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appreciate the sentiment but it was the tariffs
I do think when historians look back the period the exact moment where it flipped and started going the other way won’t be anything any politician did but my Minneapolis neighbors weathering the worst of the regime in the streets, rallying together, fighting back, and winning
Silver lining is that the lack of a salary cap will decimate this team like it does the Royals
every fan of an AL team should be experiencing secondhand shame that this is the best team their league produced. you should all feel like Lord Toranaga when Tadayoshi spoke out of turn at the Council of Regents
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sure feels like we’re gonna have another Opportunity in the next 10 years or so. hopefully we don’t just FDR New Deal our way to another hundred years of calamity.
Earlier this year, Microsoft offered voluntary retirement to 8,750 employees. About 2,625 (30%) accepted. It then laid off another 4,800 employees in July, followed by hundreds more in September. Now Microsoft is offering buyouts to 60,000 employees or 27% of its workforce. More layoffs to follow?
gotta be the gallows this time. Can’t keep letting them do this
BREAKING Brazil's defeated presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro refuses to recognize President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's victory on Sunday. "It is impossible to acknowledge the result," he said from Brasilia, adding that "I am going to request the annulment of these elections"
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This seems like a big deal
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Reagan talked about welfare queens in Cadillacs, Trump talks about Somalian thieves in Mercedes Benzes, because being *real* racist has been a core strategy Republican politicians for a very long time, even if prior to Trump a lot of folks who should have known better enjoyed pretending otherwise.
Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."
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JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
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i wonder what percentage of the electorate now understands that this man and maybe 75 other people like him are actively trying to destroy our lives. that he is the biggest national security threat we have faced, even moreso than bin laden or whoever. its got to be dawning on more and more people
NEW: Elon Musk gave his super PAC $76 million in just two weeks of October, and more than half of its new candidate spending went to one race: the Texas Senate fight against James Talarico. He’s now given more than $445 million this cycle, far more than he spent electing Trump.
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“The recent blowup over restrictions to Ukraine's use of SpaceX satellite services has raised questions about the ties between the US government and Musk, whose company owns systems vital to the US military and to US allies.” Via Reuters
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This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...
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Most Americans say AI is bad for society and oppose new data centers abcnews.com/Politics/ame...
The midwives lie to Pharaoh to save baby boys and God blessed them (Exodus 1:15-21)
Markwayne Mullin: "This is affiliated to Prophet Muhammed. It says there's 3 reasons it's permissible to lie. One is war, one is to try to reconcile, one is when you're trying to persuade your wife to stay with you. Where does other religions say it's permissible to lie? Extreme Islam is dangerous"
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