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For whatever reason this part of the 'kid who killed his parents and wanted to assassinate Trump story' doesn't seem to be getting as much play. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

initial reports made this sound like a minor failed attempt

submitted 1 day ago • 285 comments

Good way to see the current tariffs, as of literally today, is no tariffs on high value add manufactured goods marketed to middle and upper middle classes. Massive tariffs for cheap consumer items which amount to the biggest economic privilege of working class/middle class life in US.

submitted 2 days ago • 121 comments

Reminder: this is the same plan Russian operatives offered to Paul Manafort in exchange for their help getting Trump elected in 2016. (See Manafort’s testimony in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report.)

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

U.S. importers are bracing for the impact of President Donald Trump's 145% levy on Chinese imports.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Does it say IDEAS???

submitted 4 days ago • 127 comments

The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index just hit such a historic high under Trump that it’s literally exploding off the chart.

submitted 5 days ago • 120 comments

“Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

submitted 5 days ago • 1115 comments

Trump calls off reciprocal tariffs for 90 days. Doubles down on tariffs with China, now with a 125% tariff. Continues to impose a 10% tariff on the rest of the world. Even during the pause, the U.S. will remain the highest tariff industrialized country in the world.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

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.

submitted 6 days ago • 2278 comments

Trump's threatening to veto any Congressional control on his tariff policy BUT Senate Democrats could stop the bleeding by using Trump's emergency powers against him as @ddayen.bsky.social explains. Will they??? prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Ok what’s going on here? Yields are going up which means bond prices are going down. Fewer buyers of the world’s safest asset. Normally when the economy slows, there’s a flight to safety, not away from it. Means the world may be abandoning America. We are flirting with a true crisis.

submitted 6 days ago • 436 comments

Absolutely every business should do this.

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

If you’re wondering why China is taking their time picking up the phone. @bloomberg.com @financialtimes.com @barrons.com

submitted 6 days ago • 177 comments

🚨Things you need to buy are about to get WAYYYY more expensive because of Trump's tariffs🚨 NEW analysis from @americanprogress.bsky.social: www.americanprogress.org/article/exam...

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

submitted 7 days ago • 723 comments