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Remember, this is actually the end of the story. The rest is illegal.

submitted 13 hours ago • 52 comments

Trump will reportedly end the IRS Direct File program that allowed taxpayers to file taxes for free. This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file. Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. See how this works?

submitted 12 hours ago • 326 comments

WSJ: Vietnam “shows how anxious countries are to stave off” tariffs. It recently .. accelerated the approvals for a $1.5 billion Trump resort.” @wsj.com #OligarchEra 🤡 www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

submitted 16 hours ago • 33 comments

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he hasn't heard from Trump since the arson incident at the governor's mansion.

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

worth reiterating that in literally any other context a 10% tariff on Japan alone would be getting wall to wall financial news coverage, would be considered the largest trade war escalation in modern American history and the dumbest economic policy move by a President in decades

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

makes sense. what the administration wants more than anything is to completely pollute the information environment with as much nonsense and propaganda as they and their allies, foreign and domestic, can pump out

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

By "free speech," the Americans mean creating a media environment in your country dominated by American digital fascism preparatory to right-wing regime change. Vance essentially said as much in Munich. Give in now, forget about sovereignty later. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

Yet another scalp here. We are gutting state capacity in response to paranoid fantasies of a “censorship industrial complex” that never existed. It has been shown to be bullshit in both congressional inquests and SCOTUS cases. And yet they keep lying… www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

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 4 days ago • 86 comments

initial reports made this sound like a minor failed attempt

submitted 4 days ago • 281 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 5 days ago • 123 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 5 days ago • 47 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Does it say IDEAS???

submitted 7 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 7 days ago • 118 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 8 days ago • 1111 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 8 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 8 days ago • 2272 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 9 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 9 days ago • 435 comments

Absolutely every business should do this.

submitted 9 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 9 days ago • 177 comments