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Bessent says the tariff pause gives markets "more certainty." But investors warn the volatility could lead to lasting damage "US exceptionalism went out of the window a long time ago," says @jnordvig. "Now it is a question of if people fear US assets." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...

submitted 12 hours ago • 13 comments

Trump is abusing his power to punish truth-tellers like Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor—issuing executive orders calling for DOJ investigations against them. This is authoritarian retribution, plain & simple. I warned this would happen & that he would falsely claim “treason.” This is deranged.

submitted 8 hours ago • 53 comments

What the hell has Donald Trump been up to? Yet more corruption, no doubt. Senator Adam Schiff is demanding a congressional investigation into the distinct possibility that Trump engaged in insider trading or market manipulation when he abruptly paused his sweeping tariffs — a move that sent…

submitted 5 hours ago • 96 comments

Now for the begging, and the bribes, to get favors from the personalist regime

submitted 4 hours ago • 45 comments

Treasury Secretary says that he and the President have been lying to the voters, markets, and trading partners since Sunday. Credibility is a scarce and valuable asset, and I worry that a Treasury without credibility will be much less effective when a true crisis hits. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 hours ago • 64 comments

GASPARINO: “I wish I could tell you Trump outsmarted the world, but that’s not what happened here… Japan, China, others were mass dumping our bonds — which means people were losing confidence in the 🇺🇸 economy.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 40 comments

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.: “Chaos is its own form of tariff. Who invests in a nation that can't have a set of dependable laws that people can count on?”

submitted 11 hours ago • 46 comments

If THIS isnt market manipulation, then Im Theodore Roosevelt! The WH declared this was 'fake news' when it was leaked last week. Then theres the social media post 'this is a great time to get rich' uttered by the worlds largest crook. Then you have the insider sell off b4 the tariffs were declared

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

This isn't The Art of the Deal. It's insider trading with a bad comb-over. Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’ Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.

submitted 10 hours ago • 610 comments

I'm seeing grown-ass adults marvel at how high stocks jumped today - they must think their mom actually vanished when she played "peek-a-boo."

submitted 10 hours ago • 230 comments

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to kill a $500 million grant from the Biden admin that would boost steel manufacturing in America’s rust belt, including in JD Vance’s hometown of Middletown, Ohio. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 12 hours ago • 31 comments

We found the government “waste, fraud, and abuse”.

submitted 14 hours ago • 702 comments

Prediction: the bailouts for some of the biggest companies in the U.S. are on their way. There will be no “bailouts” for Americans. Republicans prioritize their donors, and couldn’t care less about their constituents.

submitted 14 hours ago • 16 comments

It's outrageous that they gave Trump the powers trusted to them in the Constitution, even if just on an "emergency wink-wink basis" It's unconscionable that they're now proposing a way to block themselves from taking their rightful powers back.

submitted 13 hours ago • 73 comments

The gadgets we buy and regularly update are about to get more expensive. It's time to keep the stuff you already have running longer.

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

A group of journal editors from 12 countries warns that Trump policies threaten scientific progress through censorship, funding cuts, and political interference. They call on journals, research societies, and scientists to actively resist these measures. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“A trillion comments have been wasted accusing the wrong people of Trump derangement syndrome. The real TDS afflicts those who keep seeing a rational actor, or an economic chess game, where none exists.” Me on Trump’s wrecking ball. www.ft.com/content/9f51...

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

The Social Security system is crashing, locking senior citizens out for long stretches nearly every day. And Trump's solution is to lay off 1000 more workers and slash the IT budget by 50%. Start asking if the purpose is to crash our economy and society. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 171 comments

Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.

submitted 1 day ago • 100 comments

So the SSA, (@altssa.altgov.info) would know better. But I KNOW, for sure, that IRS is rejecting taxpayers returns because SSA has reported to IRS that the taxpayers are dead. The dead people are calling IRS asking why. Doge-bags strike again.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

Here's the webpage put up by the office of Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes for people to notify her office if they're havig problems dealing with Social Security. Every state AG's office could do this. Might help. www.azag.gov/socialsecurity

submitted 1 day ago • 298 comments

McGovern: The president promised lower prices and a booming economy and we are going to get higher prices and a recession. Trump isn't using tariffs strategically but launching an economic war and we are all in the blast zone. This is a disaster

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

Hard to overstate how lawless and also just fundamentally untrustworthy this country is, any promise we ever made anyone about anything turns out to have been fake www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 126 comments

Keep an eye on North Carolina. The GOP effort to overturn the state supreme court race is a blueprint for Republicans nationwide, @ariberman.bsky.social reports www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

You’d think that Chinese troops fighting on European soil in 2025 would be a big deal. You would think that, wouldn’t you?

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This is almost exactly the annual budget of USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

The Trump administration is comfortable disappearing people to foreign gulags partially because the Trumpis Justices on the Roberts Court have enabled him at every turn, rewriting the Constitution when necessary to accommodate Trump's lawlessness www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

Veterans getting fired, social security is at risk, and Elon is telling you what you don’t need in govt, all while he just got a $6billion space x contract today! He makes money on you!

submitted 1 day ago • 386 comments

The sort of thing Russia, China and North Korea do. Say NO to this America.👇 thehill.com/policy/defen...

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

YARDENI: “This is perhaps the first manufactured US bear market in at least 100 yrs, in the sense that it was created by President Trump, in his obsession w/ tariffs, rather than caused by anything to do with the business cycle, overleverage, or financial contagions.” @yardeniresearch.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Understand that when they talk about Americans working in textile factories and assembling iPhones, they are not envisioning their own children in those jobs. They are envisioning a class of people over which they and their children will have more power, with less irksome pushback.

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

This is corrupt. This is the “swamp.” This is wrong, and this should be illegal. I said this when I was in Congress, and I’ve said it ever since - it should be illegal for Members of Congress to buy & sell stocks & bonds.👇

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

SCOTUS has ruled the Trump administration can deport immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act The Good-Immigrants are allowed judicial review The Bad-They can be deported immediately The Ugly-For years conservatives argued SCOTUS has no “shadow docket”. Justice Jackson brutally exposed this lie

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

The @pbsnews.org interviewed three economists about Trump's tariffs. Ha-Joon Chang, Willy Shih and @justinwolfers.bsky.social They all shared the same opinion about his policies - it takes a long time to build up factories. Companies also hate chaos. Trump is chaos.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

CNBC's @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social makes a rare and bold (and likely spot-on) observation about the real potential that Trump, his administration and/or elected officials participated in insider trading just prior to Trump's disastrous "Liberation Day" tariffs announcement. #CORRUPTION

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

“A.I.’s first multi trillion-dollar hallucination.” - TS Lombard

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

I guess they need more time to decide if you can deport innocent people with no due process then refuse to return them after you admit you messed up.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is important - GOP members of Congress own this crash as much as Trump. House and Senate seats will be up for election in 2026. We cannot let any of those enablers get a free pass because we are focused on Trump. Every Republican is to blame.

submitted 2 days ago • 124 comments

Ah yes the "dismantle the deep state" crowd wants to hand over all of your IRS data to a surveillance machine created by right-wing billionaires Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, with clients like the FBI, NSA, and CIA. www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Books on the Holocaust, civil rights, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' were among those removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library after Defense Secretary Hegseth ordered the school to get rid of ones that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

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submitted 3 days ago • 483 comments

7 months ago. Bring back Bidenomics.

submitted 3 days ago • 306 comments

First they came for “woke” and “DEI,” but the executives valued yelling slurs at work more than their economic future. So they teamed up with Trump to crush those who could have stopped him. Now there is no one left to stop him from destroying the economy.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

submitted 3 days ago • 1078 comments

1/ Just as a reminder, we WERE onshoring a bunch of manufacturing jobs, thanks to the CHIPS and IRA acts. Those jobs were spread around the country, many/most in red districts. Trump trying to kill them all. www.jackconness.com/ira-chips-in...

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments