So, just to repeat, there is literally one economist in the world cheering this tariff war: Peter Navarro, and his theories are not only crackpot, but rest on the work of a scholar that he made up.
The Emperor Has No Clothes meets Turtles All the Way Down.
I don't think it's being talked about enough that Trump is basing his tariff assaults on Peter Navarro, and Navaro's theories rest on the "research" of "Ron Varo" which is an economist he made up and cited for decades: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP-e...
If we had unified dem leadership with a clear plan, it would include this.
@warren.senate.gov @hillaryclinton.bsky.social @commerce.senate.gov @judiciarydems.senate.gov
This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode the deficit.
3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
They're trying to get away with it again.
It’s simple: it’s anti-Black racism.
In February 2025 alone, we tallied 2085+ protests, incl major protests in support of federal workers, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, Palestinian self-determination, Ukraine, demonstrations against Tesla, & protests against Trump’s agenda more generally. This compares w/ 937 protests in Feb 2017.
I need to commit more dangerous gender transgressions. 🤣
You don’t have to have every answer. Doing what you can is critical.
We need fuckloads of people doing okay at and trying to getting better at fighting facism. We need every person we can get to be the bystanders intervening.
Break the surface tension. This isn’t normal. Say so. Act like it.
The guy even looks like a creep. ::shiver::
This is such fantastic news. Seeing the way that Judge Reyes acted during the hearings, I am not surprised - she saw right through their bullshit. The fight isn't over for our trans friends in the military, but this is an important victory.
This is chilling.
Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.
they get it. good for them.
BREAKING: A judge just ruled that the US DOGE Service is likely subject to FOIA and ordered the preservation of documents and expedited processing of CREW’s FOIA requests.
Red alert. These people don't understand science or medicine.
SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.
He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."
Mark Kelly tweets that we can’t give up on the Ukrainian people. Musk replies with the words “You are a traitor”.
Senator Mark Kelly was commander of the Space Shuttle. He flew four missions to space. He flew 39 combat missions in Iraq. He went to visit Ukraine for himself & is calling for its freedom to be defended.
So, Elon Musk brands him a "traitor".
I’m careful with language on this site.
Fuck Musk.
“ICE’s arrest and detention of Mahmoud follows the US government’s open repression of student activism and political speech, specifically targeting students at Columbia University for criticism of Israel’s assault on Gaza,” Khalil’s lawyer, Amy Greer said.
DO NOT SIT IDLY BY.
It continues to be gross how many Democrats are forgetting the true Golden Rule: If you're about to say, "fascists have a point about this marginalized group they're scapegoating," you should shut up, punch yourself in the face and not speak again until you've watched a few Holocaust documentaries.
today it's the edgier portions of pro-palestinian activism, tomorrow it's "gender ideology", a year later maybe it's "the climate hoax". you draw the line here or not at all.
This is the new McCarthyism. You may lose your livelihood, your liberty, even your citizenship if you speak out in support of the Palestinian people.
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
this is called “being disappeared,” ask your Argentine friends about it
This is how both the first and second red scares began: deporting legal permanent residents for nothing other than their (also legal) political beliefs
apnews.com/article/colu...
once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!
NEVER.
the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps
block the path