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Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised almost $250 million from Corporate America, more than doubling the previous record as companies sought to win favor with Trump and the incoming administration.

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The Trump administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could just as easily be incompetence,” one lobbyist said. @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

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Good morning to you, too, @wsj.com!

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A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees.

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NEW: When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future. Trump laid off nearly all of them.

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About the "great negotiator."

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Russian student Daria Kozyreva, 19, was sentenced to almost three years in Russian prison last week. She was punished for taping a paper with poems by Taras Shevchenko (a Ukrainian poet) to Shevchenko's monument in Russia on the anniversary of the war. In her last word, Daria said:⤵️

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

submitted 8 days ago • 75 comments

Exactly.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen just met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.

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More than 1,000 international students and recent graduates at more than 130 schools in the US have had their visas or statuses revoked in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System this year, according to university statements and spokespeople. cnn.it/3EzbKGY

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The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

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The CFPB says it will deprioritize protecting people with medical debt and student borrowers - Yahoo Finance

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We’re now with Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea, Mali, Nicaragua, Niger, Russia, & Sudan. With Trump in the White House, the United States is no longer on the side of the free world.👇

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Congress is intent on raising the SALT cap, which would mean trade-offs like spending cuts. But our analysis shows increasing the limit would benefit only about 10% of taxpayers who itemize. Gift link here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)

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A Trump ally has told CNN’s parent company that they could avoid future lawsuits from the Trump administration if they make a documentary about Melania Trump or a TV show about Donald Trump Jr., which would involve paying the Trump family large amounts of money.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his wife and their three children, and has never been charged with any crime. The Department of Homeland Security issued him a work permit, and he joined a union, working full time as a sheet metal apprentice.

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Russian terrorist attack in Sumy, Ukraine today, Palm Sunday. Latest: 31 killed including 1 child, a further 84 injured. It is impossible not to conclude that Putin has been emboldened by Trump. This, just hours after Witkoff’s disgraceful pandering to Putin. (🎥 Euromaidan)

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STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. BRING HIM HOME! Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador. SMART General President…

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www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Mystery deepens as another dead whale washes ashore in Southern California

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This is why you never capitulate. This would be the end of Columbia university. It would be a testing ground for the direct fascist takeover of private universities by a dictator. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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#USAProtest I will stand with them

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"We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree. If scientists are censored, we can't have excellent science." -NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. 9 days ago on Fox and Friends.

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The thought police are on the prowl.

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small government www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Trump’s cabinet meetings are like no other president. This is the stuff of reality television, not reality. That a cabinet member cannot speak without humiliating himself or herself is embarrassing. That the president does a 20 minute diatribe based on alternative reality is bizarre.

submitted 19 days ago • 24 comments

Art of the deal!

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NEW: An unsigned interagency agreement calls for the Dept of Labor to reimburse the US DOGE Service up to $1.3 million for work done by four DOGE affiliates over 18 months. Musk has previously stated that DOGE staffers would cost taxpayers nothing. from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social:

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There’s some truth here.

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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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Every single House Democrat will vote NO on the reckless Republican budget that rips away healthcare from the American people.

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Never forget that the chief complaint against Biden was “the economy is terrible.” You utter imbeciles

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So this is terrifying. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

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Trump bears the bulk of the blame for the unprecedented global economic crisis now unfolding. But let’s not ignore the role played by the hideously bad judgment of the business and financial leaders who supported Trump and didn’t realize this was an inevitable outcome.

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Meanwhile in Russia: pundits rejoiced about Ovechkin's record and Kash Patel talking to Russian state TV. State Duma member Leonid Kalashnikov said everyone in Russia should support Trump, and he should remain in power in the U.S. for as long as possible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTzX...

submitted 21 days ago • 32 comments

Good trouble

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The record-breaking NHL star is also known for his rapport with the Russian president — a relationship that has drawn controversy over the years.

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Moskowitz: He tariffed the penguins. He tariffed Vietnam. Madagascar. I don’t know what the plan is. Is the plan to get people who live in Vietnam to move to Greenland to make the shirts there? Nobody really knows.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇧🇾 The US did not impose new tariffs on Russia and Belarus, — Le Monde The White House says that "American sanctions are already preventing any significant trade with Russia," but in fact, the US-Russia trade balance in 2024 was about $3.5 billion.

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Restoration Hardware was doing an earnings call when the tariffs hit and I have never related harder to a CEO www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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If you voted for Trump, this is what you voted for. “While some cases are deemed newsworthy, these daily injuries and death are not even counted, much less made public. Nobody will ever know how many women have been harmed or died because of abortion bans...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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