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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h

Another way to accurately describe the “unprecedented gambit” is “wildly illegal under both domestic law & multiple international treaty commitments”

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

U.S. consumers are already shouldering as much as 55% of costs due to Trump’s unprecedented gambit to impose sizable tariffs on imports, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs analysts.

U.S. consumers bearing more than half the cost of tariffs so far, Goldman Sachs says

The findings suggest U.S. consumers will continue to struggle with high prices — something Trump had promised to address in the run-up to his re-election.

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Michael Crawford @michaelcrawford.com · 4h

I knew this was coming the moment I saw it. Almost to the point where I wondered if it wasn't intentional by someone at Time to undermine the ridiculous headline. I knew he'd be furious. You know this won't be on the wall at Mar a Lago.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

Trump doesn’t like the photo lol

Trump: Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.
Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13h

Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking to Ezra Klein. Quote: "Was silence not an option?"

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 10h

Richard Lester's assignment:

Throw together a low-budget quickie that can be rushed into theaters to cash in on a passing fad called The Beatles.

The result:

A timeless masterpiece.

Up next on TCM @tcm-up-next.bsky.social · 13h

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (1964) — 1:15 am ET — 1h 32m

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison; directed by Richard Lester

A typical day in the life of the Beatles.

#TCM #TCMParty

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

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Michael Crawford @michaelcrawford.com · 4h

Why are you carrying water for him

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 7h

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 6h

Don’t forget.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 6h

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 6h

How embarrassing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Dasha Burns to Trump after he dissed her and didn't know who she was: "Sir, talk to Karoline. She'll vouch for me."

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Michael Crawford @michaelcrawford.com · 4h

Imagine devoting your entire prestigious career to the purpose of making sure discrimination comes back

Reuters @reuters.com · 6h

The Supreme Court is set to hear a Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act, giving its conservative majority a chance to deal another blow to the landmark federal law enacted 60 years ago to prevent racial discrimination in voting.

Voting Rights Act faces pivotal test at US Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is set to hear a Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act, giving its conservative majority a chance to deal another blow to the landmark federal law enacted 60 years ago to prevent racial discrimination in voting.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 5h

If you follow business news right now, several times a day you will see a story like, “if you want to get out before the bubble pops, should you do it now or can you wait till next April?” and it feels like it’s a question that answers itself.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h

JPMORGAN EXEC SAYS WE HAVE A LOT OF ASSETS OUT THERE ENTERING BUBBLE TERRITORY

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John Lennon @johnlennonofficial.bsky.social · 5h

NEW YORK CITY
John: I can be a human being in New York which I can’t be in many other cities #powertothepeople #newyorkcity

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Michael Crawford @michaelcrawford.com · 4h

No better way to start, though. That album is always my first of the year.

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Jess Horror-ssette @decafjedi.com · 5h

Well, I made it to October 14th this year. "Sleigh Ride" by the Carpenters.

Jess Horror-ssette @decafjedi.com · Oct 25

If you're wondering how I'm holding up, I broke the seal and started listening to Christmas music yesterday in an effort to cheer myself up.

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Michael Crawford @michaelcrawford.com · 5h

I've noticed a lot of these weirdos are dropping "president of peace" now and I'm really icked out that they might be going for some sort of Christ-like "prince of peace" thing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Emmer: "The president of peace, Donald J Trump, is only getting more popular as he now seemingly has the whole world behind his approach"

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 20h

“Restructuring” because the Whitehouse and their allies choose destruction of all the good parts of the United States federal government because it won’t make them a personal profit. Also, they hate science, people who do good things for everyone instead of for them only, and actual reality.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 22h

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 20h

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 22h

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 19h

It's so strange to think of how much less suffering there would be in the world if a certain slice of America gave just a tiny bit more of a shit about keeping a white supremacist out of the White House.

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Rachel de Leon @raeoflion.bsky.social · 20h

Last year, we wrote about survivor Taylor Cadle. When she was 12, she told police she’d been raped. They said she was lying and charged her with false reporting. She then took the extraordinary measure of recording the next act of abuse.

Now, Taylor has legal counsel and filed a lawsuit.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

Defending against bioterrorism? Sounds pretty woke to me. I’m glad Trump finally fired those people.

Dozens of fired staff members at the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, a federal health agency, included individuals with top-secret clearance who work with intelligence agencies on biodefense issues such as pandemics and weaponized pathogens, said a former Department of Health and Human Services official who has been in contact with those dismissed.

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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 22h

This story should not be presented by the news media as just another government action.

Reporters should point out clearly and loudly that this type of gerrymandering misrepresents and ignores the interests of millions of citizens in this purple state. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...