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Today’s Chartbook features the coming trade crisis. The US Commerce Dept. plans for tariffs of up to 3,521% on imports of solar panels from four South East Asian countries just one year after several major solar equipment producers asked the Biden administration to protect their US operations.

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Went to support local immigrant rights group monitoring immigration office, was threatened with arrest from an ICE agent… Accused me of filming personnel (I wasn’t) and said they were concerned that posting footage on social media could lead to violence. Told me to “stay off the property” or else 🙄

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Kinda insane and shows how afraid the networks are of upsetting this administration that a guy who killed 7 people and wounded 48 with “47” literally tattooed on his face has all but been forgotten like there’s still not a very serious threat emanating from every pore of this pathetic cult

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Children as young as four are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

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perfect Democrat specimen

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Who is Glenn Jacobs, the Tennessee politician who challenged Tim Walz to a wrestling match? In our new issue, J.W. McCormack writes on Jacobs, AKA “Kane,” FKA “Unabomb,” “Christmas Creature,” and “Isaac Yankem, DDS.”

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Biden’s legacy - and that of everyone who worked for him - will always be defined by his support for what Israel did to Gaza. They can and will try to distance themselves but can’t.

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texas two step for bug chasing

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Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

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The polling shows that more than 2/3rds of Democrats have an unfavorable view of Israel and more Democrats sympathize with Palestinians than Israelis— definitionally speaking about Gaza is now normie

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This made me laugh more than it should have. So I'm sharing. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjNAewk7/ Haha #EliminateLogStandby

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🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

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solidarity with trans people worldwide, fuck jk rowling

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I’m going to forgive them

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Columbia may have signed its own death notice. Word has it that tomorrow Columbia will announce an agreement to formal oversight by Trump. This, if true, will signal the death of Columbia as we knew it - a premier teaching and research institution. I explain it here: youtube.com/shorts/W7Rr7...

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faced with a profoundly unjust decision against him, Mahmoud Khalil chooses to show incredible solidarity

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UPDATE: ICE has awarded a new contract worth up to $3.8 billion for the company to operate a migrant detention camp on Fort Bliss — its largest contract yet. It's the first time ICE is moving ahead with plans to detain thousands of people arrested on U.S. military bases in tents before deportation.

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marco rubio was confirmed 99-0

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Update: I just listened to the audio of this. Trump: “If the Supreme Court said bring somebody back, I would do that. I respect the Supreme Court.” Reporter: And the lower court as well…? Trump: “Oh no, no. I’m not talking about the lower court. I have great respect for the Supreme Court.”

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Read Mahmoud Khalil's words at the end of today's hearing:

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JENA, La. (AP) — Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported.

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The NYT when someone wants to kill higher education

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🎵🎧✨

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So some people are plainclothes ICE agents interrogating small children, other people are random sociopaths impersonating ICE agents but everyone is supposed to know the difference, surely this won’t get even worse

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This is exactly why we need to be organized in our defense of the freedom to read. The book banners are organized & we'll funded. But they are also unpopular. Our numbers can beat their money

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spectacular day for line go down gang. did you see the lines? they started at the top left, and moved to the bottom right by the end of the day. incredible

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🚨Statement from Vice President Margaret Cook on Student Abductions and Trump Administration Attacks on Free Speech:

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Absolutely incredible photo choice here. A+

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lmao on CNBC talking about United Healthcare stock: “I hate to shoot you…but I need the cash!

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NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research’s main contract for its websites was not approved for renewal, so I’m told we should expect some of them to start to go down. “Lutnick's position on every contract is ‘no’ and agency reps have roughly a minute and a half to convince him otherwise.”

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He should start doing finger blades

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congrats to Bill Ackman, you’ve successfully liberated yourself from a lot of money

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Yale Budget Lab analysis of tariffs: $3,800 hit to average household. Loss of 4% of after-tax income to poorest households; 1.5% to richest. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/whe...

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I went to Shinji and I said to him “you have to do something Shinji, you have to pilot the Eva.” He was a great guy!

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Great talk from @cannafis.bsky.social, looking forward to reading the book! www.youtube.com/live/O_AWCAk...

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Where do we find ourselves on the spectrum between democracy and dictatorship, and what does that mean for our movements? In our latest on Substack, Bennett Carpenter sketches out a provisional taxonomy of the emergent Trump regime. open.substack.com/pub/liberati...

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Carnage. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.

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NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

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Trump has destroyed a federal system of labor relations that helped contain conflict for decades. The move could have unintended consequences. New online by @josephamccartin.bsky.social: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil is not an isolated event—it is a chilling testament to the authoritarian turn in the United States, where dissent is met not with debate but with brute force, and the machinery of state terror moves with ruthless precision.

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SCOOP: The lawyer working for DOGE who now leads USAID has a history of violence and racist remarks, ten people who knew him allege. Police records show he was also once accused of threatening a girl with a knife/ www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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