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drgk1 @drgk1.bsky.social · 12h

GROCERY INFLATION!! Trump administration eyes higher food prices as a result of the immigration crackdown! Trump is already lying about his record on grocery prices. But his own administration expects his anti-immigrant agenda to make matters even worse.

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drgk1 @drgk1.bsky.social · 17h

MIKE JOHNSON KEEPS THE CONGRESS SHUT DOWN...AND REPUBLICANS ON VACATION, WHILE RECEIVING PAYCHECKS, REFUSING TO NEGOTIATE WITH DEMOCRATS ON FIXING HEALTH CARE PREMIUMS. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Instead of impeachment, Dems are using Article II challenges to impede Trump this time

Democrats shift strategy from impeachment to Article II constitutional challenges against President Donald Trump's executive orders and policies in his second term.

www.yahoo.com

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drgk1 @drgk1.bsky.social · 18h

accidentally called Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney "president," praised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's authoritarian crack down on free press, and boasted — again, in front of 20 world leaders — that his opinion was ultimately the only one that mattered.

drgk1 @drgk1.bsky.social · 18h

And so, with that stage set and the world ostensibly watching, the MAGA cult leader...mumbled incoherently about Air Force One being covered with the Egyptian desert (?), fawned over the "beautiful young woman" from Italy (Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni),

drgk1 @drgk1.bsky.social · 18h

with more than a dozen other world leaders present to publicly lend their support. While it remains to be seen if peace can persist, the historic agreement is meant to bring an end to more than two years of war that absolutely devastated the Gaza strip and left more than 67,000 Palestinians dead.

drgk1 @drgk1.bsky.social · 18h

after another as he celebrated the signing of a formal Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. The peace agreement was signed by Trump, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar,

drgk1 @drgk1.bsky.social · 18h

TRUMP EMBARRASES HIMSELF, BOMBS ON STAGE AGAIN. Trump fumbles repeatedly while bragging in front of world leader. In what was supposed to be a victory lap of sorts for America's wannabe dictator, Trump opted to shoot from the hip, offering up one embarrassing, teleprompter-free riff

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drgk1 @drgk1.bsky.social · 18h

Asian and European indexes all dropped on the news, and S&P 500 futures were in sharp decline prior to the bell in New York. The index itself dropped nearly 1% immediately after the open.

drgk1 @drgk1.bsky.social · 18h

AN INSANE ECONOMIC WAR THAT TRUMP HAS STARTED...AND ESCALATED. Global stock markets fell after China banned certain U.S. shipping firms. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said: “If they want to slow down the global economy, they will be hurt the most.”
www.yahoo.com/finance/news...

Global markets tumble as Beijing imposes new ban on U.S. shipping. Bessent vows China ‘will be hurt the most’ if it doesn’t surrender

China showed no signs of backing down from President Trump’s trade war.

www.yahoo.com

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