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"Though confidence in Trump's ability to manage the economy was a key selling point to many voters in the November election, 76% of participants said they disapprove of how he's handling it, the survey said..." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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A global race to recruit US researchers and doctors is heating up as President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to science funding and federal agencies disrupt the country’s research landscape.

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"Massive blow to Trump as Japanese car giant moves manufacturing OUT of US in tariff twist" www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...

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This!! Don't be fooled

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Justice Department halts funds for programs for victims of hate crimes, child abuse, school violence and more www.cbsnews.com/news/federal...

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A 4-year-old and a 7-year-old with U.S. citizenship were deported alongside their mother to Honduras last week, the family’s lawyer said, adding to the recent string of American citizens caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

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The potential loss of the world’s greatest climate forecasting tool has ramifications for long-term safety and security. NOAA’s climate modeling systems help the Defense Department not just operate but anticipate and prepare for emerging threats. By @abrahm.bsky.social

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Trump has set up a new club where CEOs, tech bros, and foreign oligarchs can pay $500,000 to join in order to get access to the Trump Cabinet who will all be there regularly. Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.

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Trump has deported a four-year-old US citizen with a rare form of metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with their doctor.

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This is an incredible own goal. For less than $2 million we brought all of our allies, partners & friends together to line up against authoritarian regimes. This is the ultimate penny wise and pound foolish move. news.usni.org/2025/04/24/n...

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Federal health officials have reversed the decision to fire a few dozen scientists at the FDA’s food-safety labs, and say they are conducting a review to determine if other critical posts were cut.

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BREAKING: The ACLU says the Trump administration has deported three U.S. citizen children.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky: “The Russians have always wanted – and still want – the destruction of the United States. This is the policy of the Soviet Union. We are fighting for your rights as well as our own.” (Kyiv Post)

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University of Michigan consumer sentiment drops precipitously in April.

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They better be careful what they ask for

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All of this

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Shameful. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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No country in the world will take the US seriously as long as a completely ignorant liar is president.

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"One NATO official, when asked for a reaction to the plan, replied, 'Did Putin write this for him?'...” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

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The Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) has awarded Southwest Wisconsin Technical College with a prestigious national recognition.

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Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer, AP reports

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Roger Stone, the longtime associate of President Trump’s, has been lobbying for a cryptocurrency investor known as “Bitcoin Jesus” who is facing federal fraud and criminal tax charges, according to congressional filings.

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New: We analyzed Trump's meme coin - At least 27 crypto wallets have picked up $100 million worth of $TRUMP coins since his team said the top holders would join him for an "intimate private dinner." Huge profit for Trump; "the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done" wapo.st/4iAatO1

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A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...

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And there it is. Donald Trump is now selling “Trump 2028” hats on his official website, even though it is unconstitutional for him to run again.

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This is wild: Trump is offering visits to the White House to people who invest in his bullshit crypto scheme. It is pay-for-influence in the most naked possible way. Just because the corruption is out in the open and unhidden doesn't mean it's not corruption.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

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Hundreds of thousands have fled the war, landing in US cities under a Biden-era program. With Trump back in power, their status is increasingly tenuous.

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The Wall Street Journal editorial board on Trump backing off his high-tariff threats against China: “Another harsh reality is that China called Mr. Trump’s bluff and seems to have won this round.”

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New: "Trump Store Touts ‘Presidential Gold Note’ As Tariffs Rattle Markets And Gold Prices Soar" me, for @forbes.com 1/

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Put together a bunch of charts showing how the Trump administration — and the country — are heading down and to the right.

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NEW: The Trump administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.

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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

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NEW: Pete Hegseth’s Signal chats about pending strikes in Yemen included information from a top general’s secure messages to him, three U.S. officials with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

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(Reuters) - The Chinese government sent a letter to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba calling for a coordinated response to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff measures, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday.

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Hegseth rebuked by WSJ editorial board for 'validating the concerns of his critics' www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e3A...

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The @WSJ headline says it all: Dow Headed for Worst April Since 1932 as Investors Send ‘No Confidence’ Signal. @hannaherinlang.bsky.social www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

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Trump is sending a Russian scientist who created a breakthrough cancer detection microscope back to Putin's Russia. She was a dissident who criticized Putin and now will be in danger.

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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. Trump thinks he can bully everyone into submission, but he can’t bully Adam Smith, who deals in reality. Markets know tariffs are taxes, and taxes are anti-growth. The Trump tariffs are the biggest economic policy mistake in decades ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

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Thai PM says trade talks with US postponed reut.rs/4iuHFXb

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All of the talk about the stock market and tariffs makes it sound like it’s a problem that only affects big companies or rich people who own stocks. In reality, both groups will survive in some diminished form. On the other hand, a lot of small businesses will be wiped out if it doesn’t end soon.

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Manufacturing employs 11m, tourism 12m. #richkid #amateur

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Pappas: People are going to have to wait longer to apply for benefits or even get a question answered because they moved to fire half the staff at the Social Security Administration.

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