Trumpists are a weird coalition of people who think the United States is both an evil empire that bestrides the earth and a whipping post.

does anybody else find a prison no one is ever released from just prima facie suss? no release, no contact with family, no evidence any given detainee is still alive. no one to describe what goes on.

watching Fox News will make you #pathetic and scared. ht @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

@karlbode.com writes the best precis of the great broadband / bureaucracy / abundance kerfuffle. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/01/j... (note! i misattributed this excellent piece to @mmasnick.bsky.social earlier. i'm sorry to you both!)

Is there any provision in the law for a 75 day extension?

Let’s challenge this consensus. Impeach. Convict. Remove. Rinse. Repeat. We can live with President Grassley.

if they want to onshore manufacturing and remain remotely cost-competitive, you'd think they'd be promoting their new guest worker programs rather than turning the US into an arbitrary detention and perhaps permanent rendition hellhole for our most inexpensive labor pool.

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instead of taking sides and tossing molatovs between left and liberal, be a left liberal.

"One former FAA engineer, who spoke to the Prospect on background for fear of reprisal given the high-profile death of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett last year…"

as someone who lives in Florida and made a call to evacuate twice in the last three years based on obsessively monitoring NOAA websites, this is terrifying to me. the most Trump-ish state in the union, supercharging their (our) own catastrophe, blinded by false ideology abt govt and climate change.

his diaper too.

if you render a place completely uninhabitable, population transfer becomes as sad necessity rather than a crime against humanity.

what happens when the quasi-world-government just glitches out and goes haywire?

Next time some idiot is like "Mississippi, our poorest state, is more prosperous than France" citing GDP per capita stats, send them here.

"The economic problems we face are serious, but this is not a serious way to address them." @rajivsethi.bsky.social rajivsethi.substack.com/p/reciprocal...

here's a handy heuristic! when a guy says "They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats…They're eating the pets of the people that live there." and in fact they are doing no such thing maybe don't vote for them to become the most powerful person on the planet.

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so who do we greet as liberators?

i think people underappreciate the degree to which this is revenue motivated. i think they've persuaded themselves they can ramp up tariffs and smother what they hate most, the income tax. they think things will reëquilibrate after a bit of turbulence, and then tax cuts will make everything amazing.