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Imagine paying more for electricity and dealing with blackouts because a 79-year-old man suffering from dementia doesn't like wind turbines www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c... It's very MAGA! The best part is all the Republicans have to pretend this makes sense.
Very good Krugman piece on Trump's bullshit attack on Federal Reserve Board governor Lisa Cook paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...
Nobody is safe from weaponized government
Jim, this is amazing. I was a 26-year resident of DC. Never felt scared mid-day in these places and really not even at night. They would ordinarily be packed on a beautiful day like this. Trump's deployment as an anti-crime measure is batshit crazy.
Trump did warn us about armed gangs terrorizing our cities, and no one took him seriously.
I'm reposting this because I'm pissed that major news outlets like the NYT invented a bad economy story under Biden, which helped give us Trump cepr.net/publications...
