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Trump keeps saying interest rates are down. They have actually been rising in the past few days This is unusual during a stock market rout. Usually people dump stocks, plow that money into bonds, which drives down rates (bond prices & interest rates are inversely related) www.cnbc.com/quotes/US10Y

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Watching the #Dow drop in real time as @Trump pontificates for the press corp arrayed in the Oval. #sad

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She is being terminated, not because of her performance because over her tenure state aid for local libraries has increased 60%. She is being terminated because of unfounded attacks by extremists because she is not sufficiently supporting censorship. alabamareflector.com/2025/03/20/a...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 17 days ago • 912 comments

Martin O'Malley, former Social Security commissioner, says he believes the Trump administration has already taken 90% of the actions necessary to crater Social Security.

submitted 17 days ago • 248 comments

JUST IN: Trump pulls security clearances of more political/legal adversaries — some of these were previously known but new list includes: -Kamala Harris -Liz Cheney -Joe Biden + Biden family -Fiona Hill

submitted 17 days ago • 393 comments

Journalists are trying to understand Trump’s irrational behavior, and are generally unwilling to consider the possibility that it's not some grand strategy, but a madman with increasingly diminished mental faculties.

submitted 17 days ago • 278 comments

Consumers across the world are boycotting American products in protest of literally everything Donald Trump is doing.

submitted 23 days ago • 79 comments

If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

submitted 23 days ago • 2115 comments

JUST IN: Federal officials placed 1,000 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.

submitted 23 days ago • 252 comments

Good rule of thumb for determining who are the good guys and who are the bad guys is “which side is eliminating libraries” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 23 days ago • 32 comments

We are in the editorial process on a forthcoming Special Issue of The Political Librarian, which will be devoted to discussions and analyses of what the results of the 2024 election may indicate for the future of library work. Stay posted for more information. journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Stock Market Today: Sinks with Tariff News #ThanksTrump

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And I thought Trump was gonna romance a ‘tremendous’ deal today! Oops!

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Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos's changes to the opinion pages have led subscribers to cancel in droves. It's the third wave of mass cancellations at the Post in just a few months.

submitted 38 days ago • 327 comments

WTF?!?

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NEW: RFK Jr.'s "radical transparency" means ending a 54-year-old transparency policy. A Nixon-era policy gave the public the ability to comment on HHS decisions relating to “public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts.“ RFK Jr. ended that on Friday. www.lawdork.com/p/rfk-jr-rad...

submitted 38 days ago • 252 comments

NEW: US Attorney Ed Martin has demoted some of the most senior prosceutors in his office -- including those who put Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro — as well as the leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers — in prison. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 38 days ago • 72 comments

A week ago, Pam Bondi went on Fox News claiming the files were sitting on her desk. Now, in a fabricated letter to Kash Patel, she insists she never received them. Congrats on shifting the news cycle. Lie better.

submitted 39 days ago • 866 comments

I’m somehow on a Heritage Foundation mailing list (😂) and they sent a survey to see what we think of DOGE. Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!? secured.heritage.org/the-heritage... Please share with a friend or a thousand :)

submitted 40 days ago • 1546 comments

A federal judge in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration's firings of thousands of probationary employees, calling the actions illegal.

submitted 39 days ago • 47 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered OPM to rescind memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies it lacked the authority to issue such a directive.

submitted 39 days ago • 298 comments

Doctors prescribed "absolute rest" for Pope Francis, the Vatican said Saturday, a day after the 88-year-old pope was admitted to a hospital following a weeklong bout of bronchitis.

submitted 50 days ago • 49 comments

Gil Cisneros, who was the Biden administration’s undersecretary of defense in charge of military readiness, says he’s aware of no finding that trans service members had a negative impact on cohesion/readiness/deployability/lethality. Big hearing on Tuesday w Judge Reyes.

submitted 50 days ago • 17 comments

The Trump Administration has banned Julianne Moore‘s 2007 children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry” variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Baftas winners 2025 — Conclave and The Brutalist share the top honours https://www.ft.com/content/fb77449a-4e2c-4a00-b795-670efc27fab8

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

It's the second time "The Star-Spangled Banner" drew that reaction in two games the United States has played at the NHL-run international tournament.

submitted 50 days ago • 597 comments

No, #BrokenPost, it would seem that Europe is quite united -- against Donald Trump and the United States.

submitted 50 days ago • 9 comments

DOGE at the Department of Education includes: Adam Ramada, a Miami-based investor Alexandra Beynon, recently worked at ketamine startup Mindbloom Akash Bobba Ethan Shaotran If you have interacted with any of these folks LMK

submitted 50 days ago • 112 comments

What's Next In The DOJ Scandal?

submitted 50 days ago • 8 comments

Oh, well, if he "forcefully resists," then I guess that's that.

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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...

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Top-ranking officials with the CDC, the HHS subagency that oversees the program, told CBS News that the cuts would have a devastating effect on the country’s ability to assess blooming diseases.

submitted 50 days ago • 34 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/w...

submitted 50 days ago • 884 comments

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said all of the state's 120 counties were impacted by the storm. "The biggest challenge of this event is it's everywhere."

submitted 50 days ago • 356 comments

It’s sad on the eve of Presidents Day it’s appropriate to have to post this.

submitted 50 days ago • 347 comments

Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 50 days ago • 49 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 50 days ago • 114 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 50 days ago • 2089 comments

Nothing to worry about (!)

submitted 50 days ago • 88 comments

Take the first step in joining the campaign against book bans! Sign and share the petition today. www.bookbanpetition.us

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File under: No Sh@t Sherlock! …Ukraine rejects Trump request for half its rare mineral wealth

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Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

submitted 52 days ago • 49 comments