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Everything we’re dealing with now is fallout from decades’ worth of mistakes that have been compounded because the people who made them have hung onto power and hidden their crimes.
God help us. What a truly awful moment and we’re all stuck here against our will.
God help us. What a truly awful moment and we’re all stuck here against our will.
June 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Everything we’re dealing with now is fallout from decades’ worth of mistakes that have been compounded because the people who made them have hung onto power and hidden their crimes.
God help us. What a truly awful moment and we’re all stuck here against our will.
God help us. What a truly awful moment and we’re all stuck here against our will.
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truth tellers are punished most when they are early, not wrong.
May 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
truth tellers are punished most when they are early, not wrong.
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If the IRS deprives Harvard of its tax-exempt status, that's very bad for Harvard but it's also a catastrophe for the IRS. Instead of a neutral agency that enforces tax law, it will become a tool of partisan warfare. It may never recover.
April 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
If the IRS deprives Harvard of its tax-exempt status, that's very bad for Harvard but it's also a catastrophe for the IRS. Instead of a neutral agency that enforces tax law, it will become a tool of partisan warfare. It may never recover.
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Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
April 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
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This isn't going to end until the judges start holding lawyers and DOJ officials in contempt and throwing them in jail.
Even that might not end it, but there's no point trying to delay the inevitable. They're just getting bolder and more destructive as they go.
Even that might not end it, but there's no point trying to delay the inevitable. They're just getting bolder and more destructive as they go.
NEW: DOJ doubles down on refusing to follow Judge Xinis's orders. Today's status report contains nothing new. It again fails to provide information about steps they're taking to bring Mr. Abrego back), and arguably violates her command that a declaration be made by someone with personal knowledge.
April 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This isn't going to end until the judges start holding lawyers and DOJ officials in contempt and throwing them in jail.
Even that might not end it, but there's no point trying to delay the inevitable. They're just getting bolder and more destructive as they go.
Even that might not end it, but there's no point trying to delay the inevitable. They're just getting bolder and more destructive as they go.
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oh you mean like every other time they've tried this? everywhere else in the world?
A German experiment has found that people are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments.
German experiment gave people a basic monthly income – the effect on their work ethic was surprising | CNN
A German experiment has found that people are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments.
www.cnn.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
oh you mean like every other time they've tried this? everywhere else in the world?
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Hard to overstate how lawless and also just fundamentally *untrustworthy* this country is, any promise we ever made anyone about anything turns out to have been fake www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
I.R.S. Agrees to Share Migrants’ Tax Information with ICE
The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to gain the trust of migrants and encourage them to file their taxes.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Hard to overstate how lawless and also just fundamentally *untrustworthy* this country is, any promise we ever made anyone about anything turns out to have been fake www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
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I never cease to be amazed by the cowardliness of our Media & Political Elite. This is the last chance, if they don't stop him now, we are all going to be suffering from this for the rest of our lives.
April 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I never cease to be amazed by the cowardliness of our Media & Political Elite. This is the last chance, if they don't stop him now, we are all going to be suffering from this for the rest of our lives.
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MAGA is composed of ~10 separate factions that convinced themselves they are all aligned as one. They are not, and the tariffs are helping to break the factions apart. Notice this and amp up differences and grievances. Break them apart.
April 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
MAGA is composed of ~10 separate factions that convinced themselves they are all aligned as one. They are not, and the tariffs are helping to break the factions apart. Notice this and amp up differences and grievances. Break them apart.
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this shit sucks so much, most of us have lived through at least 3 other recessions now im just so sick of this shit they just keep stealing our future from us
April 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
this shit sucks so much, most of us have lived through at least 3 other recessions now im just so sick of this shit they just keep stealing our future from us
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Please, I’m begging people to stop responding to every economic update and tariff announcement as if they’re just screwing up and as if the demolition of our economy isn’t beneficial to oligarchs and the wealth class that wants to gobble up resources and exploit us more effectively.
April 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Please, I’m begging people to stop responding to every economic update and tariff announcement as if they’re just screwing up and as if the demolition of our economy isn’t beneficial to oligarchs and the wealth class that wants to gobble up resources and exploit us more effectively.
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“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.”
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
March 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.”
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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there is a bizarre consensus among "liberal" intellectual and political elites that we must assume Republicans are acting in good faith despite decades of evidence to the contrary
Cool cool. @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com @klobuchar.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov are looking to team up with MAGA to give Donald Trump the power to censor anything he wants on the Internet.
Do they not recognize what will happen?
Do they not recognize what will happen?
NEW: As early as next week, Senators plan to introduce the first bipartisan bill to repeal Section 230, the landmark internet law
I spoke with congressional aides to get the details of the ambitious effort, which internet experts described as akin to extortion
www.theinformation.com/articles/exc...
I spoke with congressional aides to get the details of the ambitious effort, which internet experts described as akin to extortion
www.theinformation.com/articles/exc...
March 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
there is a bizarre consensus among "liberal" intellectual and political elites that we must assume Republicans are acting in good faith despite decades of evidence to the contrary
The problem is how people are taught to think. Education is seen as a means to employment, rather than a lifelong process of self enrichment. Similarly, the silo effect is a pox on thought. Most innovative thinkers through history have been informed by multiple disciplines.
Not the most pressing issue but I do feel sad at the way the internet has caused an intellectual decline among writers. You can often see, in a book or article, the outlines of the better argument or better writing that would have been produced if the author had the cognitive capacity for it.
March 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The problem is how people are taught to think. Education is seen as a means to employment, rather than a lifelong process of self enrichment. Similarly, the silo effect is a pox on thought. Most innovative thinkers through history have been informed by multiple disciplines.
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In recent years, Judge Boasberg has:
- ordered the release of Hillary’s emails
- ensured Trump’s tax returns never became public
- restricted disclosure from the Mueller investigation
- limited disclosure of grand jury material in the Trump classified docs case.
The resistance, he ain’t.
- ordered the release of Hillary’s emails
- ensured Trump’s tax returns never became public
- restricted disclosure from the Mueller investigation
- limited disclosure of grand jury material in the Trump classified docs case.
The resistance, he ain’t.
Leavitt: This judge is a Democrat activist. He was appointed by Barack Obama
Reporter: He was originally appointed by George W. Bush and elevated by Obama. Feel I should clear that up.
Reporter: He was originally appointed by George W. Bush and elevated by Obama. Feel I should clear that up.
March 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
In recent years, Judge Boasberg has:
- ordered the release of Hillary’s emails
- ensured Trump’s tax returns never became public
- restricted disclosure from the Mueller investigation
- limited disclosure of grand jury material in the Trump classified docs case.
The resistance, he ain’t.
- ordered the release of Hillary’s emails
- ensured Trump’s tax returns never became public
- restricted disclosure from the Mueller investigation
- limited disclosure of grand jury material in the Trump classified docs case.
The resistance, he ain’t.
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I didn't know I could love Ukraine even more.
March 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I didn't know I could love Ukraine even more.
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If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
March 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
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People are in denial about how close to the edge we really are. There are zero reasons to think that popular assumptions about how the world works will remain true in a year, in a month, or a week.
March 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
People are in denial about how close to the edge we really are. There are zero reasons to think that popular assumptions about how the world works will remain true in a year, in a month, or a week.
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NEW from me — a beleaguered New Yorker vents her frustration at how the people the Empire State elected to protect us from fascism have become willing accomplices to Trump's agenda:
Heartbreak, New York
How blue state Dems are betraying the people they're supposed to represent
www.thehandbasket.co
March 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
NEW from me — a beleaguered New Yorker vents her frustration at how the people the Empire State elected to protect us from fascism have become willing accomplices to Trump's agenda:
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Out of all the bullies and monsters in the administration, Marco Rubio seems like the purest specimen of how Nazism happened—not a sincere bigot or ideologue, just an empty shell who has literally no limits on what he will agree to do or pretend to believe, embracing brutality to fill his weakness
President Trump’s administration has officially expelled South Africa’s ambassador to the U.S., a spokesman for the South African president said on Saturday, calling the decision “regrettable.”
Trump Administration Expels South Africa’s Ambassador to the U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio had lashed out on social media over comments critical of President Trump that the ambassador had made to a think tank in Johannesburg.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Out of all the bullies and monsters in the administration, Marco Rubio seems like the purest specimen of how Nazism happened—not a sincere bigot or ideologue, just an empty shell who has literally no limits on what he will agree to do or pretend to believe, embracing brutality to fill his weakness
The problem is that wealth inequality was the underlying causation for peoples emotions, their hopelessness. This was unacceptable to american oligarchs; immediately after the war writers like Mises and Hayek were promoted. To them totalitarianism was something entirely disconnected from business.
Unfortunately it seems like a lesson that is going to have to be taught anew as we are a post-literate country.
March 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The problem is that wealth inequality was the underlying causation for peoples emotions, their hopelessness. This was unacceptable to american oligarchs; immediately after the war writers like Mises and Hayek were promoted. To them totalitarianism was something entirely disconnected from business.
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(1/X) People often say things like "why does Trump appeal to people?" The answer is simple: he tells them what they want to hear. He has no beliefs of his own so he has infinite flexibility to do so.
That is what narcissistic sociopaths are like. And that is why in any discussion of Trump...
That is what narcissistic sociopaths are like. And that is why in any discussion of Trump...
March 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
(1/X) People often say things like "why does Trump appeal to people?" The answer is simple: he tells them what they want to hear. He has no beliefs of his own so he has infinite flexibility to do so.
That is what narcissistic sociopaths are like. And that is why in any discussion of Trump...
That is what narcissistic sociopaths are like. And that is why in any discussion of Trump...