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“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” And so I fight. I fight fair. I win.
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Who could have predicted such a fate?
Living their best life
Lots of people are going to die. It will not be good
We have immigration and customs agents rounding up homeless people and acting as police in DC This is not normal. Why are immigration agents doing anything with homeless people that does not involve immigration ?
I have not seen anybody talk about how I CE is exceeding their mandate by rounding up homeless people in Washington Maybe I’ve just missed it. Why is immigration and customs enforcement involved with any part of homeless people or standard law enforcement in DC?
I keep wondering why Trump spends so much time alone with Putin. It’s bizarre beyond anything we have ever seen.
PPI came in at 0.9%, the highest in three years This is much higher than expected and roughly a 12% inflation rate if annualized. Much of this was in Services, but this is just a gigantic number. Cutting rates prices are going up as much as simply an impossibility www.cnbc.com
With crime so low, liberals should support beat cops in cities. Have police walk around the major commercial areas. Be seen, be friendly It would be great.
The homeless problem needs to be mitigated. Cut this by 80% and our cities will be the best they have ever been It’s terrible. It really is bad.
Huge week for economic data
I simply think that it should not require an approval from city council to build a three flat. Who do you think is paying the lawyers to go through all that? chicago.urbanize.city/post/city-co...
I’m in Logan
Can you post the exact link to find this my neighborhood
Mark Kelly: "I hope we got something out of this. Putin is a war criminal. This is not a show of strength to allow him to fly into the United States to land here to negotiate with our president."
How John Durham Buried Evidence He Had Been Doing the Work of Russian Spies ... and then Tulsi Gabbard Buried More www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/09/h...
There is rampant insider trading in the trump administration around tariffs. I’ve seen 1-2 posts here about it. It’s one of the major themes of maga that we should stop insider trading Why is nobody here talking about it
once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
The guy pictured is not representative of gen X. He’s a small segment of gen x
BoA CEO: our economists say there will not be a recession
Australian reporter to Tammy Bruce: "It seems our prime minister can't even get a meeting with your president. What does this say about the way the US now views some of its relationships with its form-- with its traditional allies?"
The economic situation is far worse than most people here on blue sky are seeing or hearing or knowing about. We have a real chance of a severe recession in the next few months. Probably not as bad as the GC, but certainly a terrible recession
I hate that he’s done this. Hate it. Let’s not forget : CNBC has had a Republican propagandist on the air for 30 years.
Trump firing the head of the BLS is maybe the most dangerous and damaging action he has taken. Incredible
Roughly one-quarter of consumer spending is extremely insensitive to economic conditions. Important to keep in mind when you think about how labor markets (and expectations thereof) impact consumer spending.
how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...
The extremely simple fact is that Jeff Epstein was the most notorious child sex trafficker in history, and the President of the US was his close personal friend for decades Acting like this is complicated is absurd. The man knew what Epstein did, didn't care, and participated
Wut
It’s widely regarded as a classic of cosmic horror.
I’ll send a Costco supply of paper towels to wipe up the coffee
Thanks for posting
I’m re-reading Sagan’s PALE BLUE DOT and I’m at the chapter where he talks about how he had to convince NASA to take the image. There was no scientific value in taking an image of Earth from that distance, but he knew such an image would be invaluable to us as a society.
Thank you
It’s inbelievable how little crypto is used in marginal transactions like only fans and buying “legal” weed in states Banning for pot stores is a huge issue.
Boom
JUST IN: Former Jan. 6 prosecutor Michael Gordon (prosecuted Riley Williams, Ray Epps, Bigo Barnett, among others) and press aide Patty Hartman have sued Pam Bondi over their terminations from DOJ. Their lawyer: Abbe Lowell storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Are you kidding me?!? 😂
All of this was 100% obvious from the very first days of crypto
We’ve been programmed to believe every issue has two sides. Left vs. right. Good vs. evil. But real life is messier—and centrism is the only path back to sanity. It’s not weak. It’s radical. And it might just save the country. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/unplugging...
A key feature of the reactionary mind is that it's binary: our side or their side, us or them, one or the other. They do not believe in -- literally can't cognize -- the idea of a neutral, independent, third-party arbiter, or any standards that transcend partisanship. Thus the Fed fight.
Thanks gov!
Is the WSJ still regarded as gold standard level journalism ? It was for decades, but not sure of its current quality.
Warren: "It seems to me that when the AG says 'I have the files on my desk' and then does a 180 turn and says, 'Nope, nothing here to see. I'm not going to release anything,' that that raises a question in the minds of people all across this country."
REPORTER: Will you commit to include California in any disaster aid package? MIKE JOHNSON: We've not seen the formal disaster relief request from California yet REPORTER: The formal request was sent to your office in February
If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
The Epstein files are over. It’s done
It’s even cheaper using ground loops.
cooling human habitat takes less energy than heating human habitat, which is great because it’s one of the few climate change feedback loops that goes the good direction people somewhat regularly die because they don’t turn on AC they have don’t AC shame
“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
At some point, you need to go to jail. Ignore the judge
The thing to understand is that district court judges have to follow the law and Supreme Court Justices get to just make up the law.
These guys are right wingers who can’t admit it
There are actually quite a few undocumented Russians in the US. Anyone have any videos of ICE forcefully deporting them? Or just the brown people?
The damage done by fake patriots. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Just recorded a pod on solar+storage and holy shit y'all, if you are not tracking this market on a daily basis, you have no idea how wild it is. The global average price of a battery pack fell 40% *from 2023 to 2024*. That dropped the LCOE of a solar+storage plant by 22%. In a year!
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
The best inexpensive dog food additive.
Of which, the Costco rotisserie chicken is the crown jewel.
We ban buildings like this for being too tall, having too much area, and not having any modulations or setbacks. But why?
So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
No warrant, no explanation. Plain clothed men took her to San Diego ICE where she was later released because she has an asylum case. The terror is the point.
I miss having a human president.
The thing is nationwide injunctions are genuinely a weird unworkable mechanism it just so happens that not having them is also a weird unworkable mechanism once entities can exist in multiple jurisdictions at once.
this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
Is there going to be a phase 2 of Trump‘s attempt to become an authoritarian state in the USA? If so, what will this phase 2 look like?
They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission. They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again. And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
Analysis | If Iran responds to the bombing by staging a terrorist attack on an American city, the Democratic mayor of that city will have blood on their hands.
My relatives in East L.A. — born in the U.S.A. — are afraid to go outside because masked men with guns are randomly snatching people off the street. This is a government terrorism campaign against its own people.
You’ll be the only person to say this simple truth.
People in the USA just don’t know. They think it was “limited” to pushing a few commies out of helicopters over the ocean No, it was systemically using the most sadistic people in the country as weapons against many many thousands of people. The most horrific extended mindfuck + physical torture
Seems like too big of a coincidence for Trump to be talking about the Nobel Peace Prize again all the sudden after announcing a two week pause on bombing. Right after having lunch with Bannon, who doesn’t want to go to war. Somebody mentioned that to him - my bet is Bannon.
The Conclave really chose an American in 2025 for the same reason they chose a Pole in 1978
We don’t know what the real name of the Director of White House Personnel is, we don’t know what country he came from, he refuses to turn in background check forms, and nobody will ask the president or press secretary about it.
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
Elon Musk has said he has proof of Donald Trump being a child molester in the last 10 days. Two democratic lawmakers were executed by a right winger On this site, you wouldn’t even know those things happened
Data has swung negative quickly. Inventory stockpiles should be running out soon. Oil is back up Lots of uncertainties today. I’m thinking: not that bad.
since younger people are asking how shockingly stupid things were in 2003, may I present to you this circa-03 sign that I bought from a local restaurant and their (unrelated) going out of business sale a few years later
Great news! Oil prices above $75 Our domestic oil industry will not be destroyed !
Tucker Carlson destroyed Ted Cruz in a recent interview. Wow.
Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.
Both ? Among the more badass things anyone has done with music copyrights Thanks @robertfripp.bsky.social !
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.
Tomorrow is retail sales and import price index. FOMC expected to hold rates steady on Wednesday. PMI Thursday
I think I’m alone here in that I think the military parade was …pretty cool. 250 years of uniforms. We are the most benevolent empire in world history and I’m proud of the USA and proud of our military.
You will not believe how many people in X are saying the killer was a democrat liberal.
Getting arrested for any reason could easily derail a career and change the lives of your children for the worse.
As I’m actually “doing” my job today. WTH?!?
Pacers OKC tonight Last game must have rattled OKC. They looked tired and sluggish.
Consumer sentiment is at the lowest levels in the last 50 years.
“Faint but detectable southern accent”
Japanese zoning is the way to go. You’ll love it
I don’t know. What is this ?
It has to happen immediately when you hear it. Makes for good press.
We all know here the LA riots have hurt the dem cause in a significant manner.
Los Angeles and California more generally is the pinnacle of human experience in human history. Maybe some of the coasts along the Mediterranean compete with it.