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A reminder: “if Russia remains uncompromising in its maximalist demands, Ukraine will not give Trump and Putin the satisfaction of digging its own grave and lying in it voluntarily.” www.justsecurity.org/109084/putin...

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Just a reminder that Walmart could swallow the Trump Organization whole. It could buy it with pocket change.

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

I checked. It’s real.

submitted 9 hours ago • 708 comments

It’s not just Newark: Nearly all air traffic control facilities in the U.S. are understaffed.

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After President Trump put 25% tariffs on imported vehicles and many automotive parts, automakers started scrambling to localize supply chains as much as possible. But while the country would benefit from jobs if all auto parts were manufactured in the U.S., experts say it’s just not feasible.

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Walmart's CEO announced this week it will pass the cost of Trump's tariffs onto consumers by raising prices. As I've been saying, tariffs aren't paid by other countries. They're eventually paid by us at the checkout line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfVGUiet39E

submitted 8 hours ago • 75 comments

Another big win for Starmer’s government.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Three dimensional tic tac toe from the master of the deal

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There’s an even more glaring absurdity here that emerges if you compare the plight of these Afrikaners with that of another distinct population of refugees.

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Read @ryanbort.bsky.social’s latest www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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"Marco Rubio recently lamented that people who were alive in Ukraine are dead today 'because this war continues.' Not exactly. They’re dead because Russia killed them in an ongoing attempt to subjugate their country. The war isn’t a natural disaster out of anyone’s control, like, say, a hurricane."

submitted 8 hours ago • 8 comments

Trump admits businesses were booming under the Biden administration

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Liverpool v Crystal Palace next weekend… El Intoxicatico?

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Previous President's pushed for "trade agreements," which are formal, legal, approved by Congress, and enduring. Trump's only interested in "trade deals." They're less formal, more transactional, only involve the President, and probably won't last. Let me explain a bit more.

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2 April 2025, is not yet remembered as the day American industry was reborn. Much of what was announced that afternoon has already died. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Looks like we have our answer.

submitted 11 hours ago • 18 comments

Trump wants to make it harder to stop him in court and easier to keep doing things after courts have found them to be illegal. The Supreme Court’s nine justices appear to be divided on whether to let him win.

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

Lindsey Graham will only continue to push this until Trump tells him th veae and desist

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Elon Musk's efficiency drive latest.

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

"The US pretends Russia is interested in peace to perpetuate the absurd narrative that Trump is pursuing peace/advancing US interests, rather than hoping to see Russia’s aggression succeed as his actions indicate." As Nick explains, Trump's cover up of Putin's culpability is the root of everything:

submitted 12 hours ago • 11 comments

Trump admits (1) the company thrived during the last year of Biden’s economy and (2) will be bearing the brunt of tariffs in Trump’s economy

submitted 12 hours ago • 105 comments

Trump is demanding that a U.S. company "EAT THE TARIFFS." These are the tariffs he insisted China would pay for, no? Why is the U.S. president suddenly taking China's side in his own trade war, at the expense of an American company?

submitted 12 hours ago • 141 comments

Such blatant lying.

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I’m so old I remember when Commisar Trump condemned Kamala Harris for proposing “communist price controls.”

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DHS official Tricia McLaughlin keeps insisting that members of Congress and the Newark mayor assaulted and "bodyslammed" ICE officers even as Blackwell plays her video demonstrating that they in fact did not

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Activists from Naberezhnye Chelny in Russia filmed what Russian “no casualties” looks like in this city - in the three years of war, 426 residents of this city alone have been officially killed, ten times more than in the ten years of war in Afghanistan.

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

Donald Trump is relying on the same officials to fill multiple jobs—four in Marco Rubio’s case. Whether that’s because Trump can’t or won’t find others, the result is dangerous, @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily.

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Your average person doesn’t read Supreme Court (or any court) decisions. And the ones who do are typically other lawyers, who will parse the text very carefully. So who, exactly, is Alito trying to fool with his misleading dissent? Is it supposed to be fodder for Fox News? For Martha? Self-delusion?

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Russian Troops Are War-Weary, but Want to Conquer More of Ukraine www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/w...

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"Trade war drives business to Canada and away from U.S." www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

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The white rural reckoning: "Given the damage of Trump’s first-term agriculture tariffs, rural American farmers may have forfeited the right to express surprise or dismay about what’s happening to them — again."

submitted 1 day ago • 130 comments

During President Trump’s tour through the Middle East, the White House released daily lists of the dozens of deals it said he had secured during his visits. However, at least half a dozen of the contracts were announced before Trump even took office in January, according to a Post review.

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When you’ve lost Kavanaugh….

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Why did career employees not push back more forcefully? “People lacked the fortitude to tell DOGE there was no fraud because they were afraid to lose their jobs,” one former high-ranking official said, referring specifically to claims filed by telephone. “They knew there was no fraud.”

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Trump says Putin is tired of the war because it has made him look bad to the world and he wants to look good to the world, and he would have conquered all of Ukraine in the first 5 hours of the invasion but his tanks got stuck in the mud.

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DOGE is red tape. It is putting spending in such a bottleneck that SSA employees are unable to cover the cost of basic administrative tools. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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He also halted arms shipments to Ukraine without telling anyone, until congressional Republicans found out about it and got it reversed. P.S. - Biden is old.

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Turns out Republicans trying to add $5 trillion in new debt over the next 2 years because of massive tax cuts and deductions with a $150 billion increase in defense and $60 billion more for ICE/DHS with no real spending cuts has consequences. Big Bloated Bill of Fiscal Insanity.

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"We're on a better trajectory than we were under Joe Biden. It's proven...All economists will tell you that." Are these economists in the room with us now sir?

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Axios homepage still doing Dems in disarray

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but seashells!

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Government lawyers said the administration has not been able to answer questions about Abrego Garcia’s case because that information would be considered protected under “state secrets” privileges that should not be shared with the public.

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Some of the tech industry’s biggest corporations are cracking down on employees who criticize their policies, stifling worker activism that was once ubiquitous in Silicon Valley. The companies are rejecting worker petitions, firing employees, and removing critical posts on internal message boards.

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In today’s “Wait A Damn Minute” we expose the truth about Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”: Trump is pulling a reverse Robin Hood - he’s taking from the poor to give to the ultra-rich. I’m your Shadow Press Secretary and here are the facts. @thepersistnetwork.bsky.social #WADM

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How is this not impeachable? No other president ever would been allowed such a transparent and harmful vendetta. /imagine being such an asshole you make me side with Harvard

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Wouldn’t have happened with a Subaru Forester

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“Putin’s no show to talks he proposed is in fact, a sign of weakness. Ukrainians already understand perfectly well that negotiating with Putin is pointless, that Putin’s word is worthless…” www.thecipherbrief.com/column_artic...

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NEWS: When a man sued the Trump administration for sending him to Mexico despite fear of persecution, ICE had an answer: the man told them himself he was not afraid to go there. Tonight, ICE filed an "errata" saying they have no evidence of this exchange www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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“Ukrainians also understand something that seems to have eluded many if not most observers in the West. Putin is not negotiating from a position of strength, quite the opposite.” www.thecipherbrief.com/column_artic...

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