Whew. Judge Biery (Clinton appointee) is not messing around, dropping on the feds the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the Fourth Amendment, Ben Franklin, and the Bible.

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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Is “frosted fancies” just the British way of saying “petit fours”? #gbbo #greatbritishbakeoff #greatbritishbakingshow

Okay, hear me out: the reason the second Trump Administration is slashing scientific research is to prevent the arrival of the time traveler who prevented the first Trump Administration.

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

👇👇

it’s funny because you can tell when the job report hits before she does just by watching the dow futures ticker immediately drop 60 points in the bottom right

If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far:

A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

Free speech is not a crime — full stop.

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

Exactly.

These two psychos have access to all your personal data, by the way.

Wikipedia definition of "idiot plot": In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is "kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot",[1]: 26  and where the story would quickly end, or possibly not even happen, if this were not the case.

So.

Steel production is relatively small slice of the American economy.

Steel itself? *Very widely used throughout the American economy.

See the problem?

(I mean, see the problem beyond the entire global economy being held hostage to the whims of one guy who doesn’t understand the economy?)

Fifty years after he was graduated from Princeton University, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered the baccalaureate address at his alma mater.

This is how he ended the speech:

“Tariffs can’t cause inflation if we stop measuring inflation”

If only $AAPL had a spare Boeing 747.

What a satisfying but gut wrenching penultimate episode of #HandmaidsTale!!

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”

GOLDMAN: “.. with US federal spending up 50% from late 2019 (think about that for a second), the back end of the bond market skates on thinner ice ..

“.. US fiscal spending is +7% y/y, .. we have a mountain of Treasuries coming off the assembly line .. we have lost all of our primary AAA ratings.”

Starting to wonder if we took one for global civic democracy. Electing Trump basically seems to have knee-capped every revanchist far-right candidate in the world. You're welcome, world.

Why is the sound mixing SO terrible on #Eurovision — a music competition??? Shouldn’t the vocal tracks be louder than the music tracks or at least the crowd??? Can an #audioengineer make a house call in Switzerland before Saturday’s finale?

How was “Made in Switzerland” the best song of the first night of #Eurovision? LOL

Good luck to the intel agencies with dismantling every panel in the 747 that Qatar is giving Trump to check for bugs and trackers

America now has both the pope and the antichrist