'They fired everybody’: Entire staff laid off at office that helps poorer...
People freeze to death now, that number will go up. More people will get sick, and more people will die if this isn’t fixed by next winter. Some people may also get sick or pass away from the heat...
View ArticleThe dumb insidious formula for trump's "reciprocal" tariffs
As we all know, the trump regime announced the much anticipated tariff structure yesterday.It is a 10% blanket tariff across the board, with much higher "reciprocal" tariffs against many countries.The...
View ArticleTrump introduces his tariff plan with a bizarre and embarrassing history lesson
Irony is dead. Satirists are collecting unemployment. And the mainstream media reporting what Trump says is now indistinguishable from the Onion. America is in the middle of a long national nightmare....
View ArticleRussian stuff blowing up: Russian shipyard burns
A Russian shipbuilding site is burning. Russia claims it was due to a gas cylinder exploding. Petrozavodsk is the capital of the Karelia region, which is east of Finland.Russian media report that the...
View ArticleTrump Slaps Tariffs on Uninhabited Islands, Showing that Krugman was (Almost)...
Both Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow led off with stories about Trump’s tariffs on small islands with very few people, such as St. Pierre et Miquelon, which is actually a department of France, with about...
View ArticleWisconsin: "You've got to accept the results"
Last night in Wisconsin felt GOOD. The WI Supreme Court race wasn’t even close — the NYT this morning showed Susan Crawford winning over Musk/MAGA-acolyte Brad Schimel, 55.1% to 44.9%.Such joy when...
View ArticleTrump just lost in the Senate 51-48 for tariffs on Canada
Even Rand Paul said that one man cannot set tariffs. Only Congress can do that.Rand Paul, Mitchell McConnell, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski said Trump could not use the declaration of an emergency...
View ArticleHere are the real reasons they are dismantling the FDA, NIH, and CDC
Dr. Katelyn Jetelina wrote a powerful post last night listing some of the ongoing carnage at the CDC and FDA. It is truly going to hurt most of us at some point in our lives — right wing, left wing,...
View ArticleAbbreviated Pundit Roundup: 'Nowhere on earth is safe.'
We begin today with Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo reminding us exactly where the real power to impose tariffs lies.Two thoughts on today’s tariffs. I could get into the substance of the...
View ArticleBlue Wave? Same old song and dance.... Unless we address the problems within...
The turnout and results in WI the other night IS something to be excited about. And it already has people predicting a 2026 Blue Wave. I read Kos’s article and it left me feeling … meh. And then the...
View ArticleOminous Buildup of B-2 Bombers on Diego Garcia
Malcolm Nance was out with a very disturbing report today on the unprecedented buildup of our nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers on the Indian Ocean base of Diego Garcia:In late March a mass of US Air...
View ArticleThe Economist weighs in on Trump's economic insanity
As millions of Americans brace themselves to be “liberated” from their retirement accounts, future employment prospects and tight family budgets due to the obsessive fixations of a single unbalanced...
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