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My schadenfreude for the day is that Bitcoin's down basically as much as the NASDAQ, and if Bitcoin did what its fans said it did it would be the opposite.

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Apple announced $500 billion in investment during Trump's term and its CEO gave $1 million to Trump's inauguration

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Lost your job Good time to do up your home

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NEW: Stellantis says it is temporarily laying off 900 workers at five U.S. facilities after President Trump’s tariffs, Reuters reports.

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Senators Chuck Grassley (R) and Maria Cantwell (D) just introduced a bill to reassert Congress’s power over tariffs. —President must notify Congress on new tariffs within 48 hours of imposition. —Congress must approve them within 60 days or they expire. www.cantwell.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

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MUSK A wonderful proposal Is because of the POTENTIAL "egg dumping"

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Asking the Business Secretary whether he would rule out any trade deal with the US which would allow the import and sale of food produced to lower standards - such as hormone-treated beef or chlorine-treated chicken. I was hoping for a "yes or no" answer. Seems that was too much to hope for.

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Bringing Lawrence Odonnell back this morning after seeing the stock market collapsing😆😂🤣 “And So, America is at this hour completing the 52nd day, of having a president of the United States whose brain does not work” 😂😅🤣 This is hysterical 😂😅🤣 #canada #usa #europe #tariffs #tradewar #dowjones

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How much money has the smart money made today? Having "Shorted" Your stocks Your investments

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“BREAKING: #France 's President Macron urges companies to pause investments in the US after #Trump 's tariff onslaught” #tariffs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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@edfordham.bsky.social Noticed you are standing in Chesterfield I was there at by-election 1984 Tony Benn took the seat Still, we produced a good result Best Wishes this time

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How do you describe a sentiment like this while trying to be impartial?

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Cuba, North Korea and Belarus are also absent.

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It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

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Fresh out of prison, Peter Navarro is the amateur economist Trump has been listening to. 🤷🏼‍♂️ #tariffs

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The Swedish Armed Forces are now investing heavily in drones, with 200 people engaged in testing, development and planning. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/fors...

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❗️This morning in the Andriivka area (Kurakhov direction) 🇺🇦Ukrainian military repelled a large-scale 🇷🇺Russian offensive Of the 12 units that went on the assault, Ukrainian military destroyed: - tank; - 2 infantry fighting vehicles; - KamAZ; - GAZelle; - 3 buggies. Also about 42 infantrymen

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The many triumphed over the money in Wisconsin's Supreme Court election yesterday. Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford, to the people of Wisconsin, and to everyone fighting for a just and free America. Let's keep going.

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We are proud to announce that our MSP candidate for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch is Andrew Baxter! Last summer Angus MacDonald beat the SNP in this part of the Highlands. Voters will have a choice, a hardworking local champion in Andrew Baxter or more of the same with the SNP.

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Please be advised that our twice-weekly evening youth clubs will be temporarily closed starting today. Families of registered young people will receive further communication regarding the closure period. Thank you for your understanding. @castelnauyouthclub

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A rally was held in Vilnius to honour the soldiers, with the US ambassador expressing deep gratitude for their service. #EuropeNews

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A 22-year-old Palestinian man was tortured and killed by Hamas militants after he criticized the group publicly and participated in rare anti-Hamas protests in Gaza, his family said.

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Did she make it Here's hoping

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There is an urgent need for the EU and the UK to deepen defence co-operation, to seize opportunities and to avoid fragmenting the pan-European defence industrial base. #EUDefence 🆕 @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social insight by @lscazzieri.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/dMaEQdz

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Now leading HuffPost: www.huffpost.com/entry/cory-b...

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The U.S is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth. We should have the lowest. It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.

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Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 RIP Betty and thank you. 🙏https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd30ywv8o

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Sounds like a great bar Must put on my list of places to visit Best Wishes all attending the night

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🎧: Historian and broadcaster @davidolusoga.bsky.social joins the Prospect Podcast to discuss the political attacks on history in Trump’s America and elsewhere. podfollow.com/the-pr...

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Elon Musk’s preferred candidate has been trounced in a Supreme Court race in Wisconsin that was widely seen as a referendum on the controversial billionaire and the Trump administration’s agenda.

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"Booker beat that bigot Strom Thurmond’s record from the very same podium where Thurmond opposed the Civil Rights Act in 1957! Absolute legend! 🔥🔥🔥" bsky.app#:~:text=Book...

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I think that since Thurmond took a bathroom break three hours in, that Booker only needs just over 21 hours to break his record. Just my two cents.

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As Sen. Cory Booker’s filibuster-style speech on the Senate floor nears 20 hours, liberals online are cheering for him to break the Senate speaking record currently held by notorious segregationist Strom Thurmond.

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Where to even start.

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Labour’s recent leaflet that boasts about deporting more people than the Tories is gross. Labour is failing to provide safe and legal routes into the UK for asylum seekers, while seemingly revelling in turning people’s lives upside down. My full response > greenparty.org.uk/2025/04/01/l...

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Two MPs openly back DWP benefit cuts - yet sit on the parliamentary group for ME/CFS Steve Race and Luke Chambers MPs both backed Kendall in a notorious letter from Labour's 'Get Britain Working' group - yet they pretend to advocate for chronically ill people...??? www.thecanary.co/long-read/20...

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The Government's announcement that the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund will be renewed for this year is a welcome relief to the thousands of families who rely on the fund, but it is not good enough that they have been left in limbo.

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The All Party Parliamentary Group on Kinship Care welcomes the £50 million extension to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund for 2025-26, announced by @janetdaby.bsky.social in response to an urgent question from APPG Vice Chair @munirawilson.bsky.social today. Read our statement:

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Israel killed 15 aid workers in Gaza, shot some in the head and chest, bound their hands, and buried them under sand in Rafah. This was a massacre. 📌 Read the full story:

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If you live in Wisconsin or in the 6th congressional district of Florida you’ll have a chance to do something the rest of us only dream about doing... [It's also an election day in many other parts of the country, too.] https://robertreich.substack.com/p/if-you-live-in-wisconsin-or-floridas

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Via the Home Office: "The Russian state – including its President - will be specified under the [new] Enhanced Tier of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme. "In the latest step to crackdown on the Kremlin, anyone working for the Russian state in the UK will have to declare their activities."

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“That was the normal briefing…If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off.’” “It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” said the other.

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