Chris Plourde

MAGA treats oaths as Trump treats wives.

suddenly trump’s bitter fixation on new mexico comes into focus

Mortgage apps down seven straight weeks. And now, it’s worst week since July. @cnbc.com

The most powerful men in America have a combined emotional maturity of a 12-year-old.

Trump-friendly oligarchs are buying up major media with the regime's help. They control CNN, CBS, Fox, TikTok, Meta, X and major local TV chains. Yet Mike Johnson is still claiming liberal bias. The real media conspiracy is the corporate consensus to normalize Johnson and other right-wing radicals.

The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.

This is how the U.S. is choosing to treat vulnerable children

From the GOAT, George Washington

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

An admission about the GOP base...

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

Santa's Workshops!

the Fuel Clock shows Americans have paid $74.4 billion more on gasoline & $47.5 billion more on diesel since March 1 compared to a year ago. Total cost will hit $122 billion today. also updated the state map where you can find out how much more you're paying. link in my profile.

How to Make Friends and Influence People

America's Hall of Insecurity.

We all need to price this reality into our plans: The Trump Admin has no idea what to do, and the Iranian regime has said the Strait will remain closed until Trump and Netanyahu are out of office. When Iran said that about the hostages and Carter, it kept its word to the minute.

Every allegation is a confession.

The Chinese surveillance state has come to America, thanks to "law enforcement."

“violated multiple ICE standards” Alligator Alcatraz was created to showcase DHS’s cruelty. Violations of standards, norms. the law, and simple decency were its point.

$736MM

JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes.

Correction: it’s not that he misunderstands it. It’s that he doesn’t understand it at all.

Remember when Joe Biden proposed canceling student debt and every single Republican accused him of "bribing voters"?

What are we most worried about in advance of the midterm elections? The risk of voter confusion. But voters should know that for them, little has changed.

Bragging about starving the hungry...

receipts for anyone who’s never heard this clip before (the reporters giving him a tongue bath and so much unearned respect is how we got here, but i digress)

Imagine an American president lying about 9/11. Actually, you don’t have to.

"It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the HHS secretary sees deaths from outbreaks of diseases we had beaten or contained, like measles and cyclosporiasis, as a form of social hygiene that kills off the weak and susceptible."

Pathetic -- Google is now referring to Lake Ontario as "Lake America"

You all understand that this is eugenics, right? Let the weak just die. Hitler had a similar program.

MapQuest FTW

Trump offends U.S. allies on a regular basis, but what he has wrought with Canada lifts us to mind-boggling heights of gall and fantasy. Plus it has backfired in a big way. A sleeping-giant-awakes way. ​New from me at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

Things that never happened...

“Ladies and gentlemen, the Court as currently constituted ruled that President Trump could knock down half the White House and pour your money down a hole. Is that a fair application of the law? Or do we need to reconsider how the Court does business?”

Pending home sales in July. The second lowest level in history. (via Schwab) 🏠

This puts the current pace of US budget deficits into perspective. @eddyelfenbein.bsky.social

5.30% Tick tock. @barchart.com

Oh.

Douthat today: "At the moment, Trump 2.0 has no great popularity, no legislative capacity, no policy legacy that a Democratic successor can’t easily roll back." Due to Trump's policies our allies don't trust us and our enemies don't fear us. Reputations are not so easily or quickly restored.

The Strait of Hormuz is ope...never mind.

What the hell is the matter with people...?

The whole world is rearming as both Russia and the United States demonstrate their incompetence to allies and enemies alike. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

Market manipulation

The Unbearable Lightness of Lying

betting against seems smart