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Trump's EPA just moved to reverse state and local bans on toxic "forever chemicals" that can lead to birth defects and cancer. So much for "Make America Healthy Again." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/05/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals

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A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

submitted 11 hours ago • 186 comments

Americans used to call the Canadian dollar the "northern peso." At the rate it's falling now, Canadians will soon be calling the U.S. dollar the "southern ruble."

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Finally. Universities with backbone. Thank you, Harvard and Princeton. Well done! Courtesy of Amy Siskind

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Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

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None of this would be happening if Morehouse and Spelman graduates were running things.

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The dream is dead

submitted 12 hours ago • 1798 comments

Any questions? www.rawstory.com/book-censors...

submitted 13 hours ago • 883 comments

NYT page one: @nytimes.com

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Murphy: When you see the 10-year bond exploding… when you see markets moving like a sine curve—that’s the opposite of stability. A strong dollar is in our national interest. What we’re seeing now is the opposite of that.

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I used to select Dem primary candidates based on policy. Now I will aggressively try to destroy any Dem who says "we need to look forward not backward" and fervently support anyone who says "I will see these motherfuckers prosecuted and jailed if it's the last thing I do."

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This

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WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?

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Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

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Dems in Congress, universities, Big Law, corporations who keep trying appeasement hoping it will work: you fuckers had better think about how that will work out for you in the post-Tr*mp era, bc we will not forget who capitulated and who held the line.

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Yesterday, Republicans passed a so-called “budget” resolution that would gut Medicaid, SNAP, veterans’ benefits, and free school lunches. Let me break down what that means for my people in TX-30: 🧵 (1/4)

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Are you kidding me?! Think twice before you take that cruise. I worked the COVID cruise evacuations—they scarred me for life. And now? They’ve gutted the CDC unit that inspects cruise ships for norovirus, E. coli & other outbreaks. This is how preventable disasters happen. Again.

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If you want to win a trade war, you gotta have something to trade that other side wants. And we're in a trade war with the very people who make all the things WE want. You're not going to win that.

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Mahmoud Khalil expressed his political point of view peacefully. That’s supposed to be permitted in a democracy. If this egregious assault on civil liberties stands, what’s to stop Trump from arresting American citizens who support any cause his regime doesn’t like?

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

The President of the United States engaged in insider trading, and laughed about it. He is not exempt from the law. Where the fuck is Congress?

submitted 1 day ago • 2646 comments

This already the worst Presidency in US history by light years and it’s been 2 1/2 months.

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This era of mass grift—driven by one of the most corrupt administrations in American history—isn’t just a crisis. It’s a massive opportunity for the Democratic Party to lead an unapologetic, system-wide anti-corruption campaign.

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“Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said recent market trends show investors are moving away from the U.S. as the safest place to invest. Treasury yields are rising while the U.S. dollar has sagged against its global counterparts.” www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/f...

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In case you're wondering... it's been 17 days since a reporter was added to a Signal group chat where our government officials were sharing war plans. And nobody has been fired... Don't stop talking about SignalGate

submitted 2 days ago • 315 comments

There is a special place in HELL for the people who are willing to argue to the Supreme Court that the man they MISTAKENLY sent to an El Salvador prison should stay there.

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Peter Navarro is begging CNN for "kudos." For what? Needlessly tanking the economy with ridiculous tariffs? Flip flopping on those tariffs? Pumping the market and insider trading before yet another stock market selloff? This guy is a joke.

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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

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I understand the Germans developed a very efficient system using cattle cars. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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If the US is going to start sending US citizens to prison in El Salvador then the first person who should be shipped there is the guy convicted of 34 felonies for cheating in the 2016 presidential election.

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Tariffs? Out of control. Prices? Skyrocketing. Emergency powers? He’s abusing them. And yet… not a single question about whether he’s even fit to serve. The math ain’t mathing.

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Not one reporter asked about the Executive Orders targeting Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor during today’s Cabinet press conference. Not one. A president using DOJ to punish those who spoke out? That’s banana republic territory. I waited. The question never came. Why? Has the fear already taken hold?

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No noted dissents… maybe there’s a line too far this Roberts Court? I’m still not convinced, but they got one right.

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I am but a humble cable news host with a bachelor’s in philosophy, but I feel like at some point the bond market is also going to notice that the GOP is going to pass a deficit financed 5 trillion dollar tax cut. Maybe?

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Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

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Honestly, I don't even know what to say. This is literally perfect.

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It’s not a coincidence that the same Americans who want to restore what’s history do not want Americans to learn about what’s history.

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Perspective changes everything. [Ars Mathermatica]

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Members of Congress must serve their constituents, not their own financial interests. We need a stock trading ban on Congress, and I cosponsored legislation to do it.

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why is every newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been. What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.

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German businesses heard a similar pitch in 1940. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Because this country will let old, racist, white folks get away with anything.

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It has been 18 days since we learned that those involved in Signalgate recklessly endangered the lives of American pilots. The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is an abomination. This should outrage every single Member of Congress.

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So many people need to go to jail.

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