Quite the claim, but even if the highly dubious "the doctors...lifted the rules" statement is true, it doesn't really explain RFK
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Quite the claim, but even if the highly dubious "the doctors...lifted the rules" statement is true, it doesn't really explain RFK
I participated in conops in the region years ago...never would a cruiser be caught dead in southcom aor
Not clear, like at all, that what we'd end up would be better
What will you do, Senator?
"Our forced, halfhearted, and ultimately toothless threats have yielded no progress so we have no choice but to give up"
Updated this story @taskandpurpose.com. Ohio and South Carolina are joining West Virginia in sending National Guard troops in DC. That brings the number of Guardsmen activated for this to ~1,500. taskandpurpose.com/news/west-vi...
Federalism: no better friend, no worse enemy
Beginning to think they never did!
I mean it did kinda fall over
This also isn't substantially more than the revenue that was lost after the 2017 cuts to corp rates
"Drug companies can offset price reductions due to tariffs by increasing prices in other markets" "So US consumers will pay less than they do today?" "lmao no"
Tracks I think, since she never really leaned into promoting the concessions she won
Recall that the bodies of those killed were still in the river when Trump, Hegseth, Vance, etc blamed DEI for this accident apnews.com/article/ntsb...
What do you attribute to this decline?
Hopefully the family can sue Vance and Hegseth for slandering their daughter with baseless/hurtful claims that "DEI" was responsible for this horrific accident. RIP.
The @nytimes.com "The Daily" podcast on the US/EU trade deal, which sounded like it was produced by Howard Lutnick, went to great lengths to downplay the costs of new 15% tariffs to US consumers. Only a fleeting and non-specific reference to previous tariff rates, which were close to 0%!
The sooner we recognize that they are enthusiasticly pursuing a new post constitutional order, the better.
Ceding leverage to your adversaries whilst betraying your allies seems dumb, but that's because you don't understand deal making.
Can confirm the New York Times report today that Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, the director of the Joint Staff, had a promotion to four-star general seemingly secured and then pulled back by Secretary Hegseth. Sims seen in Pentagon by most as nonpartisan, straightforward and bright.
Hard to argue with this at the moment. Their message won't have salience until things get much worse, which won't be for another 12 to 18 months.
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NPR wild'n
By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute. Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
The importer pays the tariff
"...many predicted economic disaster. Prices would rise, markets would panic, and shaken businesses would pull back, tipping the country into recession. But more than three months later, the American economy appears remarkably resilient." No mention of Trump's significant pull back on tariffs. Sigh
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Don't do hard drugs, or maybe do
New: Tried to take a step back to look at how/why the Epstein story is bigger than a conspiracy theory & why it might be one of the few events that cant be pushed out of the news cycle. What happens next will tell us a lot about who has power to redirect attention www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
What you get when your training data consists only of Greenwald and Don Jr tweets
We should not assume that the arguments based purely on dollars and cents are going to resonate with low info voters before the midterms: - Medicaid/SNAP cuts deferred but tax cuts are immediate. - Immediate term impacts of mass deportations to housing costs, wages.
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When you live somewhere and disaster strikes, it makes no sense to pretend it isn’t personal. For me, there’s no other way to process terrible things than to make journalism. To my friends from home who went to Camp Mystic and Heart O' the Hills — this is for you. thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/05/c...
Given the amount of money involved and the time horizon, continued ICE funding is going to have a large constituency. Local governments and economies are going to get hooked. Akin to the Military Industrial Complex perhaps.
"but it's a race to the bottom!" without realizing somehow that we're already at bottom
I'm not even suggesting that many will do this in bad faith. If you're already struggling and you know the cuts are coming you might as well throw in the towel now!
I assume we'll see Medicaid cuts used as an excuse a lot more, even though the cuts don't take effect until 26-28. Providers aren't going to invest in rural areas knowing that revenue will be null and the financial burden massive
R's strategy is extremely cynical and irresponsible but who will actually remember by the time these cuts actually take effect? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
Liberals say that Trump is threatening to end our democracy and bring back feudalism. They're wrong—he's threatening to end our republic and bring back feudalism.
Comprehensive peek into the chaotic and cruel cuts to USAID: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Surprising absolutely no one, an Iraq War cheerleader is at it again
Virtually every MAGA Republican will now fall in line, and there won't be a passing second of introspection or contrition among those who credulously adopted the "Donald the Dove" nonsense, who, it should be said, helped bring us to where we are today.
Remarkable how dumb he sounds.
Correct. Allowing a vile, bigoted 100 million dollar anti-trans ad campaign to go completely unanswered is weak shit
"The LGBTQ movement drove itself towards a cliff and took the Democratic party along with it". Pure vibes; an argument predicated on the fantasy that Biden, Harris, etc devoted significant effort on the trail to defend trans rights. THEY DID NOT. Instead they allowed bigoted attacks to go answered.
Leaving anything out?
Is he in South Dakota or the Midwest because it can't be both
Where was he radicalized?
These guys look like Taliban
Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.
what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
Wanton property damage is the pretense they desperately want to justify their lawless & authoritarian power grab so it would be great if there was less of it.
If nothing else the Signal chat scandal taught us that Miller is absolutely the one in charge
A take so bad the only explanation is that it was designed in a lab to age poorly. You don't need +60 Stryker/Bradley fighting vehicles for a recruiting event!
Key to enabling large scale theft of US government property
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Why is Rob still on X
Wild how completely unconcerned they seem about the senior citizen writhing in pain on the floor.
Characteristically fantastic analysis by Dahlia and her guests. Aziz's descriptions of the "dual state" are particularly helpful to any non-lawyers struggling to understand the current legal landscape.
Sure, because doing so would imperil their money
And yet
Irritated that fellow Dems seem to let Sec. Clinton *entirely* off the hook for this, so much so that she uses the "but her emails" line herself. Months of weak denials all but guaranteed the press wasn't going to drop it.
Maybe the real DOGE was the regulators we fired along the way? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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All this amidst an "historic" crackdown on all forms of immigration.
CNBC has the knives out this morning
Your country thanks you for your service.
What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
I want a pony www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...
The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
Hegseth checks all the boxes for Trump. Zero motivation to dump him.
Hard to argue that this isn't just about circumventing network security protocols.
Article IV would like a word
First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak up, because the latest Rasmussen poll showed low net favorability ratings on immigrants and that gulags are a toss-up issue for suburban moms. #savvy #clever #wonk #nobeliefs #noprinciples
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If these cowards don't want to talk about lawless rendition then they can talk about TV prices. No one stopping them.
Maybe they could do both? Idk.
It worked for Putin
Someone needs to ask DJT why he's committed to off-shoring good paying gulag jobs
Lord give me the strength to delete my post before I send it (next time)
I mean Dems have been moderately pro-protectionism for a while now. Any pro-union Dem who has spent more than 2 days in office is going to be on the record about supporting protectionism.
Yes, but it would be better to press Lutnick on what the admin's plan is (beyond tariffs) to address the barriers that keep our silicon fab and electronics assy base from expanding. He's got nothing. Recognize that Lutnick's message resonates with many without college degrees, and go from there.
Lots of people are dunking on this video but automated advanced manufacturing is a good career for many categories of blue and white collar workers, however there are many barriers to bringing this kind of work to the US; The biggest one is that few people are going to pay $2,500 for an iPhone.
The trades (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing) support manufacturing facilities, so the more facilities there are, the more the trades are needed.
Critical to have a guy that won't say no in that role
Ostensibly those who want limited government and reductions of the administrative state want those reforms to be durable. Enabling an amoral billionaire to run an unorganized and lawless hatchet job ain't going to get you anything but backlash.
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Elon is using petabytes of US Government property to train his proprietary AI models (probably)
Wait so he doesn't want a "meritocracy"?
Perfect, because we'd like to give some up!
"We had an amazing judge in Florida, Trump said at DOJ headquarters on Friday. "Actually, she was brilliant. She moved quickly. She was the absolute model of what a judge should be. She was strong and tough." abcnews.go.com/Politics/fin...
Zero people thought that, Ken
Sen. Ossoff tonight announced he will oppose cloture and, if it comes to it, final passage on the partisan House budget proposal and issued the following statement —
