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Meals on Wheels America spox on OMB pause:

"the uncertainty right now is creating chaos for local Meals on Wheels providers not knowing whether they should be serving meals today. Which unfortunately means seniors will panic not knowing where their next meals will come from."

If anyone needs a good laugh today just know that MAGA morons think "Italian coffee" is grown in Italy

Kansas City is In Missouri and play in Missouri— who elected this 2nd grader?

He should stick to imposing tariffs on Columbia University & Sportswear

Sweden seizes ship that departed from Russia over Baltic Sea cable damage Swedish authorities detained Malta-registered vessel Vezhen following suspected sabotage of undersea fiber optic cable connecting Latvia's Ventspils with Gotland island.

Another Russian ship destroys an undersea cable in the Baltic.
Careful — if all NATO countries do in response is "seize" the ship, Russia might just figure out that we are feckless imbeciles.
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And if you could it would be fantastically expensive.

The US has worked for decades to persuade Latin American countries to jettison deep local traditions of statism and protectionism.

"Join the US-led world trade system! You'll be richer, freer. We won't abuse trade for crass political purposes. Trust us."

They did. Whoops.

US accounts for about 10 per cent of global trade. Trump could cut that in half and the effect on the world as a whole would be manageable. Impact on US would be more severe, but that's their problem.

Coffee, crude oil and cut flowers: Here are the Colombian goods you may be paying more for under Trump's tariffs The emergency tariffs announced by President Donald Trump would impact billions of dollars of goods entering the U.S.

Coffee and crude oil are commodities. Trump's tariffs will redirect trade with little effect, at least until he imposes tariffs on Brazil as well. Maybe some impact on cut flowers, but there is a world market there too.

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I stopped paying attention some years ago. I think the treatment of Kapernick was the last straw.

@marcelias.bsky.social has “become increasingly alarmed by the lack of courage from many who boasted about protecting democracy before the election but have now gone silent. He has grown impatient with those urging caution, compromise and conciliation towards Trump and the MAGA movement.” SO HAVE I!

Trump aims to end birthright citizenship, says American citizens with family here illegally may be deported President-elect Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview with “Meet the Press,” also said he is open to working with Democrats on a legislative way to keep Dreamers in the U.S.

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CSIRO patiently and methodically slaps down Peter Dutton’s nuclear nonsense CSIRO slaps down major nuclear talking points promoted by Coalition leader Peter Dutton in its latest GenCost report, which confirms – yet again – that integrated wind and solar are eas…

CSIRO slaps down major #nuclear talking points promoted by Coalition leader Peter Dutton in its latest GenCost report, which confirms – yet again – that integrated wind and solar are easily the cheapest option

SPONSORED The technology paving the way for the future of solar energy The commercialization of perovskite tandem cell technology — an innovation in the solar industry — is poised to redefine the space and help accelerate the energy transition.

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Far-right activists from Germany spent US election day at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago AfD parliamentary candidate and influencers posed for photos with now president-elect at his Florida home

"As Donald Trump gathered his supporters, family and friends at Mar-a-Lago on US election day last month to wait for the results to trickle in, a small group of far-right Germans went largely unnoticed", reports @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Excellent

Just discovered I accidentally linked to a far right site. Sigh. I need to be more careful. Of course I have deleted it.

YouTube video by Democracy Docket BREAKING: GOP Challenges 60K Votes in North Carolina Supreme Court Recount

After losing an election for North Carolina State Supreme Court, Republicans are challenging the validity of over 60,000 votes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf7M...

Romanian court annuls the first round of the presidential election. Russian backers are alleged to have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars illegally supporting the winner, Calin Georgescu, although Georgescu declared he had no campaign expenses
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Cases of whooping cough in Ontario highest since 2007 More than 1,400 cases of whooping cough have been reported in Ontario so far this year. The figures show the highly contagious disease is particularly affecting youth ages 10-14.

Ontario has recorded the highest number of whooping cough cases since 2007, prompting experts to urge parents to ensure their children are up to date with vaccines.

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion...

Thanks Steve good to see you here