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Any traders with inside information that Trump was going to walk back his tariffs — some of them, presumably, Trump family members and cronies — just made a fortune. It all feels like chaos until you look more closely at who is winning.

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The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke. It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.

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We found the voter fraud!!!!!

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All this "fraud" and yet still not a single fraud charge filed.

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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA): "I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"

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Not sure how these people sleep at night

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$721m to help Louisiana protect itself from Natural Disaster, gone Red Rural Recession. www.fox8live.com/2025/04/10/l...

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former treasury secretary larry summers tells me why he’s disappointed with american universities right now: “they sure should have an opinion on creeping authoritarianism,” he says, but they have been “silent.”

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At DOJ, we used to call these “for profit prisons” and when BOP or a state used them, those inmates were still considered to be in the custody of that prison system for relevant legal purposes. There is no reason El Salvadoran terror prison should be any different.

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

Trump is creating giant market fluctuations with his on-again, off-again tariffs. These constant gyrations in policy provide dangerous opportunities for insider trading. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 346 comments

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

submitted 1 day ago • 3197 comments

The simultaneous crash of the stock market and the bond market is super ominous. But also a totally foreseeable consequence of this insane tariff policy. So is it incompetence or part of a plan to crash the economy? An increasingly important question.

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Trump always blinks. He's a bully but a coward.

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Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

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With outages lasting sometimes up to a day, it makes no sense why Elon Musk & DOGE are planning massive cuts to tech staff at the Social Security Admin. First, it was phone service & building closures — now this? It's clear they're coming after your benefits. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Before prices go even higher and millions of working people lose their jobs, Congress must stop this tariff chaos. I'm pushing a bipartisan resolution with @wyden.senate.gov to end Donald Trump's worldwide trade war. It's an immediate response that forces a simple majority vote.

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Today I'm introducing my first bill – alongside Sen. Sheehy. Bipartisan legislation designed to incentivize home hardening – protecting against fires and natural disasters everywhere.

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i sat down with former treasury secretary @larrysummers.bsky.social to discuss trump’s tariffs “this is probably the worst, most consequential, self-inflicted wound in us economic policy since the second world war,” he tells me. @gzeromedia.com

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Today I introduced my first bill as a Senator. A commonsense, bipartisan piece of legislation designed to protect people and their homes from natural disasters. Let's get it passed.

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

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Trump says the US has spent $350 billion in Ukraine, and Europe has done less than us. Is this true? Nope, take a look and be sure to like and subscribe to my new YT channel youtu.be/ZROD0LjN3HU?...

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“I loved to help people become debt-free,” a former Federal Student Aid employee, who was fired in March, said. A vastly diminished F.S.A. staff is now responsible for making loans and grants to some 10 million students.

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1/4. If the US were engaged in an attempt to bring peace to Ukraine, it would place more tariffs on Russia, rather than exempt Russia entirely.

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Trump officials admitted to an “administrative error” when they deported Abrego Garcia — a legal resident with no criminal record. A judge ordered Garcia be returned, but Trump is fighting it in court. Garcia now sits in a prison in El Salvador. The cruelty is staggering.

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This is the first time one man has crashed the economy. As Americans see their savings evaporate, what are Republicans in Congress doing? Nothing. Republicans need to grow a spine and join Democrats right now to stop this man-made disaster.

submitted 3 days ago • 122 comments

They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

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Unsurprisingly given the conditions their client remains in, Abrego Garcia’s lawyers filed their opposition moments after Roberts stayed the order that would have returned him to the US www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

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"Our words and actions mean everything. Every day comes clearer that individuals too must fight. Must carve out their place in all this. It is only in the aggregate we lose ourselves. But it is also only in the aggregate we can truly be saved." - Andrew Silberstein abovethelaw.com/2025/04/asso...

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One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months. I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.

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At least 20 people lost their lives over the weekend as storms ravaged the country. Meanwhile, Trump & DOGE have terminated 1,000 employees from NOAA — the agency that provides severe weather forecasting and warnings. Make no mistake: these cuts put people's lives in danger.

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Last night I wrote about Abrego Garcia’s case. Today, SCOTUS confirmed it’s true. Even though their stay is just temporary, he remains in cruel & unusual conditions in a foreign prison with no recourse. It could happen to any of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

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Sotomayor is right. According to this Supreme Court, the US can now kidnap, detain, and fly legal immigrants and citizens to a foreign country's prison, even if it's a whoopsie. America, people. Freedom and stuff.

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Since Trump announced his worldwide tariffs: markets tanked, retirement accounts took a hit, and Americans are panicked. We can pass a resolution right now to stop this chaos–Republicans just need to grow a spine and put the American people over blind loyalty to Donald Trump.

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a peek at the global stock market meltdown:

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It will be another big week for democracy in court. The best way to stay informed is to subscribe for free to Democracy Docket. Always fearlessly independent with no corporate overlords. It will never bow down. It will not obey. www.democracydocket.com/me-newslette...

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments

pure evil. wapo.st/4cgQBha

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The economy is in free fall. The markets are collapsing. Our soldiers are dying. Our sensitive information is being leaked over text message and gmail. Random people are being kidnapped and sent to foreign torture prisons. And Trump is fucking golfing.

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“This does not just affect North Carolina,” Riggs said. “This is like dropping a match in a really dry forest. And if we let this kind of anti-democratic effort take hold, we will not be able to contain it. So this is a fight for the very soul of democracy. Today’s decision was deeply misinformed.”

submitted 4 days ago • 374 comments

Not joking: as of today Donald Trump is the absolute greatest destroyer of wealth the country has ever had

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75%

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7 months ago. Bring back Bidenomics.

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Trump wants YOU to pay for his billionaire tax breaks. We’re not gonna stand for it.

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I would never argue against this.

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A reminder that the Washington Post gave Bondi a green thumbs up to confirm for AG. Democracy Docket called her an election denier. www.democracydocket.com

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Trump's not only gutting the markets. He is destroying the FDA and our entire health system. On this week's episode of Meidas Health, Dr. Vin Gupta asks former FDA chief under Biden, Dr. Rob Califf, all the questions that YOU need answers to. Listen now:

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