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The New York Times can’t stop doing puff pieces on fascists.

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If you want to win a trade war, you gotta have something to trade that other side wants. And we're in a trade war with the very people who make all the things WE want. You're not going to win that.

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Great news, everyone. A surveillance company started by Peter Thiel is part of the hackathon playing with our data at IRS. www.wired.com/story/palant...

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Do I have to purchase a Twitter premium checkmark and buy a Tesla to receive the social security I paid into?

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Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a federal court on Friday to bar prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against him, arguing that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s recently announced decision to do so was “explicitly and unapologetically political.”

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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

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I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird

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Absolutely brutal

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yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

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Been thinking of old Letterman clips for some reason.

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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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Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

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Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.

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Migrant detainees should be in a maximum-security El Salvador prison "for the rest of their lives," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says — despite a recent CBS News investigation that found more than 75% of those sent to the prison had NO criminal records.

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The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

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It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

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The bond market shows capital flight from the United States, with people selling off US debt. It’s the opposite of what usually happens during economic turmoil, when people buy US debt because they think it’s the safest asset in the world. The US-led global economic system is dead. By suicide.

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It's beyond bizarre that trump signs EOs directing DOJ investigations. Remember how nervous Bill Barr got when then-Senator Harris asked him if Trump even suggested he open an investigation? Now they're just televised executive orders. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktdi...

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FUN FACT: Individuals can face imprisonment, with the maximum sentence for an INSIDER TRADING violation being 20 YEARS.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene bought $275K in stocks after tariffs were announced. Interesting timing, huh? Martha Stewart went to prison for far less.

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Sure was a lucky break for those billionaires to be at the White House today when the tariffs were reversed. Good day in the market for them.

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Did the White House just admit to market manipulation?

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The White House. The actual White House. This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.

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Pretty sure companies aren't lining up to build manufacturing plants when they're subject to the daily whims of a 78 year-old man with zero scruples.

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NEW: DOJ is dropping its prosecution of a man it identified as an MS-13 leader and whose capture was celebrated with a huge press conference by AG Bondi, Kash Patel and Glenn Youngkin. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money, an EARNED benefit!

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First came the market manipulation. Now come the bribes.

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The thing is that, yes, compared to yesterday, things are much better. But compared to a week ago, things are still apocalyptic.

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Ok sorry but getting on my soapbox to say that this isn’t a u-turn or a 180 or even a pause on tariffs. The MASSIVE tariffs are gone but BIG tariffs are still in place. And more so than before last week. Frame it right.

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Commissioner. Chief Financial Officer. Chief Legal Officer. Chief Risk Officer. Chief Privacy Officer. Chief of Staff. All out. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

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What if no one buys the GOP's added DEBT from the "beautiful budget bill"? "The House GOP raises the debt limit by $4 trillion, but the Senate GOP boosted it to $5 trillion so Congress would not have to revisit the issue again until after the fall 2026 midterm election." apnews.com/article/hous...

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MAGA used to screech that they wanted to ban stock trading by Congress. Now some of them are for insider trading because AOC is for a ban? 🙄

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This is incredibly dangerous. If he can get away with this he will open a flood gate of targeted investigations of private citizens. We are stepping through the looking glass of fascism in real time! Congress needs to act immediately.

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Even though the market rises because of the tariffs pause, the cost associated with the rest of the world realizing they can’t count on us not to be nuts will be immeasurable and far-reaching. 🇺🇸

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I strongly doubt the rest of the planet's 7 billion citizens are going to tolerate allowing one insane grandpa to do this to all of them for much longer.

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No, the market is nowhere near back to where it was under President Biden, the American state media and MAGA want to basically thank the deranged felon for slightly putting out a fire that he himself created. This disgusting normalization has done incredible harm to the country.

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Hallelujah! Social Security Administration will NOT cut phone services because YOU used your voices. Thank YOU ALL! YOUR VOICES MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Please keep calling & make yourself heard! www.axios.com/2025/04/09/s...

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Crimes in broad daylight. Trump and his friends are getting rich off this chaos. Market manipulation doesn’t even begin to describe this.

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The chaos is exhausting.

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If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking

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See how this works? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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This fucking criminal bastard just held the world upside down by its feet just to jingle out some money for himself. The billionaires are back to kissing his feet.

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