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One of the reasons to have laws and taxes set by a legislature is it provides relative stability and predictability, rather than the economically destructive regime uncertainty of switches being flipped on and off day to day based on one man's erratic whim. Nobody can plan anything like this.

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Breaking: Stocks fell and the dollar weakened as frequent U.S. tariff-policy changes unnerved investors. The Dow opened down almost 1%; Nasdaq and S&P were even lower.

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US corporates ain’t no dummies. More tariff front-running. U.S. imports of industrial supplies: (via Kevin Gordon) 🇺🇸

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if your commerce sec has to be on tv 5 days a week to explain your latest econ moves you are losing

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ECONOMIST: “With his aggressive and erratic protectionism, Mr Trump is playing with fire.” @economist.com www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

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Bravo, monsieur! Vous avez dit la vérité.

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It’s an obvious point but apparently we have to keep making it: when Trump weakens Ukraine he created the conditions for a longer and bloodier war.

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IMPORTANT: If you live in the United States or Canada, you’ve probably heard Trump‘s constant claim that the United States is “subsidizing” Canada. It’s wrong of course, but here’s the best explanation I’ve seen about how & why it’s wrong. PLEASE WATCH & SHARE IT A LOT. Kudos to Andrew Chang & CBC.

submitted 51 days ago • 91 comments

The Hill Times

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Not a close student of Ukrainian presidential politics, but I imagine the only endorsement less coveted than one from Trump is one from Putin himself. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

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Special European Council Summit on Ukraine and European security has started in Brussels. Yesterday, activists placed a massive banner in front of the summit site, calling on Europe to "Seize Russia's billions!"

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“Ruiz had just won an ‘employee of the quarter’ award last year and received a $1,000 bonus for his work.” www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

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Trying hard, really hard, to resist schadenfreude ... www.jalopnik.com/1804554/tesl...

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One of JD Vance’s resentments against Zelenskyy was that he “campaigned” for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania. It wasn’t true, but now news emerges that Trump’s team had contacts with some (not very popular) Ukrainian politicians.

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Europeans are mystified, disappointed and frightened by a country they thought they knew www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools by about 1 million years, according to new research. Read more: cnn.it/3QNNDH2

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“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

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Trump’s abandonment of Ukraine and refusal to honor the Budapest Memorandum mean that no nation will ever again be willing to give up its nuclear weapons and that those countries currently without such weapons will start developing/acquiring them. Trump has no idea what he's unleashing. Foolish!

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Look what's happening at the French Embassy in Washington DC.

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If Democrats want to emulate Elissa Slotkin’s success at the ballot box, they need to stop ignoring half the country, she told Tim Alberta. Alberta spoke with the senator hours before the biggest moment of her political career:

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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1320 comments

Exactly this

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I’m sure Trump will condemn this publicly in the strongest possible terms, and demand that Putin stop the senseless killing and indiscriminate bombing by Russians of civilian targets.

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The further the United States veers into autocracy, the more Trump's personal hourly whims dictate how the world behaves, Nick Catoggio writes:

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Democrats have no power to shut down the govt. Even when Republicans control the Presidency, House, Senate and every legislative committee, they still try to blame Democrats for their failures. Pass your budget! (Oh sorry, you can’t figure out how to do that). Pass your CR then!

submitted 16 hours ago • 256 comments

Think about the fact that the richest man in the world is actively making life harder for the poorest and sickest among us bsky.app/profile/davi...

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Hochul: I convened a roundtable of farmers who are desperately fearful that this is going to kill their livelihood. They export most of their products to Canada; they get a lot of supplies—their fertilizer all comes in from Canada—this is going to crush the livelihoods of people who supported them.

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For the rest of human history, no nation will ever again give up nuclear weapons. Donald Trump did that.

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🇫🇷 President Macron has just addressed the nation. It was a good, clear-eyed & powerful speech. Quick summary (1/5):

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The GOP cult gawped and clapped; while the ball-and-strikes pundits told us that Trump “delivered a master class in viral moments,” as if politics is now merely a stream of dumb memes, and all of Trump’s lies are simply the harmless accessories of showmanship. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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I'm a fiscal conservative, so why am I so down on DOGE? I had a chat with Jessica Reidl from the Manhattan Institute about DOGE as "spending cut theater." It's mainly serious about malice. It's not serious about the budget. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...

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"[San Diego] F.B.I. agents who were directed to assist ICE have grown frustrated over being redirected from their duties...only to produce a handful of arrests ...[DC] agents...have expressed frustration about doing immigration work rather than...national security" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...

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Weaken US soft power Weaken the US dollar Bad for the US

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Say something to your representatives

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“It was [a] shameful moment…And while the focus of opprobrium should be on Trump and his smarmy understudy, a special shame also attaches to the explainer class of analysts who, without even the excuse of fearing voters, perform pirouettes on their principles.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-vanc...

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Very normal things happening in MAGA right now

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