Relatively OK

"They tried shooting the scientists developing vaccines."

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

RFK Jr has been a liar for as long as I can remember.

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

popular anti-fascism as taxpayer revolt...might have some legs

This is what is happening right now.

The was an old Soviet joke: -Why was our flight delayed by one hour? - One of our pilots saw the problem with one engine, but now it’s alright. - You changed engine in just one hour? - No, we’ve changed the pilot. That’s not a joke in the U.S. anymore.

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

Woke did not lead to bad art. Poor attempts to satisfy the demands of woke from insincere executives who did not want to accommodate the demands actual woke artists would place on process and result lead to bad art.

The man who just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because their numbers supposedly weren’t accurate just claimed that he lowered drug prices in America by 1500%.

The man who had his doctor report that he’s 6’3”, 238 lbs fired the person in charge of reporting labor statistics.

Nothing says climate policy like skipping brunch and hoping the sky notices.

andrew chen of 3sixteen explaining why you may not feel the tariffs yet IG 3sixteen

Pretty soon all economic and jobs data released by the federal government will be handwritten with a black Sharpie

Detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” are on a hunger strike over what they call inhumane, dangerous conditions. Some haven’t eaten in 10 days. One of them, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized and still refuses food until they are treated with dignity.

I am still astonished that ANY person on planet earth would choose to vote for that asshole. The most infantile, petulant, ridiculous, farcical, ignoramus to ever exist. The sheer stupidly of it all is what galls me the most. The stupidity.

There is no bottom

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.

Will everyone quit and roll over? The law firms, media companies, universities, government employees. Will you all cling to what you have and hope you can just ride it out, Republic be damned? Shame on all of you who don’t stand up, just remember we will never forget.

In a functioning, open democracy, you shouldn’t have to know who are the statisticians.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

McGowan: He seems to be getting rid of statisticians and climate people and weather experts and scientists and anyone who doesn't agree with what he wants to tell or what he wants to say.

Weakest 3 months of job growth since 2020.

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

Why is it acceptable for the president to use taxpayer money to fly overseas and cut a ribbon at his own golf course? Don’t normalize this abuse of office. It’s blatant corruption.

There are so many times this nightmare should’ve been over, but I’ll never get how inciting a violent coup on J6 didn’t lead to a prison term post haste. That fucker should’ve been yanked by the lapels out of the White House, handcuffed, and hauled away that day. Everyone knew he was responsible.

Trump has not made a single trade deal. Not one. Any deal made between countries must be written, signed, THEN ratified by Congress. None of that has happened. There are No Deals in place.

Jessica: Before this deal, we essentially were paying 1% on imports with the EU. 15% is more than 1%. I wish Gasparino was sitting here to explain to Jesse how tariffs work because it is a tax on the consumer.

I listened to this song as a child. I knew what had happened to me was wrong. I didn’t quite know why. But I knew. I felt it was what fit here. Though it’s painful to hear it.

Watters: I remember you said you can't win a trade war, no one wins a trade war. We just did. What did we give up? Jessica: The right to have affordable European goods

85% of Gaza is on the brink of death due to starvation. Israel could let aid in at any moment. And some people (like these men tried to do with me on Friday) are still trying to justify this atrocity. There is no justification. This could stop at any moment. End the blockade now.

They can all take pride that Merrick Garland held the line for a 1970s internal dept. memo that said candidates shouldn’t be tried for crimes. So there’s that. 🤷🏻‍♂️

"Epstein clearly had access to enormous financing to operate his sex trafficking network, and the details on how he got the cash to pay for it are sitting in a Treasury Department filing cabinet." https://trib.al/ZTn3IyO

Treasury Department files reviewed by Senator Ron Wyden’s staff members show 4,725 wire transfers, adding up to nearly $1.1 billion, associated with just one of Mr. Epstein’s bank accounts. Follow. The. Money.

The Department of Justice is pretending it needed to talk to notorious liar Ghislaine Maxwell to know the truth about Jeffrey Epstein, when it is concealing thousands of documents about him that don’t lie. It’s a sick farce.

July 18: If we have a smart president, you're never going to let the dollar slide. If you have a dummy, that could happen. July 25: A weak dollar makes you a hell of a lot more money. It doesn't sound good, but you make a hell of a lot more money with a weaker dollar than with a strong dollar

Thank you Scotland. Big Media in the US has betrayed us and normalized the psychopath in the White House. They are cowards. The days of Woodward and Bernstein are long gone. Only independent media is telling the truth.

Page One in Scotland.

It is vitally important that more people like Powell have the integrity and courage to “nope” Trump when he starts spouting bullshit. He is clearly used to yes-men eagerly wagging their tails, and simply looks like a fool whenever someone puts him outside his comfort zone.

Trump: It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion Powell: I’m not aware of that. Trump: It just came out Powell: You just added in a third building Trump: It’s a building that’s being built Powell: It was built five years ago.

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

Venus Williams just won her first match in two years and at the end when they were interviewing her about what a miracle it was, she said she had to come back and play a match; they told her she was on cobra and she’s always at the doctor so **she needs the health insurance**