Reposted by economic outlawOren Ziv @orenziv.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Just throwing this out there: what if, instead of just a transfer, they agree to invest a certain amount of money in US firms each year. We could even tie that amount to the trade deficit. 6205
Reposted by economic outlawjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2025thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy." 255422558258
Reposted by economic outlawryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21/03/2025we have an utter fucking nimrod attempting to set himself up as dictator because for 50 years anyone who could have stopped him has dithered and procrastinated, hoping someone else would do it 504095640
Reposted by economic outlawJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025“I’m the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped. I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky” 3/19/25 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comI’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnappedI was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky 34745346
Reposted by economic outlawJoe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 19/03/2025A guy falls off a 40 story building. As he passes by the 20th floor, a friend sticks his head out the window and goes "good news, so far you're all right" 582548474
Reposted by economic outlawBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Stop defining Trump defying the Supreme Court as the red line. He is a lawless tyrant *right now*. He is failing to comply with court orders *right now*. He is violating the Constitution and the law *right now*. We're past all the red lines. 612608565
Reposted by economic outlawthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 14/03/2025the way I encourage you all to think about it right now is that we need fighters to put the government back together and their cowardice created the conditions to transform this party and give us the leadership that will be required 6660143
Reposted by economic outlawKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/03/2025“Area merchants uniformly like the concept of what the mafia set out to do—provide protection from unexpected disasters—but have been frustrated by the threats of broken kneecaps and the expensive bribes.” 91718330
Reposted by economic outlawBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 06/03/2025It’s pretty interesting that both Tim Walz and Gavin Newsom are clearly positioning themselves to run for President and one thought he should publicize that he’s having diplomatic conversations with Canadian provinces close to Minnesota and the other thought he should publicize that he sucks 255163502626
Reposted by economic outlawBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 06/03/2025wrote about this morning's Supreme Court decision, in which five justices said maybe we're not a monarchy yet--and the other four, already half-dressed for the coronation, said wtaf ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/usaid...ballsandstrikes.orgFour Republican Justices “Stunned” Trump Isn’t a King YetThe Court's decision in the USAID lawsuit reveals an institution perilously close to making Donald Trump a king. 30881258
economic outlaw @doctordismal.bsky.social · 03/03/2025The resemblance between the George W. Bush Administration as portrayed in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay and the 2nd Trump Administration in reality are uncanny. Not to make light of this hellscape, but I'm getting real Rob Corddry-esque vibes here 020
Reposted by economic outlaw☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 02/03/2025i feel like people do not get this isn’t some distance hypothetical hard-to-model impact assessment. 20mm people receive life sustaining medical care via pepfar, they will die without that care. Republicans shut it off 4483148
Reposted by economic outlawTom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025“Why don’t you say thank you” 4544861386
Reposted by economic outlawMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age. 229251406112
Reposted by economic outlawPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive. 469240773935
Reposted by economic outlawBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I hope you realize that you and Pritzker just are the Democrat Party leaders now. I know that's not how it works for committees or other officialese, but nobody has picked up the keys and the car is full of gas. Just take over. Obama did this in an incredibly similar precarious moment. It's yours. 612572208
economic outlaw @doctordismal.bsky.social · 26/02/2025While much has been made of the structural break in Musk's tweeting pattern after Musk's Twitter acquisition, there appears to be an earlier structural break that has received less attention: the marked increase in tweeting in mid-2018. 110
economic outlaw @doctordismal.bsky.social · 24/02/2025When have we ever referred to the Secret Service as the "SS"? 000
Reposted by economic outlawFriendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Are you a federal worker who has been illegally fired by Trump & Musk? Meet every day at the US Senate to do your job search. 10am, Hart Building Atrium 120 Constitution Ave., NE Show up as often as you can and let’s go ALL OUT for Tuesday, February 25th. 2325112
Reposted by economic outlawAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/02/2025The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️ 251106174753
Reposted by economic outlawKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military: 24796242241
Reposted by economic outlaweva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 18/02/2025hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist 146154106966
Reposted by economic outlawjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2025taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be? 1972363369808
Reposted by economic outlawNoah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025The Polish foreign minister understands Trump better than 90% of D.C. Democrats. 251043318
Reposted by economic outlawIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15/02/2025“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.thebaltimorebanner.comMaryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD orderStrict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month. 27467662486
economic outlaw @doctordismal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025TIL the @washingtonpost.com thinks that the biggest DOJ corruption scandal in over 50 years is a local interest story 100
economic outlaw @doctordismal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Apparently, Twitter is seeing what happens when you train an LLM by exclusively using Tweets by users that scream "debate me coward" into the void. 111
Reposted by economic outlawPolling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 08/02/2025"The United States is in a constitutional crisis" Agree: 54% Disagree: 27% Unsure: 19% YouGov / Feb 6, 2025 / n=1106 610149353283
Reposted by economic outlawjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025do i roll my eyes at a lot of DEI stuff? yeah, i wrote a whole essay about why i thought it was bullshit back in 2020. but trump et al aren’t saying, “corporate DEI policies mainly exist to protect corporate interests from discrimination lawsuits.” they’re saying “get the blacks out” 7170281252
Reposted by economic outlawrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/02/2025the answer to "why send the information on CIA agents on the low side" is "it is intended to be read by someone who cannot get a clearance and the President does not want to create a record of personally clearing that person." 8500117
Reposted by economic outlawNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Was reading George Orwell on the Spanish civil war last night and this part stuck out. 7433911062
Reposted by economic outlawAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025i think the democratic party's paralysis at this moment is at least partially attributable to so many fucking lawyers thinking the rules are self-enforcing 1033677541
economic outlaw @doctordismal.bsky.social · 04/02/2025After extensive consideration of the matter, I have decided to have Mr. Fox guard the chicken coop 010
Reposted by economic outlawMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 03/02/2025if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all 700399758511
Reposted by economic outlawJoe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social · 03/02/2025This is my new favorite headline 1862262161
Reposted by economic outlawderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/01/2025if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools 8966735211892
Reposted by economic outlawjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/01/2025personally i think one should just ignore anti-anti-trump academics who have done nothing but obscure the reality of the situation facing the nation in favor of grinding axes against people they don’t like 546138555
