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Does Donald Trump even know what a trade deficit is? He seems to think it’s a sign that America is being “ripped off” and says it’s why his tariffs are necessary and that it’s a sign. But it's not inherently a bad thing. Here’s what having a trade deficit actually means. #velshi

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"Now the market will open way down again since it appears the administration is totally confused. Susie (Wiles) needs to get control of Lutnick."

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More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

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From Fox Business analyst, after Howard Lutnick said this morning on the Sunday shows that the tariff exemptions on tech were only temporary.

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NEW: Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to MeidasTouch about Donald Trump's stock manipulation scheme and more.

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Trump, on deporting U.S. citizens to an infamously cruel and inhumane Salvadorian gulag: “I love that.” www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

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Bernie Sanders made an appearance at Coachella to introduce Clairo. "The future of what happens to America is dependent on your generation. Now, you can turn away and you can ignore what goes on, but if you do that, you do that at your own peril.” Love this dude!

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Bernie Sanders made a surprise appearance at Coachella 2025 last night. So he went from the LA rally to Coachella. He's 83 and fighting like this. This should be an inspiration to all of us. If he can do this, we can all do a little more.

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"He declared himself the victim of a corrupt system, blamed all his losses on cheating, demanded enough compensation to cancel out his losses, and launched an assault to get his way." 2020 or the trade war? ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-big-...

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We just need to turn the negative productivity of scientists at NASA and IRS auditors that DOGE fired to gainfully making shoes in Nike factories reshored from Vietnam. This is the groundbreaking economic thinking of communist purges from Mao to Pol Pot with a sprinkle of American Exceptionalism.

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APOLLO: “.. Consumer Confidence Is Weaker than During the 2008 Financial Crisis .. “.. sentiment is declining rapidly both for households making more than $100,000 and less than $100,000 .. “.. Consumers’ worries about losing their jobs are at levels normally seen during recessions ..”

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Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process. This is not lawful.

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The Israeli military struck and destroyed part of the Ahli Arab Hospital, a mainstay of Gaza’s decimated health care system, on Sunday. A child being treated for a head injury died because of the rushed evacuation, according to the Anglican Church in Jerusalem, which oversees the medical center.

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Significant arson damage to Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro's home. Looks like what happened to civil rights leaders in the 1950s

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This is grotesque

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-Consumer sentiment ⬇️11% in April '25, 2nd lowest reading since 1952 -Lowest since Great Recession -Grocery inflation ⬆️3.0% in March, ⬆️ 2.6% in February -Highest % since 10/23 Since Trump took office: -Eggs ⬆️59% -Ground beef⬆️ 22% -Milk ⬆️19% -Coffee ⬆️10% -bread ⬆️5%

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A New York judge relaxed a ban she’d put on Elon Musk’s DOGE preventing it from accessing sensitive Treasury Department information related to millions of Americans: cnn.it/42INifB

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would love to read a portrait of rubio the person, who seems to be the kind of vacuous, amoral ambition addict who excels in tyrannical regimes

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DEVELOPING: Police search for arsonist after overnight fire at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gov-josh-shapiro-residence-arson-investigation-rcna201044

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BREAM: The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget calls the budget "an absolute disgrace." The GOP is supposed to be the party of fiscal discipline. Why did you vote yes? LANKFORD: That is the wonderful DC math that's coming through on this

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Commerce Sec Lutnick promised Chinese jobs "screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones” would be moved here. Treasury Sec Bessent said American dream was not cheap "flatscreens" And yet here we are: first China tariff exemptions are for iPhones & flatscreens www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/t...

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Kinda hard to see a free and fair 2028 election where she doesn’t win by a lot.

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A massive crowd at Coachella erupted in boos when Senator Bernie Sanders mentioned Donald Trump during a surprise appearance tonight

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"Trump cannot assuage the bond market. He cannot convince it that he is 'normal' and should be given the benefit of the doubt. He cannot scare it into submission. He cannot bribe it. The bond market is not like the Supreme Court or Paul Weiss or Columbia."

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Term 2 Trump foreign policy - from tariffs to NATO to soft power to China and Russia - is an epic mess. One reason seems to be that the administration is operating with two conflicting, equally flawed, views of the world and the US's place in it. 🧵

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Trump now saying — contrary to his previous statements and those of federal officials — that people removed from the U.S. to El Salvador are in the “sole custody” of El Salvador

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More than 20 dead in Sumy after russian attack, according to local media. ❗️ Warning, the video contains sensitive material! Trump this morning: "We are making good progress in peace negotiations with russia."

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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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"President Donald Trump’s offensive against elite universities is also an assault on the nation’s most economically dynamic metropolitan areas — and a threat to America’s global competitiveness," writes Ronald Brownstein | Analysis

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As the Trump administration cracks down on immigration, officials have repeatedly labeled detainees as gang leaders or terrorists, often without providing evidence in court to support those claims reut.rs/3EvfskV

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I joined @jenrubin.bsky.social for The Contrarian to discuss a Supreme Court ruling affirming due process for immigrants. Yet the admin still won’t return Mr. Garcia—wrongly deported & jailed. Will the courts say: bring him home?

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The White House spokesperson was leaning on the ghost-written Trump book "Art of the Deal" as an administration talking point.

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lord willing we will one day prosecute miller for crimes against humanity

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There’s a wasp, whose larvae get into other insects’ bodies and take them over, and control the host insect from the inside. Who’s driving the husk of Rubio around?

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New, from me: Marco Rubio used to boast that he was banned from China, calling it a totalitarian state. Now he combines a) new surveillance capabilities to monitor and punish international students, with b) little accountability or due process. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

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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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I almost feel bad for Cheryl Hines. Almost

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Trump is also saying that the once the US has rounded up individuals, with minimal or zero due process, on whatever pretext they choose, they can send them out of the US to face torture, death, life imprisonment, slave labor or other fates that are unconstitutional or illegal in the US.

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NEW: The Trump administration, via a senior State Department official, says Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. But they still won't say if they're doing anything to get him back. Details w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Buckle up, folks. This is a constitutional crisis unfolding before our eyes.

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Big news: The North Carolina Supreme Court rejected the GOP's challenges to tens of thousands of ballots... but accepted GOP's challenge to thousands of overseas ballots — all cast only in 4 blue counties — which could (likely?) be enough to overturn the supreme court race.

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