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Global stock markets fall and dollar dives as Trump tariffs push investors to bonds, gold and yen

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RFK Jr is cutting Alzheimer's research to the tune of $3.9 billion. I can't state this more clearly. The fraction of the American population that is elderly and susceptible to dementia is large and growing fast. This is a critical population health crisis. It needs more attention, not less.

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As President Trump unfurled his list of tariffs targeting most of America's trading partners, he claimed each nation's rate was reciprocal, reflecting long-standing trade barriers to U.S. goods. But how are Trump's tariff rates calculated?

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This is it, folks. A simple accurate analogy👇

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We’re so screwed.

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This was….five months ago

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That was fast! Have some extra cheese on us, Wisconsin 💪🏽 🧀

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This needs more coverage. Anti-Orban protests in Hungary are growing. Police were forced back on Liberty Bridge last night, as Budapest’s major bridges were shut down. People chanted “fascists” & “Russians, fuck off”. Putin’s puppet & Trump’s friend is in trouble. 👏🇭🇺 (🎥 Szabolcs Panyi)

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Sort of a big day yesterday! Some thoughts at CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io/no-fooling/

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Trump does not like a loser. The cheesehead antic was repellent to voters, and now to Elon’s BFF www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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California Lawmakers Overwhelmingly Reject GOP Transgender Sports Ban

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NEW on CNN: We ran through comments of all the top Justice Department officials - Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and Ed Martin. All called for length prison sentences for mishandling classified information. They're now either defending or silent on SignalGate. www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/p...

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This is (a) wildly wrong on the facts and (b) dangerously wrong on the conclusion, in that this zealot is running for a spot on the Wisconsin state Supreme Court.

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Raskin: I call on my colleagues to take down the wanted posters with judges’ faces on them outside of offices in House office buildings

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Iranian state media is reporting that Iran has placed all of its missiles on launchers in response to a potential U.S. attack.

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House GOP puts judges on ‘Wanted’ posters. Elon Musk pays voters to attend his WI rally. Trump floats a 3rd term. The world realigns on trade—without the U.S. And much more. Catch up on a wild day in politics:

submitted 3 days ago • 166 comments

Saturday newsletter: Welcome to the end of yet another stupefying week in which Donald Trump tried to distract us from a national security FUBAR by plunging us into an economic fiasco. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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Even after Maine doctors pleaded with her not to do it and explained why, Susan Collins voted for RFK Jr. #mepolitics

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

bring us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses so we can stuff them in an unmarked van and ship them to a slave labor camp in an undisclosed location

submitted 6 days ago • 339 comments

Was speaking with a USAID person yesterday explaining how at any other time countless phone lines wld be buzzing, working groups stood up, go-teams and aid being dispatched to after the Myanmar quake. Now ... nothing.

submitted 6 days ago • 170 comments

Fear and compliance. That’s the point. “Mistaken” abductions serve their purposes. “Oops. You might be taken too.” They’re a threat. A tactic.

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merit is back baby

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RFK takes the CDC another step down the road to full-on anti-vax dangerousness. New from @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/meas...

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IT GETS WORSE Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions. New via @wsj.com:

submitted 6 days ago • 2564 comments

This shit show ain't no reality show. How do we get our neighbors to care about what's happening to our country before it's too late?

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

When he was accidentally added to a defense department AOL chat room this week, fortunately, @bobcesca.bsky.social took notes.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he wants excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

submitted 7 days ago • 1030 comments

Autocratic coups reveal the dormant evil of the people already in prominent positions, like parasites waiting for a host.

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"Reopen every Social Security office and tax Elon to pay for it" is the most generically safe yet progressive policy ever to live. Probably polls at 111%.

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Dear Big Law. This is how it is done. Bravo, Jenner and Block! Don’t you other firms ever watch those superhero movies? The selfish, greedy cowards always finished last! 👊🇺🇸🔥

submitted 7 days ago • 64 comments

Called it.

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It’s fine, @schumer.senate.gov said that we’re ok as long as they don’t defy the Supreme Court specifically.

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Meet the Conservatives Standing Up to Trump “I don’t want to be alarmist, but the situation is quite alarming," says a former Rubio adviser who is helping lead the small, but vocal conservative legal resistance. zeteo.com/p/conservati...

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Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand

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Conway: “People need to start doing the right thing because it is the right thing.” @georgeconway1fnz.bsky.social gives an eloquent explanation of why the moral cowardice of Paul, Weiss is such a huge problem.

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It increasingly looks like his eyeballs are contemplating an escape out the back door, somehow. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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Columbia University agreed on Friday to make changes to its protest rules, campus security policies and Middle Eastern studies department in a remarkable concession to the Trump administration, which had moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university.

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The Trump administration has removed a longstanding directive from the civil rights era that explicitly prohibited federal contractors from allowing segregated facilities.

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Seniors: is this true?! Seniors won't complain if they miss a Social Security check, Lutnick says www.axios.com/2025/03/21/s...

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Hear ye, hear ye... Billions missing from the company of dude in charge of finding government fraud. futurism.com/huge-amount-...

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BREAKING: Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek says he is consulting with the Justice Department about shutting down the agency. Dudek told the Washington Post: “Unless I get clarification, I’ll just start to shut it down. I don’t have much of a choice here.”

submitted 14 days ago • 476 comments

Trump’s White House SpokesGoblin got smote with facts in real time on live TV. Let us rejoice in this moment of symbolic schadenfreude.

submitted 15 days ago • 171 comments

The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.

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Boston approves resolution to become a LGBTQ sanctuary city. Once again leading in civil rights for our community. The first Latina elected to the council and Councilor-at-Large Julia Mejia said "It's really a love letter and an opportunity to set the groundwork for the legislation,"

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