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Here he is today, deeply concerned about economic hardship caused by his tariff scheme.

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Ben Shapiro: “Probably unconstitutional… one of the biggest tax increases on 🇺🇸 consumers in history… predicated on a bad idea of how international trade works…” #TrumpTariffs #TrumpTradeWar

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Trump to big oil executives a year ago from Mar-a-Lago: "If you give me a billion dollars, I'll help you out."

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RAND PAUL: “.. When McKinley most famously put tariffs on in 1890, [the GOP] lost 50 percent of their seats in the next election. When [Smoot and Hawley] put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years.” @washingtonpost.com t.co/ONtPfv9On2

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Quite the spin

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Tonight, Democrats forced a vote on a simple amendment. To remove new tariffs that are increasing the cost of groceries, gas and housing. Republicans rejected it.

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cnbc front page just before 3pm on friday 4.4.25 the president himself is off to a golf event.

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Getting #measles doesn’t confer benefits on the immune system — in fact, it’s just the opposite. Even a mild case of measles destroys the memory cells that confer resistance to infections the patient has previously fought--called immune amnesia. www.latimes.com/science/stor...

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Katherine Clark: "What they are doing here is wrecking the infrastructure of Social Security so they can rob the benefit ... it is an outrageous ripoff of the American taxpayer that we are seeing from this administration."

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LMFAO…

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This is how you do it.

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THIS IS TERRIFYING‼️ Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines. He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted.

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The Trump Administration’s response to sending the wrong man to a prison in El Salvador can be summed up in three words: Lawless. Arrogant. Incompetent.

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Now This Is An Excellent Idea!

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Is this who we are? Never mind, don’t answer that. 🇺🇸 😕 www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/new...

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This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.

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“In 2012, in Arizona v United States, the highest court in the land ruled that “as a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain in the United States”. Got that? Not. A. Crime.” From my new Guardian op-ed:

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i have been joking that their plan is for your kids to grow up to work in a textile mill but they are serious

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Dow Down 2200+ Points Fox:

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Heaven forbid that this simple-minded buffoon would allow his crashing the United State's economy, or the return of the remains of four people killed in our military, to interfere with yet one more stupid golf game for this superficial scam-artist to cheat at.

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Why would ANYONE worship this? Sweaty McFatbody

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UK: Brexit is the biggest act of economic self harm any country will ever perform USA: Hold my beer...

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Nancy Mace declines a certified invitation to attend a town hall while revealing she doesn’t monitor her mail in a timely manner. Mace claims she is getting death threats from her constituents, and, therefore, voters will only get a town hall “when they calm down.”

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Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.

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Speaker Johnson appears to have deleted this tweet over the last half hour.

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Reminder: Dr. Oz had to pay $5.25 million to settle a class action suit for promoting phony weight loss cures. He is a conman. No wonder Trump likes him. Now he's in charge of running Medicare and Medicaid.

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Trump Economy

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Boo. Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson in dissent.

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Stock market’s crashing, retirement savings are disappearing… and he’s out golfing.

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Oh no. . .

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On a day where global markets were plunging, the president somehow thought a cryptic five-word all caps post on his Truth Social platform would ease minds.

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Under this theory, there is also nothing that prevents them from shipping American citizens to a gulag in El Salvador and saying "nothing we can do."

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TRUMP DITCHES FALLEN SOLDIERS' DIGNIFIED TRANSFER FOR GOLF DINNER Trump won't attend the dignified transfer of 4 U.S. soldiers at Dover AFB who died in Lithuania. He'll be at his Saudi-backed LIV Golf dinner in Florida instead. The soldiers were honored by Lithuania's president.

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happy bday English zoologist/primatologist Jane Goodall, b.1934. "Hope is what enables us to keep going in the face of adversity." "We're not, after all, separate from the animal kingdom. We're part of it." “My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.”

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⚡️Russia spends nearly $220 million to rig Moldova's election, EU referendum in 2024, Chisinau says. Earlier, the U.K. imposed sanctions on the pro-Russian NGO "Eurasia," which is allegedly responsible for attempts to rig the referendum in Moldova.

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It’s 2025 and children are suffering from the measles

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Donald Trump’s massive tariffs are the Trump presidency in a nutshell: a whole lot of chaos and a whole lot of higher costs for you.

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