Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽
@JoshEakle
Executive Director @ProjectLiberal. Husband and father. Liberal. Views are my own.
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As it turns out, Americans pay the tariffs (taxes).
"In the five months since President Trump first announced sweeping tariffs, Amazon quietly raised prices on low-cost products..., a Wall Street Journal analysis of nearly 2,500 items found." wsj.com/business/retai…
Texas is a 42 (D) / 56 (R) state. This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like.
This is not democracy.
It’s never the married men with kids, a stable job, and healthy habits calling to suspend the Constitution and crown a dictator. It’s always the bitter, broken ones—men who blame their problems (joblessness, porn addiction, anxiety) on every group but themselves. The MAGA…
Racists really are the dumbest people.
Just a reminder: not a single sub Saharan Africa, had wrote or read a book until the 16th century. They had no written language.
They shut down Congress to avoid releasing the Epstein files. Every day, it's getting harder and harder to not be a conspiracy theorist.
Oh my god. One of the Americans we did a prisoner swap for is a mass murderer.
To recap, Rubio kidnapped hundreds of Venezuelans, many of them without a criminal record, and swapped them for 10 Americans incarcerated in Venezuela, including a man convicted of three homicides in Madrid.
“Who picks the autocrat?” “Quite frankly, the people.“ I think this really gets at the fundamental, intentional incoherence of fascist politics. If “the people” can’t be trusted with democracy, why would you trust them to vote for the “right” autocrat? What are we doing here?
“We may have to rename this show because you’re a little bit more than a far-right Republican.” @mehdirhasan called out a self-proclaimed ‘fascist’ on the show ‘Surrounded’ where he debated 20 far-right Republicans.
It's almost as if liberalism is hated on all sides now, which is strange because it encompasses the most emancipatory set of norms in human history, without which the world would enjoy only a fraction of its current material prosperity.
Many “conservatives” on X pretend not to notice the difference between liberalism and leftism. Meanwhile, most leftists on this same app endlessly scream about how they hate liberals. Curious.
Zero pretense that there is any rationale here beyond unwanted political speech.
BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil has just been DETAINED by ICE as he was in the midst of media appearances today. Fox News reports his detainment is due to "trying to undermine US relations with Israel."
This is the biggest own-goal unforced error in US economic policy since Smoot-Hawley. A period of slower growth translates into trillions of lost economic value. Americans will be poorer, businesses will be slower to hire, and our country is set back. A blow to the United States.
The U.S. economy is headed into a period of noticeably slower growth thanks to the tariff impact on inflation and consumer spending, according to Goldman Sachs. nbcnews.com/business/econo…
This is the way.
GARCIA: We're going to keep talking about the Epstein files until Donald Trump releases them.
They're just going to keep posting through this Epstein thing.
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You basically just described the 2024 election.
Quite frankly if I were forced in a presidential election to choose between voting for AOC and a candidate who supports this guy's worldview I would quite frankly vote for AOC. Quite frankly.
An observation: search the X feeds of Christian nationalists, and you will not find a lot of red-letter quotes of words spoken by Jesus. 🤔
This is why they're arresting members of Congress for engaging in their constitutionally protected oversight responsibilities.
NEW: The first videos to emerge from an ICE detention facility at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC show overcrowding + unsanitary conditions ICE has barred inspections of the site, which they call a "temporary holding facility," but some people are held here for days and weeks at a time
The Epstein birthday card is now public. (Trump can continue to pretend it's not real, but that's not the point.) The point: If the card were the worst thing for Trump in the files, why wouldn't Trump now make the files public? Conclusion: There are worse things in the files.
DON'T LET THEM OFF THE HOOK. THE EPSTEIN FILES MUST BE RELEASED.
Yesterday, Trump shared a grotesque AI-generated video depicting himself arresting Barack Obama. It may be one of the most repulsive political images he’s ever circulated. Let’s be clear: > Obama honored the peaceful transfer of power. He welcomed Trump to the White House and…
I do want to apologize for dwelling on my fears a Trump second term could be dangerously authoritarian. But is it ok now to say a word about the president of the United States accusing a predecessor of treason? Or would that be a distraction from kitchen table issues? 🤯
Trump: “It's time to go after people. Obama's been caught directly…He's guilty. This was treason.”