Who benefits from a yacht tax break? Not working families.
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Who benefits from a yacht tax break? Not working families.
When I say that Newsom is trying to be a center-right Trump, this is what I mean
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What the hell is this BS? Why would you want to allow someone to be vice president who is ineligible to ascend to the presidency of the need arose?
“Out to lunch”
KBJ had more credentials and experience on the bench than just about any of the current members of the court had when they were elevated to the position. She judges and writes circles around Amy Coney Barrett. And some day her dissents will be the basis for throwing all their corrupt bullshit away.
This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.
I thought Kim Jung Un was Trump’s other bestie. What did he need to spy on him for? International jealousy?
“We want your investment in American manufacturing*, but you can only hire white guys.”
Maybe he has the same business consultant as the Trump Burger guy who got detained.
“conducted a judicially authorized enforcement operation, as we are actively conducting an investigation into unlawful employment practices”. I guess they could be lying. Or maybe this is one of those newly minted Jag lawyers turned immigration “judges.”
I thought the article mentioned a search warrant, but I guess that doesn’t mean there actually was one signed by a judge. Just the weenie ICE kind?
Yeah, I’m sure 450 South Koreans working in a battery factory were hardened criminals. Whoever issued this search warrant should be sanctioned.
Maybe it’s all the big daddy Koch money underpinning his abundance bs that makes him inspired to turn his scrutiny not at the people actively destroying everything, but the people not compromising and accepting in the manner he finds self affirming.
I don’t think it matters how big or small the tent is, as long as the people inside have made a clear resolution not to let in any fascists. You don’t let people into the tent who are determined to harm or cast out the people already in it. Nate is pissy that light fascism isn’t a deal we will take.
What’s that saying? Something about “if you seem to find yourself always surrounded by assholes, maybe you’re really the asshole.”
Fast tracking most of Trump's most obviously illegal activities with no accountability or explanation" is a bit wordy isn't it? :P
If you or I testified before Congress, we'd be sworn in and subject to penalties for lying THIS BLATANTLY to Congress.
OhhhHHhHHHHHHHhhhhhh... Now that makes a lot more sense.
You'd think the fact that he doesn't accept germ theory would have been disqualifying. You know, the foundational premise that underpins pretty much every other medical and health advancement of the last 150 years.
He doesn’t believe in germ theory after 160 years of data. If you reject the fundamental principle all this science is based on, there’s little hope the data will convince you.
“Fundamentally cruel and defies common sense” is a pretty concise encapsulation of the entire Trump regime.
I’ve been trying for months to get people to hear and understand what it means that RFK Jr. doesn’t believe in germ theory. It’s like having a flat-earther in charge of NASA.
So do you think the Supreme Court will deem this an emergency that needs their immediate intervention, and if so are they going to give us another “sure, it’s fine for the government to violate the law in the meantime” override of an injunction? :P
Not at all surprised, and I reiterate my stand that if Bill Clinton raped teens he should also be put under the prison. And even though I think Chelsea Clinton has probably done more as a person to learn, make a career, & learn about policy stuff, I still don't think nepotism is acceptable/good.
As many as 100 victims will show up to today's Epstein victim press conference. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
It’s that old Upton Sinclair quote about, “it’s difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on not understanding it.”
Didn’t Trump just give golden visas to a handful of other drug cartel members? 🙄
I used to eat projects like this up--irrefutable evidence that giving people money is the way! But now they just serve to remind that 30-40% of the US isn't interested in alleviating poverty, they just want poor people to suffer. (TBC, keep doing these experiments and helping ppl where you can!)
I saw elsewhere that Thiel is giving some four part religious lecture at some instituion, and I can’t believe it wasn’t called, “What I’ve learned through my intimate, personal relationship with the anti-Christ.”
The idea that they were escaping a white ethnostate to create their own special white ethnostate is patently very silly indeed.
Just a reminder that Kash Patel own something like $5 million in SHEIN stock. I know Kash Patel and Trump are all about pardons and redemption for certain kinds of criminals, but I didn’t think crime against the 1% would qualify.
That was also ME.
Cursed. I hope the AI talks someone into committing arson against this entire enterprise.
I feel like I basically did everything I could have done short of removing Trump personally from contention, but I still feel frustrated and angry that a this unnecessarily stupid, illegal, terrible shit is now going to happen. It sucks that we’re all going to suffer now.
Surely this will go to court and the administration will lose, but in the meantime they should just post up outside whenever the weather permits.
These guys also seem to imagine that by the sheer will of your authoritarian parenting style that your kids will inevitably grow up to share your political identity.
I think a lot of people become addicted to power and attention, the same way billionaires are addicted to money. They don’t have any source of self esteem if they don’t continue to the political relevance and influence.
Yes, but just because it was a pre-established idea, doesn't mean it was the optimal or smartest one. A little bit of proper humility and consideration of all parties involved should have been exercised, and wasn't.
this is the first time a major Democratic elected has actually told his supporters what they can do in the face of this as far as I can tell
It's hard to imagine such a big community based settlement wouldn't work miracles to counteract rural flight and economic degradation, and you'd effectively dismantle our "responsibility" to militarily enforce Zionism abroad.
I often think about how different everything could have been if instead of pushing for Jewish resettlement in the Middle East, we had thought to give them a great big county in someplace like Missouri or Nebraska to serve as a refuge.
I need someone with a giant shepherd's hook to start yoinking Hakeem Jefferies away from podiums every time he reveals he doesn't understand the moment or the mission.
This is some good shit.
If only there was a way to even more deeply unsubscribe from a paper that earned my unsubscription years ago and many times over now. :P
It's cognitively difficult when you're equal parts devoted to white supremacy AND eugenics.
These guys want to be the ones setting a certain narrative. They've given up any artifice of observing and reporting on what's actually going on. Nate Silver clearly has a gambling problem &Greenwald probably fell in a honeypot somewhere along the lines. They are operating from self interest.
Just for perspective, $47 Billion was also the annual budget of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) before Republicans decided to defund public health. We can't afford the standards of a modern, developed country, but the billionaires are happy to flush this money down a toilet.
NEW from me: The propagandists and cowards insisting Democrats acquiesce to Donald Trump's military occupation of American cities are wrong about public opinion, wrong about basic politics, and most importantly wrong about what the moment demands of patriots: www.findinggravity.net/trumps-milit...
Well, you know who was still having kids? Immigrants. Let’s be clear that when Elon says “west,” we only means people he perceives as “white.”
Bad faith fascist doing their thing. I wish more Jews & Palestinians understood that what these people really want is for them to fight, maim, & kill each other while the fascsists get to smirk with self satisfaction from the sidelines. They are only pro-Israel in that they hate Muslims even more.
Weird how none of these super geniuses could see it coming when there was still time for them to use their power and influence to help prevent him from coming to power. Did they miss the Muslim travel ban and the kids in cages?
We’ve compromised with the centrists for 30 years and weirdly all it seemed to do was let them keep coasting right ward as Republicans drove the Overton Window into the abyss.
About a decade ago I ordered a ladder online from dicksonsupply, and I still get a chuckle out of that every time I see the ladder in the garage.
I feel compelled to remind everyone that this was the same shit the Nazis were doing to try and keep the US from entering WWII. Same playbook. It’s so infuriating that so many Americans fell for it.
I don’t think most of us would be even remotely accepting of the idea they are “Weekend at Bernies at the White House-ing” if the people around Trumper weren’t all frat boy nepobabies who do everything half assed and thinking everyone else can’t see through them telling the most obvious lies.
1/31 Meet project "Good Old USA" the now unsealed DoJ file on the Russian influence in the US to sway opinion on the war in Ukraine. Something Trump has bought into hook-line and sinker. It was held under seal, because we got the literal playbook revealing their methods
That math ain't even close to mathing.
I'm also just thinking back to when I was in high school and even though most kids who were into sports had favorite players, it was kind of the style trend at the time to get a team Starter Jacket or a hoodie, rather than an individual player's jersey.
I'll celebrate and then transition into worrying how much more competently evil JD Vance might possibly be.
Clorox/Red Bull collab.
I wish people would stop giving them the benefit of the doubt that any of this dismantling of public health isn't just eugenics by other means. The rich don't think you deserve to live, unless you can afford it.
"You guys made me take horse dewormers, because I couldn't go to church during lockdown." Yeah, I'm sure it has nothing to do with 20 years of Fox News telling people trickle down economics is real, and your personal vibes and opinions are just as important and valid as science.
Oh man have your triggered my nostalgia.
It certainly doesn’t help that at least around the south, being a prison guard only pays about the same or less than working at McDonalds. Of course the temptation to make some extra money is huge.
Corporate leaders make more money when workers are instable financially and desperate for work to survive. The suffering and stress of Americans is somewhat good for business.
This seems like the first honest thing she has said or written since her memoir.
Also, just given the sheer number of podcasts available, WHY would this kind of shit be the thing that apparently grabs your attention and appeals to you? Or who is making this recommendation to them? You can listen to a podcast about literally anything that exists. Have better interests/hobbies.
Also after a decade on depo provera I’d gladly take whatever marginal health risk that’s exceedingly low for healthy individuals for the life altering benefits I personally experience of not having a period and not worrying about an unwanted pregnancy.
Sure. 🙄 How about the viagra and testosterone bros who just cheered fascism in to power because they might one day have to work with a trans person and think about pronouns in any meaningful way.
Happy Labor Day. Would just like to remind all my fellow workers that Keynes predicted we’d have a 15 hour work week by 2030. Instead we got the top 1% taking the economic gains of 90% of the working class. A General Strike is about 30 years overdue. time.com/5888024/50-t...
He literally passed it off to his wife in a sneak ass way and it sure looks like he told her, “put this in your purse.”
Bullshit, this guy took that hat straight out of the kids hand after the player has already moved on. He needs to spend his time in the barrel. We’re judging him by the content of his character as illustrated by his actions.
"Yes, officers, I was just standing here assisting this woman in peril, and in no way was my driving under the influence a factor in this accident. Just ask her."
White privilege means everyone needs to limit themselves to your personal preferences.
Word of the day - enshittification. Feeling frustrated at the direction our Nation seems to be taking? I feel that too. Just know "...that small, individual acts of noncompliance are also tools that can frustrate great and evil powers." www.thenation.com/article/acti...
If I ever snap and go on a rampage, I want it to be highly publicized that this was the shit, constantly happening that made me lose my mind over time.
Yesterday some guy came and did the landscaping for two houses near me well before 8am on a Saturday. This morning around 6am it sounded like someone was in their garage listening to 70s rock with the treble set to 11, I could hear all the guitar licks through my pillow. Where is my sleeping in?
He probably just doesn’t want to take the risk that his troops will “accidentally” shoot some US Senators in the course of their campaign of unbridled violence and destruction.
The Hitler stuff just made Trump and Stephen Miller like it and need it even more.
The judges have bounced dozens of not hundreds of these arrests with no prosecutions. That should have definitely been presented as a counter argument. She’s arresting “dangerous people” without any evidence that would stand up in court.
I do fundamentally think the right thing to do though is refuse to platform people who constantly lie and gaslight. It’s not journalism to spread propaganda.
At the very least, start running a chyron that does live fact checking. “NOEM lied: LA was in no real danger. Sending in ICE in the first place was the source of unrest in the city. Trump could have stopped illegal ICE actions to restore peace.”
The world is supposed to conform to her vibes as a white person. How dare you suggest her preferences aren’t the timeless preferences of white hood everywhere, for all of time.
Like, they can’t even just admit they block other people because we fundamentally reject their false premises and cult mentality? No, it’s because we’re all godless deviants for not wanting Trump to be king. 🙄
No more “Weekend at Bernie’s at the White House” sequels.
I like Warren as a person and a wonk, but she’s also 76. (I know, she looks great for her age!) We need new blood. Nobody the actuaries are making expectancy bets on.
Went to look into where my sudden burst of new followers came from and noticed someone put me on a furry list and an incest list some months back. On what basis is a total mystery. Gonna just guess it’s republicans being dickheads. I notice block lists or republicans just describe them as MAGA.
He needs to look in a mirror. My guy, you look like a leather purse that got left behind at Burning Man.
Oh I just realized this one is a woman. Now her total inability to buy bread and make her own sandwich seems EVEN MORE completely irrational.
You’d think all these self ascribed super intelligent, successful, alpha men could figure out how to procure basic real bitch bread and ingredients, and make their own damn sandwich… instead of expecting society to limit itself to their toddler palate and cutting off the crust for them.
Someone get the ramps and glasses of water back out.
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
Agreed. Newsom is willing to tie some people to the trolley tracks and pull the lever. The homeless, trans people, probably more we don’t even know about yet.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
Make all Americans equal under law. End agents' impunity. Abolish qualified immunity. Require agents pay for liability insurance.
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A lot of political influencers within the Atlantic/NYT orbit are very, very eager to sell us on the lie that we can get out of fascism by sacrificing trans people. They will beat that drum even louder as the right weaponizes this tragedy. They are liars now & they will be liars in the coming days.
In a less corrupted mind, the fact that Mamdani wants to serve in public service (rather than just be a Wall Street chud investment broker making free money off everyone else’s labor) would be a reflection of of gratitude and a willingness to pay it forward to make life better for others.