So now, America is 65% more expensive than it was in 2016 and we’re all still making the same amount of money for our work. Thanks, Republicans! AND we’re adding more debt! COOL!
If my math is good, the last time he was in office, by the time he left, everything was 35% more expensive than when he started. And now we’re sticking with 30% tariffs on Chinese goods, so, essentially, most of what we buy. Pretty sure 30% tariff was the goal all along.
I’m going to become the Joker.
It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar!
efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...Had to repost. This is so savage. I love it.
Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media.
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
I just think it’s funny that the president thinks making everything more expensive will be no big deal in a nation that exists because its ancestors overthrew their government rather than pay an extra tax on tea
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn
Macron shook one hand.
It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you
Newsom: In 2023, Californians contributed $83.1 billion more to the federal government than we received back.
And for your viewers: that other state—Texas—took $71.1 billion more than it contributed to the federal government. California: $83 billion, contributor. Texas: taker.
Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick
“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco
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This from
@jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.
An absolute must-read from
@stevevladeck.bsky.social this morning:
“Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”
144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention
Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.
Shout out to all the finance bros who didn’t give a shit about democracy, human rights, racism, homophobia, misogyny, the future of the planet or basic human decency and voted for the conman they thought was gonna be good for the economy. You guys are geniuses.
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
“Canceled sailings.”
“Blank sailings.”
The freight market is telling you everything you need to know about the coming wave of scarcity.
@cnbc.com @loriannlarocco.bsky.social
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/t...🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt."
Visit
www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.
Per
@vanhollen.senate.gov's press conference from El Salvador, "The Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep Garcia at CECOT."
PAYING THE GOVERNMENT OF EL SALVADOR TO KEEP HIM AT CECOT
Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13.
“His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”
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In the
#Australian Outback, a frill-neck
#lizard unfolds its dramatic display, reminding tourists that in these wild lands, it’s the lizards that capture the spotlight
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They just don’t understand how many people understand BASIC laws more than any other time. Laws bring us order. They give us predictability. And we are all learning how to win this game within the laws. We’re winning. And the people who didn’t have to figure it out, are not. That’s what’s happening
The Supreme Court’s “Scale” is -1 - +12. Don’t worry about the negative and positive ends and let’s assign it Left(-) and Right(+). Thomas and Alito stop problems at +11 and Jackson stops them at (?). I don’t think we’ve seen Jackson’s limits, yet. But for comfort about Trump, we’ve seen the limit.
It’s so odd. First he was threatening to annex Canada daily. Then it was weekly, and now, crickets. It’s almost as though something is about to happen soon and he doesn’t want to negatively affect that ELECTION ON APRIL 28TH.
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BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis issues an order following tonight's Supreme Court ruling, ordering the government to "take all available steps to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia to the United States as soon as possible." [1/2]
Background at Law Dork:
www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-s...The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this.
We can't. We need answers.
And about those elections… all proof that could’ve been identified… what the fuck do you think DOGE is for??? If you’re a Republican and you didn’t profit off of this stock situation, then you missed the boat and you’re the useful idiot. This is the most corrupt collusion in WORLD HISTORY
If this isn’t all adding up for EVERYBODY by today then we are cooked. Conveniently wins all swing states. All members of congress put up zero resistance to ANYTHING. Intentionally crash the market and calls for stock purchases skyrocket moments before he pauses tariff threat… I am furious
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okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
Uhhh guys, there’s a problem here… if I’m reading this data correctly…
none of his voters even have 401K’s
I love how he thinks noooobody else has ever thought in depth about this strategy. He’s like Golem: he’s going to be clutching to this idea as he’s melting in the lava.
