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Jerome Powell reviewing the cost overrun of Trump’s ballroom from $200M to $1B in just 6 months.

@Suzierizzo1 I despise Hegseth and Trump, but this video appears false and should not be reposted or believed.

@deanorues @Brala1 The manga is a lovely, emotional marvel. Highly recommended.

using this tweet to promote the moon on a rainy night that is also getting an anime this year 🫶 it is about lesbians and ableism and disability 🥹🥹🥹

We have a year’s worth of economic data since Liberation Day, when President Trump announced much higher tariffs on most imported goods and countries, and the data are definitive; the tariffs have done significant damage to the economy. Since that day, job growth has come to a standstill, with only the non-traded healthcare industry adding meaningfully to payrolls. Also, since that day, inflation has accelerated, with the consumer expenditure deflator increasing at a 3% year-over-year pace, up from 2.5% before the tariffs and well above the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%. And the trend lines don’t look good, especially as the economic fallout from the Iran War hits with full force. The higher energy and other commodity prices caused by the war threaten to do even more economic damage than the tariffs, further undermining growth and pushing inflation higher. The U.S. economy is resilient, but just how resilient is set to be tested.

The people who promised to fix everything on day 1 are still out here blaming Joe Biden on day 467.

Farm bankruptcies are rising again. 📈 Peaked in 2019–2020 under Trump 📉 Fell to a 20-year low under Biden 📈 Now rising again up 46% in 2025 under Trump Where it’s hitting hardest: • Midwest (+70%) • Southeast (+69%) States like Arkansas, Georgia, and Iowa are spiking.

@Clint_Davey1 Check out the old SPI game, Empires of the Middle Ages. Language/culture matters more in the long term than flash in the pan leaders.

One of the silly things in the Civilisation game is that you have one civ for the entire game. From ancient to modern. So you have Americans fighting Romans and other such anachronisms. Really should be that you play as a kind of cultural lineage that morphs into different polities. E.g. Greeks > Byzantines > Russians.

I’m George Conway, former Republican turned Democrat who’s running for Congress. You already know I’m against Donald Trump. The whole damn world knows I’m against Donald Trump. So let me tell you what I’m for: I’m for democracy. I’m for the rule of law. I’m for equality under the law. I’m for freedom of speech and religion. And I’m for an America that works for everyone — not just those f*ckers who lie and cheat. That’s why I’m running for Congress. If you’re ready to help me take this fight directly to Trump and his cronies, please chip in $10 or anything you can to this campaign today. gc4ny.com/What-Im-For

The replies to this person's tweet lack a nuanced understanding of aesthetics. Let me tell you why I don't think this room works. First, the gold decorations make the room look like an ersatz Versailles. Go to Getty Images and type in "Oval Office." Then zoom in on the gold decor. You'll notice that the lines are very blunted and muddied; they lack the sharp lines and fine detailing that you'd expect on something made by an artisan. Hence why some people have suggested these decorations are from Home Depot (true or not, that's the impression). You can see the difference between the first and second photos. The first, of course, is of the Oval Office; the second is the reception room from the Hotel de Cabris in France, which was made during the 18th century under the direction of Louis XVI. Even at this distance, the second image looks much better because it was designed and executed by artisans working within a coherent visual language. You can really see the crisp lines and detailing. Second, the White House was designed by James Hoban, an Irish architect who migrated to the US for economic opportunities (what a great American story!). He originally designed it in the Neoclassical style, drawing on Palladian and Georgian influences. Neoclassicalism was a reaction against the Rococo movement, which reactionaries saw as overly ornate and frivolous. A bit of gold used sparingly and strategically can look fine in a Neoclassical building, but the amount Trump used has so radically encrusted the room that it's now in Rococo territory, making it look like a mismatch of aesthetics. You can see an example of gilded Rococo architecture in the third slide. Although it's not my thing, the effect is totally different because it's coherent. IMO, architecture sets the terms for you can decorate a space. Modernist furniture looks best in modernist buildings, just as Craftsman furniture looks best in Craftsman homes (see fourth slide). You don't have to do period recreations — sometimes mixing two aesthetics, or old and new, can make a space feel more natural — but having a sense of aesthetic history (art, architecture, furniture, fashion) can help you create better aesthetics. The Oval Office offends on at least three levels: the ersatz nature of the decor, the way it grates against Hoban’s Neoclassical vision, and the way it misunderstands the classical-republican symbolism that the White House was meant to project in the first place. As others have noted, this is the kind of decor you'd expect from dictators who rob their own country.

@Clint_Davey1 @sfrantzman I think characterizing the war as primarily a religious conflict misses the mark somewhat. The confessional aspect is a factor, but maybe not even the most important.

The Thirty Years War can be confusing to study. Nations come and go, the geography is always shifting. Here's how I break it down. One side is the Catholic side. It stays pretty consistent throughout the whole war. It's Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. The Protestant or anti-Catholic side changes a lot. There's one front that remains consistent. Spain and the Dutch are locked in a grinding war of sieges in the Low Countries, basically from 1621 to 1648. This is like the Western Front in WW1 and remains pretty static. All the movement is happening in Germany. And here there are 4 distinct stages: 1. Bohemian Phase (1618-25): This is where the main enemy of the Catholics are Protestant rebels in Bohemia and the Palatinate. These are crushed by 1625 but there's a few big battles and a lot of maneuvring. 2. Danish Phase (1625-29): Bohemians and Palatinate crushed but Denmark enters the war as a champion of the Protestant cause. Denmark is also crushed by the HRE. By the way, Sweden is busy fighting Poland during this time. 3. Swedish Intervention (1630-35): This is were shit gets real. Sweden, which is completely badass and probably has the most "modern" army in the world intervenes and rallies Protestant German states back to war. This includes some of the biggest and most decisive engagements, like Breitenfeld and Nordlingen. If you like the 30 Years War you probably like this phase the best. 4. French Intervention (1635-48): The French, who had been bankrolling the Protestant side for years already despite being Catholic, actually enter the war. They're like America coming into WW1. A superpower that enters the fray when the other countries are exhausted. But France doesn't steamroll everyone. They have to fight long and hard to bring the Catholic side to negotiations. Notably during this phase you have the Battle of Rocroi (1643), a tragedy for fans of the Spanish Tercios as this is one of their very few defeats. The war ends with the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) which basically determines the outlines of international law and church-state relations until the 20th century.

プロのアライアの池田エライザさん 「人間の方がよっぽど怖いよ…」

Marc C. Green, “Wait! We have treats!” #CaturdayEve

Trump’s DOJ just filed what may be the most deranged written Motion ever. It reads more like a Truth Social post dictated by Trump himself. What an embarrassment. The Motion is filled with inappropriate personal insults. It literally calls the National Trust for Historic Preservation name “FAKE” and says the group is “very bad for our Country.” It accuses them of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and frames their lawyer as “the lawyer for Barack Hussein Obama.” This is an actual line from the filing: “because it is DONALD J. TRUMP, a highly successful real estate developer, who has abilities that others don't, especially those who assume the Office of President, this frivolous and meritless lawsuit was filed.” This is how the Department of Justice is writing now? Then comes the opportunism. The filing leans heavily on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner incident and uses it to push Trump’s long-standing obsession with building a ballroom. Instead of addressing what went wrong, it argues that none of this would have happened if Trump’s project already existed. They claim “bipartisan support” because of support from…John Fetterman. The lawsuit also claims at multiple points the ballroom won’t cost taxpayers anything—something we now know to be false. Every DOJ lawyer who put their name on this should be ashamed. And it should be a major scandal that it appears that Donald Trump is the one who actually wrote this. So much for DOJ independence.

Good sir, I know news travels but slowly across the Atlantic, and so I have the unfortunate duty to inform you of a late unpleasantness regarding the colonists in America

- Comey indicted for tweeting a number. - Trump FCC threatens ABC's broadcast license. - Trump defacing more govt institutions with his name and picture. - Trump's kids cashing in on huge govt contracts. I'm always torn on whether to speak up on the daily drumbeat of Trump's creepy, corrupt, Putin-style authoritarianism. On the one hand, this has become so standard under Trump, and everyone's opinions on him have long hardened, so why bother? Just keep your head down, post on economic policy (what happened to Econ Twitter?), and don't be distracted by the daily news cycle outrages. That's the standard position in DC policy circles. On the other hand, isn't this defeatist passivity how authoritarianism thrives? Government actions that would have induced a nationwide backlash 15 years ago are now just the day's background noise. So the bar moves. It’s a familiar path: Most authoritarian nations moved there gradually yet persistently - the govt commits some outrages, waits for the public to get used to it and stop complaining, and then pushes for the next round. Authoritarian governments count on the population having a short attention span while they steadily boil the frog. But when you think about how far Trump has pushed just in the last 15 months, it’s fair to wonder where we'll be after the next 33 months of his term. So I’ve been torn - speaking up a lot during the ICE protests, then just focusing on econ for many weeks. I don’t want to bore people who’ve all made up their minds on what is happening in this country - and I've been trying to spend less time on this toxic hellsite for my own mental health. But I also think us trying to be all cool and above-the-fray is exactly what gives the administration the green light to once again push harder towards corrupt, statist, personality-cult Putinism. I don’t really have an answer here. Although this being Twitter, I’m sure that any possible approach (whether passive, hair-on-fire, or in-between) will inevitably get me yelled at here.

Remember when I said fascists were the dumbest fucking people on the planet? Nazis weren’t communists. The National Socialist German Workers’ Party jailed and killed communists, banned their parties, smashed unions, and kept private industry intact. “Socialist” in the name was deliberate branding to win working class support. I swear I learnt this at 14. Scary how thick these men are.

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