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Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

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A new study has examined 8 million speeches from 140 years of Congress, showing a massive decline in evidence-based language since the 1970s. www.iflscience.com/use-of-facts...

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To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if he is genuinely unaware of the fact that Russia doesn't fully control the "annexed regions". It's not Witkoff's fault, though, all his briefs are in Russian, and that is a hard language to master

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"The bond market is not like the Supreme Court, or Paul Weiss, or Columbia University, or any of the other institutions Trump has conquered, co-opted, or corrupted." "He cannot scare it into submission. He cannot bribe it." from @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-fina...

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

Uncertainty has increased more than ever, per FT:

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Apparently the Trump administration doesn't want to know anything about the weather anymore www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

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"At least five children and three adults with cholera died as they went in search of treatment in South Sudan after aid cuts by the Trump administration shuttered local health clinics" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

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Maybe if we can't track and study hurricanes anymore then they won't happen? www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

submitted 1 day ago • 128 comments

Ukraine commander in chief Syrskyi says Russia has begun a new offensive, this time in the north east of Ukraine. here are key points: 0/

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Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

submitted 1 day ago • 305 comments

This is what its like to work in the Trump administration now. When a career official objected to declaring that living immigrants were dead on legal and ethical grounds, security guards went to his office and told him to leave. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

Trump is waging war against professionals, intellectuals, scientists, education, writes Franklin Foer. We've seen this movie before - in Mao's China www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 12 hours ago • 68 comments

Russians celebrate Palm Sunday by bombing Sumy www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

submitted 12 hours ago • 69 comments

104% tariffs on Chinese goods go into effect tomorrow. Let's see how Fox News is covering the story.

submitted 5 days ago • 413 comments

Sergei Beseda, said to have provided Putin with the (flawed) intelligence that persuaded him to invade Ukraine, is now one of the chief negotiators with the US. from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/russia...

submitted 7 hours ago • 30 comments

Every week I write a Sunday night column about The Week Ahead. This week, it’s about taking back “woke.” open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 1 hour ago • 68 comments

As I feared. They're invoking state secrets privilege over the deal with Bukele.

submitted 1 hour ago • 56 comments

BREAKING: Days before she was detained by ICE, the State Department had determined Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk did NOT engage in antisemitic or terrorist activities. Rubio revoked her visa anyhow. Gift article: wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

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In retrospect, it continues to seem like a really bad decision by the New York Times to push out Paul Krugman, their longtime columnist who won his Nobel Prize in the economics of trade and geography right before we have 4 years where trade policy is the #1 crisis in the country.

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

The Case Zablocki Act literally requires the text of any agreements the executive branch enters into with foreign states to be PUBLISHED ON THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE WEBSITE within 120 days of going into effect (thanks, @bcfinucane.bsky.social for the reference!) www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

submitted 1 hour ago • 24 comments

A scene from the finely tuned, well-oiled machine that is setting global economic policy today www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

This is the most articulate, eloquent, moving, and inspiring thing President Donald J. Trump has ever said.

submitted 1 hour ago • 80 comments

If you haven't used this, or seen it, here is a great tool to contact national-local leaders...Congress is on break over the next two weeks which is a great time to reach out. Be they Dems, Independents, or magas...They need to hear from us...and we need to organize... www.5calls.org @5calls.org

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www.politico.com/news/2025/04... 1) The trump administration on Sunday insisted that it has no legal obligation to arrange for the return of a Maryland man illegally deported from the US, arguing that a Supreme Court ruling last week only requires officials to admit him into the

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election. 70% of these donations went to Republicans. Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts for the rich. This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 5 hours ago • 137 comments

This is our current reality, and this may be the saddest post I have seen in a long time. #bluecrew #strongertogether #resist

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submitted 13 hours ago • 53 comments

Trump is forcing Americans who are seeking their earned benefits to sign up for Elon Musk's app. Pure corruption.

submitted 2 days ago • 491 comments

“This is yet another example of a DOGE ‘report’ misunderstanding this data at best, blatantly mischaracterizing this data at worst.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 271 comments

My latest at @msnbc.com: "Every member of Congress, like the nation as a whole, faces a binary choice: It’s Trump or the Constitution. We can have one or the other but not both."

submitted 8 hours ago • 103 comments

NEW: DOJ doubles down on refusing to follow Judge Xinis's orders. Today's status report contains nothing new. It again fails to provide information about steps they're taking to bring Mr. Abrego back), and arguably violates her command that a declaration be made by someone with personal knowledge.

submitted 4 hours ago • 196 comments

Asking for, um, a country?

submitted 9 hours ago • 154 comments

You can see our court filing here: link.status.news/4j1VOvW

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Trump’s mental decline is obvious every time he speaks. Just read the actual quotes in today’s column. Incoherent babble. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

He's manufacturing chaos because he has nothing to offer. No vision. No ideas. No interest in building anything. Just tearing down what others have built.

submitted 4 hours ago • 550 comments

The attempt to burn down the Pennsylvania Governor's mansion is pretty clearly an assassination attempt, and it's likely an antisemitic hate crime. It should be referred to that way by political media.

submitted 5 hours ago • 108 comments

Trump’s tariffs are hitting farmers hard — in ways you might not expect. This honey farmer voted for Trump 3X — now costs are through the roof, hiring’s frozen, and he’s lost $150K in government contracts. Asked if he regrets his 2024 vote? “Perhaps I should’ve considered other options.” NO SHIT!

submitted 8 hours ago • 673 comments

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

submitted 3 hours ago • 198 comments

This is disgusting. Someone set fire to Shapiro’s home while he and his family were sleeping. I hope this person is caught quickly and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.

submitted 9 hours ago • 197 comments

This is basically conceding that the executive branch is sentencing random people to death with no due process or ability to reverse an error

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments