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Former defense/military technology executive. Interests: Politics, investing, cosmology, nature of reality, demographics and preserving democracy. Aspiring to be a middle aged white guy influencer - on the left.

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The Wall Street Journal Torches Trump for ‘Hurting His Own Cause and Country’ Instead of China: ‘Making It Up as He Goes’ The Wall Street Journal continued its assault on Donald Trump's trade policy in a new editorial questioning if Trump even has a "China trade strategy."

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The Wall Street Journal criticizes Trump for a steady stream of bad policy decisions and for appearing to be making everything up as he goes along.

11.04.2025 20:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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US consumer sentiment plummets to second-lowest level on records going back to 1952 | CNN Business Americans are rarely this pessimistic about the economy.

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Consumer sentiment hits the 2nd lowest level since 1952. Consumers are gloomy and expect inflation to rise significantly.

11.04.2025 20:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump admin misses judge’s deadline to detail steps for wrongly deported man’s return Kilmar Abrego García was deported to a Salvadoran mega-prison despite an immigration judge’s order to withhold his removal due to concerns for his safety after his family was threatened by MS-13 gang ...

The Trump Admin missed the judge’s deadline to detail steps for a wrongly deported man’s return. Why the Administration would want an innocent man to remain in an El Salvador torture prison is horrific enough. But maybe they may know that he's been killed.
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11.04.2025 20:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Finally Met an Adversary Totally Immune to His Bullshit And it’s not the Supreme Court.

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Trump can bribe people, corrupt politicians and threaten law firms and colleges but the bond market doesn't care. And it caused him to back down. The bond market is showing that investors and countries may no longer see the U.S. as a reliable place to invest.

11.04.2025 20:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s Not Just Trump Destroying Democracy The House passes a bill that could disenfranchise millions

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The Republicans in the House have joined the Republicans in the Senate in passing a bill to make it much harder to vote.

10.04.2025 22:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Feds Launch Audit of DOGE After Series of ‘Alarming’ Reports The Government Accountability Office is investigating Musk’s department.

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The Government Accountability Office - the only remaining uncompromised watchdog - is looking into Elon Musk's DOGE over complaints into their accessing and compromising sensitive personal and government information.

10.04.2025 21:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AOC Demands Ban on Congress ‘Insider Trading’ After Record Stock Rebound “Any member of Congress who purchased stocks in the last 48 hours should probably disclose that now,” the New York congresswoman wrote on X.

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Alexandria Ocasio Cortez demands that Congress be barred from insider trading since Marjorie Taylor Greene and others made well timed stock buys before Trump backed off the tariffs.

10.04.2025 21:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Donald Trump suffers quadruple approval rating blow New polling data reveals a sharp decline in Trump's approval ratings amid dissatisfaction with his economic policies.

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More bad news for Trump, the latest polls show his approval rating down to 41% and disapproval at 53%. YouGov and other polls are showing similar numbers.

10.04.2025 21:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fund managers worry about Trump’s mental state amid tariff debacle Some fund managers concerned ‘that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear that this may not even be ideology’

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Fund managers are starting to not only question Trump's motives but his sanity.

10.04.2025 21:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rogan warns of Trump admin's "horrific" deportations He lamented "people who are not criminals ... getting lassoed up and deported and sent to El Salvador prisons."

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Joe Rogan, who's podcast has the largest MAGA following has told his audience about the "horrific" Trump Administration deportation policy. He highlighted that people who were here legally and not guilty of a crime and being grabbed by ICE and deported to El Salvador.

03.04.2025 16:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Elon Musk’s Epic Cybertruck Fail Elon Musk’s polygonal pickup is a polarizing sales flop that's missed the billionaire’s volume goal by a staggering 84%. And there’s no sign that things are improving.

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Elon Musk's Cybertruck is the biggest automotive industry failure in decades. Sales have missed projections by a staggering 84%. There are no signs of improvement on the horizon.

03.04.2025 16:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Boston judge holds ICE agent in contempt after he detained suspect during a trial Boston Municipal Court Judge Mark Summerville made the ruling Monday after ICE agent Brian Sullivan detained Wilson Martell-Lebron last week, arguing that doing so deprived Martell-Lebron of his right...

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A judge held an ICE agent in contempt when he waited outside a courthouse and grabbed a man who was in the middle of a trial. He had not been found guilty of a crime. The judge ultimately dismissed the case against him.

03.04.2025 16:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Targets African Kingdom With Highest Tariff in the World (Bloomberg) -- US President Donald Trump imposed a 50% reciprocal tariff on the tiny southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, the highest levy for any sovereign nation. Most Read from BloombergMe...

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Donald Trump's tariffs barrage seems to have no rhyme or reason with some targeted lands not even being inhabited (at least by humans). The tiny African Kingdom of Lesotho gets the highest tariffs at 50%.🙄

03.04.2025 16:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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French far-right's Le Pen sentenced to prison and banned from office in embezzlement trial Le Pen may still appeal the four-year sentence, two years of it suspended, and five-year political ban, which came after she was found guilty of misusing $3 million to pay party staff.

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Marie Le Pen, the far right politician who hoped to be France's President has been convicted of embezzling money from the European Union and sentenced to prison time while also being banned from serving in public office.

31.03.2025 22:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Americans are spending less as they brace for new tariffs Even the wealthiest households are cutting back on extras like plastic surgery, restaurant meals and travel.

Today in Trumpenomics. Americans are spending less as they brace for new tariffs. Even the most affluent Americans are cutting back on spending - which is relatively unusual and an ominous sign for the Trump economy.

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31.03.2025 21:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICE giving governor cold shoulder over Tufts student arrest, Healey says Gov. Maura Healey says she has heard ‘really nothing’ from the administration over the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk or more than 300 others.

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After a Tufts University graduate student was grabbed off the street in Somerville, MA and whisked away to a detention center in Louisiana, the Governor of Massachusetts has been unable to get any information on her status or whereabouts.

31.03.2025 21:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stock market today: Dow gains 400 points, stocks reverse losses as markets cap worst quarter since 2022 Uncertainty about the scope of this week's reciprocal tariffs is weighing on already battered markets.

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Today in Trumpenomics. Wall Street just finished it's worst quarterly performance since 2022.

31.03.2025 21:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Entire World Is Pissed at Trump—and It May Cost the U.S. Big Time There’s a growing global call to boycott American-made goods.

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Across the world, there are soft and hard boycotts against the U.S. in response to Trump. American suppliers reliant on sales in Canada are in panic mode as Canadian retailers remove U.S. products from their shelves.

31.03.2025 21:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tax revenue could drop by 10 percent amid turmoil at IRS Staff cuts and disruptions related to the U.S. DOGE Service have officials bracing for a sharp loss of revenue.

Tax revenue could drop by 10 percent amid staffing cuts and turmoil at IRS created by Elon Musk's DOGE. This amounts to costing the government more than $500B which for reference is nearly 2/3 the entire Defense budget, the single largest budget line.

25.03.2025 17:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Americans' expectations for the economy hit their lowest level in 12 years Tuesday's reading is one of several that have shown weakening expectations for the economy among consumers.

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The Trump Slump continues. Americans expectations for the economy craters to the lowest level in 12 years as rising prices, policy uncertainty and chaos dog consumer sentiment.

25.03.2025 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Playing favorites': Trump comes to rescue of Musk and Tesla amid DOGE backlash President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are pushing Tesla as the share price of Elon Musk's car company takes a DOGE-related beating.

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The former White House Ethics Chief under George W. Bush says this is just unprecedented - The U.S. government working to benefit the company of President Trump's biggest financial backer.

23.03.2025 17:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You think Republicans realize they've started hurting the wrong people? | Opinion Trump's latest political mistake is an attempt to exsanguinate the U.S. Department of Education, which hurls money at Republican states.

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Republicans, especially MAGA Republicans, were excited as Trump took on the DEI bogeyman, trans people, and deported immigrants. But as they've shifted to cutting Medicare, the VA, the FAA, and cutting Federal workers in red states, support appears to be waning.

23.03.2025 16:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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While Trump rages at judges blocking his agenda, his top lieutenants used the courts to block Biden’s policies - The Boston Globe Before President Trump took office, many of his top lieutenants were seeking rulings from judges that blocked the policies of Joe Biden.

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Never missing a chance for hypocrisy. While Trump rages about judges blocking his agenda, his top advisors used hand picked judges and courts to block President Biden's initiatives throughout Biden's term.

20.03.2025 17:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tesla recalls over 46,000 Cybertrucks Elon Musk's electric vehicle maker said it had to recall the cybertruck vehicles over an issue with a panel that can detach while driving.

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In another blow for Elon Musk's Tesla, all 2024 and 2025 model Cybertrucks are being recalled due to side panels that fly off when driving.

20.03.2025 17:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Musk needs to change course': One of Tesla's biggest bulls says Musk needs to refocus as stock flounders Wedbush tech analyst Dan Ives said Tesla CEO Elon Musk needs to refocus on the company after a brutal three-month stretch for Tesla stock.

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Top investor and analyst, Dan Ives, said Tesla CEO Elon Musk needs to refocus on the company after a brutal three-month stretch for Tesla stock and sales declines. Maybe Musk is too focused instead on cutting off the poor and disabled from their benefits?

20.03.2025 17:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tesla shares fall after Lutnick goes on TV and recommends stock His comments are the latest in what has effectively become an administration campaign to defend Musk's company.

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President Trump's Commerce Secretary Lutnick shilled for Elon Musk's Tesla stock and it had the opposite effect of what was intended - as the stock continued its slide. Apparently investors could smell the desperation on Elon's behalf.

20.03.2025 16:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Trump Recession: How One Man’s “Success” is Wrecking America From economic collapse to global blunders, Trump’s policies are backfiring—bigly.

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The Trump recession. So far Trump's actions have damaged the U.S. economy, crippled critical international security alliances, and stirred up damaging retaliatory tariffs. Trump's policies have backfired spectacularly.

18.03.2025 22:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chief Justice John Roberts rejects Trump’s call for impeaching judge who ruled against his deportation plans - The Boston Globe President Trump had demanded the impeachment of a federal judge who ordered deportation flights be halted over the weekend.

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked the Trump Administration's attempt to impeach a judge just because that judge had ruled against them.

18.03.2025 22:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tesla stock falls again as Chinese rivals BYD, Xiaomi, and XPeng announce new updates Tesla's competitors in China disclosed a slew of updates on Tuesday, once again signaling that competition on the mainland is fierce for the EV juggernaut and the Chinese upstarts.

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Tesla's stock cratered again on Tuesday as CEO Elon Musk's politics are crushing sales and competitors in China disclosed a slew of updates on Tuesday, showing further technology advancement beyond Tesla.

18.03.2025 22:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Investors ditch US stocks in 'bull crash': Bank of America Investors' bullish stance on US stocks has reversed as concerns over a global trade war have driven equities lower.

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Bank of America says that Investors' bullish stance on US stocks has reversed into a "bull crash" as concerns grow over Trump's trade policies.

18.03.2025 22:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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