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SCOTUS live: Trump plans 10% global tariff, says refund fights may take years "Today, I will sign an order to impose a 10% global tariff under Section 122, over and above our normal tariffs already being charged," Trump said.

SCOTUS live: Trump plans 10% global tariff, says refund fights may take years - www.reuters.com/world/us/sco...

a race car is driving down a track with a red and white striped barrier . ALT: a race car is driving down a track with a red and white striped barrier .

Visual representation of Trump's tarrifs:

Christian nationalist pastor preached at Pentagon Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter{beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Christian nationalist pastor preached…

Controversial Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson preached at the Pentagon's monthly Christian worship meeting after an invite from Defense Secretary Hegseth. Wilson’s professed beliefs include that women should submit to their husbands, that the 19th Amendment...

TAT: [Weakening Civil Rights]

Donald Trump warned Tehran that it had a “maximum” 15 days to reach a deal with the US or “bad things will happen”, as he weighs American military action against the Islamic republic. [link]

TAT: [Foreign Policy]

Rare glimpse inside station’s clocktower as restoration ticks along Network Rail’s ongoing transformation of Scarborough station has allowed this rare view inside the grade II-listed building’s clocktower.

www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/rare-gl...

X appeals EU's 120-mn-euro fine over digital content violations Elon Musk's X social media platform said Friday that it had filed an appeal with the European Union's top court against a 120-million-euro ($142 million) fine for breaking its digital content rules.

A summary of the arguments being made by X in its court challenge against the EU fine under the Digital Services Act www.france24.com/en/live-news...
(It's not criminal law, so references to "prosecutorial discretion" are daft)

Trump's made tariffs central to his presidency. Chaos may come next President Donald Trump suffered a rare rebuke when the Supreme Court ruled against his tariff agenda. The decision Friday throws U.S. trade policy back into uncertainty.

apnews.com/article/trum...

Palantir is powering ICE's immigration crackdown. But they've also recently said the immigration crackdown is hurting their hiring. In today's ironic #404DeepDive... @evystadium.bsky.social gets into this mess.

Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/palantir-whi...

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump has repeatedly flipped on a U.K. plan to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands.

Behind the scenes, former British prime ministers Liz Truss and Boris Johnson have been lobbying to sway the U.S. president against the deal.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/bori...

Nasa targets March 6 date to send humans back around the Moon Nasa sets the launch date following a successful

BBC News - Nasa targets early March to send humans back around the Moon
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

SCOTUS Live: US Supreme Court rules against Trump's tariffs The justices ruled 6-3 against Trump's tariffs, rejecting one of the U.S. President's most contentious assertions of his authority in a ruling with major implications for the global economy.

Can you imagine the melt down that King Donald is undergoing as the
US Supreme Court rules against Trump's tariffs - www.reuters.com/world/us/sco...

Zuckerberg takes the stand Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified Wednesday in a landmark social media addiction trial brought against his company, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

open.substack.com/pub/oligarch...

A must read.

The government's immigration proposals are immoral, expensive (falls in immigration already damaging our economy) and will not achieve the stated aims.

This is so dark it would have been rejected as a Black Mirror episode premise.

Britain’s Labour government feels the heat over Palantir contracts The U.S. data company is taking fresh flak in the U.K. — as the country’s reliance on U.S. tech firms shoots up the political agenda.

We need to get out of the Palantir contracts now. But let’s look deeper. All the tech trade deals which Mandelson crafted need to be ripped up. They’re not in our interest, they just deepen our dependence on Trump, as my colleague explains in here 👇

www.politico.eu/article/brit...

YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel Restricting the Vote: The Midterms Strategy #democracy #voting #politics

The latest Trump administration moves to restrict voting ahead of the Midterms

youtube.com/shorts/UgHy3...

US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content Freedom.gov appears to be administered by a branch of the Department of Homeland Security

So the US government is now providing a website that essentially lets European users look at banned porn and hate content cos they love free speech so much yet somehow keep stifling their own journalists and criticism of Trump…. Yup that’s completely normal ?!?!

Why a Royal’s Arrest Exposes Trump’s Shameful Perversion of Justice In Britain, even a (former) royal is being hauled in to answer questions on Epstein. And yet here, impunity reigns.

The arrest of Prince Andrew is terrible news for Trump and Republicans who keep hoping Epstein will go away. It will keep it actively, intensively in the news throughout this campaign season. www.thedailybeast.com/why-a-royals...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.

BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew) has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

He is accused of sharing confidential government documents with Jeffrey Epstein.

Unprecedented.

Side note: it is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s birthday today.

An Elon induced right wing BLOOD BATH.
How gloriously appropriate for it.

Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere The portal could potentially put Washington in the unfamiliar position of appearing to encourage citizens to flout local laws.

Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere - www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...

Politics latest: Trump tells Starmer 'do not give away Diego Garcia' in fresh attack on Chagos Islands deal Donald Trump has tonight made a fresh attack on Sir Keir Starmer's deal to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

Gosh having signed off on this deal not 5 days ago King Donald has, it appears to succumbed to his dementia and forgotten all about it.

news.sky.com/story/politi...

This is so good

"Appointments can be good, bad or indifferent, but it is wishful thinking to believe good people can overcome a bad system. When the problem is structural, the PM can feed all the good ... people he wants into the machine and it will ... deliver the same outcomes again and again."

Carney offers to ‘broker a bridge’ to build anti-Trump trade alliance The Canadian PM responded to questions about POLITICO’s reporting that Ottawa is spearheading conversations between the EU and an Indo-Pacific trade bloc.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has offered to “broker a bridge” between the EU and a fast-growing Indo-Pacific trade bloc this year to form a new anti-Trump trade pact.

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys Two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. They visit the companies that created him.

youtube.com/shorts/Vvii3...

Excellent informative read...

The woman who mapped the Atlantic from her living room Marie Tharp charted the ocean floor before she had even sailed on its surface, and despite her theories being dismissed as ‘girl talk’. Her pioneering achievements were only fully recognised after her death

"Marie Tharp charted the ocean floor before she had even sailed on its surface, and despite her theories being dismissed as 'girl talk'. Her pioneering achievements were only fully recognised after her death."

New report: Poverty is an expensive political choice Poverty is not inevitable, argues the Nicolson Report, but a political choice costing Britain more than £75bn annually

Poverty in Britain isn’t an accident of economics – it’s a result of political choices.

The Nicolson Report argues the real scandal is how expensive poverty already is.

From the worldnews community on Reddit: Zelenskyy: Unfair that Trump publicly urges Ukraine, not Russia, to make concessions for peace Explore this post and more from the worldnews community

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Always always take these people down to specifics. That's where they consistently fall apart.