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I get a lot of economic research and I really can't find any defense of Trump on trade. Some are just cautious against the hope things get dialed back, one report this a.m. was like hey, this is just how Trump rolls. But no credible support for tariffs this extreme.

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Young men don't open bank accounts. They are too expensive. They download coin base or Robinhood app and buy crypto. That's their savings If one party pushes that number higher. They vote for em. Gensler/Biden caused those savings to go down. The demo with the biggest change was young men

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Trump appointed Alina Habba to serve as interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey — making her the latest of his personal lawyers to gain a government position.

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“Sometimes I’ll post a news tip, and I’ll get a bunch of replies asking for the source. I have to be like, ‘I am the source. Me! I am the reporter.’ Some people don’t think news is real unless it’s attached to a New York Times or a Washington Post link.”

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WOW — @ronanfarrow.bsky.social covers the twisted Sean Williams case, where JOHNSON CITY, TN police allegedly looked away as a local businessman/alleged serial rapist (of women & children) ran wild. We’ve said this should be a bigger story. In @newyorker.com : www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Jeffrey Goldberg ending up in that group chat:

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American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AmsjsuT6

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This is the message federal employees receive after trying to send in their mandatory “5 bullets” email about what they did this week:

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I'm no lawyer, but it seems like discussing war plans in Signal outside a SCIF is maybe just a little bit worse than using a private server to send emails that weren't even marked as classified. But what do I know.

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FunFact: if the salts, heavy metals, & radioactive components in fracking wastewater get into drinking water supplies... Most US water treatment plants can not filter them out.

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I wrote about Lee Zeldin's assault on environmental regulation, with special emphasis on the endangerment finding. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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🙊New from me in the Atlantic: the U.S. government now runs on Twitter Files logic When Elon Musk bought Twitter, he pushed the Twitter Files—decontextualized emails that spun routine moderation decisions as censorship. They fed the audience a simple but misleading story: the govt was silencing them

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The Independent is today reporting on the battery breakthrough at China’s BYD which could bury Tesla.

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Are there any Dems in Utah who can stand up for the good folks in Ogden ? Their town could soon face their own Great Recession

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The Environmental Protection Agency will now only protect the bottom lines of polluting corporations.

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Proudly stumbled upon my local #TeslaTakedown protest. Not pictured is the crowd on the other side of the street. Not too shabby for little old West Chester, PA Saturday, March 22 ~2pm #FuckMusk #FuckTrump #WEthepeople ✊

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If you want to know what kind of Governor @MarshaBlackburn would be, check out her constituent services as Senator…

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The most effective way to protect the American system of checks and balances starts with courage from more people who believe in it, the editorial board writes.

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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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Musk/Trump comes for America's libraries.

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The FBI's biggest and most important field office has been reprioritised to a single task: redacting the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to Vanity Fair. Someone…maybe several someones…in the American government is very scared.

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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

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A very, very rich man working for Trump says everyday folks will be cool with disrupted social security benefits.

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🚨 The Trump Administration’s plan to gut the EPA’s Office of Research and Development and cut up to 75% of its workers is an attack on science, public health, and environmental protection.

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We are entering a dangerous phase of the H5N1 outbreak. With spring migration underway, the virus will spread faster, threatening wildlife, livestock, and humans. Migratory birds will carry the D1.1 (D701N) variant worldwide, raising the risk of mammal outbreaks.

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BREAKING: This is the crowd to see AOC in Greeley, Colorado where GOP Congressman Gabe Evans refuses to hold a town hall.

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Musk really doesn’t like people knowing he’s gradually seizing control of the US.

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Sequence (as I see it): Govt: DOGE is a federal advisory committee. Q: Does it comply with FACA? Govt: Oopsie. Musk is a presidential advisor. DOGE is 🤷‍♀️. But definitely not an agency. Q: If DOGE is not an agency, it cannot detail its employees to agencies. Govt: Oopsie. Detailees are not from DOGE.

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Nebraskans voted for Trump over Harris 59.32% to 38.86%. Here’s what that got them.

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www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Huh

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chef’s kiss 💋 perfection

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Great question! Too early to tell. But in 2 yrs we will be hearing more

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The UK’s Defence Minister warns Putin they won’t shy away from using nukes. Which is exactly the language bullies need to hear. Like Trump, Putin always backs down.

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House and Senate republicans are actually calling out the Trump administration for their plans to withdraw from NATO's Supreme Allied Command Europe - the primary command that oversees support for Ukraine, and the first step in abandoning NATO allies.

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Reup: I've been trying to track the things Trump has taken away. This is VERY much a work in progress, imperfectly presented. But please let me know what is missing (or better yet, steal my work)! www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/18/w...

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“France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.” He had been traveling to a conference near Houston, TX. 3/19/25

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WYOMING: Rep. Hageman (who took Cheney’s seat) is the latest Republican to get the town hall BOO BIRD treatment 👇🏽👀— as she tries to gaslight voters into believing social security isn’t under attack They were not buying it

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I spoke with Sarah Cooley, the director of NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program, who was fired under the DOGE layoffs, about all she hoped to accomplish before the wreckage of NOAA defector.com/an-interview...

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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

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BREAKING: Trump fired Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter, the two Democrats serving as commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission

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SPOTTED: Pro-Glyphosate (Round-Up) Billboards are sprouting up around Tennessee, as Rusty Grills and the GOP push a bill to protect Bayer and other giant pesticide corporations from lawsuits by sick farmers.🤔🧑‍🌾 (In ag committee this week)

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British cartoonist Becky Burke who spent 20 days in harsh conditions in a Tacoma detention centre for a trivial visa issue while crossing into America from Canada is finally on her way home. The US needs travel warnings now.

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“Trump is a flimflam man who will promise anything to anybody and count on the suckers forgetting tomorrow what he said yesterday,” @davidfrum.bsky.social writes. “His Cabinet officers, however, are gradually revealing the true cost of the Eat Less scam”:

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NY Fed with some bad news: March “business activity declined significantly” in region, “input price increases picked up to the fastest pace in nearly two years, and firms turned pessimistic about the outlook for future business activity for the first time since 2023.”

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#econsky. Add it to your feed

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In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon’s cloud.

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