Trump’s campaign was big on vengeance, and the various unjust kangaroo courts that are going to spin up are going to be a nightmare.

But I’m not sure Merrick Garland’s prosecution is going to get much sympathy from the left.

With 2/3 of the Senate, 2/3 of the House, and 3/4 of the states’ legislatures.

Not actually named to a cabinet post. Government Accounting Office does the thing he’s about to get paid to pretend to do. DOGE is gonna be like the Chamber of Commerce, a private entity that a bunch of people will just believe is part of the government because it has an official sounding name.

That’s good advice. Shame he and his colleagues didn’t follow it in 303 Creative

Because maintaining a train length vacuum is really difficult and doesn’t really provide that big of a benefit.

Atmospheric rail has been attempted with varying degrees of success (but never to a ‘replaces traditional rail’ degree) for 200 years.

When the crisis hits (which in Argentina’s case is the default status) and the contradictions heighten, libertarians eventually have to choose between free markets or free people.

And the “free helicopter rides” jokes they’ve been making for the last decade tells me how wrong they tend to choose.

Source appears to be called ‘Art News’, so they probably have a particular interest in arts and culture.

It’s unlikely that the Executive Chairman of the Electronic Payments Coalition would want to explain the potential benefits of the bill that would impact electronic payments.

He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him.

Seems like suggesting that you want to physically fight the Teamsters is good way to end up more missing than Jimmy Hoffa.

Manchin (much as I loathe to cite him in an arguably positive way) never ran against a black guy in WV and kept winning despite his party losing every other race. Sometimes there’s just a guy who gets how to win elections in his state.

While obviously Chansley deserves to face punishment for his crimes, let’s not pretend that it wasn’t an obscenity that Eugene Debs had to run for office from prison for suggesting that the US had no business throwing lives away in the trenches of World War I

Yeah, but depraved as TV has a reputation for being, there’s still a bit of a taboo against showing someone getting turned into pink mist on live TV.

It’s a prion disease. Mad Cow, Creutzfeldt-Jacob, Chronic Wasting (so far only seen in deer), and Scrapies (known of for a long time and so far limited to sheep and goats) all start with a misfolded protein and gradually break down the brain till it looks like a sponge.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3194162-one-gratifying-aspect-of-our-rise-to-some-prominence-is

She’s only OG if you disregard the fifty some odd years of the word libertarian referring to anarchists like Emma Goldman. Back before Murray Rothbard hijacked the term.

The domestic producers are plenty active too.

And while inflation has come down (prices have stopped climbing), a lot of prices have not (they are still where they climbed up to) nor will they. So people are still facing sticker shock at the grocery store and gas station (keep in mind that until the COVID supply chain inflation hit, we’d spent over a decade with the Fed unable to get inflation up to 2%). Until wages come up enough to counter that sticker shock (they’ve come up some, but not this much), insisting that the economy is in good shape is going to come across as ‘pissing on my leg and telling me it’s raining’ even to people who don’t seek out reactionary disinformation.

When your political project is ‘make everyone as miserable as I am’, whining about every goddamn thing is actually a kind of praxis.

If we suspect the Saudis did this, we should absolutely look into it, and if they did, stop providing them with weapons.

But while we’re auditing who may have used American weapons to kill migrants, we might want to check on this little organization called Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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