A brief history of presidential oil price jawbones through the Hormuz crisis.

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left twitter is perhaps the least representative, or 'real life,' ideological cohort on any social media. mostly because there is almost no overlap with any demographics that *aren't* on social media - statistically, every AOC-hating leftist has a twitter account and never shuts up about it

i don’t think trump actually *does* hate drinking, he hated his brother, and his brother’s alcoholism was a weakness trump found to taunt and belittle him for

Imagine ripping up NATO to protect Serbia in 1992, that’s the kind of absurd situation being advocated for.

Historically, this ends with them changing their minds in eight months after the market has been reset three times

Trump knows that everyone understands what "Low IQ person" means when he says it but the press isn't willing to write it. He knows they will always cover for him and he loves that he can get away with it. He's used so many old timey racist terms he hopes no one knows but he also does this

It is genuinely wild how the GOP can insult Canada for over a year non-stop and then get angry about being "disrespected"

sheesh.

They think you're stupid.

Zelenskyy played hardball & it played off. Get wrecked Fidesz

The thing is you have a Secretary of Defense who quite literally does not think germs are real, he explicitly rejects germ theory

The question to ask isn't "why did pete do (x)," it's "why did roger wicker vote to confirm a guy who literally doesn't think germs are real"

REDISTRICT EVERYTHING

ESCALATE TO DE-ESCALATE

GERRYMANDER EVERY SINGLE STATE IMMEDIATELY

CREATE A DELICATE BALANCE OF TERROR NOW

RESTORE DETTERENCE

every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Trump DOJ official blames DEI after ignoring GOP lawmaker's arrest warrant for assault U.S. pardon attorney Ed Martin argued that Washington, D.C., DEI policies were to blame after he refused to comply with an arrest warrant for Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL).Last year, the Metropolitan Police responded to the report of a domestic assault at Mills' apartment. Although no arrest was made at th...

Trump DOJ official blames DEI after ignoring GOP lawmaker's arrest warrant for assault

Bless their little loser hearts, Virginia constitutional amendments first have to pass the full legislature twice before they ever go before voters

The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind

DEl speedwagon EM @uhs...•51m X I loathe Spanberger as much as she loathes people like me but I do appreciate that she appears to be governing Virginia like Benjamin Butler governed the military dictatorship of Union-occupied New Orleans The Political HQ • @ThePolitica... • 1h € BREAKING F The Virginia Redistricting Amendment has passed. This changes Virginia's congressional maps from a 6-5 Democratic split to a 10- 1 Democratic split, representing a four-seat gain for Democrats.

the cool thing about being a progressive normielib is that I can just say “this is awesome” instead of doing a bunch of throat clearing about loathing Spanberger before I praise her for obliterating 4 Republican seats

I have no view on whether it would be an electorally successful platform.

But “hardball in the service of democratic norms” seems to me to be the morally correct platform for Dems.

How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet Scammers have duped consumers out of more than $1 billion by exploiting Walmart’s lax security. The company has resisted taking responsibility while breaking promises to regulators and skimping on tra...

Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found.

More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.

(Published Jan. 2024)

Former Republican Rep. Devin Nunes out as Trump Media CEO

boys ask claude. men ask jeeves.

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

What is the antifa "energy policy"? 🤌

Hey. Everyone. Don't stress out looking at the NYT margins. This is over, Yes will win in Virginia. There are 275,000 votes left to count just in Fairfax, which will be 70-30 yes. There are also 100,000 votes between Richmond and Henrico, which will be very blue but not as blue. This is done.

He can’t say no to this because, technically, he was on the clock at the Olympics. We paid for that and there’s video of him getting ripped. So we already have proof of at least one instance.

WaPo says that Warsh “promised independence” and “demonstrated seriousness” during his hearing. When asked who won the 2020 election, he basically hid under the table. Promises of independence from someone so cowed and cowardly are less than meaningless.

Virginia has been consistently looking like a mid single digit win for Yes since the first results came in, to my eyes

No new projects are getting funded under Trump, so now is a great time for agencies to get serious and read every word of transitcost.com. Of course what they’ll actually do is just sit on their hands till the next administration and hope the money continues to rain down like it has been.

Joe Mazzulla is going to rip the Celtics a new one at halftime, and it's going to be very deserved. Rare to say this about Boston this season, but they are being outworked. You can't give up an offensive rebound off a free throw to the opposite side of the lane that leads to a three.