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"Why should I care about U.S. Space Command being transferred to Alabama? I hate the military-industrial complex. We spend too much money on defense. Why does it matter which rich people get richer off it?" There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one. (thread)
Getting rich, even in crypto, is not wrong or a crime. The problem is his crypto is a way to bribe him without anyone but him knowing. Youāre emphasizing the part thatās fine and not mentioning the huge problem. That will cause readers to think thereās nothing wrong with what heās doing.
NEW: judge box of wineās office fails to secure yet another indictment from a grand jury. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
But Alabama voters want jobs.
Techno-optimist???? The guy torpedoed the most effective new technology in vaccines because he doesnāt understand it.
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I have to log off and do some productive things. But you have good points. I'm going to think more about them.
the private insurers' inefficiency is forced by federal and state laws. Most of those laws exist for a reason and I don't know whether people would be willing to have them repealed. Everybody says they hate the healthcare system but I'm not sure what "improvement" would make most people happier.
Healthcare I'm less sure about. Currently some people's health care is paid for by private but heavily-regulated insurers, and others' is paid for publicly. Everyone complains about private insurers, but most people like their healthcare. VA and Medicare recipients also like theirs. And much of /2
The postal service basically has to be public. You can't privatize the postal service unless you're willing to have rural customers (who are more expensive to serve) pay more, or receive worse service, than urban and suburban customers. Very few people want that.
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In my view, we *want* private investors to profit from public decisions. Profit-oriented private businesses innovate more, are faster, spend more efficiently than government. We want government to be a customer demanding the biggest bang for the buck, not an owner wanting to ensure profit.
on a dime, work 24/7 and just get it done. That is more likely to be accomplished by private enterprises that know their profit depends on satisfying a demanding and needy customer, not on which members of congress their lobbyists wine and dine. /fin
were government-owned. The Congress could and surely would tell them where to locate their factories, whom to employ, whom to buy from. Political control of business decisions makes for bloated businesses that spend on political priorities. And in a war, we would need suppliers that can turn /3
spread facilities around so key members of Congress will vote for their programs to create in-district jobs, we get $1000 hammers and toilet seats. Meanwhile we delay or don't buy things we need to fight a war because they're crowded out. This problem would get even worse if defense contractors /2
In my view public ownership of defense contractors would be hugely problematic, because of the effect on spending and how the $ is allocated. Congress sees defense spending as a pork barrel to create jobs for constituents. We procure equipment we don't need because it saves jobs, contractors /1
I don't get this name change. Who is the constituency for this?
I'm impressed that you have time to attend an argument when you have one of your own tomorrow. You must be very well organized.
āThe Chinese leader also used the anniversary to assert Beijingās sovereignty over Taiwan, which was a Japanese colony for five decades before it came under Nationalist control in 1945.ā Bullshit continue, Japan surrendered to Chiang (ROC) not Mao (CCP).
This is alarming. Trump is having the government buy stakes in big companies so those big companies canāt afford to irritate him, and an be pressured to rein in or fire Trump critics.
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My thought too.
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No one should. But Trump will hand them tens of billions of dollars of our tax money to buy their political support.
In which Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas learn to love Wickard v. Filburn.
Newsomās strategy is working, press is now calling out crimes in Republican states are worst that blue states
Beware of one common euphemism-- Pu only wants a "friendly" Ukraine. To Ru, friendly has always meant fully subjugated and pliable. Just like the Soviet Bloc states were during the Cold War-- friendly meant lacking sovereignty. The only way Ru can achieve these goals is by occupying Ukraine.
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Please don't give Trump any ideas. This administration is burning up enough of our money and running huge enough deficits as it is.
WEF is there
Is your point that Trump must not be in that bad shape, or there would be quiet chatter in DC and eventually a public meltdown? Or is the point that Trump really is in bad shape, and we need to do a better job of forcing the information out?
In 1985, I wondered what the world would be like in 40 years. Now it's 2025 ..... please, take me back to 1985. š¦
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Fair point. But a coalition is a means to an end. The end goal is to win elections. In the last decade, what kind of Dem candidate has in fact won elections in moderate and lightly-conservative areas? Centrists like Spanberger and Slotkin.
Thoughts on Chicago this week. History will remember it in one of two ways: the day the empire came to the City of Broad Shoulders, or the day Chicago stood up and the boots sank in the asphalt. Heroes will emerge. Follow all, repost, boycott. Resistance: go.bsky.app/4J6wKo8
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Here it is, folks. "The US is no longer a reliable ally." Didn't know it was possible to feel MORE shame, but we keep getting shamed.
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Commerce Secretaryās sonsā Wall Street firm is betting that Trumpās tariffs were illegally collected and must be returned? Do I have that right?
This month spoke w the ambassador of a longtime close US allied country. The indignities, damage, and "the cruelty is the point" (tm A Serwer) that this allied country has been put through would defy belief, except that we see counterparts every day in ICE / MAGA news. Just for the record.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
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My guess: he did something bad (maybe driving drunk?), his PR team knows that will come out, and they are prebutting by saying he helped a damsel in distress.
Thank you. I hope the U.S. jet continued. And I realize the point of your original post was that PRC had asserted sovereignty. Which seems bad.
Thanks. Do you know where the U.S. plane went after the warning? Thereās a big difference between (1) the U.S. plane staying on course and the Chinese jet doing nothing about it and (2) the U.S. plane turning and leaving the area in response to the Chinese warning.
A Chinese military aircraft warned a U.S. Air Force RC-135 operating in international airspace off southwestern Taiwan in the morning of 8/30 that it had entered China's national territory.
How did the U.S. plane respond?
We had the worldās most powerful military seven months ago, without tariffs.
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!
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This is a great idea! The Middle East needs more land grievances and generational grudges.
This does not look like a man who believes in limited government.
Read the tweet before this one to understand the context. Unbelievable
What? Thereās easy money and feeling like youāre the top dog. Those seem like big motivators for Trumpism.
*is mad. I swear autocorrect is getting worse.
I donāt understand how ICE gets away with holding a person with a green card for any length of timeā but 13 DAYS? What excuse do they use? And is there no financial consequence for the federal government after illegal and ridiculously long holds like this?
āILLEGALSā MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. Heās 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.
Maybe Trump U.S. still mad because Fauci showed him up.
Yes. Because a minority of voters wanted to focus on dumb shit and people who knew better went along.
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
The arguments they made in the court of appeals were better than that one. Still wrong, but at least a more nuanced version of wrong. I hope they go all "President's power over foreign policy authorizes him to impose tariffs" in SCOTUS. They'll lose 7-2.
It's the answer, with a big asterisk. The U.S. *didn't* put big tariffs on India. The US president tried to, but he has no authority to. As the court of appeals held yesterday.
Why I keep retweeting this: His schedule is empty, so they wonāt tell you whom he met with or had calls with. Thatās why itās now all off the record. Think about it - all that has been on the record is what was a photo op on camera. In fact, we have no idea of actual ābusinessā from 1/20 on.
"Fake news" is now a thing in Portuguese? Not sure why, but this makes me happy. ššš
The President of the United States throws a temper tantrum that he doesn't get the Nobel Prize for his fantasy that he brokered the India-Pakistan ceasefire -- driving the world's most populous country and potential counterweight to China into Russia's arms.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday signed a bill redrawing the state's congressional maps at the behest of President Donald Trump in an effort to flip five U.S. House seats from Democrats to Republicans, and Missouri's governor quickly embarked on a similar move. (Reuters)
āA respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the groupā
DOGE wasnāt a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
The first ever successful & impactful cyber-physical attack on European critical infrastructure outside of Ukraine? āRussian hackers took control of a Norwegian dam this year, opening a floodgate and allowing water to flow unnoticed for four hours, Norwayās intelligence service has said.ā
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Until the TCJA, the top 400 US individuals by wealth and the full US population both had effective tax rates of ~30%. The TCJA reduced the Top 400 individualsā total effective tax rates to 23.8% in 2018 ā 2020, well below those of the full population (still ~30%). www.nber.org/system/files...
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So cute! I love the big eyes.
Trump wants to control the Fed not simply because 1) he wants more control over everything and 2) he has a general preference for low interest rates, but 3) because he wants a loyal and politicized Fed to goose the economy at the right time in 2026 and especially 2028. vimeo.com/1114403325/7...
In which the President destroys our relationship with a global power and drives it into the arms of Russia because their strongman wonāt help him get a Nobel Peace Prize. (Sorry, used up all my gift links this month.) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
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Thank you and the entire team that has litigated this. You should be very proud.
Yippee! First blush: SCOTUS will grant review, but the majority opinion is pretty persuasive. Decent chance SCOTUS affirms. Alas, court set aside injunction against enforcing the tariffs against anyone. Sent back to lower court to reconsider under SCOTUS opinion on such injunctions. Prob correct.
We should enforce our laws. With >10M here illegally, 61K in jail is reasonable. The problem is ICE jails them without showing they're here illegally. US citizens, lawful residents, visa holders are arrested. Not released for weeks. Inhumane jail conditions. Even deported. THAT's the problem.
Mad respect to this anonymous hero. š«”
I donāt know whether states could just agree to cooperate, in a way that doesnāt require enforceability in court. But from the text of the Constitution, they probably canāt do an enforceable agreement without congressional consent.
Karma would be if OpenAI appropriates Mark Zuckerberg's likeness and uses it to make a nerdy chatbot.
There is a big difference between "we discovered mortgage fraud and we're going to prosecute it" and "we investigated our political opponents to find a hook to prosecute them." The former is fine. The latter is Stalinist.
Ugh. I think federal law preempts (nullifies) state laws that discriminate based on your country of origin. But enforcing that preemption would require at least a trip to court, and maybe years of trial-court proceedings and appeals. Not for the faint of heart.
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors ā by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit ā helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
I'm telling y'all right now, this is the kind of Democrat who needs to be running and this is the kind of Democrat who can win back regular Americans.
map shows the world leaders headed to beijing for this weekendās military parade
M. Macron a presque raison. Cela signifiera, une fois de plus, que le prĆ©sident Trump est de mĆØche avec le prĆ©sident Poutine.
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection ā diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
They can't. An interstate compact requires approval by Congress. "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, ... enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State ...." U.S. Constitution Article I section 10. No way this Congress approves anything contrary to Trump consolidating power.
Yep, jury nullification must frustrate prosecutors. But it seems like part and parcel of how requiring trial by jury protects people from government oppression. Now it's Pam Bondi's turn to be frustrated. Which is a step for freedom.
Worth watching. Even if you don't like Justice Scalia. He explains clearly how separating power among Congress, the President and the courts helps prevent oppression.
"We" are not. An unrepresentative, unpopular government is.
I'm not a big fan of Garrett Graff, but this column is good. It pulls together what the federal government is doing, and how private actors are responding, to say the U.S. has tipped into authoritarianism. I don't think it's gone that far, but we're close. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...