California and New York alone sent the federal government $352 billion more than they received in fiscal 2024.
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/deport-republicans-a-practical-guide-807
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@krystyna@toad.social
mastodon 4.7.3Andrew Weissmann: This is an “I am Spartacus” moment if ever there was one.
Don’t let America go Nazi!
PUT A WOMAN IN CHARGE
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
“extreme billionaire wealth is largely unmerited.”
Both profile pics are my oil paintings.
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Fair is fair
@thesgtjoker.bsky.social
I think Mar A Lago would send a much better message than Los Angeles. It would be a small price to pay to bring sanity back to our Nation.
What does AI really do — aside from what it SAYS
https://open.substack.com/pub/jimstewartson/p/the-great-extraction
Melania Trump suing Zev Shalev over this story below. The reporting they want erased ran on July 11. “The Spy at the First Lady's Side” is a months-long investigation into Paolo Zampolli, Donald Trump's Special Envoy for Global Partnerships — ambassador rank, no Senate confirmation, no security clearance, three decades in the orbit of Russian officials. Read it and judge it yourself.
https://open.substack.com/pub/narativ/p/0710-first-lady-spy
Best quote ever: “The whole world knows you lost, moron,” the official Iranian statement read. “Stop being such a fucking baby.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/iran-says-it-will-reopen-strait-of
You can read this substack article without a subscription. It’s mind blowing.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mikebrock/p/the-house-of-ellison-is-on-the-brink
Look at what the man warning about communists actually did this weekend: awarded state contracts to loyalists without competition, pardoned donors, punished a critic with a ten-year felony, and marked 702 rules for the shredder by decree. That is the command economy he claims to be saving America from — allocation by loyalty, not markets. There is no free market in Trump’s Washington and no fair contest either; capitalism requires both, and he has cancelled both.
—Zev Shalev
HOW ABOUT THEY PAY FOR THE ROADS THEY USE TO MAKE THEM RICH
Elizabeth Warren
@warren.senate.gov
If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than:
Tesla
Southwest
Disney
Live Nation
HP
United
PayPal
CVS Health
Palantir
Citigroup
PG&E
3M
That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax.
It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.
“And Democrats should make the most of it”
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/the-oligarchs-are-doubling-down-on
Bruce Springsteen
@brucespringsteen.net
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
https://youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
Paris public prosecutor announced it was opening an investigation into X and Elon Musk on charges that include complicity in possessing and distributing child sexual abuse images, dissemination of nonconsensual sexual content, unlawful collection of personal data, manipulation of an automated data processing system and complicity in denial of crimes against humanity, because Grok, the chatbot Elon owns, went on a tear in French denying the Holocaust.
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/breaking-france-wants-to-charge-elon
Ossoff's Office @ossoff.senate.gov
Sen. Ossoff: Tonight, Donald Trump, the world's most famous sore loser, will deliver a prime time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election.
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@iurii@mastodon.world @nixCraft@mastodon.social
I saw this earlier:
@bytevagabond.com
10 years of OpenAI:
2015: $0 profit
2025: Still $0 profit (but in a blazer)
Lost ~$8B in 2025.
Projected $14B loss in 2026.
Deutsche Bank estimates $143B in negative cash flow before profitability.
“Right now inflation is surging; manufacturing employment is down; the Strait of Hormuz remains closed; and Trump is traveling to Beijing as a supplicant, in effect begging China for help getting out of his Iran mess.
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/the-apotheosis-of-willful-ignorance
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@LOLRH1@toad.social
Vhat? Praise to Allah? Truly off his rocker if this IS him writing….
“ Now, Ukraine has learned the hard way how to fight this kind of war — and it moved quickly to help the United States and its allies in the region make use of its drone-fighting technology, despite Trump’s betrayals. Meanwhile Russia is aiding Iran. But Trump is still demeaning and insulting Zelenskyy while praising Putin.
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/no-america-is-not-respected
Replying to on mastodon.online
@billyjoebowers@mastodon.online
Why go to such lengths to protect these “John Does”? Is it just to save them from embarrassment? No. It is because they are not just “perverts.” They are the Fiduciary Architects of the Western Economy.
[they’ll pump and dump when they’re ready]
https://open.substack.com/pub/commonsenserebel/p/the-intelligence-test-you-just-failed
J ohn Fugelsang
@johnfugelsang.bsky.social
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Open phones for the next hour on SiriusXM #127 - you don't need to subscribe to join the conversation.
I'm assuming you have thoughts on Iran, MAGA, Epstein, etc.
866.997.GRIT
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@randahl@mastodon.social @_elena@mastodon.social
The picture you show is from a different YouTube. (From fediforum movie premiere)
Former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb: “If Todd Blanche is confirmed as Attorney General, there will be no ethical lines between the White House and the Attorney General. There are no lines now. Todd Blanche is unfit to be Attorney General of the United States.”
Why build economic policy around a doomed attempt to bring back “manly” jobs? At a deep level, I’d argue, it’s about nostalgia for an imagined past in which brawn mattered more than brains, combined with, yes, a hefty dose of insecure masculinity.
And turning our back on the energy revolution, even paying the private sector to reject new technology, means both making America less secure and ceding the future to other countries that aren’t ruled by MAGA’s obsessions.
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/the-war-on-wind-continues
Reminds me of "John Barron", "John Miller" and "David Dennison"…
So Pathetic
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/breaking-elon-musk-got-caught-posting
How do we stop this
JFC— we are OUTSPENT
@teslatakedown.com
In the last 24 hours, Elon added $5,423,645.66.
New totals include:
$13,131,789.48 vs @jamestalarico.bsky.social
$6,308,848.86 vs @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social
$5,117,111.82 vs @abdulelsayed.bsky.social
$1,991,872.98 vs @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social
$1,176,301.42 vs @troyjackson207.bsky.social