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Alongside retaliatory tariffs, Beijing has deployed another economic weapon in its arsenal in response to Donald Trump: its ability to control the global supply of rare earth minerals.

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Kharkiv ❤️❤️

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Day 138. New, free & fair Parliamentary elections, and the release of the regime prisoners. We cannot stop in our national freedom struggle. Help us avoid costs by targeted sanctions, no handshakes with the regims, and calls for new elections. #GeorgiaProtests 📷 Giorgi Burjanadze

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Enjoyed this. I asked @michaelkofman.bsky.social a lot of questions about the future of war. We spoke about whether technology is making the battlefield transparent, the offence-defence balance, European v Asian theatres, what European armies should focus on and his favourite books on war ($, WOTR)

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In one go, Trump adds two new actions to my democracy spreadsheet: both undermine rule of law, and one is also about controlling access to information. I've also had to add 3 other actions to my overall spreadsheet in just the last hour! christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...

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“American government, American foreign policy, and American trade policy are slowly being transformed, not to benefit Americans but to benefit the president, his family, and his friends.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Trump to Bukele on Salvadoran concentration camps: “Home-growns are next. You’re going to have to build about five more places.”

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Marjorie Taylor Greene "disclosed on Monday that she had purchased between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock on April 8 and 9, the day before and the day of President Trump’s announcement that he was pausing a sweeping set of global tariffs" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

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Look at how X summarizes the Abrego Garcia story (remembering that he is not MS-13, or guilty of anything at all)

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My article in Kyiv Post on How Europe can help Ukraine win the war. www.kyivpost.com/opinion/50602

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Notable from this and the Washington Post that Tufts Friends of Israel have written to condemn the graduate student's illegitimate detention.

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“We are here: Trump is openly defying the Supreme Court while sitting side-by-side with a Latin American strongman who openly mocks our judicial system from inside the Oval Office.” @timmiller.bsky.social and I are depressed, alarmed, angry. Where is the resistance? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CSh...

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Harvard University is rejecting Trump administration demands to adopt policy and curriculum changes to keep billions in federal grants, saying it would not accept requirements that violate its constitutional rights. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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"I was wrong. I now believe that supporting Ukraine is 'America First'. And once you see the atrocities at the hands of the Russians, that is just pure evil. Politics goes out the window," - Pastor Mark Burns #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war

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Ukrainians confident they can hold the line. 'On the Orikhiv front 60km south-east of Zaporizhia city, the fighting is constant. But soldiers there say they have not yet seen any major new offensive. Morale and confidence are higher than a few months ago.' www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

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The death toll from Russia’s Palm Sunday ballistic missile attack on Sumy is now 34 killed and 117 people injured, according to Zelensky and the state emergency service of Ukraine. 68 of those injured people are currently being treated in hospitals, with 8 in serious condition. on.ft.com/43MzEZW

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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is auditing Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The probe, which has been ongoing since March, as well as the US DOGE Service itself. www.wired.com/story/gao-au...

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A disgrace. “What emerges is a picture of how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana [and of] a sprawling, opaque apparatus designed to deport the maximum number of people with minimum accountability.” www.propublica.org/article/rume...

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We share more than geography with the Western Balkans — we share responsibility. Our security and stability bind us close together. Tonight, I am meeting with Foreign Ministers from the Western Balkans and the EU to discuss security and defence cooperation.

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The Social Security Administration will no longer be communicating with the media and the public through press releases and “dear colleague” letters, as it shifts its public communication exclusively to X so that Elon Musk can fully satisfy his business self interest. www.wired.com/story/social...

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Crucial point made here — we should learn from others rather than imagine that everything is new and therefore shocking and impossible to resist. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

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'A benign colon polyp"

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More than 30 people were killed and at least 80 others wounded by in a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy today, officials said, in one of the deadliest attacks on Ukraine this year.

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Two Russian ballistic missiles slammed into a bustling city center in northeastern Ukraine on Sunday morning, officials said, killing at least 32 people in what appeared to be the deadliest attack against civilians this year.

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Russian strike hits the Ukrainian city of Sumy, killing at least 21 people as crowds gathered for Sunday church services

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⚡️Germany's chancellor-in-waiting backs Ukraine’s NATO, EU path — but only after war ends. "Ukraine is a very large European country, but it is a European country that is at war," Germany’s incoming chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said in an interview with Handelsblatt.

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What Trump’s “emergency” logging declaration could mean for Colorado’s U.S. Forest land

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‘Completely out of touch’: golf and dinners for ‘king’ Trump as economy melts down

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Two groups representing Harvard professors sued the Trump administration on Friday, saying that its threat to cut billions in federal funding for the university violates free speech and other First Amendment rights.

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Even the straightforward disclosure requirements are routinely violated with few consequences.

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As the world continues to laugh at Trump's hollow tariff threats; Trump is now exempting smartphones, computers, and other electronics which took effect late Friday night. This is another action that reveals how far Trump is over his head and making irrational decisions day by day.

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🚨Kathleen Sgamma, a longtime oil and gas activist, withdrew her nomination to lead the federal Bureau of Land Management hours before her confirmation hearing Thursday. 🚨

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Amnesty International documents 36 cases in Sudan of women and girls as young as 15 subjected to many forms of sexual violence by members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Read more: aje.io/bnnjsu

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Israeli forces have assaulted Palestinians in a village near Hebron, the occupied West Bank, while demolishing three homes housing 15 people, according to the Ma’an news agency. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/a2ldn1

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McGovern: "How is any company supposed to forecast for their future, build a plant, hire workers, if they have no idea what the hell this president is gonna do in his next tweet? ... I need a neck brace to be able to get through all this."

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Trump on the markets: "Up 2500 points. Nobody has ever heard of it. Gotta be a record."

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Trump blinks on tariffs, proving what we already knew: He's a chicken. "Don’t you dare say President Trump panicked. That would be too kind, frankly. Because it would assume he had a clue about what he was doing in the first place." My lightning column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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THIS IS DEFINITELY THE LITTLE PRESIDENT TRUMP. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 👇

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The White House crafting its economic policy

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On March 23, a convoy of aid workers, traveling in vehicles marked with emergency flashing lights, was struck by gunfire in Gaza. Bellingcat used video footage of the incident to perform an audio analysis of the shooting. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04...

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