Claire Duquette

Bill Ackman, hedge fund billionaire and key Trump ally, slams tariffs The Wall Street mogul warned of “economic nuclear winter” as the threat of an all-out trade war triggers a global market meltdown.

The United States is “heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter, and we should start hunkering down,” Bill Ackman, a hedge fund billionaire who endorsed Donald Trump’s 2024 candidacy, wrote on the social media site X on Sunday.

Tim Walz: "It's not a 'woke policy' to provide food for children to get breakfast and lunch, and we get better outcomes from that. They defined things on their terms that weren't true ... we got timid."

If only they would

Hours in Line, Cut-Off Calls: Accessing Social Security in the Era of DOGE Advocates say cutbacks hurt the agency’s already depleted field offices: “It’s like a house of cards.”

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are cutting Social Security staff, closing offices, and shutting off vital phone services.

One field office worker called it a "house of cards that's about to collapse."

This attack is hurting Americans everywhere. We will keep fighting back.

Disgraceful

We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy.

Third time’s the charm, I guess.

The Great Lakes Compact has been a shockingly good system of protecting our greatest fresh water resource. I totally think breaking it to sell/siphon off water is part of this administration's agenda.

The US and Canada have long managed the Great Lakes together. That era could be ending. Political tensions are threatening the future of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth

Political tensions are threatening the future of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth.

I am hoping I am getting this pedestrian stuff right.

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Wisconsin residents are receiving text messages from a (202) D.C. area code, falsely urging them not to vote in the upcoming election. These messages are not legitimate.

D.C. U.S. attorney tells Georgetown he won’t hire from any school with ‘DEI’ Trump appointee Ed Martin made the claim in a letter to the Georgetown University law school dean. Martin has called the school a “locus” of anti-Trump activity.

D.C. U.S. attorney tells Georgetown he won’t hire from any school with ‘DEI’

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And the punches keep coming

This is so distressing

I have used em dashes since AI was science fiction....

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