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The investors around the world have to ask why invest in a national "brand" managed by such a known failure of a brand-maker and such a witless national leader. Trump may sell his meme coin to the duped but no intelligent CEO will invest in America first.
www.reuters.com/markets/weal...
www.reuters.com/markets/weal...
After 100 days under Trump, investors reassess the allure of 'brand USA'
A bruising rollercoaster ride for markets in the first 100 days of the Trump administration has seen some investors move away from American assets, but it remains to be seen whether policies have caused a sustained shift away from the United States.
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April 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The investors around the world have to ask why invest in a national "brand" managed by such a known failure of a brand-maker and such a witless national leader. Trump may sell his meme coin to the duped but no intelligent CEO will invest in America first.
www.reuters.com/markets/weal...
www.reuters.com/markets/weal...
It should come as no surprise to ANYBODY that Trump if elected would seek to destroy what he calls "liberalism" at an international and a domestic level. His agenda is one based on hate, prejudice, xenophobia, and utter nonsense. America is now rogue and soon pariah.
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Trump's first 100 days: America First president is overturning the world order
He has launched an unprecedented global tariff war and slashed U.S. foreign aid. He has disparaged NATO allies and embraced Russia's narrative about its invasion of Ukraine. And he has spoken about annexing Greenland, retaking the Panama Canal and making Canada the 51st state.
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April 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It should come as no surprise to ANYBODY that Trump if elected would seek to destroy what he calls "liberalism" at an international and a domestic level. His agenda is one based on hate, prejudice, xenophobia, and utter nonsense. America is now rogue and soon pariah.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
New tariffs on China could silence the next generation of musicians www.piie.com/blogs/realti...
New tariffs on China could silence the next generation of musicians
The direct and indirect costs of the escalating US-China trade war are starting to add up. Among them: The world could miss out on the next Yo-Yo Maor Wynton Marsalis. Ma and Marsalis’s rises to stard...
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April 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
New tariffs on China could silence the next generation of musicians www.piie.com/blogs/realti...
The Smithsonian Institute is a trust instrumentality established by Congress in 1846 at bequest by James Smithson "to found an establishment for the diffusion of knowledge among men." It is it legal for a President to assert control over the content of exhibits?
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Legal History | Smithsonian Institution
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April 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The Smithsonian Institute is a trust instrumentality established by Congress in 1846 at bequest by James Smithson "to found an establishment for the diffusion of knowledge among men." It is it legal for a President to assert control over the content of exhibits?
www.si.edu/OGC/legalhis...
www.si.edu/OGC/legalhis...
In fifty years what will historians say about the impact and aftermath of Trump's Cultural Revolution on America? How will future Americans explain this moment of political, economic, educational, and cultural nihilism? Will they be horrified or validated?
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What China Remembers About The Cultural Revolution, And What It Wants To Forget | Hoover Institution
YouTube video by Hoover Institution
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April 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
In fifty years what will historians say about the impact and aftermath of Trump's Cultural Revolution on America? How will future Americans explain this moment of political, economic, educational, and cultural nihilism? Will they be horrified or validated?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-E...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-E...
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Happening right now!!
🔥🏛️ Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the Capitol steps ✊ to protest Trump’s proposed budget cuts — including attacks on Medicaid — and defend democracy! 📢
Livestreaming here: www.youtube.com/live/5ceR90l...
🔥🏛️ Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the Capitol steps ✊ to protest Trump’s proposed budget cuts — including attacks on Medicaid — and defend democracy! 📢
Livestreaming here: www.youtube.com/live/5ceR90l...
Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries Live on the steps of the Capitol
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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April 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Happening right now!!
🔥🏛️ Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the Capitol steps ✊ to protest Trump’s proposed budget cuts — including attacks on Medicaid — and defend democracy! 📢
Livestreaming here: www.youtube.com/live/5ceR90l...
🔥🏛️ Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the Capitol steps ✊ to protest Trump’s proposed budget cuts — including attacks on Medicaid — and defend democracy! 📢
Livestreaming here: www.youtube.com/live/5ceR90l...
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Friday, DOJ arrested a state judge in Wisconsin. Did she really commit a crime or is something else at work here? What are the law and the facts you need to understand to see the political machinations at work here? I try to take those issues on in this piece. joycevance.substack.com/p/arresting-...
Arresting a Judge
Judges across the country are undoubtedly wondering what sort of trumped-up charges might be used to storm into their courtrooms and arrest them if the attorney general of the United States doesn’t li...
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April 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Friday, DOJ arrested a state judge in Wisconsin. Did she really commit a crime or is something else at work here? What are the law and the facts you need to understand to see the political machinations at work here? I try to take those issues on in this piece. joycevance.substack.com/p/arresting-...
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Trump lapel pin symbolizes all that is wrong with this administration. Government officials are supposed to support and defend the Constitution, not the president.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...
A Trump Lapel Pin Makes a Point
The pin, worn by the chairman of the F.C.C., raises some questions.
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April 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Trump lapel pin symbolizes all that is wrong with this administration. Government officials are supposed to support and defend the Constitution, not the president.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...
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As the mom of 3 girls in Virginia public schools, I know how vital early education is. Head Start helps thousands of families across the Commonwealth — especially in rural communities.
Eliminating its funding would be devastating.
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Eliminating its funding would be devastating.
richmond.com/news/state-r...
RPS would lose $10M under Trump proposal to cut Head Start
The move would defund care and education for more than 12,000 young children - ages 3 to 5 - across Virginia.
richmond.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
As the mom of 3 girls in Virginia public schools, I know how vital early education is. Head Start helps thousands of families across the Commonwealth — especially in rural communities.
Eliminating its funding would be devastating.
richmond.com/news/state-r...
Eliminating its funding would be devastating.
richmond.com/news/state-r...
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More than 700,000 children in Virginia rely on Medicaid for their healthcare.
While Republicans try to gut it, I’m running for Governor to protect it — and to make sure no child in our Commonwealth loses the care they need.
While Republicans try to gut it, I’m running for Governor to protect it — and to make sure no child in our Commonwealth loses the care they need.
April 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
More than 700,000 children in Virginia rely on Medicaid for their healthcare.
While Republicans try to gut it, I’m running for Governor to protect it — and to make sure no child in our Commonwealth loses the care they need.
While Republicans try to gut it, I’m running for Governor to protect it — and to make sure no child in our Commonwealth loses the care they need.
The Dictatorship of Trump is seeking to control universities, schools, libraries, museums, research facilities, scientific journals, newspapers, broadcast stations, and YOUR BRAIN. They seek to promote their propaganda and challenge your freedoms and the rule of law. This is the Trump Horror Show.
April 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The Dictatorship of Trump is seeking to control universities, schools, libraries, museums, research facilities, scientific journals, newspapers, broadcast stations, and YOUR BRAIN. They seek to promote their propaganda and challenge your freedoms and the rule of law. This is the Trump Horror Show.
America has lost its heart and soul as it pretends to rid the nation of "criminal" illegal aliens with no evidence of their criminality and to seize fathers, husbands, and entire families in the cloak of darkness and deport them without any due process. This is the Trump show. What a horror.
April 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
America has lost its heart and soul as it pretends to rid the nation of "criminal" illegal aliens with no evidence of their criminality and to seize fathers, husbands, and entire families in the cloak of darkness and deport them without any due process. This is the Trump show. What a horror.
What disturbs me more than the stupidity and incompetence is the absolute cruelty of the Trump administration. Why this intense hatred directed at civil servants, judges, immigrants, scientists, educators, children, women, anyone who is not white and MAGA and questions their policies.
April 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
What disturbs me more than the stupidity and incompetence is the absolute cruelty of the Trump administration. Why this intense hatred directed at civil servants, judges, immigrants, scientists, educators, children, women, anyone who is not white and MAGA and questions their policies.
I too urge Govenor Youngkin to sign the Right to Contraception Act and applaud Abigail Spanberger for standing up and supporting these most fundamental rights for the women of Virginia. I look forward to a Commonwealth governor who is committed to solving real problems of all Virginians.
Virginia women deserve to know that their right to get birth control will be protected.
Governor Youngkin should sign the Right to Contraception Act today.
Governor Youngkin should sign the Right to Contraception Act today.
April 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I too urge Govenor Youngkin to sign the Right to Contraception Act and applaud Abigail Spanberger for standing up and supporting these most fundamental rights for the women of Virginia. I look forward to a Commonwealth governor who is committed to solving real problems of all Virginians.
Trumps removal of top military leaders is chilling. As Hitler solidified his dictatorial regime he gradually replaced military officers who did not align with his ideology or methods. Similarly, Mussolini appointed loyalists to key military positions and sidelined those who were not loyal.
February 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Trumps removal of top military leaders is chilling. As Hitler solidified his dictatorial regime he gradually replaced military officers who did not align with his ideology or methods. Similarly, Mussolini appointed loyalists to key military positions and sidelined those who were not loyal.
COMMON SENSE informs any reasonable American to question the assertion Ukraine started a war against "invading" Russian troops. COMMON SENSE also causes any American Patriot to question why an American President made such a flagrantly false statement & is cosying up to a ruthless Russian dictator.
February 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
COMMON SENSE informs any reasonable American to question the assertion Ukraine started a war against "invading" Russian troops. COMMON SENSE also causes any American Patriot to question why an American President made such a flagrantly false statement & is cosying up to a ruthless Russian dictator.
It doesn't take a genius to fell a Charter Oak tree with a chainsaw but it does take a genius to devise a Constitution and a patriot to defend, preserve and protect it. Musk and his DOGE teams are simply dismantling a civil government, and not making it more efficient or more effective.
February 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It doesn't take a genius to fell a Charter Oak tree with a chainsaw but it does take a genius to devise a Constitution and a patriot to defend, preserve and protect it. Musk and his DOGE teams are simply dismantling a civil government, and not making it more efficient or more effective.
Today Thomas Paine would likely characterize MAGAmen as, "interested men, who are not to be trusted; weak men, who cannot see; prejudiced men, who will not see", and certain men who think better of the Trump Presidency than it deserves; & this last class, the cause of more calamities to this nation.
February 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Today Thomas Paine would likely characterize MAGAmen as, "interested men, who are not to be trusted; weak men, who cannot see; prejudiced men, who will not see", and certain men who think better of the Trump Presidency than it deserves; & this last class, the cause of more calamities to this nation.
Is it the natural state that people are more easily persuaded by lies& chronic liars than they are by truth & those that defend it? Has the Internet amplified the lie and elevated the liar? Is mankind dumber & more inclined to believe the repeated lie? How else explain a second Trump presidency?
February 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Is it the natural state that people are more easily persuaded by lies& chronic liars than they are by truth & those that defend it? Has the Internet amplified the lie and elevated the liar? Is mankind dumber & more inclined to believe the repeated lie? How else explain a second Trump presidency?
It is just beginning; it will grow worse as America is labeled pariah by democratic nations and finds itself the least desirable trade partner and political ally. Bye Bye, American pie, MAGA drove the Chevy to the levy and it plunged into an orange sludge.
February 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It is just beginning; it will grow worse as America is labeled pariah by democratic nations and finds itself the least desirable trade partner and political ally. Bye Bye, American pie, MAGA drove the Chevy to the levy and it plunged into an orange sludge.