If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
So, what had been free TV will now be $20 per month? That doesn't sound like great news to me.
The bottom line from @pkrugman.bsky.social analysis of Trump's tariff proposals . . .
How Trump’s Radical Tariff Plan Could Wreck Our Economy www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/o...
Clinton is insightful, as usual.
Since Reagan, the GOP has worked to increase citizens' cynicism about government, and then campaigned against government.
Now, under Trump, the GOP is working to increase citizens' cynicism about democracy, and then campaigning against democracy.
2/ I'm old enough to remember when young people went to college to become educated adults (that's what I did myself) and might even have studied what they were most interested in.
1/ This says a lot about how attitudes have shifted. Capitalism is the new religion. I see this in the high school juniors and seniors that I teach. They are obsessed with getting into the best tier-one universities and majoring in what will lead them to the highest-paying careers. shorturl.at/iinOz
I'm old enough to remember when young people went to college to become educated adults and might even have studied what they were most interested in. (That's what I did myself.)
My father came to the US through Ellis Island, with his poverty-stricken family. He died with six successful kids and a four- bedroom, three-bath house on 5 acres. This country was everything to him.
I'm glad he never saw what we've become.
Don't forget the whale head.
Economic metrics like job growth, the stock market, and GDP don't give us the entire picture of how our economy is doing or who is actually doing well.
Want to measure economic success? Go to the kitchen tables of America.
The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice.
The result is demagoguery and corruption.
Some lessons from the 2024 election disaster.
Listen (and subscribe!) to the FrameLab podcast (w/ @gilduran.bsky.social)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...
He tried to buy substack too, but was turned down.
Reupping my and @andykroll.bsky.social story on Russ Vought, a Project 2025 architect, on the news he is joining the next Trump administration.
We got private videos of Vought's plans for "traumatically" razing the civil service, siccing military on protestors… 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/vide...
It's almost as if birds of a feather really do flock together...
So Margorie Taylor Greene will head the Congressional DOGE committee, whose task will be to root out government waste and incompetence. There's a certain irony to that...
If you're on the side of the oligarchs, they are regulations. If you're on the side of the people, they are consumer (or citizen) protections.
What about ChromeOS? Millions use Chromebooks every day.
Christians may think this because Genesis 1:26: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Could not agree with this more. Do not give in to the malignant normality no matter how many others accept it.
The sneaky feeling that something like this had has been gnawing at me for the last two weeks. I don’t know that this article proves the assertion, but I invite you to read it and tell me what you think.
That is eye-opening, for sure. It definitely doesn't prove the assertion, but it does establish that this should be looked at further, very soon. My guess is that those inquiries will be blocked at every turn and go nowhere, sadly.
Trump's known for creating absurd situations to divert attention. Gaetz for A.G. might be such a diversion. It's not that he wouldn't like to see him confirmed, but he knows that's unlikely. But if the Senate refuses Gaetz, other nominees' chances go up because too many denials would be a bad look.
I thought surely this must be satire. But no.
Gen Jones
Tulsi Gabbard will have access to government secrets that previously were available only to those using the bathroom at Mar-a-Lago
I'm exhausted already.
