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MAGA is first and foremost about vicious cruelty, even above white supremacy. here's a white married business owner, no criminal record, been here 20 years, green card application etc, and he still gets tortured for no reason
"He said he has been locked in the same large, cold and damp room for 4½ months with more than 70 men. He said detainees are constantly hungry because meals served at tables in the centre of the room offer only child-sized portions." www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:30 PM
MAGA is first and foremost about vicious cruelty, even above white supremacy. here's a white married business owner, no criminal record, been here 20 years, green card application etc, and he still gets tortured for no reason
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the price of populism
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
the price of populism
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They *will not.
Huge AI infrastructure deals assume that algorithms will keep improving with scale. They may not.
The AI Industry's Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff
Huge AI infrastructure deals assume that algorithms will keep improving with scale. They may not.
wrd.cm
October 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
They *will not.
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One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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April 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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t.co/lg46ijHLDF
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The last time there was this much on-again off-again turmoil over tariffs in America, we revolted against the king over it — and won.
April 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The last time there was this much on-again off-again turmoil over tariffs in America, we revolted against the king over it — and won.
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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
April 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
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This was the price they were willing to pay to avoid Biden's billionaire tax.
April 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This was the price they were willing to pay to avoid Biden's billionaire tax.
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The more conciliatory I was to my ex malignant narcissist boyfriend the more controlling and cruel he became. Conciliation is a malignant narcissist’s sustenance. That’s why the world must not back down.
April 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The more conciliatory I was to my ex malignant narcissist boyfriend the more controlling and cruel he became. Conciliation is a malignant narcissist’s sustenance. That’s why the world must not back down.
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The logic of filling in public swimming pools with dirt or cement instead of racially integrating them, applied to the whole country
A Black man won the presidency and they decided to burn the entire country to the ground so it won’t be something worth winning anymore.
April 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The logic of filling in public swimming pools with dirt or cement instead of racially integrating them, applied to the whole country
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Last week, I wrote about how authoritarianism leads to poverty and corruption. Feels like an appropriate moment to post it again.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
www.theatlantic.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Last week, I wrote about how authoritarianism leads to poverty and corruption. Feels like an appropriate moment to post it again.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Nero fiddled.
Trump posts a video of himself golfing as the economy crashes and millions of Americans lose their retirement savings
April 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Nero fiddled.
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Surprised that there's been scant commentary on the fact that there's no way the current customs and collection workforce can possibly understand and implement these tariffs in 5 days without causing an enormous backlog at the ports.
Hope you liked supply shortages
Hope you liked supply shortages
April 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Surprised that there's been scant commentary on the fact that there's no way the current customs and collection workforce can possibly understand and implement these tariffs in 5 days without causing an enormous backlog at the ports.
Hope you liked supply shortages
Hope you liked supply shortages
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The 25% automobile tariffs:
• increase auto prices by 13.5%, the equivalent of $6,400 on the average new car.
• **reduce** US auto production & increase Chinese auto production in the long-run if other countries retaliate to our tariffs.
• Reduce long- & short-run US GDP
1/2
• increase auto prices by 13.5%, the equivalent of $6,400 on the average new car.
• **reduce** US auto production & increase Chinese auto production in the long-run if other countries retaliate to our tariffs.
• Reduce long- & short-run US GDP
1/2
March 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The 25% automobile tariffs:
• increase auto prices by 13.5%, the equivalent of $6,400 on the average new car.
• **reduce** US auto production & increase Chinese auto production in the long-run if other countries retaliate to our tariffs.
• Reduce long- & short-run US GDP
1/2
• increase auto prices by 13.5%, the equivalent of $6,400 on the average new car.
• **reduce** US auto production & increase Chinese auto production in the long-run if other countries retaliate to our tariffs.
• Reduce long- & short-run US GDP
1/2
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Started/Going. Two infants died of pertussis in Louisiana, where last month the state’s surgeon general banned health department staff from encouraging vaccination.
March 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Started/Going. Two infants died of pertussis in Louisiana, where last month the state’s surgeon general banned health department staff from encouraging vaccination.
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(AP) — Democrat James Andrew Malone won a special election for a state Senate seat in a stretch of Republican-leaning Pennsylvania suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a territory that a Democrat hasn’t represented in the chamber for 136 years.
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/penn...
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/penn...
Democrat James Andrew Malone scores an upset win in a Pennsylvania Senate special election
Democrat James Andrew Malone won a special election for a state Senate seat in a stretch of Republican-leaning Pennsylvania suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a territory that a Demo...
apnews.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
(AP) — Democrat James Andrew Malone won a special election for a state Senate seat in a stretch of Republican-leaning Pennsylvania suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a territory that a Democrat hasn’t represented in the chamber for 136 years.
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/penn...
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/penn...
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Did your senator(s) vote to confirm Hegseth? Now is your chance to call them and remind them you were going to hold them Directly Accountable when it went wrong. And it just went way wrong.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session
www.senate.gov
March 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Did your senator(s) vote to confirm Hegseth? Now is your chance to call them and remind them you were going to hold them Directly Accountable when it went wrong. And it just went way wrong.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
March 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.
March 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.
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one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult
"The vaccination has stuff we don't trust," said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died from measles at the end of last month. Tom Bartlett visited with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy:
The Texas Girl Who Died From Measles
Her father tells her story.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult
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The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.
March 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.
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What a front cover...
March 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
What a front cover...