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Chinese activity near Senkakus "escalating": Japan top diplomat The amount of activity by Chinese vessels near the Senkaku Islands is "clearly escalating," Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Monday. english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/03...

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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 15 hours ago • 755 comments

Lock him up?

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🇬🇱 🇬🇱

submitted 1 day ago • 771 comments

Big, if true.

submitted 17 hours ago • 65 comments

I feel confident in predicting history will judge this decade or so as the absolutely stupidest time in American history. Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.

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I’ve been thinking about this a lot

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Providing Musk with access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets would bring into sharp relief questions about his conflicts of interest.

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Found some fraud and abuse… www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...

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📌What was left of a conscience, and any sense of decency in the Republican Party, died forever with John McCain ...

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If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin.

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As all these audits are ending, Trump is now free to release his own tax returns, right?

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WOW! AOC and Bernie Sanders just held the Biggest political event in Denver since Obama 2008.

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“SpaceX is positioning itself to see billions of dollars in new federal contracts or other support.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...

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GOLDMAN: “.. foreign ownership of US equities stands at an all-time high. Foreign investors owned just 2% of US equities in 1960 and 7% in 2000 but 18% of US equities at the start of 2025. “.. 49% of foreign holdings are from investors in Europe.”

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ICYMI — the DOJ is investigating a “leak” that Trump was going to share secrets about China with Musk… that they also claim was “false” 🤔

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From The Wall Street Journal article, “Investors Who Were All In on U.S. Stocks Are Starting to Look Elsewhere.” #markets #economy #stocks #investing #investors @wsj.com

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I knew it!

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“I don’t regard Putin as a bad guy.” It may not make sense to you why Trump’s envoy would say such a thing. But it makes sense when you understand & accept the horrible truth that Trump is not on the side of Ukraine & the free world. Trump is on Putin’s side. Trump is negotiating on behalf of Putin.

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But the really important question is: are people who approve of this being made to feel uncomfortable saying so?

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So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.

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They’re not even hiding it: By cutting phone lines and closing offices, Republican billionaires are setting up Social Security for failure. And when your check doesn’t show up, there will be no one to call. This is their plan to end Social Security.

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They don’t get it. None of the nominally powerful institutions in this country get it.

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This is the message for Democrats. Why isn’t everyone of them saying this ten times a day? Flood the zone.

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Iconic Golden Girls actress Bea Arthur, who served in the Marine Corps, has had her contribution scrubbed from Department of Defence website

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One of my best friends puts these signs in front of her house. We need to be brave

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🚨 Big SCOOP 🚨 Tax revenue could fall by as much as 10% this year, per sources, as taxpayers and businesses see the Trump admin as less likely to challenge tax cheats. That'd be $500 BILLION in lost revenue. It'd nearly double the tax gap in a single year.

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Love this fairy tree a family in my neighborhood assembled

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Rain gardens not only prevent flooding, they can be really pretty

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Soft versus hard data: Please remember that if signals from soft data end up in hard data, it normally has a lag of three to six months. In other words, it’s too early to draw comfort from the fact that the recent deterioration in consumer and corporate sentiment is not reflected in the hard data.

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Why visit the Grand Canyon when your tattoo might catch an ICE officer’s eye and cause you to be renditioned to a Salvadoran prison for an indefinite amount of time?

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Trump can weaken NATO without a U.S. exit, per Newsweek. Skipping drills, halting anti-Russian efforts, and eyeing troop cuts could gut collective security. Europe fears betrayal, even if the U.S. stays in name. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

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NONE of this is normal

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@warnock.senate.gov: "If they're interested in waste, fraud, and abuse, they should start with co-president Musk's own companies, and ask why has he gotten $20 billion and more from the federal government. This is wealth-fare at its worst."

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WHY THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT NOT SENDING OUT SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS?!!!!

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The guy whose daddy bought his way into Wharton, the guy whose grades were so shitty he's never disclosed them – that guy just destroyed the Department of Education. This is what dystopia looks like. This is what Fascism looks like.

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“So far, the record of the White House’s negotiations with the Kremlin amounts to appeasement — and appeasements tend to lead to more wars. This time, the outcome could be a European conflagration.” thehill.com/opinion/whit...

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Welp, there goes the US defense industry.

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Stagflationary reading of the Philly Fed Index. Manufacturers see higher prices, and lower business activity.

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Percentage of borrowers at least 60 days late on their car payments is at the highest on record:

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Germany has just changed its constitution in order to secure itself as we watch the breakdown of the Atlantic Order. The speed and scope of what is happening in world politics should take your breadth away.

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