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One of the Right’s biggest funders and most important strategists, longtime Federalist Society head Leonard Leo, seems to be breaking with Donald Trump over tariffs.

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The move from defined pensions to 401k's has been a disaster for working people.

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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

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Lawmakers are calling on the Social Security Administration chief to resign after internal emails revealed that the administration shut Maine off from the late-age insurance program in retaliation for publicly defying the MAGA agenda.

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Trump and Elon are coming after Social Security and USPS. Federal workers are being fired and the systems are being gutted. Tell the heartless administration to keep their HANDS OFF Social Security and our Postal Service. Spread the message: fedupstudio.etsy.com

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Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster — the deadliest mine disaster since the 1970s. I wrote about how the Trump Admin and the DOGE cuts are making miners less safe appodlachia.substack.com/p/on-the-15t...

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The Trump Admin’s National Park Service has removed this portion about John Brown from the Harper’s Ferry National Historical Park Website.

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What are the possibilities of a block in Congress willing to hold up a reconciliation package until there are changes around the tariff regime?

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“Oil and gas billionaires just bought themselves an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. While the rest of us have to deal with skyrocketing prices and rising temperatures, they’re sitting on their thrones and raking in billions. We need an end to this oligarchy now.”

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So we’re 75 days into trumps second term, people are protesting everywhere. Markets have had two days of absolutely apocalyptic losses. There are grad students being disappeared and a man with an autism awareness tattoo was sent to a super scary prison in El Salvador. They’ve cut cancer research..

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Thoughts and ramblings from moi. open.substack.com/pub/danotbob...

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From @reuters.com: STELLANTIS SAYS WILL TEMPORARILY LAY OFF 900 U.S. WORKERS IN MICHIGAN AND INDIANA DUE TO IDLING PLANTS IN MEXICO, CANADA

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Traffic violations... Honestly, I don't understand this level of psychopathy.

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I wrote about Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, a prominent WA state organizer abducted by ICE last week He won an historic union drive and helped get heat protections & overtime pay for farm workers ICE pulled him over, broke his car window & put him in a detention center newrepublic.com/article/1933...

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LIHEAP is as non partisan as it comes and keeps the elderly from being cold in the winter. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is one of its more prominent supporters.

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Pure chaos. He hasn't even made his mind up yet, and the announcement is tomorrow!

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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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As a basketball head, you can really see the decline of US dominance mirrored in the decline of commentary on ESPN

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The transportation sector was the US's largest source of CO2 emissions last year.

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Oh my fucking god. It looks like Israel murdered eight Palestine Red Crescent Society workers, a UN employee, and five civil defense staff. They crushed up and buried entire ambulances and civil defense vehicles in the fucking mass grave. www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/m...

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This is where the charter school movement, and the folks who want to destroy our public schools, were always headed

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BREAKING: Two officials told the Wall Street Journal that Waltz has started Signal chats with Cabinet members regarding a peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine as well as various other military activities.

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I can't image it plays well in Florida that hundreds of Cubans have been deported who came here legally. The Cuban population there has to be furious about this betrayal.

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Trump and Elon Musk have shut down virtually all refugee resettlement programs from around the world - with one exception, which effectively proves what we all know about these people by now. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...

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Also, Tesla doesn't just make cars. They also make batteries used for solar storage systems. A good thing to keep in mind if you are being conscious about purchasing decisions.

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I have been hearing from people that they have been having issues accessing their Social Security accounts. INSTEAD of going to a branch which may be hundreds or 1Ks+ of miles away from you, call your members of Congress. They have constituent services that will help you regain access. Please share!

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this is why doing everything you can to bankrupt him will damage the GOP by proxy

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RFK Jr is a really nasty character. I don't have any love for Governor Morrissey in West Virginia but to come there and publicly humiliate him in front of media is wild.

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This is what you get when you hand our government over to robber barons: they cannot imagine what it's like to be a senior who counts on Social Security to pay their bills. These villains need to keep their hands off Social Security.

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"First they are coming for the federal unions—the lowest hanging fruit, the most bureaucratic unions, the ones barred from striking. Then they will proceed to come for all public sector unions. Then they will come for private sector unions." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...

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These crypto bros seem determined to destroy everything that’s great in San Francisco

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Pulling Stefanik nom is a sign of GOP panic. If they think her R+20 district would be in play were she to leave, they realize they are in deep political peril re: 2026. As they are.

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I don't think tariffs done right on auto are a bad idea, but it's hard to trust any of these people in the Trump administration to do anything right or at least do them in a way they mainly benefits workers and not just some wealthy CEOs in their orbit.

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Steel workers-Cleveland-Cliffs said it will lay off 600 workers at its Dearborn Works plant in Michigan, along with 630 workers from a mining operation in Virginia, Minnesota. Cleve-Cliffs has issued Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notices in both states-layoffs will begin 07/15

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No one will benefit from these car import tariffs! Wait, what?

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So presumably when the EU retaliates, cars from the BMW plant at Spartanburg - America’s largest car exporter - will be hit reciprocal tariffs, so BMW SUVs will cost more in Germany, say. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

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ICE has abducted an Iranian mechanical engineering doctoral student at the University of Alabama. thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/news/...

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Tariffs could help the steel industry, but not if they lose customers in the auto industry. Major US steel manufacturer laying off 600 in Dearborn, citing weak auto demand. www.freep.com/story/money/...

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I still am scratching my eyes days later at how quickly this came together: Within weeks of the Trump threat, Germany has amended its constitution with the support of all major parties and 2/3 of the upper house, and is set to spend IRA-levels on energy, transport, and defense.

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Vance and Musk's cozying up to AfD led to the center-right party winning in Germany. Trump's talks about annexing Canada have boosted the Liberal Party. And now a pro-independence party in Greenland won in response to Trump's talks about buying Greenland. apnews.com/article/gree...

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A deep dive into Greenland's minerals, and how the new pro-independence government is accelerating plans to develop them. grist.org/energy/green...

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Tufts grad student with a valid F-1 visa. Locked up, apparently for co-authoring an op-ed in the student newspaper that "criticized university leaders for their response to demands that Tufts 'acknowledge the Palestinian genocide' and divest itself from companies with ties to Israel, per NYT.

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