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"With steel tariffs doubling today, a North Carolina manufacturer wonders how to compete" www.npr.org/2025/06/04/n...
"for every steelworker in America, there are about 80 people working for companies that use steel. And their costs are about to go up."
"for every steelworker in America, there are about 80 people working for companies that use steel. And their costs are about to go up."
June 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"With steel tariffs doubling today, a North Carolina manufacturer wonders how to compete" www.npr.org/2025/06/04/n...
"for every steelworker in America, there are about 80 people working for companies that use steel. And their costs are about to go up."
"for every steelworker in America, there are about 80 people working for companies that use steel. And their costs are about to go up."
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Trump’s promise to throw out the bad guys has become deporting working moms and students while selling pardons and visas to transnational criminals.
June 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Trump’s promise to throw out the bad guys has become deporting working moms and students while selling pardons and visas to transnational criminals.
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Right, because the best way to revitalize American manufacturers is to...tax them to death on their input costs. Solid thinking. 🙄
May 31, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Right, because the best way to revitalize American manufacturers is to...tax them to death on their input costs. Solid thinking. 🙄
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This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…
May 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…
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The success of the bet hugely depends on White House policy toward crypto. Are we still doing conflicts of interest?
The Trump family media company plans to raise $3bn to buy cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, in a bet on the kind of digital assets that have been championed by the US president’s administration.
Trump media group plans to raise $3bn to spend on cryptocurrencies
US president’s administration and family have become staunch advocates for digital assets
www.ft.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The success of the bet hugely depends on White House policy toward crypto. Are we still doing conflicts of interest?
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Only 1,336 more days of this schizophrenia
May 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Only 1,336 more days of this schizophrenia
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NEW from me at MSNBC: The wildly irresponsible GOP tax bill:
- Costs more than the 2017 TCJA, 2020 CARES Act and 2021 American Rescue Plan - Combined.
- Is a special interest bonanza that won't help economy.
- Spends $52B bailing out farmers.
- Is already raising interest rates.
- Costs more than the 2017 TCJA, 2020 CARES Act and 2021 American Rescue Plan - Combined.
- Is a special interest bonanza that won't help economy.
- Spends $52B bailing out farmers.
- Is already raising interest rates.
May 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
NEW from me at MSNBC: The wildly irresponsible GOP tax bill:
- Costs more than the 2017 TCJA, 2020 CARES Act and 2021 American Rescue Plan - Combined.
- Is a special interest bonanza that won't help economy.
- Spends $52B bailing out farmers.
- Is already raising interest rates.
- Costs more than the 2017 TCJA, 2020 CARES Act and 2021 American Rescue Plan - Combined.
- Is a special interest bonanza that won't help economy.
- Spends $52B bailing out farmers.
- Is already raising interest rates.
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"Trade Between the U.S. and EU Is Massive. We Break It Down." www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Heavily taxing medicine, cars/parts, food/wine, & industrial machinery to own the libs.
Heavily taxing medicine, cars/parts, food/wine, & industrial machinery to own the libs.
May 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"Trade Between the U.S. and EU Is Massive. We Break It Down." www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Heavily taxing medicine, cars/parts, food/wine, & industrial machinery to own the libs.
Heavily taxing medicine, cars/parts, food/wine, & industrial machinery to own the libs.
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One billion percent tariff!
a bald man with a ring on his finger is pointing
ALT: a bald man with a ring on his finger is pointing
media.tenor.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
One billion percent tariff!
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Arbitrary executive power wielded for personal enrichment and retribution.
State central planning imposed by ever-fluctuating whim.
Vast debt financing at rapidly rising interest rates.
Markets replaced by economic warfare against fellow democracies.
State central planning imposed by ever-fluctuating whim.
Vast debt financing at rapidly rising interest rates.
Markets replaced by economic warfare against fellow democracies.
May 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Arbitrary executive power wielded for personal enrichment and retribution.
State central planning imposed by ever-fluctuating whim.
Vast debt financing at rapidly rising interest rates.
Markets replaced by economic warfare against fellow democracies.
State central planning imposed by ever-fluctuating whim.
Vast debt financing at rapidly rising interest rates.
Markets replaced by economic warfare against fellow democracies.
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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
May 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
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The country with the most sophisticated intelligence capabilities in the world, and the president is holding up
"a months-old blog post" from an obscure, conspiracy-mongering site "featuring a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo" while making allegations against South Africa to its president
"a months-old blog post" from an obscure, conspiracy-mongering site "featuring a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo" while making allegations against South Africa to its president
“Look, here's burial sites all over the place. These are all white farmers that are being buried,” Donald Trump said during today’s White House meeting with South Africa’s president.
The image he was holding up, however, is of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
www.barrons.com/news/trump-d...
The image he was holding up, however, is of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
www.barrons.com/news/trump-d...
Trump Displays DRC Visual As Proof Of South African 'Genocide'
US President Donald Trump brandished a stack of printed articles at the White House Wednesday that he claimed documented a genocide taking place against white people in South Africa.
www.barrons.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The country with the most sophisticated intelligence capabilities in the world, and the president is holding up
"a months-old blog post" from an obscure, conspiracy-mongering site "featuring a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo" while making allegations against South Africa to its president
"a months-old blog post" from an obscure, conspiracy-mongering site "featuring a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo" while making allegations against South Africa to its president
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These people entered the US legally and ended up with a life sentence in a foreign concentration camp.
Unspeakable evil.
There are no other words to describe it.
Unspeakable evil.
There are no other words to describe it.
May 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
These people entered the US legally and ended up with a life sentence in a foreign concentration camp.
Unspeakable evil.
There are no other words to describe it.
Unspeakable evil.
There are no other words to describe it.
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I'm blocking people who sneer at Pence doing this. Yes, I have problems with Pence too, but why sneer at someone for doing & saying the right things, even if they haven't always said & done the right things? Doing this right now takes balls, probably more than you have, anonymous internet jockey
Pence: "To have POTUS in Saudi Arabia questioning America's global war on terror & describing is as nation building & interventionist I thought was a disservice to generations of Americans who wore the uniform..particularly giving that speech in Saudi Arabia where 15 of the 19 hijackers hailed from"
May 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I'm blocking people who sneer at Pence doing this. Yes, I have problems with Pence too, but why sneer at someone for doing & saying the right things, even if they haven't always said & done the right things? Doing this right now takes balls, probably more than you have, anonymous internet jockey
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Just love that he thinks pilots would prefer a “beautiful plane”that’s easier to shoot down.
May 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Just love that he thinks pilots would prefer a “beautiful plane”that’s easier to shoot down.
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Just got word that Secretary Noem is asking for an addition to her budget - a new private Gulfstream 5 jet for her personal national photo op tour. She's already got a private plane but wants a tricked out new one.
All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.
All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.
May 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Just got word that Secretary Noem is asking for an addition to her budget - a new private Gulfstream 5 jet for her personal national photo op tour. She's already got a private plane but wants a tricked out new one.
All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.
All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.
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Let’s just start with the fact that the AG owned a million dollars of stock in the Trump company to begin with….
The corruption is off the charts.
Imagine all we don’t know.
The corruption is off the charts.
Imagine all we don’t know.
Attorney General Pam Bondi sold over $1 million in shares on April 2. That same day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent stocks tumbling
Nothing to see here, right?
www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
Nothing to see here, right?
www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs
Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumblin...
www.propublica.org
May 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Let’s just start with the fact that the AG owned a million dollars of stock in the Trump company to begin with….
The corruption is off the charts.
Imagine all we don’t know.
The corruption is off the charts.
Imagine all we don’t know.
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The Trump Admin is stripping student visas & cracking down on immigrants over anti-semitic statements on social media. But one of the 59 Afrikaner refugees they let in said Jews are "untrustworthy and dangerous" among other things.
More:
www.thebulwark.com/p/an-afrikan...
More:
www.thebulwark.com/p/an-afrikan...
An Afrikaner Refugee Has Thoughts About the Jews
The Trump administration is clear: Antisemitism from brown people will not be tolerated.
www.thebulwark.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Trump Admin is stripping student visas & cracking down on immigrants over anti-semitic statements on social media. But one of the 59 Afrikaner refugees they let in said Jews are "untrustworthy and dangerous" among other things.
More:
www.thebulwark.com/p/an-afrikan...
More:
www.thebulwark.com/p/an-afrikan...
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WOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism.
Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.
Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.
May 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
WOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism.
Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.
Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.
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Investigate the country illegally bribing the president, but not for the whole bribery thing, but because they legally donated to Harvard, the university the president is attacking because it acted according to Constitutional rights rather than violated them as he demands.
Can't get more obvious.
Can't get more obvious.
Let me know when Elise Stefanik schedules hearings on Trump's ties to Qatar.
Qatar’s ties to US universities scrutinised amid rise in antisemitism
Congressional panel whose hearings prompted resignation of Harvard president turns gaze on Doha
www.ft.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Investigate the country illegally bribing the president, but not for the whole bribery thing, but because they legally donated to Harvard, the university the president is attacking because it acted according to Constitutional rights rather than violated them as he demands.
Can't get more obvious.
Can't get more obvious.
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Are price controls based now? Trying to keep up.
May 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Are price controls based now? Trying to keep up.
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Trump with tariffs
May 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Trump with tariffs
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In general it's insane to have tariffs on the UK for like a million reasons. They're a close US ally, net importer of American goods, small overall trade partner. Like what are we doing here.
May 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
In general it's insane to have tariffs on the UK for like a million reasons. They're a close US ally, net importer of American goods, small overall trade partner. Like what are we doing here.