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Trump’s Canada Trade War Hits Jack Daniel’s & Jim Beam With a ‘Devastating’ $143 Million Loss
US spirits exports to Canada have plunged by nearly 70%, collapsing from what had been a roughly $250 million annual market for American distillers to just $89 million.
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Black Monday Tomorrow?
“This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society.”
The DHS is using Mobile Fortify, an app that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query DHS databases for matches, on protestors.
“A new study from Northwestern University warns that coordinated scientific fraud is becoming increasingly common. From fabricated data to purchased authorships and paid citations, researchers say organized groups are manipulating the academic publishing system. To investigate the issue, scientists combined large scale analysis of scientific publications with detailed case studies. While misconduct is often portrayed as the work of individual researchers cutting corners, the Northwestern team discovered something far more complex. Their findings reveal global networks of people and organizations working together to systematically exploit weaknesses in the publishing process. The scale of the problem is striking. According to the researchers, traudulent studies are now appearing at a faster rate than legitimate scientific publications. The authors say the findings should serve as a warning to the scientific community to strengthen safeguards before public trust in s E ence begins to erode.”
“This study is probably the most depressing project I've been involved with in my entire life…It's distressing to see others engage in fraud &in misleading others. But if you believe that science is useful & important for humanity, then you have to fight for it”🧪
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Holy shit: the guy who cut millions in grants because they were DEI cannot form a coherent explanation of what DEI is bsky.app/profile/lmrh...
Vance: "When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."
Over the past year, Trump has pushed nearly 7,000 workers out at the Social Security Administration and reassigned thousands more away from field office work.
The result?
A swath of "ghost offices" that are open in name only after being drained of the staff required to function.
The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️
@wsj.com
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Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoes Charlie Kirk specialty license plate bill
ground.news/article/hobb... good news
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Trump on January 22, 2020 when the CDC confirmed the first US covid case: “We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It's going to be just fine.”
🚨 Japan’s Nikkei stock index plunges more than 6%
Trump works for Putin. Plain & simple. I don’t know why, by now, anyone has a hard time saying that. Call Trump a Putin puppet, call him a Russian asset, whatever. The truth is the same. Trump works for Putin.
"Herrera has come under fire for a long history of posting Nazi imagery and his involvement in the Sons of Confederate Veterans...
"His line 'I often think about putting a gun in my mouth. So, I’m basically an honorary veteran' was a flashpoint for criticism..."
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
This raises the obvious question of what kind of thing the Trump admin might need the National Transportation Safety Board to do that a conscientious Board member would reject.
We're on our own, America.
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I did see that, they’re also extensively targeting Iranian oil reserves right now.
The ramifications of this war are going to be catastrophic.
I’m just gonna say we’re getting to his pain point.
Brilliant 🏆
Isata Kanneh-Mason absolutely tears through Rachmaninoff’s fiendish Piano Concerto No. 3 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...
Literal architects of concentration camps
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed...
"How will you pay for it?"
The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts...
"How much do you need?"
It doesn't have to be this way.
Bekah Day releases more gold from the Epstein files. Look at how tightly interwoven they are.
The Middle East is on fire. Gas prices are soaring. Jobs are disappearing. Senile Satan is golfing again.
"Country" Joe McDonald died today. Fierce anti-war protest artist and Berkeley icon, he was 84. He was the frontman for Country Joe and the Fish and they were maybe most famous for starting "I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die" by having the audience spell out F-U-C-K. 💝
