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the msm does not actually compete with each other.

“Donald Trump for president in 2028. Why not? Well, the Constitution says not, but maybe the Constitution is wrong,” Greg Kelly said on Monday night. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Imagine a Democrat doing this. It would be called communist.

Censorship is our future if we let it be. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Liberals have endless faith in the inevitability of progress because it relieves them of the hard work of politics. When the fascists accused them of intolerance (wokeness, etc) liberals caved in part because they didn’t want to be seen as being on the wrong side of history. And here we are.

AI-assisted history homework assignment: "Columbus lead the Vikings in an assault on the beaches at Normandy to end the Colonial Revolution and appoint Che Guevara president."

What is is talking about? “We had their ads taken down.”

If people are looking at Trump’s falling poll numbers as something that’s inevitable, because clowns can’t govern, they are part of the problem. Falling poll numbers reveal opportunities that might be exploited by someone. They don’t get exploited on their own.

Hair and makeup... Again!

It's not "show friends with benefits" it's "show business."

Authoritarianism functions in predictable cycles and Trump is currently laying the groundwork for using state violence to meet organized resistance. So much depends on what we do now and how we meet this moment. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/an-escalat...

Imagine WORKING for SpaceX and being asked to vote on this proposal to turn Starbase into an incorporated city? Feels... fraught.

and Republicans will act all shocked over the decline of US travel because they constantly fail to see the bigger picture. They don't even try.

#youarebeingwatched futurism.com/microsoft-ai...

Amazon was never going to show a tariff cost number, at least not unless it was mandatory to do so. Loads of work, very limited upside for them.

Elon Musk-led SpaceX is poised to turn its Starbase facility into Texas' newest city. But Texas lawmakers just voted to keep Starbase from having the power to close off public beach access nearly any time they want. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/s...

Said it yesterday, I'll say it today: Chris is a vital resource, and very much someone worth supporting.

I hope Jeff Bezos is happy that he made Stephen Miller smile, which is perhaps his most disturbing state.

well done, canada ❤️

Trump has effectively, and personally, pushed the US into what looks like a terrifying recession.

I saw a commercial for a furniture store telling people to buy from their current stock before the tariffed stuff hits. Get the feeling whether Amazon breaks out tariffs or not, people are going to know who to blame for higher prices.

Another insane story. The US has confiscated this family’s baby and put her into foster care, basically because the parents have tattoos — and deported the mom to Venezuela and trafficked the dad into prison in El Salvador. They have no known criminal record

human djs are far superior to any automated playlist feature

If you want to see some photos of Trump at his most grotesque, check out Canadian news sites today.

In case anyone is looking

Eight years ago today, when it was the first 100 days of Trump's first term, I couldn't bring myself to add to the zillions of "The First 100 Days" stories. So I present to you, again, The First 100 Gays. www.huffpost.com/entry/first-...

“According to our own port optimizer, which measures the loadings in Asia, we’ll be down just a little bit over 35% next week compared to last year. And it’s a precipitous drop in volume with a number of major American retailers stopping all shipments from China based on the tariffs,” Seroka said.

because they do not care the mainstream media does not care about freedom of the press. they care about getting to the top of the cool kids club (maggie haberman, currently top alpha) and making a lot of money from book deals they can talk about when their pals interview them. they do not care.

E-commerce giant Temu has implemented a new import charge, more than doubling the price of many items shipped from China in response to imposed tariffs by the U.S.

Free to read: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

“I have to go because I’m the only journalist who goes.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

this is something ive noted frequently and a thing the msm will never report on - they laugh along with karoline leavitt, who is part of an administration trying to kill the first amendment. cc the white house correspondents association and their apologists like @brianstelter.bsky.social

After wars with the Soviet Union in the 1940s, Finland gave up land to Moscow, agreed to neutrality and accepted limits on its military, remaining under the Kremlin’s thumb to some degree for decades. Mr. Stubb doesn’t want Ukraine to suffer the same fate.

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, opened the schools to help communities of color. Some families wonder if the shutting of the schools is related to his D.E.I. retrenchment.

I’m once again calling on all liberals to demand LIMITED GOVERNMENT. www.rawstory.com/oklahoma-ice...

More market manipulation today I see. There are no deals.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jEMYHd/ and now I need to rewatch Pride and Prejudice

In this case, the White House is not dropping the 25 percent tariff on all imported vehicles, but the other tariffs imposed by the Trump administration—like the 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum that went into effect in February—won't stack up on top.

www.alternet.org/trump-tariff...

one possible takeaway here is that democrats being shut out of power not only in the political arena but increasingly in the private sphere as well is making it *really* hard for the right to convincingly blame them for everything that's going wrong www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women?"

ICE is operating as a lawless terrorist organization. And unfortunately, that's in line with how much of law enforcement in America has long treated people, especially in marginalized communities.

corporation for public broadcasting has sued the trump administration seen below, the lawyer representing cpb www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...

nypl book of the day 4/27 Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People Imani Perry A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture.

Donald Trump is openly and proudly defying a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court order—an order from the same Supreme Court whose conservative majority last year declared him a king above the law.

Amazon: WE WILL NOT LABEL THE HIGHER PRICES YOU WILL BE PAYING AS TARIFF-RELATED. PLEASE ENJOY THE HIGHER PRICES CAUSED BY TARIFFS.

me, yesterday: i know nothing of canadian elections me, today: hm, looks like poilievre severely underperformed in his riding, cementing another liberal party win, its like the old days of trudeau the elder again, eh?

still laughing about this "he said, she said" from the New York Times on whether Josh Hawley is a serious anti-corporatist antitrust reformer or a shameless authoritarian opportunist engaging in fake populism to drum up support for fascism (hint: it's the latter)

some days i think stephen miller must be a double agent, because his appearance and delivery are like some kind of liberal fantasy version of "evil republican" come to life.

“Amazon is our largest customer but it’s not our most profitable customer,” Tomé said at the time. “Its margin is very dilutive to the U.S. domestic business.”

Americans’ confidence in the economy slumped for the fifth straight month to the lowest level since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as anxiety over the impact of tariffs takes a heavy toll.

this would be a great moment for democrats/liberals to pivot from bill clinton's bad and self-destructive "small government" positioning and fully embrace fdr/lincoln style "the federal government is big and does great things when it has good leaders" positioning

Sure seems like something people should speak up about. Exposure and outrage sometimes brings backpedalling...

Canadians reject the hell out of Trump in epic victory for Liberal Party www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Destroying healthy systems and grifting are the only place he shows work ethic.

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 Summary Report of the Civil War 150th Deleted From National Park Service Website

The Eta Aquariid meteor shower ramps up over the next week and peaks on the night of May 5/6. My latest for Condé Nast Traveler has a guide to watching them! www.cntraveler.com/story/how-to... 🧪 🔭

Mexico Will Pay For The Wall (2025 Version)

Hi federal employees. 👋 If you have thoughts to share on what effect DOGE has had on creating efficiency and savings at your agency -- or on creating the exact opposite of that -- I would love to hear from you. Anonymity granted. [email protected] / [email protected] Signal: jbendery.41

This drama. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/a...

EVERY COMPANY SHOULD DO THIS. abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

In terms of Musk’s personal wealth, the alliance with Trump has so far cost him $113 billion, with his fortune tumbling 25% since Jan. 17, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Why is the US government creating a "military installation" at the border? To skirt the ban on using troops for domestic law enforcement. "What is happening here is an attempt to evade the laws passed by Congress," says @lizagoitein.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

A college student expresses concern to Harris Faulkner about student visas being revoked and the lack of transparency from the administration. Faulkner: "I don’t think we need to ask the government why you would single out somebody like a Mahmoud Khalil to take a look at what he’s been doing."

ALWAYS have a lengthy off-topic side chat in the comments underneath someone else's post. That is really the only reason people post on social media- so other people can have discussions about different topics under their post. And whatever you do, do NOT like the post in the first place.

Just reminder to never, ever click a link directly from an email. That email came from blahblahblah dot com? Type that manually into the address bar.

NEW YORK (AP) — Major orders canceled. Containers of products left stranded overseas. No roadmap for what comes next.

I have a ton of energy for about three minutes from my all high fructose corn syrup diet.

So this "independent voter" in this Fox News focus group that just so happens to agree with everything Trump is doing has been a mainstay on Fox News and right-wing media for years because her restaurant defied NYC's vaccine mandate during the pandemic. www.foxnews.com/video/628545...

Again, my wife lost her excellent job at a nonprofit Seattle hospital because the trump administration simply stopped paying medicaid reimbursements at the beginning of the year, throwing it into complete financial turmoil the cuts are already here

Remember "fuck your feelings" and "Let's Go Brandon" or the MSG rally where every speaker profanely spewed racist and mysognistic rhetoric? Well, the same crowd that embraced that is now clutching their pearls over some Democrats using PG-13 language. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

remember when papa johns was gonna start adding a .30 cent “obamacare” charge to their receipts?

Patreon link in bio.

yay thanks!! So excited for Lawless!

Setting aside the senator's inauthentic frontier gibberish, if this particular bozo can't find it in him to give Trump full-throated slobbering praise, that ain't great for the Goldish Idol.

I was so mad at the time that I’d left before he showed up

President Xi Jinping’s diplomats are fanning out across the world with a clear message for countries cutting deals with Donald Trump: The US is a bully that can’t be trusted.

It is my strongest opinion that the AI "companion/romance" chatbot business is a very bad business to be in. It only appeals to teens or desperately lonely/vulnerable adults, and that is a very bad customer case for something like Meta to deal with www.businessinsider.com/metas-ai-cha...

I would not kill or die to get my hands on a transcript of the Jenner & Block hearing yesterday, but I might inflict or receive a grievous wound.

Are you a recent government hire working at the intersection of cybersecurity and AI? Apply for @aspenpolicyacademy.bsky.social and @aspendigital.bsky.social’s Rising Civic AI Leaders program! Apply by 6/23: aspenpolicyacademy.org/program/risi...

US citizen mom whose house was mistakenly raided by ICE, which seized all their valuables: "Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. Care a little bit about your fellow human, about your fellow citizen, fellow resident. We bleed too."

U.S. job openings fall to 7.2 million in March, the lowest level since September www.huffpost.com/entry/us-job...

I've been waking up early every day and thinking about working out. It is exhausting, but hopefully the effort will pay off in the long run.

Summer is almost officially here. Where's that witch who touches your hand and makes you thinner?

the media all too willingly played along with this assault on language and reason that enabled much worse

I'm OK with the President of the United States impacting the Canadian elections in the manner that he did. Meaning, a near landslide for the opposite of what he wanted.

transportation app co. wants you to spend more time commuting — surprise! www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/u... scoop by Jennifer Elias @cnbc.com

Egregious manspread can only take you so far.

'“You hope the leopard isn’t going to eat your face, and then it does,” Jackson said in an interview Monday about his situation.'

charles has it exactly right. the gop loves this shit. the sooner you understand that the better.

Here's my newsletter on me trying to make the math in Graydon Carter's memoir make sense: www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

Newsmax's Greg Kelly: "This is a way the deep state keeps the presidency under their thumb. Only two terms." www.mediamatters.org/greg-kelly/n...

When does the fucking civil war start? Does everyone have to lose everything?????

The White House-Amazon rift is really challenging the notion that “the enemy of your enemy is your friend”

Posting deepfake nudes and revenge porn will soon be against federal law, in a move that advocates say is long overdue — though some are concerned that the takedown provisions could be abused. My story from last night:

Abolish ICE. Anything short of that is just helping the fascists.

Man told to sit down

April 30 marks 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term. Join the Brennan Center virtually on Wednesday, April 30, at 3 p.m. ET for a discussion about the new administration’s priorities and what might lie ahead. Click on the link below to RSVP. www.brennancenter.org/events/presi...

Trump's woke, feminist first term: A truly progressive era

lol things that did not happen