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Somehow missed this CNN story but lol

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Still funny that people took his "free speech absolutism" schtick at face value.

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* Shein Hikes US Prices as Much as 377% Ahead of Tariff Increases @bloomberg.com

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If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

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Children are easy to deport, and the quota won't fill itself

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I look forward to the day when we have a president who understands history, and when he has gaps (as we aren't electing historians) defers to people who lack those gaps.

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My bluesky profile in the style of Beksinski (testing ChatGPT's new image model)

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Used my go-to AI art test against ChatGPT's new image model: Ronald McDonald in the style of Beksinski

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WATCH: @timmiller.bsky.social & @betoorourke.bsky.social on why Trump disappearing people with no criminal records to foreign gulags without due process and disobeying court orders should matter to everyone Full @thebulwark.com podcast: youtu.be/TaKW9LlTHIs?...

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Yet, the GOP knows that Luddism would be silly. "One study by Michael Hicks and Srikant Devaraj at Ball State University in Indiana estimated that 88% of the decline in manufacturing jobs in America between 2000 and 2010 can be attributed to productivity improvements. Trade accounted for only 13%.

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"Ultimately, the end of the crisis will depend on the actions of hundreds of millions of people across dozens of trading nations. Only if and when they recover their trust in the United States will the U.S. and world economies fully recover from the breach of trust Trump has created."

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“Someone had been on Joe Rogan’s show and pointed out that getting your opinions entirely from stand-up comics, Bigfoot forums, and various men named Dave might not be the optimal method for acquiring knowledge. Rogan fans were appalled at this disrespect.”

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Last night, a federal judge in El Paso became the first to review ICE’s claim that someone was an “alien enemy.” It went SO BAD for ICE that not only did the judge order release for the people suing, without prompting he restricted the use of the Alien Enemies Act in west Texas.

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NEW: The PRC is continuing to leverage global frustration with US tariffs to try to divide the United States from its partners. (1/7) Read more in the latest edition of the China-Taiwan Weekly Update: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...

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The strict dress code for the Pope’s funeral required men to wear dark suits and long black ties. Naturally, Trump was the only one who showed up in a blue suit and tie.

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They are working without expertise. They have no visible system in place to brief or debrief, let alone negotiating instructions that reflect work within agencies, and of course no underlying strategy in the normal sense. (1/2)

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If you're curious why Fox News decided to attack Pete Buttigieg tonight, just look at the YouTube comments on Pete's Flagrant interview. They're scared that Pete resonated with this audience:

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"Trust us" isn't an acceptable defense. "The government contends that this is all OK because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her,” wrote Judge Doughty, a conservative Trump appointee. “But the court doesn’t know that.”

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Historically, hygiene and health are reasons to have effective government. Without it, people senselessly die. Demolishing the federal government will have terrible costs. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The idiocy burns "A federal prosecutor in Washington has contacted The New England Journal of Medicine, considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal, with questions that suggested without evidence that it was biased against certain views and influenced by external pressures."

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Ha, just kidding. Not going to make foreign students change their decision not to apply to US schools. Damage is done.

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The fact that any central bank must respond to such nonsense is a sign of the idiocy of our times.

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We are in the "arrest judges" stage of our evolution to authoritarianism

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china’s foreign ministry urges washington to stop “misleading the public” on bilateral trade negotiations “the united states and china are not engaged in consultations or talks on the tariff issue," they said.

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Dark comedy

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He’s so good at this.

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When the economic catastrophe we have brought down on our own heads is clear to everyone, I can only hope it breaks the MAGA spell and we start listening to experts again as we demand real qualifications for critical government roles. Hope is doing a lot of work there. People can believe anything.

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America's negotiation leverage is gone. Beijing has also warned countries not to do trade deals with the U.S. that exclude China—or else. With even U.S. allies facing Mr. Trump’s tariff assault, Beijing’s threat has resonated in a way that it never previously did. U.S. diplomatic sway is ebbing."

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99% of Levi Strauss shareholders vote to stand resolute on the company's DEI efforts. Thank you.

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why can't i stop reading this in the tone of a teenage girl

submitted 3 days ago • 225 comments

We are in the position of the guy who dumped his girlfriend and later tries to get back together, only to find out she isn't interested anymore.

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If Katy Perry had sung "What a wonderful world" like Louis Armstrong, and recorded it, it would have broken the internet.

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Trump announced to the world that the board that manages the global reserve currency will be subject to the whims of a fickle reality TV star as of May 2026 (when Powell's chairmanship ends). There is no going back on that.

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And in other news, we are encouraging the invader to kill civilians in the invaded nation's capital. "Russia launched a huge attack on Kyiv early Thursday, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 60 others in the Ukrainian capital..."

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The countries most affected by Trump's tariffs are our closest allies. "The German economy, which is already suffering from weak foreign demand and reduced competitiveness, is particularly affected by the U.S. trade policy,” Robert Habeck, Germany’s economy minister told reporters..."

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We are learning the Brexit lesson. Not sunk in yet, but it will. "The US does not have the aid, the technology or the market access to exert control over global trade the way it once did, and Trump’s erratic behaviour is rapidly increasing the probability that it never will."

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It's easier to start a fight than back out of one. "The commerce ministry spokesperson He said that “he who tied the bell [on the tiger] should be the one to untie it”, a reference to a Chinese proverb that means the person who creates a problem should be the one to solve it.

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The new look for our "warfighters" with this addition...

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While we elect reality TV stars, Canada seems on the verge of electing a generational mind.

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A well oiled machine

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Just read this.

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🥴Rubio refused to go to talks in London because of Zelensky's refusal to recognize Crimea as Russian, — CNN

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Really need journalists to push back on this bullshit. When they say this, just ask them point blank: "Are you saying that because one Latino man committed a murder, another Latino man deserves a life sentence? Do you think all Latino men interchangeable?"

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Astounding what the offer of a Trump tower gets Putin - the negation of a world order America built after WWII "Now if you invade, ethnically cleanse and hold—its yours legally."

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