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Let's be clear that this thing Trump just said about having no trade deficits with any country would be far more radical, more disruptive, and more expensive, than every single leftist dream you have ever heard put together, including Medicare for All, Guaranteed Housing, and Universal Basic Income.

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Unreal: the story of an Australian MMA coach sent to a harrowing detention prison upon arriving in the US with a visa to lead a seminar. In case you had any doubt if it’s worth the risk of trying to enter the US unless absolutely necessary. www.instagram.com/p/DIEA_nBpCC...

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If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

submitted 2 days ago • 335 comments

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen

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•••••••BREAKING.••••••• The measles outbreak in western Texas has hit 481 cases, with 59 new infections confirmed in just the last 3 days. In Texas alone, at least 56 measles patients — mostly children — have been hospitalized thus far. Based upon the steady, often rapid increase in the number..

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It took under 100 days for "I'll lower prices on day one" to become "who needs money or a 401k when your heart is full of love for Dear Leader Trump"

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People said I was crazy to invest all my money in Star Wars figures, Transformers and Lego sets. Who's laughing now!

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It appears this is the fourth worst back to back day for the DJIA in American history with a two day combined -8.65% loss, only trailing the 1929 crash, 1987 Black Monday, and the 2008 crisis.

submitted 2 days ago • 144 comments

yeah the thing about "these tarriffs can't possibly stand as-is" is that [points frantically at brexit]

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The burning of Alexandria

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Hey global companies: want to do business and avoid tariffs when dealing with the world? Canada is a great country to do business in, has a government that believes in science, and has a highly educated and diverse workforce. 🇨🇦🇨🇦

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Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

submitted 3 days ago • 1190 comments

Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯! "You journalists need to get your balls back"

submitted 4 days ago • 690 comments

every american media outlet that spent the past decade legitimizing the trump administration and downplaying its dangers as leftist paranoia:

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 3 days ago • 1042 comments

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

submitted 4 days ago • 159 comments

Name yr least favorite House GOPer from an under R-10 district and they voted to make it harder for the House to stop Trump's tariff Heaven's Gate. It was in the CR! Impeachment Mike Lawler. Every member of the NY delegation. All the ones in CA. and under R-10 includes a lot. They all voted for it.

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A reminder to reporters: Because Trump tariff numbers are made-up nonsense, using the phrase “reciprocal tariffs” is lying to your audience. The phrase itself is propaganda. They are not reciprocal.

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If people hate Elon now what will they do when they find out he made it more likely they’ll die of cancer and never get their social security checks?

submitted 5 days ago • 86 comments

I get that this sounds plausible to lots of people but it is not congruent with the evidence! Genetic data indicates the virus didn’t come directly from bats. The Wuhan lab ONLY studied bat viruses.

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a NEW peptide antibiotic that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria INCLUDING those RESISTANT to existing antibiotics. This discovery marks the first potential new class of antibiotics in NEARLY 30 YEARS. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 6 days ago • 234 comments

The video game Dr. Mario 64 predicted this

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Danielle Smith is on the Quisling 2025 tour with Ben Shapiro. He calls us a "silly little country that can be annexed like Puerto Rico." He says Canadians would welcome Trump like a "liberator." She is doing a fantastic job of sinking Poilievre's campaign. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/27/n...

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jesus christ they want her dead

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 10 days ago • 291 comments

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

submitted 12 days ago • 1145 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory and UConn Health have successfully discovered a molecular switch that can actually SHUT DOWN cancer growth signals and STOP tumor growth at the RNA LEVEL. The discovery could pave the way for a groundbreaking RNA-based multi-cancer treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️

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I wonder if any Canadian CPC MPs or conservative Premiers have Signal chats with the US administration? 🤔

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Quisling (noun): a traitor who collaborates with an enemy force.

submitted 14 days ago • 317 comments

If you're sitting on a lot of Tesla stock, I hope you're thinking about the fact that Tesla's hot new product converted 2% of reservations and had 8 recalls in its first year, and the big marketing idea to turn it all around is claiming organized terror groups are targeting the people who drive them

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The full statement from the family of R.E. Burke clarifies that there were no grounds whatsoever for the British cartoonist to be detained by ICE for almost 3 weeks – she held a valid ESTA, had broken no rules or laws in the US, and was ready & able to return home. downthetubes.net/comic-creato...

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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

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WTF

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Canada should demand a refund for the F35s we've already paid for.

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this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news

submitted 17 days ago • 413 comments

Failed state speed run

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How firm is the hold of antivax beliefs? From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles: “Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…

submitted 18 days ago • 877 comments

powerful detailed account of ICE captivity "To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Want a new recipe for disaster? Health Secretary RFK Jr thinks bird flu should be allowed to spread so “the birds which are immune can be identified”. Experts are understandably horrified.

submitted 18 days ago • 347 comments

The secretary of transportation went on Fox & Friends this morning and trashed air travel, portraying the current air traffic control system as a disaster, and then claimed taking public transit is "dangerous." I miss the DEI days when it was safe to travel.

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