With policy like this it certainly makes moving manufacturing really desirable

4/9/2025 9:18:06 PM

Very STABLE Genius! It's right there in the description. Stabilty!

4/9/2025 9:40:06 PM

There’s way too much crazy stuff going on to even keep track of. They use outrage over 1 issue as cover to do other outrageous things.

Rampant first amendment abuses courts seem powerless to stop, continued targeting of legal immigrants, stonewalling on findings theyre renditioning hundreds of people based on lies about gang affiliations. So far most of this seems reversible but we still have 3.5 years left…

4/10/2025 4:04:55 PM

4/10/2025 9:20:13 PM

At least jerome powell said he would fight and see them in court. Rather than simply acquiesce

4/10/2025 10:51:06 PM

Trump weighs 224lbs. Lol thats about how much I weigh and I know that joker weighs more than me

4/13/2025 12:49:20 PM

Really good column

Quote :

"There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He did not reason himself into his preoccupation with tariffs and can neither reason nor speak coherently about them. There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim — only the impulsive actions of a mad king, untethered from any responsibility to the nation or its people. For as much as the president’s apologists would like us to believe otherwise, Trump’s tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview. The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance. His long history of scams and hostile litigation — not to mention his frequent refusal to pay contractors, lawyers, brokers and other people who were working for him — is evidence enough of the reality that a deal with Trump is less an agreement between equals than an opportunity for Trump to abuse and exploit the other party for his own benefit. For Trump, there is no such thing as a mutually beneficial relationship or a positive-sum outcome. In every interaction, no matter how trivial or insignificant, someone has to win, and someone has to lose. And Trump, as we all know, is a winner."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/opinion/trump-tariffs-rationale-power.html?unlocked_article_code=1._U4.ghNu.J7sti8RGd-k5&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

4/13/2025 3:14:34 PM

he’s by far the best thing the New York Times has going for it

Jamelle Bouie, that is

[Edited on April 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM. Reason : .]

4/13/2025 9:56:07 PM

This is an actual turning point

COLLINS: Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return Garcia?

BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous


TRUMP: These are sick people

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmrwrrkbnf2e

They have no intent of complying with a Supreme Court order, and the President is openly mocking American democracy on the worlds stage

4/14/2025 12:09:48 PM

They admit they wrongly deported him, but only in court documents:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-admin-admits-wrongfully-deported-el-salvador-1235307858/

4/14/2025 1:20:56 PM

Some comic relief as we’re on the cusp of the last guard rail buckling for American democracy

Quote :

"Specifically, someone in the “Trump orbit” told the company that the first son would like to host a nature show on Discovery, according to a sprawling new profile of WBD’s CEO David Zaslav penned by the writer Michael Wolff "

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-team-told-warner-bros-to-give-don-jr-his-own-nature-show/

4/14/2025 11:02:37 PM

Will that be where he goes around the world and kills rare animals with impunity?

4/15/2025 7:08:58 AM

A Trump ally has told CNN’s parent company that they could avoid future lawsuits from the Trump administration if they make a documentary about Melania Trump or a TV show about Donald Trump Jr., which would involve paying the Trump family large amounts of money.

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-warner-bros-discovery-ally-wants-show-pay-2025-04

4/16/2025 7:20:20 PM

I don't understand the fear of stonewalling these ridiculous people.

4/16/2025 11:04:38 PM

suppressing news of an e. coli outbreak and ending food safety inspections at the FDA

looking forward to the dipshits defending either of these

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-food-safety-inspections-plans/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236

[Edited on April 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM. Reason : .]

4/17/2025 6:22:01 PM

Just look at a clip of him responding to a question now

"mr president how long can we expect economic..."

"you're fake news, gas is 1.98, eggs, my first week, eggs, you're fake"

what a colossal joke

4/18/2025 11:57:34 AM

https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1913043653523632459

Quote :

"It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done. Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear. The government asserts that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist and a member of MS-13. Perhaps, but perhaps not. Regardless, he is still entitled to due process. If the government is confident of its position, it should be assured that position will prevail in proceedings to terminate the withholding of removal order. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.24(f) (requiring that the government prove "by a preponderance of evidence" that the alien is no longer entitled to a withholding of removal)"

4/18/2025 12:54:24 PM

The entire order (6 pages) is worth a read

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca4.178400/gov.uscourts.ca4.178400.8.0.pdf

Quote :

" It is, as we have noted, all too possible to see in this case an incipient crisis, but it may present an opportunity as well. We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos. This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time."

Nah it’s naive

4/18/2025 1:57:38 PM

Wonder how much trump actually weighs. I'd say 270, my neighbor phill is about 6'3" and he is 270 and has similar build as trump

4/19/2025 6:21:08 PM

Phill sounds like a fatass.

4/20/2025 2:59:03 AM

This seems bad.

4/23/2025 11:32:07 AM

Go Trump, Go!

4/23/2025 12:51:45 PM

gen x has serious issues

Generation Men Women Source
Gen Z 45% 24% NBC News / Stay Tuned Poll powered by SurveyMonkey
Millennials 49% 40%
Gen X 56% 43%
Boomers 50% 43%

[Edited on April 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM. Reason : ]

4/27/2025 1:41:34 PM

Can you clean that up a little or maybe clarify what the survey was even asking?

4/27/2025 2:10:48 PM

Generation   Men   Women   Source
Gen Z        45%   24%     NBC News / Stay Tuned Poll powered by SurveyMonkey
Millennials  49%   40%     
Gen X        56%   43%     
Boomers      50%   43%     

4/27/2025 3:47:20 PM

Good effort.

4/27/2025 5:31:20 PM

Surprised Gen x only has 1% transgender

4/28/2025 12:21:17 AM

Boomers have 7%. I guess they've had more time to act on their dysmorphia.

4/28/2025 5:50:36 AM

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5357511/state-department-human-rights-report-cuts

Quote :

"The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation in the political process, NPR has learned. Despite decades of precedent, the reports, which are meant to inform congressional decisions on foreign aid allocations and security assistance, will no longer call governments out for such things as denying freedom of movement and peaceful assembly. They won't condemn retaining political prisoners without due process or restrictions on "free and fair elections." Forcibly returning a refugee or asylum-seeker to a home country where they may face torture or persecution will no longer be highlighted, nor will serious harassment of human rights organizations. Sponsor Message According to an editing memo and other documents obtained by NPR, State Department employees are directed to "streamline" the reports by stripping them down to only that which is legally required. The memo says the changes aim to align the reports with current U.S. policy and "recently issued Executive Orders." Officially called "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," the annual documents are required, by statute, to be a "full and complete report regarding the status of internationally recognized human rights." Human rights defenders say the cuts amount to an American retreat from its position as the world's human rights watchdog. "What this is, is a signal that the United States is no longer going to [pressure] other countries to uphold those rights that guarantee civic and political freedoms — the ability to speak, to express yourself, to gather, to protest, to organize," said Paul O'Brien, executive director of Amnesty International, USA. A spokesperson for the State Department declined to comment on the memo or the human rights reports. NPR confirmed the memo's authenticity with two sources close to the process. NATIONAL Human Rights Advocacy Is Changing Tones Under The Biden Administration The reports, released in March or April most years, are highly anticipated by foreign leaders and diplomats with a stake in how their countries are portrayed. The 2024 reports were initially completed in January, before President Trump took office, but they've been re-edited by the new administration. State Department sources say the revised versions won't be released until May. The documents NPR reviewed confirm reporting by Politico that reports of violence and discrimination against LGBTQ+ people will be removed, along with all references to DEI. Sponsor Message Among other topics ordered to be struck from the reports: -Involuntary or coercive medical or psychological practices. -Arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy. -Serious restrictions to internet freedom. -Extensive gender-based violence. -Violence or threats of violence targeting people with disabilities. By law, the State Department releases annual reports for every country, and they traditionally follow one basic outline. The cuts ordered in the Trump administration memo are not targeted at specific countries. Rather, they eliminate entire categories of abuses from all the reports. But some deletions are more noteworthy than others. The Trump administration recently negotiated the transfer of immigrants from the U.S. into El Salvador's notorious prison system. In a draft of the forthcoming report on that country reviewed by NPR, the section on prison conditions is erased. The only remnants of those violations are reports on prison deaths that fall into the category of "extrajudicial killings" and a mention of abuse by prison guards in a legislatively mandated section on "Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment." In this photo, President Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele sit on upholstered armchairs in the Oval Office. Trump is seated on the right, gesturing with his arms raised. Bukele is seated on the left. In the report on Hungary, a marked-up version of which was distributed as a model for how to apply the new directives, the section titled "Corruption in Government" is struck out. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been called an authoritarian, and previous reports have noted restrictions to civil liberties. President Trump has called him "a great man and a great leader in Europe." András Léderer from Hungary's oldest and largest human rights group, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, told NPR that the State Department's new policy weakens the position of human rights defenders in countries that have a problematic track record on these issues. "You're removing pressure, and it definitely sends the message to the perpetrators that this is not important for [the U.S.] anymore," Léderer said. People who specialize in human rights work told NPR they worry about the effect the cuts will have on the documents' influence within the international community. "You can't overstate the value in the real world of the annual State Department human rights reports being credible and impartial," said Christopher Le Mon, until January a deputy assistant secretary in the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. "You also can't overstate the damage it will do to that credibility if the Trump administration's edits are seen to diminish — not just the scope of what are defined as human rights, but also if those edits are seen to play favorites." Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo complained during the first Trump administration about what he called "a proliferation of human rights," and he moved to pare them back. He formed a Commission on Unalienable Rights that focused on Revolution-era and post-World War II notions of rights, de-emphasizing issues like discrimination and reproductive rights, putting more focus on religious freedom and the right to private property. The memo reviewed by NPR outlines changes that are far more sweeping. In 2013, then-Sen. Marco Rubio underscored the importance of these audits, saying they shed light on "foreign governments' failure to respect" citizens' fundamental rights … from the sexual exploitation of women and children to the denial of political rights to minorities." He said the reports show that "the United States will stand with freedom-seeking people around the world." As secretary of state, Rubio is now responsible for the reports. He's the person who, traditionally, would promote their release to the public. But under his stewardship, those violations he cited — sexual exploitation of women and children and the denial of political rights to minorities — are being deleted from the reports. The reports will still include human rights matters that are specifically required by law, including war crimes and genocide, antisemitism, worker rights and child marriage. Attacks on freedom of the press have to be reported, although not those on freedom of expression for regular citizens. For all of these required categories, the editing memo dictates that where multiple examples were cited in the original drafts, reporting should be "reduced" to just one example. Paul O'Brien of Amnesty International called this misguided. "?These things are not meant to be novels or cliffhangers," he said. "They are deeply useful as reference documents for folks with all sorts of different needs. You're trying to understand whether to invest in a country. You're trying to understand how to approach a set of political actors who are now in charge of a country and where you want to hold them accountable." The reports on Hungary and El Salvador are among 20 countries whose reports, the memo directs, must be flagged for special review by a "Senior Advisor" in the department — a political appointee. The other countries flagged include Argentina, Egypt, South Africa, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Italy, the Philippines, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom. Michele Kelemen and Nick McMillan contributed to this reporting."

4/28/2025 10:32:54 AM

^ crazy

So I hear that inflation was the big issue for Kamala…

Quote :

"Trump: “Somebody said, ‘Oh the shelves are going to be open.’ Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally.” "

4/30/2025 2:19:09 PM

^did you ever find the source/more info for that poll data that Coz was asking you about?

4/30/2025 2:58:36 PM

I'd settle for just understanding what the numbers mean.

4/30/2025 7:06:17 PM