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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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Don’t look (up) @dontlook202x.bsky.social · 15h

Trump cast the potential move as retaliation against Beijing for its refusal to buy American soybeans, which he said “is an Economically Hostile Act” that is purposefully “causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Threatens China Cooking Oil Trade as Retaliation for Soybean Boycott

US President Donald Trump said he might stop trade in cooking oil with China, injecting fresh tensions into the relationship between the world’s two largest economies.

www.bloomberg.com

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19h

“We’ll thus continue to finance billionaires and oppress anyone darker than the inside of a Three Musketeers bar.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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andreasmoltke.bsky.social @andreasmoltke.bsky.social · 19h

Social Security and Medicare are now officially Republican programs.

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Don’t look (up) @dontlook202x.bsky.social · 15h

How quickly did reporters fire back that Social Security was created under FDR and Medicare under Lyndon Johnson?!

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Don’t look (up) @dontlook202x.bsky.social · 16h

Trump on Tuesday cast the potential move as retaliation against Beijing for its refusal to buy American soybeans, which he said “is an Economically Hostile Act” that is purposefully “causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers.”

How is this not lampooned by the media?!

Don’t look (up) @dontlook202x.bsky.social · 16h

Ok people, this is important! US trade with China has a MASSIVE impact on our economy and the stock market. Trump started the tariff war imposing 20% on China imports, which China retaliated with 20% tariff on US soy beans - resulting in 0$ in soybean sales to China www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Threatens China Cooking Oil Trade as Retaliation for Soybean Boycott

US President Donald Trump said he might stop trade in cooking oil with China, injecting fresh tensions into the relationship between the world’s two largest economies.

www.bloomberg.com

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration is now ticketing LEGAL residents for failing to carry their papers.

We're at the "papers, please" stage of fascism.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 2d

Leave it to Jim Jordan to take a cruel, federal bureaucracy and turn it into a sermon. Claiming ICE agents are “doing the Lord’s work” is not just wrong it’s grotesque.

GOP Rep Claims ICE Agents Are ‘Doing The Lord’s Work’

The GOP rep called the “pushback” ICE has been getting “interesting.”

www.huffpost.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 2d

🍊💩 didn’t just crash the economy he crashed the concept of accountability. Every disaster becomes his campaign ad: wreck the country, blame someone else, and declare himself the victim.

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Don’t look (up) @dontlook202x.bsky.social · 2d

The cops driving away was devastating.

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Don’t look (up) @dontlook202x.bsky.social · 2d

Finally! I’ve been waiting to know what America being great again looked like to MAGA.
This is it: a government shutdown, federalized Nat’l Guard from red states deployed in blue cities, previously eradicated deadly viruses like measles resurgent around the country.

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Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 3d

Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.

The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.

#Pinks

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Don’t look (up) @dontlook202x.bsky.social · 2d

I desperately miss not thinking about the President on anything other than an occasional basis.

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Don’t look (up) @dontlook202x.bsky.social · 2d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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