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The US had a trade surplus in services of $293 billion in 2024, with total exports of over $1 trillion. Trump has opened the door to tariffs on US services to address other countries’ “trade deficit”. Sorry, Hollywood, healthcare, insurance, financial services, travel… or 25% of the US economy.

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Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

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Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS

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As @joshtpm.bsky.social points out, tariffs on tariffs off tariffs on tariffs off allows people with insider knowledge to make an absolute killing in the markets.

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“God has a plan and purpose for your life,” Rep. Mark Alford tells constituents angry over federal job cuts. “We don’t want your God!” a woman screamed. “Our God is Christian!” yelled another. (The congressman is a former local Fox News anchor.) www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

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There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

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If you take Canadian oil out of the equation, Canada actually has a trade deficit, and the U.S. has a surplus — of $58 billion. We supply cheap oil to the USA to ensure North American energy independence, so North America can never again be held hostage by OPEC countries. #Canada #Trump #cdnpoli

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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Canada wins!!!

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Just in case Canadians needed any more reason to despise the poisonous orange puffer fish.

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Well, isn’t this just a bunch of lies? The White House moved to clarify Musk’s role within the DOGE after a court filing this morning stated that the tech billionaire is neither an employee nor an administrator of the commission and has “no actual or formal authority to make government decisions.”

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When will Kennedy announce he’s looking into the impact of micro plastics in the food chain (and human brains) on human health. And Round Up on cancer rates. There are a couple of nice low hanging fruit.

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Shades of the Spanish civil war in the US. An unholy gathering of the authoritarians (the royalists) the wealthy (land owners), the far right and the Church. When the generals joined them things got ugly fast.

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If we learned anything from Vance trying to educate Europe about totalitarianism it’s that the United States likes dictators and greed backed by force. Also it’s past time for democratic countries to band together for mutual defence.

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Any fact Donald Trump doesn’t like is fake news. Now he’s in charge of regulating American products. If he continues to suppress unfavourable data like the spread of avian flu, TB or listeria the rest of the world will blacklist untrustworthy American products.

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As Elon Musk continues to talk about subsidies, let’s remember that he is the LARGEST GOVT SUBSIDIES RECIPIENT in the country!

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Trump’s tax agenda outlined by the White House today will add at least $5 trillion to the debt, potentially much more. Per new analysis by nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. www.crfb.org/blogs/trump-...

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www.cbc.ca/arts/commoti... This is as offensive to Inuit as using the N word.

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"I was racist before it was cool" "I would not mind if Gaza and Israel were wiped off the face of the Earth" “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity" “Normalize Indian hate" -- Top Musk/DOGE aide; posts discovered by WSJ's @klong.bsky.social Gift link www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

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How will all of the fired, laid off and forced to resign government workers find work? They have food, housing and car payments. Thanks to Trump’s destabilization of the global trading networks this is not a time for most companies to expand. This is economic war on Trump’s domestic enemies.

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The real scam: making you fear the “the other” while the rich rob you blind. I wish every American understood this.

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With theTrump administration dismantling the CIA and FBI there is a much higher chance of a terrorist attack on US soil. A cynic might think the plan is to create the perfect opportunity to decimate civil liberties.

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I’m keeping an eye in the Centres for Disease Control’s reporting on disease outbreaks and the US government’s movement away from science and data. At what point does the rest of the world stop trusting US food products and stop buying them under health and safety provisions of trade agreements

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When your number one trading partner and close ally imposes a 25% tariff on all goods except for energy (10%) you commit to buying goods locally or from countries other than the United States

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