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Almost like you could have done something to prevent it but didn't. But that would be considered DEI.
And we don't want that huh.

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

I’ve watched too many of these raids to count. This one is one of the most infuriating in recent memory.

Appropriate that we learn about it on the same day SCOTUS hears oral arguments for a case that may remove the last remaining way to hold federal agents accountable for this kind of terror.

China's yuan challenge: Navigating a US dollar-dominated global economy Currency changes? The control-obsessed Chinese Communist Party isn’t going to hand over economic power any more than it would surrender political power.

Great piece on the dollar by Fraser Howie. The nut: China might be an economic whale, but it swims in a dollar sea. www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

George Magnus: Nobody Can Win This Trade War George Magnus, the former chief economist of UBS Investment Bank and author of the book «Red Flags», talks about the trade war between the US and China, the Trump administration’s approach and the que...

themarket.ch/interview/ge...

Commentary: What Donald Trump’s tariffs might end up doing to Taiwan Taiwan can little afford Donald Trump’s 32 per cent tariff and China knows that, says J Capital Research’s Anne Stevenson-Yang.

FWIW: www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/t...

How is Virginia north? Happy to have DC along though.

Connecticut and the Northeast need to secede from the union.

How China's exporters are scrambling to mitigate the impact of punishing U.S. tariffs For China's exporters, trying to mitigate new U.S. tariffs means raising prices for Americans while diversifying where possible, at home and abroad.

www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/h...

America’s largest egg producer saw profits triple last quarter after raking in millions in government assistance The egg giant sold 20% more eggs, but collected about 350% more dollars as it did pre-pandemic.

Speaking of price gouging: fortune.com/2025/04/10/e...

I can't understand these economists who say that debt doesn't matter. Payments on the nat'l debt are already over 13% of the budget and rising. That's about 2/3 of what we spend on social security.

Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.

Like Covid. If you don't report the statistics, they can't get worse. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

You know what's funny about the tariff whipsaw? Despite all the MAGA cheering for tariffs, I don't hear anyone saying "Don't back down! Tariffs are great!"

Because the countries we know about have said they will retaliate. So which countries are these?

The thing about corruption in government, which is now massive in the US, is that it tends to permeate all strata of administration, until the president has no control other than via purges.

YouTube video by ET NOW Trump Claims Ukraine War Would Not Have Occurred If He Were Still President | ET Now

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1G5...
ha ha. So full of s---

Gee, could it have been a payment?

The Biden administration gave TSMC billions to build its semiconductors in the U.S., but Trump says he threatened 100% tariffs and got the company to double down TSMC announced an additional $100 billion investment in the U.S. in March.

That was quick: fortune.com/2025/04/10/t...

Here's a prediction: TSMC commits $65 billion to Arizona (already done under Biden), and Morris Chang makes a $50 mln donation to the Trump re-election fund. Trump declares victory, the threatened 100% tariff on TSMC goes away, and everything continues as usual.

Trump administration backs off Nvidia’s ‘H20’ chip crackdown after Mar-a-Lago dinner — NPR The White House was expected to ban sales of the high-performance AI chip to China. Chinese companies had been stockpiling the chip but now the Trump administration is backing off.

It must be a coincidence that the Nvidia exception for shipping to China came after a $1 million-a-plate dinner at Mar a Lago: apple.news/AbOTOJGFTRM6...

What are the chances that this whole thing was about the Trump family front-running the market?

The Chinese United Front people seem to have gotten a lot smarter.

Trump to extend TikTok ban enforcement deadline to continue work on a deal to sell it | CNN Business President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he will again delay enforcement of the TikTok sale-or-ban law for 75 days, as his staff continues to work on a deal to preserve access to the app in the...

www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/t... Lots of due process for corporations, none for individuals.

And guess what? His lawyer was Pam Bondi's husband.

I love how green is down and red is up on the Shanghai index. It's very Maoist.

Gee I wonder why that it.

‘Loser’: Musk endures wave of gloating on X after liberal judge wins Wisconsin race Democrats seize on result as a referendum on Musk and an emphatic repudiation of Trump’s richest supporter and ally Democrats were tasting unfamiliar triumphalism on Wednesday after the election for a vacant Wisconsin supreme court seat turned into an emphatic repudiation of Elon Musk, Donald Trump’s richest supporter and key ally. Musk endured a wave of gloating on X, his own the social media platform, after Brad Schimel, a Trump-endorsed judge that he spent $25m supporting lost by 10 percentage points to Susan Crawford, whose victory sustained a four-three liberal majority on the court. Continue reading...

‘Loser’: Musk endures wave of gloating on X after liberal judge wins Wisconsin race

DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.

www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

How exciting. The Nikola founder got a pardon. What a time for scammers to be alive!

Being removed from this program would destroy vast swathes of American academia...which is why the fascist coup currently running things is gearing up to do it.