Navarro: 'we are just in the most beautiful place we've been I think ever with respect to trade'

*In Q2 2024, China bought over $3 billion in soybeans from U.S. farmers. This year, they’ve bought $0.

One big difference ... is that local reporters seem to be more focused on the work than on raising their career profile. "They’re less nervous about blowing the book deal or not getting the MSNBC hit or the CNN hit and just doing the job."

Even in countries that chose *not* to impose retaliatory tariffs on US spirits, our spirits exports have plummeted. Exports to UK and Japan declined >23% YoY, while exports to the EU were down 12%.
Canada did retaliate - and US exports there fell 85%.
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CDC has finally adopted the recommendations its vaccine panel made Sept. 19. This should increase access to Covid vaccines somewhat — CVS and Walgreens had said once the recs were official, they'd offer the shots w/o Rx nationwide, and Vaccines for Children program also needed the official approval

NDSU expert puts bailout sum needed at $45 billion. Trump to Unveil Farmer Aid as China Shuns U.S. Crops www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

👀 Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with Republicans on Obamacare funding, saying she’s not a fan of the law but demands action to prevent a premium hike. “I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year.” She says GOP leaders don’t have a plan.

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

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New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

212k women left the workforce between January and August of this year, while 44k men entered. "The pervasive, incorrect idea is that men are absolutely essential to our country’s economic and social well-being; while women might be nice to have, their job loss doesn’t constitute a serious obstacle"

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"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

We are clean on opsec.

Star Tribune scoop: More careless handling of sensitive information by Trump admin. www.startribune.com/trump-offici...

Sorry to hear that! Good luck!

Anyone else fending off an Asian beetle invasion in Minnesota? So bad at our place. I think the warm October has brought them out in hordes on the west side of our house.

Ridiculously, Medicare Telehealth coverage keeps are getting tied to continuing resolutions. Bills could be passed separately. But political bureaucracy. This means Medicare Telehealth waivers are kaput as of today. My latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Farm bailout news coming next Tuesday, Bessent says www.axios.com/2025/10/02/t...

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Burcum: Americans are not the enemy, Mr. President
Trump’s call to make U.S. cities military “training grounds” is ominous.

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“Defenders of divergence often invoke federalism’s “laboratories of democracy.” The metaphor misfires here. Laboratories operate with common methods, shared rules of evidence, & replication before generalization. Failures are contained to prevent harm. Infectious diseases afford no such containment”

COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy conferred benefits for mother and baby without increased risk, according to an umbrella review of meta-analyses comprising more than 1.2 million women.
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“If you add the conspicuous absence of pro-vaccination messages to the glut of misleading statements from top health officials about vaccine safety and effectiveness, the federal government’s effort this year looks more like a proactive campaign to discourage vaccination.”
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Exclusive: President Trump to announce a direct-to-consumer government website, dubbed TrumpRx, for Americans to buy medication.