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Nothing can hurt you if you are braindead 😉
Just T.J. the Army Vet@thomas_garrard
Tariffs can’t hurt you if you buy American. 😉
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GoodTimesEnjoyer
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Another deeply f-up incident you probably haven’t heard about because she was merely assaulted and kidnapped, not killed.
60 Minutes@60Minutes
In October, Dayanne Figueroa, a U.S. citizen, collided with a Border Patrol vehicle on her way to work. The situation escalated: agents drew their guns, pulled her out of the car and arrested her. She said it was an “assault” that left her emotionally scarred. “I have nightmares every single night,” she told correspondent Cecilia Vega. cbsn.ws/3LRb1EW
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@Wilson__Valdez That's been 100% of my DM requests for like a year
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My 'For You' tab has become like 80% thirst traps, all of a sudden.
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@KatieMiller The nationalists are sending their best. They just aren't very good.
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@michael_wiebe Hard to answer without knowing who is being taxed…
Any answer between (utility value of $1 for poor)/(utility value of $1 on taxed) and 1 seems somewhat reasonable.
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"I support increasing taxes by X dollars to give $1 to the poor."
What's your value of X?
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@ImNotOwned It’s kind of surprising though, because Trump was more responsive to public opinion in the past (e.g., family separations). I read that Trump is starting to get uncomfortable with the optics of this stuff, but I guess Miller has too much sway at this point?
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Do that? Instead of going door to door trying to find foreign people and asking for their papers?
Philip Tillman@pstllman
@mollyhannahm What's your alternative plan for deporting violent illegal immigrants?
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GoodTimesEnjoyer รีทวีตแล้ว
Polls show that only 12% of Americans support President Trump’s plan to seize Greenland. But in this CBS newsroom, that number feels much higher
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@CameronCorduroy They’re aren’t trying to hide it either:
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Homeland Security@DHSgov
REMINDER. “To all ICE officers: You have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. Anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop you or tries to obstruct you is committing a felony. You have immunity to perform your duties, and no one—no city official, no state official, no illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist—can prevent you from fulfilling your legal obligations and duties. The Department of Justice has made clear that if officials cross that line into obstruction, into criminal conspiracy against the United States or against ICE officers, then they will face justice.” @StephenM
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the continued praise of Jonathan Ross from the administration reveals that this whole ordeal is not just ass-covering but an implicit endorsement of violence, even lethal violence
they're telling ICE "we'll help you get away with murder"
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it is your fundamental constitutional right to disrespect the government, including cops, and anyone who says the government can punish you for being mean to cops is a traitor to the constitution
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@AliceFromQueens We need to deal with the meritocracy crisis in higher education. They’re giving PhDs out to just about anyone these days.
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So this is a white academic currently suing Cornell for disfavoring white academics.
And...he can't read the dates on the chart he posted.
Colin Wright@SwipeWright
I wonder if closing the border has anything to do with this.
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@SenatorLuma Trying to distract from their recent unpopular actions by bringing back some of the old hits?
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U.S. Department of Labor@USDOL
Trust the Plan. Trust Trump.
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it’s actually crazy to see a classic QAnon guy in 2026. bro is a fossil of american politics
Daractenus@Daractenus
Trump supporter has a total mask off moment: "The storm is here! [...] No one can stop what is coming! [...] We executed one of you yesterday!”
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@vcunningham One is dead and the other *experienced no bodily harm*
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this sounds very level-headed until you remember that one of the people is dead and one is not; that one of them is granted license by the state to kill and one was not
Edward Feser@FeserEdward
This seems to me correct. Two terrified people, neither of whom was looking to hurt the other, who in a moment acted impulsively under the influence of fear. It's awful. Those quick to try to mind-read and judge either one of them should in charity and humility shut the hell up.
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In the past, many used to say "the US is saying it is democracy but it is oil". This time, it is the opposite. Trump says it is oil, but it is not. (Probably Rubio told him this to convince him.) In the best case, $30bn in gross revenue a year for Venezuela (see thread-need to pay debt, interest, imports from that). Even if the US were to steal it all (impossible) it is a trivial sum of money for the US, 0.1% of GDP, more or less what NVIDIA generates in one quarter. This could never justify the huge political risk involved. You need to add that the US is now a net exporter, so it benefits from higher prices, not lower ones.
Brad Setser@Brad_Setser
There is a lot of talk -- not the least from the US Administration -- about the windfall from Venezuela's oil. It is worth doing a bit of (boring) quantification. Bottom line: it isn't going to pay for everything ... 1/
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people from your hometown that became nurses and firefighters saw this guy and said “we need a good businessman like Trump to create a good economy”
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: Instead of a 4% GDP or 3% GDP, it should be able to be 20 or 25%. I don't know why it can't be.
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@alt_ccc @MakeUSAVAT @MattBruenig @ZohranKMamdani No one’s effective average tax rate is anywhere near 50%. Adding another couple of perectantage points to the top marginal rate isn’t going to move the needle much in that regard.
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@MakeUSAVAT @MattBruenig @ZohranKMamdani On top of 37% federal and 6% state you’re about one new tax away from 50%
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The @ZohranKMamdani campaign has proposed a millionaire surtax often by referencing the MA FairShare tax. What does the data tell us about this tax three years on?
1. It raised twice as much revenue as projected
2. There is no millionaire exodus
3. It has funded many projects
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@GaryWinslett Exactly! Even more so if the alternative is “do nothing”.
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Few things drive me crazier than arguments that a policy is small potatoes because it will “only” remedy 8% or so of a given problem.
Bro, solving 8% of a problem with one policy is awesome! It means that is one hell of a policy!
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@jasonfurman I’m all for local policy makers trying to experiment with these kinds of things. Some industries are strange & work in ways that are difficult to model (not sure this is one tho). But fed politics move too slowly to course correct, esp. if groups fight hard for the new status quo
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@jasonfurman I agree. But it’s not clear which type of popularity is most important for winning elections. If anything, ex-post seems more relevant (or at least consistent with your example of the Biden checks).
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@jasonfurman I’m actually skeptical of this claim. Nixon did price controls and they were very unpopular. It seems price controls are popular until their (predictable) consequences are realized.
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1. They claim price controls are good politically. I'm very open to this being true, I'm under no illusion that what I think is good policy is particularly well correlated with good politics. But I am genuinely interested in more evidence beyond the brief observations they make.
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