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Only a few weeks until Trump's promised "90 deals in 90 days" are up, and the one (1) deal so far isn't close to being an actual deal. How long until @politico.com runs an article about his unhappiness with the Navarro/Bessent/Lutnick/Greer negotiation team? (Since, of course, Trump is infallible.)

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Only a few weeks until Trump's promised "90 deals in 90 days" are up, and the one (1) deal so far isn't close to being an actual deal. How long until @politico.com runs an article about his unhappiness with the Navarro/Bessent/Lutnick/Greer negotiation team? (Since, of course, Trump is infallible.)

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This is beyond delusional insanity, it needs its own new terminology for how devoid of reality it is. This man is a deranged lunatic. I live in L.A., am out doing errands. L.A. is exactly like it is on any other day, with a few hundred protestors in a couple of spots in a city of nearly 10,000,000

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No one could have predicted

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If only real life were this amusing! Nevertheless, in a time of total insanity, seems appropriate to note that Noël Coward’s three-act farce HAY FEVER opened at London’s Ambassadors Theatre a century ago tonight. #BookSky #TheaterSky

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Facebook reminds me that six years ago today, Trump TACOed in a trade tiff with Mexico. @jefftiedrich.bsky.social neatly summarized the negotiations:

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CIVIL WAR (dir. Alex Garland, 2024)

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"These are real people with real families that you're hurting" SO ARE THE PEOPLE THEY'RE HURTING. AT YOUR ORDERS.

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Trump doesn't understand what academics and scientists do, and the tech bros surrounding him insist AI can replace all knowledge work except their own, so he's just fine with smart people decamping to China and Europe. Research and innovation aren't part of Trump's great-again America.

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Nothing to stop Trump redirecting our tax dollars from cancer research labs to neo-Nazis' bank accounts

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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 3 days ago • 535 comments

Spent, like, an hour and a half offline, and in my absence this escalated *much* more quickly than I anticipated

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True, Trump's lone trade deal so far “is less of a deal than it is a framework for talking about a deal,” and yes, yesterday he complained that President Xi is “EXTREMELY HARD TO MAKE A DEAL WITH!!!” But hey, Trump's crack team has 30 of the 90 days left, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Facebook reminds me that six years ago today—before I followed @dieworkwear.bsky.social!—the vainest man in America met the queen and reminded the world that he is incapable of wearing clothes that fit. Pants, suit jackets, ties, waistcoats: everything seems tailored for a differently shaped person.

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Mailed my NYC absentee ballot from London yesterday with @bradlander.bsky.social ranked #1

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The pro life position is to let women die in a hospital parking lot while their partners scream for help

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ChatGPT really is amazing. Just not in the way that you think. Don't miss this account of "the closest thing to a personal episode of Black Mirror I hope to experience in this lifetime." I guess it qualifies as black comedy, sort of.

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Welcome to the Resistance, Elon

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Nine years ago today. Jake Tapper would not let Trump get away with his bullshit—"Is that not the definition of racism?"—but millions of Americans liked it, evidently. Striking to watch the full video now: 2016 Trump was the same digressive bundle of grievances, but he was *much* more articulate.

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What happened?

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