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Trump’s tariffs are hitting farmers hard — in ways you might not expect. This honey farmer voted for Trump 3X — now costs are through the roof, hiring’s frozen, and he’s lost $150K in government contracts. Asked if he regrets his 2024 vote? “Perhaps I should’ve considered other options.” NO SHIT!

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I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

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It’s a joke at this point that Trump still lies about his height and weight, or the 2020 election results, but it’s frightening to what degree the coverage of him just shrugs it all off. That it’s a given that truth and reality have no place in this administration.

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I gave the rottweiler who killed all of my friends' babies a big, juicy steak and I'm here to tell you that you're all being a little melodramatic about Murderer the Rottweiler.

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This is how tariffs work. ..and now I want Crab Rangoon.

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"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

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In the span of history, I think this period is the Republican Party death knell.

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US judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported for his views www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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So some people are plainclothes ICE agents interrogating small children, other people are random sociopaths impersonating ICE agents but everyone is supposed to know the difference, surely this won’t get even worse

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If we want culture to thrive, not just survive, it’s on all of us now.

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I was told these people were “free speech absolutists”

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Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals.

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I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird

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The White House. The actual White House. This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.

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I’m not reposting anything with RFK Jr’s face on it out of respect for xour eyes but “autism epidemic” is like saying “freckles epidemic” or “cleft chin epidemic” it’s not a disease it’s just a way some people are and the thing we need to fix is a hostile societal framework.

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The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

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“It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history,” Wilentz said. “This is an attempt to destroy American democracy as we know it. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

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So now all the “fiscal conservatives” in Congress who complained for the last 4 years that the Biden/Pelosi budget deficits were “mortgaging our kids’ futures” are on a path to pass a budget that will explode the deficit exponentially to far more than any of the Biden years.

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All these deceptive ICE ops in plainclothes seem almost perfectly tuned to produce a reichstag fire propaganda moment eventually. "Our brave fallen ICE soldiers!!!"

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We should refer to the El Salvador prison as a concentration camp, because it is. We should refer to the process by which we're disappearing people as kidnapping, because it is.

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Oh, how I miss President Obama and competent government. 🇺🇸

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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

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If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking

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when rfk makes america healthy again, the children afflicted by sickle cell will just be sent to the labor camps…err…work farms where they can recover

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When the head of ICE starts talking about how great it would be to have Amazon Prime for shipping human beings to a concentration camp in El Salvador that no one ever leaves, you’ve gone way past “it could never happen here.”

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BREAKING — DOGE will descend upon Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) buildings tomorrow, an agency source tells me. FDIC is responsible for insuring all commercial/personal US bank accounts for up to $250k and regulating banks. Scary in light of Trump’s manipulation of markets this week.

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You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

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The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens. The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago. Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.

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Why are they doing this to Luka?

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conservatives sort of gave up on making their own institutions/intellectuals that could actually compete on the merits is a large part of what happened I think. it's a self reinforcing cycle too. your ideas and policies get dumber, you select away from smart people wanting to be part of your project

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Ideas over idolatry?

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4D Tariffs #polisat #ahlswedecollection

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okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

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Warner: "I just talked to senior folks on Wall St, and he described today's market as 'a good day in hospice.'"

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48% of American voters are right wing nut jobs.

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Feels like we’re watching the endgame of a decades-long project on the right to make it uncool to understand stuff

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They said my artisanal hand-carved semiconductor business would never be viable but who’s laughing now?

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Literally trying to destroy the world

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It’s the stupid, economy.

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the shift from “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” to “eat my face harder leopard daddy” must be studied

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A very important, elemental concept that I wish more people writing about policy understood is this: *one person’s cost is another person’s income** It’s the source of a whole lot of confusion and also an inherent source of conflict between different interests.

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Here’s the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS. (Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”)

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China tariffs are now 104%. Forget inflation for a moment—American owned companies are going to go out of business. This is bonkers!!!

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You can’t do that.

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An innocent man was sent to an El Salvadorian prison and the Supreme Court just decided not to bring him back. The rot in this country, in our politics & courts is so much deeper than one man. Do not let their lack of humanity corrode your own. The real question is what are we willing to sacrifice?

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You’d think when you’re claiming the richest country in the world can’t afford childhood cancer research you might wait a year before throwing yourself a 100 million dollar birthday parade. But carpe diem, suckers.

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