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New @budgetlab.bsky.social report about today's tariff announcement: • The April 2nd policy alone is the equivalent of an 11.5pp increase in the effective tariff rate. When combined with other US tariffs in 2025, we're at 22 1/2%, the highest rate since 1909. 1/7

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2002: They hate us for our freedoms 2025: They hate us for our good-looking steaks

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Marc Thiessen has possibly the worst take/excuse for this bit of inexcusable incompetence and obvious attempt to avoid accountability, which is no surprise to anyone who is familiar with the inexcusable incompetence of Marc Thiessen.

submitted 15 hours ago • 214 comments

“How could Trump have bankrupted a casino?” is no longer a rhetorical question.

submitted 15 hours ago • 140 comments

Answer: Easily

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🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

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🔴 THE INDEPENDENT VIEW | There is now only a slim chance that a global recession can be averted. Decades of painstaking work to establish rules for international trade are being undone by the stroke of a presidential Sharpie. Read more ⬇️

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This is the right idea. Law students everywhere should be doing this.

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World stock markets and oil prices tumbled and investors dashed to the relative safety of bonds, gold and the yen Thursday, as President Trump’s drastic U.S. trade tariffs stirred widespread fears of a global recession.

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Of course he did.

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. Democratic Senator Cory Booker breaks Thurmond's Senate record with 25-hour speech in protest of President Donald Trump. Sen. Booker surpassed the late Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster against civil rights. PLEASE Repost

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. Democratic Senator Cory Booker’s marathon record-breaking speech denouncing the Trump agenda has become the rallying point for a demoralized party. "The threats to the American people and American democracy are grave and urgent and we all must do more to stand against them” PLEASE Repost

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China's military drills are taking place near Taiwan's north, south&east coast today,Reuters reports According to reports from senior Taiwan officials,over 10military ships have come close to Taiwan's 44km contiguous zone.At least 71 Chinese military aircraft&13 navy ships were involved

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Who else thought this was a weakness & was a reason they attacked Christianity? I'll let you google the quote so I'm not accused of breaking Godwin's law. Christian Nationalists have long traded empathy for prosperity theology and megachurches. All they needed was Musk and Trump to activate them.

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Goldberg: "Hegseth is promising that US warplanes are taking off in 30 minutes to bomb enemy targets that we know are protected by anti-aircraft batteries. If that's not the most sensitive information, the most secret info in the world, I simply don't know what the meaning of 'classified' is."

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Wall Street Journal editorial board: "Our worst fears about Mr. Kennedy are coming true..." www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

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Reporter: You said you were not joking about a third term. Does that mean you’re not planning to leave office? Trump: I have had more people ask me to have a 3rd term which in a way is a 4th term because the 2020 election was totally rigged…

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Wow. Rep. Jake Auchincloss minces no words about Signalgate on Piers Morgan: “Pete Hegseth is lying to the American people, lying to Congress, lying to the military.” “It’s incompetence incarnate…It’s embarrassing & it’s dangerous.” This is how it’s done.

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The time has come to punish Orbán, Germany’s next government says. Couldn’t have happened soon enough www.politico.eu/article/germ...

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So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

submitted 4 days ago • 1474 comments

Bingo

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Secretary Hegseth must resign. He lied. Now, we have new reporting about Hegseth’s wife. If the White House doesn't provide more facts, then this raises all sorts of red flags.

submitted 4 days ago • 1172 comments

Exactly why oversight is important

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Yep

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Bring us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... so we can stuff them in an unmarked van and ship them off to a slave labor camp in an undisclosed location free of government oversight.

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Please read this. Holt is an expert in his field. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Courts willing to follow the Constitution and the law are the only things standing between us and Stephen Miller’s dystopia right now. And he isn’t happy about it.

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We will not be distracted. We will not be discouraged. We’ve got our eyes on the prize. And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve. The time to organize is now. OcasioCortez.com

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"Eugenics, that promoted...'racial improvement'...and led to horrifying policies....is not dead and continues to influence science and policy today...scientists must speak out when others lie about science and use it to further their political views." www.cell.com/trends/genet...

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I'm Suing DOGE www.muellershewrote.com/p/im-suing-d...

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In neglected churches, old saints often divorced from their names, tarry in strange boxes. Relics of not only lives, but a time of faith in bones, an expectation of miracles. Here the knuckle of Osgyth, here the hallowed thigh of Wulfhilda who was once said to raise the dead. – Dr. M. Benn, 1982

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Raskin: "Look at how sick that is. Basically anybody who has rendered any ruling they disapprove of they think should be removed from the bench. Any lawyer who has ever represented a party adverse to them they think should be cleared out of the way. That is in naked opposition to the rule of law."

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Dear Greenland and Denmark, I'm so sorry and so very embarrassed by this pathetic administration that has no sense of decency. Danish and Greenlandic officials, backed by the EU, have insisted that the US will not obtain Greenland. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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You just canceled one of the red stripes on the American flag

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The guard of honor is thoroughly searched before Putin arrives at the Zeleny Mys Sopka in Russian Murmansk. What does that tell one? The nation's love for Putin.

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It's exactly what Mao and Stalin did: go after the intelligentsia. Destroy educational institutions. Attack academics. As expected we're seeing academics flee the country. Does anyone think it's a coincidence that they're going after visa holders at colleges and universities?

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A pro-Kremlin blogger Patrick Lancaster was eager to film a story about "Ukrainian atrocities" in Sudzha in Russia's Kursk region. However, locals told him that the Ukrainian military did not treat them badly, did not hurt them, but on the contrary always greeted them& brought them bread and water

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Himes: This is his life now. He’s nowhere near qualified for the position he holds, so when he gets on a Signal chat with his buddies and says, ‘We’re a go. Centcom says all in. F-18s,’ it just makes him feel really, really good. Sadly, of course, it puts our people at risk.

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Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

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