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France borrows in the #2 global reserve currency at an interest rate lower than 🇺🇸 & lower than it was from the 1990s until 2011. Political preferences over lower debt & the political economy tradeoffs involved in higher debt are not a "debt crisis."
ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
I see @jillfilipovic.bsky.social made a similar argument to mine: If the right really wants marriage rates to go up, they'd encourage men to be more like Travis Kelce. slate.com/news-and-pol...
I am amused that Mamdani is seen as a raving communist for suggesting mid-tier FDR type reforms and there's an actual Eugene Debs dude running for Senate in Maine and he's not freaking out anybodyyyy oh yes. Shit. He's white. Sorry, I just got it. Go about your business.
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Every resident of Maine showed up for the guy running to unseat Susan Collins
They like Trump and are trying to help him
If you think she doesn't have an immense level of power and pull you don't know how it works. Look into why AOC isn't the ranking member of the oversight committee as one example.
Yeah, that's not the reason she should go. She represents corporate money and still uses her power to shape the house. She limits people like AOC and she kneecaps things like bans on congressional stock trading.
Top four stories on the Atlantic right now. Tell me again how they have their finger on the pulse of regular Americans’ concerns
In a democracy, this is what the party of the working class would sound like.
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
"President Trump owes us answers about his health": weak, frames him as good-faith statesman, boring "What did JD Vance know about Trump's health and when did he know it?": interesting, carries implication Trump's health is fucked up as a given, implies scandal spreading throughout admin
gun culture
Can he please convince Schumer and Pelosi to do the same.
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
Gaza has had twice as many bombs dropped on it since 2023 as Hamburg, Dresden and London combined during WWII.
There is a whole class of pseudo-leftists who have decided that what radicalizes people is experiencing the mildest discomfort. They are just telling on themselves.
Hunter Biden potentially taking $50,000 after using his dad's name got 1,000 times more coverage than this has.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Not about this specific case exactly but I’ve long believed that the racist animus aimed at cities overwhelms a secondary motivation — people projecting their own regrets onto the city to redeem some of their choices.
Oh they're DEAD dead.
If an American Jew feels uncomfortable with a Democrat's position on Israel, that Democrat needs to assure them that they're not an antisemite. If an American Arab or Muslim feels uncomfortable with a Democrat's position on Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, India, Pakistan, that's grievance politics.
Sarcasm aside it's merely a byproduct of a post 9/11 media and political environment which treats Muslim and Arab American political questions as fundamentally illegitimate at all times, reduced down to petty grievances or narrow-minded interests, whereas for other groups it's about their security.
I have never seen a single news article about whether or not Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or Kristen Gillibrand need to assure Muslim New Yorkers that they're against Islamophobia and anti-Arab / anti-Asian bigotry
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
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* Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch @wsj.com
“They Will Attack Every Organized Worker in America” A powerful warning from the head of the largest federal employees union. Trump’s attacking federal workers and their unions now. But it’s only a matter of time before the most anti-labor president in history attacks every union—and every worker.
This is VERY. BAD. Russell Vought at OMB wants to rip away Congress' most important power, the power to set the budget, and put it in the hands of a president-king. This illegal impoundment stuff runs contrary to the most important principle of Anglo-American gov't—
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
Someone please kill me right now.
The way Idiocracy was the film roadmap to the rise and governing of the MAGA movement, the Death of Stalin will be a guide to its fall.
“‘They’re not doing it to improve public safety,’ he continued. “It’s designed to humiliate political opponents.’”
Bothsides...🙄
This piece is built on the premise that Mamdani and Trump are similar candidates. They are not. One is a dangerous liar. The other is an honest, engaging, smart, progressive Democrat who soundly beat other Democrats in a highly competitive primary. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
With the help of the press it might not be too bad.
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Let’s see. Who should I trust? My own doctor, 1,000’s of scientists, & researchers. Or someone who thought using heroin for 12 years was one of the best things he could have done, swam in a sewage polluted creek with his grandkids, had a brain worm, has no actual medical training. Tough call.
These are the Senators(!) who are supposedly fighting on your behalf.
One of the most shocking things to most non-Americans is reading that the parents of the wounded children from the Minnesota school shooting are resorting to ‘gofundme’ to pay for medical treatment (presumably because they aren’t allowed to sue gunmakers/gunsellers).
Bruised hand and all
Calling the feckless @jaketapper.bsky.social, where are you Jake?
“It’s clear that there’s enough smoke coming from the White House to warrant at least a major story in a major outlet investigating whether there’s fire.” Yet there aren’t any. At this point in the Biden presidency, Fox News was regularly asking “Who is actually in charge at the White House?”
You guys see where this is going? Right?
A mere one year ago, this was The Central Issue Of Our Political Age. It's not even news in today's papers.
If Trump does something he doesn't have the legal right to do and the NY Times says "Trump signs executive order recinding spending on blah blah", most people aren't going to say the Times doesn't understand the separation of powers, they are going to say oh, I didn't know he could do that.
The reason the press is so important is they are the ones who keep us informed. It's why the first thing every authoritarian regime does it attack it. Most people I work with tell me they no longer know what to believe.
Courts still matter.
It is undeniable. In fact, denying it abets the criminals behind the crimes, even as their toll rises and even worse abuses are contemplated. Israel and the US must be stopped and held accountable. The international community should use every available tool to do so.
All airliners around von der Leyen's assumed jet in this screenshot (save one) also reported good position values. This strengthens the suspicion that the jamming was directed specifically at von der Leyen.
Trump's Ego is a National Security Risk: India Was the Economic Alternative to China. Trump Ended That. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...
“There are those who would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those shortsighted ones who threaten this country with class dissension…” — Franklin Roosevelt, Sep. 6, 1936 www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
According to officials cited by the Financial Times, the aircraft carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was forced to make an emergency landing after Russian interference disrupted GPS navigation systems at a Bulgarian airport. Pilots had to rely on paper maps to land safely.👇
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
I remember back when Biden was in the WH and rising meat prices was big news www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/u...
He didn’t know about the the CDC decision on COVID shots until the announcement, even though he led division on vaccination & respiratory disease He kept asking to see the justifying evidence, or hear from experts who supported the move RFK’s team kept saying no www.thebulwark.com/p/kennedy-rf...
University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index was 74.0 in December, now 58.2 in August. Conference Board’s consumer confidence index was 104.7, now 97.4. Government officials shouldn’t go on TV and blatantly lie like this.
Make it stop
“‘Nakba All Over Again': West Bank Palestinians Still Displaced More Than 6 Months After Israel Forced Them to Flee” The Israeli operation in Jenin, Tulkarm, and other cities, has displaced more than 40,000 people – the largest mass displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank in decades.
This is starting to feel even more suspicious www.aol.com/jd-vance-fle...
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Thread BREAKING: A new 38 page proposal shows Trump & Netanyahu are openly planning to take over Gaza & turn it into a casino & tourism resort. Here are the horrid details, & yes all of this is a violation of international human rights law & further confirms Israel is committing genocide. 1/4
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
I've found that a certain kind of person finds comfort in ignorance, because knowledge carries with it work and responsibility. It takes work to acquire it, and once you do you must either act on the knowledge or accept that you refuse to do so, all of which is hard and painful.
Fair point
Yes but I'm sure the tone is different online. You read it how you imagine me saying it and probably not how I would say it. Like I'm guessing you think I was calling you shallow when I was meaning that you just look at "criticism" in general and not what it actually is.
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
anyone into keyboards, indie nail polish, and other niche online shops have seen this going on ever since the tariffs were announced. That it’s now hitting the beauty industry shows how bad this snowball-turned-avalanche has gotten
This text is quoted accurately. It is also a clarifying lie. Totalitarian governments know that normal people do not have time or resources to research every health, economic, or security issue. Their project of attacking all expertise is a project of seizing trust & thus power for themselves.
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
What's on the guys hats in the third photo?
Did they seem friendly?
I'm not saying they're having him shamble his decrepit ass to the car while keeping the press pool at a photos-of-Bigfoot distance only to just quickly circle around and sneak him back through another entrance, but I'm also not confident that's *not* what they're doing.
You seem to look at criticism in the most shallow way possible. One should look at what the criticism is, not just if people complain.
Yeah, it's completely moronic.
Yeah, if the Times said the moon was made of cheese and the left and the right said that's stupid, it wouldn't make it true, it would make it so absurd everyone can see it.
Yeah, what an absurd take on journalism to think that the point of it is to annoy the largest amount of people possible. I guess Newsmax is journalism of the highest quality to Glen.
Don't. Print. Stenographized. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Allow me to invite you to consider what the Only Topic of The Sunday Shows would have been if this were Joe Biden
This might be a hot take, but at this point I’ve come to the conclusion that Schumer and Jeffries failure to serve as effective opposition party leaders is basically a skill issue. They are genuinely incapable of creatively or strategically responding to MAGA’s political revolution.
This is something I’ve thought about A LOT lately- the kinds of essential reporting that large traditional media has inexplicably stopped doing. For example, why aren’t there more reporters in the streets of DC, describing what it’s like? It’s truly dumbfounding
This is how 9/11 happened. GW Bush diverted counter-terror agents to search (uselessly) for scandals under Clinton. Counter-terror divisions have been stripped bare under Trump. And we need to yell about it. So when bad things happen blame will fall where it belongs... apnews.com/article/trum...?
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
IRS Criminal Investigators go after people who commit serious criminal financial fraud. Money laundering, bank fraud, political corruption, identity theft, ripping off Medicaid/Medicare, employment fraud. You know, real crimes that hurt real people. Instead, here they are, doing... This.
