Right???

Barack has been speaking.

Abandon centrist approach and take a hard right turn? The Democratic Party hears you loud and clear! But seriously I do see the Sanders people in places of power I previously have not in the party - this is a very good sign in a very bad time

The original reply was great, I just want to make it dead simple: if bonds continue to be sold off in these numbers, it indicates investors no longer believe in a future where the US dollar is the international reserve currency. This is very bad if you’re an American.

I’m more concerned with the bond sell-off, that’s a very bad sign.

These universities should be offering shelter and refuge to every last possible student who could have been and still will be threatened by this administration. God knows they can fucking afford it. Our kids deserve to know their schools aren’t going to throw them under the bus at the first sign of trouble.

When I lived in a similar tourist town our line of thinking was, well surely they’ll have to finally provide housing once the cost of living within commuting distance of servants becomes impossible (ignorant, I know now). They cracked down on the unhoused a lot and really no space for them to go anyway.

Then I started to see old neighbors of mine in the parking lot of our apartment complex. One woman in particular, retirement age, former nurse. She was living inside her car, with no job, nothing. No family. Notably someone who wanted a job but just couldn’t get one. Some people in our complex would rotate taking her in, but without services in the area to help her it was just unsustainable. And management. Fucking landlords. They’d make us pay a fee for having her stay if they found out. This was ten years ago even.

I had to finally move my family out, I was fortunate enough to do so. But I’ll never forget her, and I’m sure she’s either in that car or on the streets now and it just breaks my fucking heart. I can’t stop fighting now when people like her are just trying to fucking survive.

Rimworld?

I completely agree. If you have a realistic alternative I’d love to hear it.

Spoiler then, he will tell us to vote for Democrats - that’s not a conspiracy, that’s literally our only option out of this. I don’t want it either but get out of your bubble a bit if you really think this is a conspiracy, it’s not healthy

You should really do some research then, as he has been a socialist since college - and to put that time in perspective his dad was born in the Austro-Hungarian empire so it’s not a recent flip

Link to the data if you didn’t make it to the bottom

Americans are going to continue to panic shop, and there will be a short spending spike for the next 90 days during the tariff “pause” - meanwhile the countries who can’t take the hit will play bullshit ball with Trump on speakerphone. By tariff subscription auto-renew in July, wow, look at that, spending in the last three months was bonkers the tariffs worked everyone mission accomplished 🇺🇸🧠📈💣

I, too, want to say “it’s just an opinion piece” but then I remembered the number of American papers whose opinion section have been either obliterated or neutered recently and…yeah. Good for you guys, keep the pressure on.

The Supreme Court going venue shopping, something the conservatives love to rail against. Lovely. Let me attempt to explain this very poorly. This stems from a class action suit from those deported. We have different federal appeal courts covering different areas of the country, 13 of them. Some are considered leaning ideologically more one way than the other. This one was being held in the DC circuit (very centrist imo) which is a sort of catch all. The argument for staying in DC (liberal justices wanted this) was because it was too difficult to figure out where all of these people came from or how many jurisdictions their rights had been violated in - so DC could handle that being the catch all.

The Supreme Court was asked by the DOJ (not exactly but stay with me) to change the venue to Texas instead, and I believe the argument was something about being obvious that that’s where they were all deported out of? This is what the conservatives wanted. The (not stated but very clear) reason for this is because the southern circuit as the name would imply (they’re each numbered but often called by region) is a much more conservative venue. DOJ now get their venue change and yeah that sucks.

She was previously chosen to paint the portrait of former President Barack Obama for the Colorado Capitol. Boardman painted him again in 2012 when she was privately commissioned for portraits of Obama and former President George W. Bush as part of a wider presidential series

Still not great, but at least some context

Alternate title: Brown University suffers consequences of Columbia and Harvard’s cowardice.

There’s about one in every minor suburb around me planned for tomorrow and I can’t describe how significant that feels, we’ll see what comes of it.

Editing this to say yes indeed hundreds of people were out today just in my small suburb, and I know family in other states went to theirs. It’s a start!

Edit 2 looks like it’s not just us, holy moly it’s a start people, let’s keep it up!

The rapidity with which the ivys capitulated to this tyrant undermines both their previous and future credibility as an “elite” group of anything in America. We cannot easily forgive them for this.

And the people they’ve kept a home for often then go on to be caretakers for them, thus completing the cycle of people we rely on the most while providing the least.