Caroline 🌊🩵🌎🇸🇪

"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women." 

—FDR, 1932

What I heard is the same sentiment from most here in the Nordic countries.

A poster with a cat and the words: THE WRONG AMAZON IS BURNING THE WRONG ICE Is MELTING

Good morning 🫡

Shameful

I promise that a majority of us in the EU would welcome you with open arms. Canada is a steadfast ally who can be trusted.

Absolutely, I'm Swedish and the general opinion here is that we can't trust the US as an ally anymore.

The president is hawking fragrances while the State of Florida is celebrating its first concentration camp by handing out swag.

I'm rooting for the asteroid now more than ever.

#DontStopBelieving 🤞

Trump ready to ‘move on’ from Ukraine peace talks if no progress, Rubio says Rubio’s remarks appear to reflect the president’s frustration with the difficulty of achieving peace in Ukraine after Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion.

i cannot emphasize enough that if you thought trump would bring the war to a close or even make headway on a peace agreement then you are among the dumbest people alive www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The rest of the world has run out of patience with Trump.

The USA is running out of patience with Ukraine for being bombed by Russia.

Political cartoon showing people boarding cattle cars in 1938 compared to people being deported on planes in 2025.

Same shit, different century.

Who will be left to speak out for us when they come for us?

I love this! 👇🏻

NYT headline from last August: "Harris and Trump Embrace Tariffs, Though Their Approaches Differ"

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

I thought this was an Onion headline. I had to double check 🤦
Fiddling while Rome burns comes to mind

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand.

You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls

RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

Trump curses out ex-adviser after misdialing him: report President Donald Trump accidentally called his estranged former National Security Adviser, H.R. McMaster — and then cursed him out when he realized what had happened, according to CBS News on Wednesda...

Trump accidentally called his estranged former National Security Adviser, H.R. McMaster — and then cursed him out when he realized what had happened, according to CBS News on Wednesday night.

Phones are hard ... allegedly.

www.rawstory.com/trump-hr-mcm...

Historians wept. 🗃️

How are you americans handling this bullshit?
it's one lie after another while destroying the country.

All this "fraud" and yet still not a single fraud charge filed.

It's alteady happening here in Sweden. Lots of ppl avoid "made in the U.S.A." things. Lots have cancelled Amazon Prime and our local grocery store has put Canadian flags by the maple syrup etc.

What deal?

I ask with all the open-minded good faith I can muster. As far as I know, the US did not make any trade deal with any country. Even in the most generous interpretation, what deal? What did the US achieve with threatening, imposing, then partially rescinding tariffs?

US DOGE Service Agreement With Department of Labor Shows $1.3 Million Fee—and Details Its Mission The unsigned agreement between the US DOGE Service and the Department of Labor provides significant insight into DOGE's work with federal agencies.

NEW: An unsigned interagency agreement calls for the Dept of Labor to reimburse the US DOGE Service up to **$1.3 million** for work done by four DOGE affiliates over 18 months.

Musk has previously stated that DOGE staffers would cost taxpayers nothing.

from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social:

So close to getting it. 🔥

abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

Trading graph showing a spike in trading about 20 mins prior to the announcement of the pause.

I guess I wasn't invited to this particular Signal chat, but it's clear that a group of people found a reason to start buying about 20 minutes before the tariff pause was announced.

Is this the clearest evidence yet of insider trading and mass market manipulation around the tariffs?

Pronouns aren’t real?

I don't think people realize that in important respects tariffs are now higher & more inflationary than what was announced on last Wednesday.

Since then we've gone from 54% to 125% on China, our 3rd largest trading partner. That outweighs delaying the increases on 70+ others.