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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u... It’s even more Alarming when you see or hear it

Says it all

Today SCOTUS argues birthright citizenship.

Ha! I just stumbled on this! gulfof.mapquest.com

www.politico.com/news/2025/05... Oh Boy. Maybe it would be better just to shut it down if this is what is going to be transmitted

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/o...

This week’s Cover of The Economist says it all

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I’ve been worried about the stability of the U.S. economy and the dollar and US Assets as the world’s “Reserve” currency. Evidently I’m not alone How a dollar crisis would unfold economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist

"No free man shall be seized, imprisoned, dispossessed, outlawed, exiled, or ruined in any way ... except by the lawful judgement of his peers and the law of the land." — Magna Carta 1215

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This week’s cover of The Economist

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... Public link id your don’t have Apple news

This Is Why Dictatorships Fail - The Atlantic According to Anne Applebaum’s excellent article More than two centuries later, the system created by that first Constitutional Congress has comprehensively failed apple.news/AdWzWaOKvQ3i...

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u... “And unlike the two previous crashes of the past 20 years — the global financial crisis of 2008 and the pandemic of 2020 — this crisis would have been directly attributable to only one man”

Indeed. It is often hard to correlate a president’s policies to the economy. However here we have a direct cause and effect

And then, something worse happened. It is often hard to pin the economy on the president’s policies. But here we have a clear cause and effect

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/w... Sadly, in a 2 party system like the U.S., it would have clearly been better for the Gazan’s if Harris won

Looking at Trumps own formula they admit prices will go up by 10.25% This video by an Aussie mathematician is a bit long, worth the watch and humorous if the subject wasn’t so seriously bad youtu.be/j04IAbWCszg

www.economist.com/interactive/... from The Economist

Trump’s Tariffs Wipe Out Over $6 Trillion on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout - The Wall Street Journal

April 2, 2025

And then…:. Something really bad happened

President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc economist.com/leaders/2025... IF YOU failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality

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Opinion | A $6 Trillion Trump Tax Increase? - The Wall Street Journal apple.news/AoqVinTZzTeW...

As a friend of mine said when seeing this char. “and then something bad happened” Wonder what that bad thing was?

Trump’s “Liberation Day” is set to whack America’s economy economist.com/finance-and-... from The Economist

The president is asserting an unreviewable power to seize any person off the street and ship him to a dungeon abroad. Nobody can say this is an overreaction or alarmism or "TDS" when this is literally what the administration is doing right now.

Stopping Trump's chaos is possible. @larrydiamond.bsky.social joined @johnavlon.bsky.social on How To Fix It this week to chat.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/w...

Sudden Trump administration order prompts Bay Area company to lay off staff www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Yes, it’s time to fight. It’s past time to fight.

“America is in a race between Trump’s attempt to tear down the government and rule of law and the Democrats’ attempt to make Trump so unpopular that other institutions are capable of resisting him. Yet I fear only the Trumpists recognize they are in this race.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Hate to point this out, but Chris Mathew on @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social today misspoke and said “even the Irish have joined NATO” But his larger point was still correct in the segment www.nato.int/cps/en/natoh...

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Enough is enough. We need leaders capable of resisting the rising tide of fascism. www.liberalcurrents.com/its-time-for...

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c... Are you freaking kidding me?

How Trump provoked a stockmarket sell-off economist.com/finance-and-... from The Economist

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w... PM Tusk said. “I will repeat once again what seems incredible but is true: 500 million Europeans are begging 300 million Americans to protect us from 180 million Russians who have not been able to cope with 40 million Ukrainians for three years,” he said.

Donald Trump’s economic delusions are already hurting America economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist

White House Moves to Pick the Pool Reporters Who Cover Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b... Part of the ongoing methodical step by step erosion of the free press.

stocks.apple.com/Au4eYhASfTje... What could possibly go wrong?

In our new world. Suck up to the dear leader and you are immune. Cross him and the power of the state and his paramilitary will hunt you down

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u... Sadly, I had debates with friends and family explaining that I understood their anger over Biden’s policies. But what we could get would be much worse.

What is Elon Musk getting up to with America’s payment system? www.economist.com/united-state... from The Economist

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