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That was fast 😆

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The White House says it's a "hostile and political act" for Amazon to disclose how tariffs are affecting its prices. We always knew that facts were hostile to MAGA, and vice versa.

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On his 100th day in office in 2017 Trump headed to a PA wheelbarrow factory to launch his trade policy and put the US on the path to today’s tariffs. Eight years on that factory is closed. The wheelbarrows are now made in China. My latest for @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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What the headline obscures: "K-12 teachers are less satisfied than U.S. employees in most other industries. Across industries and employers...a median of 34% of employees say they are extremely satisfied with their organization—12 percentage points higher than the 22% of teachers who say the same."

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Lawmakers still going to church when this is what they stand for is beyond hypocrisy

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Has it really only been 100 days?!? So much buffoonery in so little time

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Snake oil salesman can’t kick the habit

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Could you ever have imagined you would see a headline like this in your lifetime

submitted 4 days ago • 971 comments

What a missed opportunity….

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Ukraine takes control of the Black Sea: Russian cargo ship that transported 5000 tons of stolen Ukrainian wheat from the port of Sevastopol in occupied Crimea at the end of 2024 has been arrested and its crew detained by the Ukrainian authorities on the Black Sea waters.

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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Trump would sneer at this as woke and DEI and smash it if he could.

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.

submitted 4 days ago • 3974 comments

Russian Drone and Missile Strikes on Ukraine in 2025 by the numbers: At least 12,312 total drones (~111 per drone strike package) At least 382 total missiles (~9 per missile strike package)

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Volz: I’m 102 years old. I taught for more than 20 years and have always been a great believer in American independence and good taste. We have a president who has no dignity and no sense of the dignity of a human being, especially one who is old and expects to die any minute.

submitted 4 days ago • 177 comments

Trump "considering" a $5,000 ‘baby bonus’ to encourage "births". Meanwhile it costs on average $10,000 to $18,000 to give birth and baby expenses range from $1,100 to $2,500 monthly. Not including rent, food, insurance, and other necessities. This 'bonus' is a joke.

submitted 8 days ago • 620 comments

Quite clear headed and professional to full send an insult to the wrong judge Also, nobody remembers and it was never “the talk of the town,” we’ve had Trump’s more serious offenses to talk about

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Guys, I have bad news: Lowering tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to 65% still destroys the economy. It appears totally lost on people just how absurd 145% is. This is like saying we're no longer going to shoot you 15 times. Only 7 times. You are still dead, but please thank us.

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I’d read about this back in 2013 and prayed for Pope Francis to have a long and healthy life. I never could have imagined the world he world and faith we shared could be this corrupted in his tenure (as Christians, I’m not Roman Catholic), but here we are. May he rest in peace.

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‘Somewhere close to the current lines, probably, unless Putin asks for more, I’m not saying he can’t have more.’ -JD Vance Praying the Russian army collapses faster than this administration, but neither are coming quickly enough

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RFK JR: ADD, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, Narcolepsy, Autism.. All of these are injuries that I never heard of when I was a kid.

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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

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Texas leaders appear intent in allocating another $6.5 billion on border security in the 26-27 budget, even as the Trump administration claims "operation control" of the border and arrests there have slowed to a trickle. www.texastribune.org/2025/04/21/t...

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⚡Crimean Tatar Mejlis rejects any international recognition of Crimea as Russian, chairman says. The statement comes amid reports that the recognition of Crimea as Russian territory is being considered as part of a U.S.-backed proposal to end the war in Ukraine.

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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this? “We wanted to see Trump in terms of his absences, so that our way of seeing the world would go unchallenged,” Timothy Snyder writes.

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DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

submitted 12 days ago • 119 comments

Sadistic language from the White House, gleefully revelling in contempt for law, judges & individual rights. This is what incipient fascism looks like.

submitted 12 days ago • 134 comments

Burn for Justice, burn for Peace, burn for Truth, burn for Faith in the promise that this evil will not stand

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“The Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index is probably the best metric to understand if the U.S. is ‘bringing manufacturing back home.’ And it's absolutely cratering: -26.4, one of the lowest readings in memory.”

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Trump has successfully reframed Russia as the friend and NATO/Ukraine as the foe, according to latest research. Americans just buy his bullshit, backed up by state media 🤦🏼‍♂️ www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

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New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

submitted 13 days ago • 95 comments

Are they still throwing him a black tie dinner where he gets to veto the entertainment and not even show up? Support pro-democracy, independent media.

submitted 13 days ago • 90 comments

The White House looks like a yard sale at Liberace's house Tacky as s*** and embarrassing to all of us

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“The government is not a car company.”

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"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News

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Donald Trump threatens to hit critical minerals with tariffs https://www.ft.com/content/7ac046c1-0a6a-40db-970c-579070c7a55a

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Jackie Robinson was so much more than a trailblazing player, becoming a symbol of hope on the field and a voice for change off of it. On the 78th anniversary of his Brooklyn Dodgers debut, we remember a Hall of Fame hero and one of the most significant men in American history.

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Russian ballistic missiles ripped through the busy center of Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy on Sunday, officials said, killing at least 34 people and striking terror into residents who were out enjoying Palm Sunday and attending morning church services. cnn.it/4jcRXfN

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People are such a disappointment sometimes

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Person arrested after intruder reported at UnitedHealthcare headquarters months after CEO’s killing

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Second lawsuit challenges Trump administration's shutdown of public information about the federal budget. @jennifershutt.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/04/14/r...

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West Virginia has the best overall and road records in Division I baseball and the Big 12-leading Mountaineers are doing it with a first-year coach and a No. 1 pitcher who spent his first four seasons at a Division II school in Illinois.

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