Jessica: Before this deal, we essentially were paying 1% on imports with the EU. 15% is more than 1%. I wish Gasparino was sitting here to explain to Jesse how tariffs work because it is a tax on the consumer.
94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet.
The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.
Something has gone terribly wrong.
It's utterly bizarre that the President's own daughter-in-law, who he is pushing for a Senate seat, is conducting an "interview" and it's treated like "journalism" by a major news outlet.
At some point, if control of a house of Congress changes, opponents of this WH’s lawlessness might have to confront it with something like a Westminster-style cutoff of supply — a defunding of the operations of Executive Office of the President specifically.
Minutes after we published this article, Sean Hannity removed a video from his Instagram account that falsely claimed to show an explosion at the Fordow nuclear facility in Iran.
The post had been up since Saturday night and viewed over 5 million times
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I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history
"The days of 'Learn to code' might be coming to an end," @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes. "If the numbers are any indication, we might have passed peak computer science":
“Trump and his “border czar,” …Tom Homan, had been insisting for months that the deportation campaign would prioritize violent criminals and avoid indiscriminate roundups. Miller has told ICE officials to disregard that and to hit Home Depot parking lots.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The most trusted outlets among Republicans were Fox News and “The Joe Rogan Experience,” according to the new Pew Research Center study. Meanwhile, 13 outlets saw similar or higher levels of trust among Democrats, with the two highest being ABC and NBC.
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Fox News’ depiction of the LA protests is a grim fantasy — one that encourages Trump to realize his vision of U.S. troops crushing left-wing dissent.
Rage farmers are out in force this morning, deceptively recycling months-old news as #breaking for clicks. Don't let them manipulate you, outrage fatigue is real. Seeing the same outrage over & over can wear you down emotionally. Here's how to deal with it. www.scientificamerican.com/article/outr...
Damn. Damn. Damn. Damn them. This was such a promising direction and now the neanderthals in charge of everything in this country and trying to kill us all.
Special Issue on social studies projects addressing the edfects of polarization mow available in Demcracy & Education (open access) @cufancss.bsky.social @socialstudies.org @aeraedresearch.bsky.social democracyeducationjournal.org/home/vol33/i...
One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.
In this op-ed, politics editor @leximcmenamin.com addresses the environmental costs of AI that not many seem to be talking about ⤵️
Thread.
When you’ve lost John Yoo…
The Worst Person You Know Just Made Some Great Points
Wisconsinites across place, race, and party turned out in record numbers for the election on April 1.
We, the people, have the power to create the future we want, a democracy that works for all of us and includes us all.
www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-04-16/n...
A reminder that you could levy a 50% tax on the 50 wealthiest people in the world, redistribute the resulting revenue to functionally eliminate global poverty, and most of those 50 people would *still* be the wealthiest in the world.
Poverty and externalised costs are a policy choice.
"Secretive Chinese network tried to lure fired federal workers, research shows" www.nbcnews.com/news/world/s...
NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony.
Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.
If you missed this #TPS webinar with @drtinaellsworth.bsky.social and @vannabbott.bsky.social it was AWESOMESAUCE!! Valencia elevated a local history project with her students and took it to a new level! Bravo!! Let me know if it is okay to post a link to your slides! 💜🗺️👩🏽🏫🏛️📜💡📚📖👩🏻💻
First, they came for Oscar—just a grouch, no one cried.
Then Cookie Monster—too messy, too much.
One by one, they vanished.
When they came for you, the street was empty.
Even the echoes were gone.
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Head start, fema, snap, the VA, farmers, international aid for kids, refugees and aids patients, kids with disabilities, teachers, and not to mention healthcare research…..really? At what point does this seem like a good idea if you care about Americans and humans in general?
Wow, Rick Steves just gave a BARNBURNER of a speech at his small hometown's Hands Off Rally. recorder.google.com/0e070222-930...
Worst two-day stock market crashes in the U.S. by percentage loss:
1. 1929 (the Great Depression)
2. 1987 (Black Monday)
3. 2008 (the Great Recession)
4. YESTERDAY AND TODAY
And while this happened, the man responsible for it was golfing and dining with enemies of America.
Learn more about National History Day & what we are losing. ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Bf...
Graph showing the FY24 federal budget: Dept of Defence: $841B NIH: $47B NSF: $9B IMLS: $0.3B NEH: $0.2B
The bloodbaths at IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) and NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) show that Musk's DOGE has NOTHING TO DO WITH SAVING $.
IMLS budget: $295M
NEH budget: $211M
These are tiny drops in the federal spending bucket.
This is about ideological control.
