In the face of obscene odds, *they* charted a course to every liberty I enjoy —down HERE, not up there, & "I'm already down here. This is my world. This is where I live." That's valor, endurance, & resistance, while you can't even be arsed to act as "leader of the free world."

I'm sorry, but if your country was one close election away from total economic and societal implosion and becoming a rogue state internationally, that one close election was not the main problem.

The first one is the best

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in

I've been 90-99% bedbound for nearly 3.5 years. People say "it's the vax" - I never got the vax. People say "it's laziness" - I used to be an athlete. No more excuses. We need help NOW. #5YearsLongCovid #HalfADecadeOfNeglect #LongCovidAwarenessDay2025

this is torture nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-0…

Just brilliant. Because Indonesia has a high tax on coffee imports, Trump's going to put a 32% tax on coffee imports from Indonesia - even though the US exports no coffee to Indonesia (or most anywhere else). He literally does not understand the concept of comparative advantage.

James Surowiecki Does this mean FTA's are annulled unilaterally now? Who TF will trust anything signed with US from now on? These tariffs are BS and a bluff from Trump, he just wants to get as much as possible from the countries he's threatening and then cancel these. But China won't flop imho!

Trump wants us to run no trade deficits with any countries, which would require Americans to massively curtail our imports of foreign goods. But he also wants tariff revenue to replace the income tax, which would require us to massively expand our imports of foreign goods.

exposed skin hearing a gunshot in the night #senryu

Pretty House Finches were enjoying the sunshine and feasting in the trees near the Catbird Playground in Carl Schurz last Saturday. #housefinches #housefinch #birdcpp

JonnyUtd Easy solution had he planned in advance.

Big/bad news for consumers. Google is out today with an announcement of how they plan to integrate shopping into their AI offerings including search and Gemini. The plan includes “personalized upselling.” I.e. Analyzing your chat data and using it to overcharge you. 1/2

transadvocate.com/narcissistic-s… Bonhoeffer, MAGA, TERFs

A very MAGA song: youtube.com/watch?v=ASzfyi…

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And I've been insisting that Trump was much more like Mussolini than Hitler.

it's wild how much Orwell got right

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