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Lined up waiting for bridge

China no longer buys US exports. Drawing the right lessons for the next Trump-Xi deal

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👉 www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

Trump’s second term trade war also decimated US farm exports to China in 2025.

Real agriculture exports fell to roughly 2018 levels, the last time the two countries were in a tariff fight.

US soybean exports to China fell to $3 billion in 2025, their lowest level since 2018. [3/6]

This feels like a WWI highlight film.

[Picard face palm]

What is even happening over there??

I find the 'how many weeks will the war go?' questions odd.

The war is going to continue until Iran no longer has the capacity to block shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz or chooses to stop doing so.

Given the economic impact of strait closure, it really cannot end before that.

… Daines is now up with a retirement announcement video, and Trump has posted an endorsement of the guy who conveniently registered to run just as Daines dropped out at the last minute.

!!! Per local Montana news, Sen Steve Daines has withdrawn his name for re-election, literally minutes before the deadline to do so.

Cool.

You broke it. You own it.

I’m thrilled to see you taking responsibility for this thing.

LOL

incredibly LOL

I’m sure you’ve all considered this already. But “President Trump is considering what kind of Iranian government should come next” is one of the most cursed sentences in the English language.

My “my goals have been made clear and they are stated on this shirt” t-shirt is raising questions already answered by this shirt.

Happy Monday Lemon!

[butterfly meme] is this ‘the party decides’?

I’m going to mark the down for an “Ewww. Yes.”

Still in St Maarten

“Mideast Crisis Widens”
Would end most presidencies.

Freedom Oil

Number go up

Iran is bombing US bases and allies with Russian drones.

Maybe Trump will finally recognize that Russia and Iran are both sworn US enemies, regardless of how much he wants to pretend Putin is his best friend?

Trump's Unauthorized Strikes on Iran Take America's Imperial Presidency to New Heights Khamenei's departure is nothing to mourn but regime change might require more than air strikes

“In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive...[T]he trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man."
-- James Madison
www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-una...

In assuming he makes a more sophisticated point within.

This is weird. Yair Rosenberg isn’t an idiot. But this statement says otherwise.

"A mass funeral has been held in the southern Iranian city of Minab for 165 people killed in what's described as an attack on a girls school on Saturday"

People, not children. And 'what's described as'

God everything is so stupid.

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

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MOTION TO WITHDRAW MOTION TO VOLUNTARILY DISMISS APPEALS Defendant-Appellants respectfully move to withdraw their motion to voluntarily dismiss these consolidated appeals. Counsel for Defendant-Appellants reached out to counsel for Plaintiff-Appellees for their position. All Plaintiff-Appellees oppose stating, "Plaintiffs-Appellees oppose the government's unexplained request to withdraw yesterday's voluntary dismissal, to which all parties had agreed. Under no circumstances should the government's unexplained about-face provide a basis for an extension of its brief." Regardless of Plaintiff- Appellees position, this Court has not yet granted the motion to dismiss, and it is the prerogative of Defendant-Appellants to pursue this appeal. In addition, there is no prejudice to Plaintiff-Appellees in the Court granting this motion. This Court should grant this motion to withdraw.

And, there it is ... we have unlocked a new level of DOJ incompetence.

DOJ is now moving to withdraw its dismissal of the law firm EO case appeals. (NYT reported this morning that was being considered.)

Motion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Background: www.lawdork.com/p/doj-to-dro...