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The global tariffs will certainly cause a US economic emergency tho.

thank you donald trump for your diligent work as you make the US a stagnant, backwater pariah state and playground for sociopathic tech oligarchs

It won't just close the gap, it will ensure their succession.

It mostly just assured that we would no longer be a pillar in that foundation, as other countries have already been preparing by opening trade elsewhere, and beginning talks to replace the US dollar. Not sure the foundation will be affected so much as the archaic pillar is no longer load-bearing.

Absolutely!

Some probably don't care at all, others simply let their fears win without a semblance of a fight. The weight of fear to universities seeing funding cut was heavier than their brittle spines could handle. Ohio students, professors, alumni, all fought, but the state reps still didn't care.

It takes all of us, and it takes finding your local groups, your local communities.

Bad people don’t even have to have power over you they just need to make you believe that they do so you’re too afraid to fight at all.

Thank you Wisconsin. Thank you for sticking it to that evil little man child who believes his money makes him superior to any one of us.

Accountability for our mistakes is what will lead our country to real authentic greatness

Find the happy medium between being insufferable and being informed.

The we Is all of us We cannot expect our representatives to do everything, he heard us because we are speaking up. We are the players, this is our nation. We must all organize and mobilize.

Feel like maybe @booker.senate.gov read The Sirens’ Call? Or at least he got the gist!

Seriously, we just need y'all to show some god damn fight, real hard nose boxing, stop pandering to Orthodox decorum, we need some unorthodox movements in the ring.

I am not moved by politicians often, but I am moved by Booker today. I hope more dems callously see how much attention he's commanding today take his lead. I don't care if the reason they do it is craven-- I just want them to fucken fight. also fuck strom thurmand may he rest in piss

Absolutely need to be getting into good trouble!

There is no normal to return to, but there is a way forward, there is what's next, we the people who mobilize, we the people who speak out, and leadership that dares to head the challenge. Let's keep fighting.

He heard, he listened, and he stood up. The fight isn't done, keep challenging, keep using your voice, keep mobilizing.

money can’t buy everything, eLon

I hope he is able to start leading others to do the same, and as often as possible. The Dems were faltering but he heard our concerns, he heard our pleas for leadership and so he stepped up and he stepped up with all he had. Now we all have to do the same.

Weaponizing our voices, communicating, building, organizing, and mobilizing. We cannot stop. We must press on. We are the solution.

This man showed more heart and more leadership qualities for the moment we are in now, then the actual so-called "leader" of the Senate Democrats. Chuck Schumer is not a leader for such a historic moment

More cheese for us then

Ah fuck, not the CHEESE!

The DNC operates in fear, scared to ever operate or message anything that could even slightly be seen as breaking their scripted norms A fear so thick it leaves a bad taste in our mouths No one wants the norms. They long have not worked for us We NEED more leadershig who dare to be different

Booker: Strom Thurmond’s record always kind of just really irked me. That the longest speech on our great Senate floor was from someone who was trying to stop people like me from being in the Senate. So to surpass that became more important to me.

An absolute joy of an episode to record: why I love Social Security (and why you probably do too!). Plus, why you think it's running out of money because Baby Boomers are living too long, and what's *actually* threatening the program. Wherever you get your podcasts. rss.com/podcasts/opt...

Actively making China come out of this stronger, than us is insane. All the world's leaders are looking at this situation and actually taking advantage of our nation's inept leadership. Because they will not be idle to the pains the US wants to inflict. They aren't as weak as us China is smiling.

The future history of now will include something along the lines of "social media put billions of people worldwide in the same room together for the first time in history and it drove them absolutely insane"

The Trump administration is committing crimes against humanity right before our eyes. They are disappearing people who are in this country legally and sending them to El Salvadoran prison camps to be tortured. Every official involved deserves nothing less than to be tried at The Hague.

Police investigate after more than a dozen Teslas burned in Rome.

Elon Musk is pouring $1M into rigging courts and eroding democracy. This isn’t free speech—it’s authoritarian decay. One unhinged billionaire is dragging a nation into chaos. Wonder when the donkeys will grow a spine and call out the rising dictatorship.

In the realm of laughable protest, this: “Placing the entire staff on administrative leave raises questions as to whether the agency will be able to fulfill its legal obligations…” The American Alliance of Museums *after* DOGE lays off the entire IMLS staff.

Flawed deportation 'checklist' targets Venezuelans using tattoos as one gang identifier. But experts say Tren de Aragua doesn't use tattoos for member identification.

DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question. bookriot.com/imls-gutted/

These aren't 'deportations' to the El Salvador slave labor gulag, they're kidnappings. Deportation entails due process, these are jackbooted regime thugs disappearing people without a shred of evidence or a hearing.

This administration wants us isolated so that they can exploit as much from the American people as possible. They do not care about "fair" trade. The rest of the world is working together because of us. This is not a recipe for a strong American economy. It's a recipe to become North Korea.

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

The EPA will close a museum that tells the story of the agency’s history and mission.

America has never been subject to this level of authoritarianism, and quite frankly, sheer incompetence. Out of the ashes, this moment should radicalize us to embark on an era of new reform — of our economy, our democracy, and our commitment to social justice and the law.

“DOGE won’t just fall short of Musk’s deficit-reduction goals. It will, in all probability, increase the deficit,” Jonathan Chait writes. Are the deficit-reduction efforts just a pretext for ideological warfare? theatln.tc/0zdiT2Hb

If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you. If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you. If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you. We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.