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This should be anti-music to Magat ears, from a Huffpo article: MX tariffs may increase immigration pressure.
Another possible side effect of tariffs, the authors wrote, would be closure of factories built on the Mexico side of the U.S.-Mexico borde…
HuffPo replacing Politico? Do they have a clue what HuffPo is about? Apparently not, unless Huff has agreed to a right turn for the access. Time will tell, I guess.
In a few weeks, when the crash is well out of the news, the Maga-Maggots will cite a new report that the crew consisted of three Haitian transgender transvestites distracted by thoughts of a feast of poodle steak and fried kitten that evening. (They…
"He (Trump) carried every state." That is a lie, but then that's the MAGAt playbook for ya.
Hey Andy, your pants are on fire.
Your lie is one of the most easily disprovable lies in the history of lies. How do you think Harris got 226 EC votes if sh…
"He (Trump) carried every state." That is a lie, but then that's the MAGAt playbook for ya.
"The American people saved the US from being turned into a communist nation...". Um, did they? Let's circle back to that in the next few years.
Remin…
Is there an effort underway to eliminate many agencies and privatize them? Turn over large parts of the government to business interests? I'm getting that feeling. Make them fail so they can say let private industry runs these functions. I'll g…
Good thinking on the term premium and duration. The reasoning is sound for sticking to shorter duration, as several posters here, including this one, are doing.
WH just rescinded the blanket freeze on all federal grants, thank gods....
... let's see if it holds or what their next dastardly scheme will be here.
The asap.gov payment window (part of Treasury) is still blocked. The help desk is swamped. Maybe …
They just 'temporarily' suspended ALL federal grants and spending on current grant awards. Researchers from all fields are going absolutely batsh--t tonight. (I personally have nearly $5M waiting to be funded.)
"The memo states its orders should …
From the article: "The metric is based on a calculation of how much stocks yield, which is derived by dividing the stock market’s expected earnings by its price."
Not actual, expected. So analysts' dreams are part of the equation, and even with tha…
That was sure fun to sing along with some of the soundtrack of my early life, in the 'Nam era, esp. Buffalo Springfield/CSNY, Dylan, Pete Seeger and more.
Kinda stunned, tho to see a top 100 like that with no Joan Baez. (The Byrds' Deportee is ter…
Yep, the agents doing the harassment, and their supervisors badgering them to meet quotas, are much more deserving of deporting than the Navajo. I've been wondering how this whole thing was going to be organized, and of course it turns out it's not.…
Think of how to resist, in even the tiniest of ways. Don't give in to despair. Beyond the performative supertrolling and the destructive cruelty, the emoluments stuff alone is to enough to ... well, I don't know what.
No despair here. There's plent…
And maybe hook up with western Oregon and Washington, a la the classic novel Ecotopia. Most eastern Oregon counties have declared by public referendum that they want to be part of Idaho, so it should be open season for realigning.
Appears though, …
Right, OJ, free prison labor has a long history in the good ol' U.S.A. Some corporate farm(s) could get a big profit bump out of a deal like that.
I could almost swear I've seen Miller as a Gestapo officer in some WWII movie.
@FD1000
@hondo
Trump received 77,301,997 votes
Harris received 75,017,626 votes
Yes, there are a whole bunch of very concerned people, including countless Republicans, and growing by the day.
+1. And it might be worth mentioning here that essentia…
The Oath Keepers and Proud Boys are now his foot soldiers forever. Wouldn't surprise me if they became a thug unit comparable to the Brownshirts, a la Hitler.
How about changing Denali back to the ridiculous McKinley for a mountain WMc never had any connection to? It does show us where we're headed -- the 1890s, bank panics and all. (FWIW, the two U.S. senators from AK, both Rs, are against the name chang…
Great essay, absolutely right on.
The opposition party needs to get its stuff together ... to OPPOSE the insanity and make it as clear as possible to the country that it is insanity if what people want is a government that works for the people at …
@Crash: "The Repugnant majority is not going to change that."
Right, but like OJ said, they're going to make the situation far worse. The pro-fraud, pro-consumer-ripoff party takes over the administration tomorrow.
Excellent!!!! I couldn't see how JR could hang around very long after the WaPo lurch to the dark side. It's great to see she didn't, and the new venture looks, well like @Mark said, promising.
Another JR quote about the mission of The Contrarian: …
AndyJ said: "He needs to get in touch with physical reality."
He and his sort believe that whatever they say is "reality". Facts need not apply.
Yeah, and they're utterly pathetic.
@BenWP, here's a piece on two WaPo staffers who joined The Atlantic last week, with a few other interesting tidbits. Says The Atlantic is beefing up for covering the new administration "rigorously."
I'm in the WaPo cancelled ranks too. It's slid a long way downhill since the Watergate glory days. I've also been thinking about The Atlantic, and wondering if they'll have a shot at picking up J. Rubin and a few others from WaPo.
I contribute to …
