Funny thing about ignoring the law and making up BS justification for naked political gain.
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Funny thing about ignoring the law and making up BS justification for naked political gain.
No argument about the problem, but think we need answers way beyond unions.
I suspect we would be well beyond furious if that top 10/th were broken down to show income for each percentile from 91 to 100.
That is kind of the portfolio wide play. Transfer taxpayer dollars to private contractors.
Stupid machines taking jobs felt a bit loaded. Again, my misread. I am thinking about AI, how it will affect the rest of my lifetime. Need to be careful about knee jerk reactions I guess. It does seem like there will be profound implications in academia thus I note your quotes....
Sorry, did I misread you? Maybe it was not the machine you think is stupid?
Oh the Christmas cards.
Not sure I get the animosity? Firstly, the example is not generative AI, but rather general which works pretty well. The machine is just a tool, and it's here.
Dear DOJ: Please stop being a$$holes. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
How would one estimate the amount of money/resources wasted on pursuing this one man, who doesn't really appear to have done much of anything. It's bad that this admin is vindictive, it's a disaster that it comes at the cost of everything else.
Why bother? He probably deserves a lot worse, but that still doesn't have anything to do with whether it is right or not.
On his side, and still detest his awful policy positions on just about everything else that matters.
You just gave air to Brian Donaldson. Come on have some discipline....
Afraid these guys are not even good enough to see what their legacies' are going to look like.
Kudos to Dogget. We need about 30 more.
When it's all said and done, no one person is likely to be more responsible for the disaster of Trump's second term. The quotes by serious legal scholars about Roberts role are shocking. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What every parent tells their B student child as they fail freshman English.
Now more than 63,000 dead Palestinians not counting those starved to death. The state of Israel does not deserve the support of the United States. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...?
"This is a crisis far bigger than Texas." I hesitate to say must read on bsky, but only for a moment. This is a must read. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-20-...
So we live in a country that is so afraid it won't allow the parents of Little Leaguers to come watch their kids play baseball. Profoundly sad for everyone. www.sungazette.com/news/top-new...
Might wanna look in the mirror. We need everybody in the biggest tent possible right now.
The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend. This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending. Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared
Smart people want Trump to do the same .
Elect a vulgarian, expect vulgar decor.
Just putting this here for no particular reason.
Sounds like his Gaza plan.
You forgot to mention that Trump is hiding the Epstein files.
I don't know anything about anything,but hard to imagine anyone else maintaining the grift like Taco.
Lots of smart people get it wrong a lot of the time. Not sure how much there is to learn from them.
Responsibility for where the country is? You credit him a whole lot more juice than he ever had.
Admittedly from an almost over 55 white guy, but this not the problem, but rather (and importantly) the result of the problem with congress. Corruption from the money in politics is the problem we have to fix.
Just a PSA / reminder that this is the kind complete and utter fraud that the GOP is capable of putting in office. bbc.com/news/article...
absolutely pathetic
No question there.
His head just hurts too much from it all.
Ummm...., they are stupid and he has gotten away with that exact practice from the get go.
I try to not comment on NYT articles, but Shapiro is cooking his own goose if he thinks the next Democratic nominee for president can to take this line.
Disgraceful.
Sorry to say this is not the first time many have thought the same thing.
Israel is doing this to Palestinian children with American taxpayer money, support, and weapons.
Also, we would be foolish to ignore that a masked apparently lawless goon squad is being assembled. Its funding is now more than Israel's defense budget and beyond conceivable need. There are not enough border crossings to keep next year's ICE busy. What will it be used for?
Anyone else think that this is about more than immigration? An annual budget larger than Isreal's defense budget and untold billions on new detention targeting a limited pool of people who are not a problem can only go one way. This is the end of the beginning. www.democracynow.org/2025/7/2/tru...
Well worth a listen for all of us today. I can't help but wonder what my ancestors who took up this call and went to war to make it so would think of of us now.
We were warned
Not sure about business, but they don't seem to handle obscene wealth very well.
THE LARGEST TRANSFER OF WEALTH TO THE ULTRA-RICH IN AMERICAN HISTORY
A real Republican Congressman just tweeted this vile crap.
And for your Republican neighbors, he doesn't care about the national debt and he wants to create a new federal goon squad larger than the FBI. He also doesn't care about jobs and the economy, prioritizing politics over economics....
Personally, I'd prefer impeaching our corrupt and criminal president
No comfort in it, but the only thing dumber than letting Trump run our country is another country letting him influence theirs.
I dunno. He's been pretty bad. I mean your post. Ffs. I at least expected logic.
Any real moderate I s little ng since a Democrat.
You don't even have to care about the people involved. Investing billions to shut down the immigrant labor engine that has always fueled this country is going to kill the economy.
McCormick has to be one of the biggest disappointments of this Senate. He just flat out knows better.
Is she Dumb, or Dumber. I keep forgetting.
Trump's America.
Just in time to visit the in-laws in Amsterdam. Thanks, Obamacare!
Better than McCormick selling his book, but not by as much as one would hope. Never thought I would pine quite so much for Bob Casey, but here we are ...
What campaign restrictions?
Would not sleep on calling Murkowski. The Medicaid and SNAP cuts would be devastating to rural Alaska, and last I read the special non contiguous state carveout had been axed. Seems like she is as likely or more than any on the list to be swayed.
Absolutely pathetic that no amount of call would impact either of our Senators.
Not much room for winning in that.
Honestly, wish more Senators would take the same approach. If McCormick (my Senator) would go to bat for the vulnerable rural communities (and our hospitals) in his state the bill could improve a lot. But he won't. He holds deciding vote and he is not willing to put his personal tax cut at risk.
100% and that is not a popular position even among the MAGA rank & file.
Kinda past that aren't we? Not saying you are wrong, but that feels a little 2015. Maybe 10 years in its time to focus on crediting seeing it when it got here so we can all work together to move us forward.
If only. Goes so much deeper than that, I am afraid.
Even more unsettling for me is my near complete agreement with Michael Steele many weeknights.
isn't Ezra Klein test just how its supposed to work? "markets can serve human flourishing if properly regulated. That wealth concentration threatens social stability and must be managed through policy. That capitalism’s legitimacy depends on its ability to deliver broadly shared prosperity."
Kind of an easy call to oppose this on the tax cuts alone. Originally passing as temporary claiming limited (massive) impact on our debt because they will sunset and now making them permanent claiming limited impact because they are already in place. wtf? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Says everything about a democracy that allows it to happen.
Feels to me more like they are being encouraged to be lawless, intimidating and cruel while short circuiting accountability. All very calculated and terifying.
💯. I have been frustrated and befuddled by that lack of pushback on a anonymous federal goon squad. This should be our hair on fire issue. The threat to democracy of normalizing this is off the charts.
Despite the pile of evidence, I still have a hard time getting my head around just how arrogant this court is in its machinations to get the results it wants.
Actually, that is just flat out lying out his ass.
Feels pretty good compared to most NY high profile candidates of late.
Pretty sure he's just an idiot who can't function.
Jfc. We need an enforceable law with consequences banning government officials from lying. That cash was Iran's money seized I never sanctions.
They can, but it seems pretty far fetched. MUCH, more likely that homegrown rightwing terrorist use that playbook .
That is a pretty broad assertion. Even amongst us bluesky experts.
They could have just interviewed an increasingly cranky white guy in Pennsylvania to get that exact same take.
More telling than funny as it largely comes from Christian nationalists.
How can you be so sure? Maybe they are just running away from criminals and sexual harassers. It seems like the larger point may be it is easier to win when people vote against your opponent. Not a new idea for Republicans, at least.
Like it or not, Walmart has done more to make life affordable for more people than probably any other corporation. Seems like plenty of more notable bad guys to go after in this story.
Too bad he's too stupid to reflect on how that might feel for someone who is poor and not in a position of power and safety.
No kidding.
That us a perfect description for RFK and Trumps America in general.
Its fine, Says the guy ra ting that the press is unpatriotic.
This is what Harris and Walz got very wrong. These people may or may be weird, but that is a secondary issue. They are absolutely are corrupt and dangerous. That is what matters.
Trump's America www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I have never been so embarrassed by my complete and unconditional love of the Netherlands.
Lincoln did not ignore the Dred Scott decision.
Closer to 10% than to 90%. They are noisy, but nowhere near 70 million people. Absolutely fair to hold all 77 million accountable for a historically bad choice, but no evidence that even a majority of them are bad people.
Until shown otherwise by those people, I will. Demonizing others in America is a central tenet of MAGA and I am not going to do it. For fun, how many of the 77 million+ '24 Trump voters do you really think are vial liars fueled by hate and bigotry? All of them is just not a plausible.
Trump's America
💯 there is definitely a huge number of people operating off perceived facts that are just not in anyway factual. People that believe Biden and Obama are the worst American Presidents ever, but can't come up with a reason why.
Just not true. Most people abhor politics and don't pay attention or dig in.