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WIRED spoke to over a dozen US business owners, including mom-and-pop shops, who all said the same thing: Chinese manufacturing is still the gold standard of the world and moving production to a new region would be extremely difficult, regardless of how high tariffs are.

Since the Trump admin continues to claim Mr. Abrego Garcia is a gang member, I thought I'd take the time to put together a timeline, based on all the documents filed in court, which lays out all the "evidence" the government has ever offered. As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there!

Anyone who says that Rubio is spineless or a puppet is exonerating his acts of evil, which he needs to own.

Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)? A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)

Everyone laughed for a reason when Romney said Russia was the biggest geopolitical threat facing America. Russia remains weak; Ukraine could have easily won this war had Biden given them the weapons they requested from the start. This narrative that Russia is so powerful gives it too much credit

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

“once the money runs out, these children will lose the supplemental oxygen, fortified foods, and 24/7 medical supervision they need. Many, she said, will die in two to six hours.”

Here's @hana-kiros.bsky.social on what dismantling USAID means. Mostly it means dead children. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

We really need to hear from top-level civil servants who have resigned or been fired. People like David Lebryk, who have very arcane jobs, need to tell the public what their jobs entail and how serious this is. The press keeps saying we don’t know the implications, we need to know

California taxpayers pay over $600 billion to the federal government, making it the biggest donor state. And yet this www.politico.com/news/2024/10...

Michael Bierut has always been an inspiration to me. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-sto...

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social you need to have coffeezilla on to discuss the Trump meme coin grift!

I'm sorry but the Dems are ridiculously bad at their Hegspeth questions. IMO, if you want to prove someone is incompetent, you ask them the hardest strategic questions they will have to know to succeed at the job