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As President Donald Trump’s tariffs set in, it may well be time to say goodbye to the under-$30,000 car.

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Donald Trump elected not to attend the dignified transfer of 4 fallen U.S. soldiers at Dover Air Force Base. The soldiers died in Lithuania during a training exercise. Trump was paid millions by the Saudis to attend the LIV Golf dinner in Florida — so he was otherwise occupied. The…

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"Rather than attend the dignified transfer of the bodies of four U.S. Army soldiers who died on a training mission in Lithuania, Trump flew to Florida to watch a Saudi-funded LIV golf tournament at his own course." www.thedailybeast.com/trump-picks-...

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France's President Macron calls to boycott the United States: “What would the message be of having big European players invest billions in the American economy at the same time they are hitting us. We must have collective solidarity.” #BoycottUSA

submitted 3 days ago • 118 comments

Les États-Unis interrompent la diffusion de Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty en Russie

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A reminder to reporters: Because Trump tariff numbers are made-up nonsense, using the phrase “reciprocal tariffs” is lying to your audience. The phrase itself is propaganda. They are not reciprocal.

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

BREAKING NEWS: ELECTIONS STILL MATTER!!! CUT THE NIHILISM AND GET TO WORK!!!!

submitted 5 days ago • 72 comments

MeidasTouch Network keeps growing! We are excited to launch Meidas Health, led by Dr. @vinguptamd.bsky.social, to keep you updated on health risks caused by the Trump regime. Our first episode is available now on the MeidasTouch Podcast.

submitted 7 days ago • 305 comments

Casar: They would have trouble voting to fire thousands of veterans. So instead, they are encouraging Elon Musk to violate the Constitution. Instead of firing veterans, my position is we should fire Elon Musk.

submitted 8 days ago • 63 comments

Fantastic Protest in Big Bend National Park in Texas today. Not far from Terlingua. Many Park Rangers out of work from cutbacks. Population in the region is less than 1 person per square mile!

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

A friend of Neri Alvarado, the young Venezuelan man with an autism awareness tattoo sent to El Salvador, shared this video from members of the swim club where he worked with neurodiverse children. More about Neri from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and I here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 61 comments

“If you weren't worried about a whole bunch of people not getting benefits or getting the wrong benefits, or getting the wrong entitlements, or having to wait ages, then sure go ahead,” one expert told WIRED.

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

Trump is now arresting Putin's opponents in the U.S. and sending them back to Russia so Putin can imprison or kill them.

submitted 10 days ago • 65 comments

NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD in any country to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR. This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!

submitted 10 days ago • 335 comments

Everyone should read this. time.com/7269604/el-s...

submitted 15 days ago • 44 comments

Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

submitted 16 days ago • 86 comments

Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted the database of all the research. Pure evil, right maga?

submitted 18 days ago • 999 comments

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

submitted 18 days ago • 620 comments

Trump's trade war will hit Trump voters hardest. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 18 days ago • 71 comments

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

submitted 19 days ago • 201 comments

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

submitted 21 days ago • 630 comments

This is blatant defiance of the court order. It was NOT too late. When the judge issued is order, two planes were in the air, and a third took off from Texas AFTER the order.

submitted 21 days ago • 865 comments

Le XV de France a remporté le 27e Tournoi des six nations de son histoire en dominant l'Ecosse 35 à 16 samedi au Stade de France

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

France has no quarrel with eliminating US troops if it has too. In January they declared that the EU would defend its borders and promised French troops in Greenland. This month France is practicing personnel landings on ice runways in Greenland. #3E #EndImpunity

submitted 22 days ago • 135 comments

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

submitted 26 days ago • 1105 comments

What. The. Actual. F. I guess Republicans in Congress are okay with this? “Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

submitted 22 days ago • 50 comments

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Absolutely fucking nobody: Texas:

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

The French protest their government by burning tires. The American decided to do it by burning down their economy.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

just taking tonight to really appreciate all these years of journalistic tut-tut-tutting about how over-the-top it was for anyone to focus on trump's affinity for russia and putin.

submitted 29 days ago • 985 comments

NEW: I helped Brian Krebs trace the background of one of Elon Musk's top loyalists, Branden Spikes, head of IT at X, who spent 2 mo at DOGE. Spikes and his ex-wife were involved with Russian diaspora websites and groups linked to pro-Kremlin KSORS players, Russian state media while he was at SpaceX.

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French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 32 days ago • 1727 comments

"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary. It can't get a distributor in the US. Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.

submitted 35 days ago • 248 comments

Crockett: When you're at war, you’re not worried about your outfit. If he was walking around in the fanciest suits, I'm sure that they would accuse him of taking our dollars and spending it on his wardrobe

submitted 35 days ago • 596 comments

One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy. “It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”

submitted 36 days ago • 1113 comments

Texas A&M is claiming it needs to ban drag shows from campus because they create a hostile environment for women on campus, and involve the mockery or objectification of women. It's one of the most laughable arguments I can imagine.

submitted 37 days ago • 32 comments

Rep. Jasmine Crockett is becoming the new "it girl" on Fox News meaning they will find any reason to talk about her. Some folks might say she's a superstar.

submitted 41 days ago • 28 comments

One unexpected outcome of recent events? More Americans realizing just how much the federal government impacts their daily lives—whether through financial systems, regulations, or public services. Awareness is growing, and with it, new conversations about the role of government in our lives.

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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

submitted 43 days ago • 306 comments

As America is being torn apart, weakened, and sold to the highest bidder, I think about all the folks who told me, "Well, it won't be THAT bad" and "We survived 4 years of Trump..." and "The systems will hold." All of them are privileged and well-off. Alas. We're all in it now.

submitted 43 days ago • 98 comments

Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 45 days ago • 1370 comments

The Department of Agriculture fired employees working on the avian flu outbreak because of DOGE. DOGE works directly for President Trump. So from now on, when this kind of thing happens, it should be reported as, "Trump fires employees working on avian flu."

submitted 47 days ago • 21 comments

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often the avoidance of loss. So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses not averted?

submitted 49 days ago • 69 comments

I fear they’re coming for ALL school vaccine mandates next. Including measles, mumps and rubella.

submitted 50 days ago • 2372 comments

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

submitted 51 days ago • 827 comments

At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.

submitted 51 days ago • 1654 comments

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