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The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.

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european tourism to the united states: freefalling

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Trump is destroying US weather forecasting and research because he dislikes the word "climate": "While the phrase 'climate change' refers to manmade influence on climate via planet-warming pollution, 'climate' in NOAA parlance is simply weather observed over time..." www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

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Conservatives in the House say they won’t back any budget plan without deep cuts that would all but certainly affect Medicaid. Some Senate Republicans say they won’t accept such cuts.

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The opening of U.S. trade with China a quarter-century ago led to a flood of imports that came to be known as the “China shock.” Economists who have studied the issue argue that President Trump misunderstands the nature of the manufacturing decline.

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BREAKING: Everyone at the Department of Health and Human Services who sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans are eligible for programs like Medicaid, food assistance, child care, and more, has been fired. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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Roses are red Daisies are plain

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Consumer sentiment has never tanked this far, this fast.

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"A Wall Street Journal analysis of daily financial statements issued by the Treasury Department found government spending since the [Trump] inauguration is $154 billion more than in the same period in 2024 during the administration of former President Joe Biden."

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We are living through the inversion of the Sputnik moment

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The purpose is to spread disease and weaken the US population so they can be more easily controlled. It's why Kennedy was appointed.

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What could go wrong? Oh.

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House Republicans just passed a sweeping anti-voting bill that historians are saying is the most anti-voting piece of legislation to come out of Congress in the nation's history. Paige and I explain. youtu.be/XS8aePRgFU4

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BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court says Trump administration must facilitate return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

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

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In addition to firing researchers and pulling funds, the Trump administration is also inverting science.

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economic uncertainty in the united states off the charts

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RFK Jr. says he expects to be "know" the cause of autism by September, Trump speculates it's a shot or some other consumable.

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"I'm a rich guy likes to buy access to public officials, and its a lot easier to do that with the Trump administration" is a compelling message.

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Note that Trump's pro-tariff propaganda is drenched in bullshit nostalgia about the white working class, too:

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This is Autumn. She was born without one paw. Gets along just fine with three, but still sometimes uses a prosthetic leg when she wants to blend in. 13/10

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I'm sure they'll get to the DC budget fix soon. Surely won't go to recess without it. Surely not.

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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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i wonder who Trump told about his tariffs pause in advance 🤔 would've been very lucrative information to have

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They fired Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield—not because she couldn’t do the job, but because she wouldn’t hang up pictures of Trump and Hegseth. This ain’t about merit—it’s about ego.

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Republicans used to say “undocumented immigrants don’t pay taxes.” Now the IRS is handing their tax data to DHS… So which is it? Seems like you’d have to pay taxes to even have tax data…

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Congrats FedSoc

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Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Melanie Krause informed her staff she is leaving the agency amid internal chaos and the exodus of several senior IRS officials, according to several sources.

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Real estate next to West Virginia strip mines is the most coveted in the world.

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Trump: "We're gonna get good elections pretty soon. There's a lot of clamor for it ... the states are just an agent of the federal government."

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JFC. So far, Trump has caused markets to lose about 14%. Here's how the same period to date looks under other recent presidential terms

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