18 straight victories in the administration’s requests for emergency relief. Steve Vladeck has tracked the decisions in his Substack, One First, noting that the rulings have been handed down largely in the legal darkness.
The display of asskissing is unparalleled in the history of my universe. How empty and weak does a person have to be to require this sort of display? How weak does a person have to be to indulge him? Thank you South Park for pushing back! #BTG #Pinks #RESIST #SouthPark youtu.be/sEJpQQVJecI?...
From reporter Aimee Cho: "Just saw DC Police + federal agents detain a man on the National Mall. He appeared to try to escape, was tackled to the ground by several agents and was screaming in Spanish, 'please, I’m not a criminal, I work here, I want to be with my family'" x.com/AimeeCho4/st...
ICE detain U.S. citizen at California car wash—"I remember thinking I was going to die." Agents shot tear gas at him & tackled him to the ground—he can be heard yelling out "I can’t breathe" as they pinned him to ground. He insists he did not assault anyone—and video proves it.
Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
DC POLICE CHIEF: "In my nearly three decades in law enforcement, I have never seen a single government action that would cause a greater threat to law and order than this dangerous directive." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Why is Vp futon vacationing in England? What’s wrong with ‘Merica? How many vacation does this guy take? Do you think he knows he’s widely reviled?
More performative BS from the faux news administration
Bonkers
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/o...
Notice they don’t deny it. Corruption and grift at every turn. 🇺🇸
We are off to a good start here... Since Antoni is a Heritage stooge, the Senate hearings for this nominee should be lit, right? Trump to nominate EJ Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner share.google/4gkLR0Dvjm5e... Still: #ReleaseTheFiles #LetSurvivorsTestify
This is the type of data we will be losing access to if Antoni is confirmed. usafacts.org/answers/what...
I've leave it to the smart people to explain how terrifying Trump's nomination EJ Antoni to run BLS is. But the garbage in-garbage out problem seems important. Trump is implementing Heritage 2025's policies, all of them. Now Antoni will tell us those policies are working when they aren't.
"Antoni is the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation. He has been a relentless booster of Trump’s policies on social media. And he has demonstrated time and again that he does not understand economic statistics." With embarrassing examples from trade, employment, LFP, UI.... [Dominic Pino, NRO]
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... Another evisceration of the administration’s penchant for charlatans, grifters and misogynists!
💯 wanker
Conservative legal luminary Jack Goldsmith points out that Justice Barrett's opinion in the universal injunction case rests on an error: For the purposes of historical analysis, she looked at the wrong statute and got the relevant date wrong by nearly *a century.* papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Uh-oh.
Angus King is a big talker who hasn't met the moment. Not by a long shot. He's had a long, storied career. He'll likely never run again. There's simply no excuse. tinyurl.com/5mjhmaev #MEpolitics
The CBO’s final dynamic score: “.. Because the bill’s red ink is not offset by more spending cuts or new revenue, CBO found, the legislation will drive up interest rates.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
We saw this in Massachusetts with fear-mongering over the millionaire's tax, and yet... www.masslive.com/politics/202...
Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.
Truth 💥
💯 GOP aka Guardians of the pedophiles
Republicans have sold us out at every chance they’ve gotten
Holy shit. The Justice Department's inspector general "received, but did not act upon, a potentially explosive set of allegations" against Emil Bove "for more than two months." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
No wonder Adam's polls at 7% He's a 🤡 who doesn't get it and now is trying to buy votes with his sudden interest in dog shelters (City finds $1m for this), the 15 mph cap on citibikes and other stuff to show he cares about NYers. But we all know it's just an election year performance.
"You probably wouldn’t set $87 trillion on fire to save $1 trillion. But then again, you probably aren’t Administrator Lee Zeldin’s Environmental Protection Agency." @markgongloff.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
I got to speak with Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social on The Hopium Chronicles @hopiumchronicles.bsky.social about ... LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes! A great convo bridging politics & law! www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/how-the-ro...
"We are reminded that no matter how strong our gun laws are in this state, we are only as safe as the weakest laws in this nation." Zohran Mamdani