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Published street photographer & storyteller. Help run a historic concert and cultural venue. Joyful cat owner šŸˆā€ā¬› Live with amazing son! Blissfully mindful when drinking my morning coffeeā€”then itā€™s all downhill from there. Weā€™ll be ok! danielstainer.com
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Trump would rather decimate America than let the Chinese beat him at the tariff game. This is what makes him so dangerous.

Whoaā€¦this šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„ Trump called out for ā€œMarket manipulationā€ by @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social

one of the most horrifying things to accept about This Era is there is no functional federal law enforcement agency or prosecutors who will investigate anyone even slightly aligned with the administration. was there market manipulation? insider trading? could well be! we will literally never know!

Donā€™t celebrate yet. Weā€™re still in a war with our largest trading partner and the second largest economy in the worldā€”and the bond market has been substantially weakened. From Home Depot to Walmartā€”the hit on consumers will be intense in a month or two and China is standing firm.

The Fed didnā€™t come to his rescue. China didnā€™t cave. Now heā€™s begging Congress to bail him out.

And no one in America doubts why he's doing this.

Letā€™s break this down: in summary- heā€™s shat his pants because US treasury bonds were being sold off like lemonade in a desert. Heā€™s fucked up big time. And any other spin is bullshit.

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

This isn't The Art of the Deal. It's insider trading with a bad comb-over. Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast Step 3: Flip, but say ā€˜Winningā€™ Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.

. This picture was posted on Facebook by the Chinese Embassy in the USA on April 6, 2025 . . . ... subject: #Penguins #Tariffs šŸ’  šŸ§ šŸ’ 

This should be obvious!

In theory this nightmare could end today:

Seems like this shouldā€™ve been a bigger deal. šŸ¤·šŸ¼ā€ā™‚ļø www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This may be the most beautiful sign I have seen at one of these (even though the subject matter is so ugly). The artist who painted it said she started it feeling angry and it was therapeutic. Especially love the bling. #HandsOffLA

ā€œThat really is his understanding of what a deal is: getting something over on the other guy. And thatā€™s what we see here. To the extent thereā€™s any plan itā€™s basically a power play; Trump is pulling on the economic powers of the world to bum rush them into a newly subservient global trading regimeā€

Oh.

Emergency video: congrats MAGA. You own the economy now. Letā€™s see what happens

Rep. Jasmine Crockett has words for Pam Bondi:

Goobie is wondering why he just got hit with a 35% Tariff.

Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘

Thank you Cory!

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like ā€œwe need more ambition right now.ā€ there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. heā€™s doing it!

Senator Booker: What kind of man is in the white house that makes fun of the disabled, who lies so much that the fact checkers lose count, that minimizes the pain and the suffering

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. Itā€™s important, itā€™s urgentā€”and it needs to be shared far and wide.

Can someone please explain to me why a scone in the UK is a hot, moist, buttery cube of delight, while a scone in the US is what happens when a biscuit makes love to a dust bunny?

Trumpā€™s order is the culmination of years of attacks on absentee ballots and vote by mail. In the months before the 2020 election, Trump repeatedly spread disinformation and conspiracy theories about the legitimacy of mail-in ballots as he campaigned for reelection.

ā€˜Outrageousā€™: Watch this congressman shred Trump team for war plans leak https://twp.ai/1VMCdC