Tariffs without Congressional approval are taxation without representation. Time to throw tea into the harbor.

Do not infantilize fascism. He is not acting like a toddler. He is a dictator.
The #BrokenTimes is on a real losing streak this fine Sunday.
What to Do When the President Acts Like a Five-Year-Old? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/opinion/trump-bls-fired-labor-jobs-data.html?smid=tw-share

This Peter Baker joint does catalog Trump's lies and censorship, but headline and text tie themselves in journo-cliched linguistic knots to avoid that direct judgment. He's not "underscoring a tendency." He's not an "echo" of an "authoritarian playbook." He is a dictator.

That was just the lead story this Sunday. Next comes self-parody of #BrokenTimes bothsidesing as Laura Loomer hit job "reveals to visions of America." No, it is a fascist attack on education, a coup against the military.

This is supposed to be our battlefield as journalists: fact and truth. Trump is attacking each, and the #BrokenTimes fails to fight back. It plays thesaurus bingo to find every way possible to distance itself from judgment and the clarity that would bring: from journalism.

What is The Times waiting for to come to its have-you-no-shame moment? Call a lie a lie, a dictator a dictator, a fascist a fascist, and a racist a racist. Refusing to use direct, factual language prevents journalists from covering and explaining news. It's not journalism.

Baker has him "never especially wedded to facts." No, he lies. His lies "increasingly remind scholars" authoritarian leaders seeking "to control information." No, he censors and propagandizes. This newspeak underscores the #BrokenTimes own fear of truth and direct language.

Tesla's "Autopilot" should be outlawed alongside its robotaxis.
Jury Says Tesla Must Pay $243 Million Over Fatal Autopilot Crash https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-driver-assistance-autopilot-crash-lawsuit-acdafaa6?st=FGAHhW

No, Goddamnit, #BrokenTimes, he just *raised* the 2023 tariff on your phone, car, and washing machine from South Korea from 2.5% to 15%. That is a 500% TAX INCREASE. #TrumpTax #Trumpflation

Substack exposes its Nazi butt crack again. Taylor Lorenz scoop:
Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog
https://www.usermag.co/p/substack-sent-a-push-alert-promoting-nazi-white-supremacist-blog

"A group of global civil society organizations have placed the US on a watchlist for urgent concern over the health of its civic society, alongside Turkey, Serbia, El Salvador, Indonesia and Kenya."
US placed on rights watchlist over health of its civil society under Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/30/us-civil-society-watchlist-trump

Well, no shit, when half the country makes it easy to buy murder weapons.
Even New York’s Strict Gun Laws Couldn’t Prevent the Midtown Shooting https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/nyregion/new-york-gun-laws-shooting.html?smid=tw-share

No, no, no. You'd think a university would be capable of learning.
Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/politics/trump-harvard-payment.html?smid=tw-share

"We're gonna end up shooting some of them."
In our name.
Watch this horror against a citizen.
Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/florida-teen-immigration-arrest

Gift link:
Saving New York’s Midcentury Signs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/realestate/neon-sign-museum-new-york.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZE8.TFZU.QNpHt0tM3FjN&smid=url-share

Bend at the knee. Get fucked. Idiots.
Columbia announces deal to pay Trump administration more than $220m
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/columbia-university-220m-trump-administration?CMP=share_btn_url

The long tradition at CBS of buckling under to fascist and corporate pressure.
From The Golden Web by Erik Barnouw (Oxford, 1968).

He was the last SS guard, about to be tried when he died at 100. Let this warn the ICE agents who think they are only guards, following orders. Your masked crimes against humans and humanity will mark you to the end of your days.
The Last SS Guard
https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2025-06/concentration-camp-guard-gregor-formanek-ss-national-socialism-sachsenhausen-court-trial-english

Variety tiptoes: Ellison "has projected an image of being intrigued by the politics espoused by President Donald Trump." Yeesh.

As of 845p, this ongoing story makes no mention yet of Trump's blackmail of CBS/Paramount/Ellison but includes generic hoo-ha about changing TV: a journalistic sin of omission. Trump is taking over media under the Times' nose and it turns away. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/stephen-colbert-late-show-ending.html?smid=tw-share