There's a decent chance that the Supremes will strike down Trump’s extra special brand new 100% China tariff, as unconstitutional. And so it's doubly notable how much markets panicked, given the (roughly) 50% chance it won’t happen. The market drop understates the damage Trump's trying to inflict.

On Friday jurors handed up an award of $52 million against former Trump associate Felix Sater, who was found liable of laundering tens of millions of dollars allegedly stollen from the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan and BTA Bank

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Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

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Trump fires Sergio Gor, as the revolving door of incompetent appointments continues AGAIN after the revolving door of term one.

The storm is packing a serious punch as it slowly moves north and threatens to disrupt air travel at major Northeast airports and push the ocean into homes and onto roads along the mid-Atlantic coast. https://cnn.it/3KKHImu

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

My dear grandmother was a geologist, and it would have given her great joy to hear her grandson digging into rare earth minerals, finding out what they do, and why they matter.

But for everyone else, it's a drag — the trade war equivalent of learning about the latest covid variant.

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Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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This has real -- I intended to dm "Pam" -- energy.

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

Trump’s claims about violence are falling apart in court

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Viktor Orban’s ‘Propaganda State’ Is Starting to Show Cracks

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Edward Keenan: How do you solve Toronto’s speeding problem? By doing pretty much the complete opposite of what Doug Ford is doing

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Among Portland Protests, It’s Frogs and Sharks and Bears, Oh My!

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Qatar Approved to Build Military Facility in Idaho Months After Gifting Donald Trump a Luxury Plane

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Ford’s Bill 5 reads like Ontario’s own ‘Project 2025’

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Can America Become a Democracy?

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Thirty belugas in Canada face being euthanised. Can they be saved?

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Industry experts see ‘steep barriers’ to Keystone XL revival

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Trump's Rx for confusion: How a push for tariffs complicated his pharma talks

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China warns US of countermeasures if Trump doesn’t walk back 100% tariff threat

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Trump says inflation is 'defeated' and the Fed has cut rates, yet prices remain too high for many

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