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Wow. China just called out the Trump administration for blatantly lying about the existence of any ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and China.
April 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Wow. China just called out the Trump administration for blatantly lying about the existence of any ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and China.
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Governor JB Pritzker just announced that Illinois will be defunding investments in companies controlled by El Salvador to punish the country for holding American residents without due process.
More of this.
More of this.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker acts against El Salvador over Kilmar Abrego’s detention
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has announced that the state will take punitive actions against El Salvador for holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia in custody, while a federal judge has ordered the Trump admini…
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April 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Governor JB Pritzker just announced that Illinois will be defunding investments in companies controlled by El Salvador to punish the country for holding American residents without due process.
More of this.
More of this.
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One thing we wrote about in our Blue State Power Index feature is the enormous amounts of money blue states control and can align with their values.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
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Democratic Governor Moves To Boycott El Salvador For Aiding Trump
Illinois Gov. J.B. Prtizker is ordering the state's pension funds and procurement agencies to review any investments in the Latin American country.
www.huffpost.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
One thing we wrote about in our Blue State Power Index feature is the enormous amounts of money blue states control and can align with their values.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
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This will hurt Americans and not just blue cities - Florida, North and South Carolina, Texas, Nevada, Louisiana all benefit from tourism. The entire country does.
Trump on the steep drop in international tourism to the US: "It's not a big deal"
April 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
This will hurt Americans and not just blue cities - Florida, North and South Carolina, Texas, Nevada, Louisiana all benefit from tourism. The entire country does.
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Trump is assisting two war criminals and genocides at once. It is backing Russia against Ukraine and Israel against Gaza. His actions are leading to the increasing mass death of civilians at the hands of Putin and Netanyahu. Never forget.
April 24, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Trump is assisting two war criminals and genocides at once. It is backing Russia against Ukraine and Israel against Gaza. His actions are leading to the increasing mass death of civilians at the hands of Putin and Netanyahu. Never forget.
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Again, no. The Framers anticipated & feared tyranny in all its forms. What they did not anticipate was that Congress would be full of cowards who cared so little about their own power that they would let a runaway Mad King steal it without even lifting a finger to stop him.
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The Framers feared tyranny of the majority. They didn’t anticipate tyranny of the minority.
Jerusalem Demsas speaks with a political scientist who explains why American democracy can be so easily hijacked by organized minority factions.
Jerusalem Demsas speaks with a political scientist who explains why American democracy can be so easily hijacked by organized minority factions.
Who Really Runs America?
A political scientist explains why American democracy is so easily hijacked by organized minority factions.
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April 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Again, no. The Framers anticipated & feared tyranny in all its forms. What they did not anticipate was that Congress would be full of cowards who cared so little about their own power that they would let a runaway Mad King steal it without even lifting a finger to stop him.
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Markets seem to be slowly discovering what close Trump watchers have known for years. Better late than never.
Today's Morning Shots, from @eggerdc.bsky.social and @cathyyoung63.bsky.social:
Today's Morning Shots, from @eggerdc.bsky.social and @cathyyoung63.bsky.social:
The Market Is Discovering Trump May Be Crazy
It’s not just the tariffs Wall Street hates—it’s the impulsiveness of the president behind them.
www.thebulwark.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Markets seem to be slowly discovering what close Trump watchers have known for years. Better late than never.
Today's Morning Shots, from @eggerdc.bsky.social and @cathyyoung63.bsky.social:
Today's Morning Shots, from @eggerdc.bsky.social and @cathyyoung63.bsky.social:
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sure what the hell. Announce thirteen billion percent tariffs next. 73 quintillion percent. eleventy gabillion percent. 29 brazillian percent. 35 dodecagorillion percent. who cares.
April 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
sure what the hell. Announce thirteen billion percent tariffs next. 73 quintillion percent. eleventy gabillion percent. 29 brazillian percent. 35 dodecagorillion percent. who cares.
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first milk goes bad then it turns evil
April 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
first milk goes bad then it turns evil
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The Ministry of Propaganda is out early today doing damage control.
April 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The Ministry of Propaganda is out early today doing damage control.
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Columbia University Professor of Economics Jeffrey Sachs mocks President Trump's failure to understand trade deficits
April 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Columbia University Professor of Economics Jeffrey Sachs mocks President Trump's failure to understand trade deficits
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This is our moment in history to stand.
April 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is our moment in history to stand.
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Imagine that: a drunk Fox entertainment host can't run the largest agency in the world. It's a real shocker.
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‘There Is a Complete Meltdown in the Building’: Pentagon Reportedly in ‘Chaos’ as Hegseth Loses Four Staffers in One Day
“Pete Hegseth has surrounded himself with some people who don’t have his interests at heart.”
www.mediaite.com
April 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Imagine that: a drunk Fox entertainment host can't run the largest agency in the world. It's a real shocker.
www.mediaite.com/politics/the...
www.mediaite.com/politics/the...
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Trump has nothing on his public schedule today and he’s still in DC unless they snuck him out the backdoor. He’s not the type to sit around the White House all wknd unless he needs a photo op in the Situation Room if you catch my drift. Easter Egg roll isn’t till Monday. Something’s up.
April 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Trump has nothing on his public schedule today and he’s still in DC unless they snuck him out the backdoor. He’s not the type to sit around the White House all wknd unless he needs a photo op in the Situation Room if you catch my drift. Easter Egg roll isn’t till Monday. Something’s up.
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An innocent man who committed no crime but is the same race as the person who murdered your daughter should have to spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp is the argument?
April 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
An innocent man who committed no crime but is the same race as the person who murdered your daughter should have to spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp is the argument?
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David Brooks is Communist Manifesto posting, Harvard is antifascist now, Bill Kristol is a Bernie Bro now, SCOTUS is releasing emergency panic judgments, Frank fucking Luntz is in the NYT today extolling the virtues of empathy.
The era of Finding Out is a trip
The era of Finding Out is a trip
Hard to shake the feeling that a lot of enablers are finally arriving at the "oh shit what did we do" stage of things
This is an unusual order for several reasons, suggesting the majority thought it necessary. This was issued:
• after midnight
• before the government even responded (perhaps most irregular)
• while a Fifth Circuit request remains pending &
• before a dissenting justice could finish their statement.
• after midnight
• before the government even responded (perhaps most irregular)
• while a Fifth Circuit request remains pending &
• before a dissenting justice could finish their statement.
April 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
David Brooks is Communist Manifesto posting, Harvard is antifascist now, Bill Kristol is a Bernie Bro now, SCOTUS is releasing emergency panic judgments, Frank fucking Luntz is in the NYT today extolling the virtues of empathy.
The era of Finding Out is a trip
The era of Finding Out is a trip
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“Senator Argall asked Mary, ‘Do you think we should allow pornographic magazines in Kindergarten classrooms?‘ ... ‘Mary looked confused and had to ask, ‘What does that mean?’ He explained to her, in front of the entire audience, that it meant ‘naked pictures of people in books and magazines.”
Pa. GOP lawmaker apologizes for questioning a 12-year-old about pornography at civics event
Sen. David Argall on Thursday issued an apology for his line of questioning with a sixth-grader regarding pornography during a middle school Civics Bee.
www.pennlive.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Senator Argall asked Mary, ‘Do you think we should allow pornographic magazines in Kindergarten classrooms?‘ ... ‘Mary looked confused and had to ask, ‘What does that mean?’ He explained to her, in front of the entire audience, that it meant ‘naked pictures of people in books and magazines.”
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When you see innocent people being sent to a hell hole concentration camp in El Salvador, you are horrified.
But the thing that most people in the USA still don't want to reckon with, is that *more than half* of the white people in the USA see the same exact images, *and like it*.
They love it.
But the thing that most people in the USA still don't want to reckon with, is that *more than half* of the white people in the USA see the same exact images, *and like it*.
They love it.
April 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
When you see innocent people being sent to a hell hole concentration camp in El Salvador, you are horrified.
But the thing that most people in the USA still don't want to reckon with, is that *more than half* of the white people in the USA see the same exact images, *and like it*.
They love it.
But the thing that most people in the USA still don't want to reckon with, is that *more than half* of the white people in the USA see the same exact images, *and like it*.
They love it.
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Speaking now from El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia by El Salvador leaders. And was denied a phone call to him
Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"
Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"
April 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Speaking now from El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia by El Salvador leaders. And was denied a phone call to him
Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"
Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"