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The sit-in led by @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social & @booker.senate.gov continues on the US House steps, as the GOP prepares to turn its primary focus to the reconciliation package. Began this morning. Jeffries is the top Dem in the House. Booker is fresh off his record-breaking Senate floor speech

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A useful way to think about his tanking poll numbers is that they would be far worse if more people knew what he is doing

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Buck was GOP Speaker Boehner's press secretary and Romney/Ryans presidential campaign press secretary.

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Sleepy Don is ruining the air of authoritarian invincibility with every front row public nap.

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A 16pt swing in 3 months for those keeping score. Most unpopular president 100 days in in history. Have shovel, keep digging, Don.

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

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Income taxes are expected to bring in about $2.6 trillion for FY 2025. (CBO) Tariffs have brought in about $16 billion so far this month. (TS Lombard/Treasury) Yes tariff revenue can rise substantially from here. No it will not replace income taxes.

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This is a key point. Empty shelves in plain sight will test the limits of any jawboning or misdirection. #SummerOfScarcity 🇺🇸

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Excellent article by the @nytimes.com

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An FT analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the Canadian election revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who has been endorsed by Elon Musk, and to tarnish his Liberal counterpart Mark Carney. on.ft.com/4lRM6hK

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NEW WaPo POLL: Trump approval sinks as Americans criticize his major policies. Job approval at 39, down 6 from February. - Via Dan Balz @sfcpoll.bsky.social @emgusk.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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The number of measles cases in Texas alone has grown to at least 646, while cases nationwide have hit 884, with infections confirmed in at least 29 states. cbsn.ws/431x3ua

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The Great Wonder: A Vision of the Apocalypse, by Violet Oakley, 1923-24, 📸 via @nbaontnt.bsky.social

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Art.

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The American tourism industry is sooooooo screwed.

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NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

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Donald Trump isn’t just illegally removing U.S. citizens from the country without due process. He’s illegally removing U.S. citizens who are literal children undergoing care for cancer. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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"Donald Trump and his children, cronies, allies, appointees, saboteurs, and fellow uber-rich will never stop trying to seize ever more power and make ever more money. This is almost always the simplest, most logical explanation for whatever is going on."

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ICE deported 3 children who are U.S. CITIZENS to Honduras after holding them incommunicado, ACLU says. They are aged 2, 4, and 7. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

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BREAKING: The ACLU says the Trump administration has deported three U.S. citizen children.

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Federal health officials have reversed the decision to fire a few dozen scientists at the FDA’s food-safety labs, and say they are conducting a review to determine if other critical posts were cut.

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"His approval rating among crucial independent voters is now at a woeful 29%... the survey’s findings show that any second-term honeymoon for Mr. Trump is over."

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Exclusive: HHS has walked back a national autism registry. The new plan: $50 million for a different autism research initiative. #disability #autism www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/n...

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The Trump administration abruptly walked back its cancellation of more than 1,500 visas held by international students on Friday, announcing a dramatic shift by ICE during a court hearing in Washington. nyti.ms/4lIMsXT

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Wow

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Correct

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The Trump administration's "firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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“.. a tax increase for low-income families that is more than three times higher than what wealthier Americans would pay ..” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Several research institutes in Germany are joining a worldwide grassroots effort to save science data sets that researchers fear could be deleted by US President Donald Trump’s administration, Nature has learnt. https://go.nature.com/42uEw50

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“If I was in charge of the Chinese Communist Party, I’d be having bottles of champagne opened right now." Former NIH director on the destruction of American science. Story by my talented colleagues @mmolteni.bsky.social @jaspar.bsky.social @jonathanwosen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t...

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The Department of Energy's decision to suspend critical grants for UMaine, including an ocean energy project already underway, is outrageous. This reckless move will sabotage our state's hard-earned position as a leader in offshore wind innovation, while putting dozens of local jobs at risk. (1/3)

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god forbid they do anything good or sensible

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Utterly disgraceful. "Last week, the Department of Homeland Security sent emails to Afghan refugees telling them to 'self-deport' back to Afghanistan." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...

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China acting like it’s holding the cards, not Trump.

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It's clear that Trump is going to bug out on the tariffs, because he got spooked by the visual of empty store shelves in a few weeks. But the damage has been done: China now realizes they have all the leverage in the relationship because we showed our hand. From me, on the enduring fallout:

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A Trump-appointed federal judge orders the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Venezuelan man who was deported to El Salvador last month.

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Our cover this week.

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The Trump 'peace' plan for #Ukraine is no such thing; it is an instrument of surrender. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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China’s President Xi Jinping committed the world’s top polluter to more stringent curbs on greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade in global climate talks that took place without the US.

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A 17 point negative swing nationally in less than four months, and he's still in the traditional honeymoon period.

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This is a fascinating study -- a gut toxin, long known to scientists, may explain the rising rates of colon cancer in younger people.

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Same in his first term

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Trump approval in Maine at 42% approve, 57% disapprove, a major negative swing since the fall when he lost by just 7%. A terribly misleading headline @bangordailynews.bsky.social. The poll also found 67% of respondents think "a recession is very likely". www.bangordailynews.com/2025/04/23/p...

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Some Trump is maybe exempting some of his tariffs from his other tariffs, even though he still has no idea how to even impose any of the tariffs. Got it. www.ft.com/content/fa0f...

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In an astonishing escalation of the Trump family’s efforts to profit from crypto, a website promoting Trump’s memecoin announced that the coin’s 220 largest buyers would be invited to a private dinner with him.

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Trump's job approval rating just hit a new low of 44.5% in my average. Disapproval at 51.6, for a net of -7 (new low). The president is now very close to being less popular than he was at this point in his first term. Updated daily at www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

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Trump has indefinitely withdrawn federal funding for: • Investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against kids; • Responding to reports of missing children; • Preventing youth violence New, @propublica.org

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