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there is no available evidence that donald trump understands what a tariff is, what a trade deficit is, and what the national debt is.
The way Trump talks about the problems he caused by unilaterally imposing tariffs is fairly insane, even by his standards.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
there is no available evidence that donald trump understands what a tariff is, what a trade deficit is, and what the national debt is.
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Trump tried this bully approach a couple weeks ago--with a deadline of Thanksgiving Day--& that deadline came and went with no consequences. It is exceedingly obvious now to everyone that Trump is an easily manipulatable push over & that you either work him over in your favor or someone else will.
TRUMP SAYS ZELENSKIY HAS ONLY DAYS TO RESPOND TO HIS PEACE PROPOSAL — FT.
December 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Trump tried this bully approach a couple weeks ago--with a deadline of Thanksgiving Day--& that deadline came and went with no consequences. It is exceedingly obvious now to everyone that Trump is an easily manipulatable push over & that you either work him over in your favor or someone else will.
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Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."
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So far the Trump admin has canceled:
- The PPI Inflation Report
- The Jobs Report
- The Inflation Report
- The third-quarter GDP report
Trump thinks Americans are dumb enough to miss that he failed to deliver on any of his economic promises if he just hides all the data.
- The PPI Inflation Report
- The Jobs Report
- The Inflation Report
- The third-quarter GDP report
Trump thinks Americans are dumb enough to miss that he failed to deliver on any of his economic promises if he just hides all the data.
December 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
So far the Trump admin has canceled:
- The PPI Inflation Report
- The Jobs Report
- The Inflation Report
- The third-quarter GDP report
Trump thinks Americans are dumb enough to miss that he failed to deliver on any of his economic promises if he just hides all the data.
- The PPI Inflation Report
- The Jobs Report
- The Inflation Report
- The third-quarter GDP report
Trump thinks Americans are dumb enough to miss that he failed to deliver on any of his economic promises if he just hides all the data.
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Trump and Co. haven’t been dismantling US institutions just this year, they’ve been doing it since 2017.
America has been democratic backsliding into authoritarianism for nearly a decade. Much of what we see now builds on what they did in term 1 and advanced in the interim.
But too many denied it.
America has been democratic backsliding into authoritarianism for nearly a decade. Much of what we see now builds on what they did in term 1 and advanced in the interim.
But too many denied it.
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
December 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Trump and Co. haven’t been dismantling US institutions just this year, they’ve been doing it since 2017.
America has been democratic backsliding into authoritarianism for nearly a decade. Much of what we see now builds on what they did in term 1 and advanced in the interim.
But too many denied it.
America has been democratic backsliding into authoritarianism for nearly a decade. Much of what we see now builds on what they did in term 1 and advanced in the interim.
But too many denied it.
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I'm blanking on the source -- Harold C. Fleming, maybe? -- but there was a critic of the Kennedy administration's early inaction on civil rights who said their greatest failing was "not realizing you had to be on *somebody's* side in the South"
I see this sort of proud posturing a lot and it's really a wonderful way to loudly demonstrate to everyone you have absolutely no idea what's going on
Music Icon Pharrell Criticizes Political Division: “I Don’t Believe In Either Side”
Pharrell Williams is making his feelings about American politics unmistakably clear.
newzsquare.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm blanking on the source -- Harold C. Fleming, maybe? -- but there was a critic of the Kennedy administration's early inaction on civil rights who said their greatest failing was "not realizing you had to be on *somebody's* side in the South"
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Pat McAfee is like a best man toast that never ends. He makes Terry Bradshaw look like Mel Brooks. defector.com/pat-mcafee-i...
Pat McAfee Is Intolerable | Defector
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December 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Pat McAfee is like a best man toast that never ends. He makes Terry Bradshaw look like Mel Brooks. defector.com/pat-mcafee-i...
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Trump says he’s using “tariff money” to send $12 billion in aid to American farmers. (Remember, Argentina got $40 billion. Guess they're more important!)
First of all, let's not forget *why* American farmers need to be bailed out in the first place: Trump's tariffs and trade wars! (1/4)
Trump says he’s using “tariff money” to send $12 billion in aid to American farmers. (Remember, Argentina got $40 billion. Guess they're more important!)
First of all, let's not forget *why* American farmers need to be bailed out in the first place: Trump's tariffs and trade wars! (1/4)
Wyden Says Trump's $12 Billion Farmer Bailout Exposes Folly of 'Destructive Tariff Spree' | Common Dreams
"Donald Trump’s trade war is taxing families, killing markets for our farm goods, and driving farmers into bankruptcy," said Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden.
www.commondreams.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Trump says he’s using “tariff money” to send $12 billion in aid to American farmers. (Remember, Argentina got $40 billion. Guess they're more important!)
First of all, let's not forget *why* American farmers need to be bailed out in the first place: Trump's tariffs and trade wars! (1/4)
Trump says he’s using “tariff money” to send $12 billion in aid to American farmers. (Remember, Argentina got $40 billion. Guess they're more important!)
First of all, let's not forget *why* American farmers need to be bailed out in the first place: Trump's tariffs and trade wars! (1/4)
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to quote myself on this
December 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
to quote myself on this
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The idea that the US Constitution vests nearly absolute power in one person, in part because presidential elections are the main way govt is accountable to the people, is so crazy, illogical, ahistorical it shouldn’t need rebutting.
But here we are, and @donmoyn.bsky.social explains why it’s wrong.
But here we are, and @donmoyn.bsky.social explains why it’s wrong.
At will? Whose will?
Removing independent agency heads is part of a broader assault on a nonpartisan government
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The idea that the US Constitution vests nearly absolute power in one person, in part because presidential elections are the main way govt is accountable to the people, is so crazy, illogical, ahistorical it shouldn’t need rebutting.
But here we are, and @donmoyn.bsky.social explains why it’s wrong.
But here we are, and @donmoyn.bsky.social explains why it’s wrong.
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There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for
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follow/support @unraveledpress.com, who has been doing really critical ICE / ICE resistance reporting
Feels like an eternity ago now, but we caught an agent doing this (seemingly recording people, at least momentarily) outside Broadview in September. He was adjusting/ turning the glasses on and off as he heckled protesters:
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
follow/support @unraveledpress.com, who has been doing really critical ICE / ICE resistance reporting
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JUST IN: DOJ confirms Trump asserted executive privilege to shield more than 4,100 documents form police and lawmakers suing him over the Jan. 6 riot.
Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
JUST IN: DOJ confirms Trump asserted executive privilege to shield more than 4,100 documents form police and lawmakers suing him over the Jan. 6 riot.
Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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New: Gov. Greg Abbott and Turning Point USA are launching a partnership to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every Texas high school campus.
Abbott says Turning Point USA will expand in Texas schools
Republican officials in Oklahoma and Florida have also launched plans to expand the presence of the conservative youth organization founded by Charlie Kirk.
www.texastribune.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New: Gov. Greg Abbott and Turning Point USA are launching a partnership to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every Texas high school campus.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Reader, he is, in fact, making this stuff up
Kudlow is just lying to his viewers: "Unemployment is at rock bottom. These are real facts. I'm not making this stuff up. Unemployment claims are as low as they're ever going to get."
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Reader, he is, in fact, making this stuff up
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It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
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If you're in the White House press corps, still showing up to your job every day and not saying anything as Trump attacks your colleagues -- almost always women, I'd add -- then this is on you as well.
Reporter: “Are you committed to releasing the full video?”
Trump: “Didn't I just tell you that?”
Reporter: “You said that it was up to Sec. Hegseth.”
Trump: “You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place…You are an obnoxious, actually a terrible reporter.”
Trump: “Didn't I just tell you that?”
Reporter: “You said that it was up to Sec. Hegseth.”
Trump: “You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place…You are an obnoxious, actually a terrible reporter.”
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If you're in the White House press corps, still showing up to your job every day and not saying anything as Trump attacks your colleagues -- almost always women, I'd add -- then this is on you as well.
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Trump’s worldview is one of winners and losers. Always has been. His new National Security Strategy picks Russia, China, authoritarians, his friends and his family as the winners. Do you know who Trump decided the losers are? You and your family and our safety.
Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy
Allies may panic; despots will cheer
www.economist.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Trump’s worldview is one of winners and losers. Always has been. His new National Security Strategy picks Russia, China, authoritarians, his friends and his family as the winners. Do you know who Trump decided the losers are? You and your family and our safety.
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Pichelli has since said this was taken out of context from an off-hand conversation she had at a busy con with someone who did not identify himself as a journalist and is twisting her words for click bait
Which is extra fun since this is the post that took off and doesn't even include a source link
Which is extra fun since this is the post that took off and doesn't even include a source link
Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli says she does not get any royalties from the ‘Spider-Verse’ films, Insomniac games, or merch
"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"
(via SiteJamesons | TW)
"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"
(via SiteJamesons | TW)
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Pichelli has since said this was taken out of context from an off-hand conversation she had at a busy con with someone who did not identify himself as a journalist and is twisting her words for click bait
Which is extra fun since this is the post that took off and doesn't even include a source link
Which is extra fun since this is the post that took off and doesn't even include a source link
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Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
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I paid the tariffs. He's taking money from my small business to give it to farmers.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I paid the tariffs. He's taking money from my small business to give it to farmers.