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Not satisfied with destroying the next generation of scientists and scientific discovery, the Trump administration takes aim at current science. We will need to rebuild lots of scientific infrastructure in 2029, human and physical. I would suggest a confiscatory billionaire tax of, oh, maybe 25% of all individually owned (including tax avoidance trusts) exceeding one billion dollars. Would help with the wealth distribution while enabling the nation to recover from the wanton destruction the GOP is deliberately wreaking.

Some of us could still find a coding job: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Jobs/Remote-Cobol-Programmer

Kinda like the one Musk had developed?

This is totally dumb. These averages tell you nothing about the political (red/blue) drivers of financial stress. Poor states have more people in distress than rich states. Just so happens that there are more poor red states than blue states. Duh. The people who write this stuff are usually weak journalists who have a shiny degree in communications or literature. The kind of people who will nod when they hear "correlation isn't causality" without having a clue what that means.

Send your professionals over to the US to oversee brand new multi-billion dollar investments and watch them, and your company, get harassed by ICE to keep the headlines off of Epstein and off of another stinky jobs report. Maybe they'll pick up some "undocumented" Germans in Spartanburg next. I wonder if the acting head of the BLS, a career labor department employee, will now be summarily hanged for overseeing the bad jobs report.

Rolling over is what Columbia and Harvard do best.

The whole party is utterly lost. The electorate has seen ten years of their kill Trump by any means necessary. This was followed by propping up Biden and hoping no one noticed. When that failed they anointed their Harris without a primary, then claimed to be the defenders of democracy. There are good people in the party but they are overshadowed by the geriatric leadership that simply refuses to go away. I’m particularly impressed by Gov. Shapiro and my Congressman Greg Landsman. Moving farther to the left, a la Zohran, will simply put them deeper into the wilderness.

The survivors come forward. And they speak. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeffrey-epstein-survivors-set-speak-capitol-hill/story?id=125211468

The comedians were already onto it; an example from early June: Link to video

Once again, what they complain most loudly about is what they plan to do...

@wtg said in Ray Dalio: Billionaire hedge fund boss says other investors are too scared of Trump to speak out If anyone ever thought that corporations and the financial sector, let alone the legal profession, would put country over $$$, they had another think coming. There are a handful of corporations and wealthy people willing to do what's necessary to preserve our Democracy, but no where near enough of them. "The people" may be stupid enough to vote an imbecile and his army of dung beetles into power, but with the caving of monied interests--where lots of power resides--the average citizen is doomed. The idea that the average voter has much power these days is questionable.

Battening down the hatches to weather the storm, we are.

Lithuanian chef crowned world sushi master at prestigious Japanese competition https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2655416/more-important-than-a-michelin-star-lithuanian-chef-named-world-s-best-sushi-master#lg=2655416&slide=2162345

The Supreme Court ruled on it so we'll ignore the rule of law. Ok.

Here's the whole Pew report: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/08/14/trumps-tariffs-and-one-big-beautiful-bill-face-more-opposition-than-support-as-his-job-rating-slips/

Also today's Krugman blog post: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-markets-freaking-out?publication_id=277517&post_id=172134133&isFreemail=true&r=53zo0e&triedRedirect=true

From what I've seen of Trump's dealings with Putin, he should get the Noballs Peace Prize

Lovely!

Interesting, I think this would correspond in some way to the repetition and variation in Western classical music that keeps the mind interested.

Well, consider the source. Also, protests and protesters are always misrepresented.