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The 30 permanent and 20 seasonal employees of Great Basin National Park serve 150,000 visitors a year, an industry which generates more than $10 million in visitor spending and is responsible for two-thirds of White Pine County's sales tax revenue. "Negative productivity" indeed.

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Andrew Sullivan: “Once you grasp Trump as an elected monarch, his full rebuke to the very idea of America comes into clearer view. He is precisely — almost uncannily — what this country was founded to oppose: an arbitrary, corrupt, mendacious, and utterly incompetent king”

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Sanders: And Trump, very envious of sizes, he said Bernie has rallies of two or three thousand people, can’t compete with Trump…. he lied…

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“When Trump (and Musk) look out at this crowd… You are scaring the hell out of them. Because they know what we know: They are the 1% and we are the 99%.” — Bernie Sanders, speaking Saturday in LA to 36,000 people, largest crowd of his political career This is what Fighting Oligarchy looks like!

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NEW: An email sent by the Department of Homeland Security instructs people in the US on a temporary legal status to leave the country. But who the email actually applies to—and who actually received it—is far from clear.

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As Passover begins, I am reposting my open letter to Elon Musk. I wrote it in response to his attacks on me and his suggestion that I suffer from “generational trauma.” It has been the most viral piece I have ever written and I continue to be moved by the positive feedback. Thanks and Happy Pesach!

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A very, very good question.

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"Donald Trump’s erratic and foolish actions have turned the most desirable financial haven in the world into a whirlpool of risk. The safest way to conduct business now is to avoid the United States to the greatest extent possible."

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International students make America stronger: "About 25 percent of billion-dollar startup companies in the US have a founder who" initially came here as one. And because they pay high dollar, they may enable universities to keep prices lower for in-state students. [Kayla Susalla, @cato.org]

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There’s a special place in HELL for anyone who stands before the Supreme Court and argues that a man they wrongfully sent to an El Salvadorian death camp should stay there.

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Precise conversation I just had with an economist for tomorrow’s show. 4 years is plenty of time to build new alliances and supply chains. They will never trust us again.

submitted 11 hours ago • 53 comments

The real impact.

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AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

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Not sure of the paywall status with this but really enjoyed this piece in The New Yorker, assembling a practical guide to remaining fully American, even under Trump, w interviews from global dissident movements. Good stuff. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

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🔥 FARMER: “This I-told-you-so, it’s I-wish-you-would’ve-listened… China is more prepared this time… they just canceled the 3 largest soybean contracts… Trump isn’t playing chess or checkers with China - they’re sitting in a corner playing with themselves.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DIW56aF...

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“The scientific community must take a strong and active stand against vaccine revisionism — the false narrative that there is insufficient evidence to support the safety and efficacy of vaccines.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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100%. It really is time to go there. Again.

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AOC: And his whole presidency began with launching tools for bribery, meme coins to fleece working people and move around money in the dark, extortion settlements from media companies and law firms who gladly pay them

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There is not a soul on earth who believes that President Bukele wouldn’t immediately release Abrego-Garcia if asked by the United States. President Bukele is coming to the United States this week; he can give Abrego-Garcia a ride on his plane!

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This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

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would love to see a volume/time graph on these for the past week

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“.. On Friday, Status filed a notice in the New York Supreme Court asking the court not to seal a trove of documents set to be filed in election technology company Smartmatic’s closely watched lawsuit against Fox News.” @passantino.bsky.social @status.news www.status.news/p/fox-news-s...

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civicscience.com/rising-tarif...

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Someone in the crowd is in medical distress while nurses are on stage at the fighting oligarchy rally. The nurses rush off stage to give medical aid

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www.latimes.com/environment/...

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The human race is perpetuating itself just fine; natalist anxieties only make sense if you’re concerned about the growth of certain demographics relative to others, which of course is the far right’s entire concern.

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When Trump changed sides in Russia’s war against Ukraine, Republicans acted as if nothing had changed. It takes a special talent to betray an entire worldview without missing a beat:

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Donald Trump is dismantling the foundations of American science—and in turn jeopardizing the AI boom he purports to champion, writes Matteo Wong:

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Welcome to the Resistance … {checks notes} … Holman Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal?

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More tariff exemptions. So again, the question: If tariffs are so great, why so many exemptions? www.mediaite.com/news/breakin...

submitted 15 hours ago • 48 comments

Come on, Democrats. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov

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The entire tariff regime is an invitation to corruption and cronyism.

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This is happening in spite of the fact that the president is not in charge of the Smithsonian. It's not an executive branch government agency, rather it's chartered by Congress and under a board of regents created by statute, none of whom are even appointed by the president.

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So @billmaher found the world’s biggest, most dangerous con man charming? That’s news?

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DEMOCRATIC ELECTEDS: You need to be holding hearings like Raskin/Schiff did but on the bloodbaths at Social Security and IRS. DOGE can now pocket everyone's personal information. IRS is being set up to make billionaire taxes optional; no more phone support # at SSA. HOLD THE HEARINGS.

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Our libraries and library professionals are keystones of our communities fostering minds and offering services to individuals regardless of background. We must lift them up, especially this National Library Week, and demand that Trump and DOGE do not gut support for these vital institutions.

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"The bond market is not like the Supreme Court, or Paul Weiss, or Columbia University, or any of the other institutions Trump has conquered, co-opted, or corrupted." "He cannot scare it into submission. He cannot bribe it." from @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-fina...

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RFK Jr. stunned FDA staff Friday with a 40-minute tirade featuring a disability slur, the “deep state” conspiracy theory, and accusations that agency employees were becoming a “sock puppet” for the industries they regulate.

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Friday night Tequila Tweet: Fuck any American President who finds out an innocent man was mistakingly deported to an El Salvador prison and doesn’t IMMEDIATELY demand that man be IMMEDIATELY returned to America. And btw, fuck any American President who’s ok with deporting ANYONE without due process.

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"Our parents are actively fighting for our country for us to be able to have these rights..." www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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Murphy: When you see the 10-year bond exploding… when you see markets moving like a sine curve—that’s the opposite of stability. A strong dollar is in our national interest. What we’re seeing now is the opposite of that.

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Several people I met in Japan expressed concern about visiting the U.S. for this reason. Japan!

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Bravo to Susman Godfrey. My first reaction to hearing they had been targeted was to tell people that it wasn’t in that firm’s DNA to settle. Their late founder Steve Susman would be proud of his firm—as should our profession and all freedom-loving Americans.

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How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

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New data point foe the Elon body count www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

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“The damage has been done,” said George Saravelos, the head of foreign exchange research at Deutsche Bank. “The market is reassessing the structural attractiveness of the dollar as the world’s global reserve currency and is undergoing a process of rapid de-dollarisation.”

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a cousin point to my "Make Lying Costly Again" ministry - evidence and good faith warrants for claims are nice

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