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☝️ Tariffs are either a permanent source of income or a temporary negotiation tactic. MAGA claims it's both, while in reality they're mutually exclusive at best.
hashtag#USA and hashtag#China agree to a 90-day pause on new tariffs after shipping to US ports plummeted.
Stories like this make me sad. I can't see any justification for this: www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...?
15.04.2025 16:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
somebody has to re-edit this with Trump and his cronies replacing the slack-mouthed students from Ferris Bueller's Day off. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOH...
02.04.2025 23:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Right now, we have an authoritarian president.
He called CNN "illegal." He is trying to encroach on the spending powers of Congress. He is going after the courts.
Trump does not respect our Constitution. He just wants more and more power for himself.
Trump’s America
19.03.2025 04:56 — 👍 6194 🔁 1613 💬 405 📌 153By attacking science:
We are less safe because science informs national security and medical care.
We are less prosperous because science drives innovation and economic benefit.
We are less free because science and democracy depend on the liberty to ask questions, and seek and share knowledge.
Ostler: Cancel Jackie Robinson for making history? Only Team Trump would try that
www.sfchronicle.com/sports/ostle...
S.F. may soon know why it's so much slower than other cities in building
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...
17.03.2025 00:06 — 👍 1106 🔁 255 💬 41 📌 14
Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years.
Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.
It takes 6 months to produce the flu vaccine, so NOW is the time to select the strain to mass produce for the vaccines. By missing the deadline, the Trump/RFKjr-led FDA is endangering many immune compromised and elderly people www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
27.02.2025 21:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the United States this week refused to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the United Nations. It instead broke from its allies and voted with Russia, Belarus and North Korea, all authoritarian governments.
27.02.2025 20:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This weeks cover of the always superb @theneweuropean.bsky.social
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Funding for continuing grants administered by the National Cancer Institute has dropped from $162 million between February 1, 2024, and February 22, 2024, to $27 million over the same period this year.
27.02.2025 13:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Despite court order, NIH grants remain frozen. Newly awarded grants, grants with fundable scores, & funds for a new budget cycle of a current project are all *FROZEN*🥶 and not being released. US research is being choked to death & is on life support right now www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Measles top Page One.
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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
26.02.2025 23:17 — 👍 6779 🔁 3507 💬 418 📌 1216
A shame to see the Mill and MPC shutting down.The article says Technicolor cited “severe financial challenges” and said it would be “required to cease our U.S. operations as early as Monday, February 25,” when TODAY is Feb 25th, a TUESDAY, not a MONDAY. Hmm. www.adweek.com/agencies/tec...
25.02.2025 18:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“The Fart of the Deal” was the general approach to having the U.S. backed forces SURRENDER to Russia today in the Ukraine war negotiations. A strong whiff of Neville Chamberlain as well from the Trump MAGAt delegation? Trump is a LOSER, and he single handedly lost this war. Putin owned Trump.
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