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CBP says latest tariffs have generated $500 million, well below Trump's estimate Trump has repeatedly said the United States is taking in $2 billion per day from tariffs.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection appears to be contradicting President Donald Trump’s comments on the daily revenue generated by his latest slate of tariffs.

The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers The world’s richest man juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump. He recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over mone...

Sure, let's definitely put this guy in charge of everything.

"While she was pregnant, Musk had urged her to deliver the baby via caesarean section (Musk has posted on X that vaginal births limit brain size and that C-sections allow for larger brains)..."
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Autism is not a disease and these kids are not damaged, despite what HHS Secretary Kennedy says.

Really sad that we’re now powerless against a country like El Salvador.

Trump administration says it lacks authority to get Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to provide daily updates on efforts to recover Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison.

The Trump administration told a federal judge on Monday that it does not have the authority to compel El Salvador to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States from a notorious prison despite a court order and U.S. Supreme Court ruling saying that should happen.

Markets Turn From Fear to Euphoria as Trump Backpedals on Tariffs Five gut-wrenching days after Donald Trump’s America-versus-the-world trade war threw stock and bond markets around the world into disarray, he backpedaled and, in the process, pulled the financial sy...

Five gut-wrenching days after Trump’s America-versus-the-world trade war threw stock and bond markets around the world into disarray, he backpedaled and, in the process, pulled the financial system back from the brink

Stock market manipulation.

He’s manipulating the stock market and no one is even calling it out.

Asia Was Winning the Fight Against Malaria. Then Trump Returned Medical workers were tantalizingly close to eradicating malaria in much of Southeast Asia. But US cuts to foreign aid have put progress at risk.

Medical workers were tantalizingly close to eradicating malaria in much of Southeast Asia. But US cuts to foreign aid have put progress at risk.

Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.

Trump Takes a Wrecking Ball to Wall Street Stocks get crushed by recession fears, with the S&P 500 plunging 9% this week.

Wall Street sent a clear message this week: the trade war Trump unleashed is threatening to set off a worldwide recession — and fast

cnbc front page just before 3pm on friday 4.4.25

the president himself is off to a golf event.

Trump's $1.6 Trillion Corporate Pledge Parade: What’s Real, What’s Not Business leaders have pledged at least $1.6 trillion in US spending since Trump was elected to a second term as president. If history is any guide, not all of it will materialize.

President Donald Trump has taken credit for much of $1.6 trillion in spending pledges and 426,000 promised jobs.

But if history is any guide, not all of it will materialize

Trump’s reciprocal tariffs have sparked fears of a global slowdown.

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If Trumpty-Dumpty is working with the Russians to screw up America, he's doing a great job. Eggs, $11 a dozen. Health & Human Services down the dumper, ditto VA. If you call Social Security, they tell you to call back later. Guys 'n gals, this is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

Opinion | RFK Jr. Is Already Vindicating His Critics Shrinking HHS makes sense, but giving power to antivaccine crusader David Geier doesn’t.

Wall Street Journal editorial board:

"Our worst fears about Mr. Kennedy are coming true..."

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US Employers Tap Brakes as Tariff Policy Dims Outlook US employers probably tempered their hiring in March, just as consumers grow increasingly cautious and the economic outlook dims on concerns about the fallout from higher tariffs.

With consumer spending and confidence sliding, any notable weakening in job growth would raise additional concerns about the economy’s prospects

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’

“You’ve got to just band together and say an attack on one university is an attack on all universities.

And maybe you lose that fight, but you’re certainly going to lose this one if you give up before you fight."

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Core inflation in February hits 2.8%, hotter than expected; spending increases 0.4% The PCE price index was expected to increase 0.3% in February while spending was projected to rise 0.5%.

The Federal Reserve’s key inflation measure rose more than expected in February while consumer spending also posted a smaller than projected increase, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

Once an Economy Switches from Rules to Deals, It’s Hard to Go Back Americans of all political affiliations will miss the checks and balances that Donald Trump is trying to dispense with.

Is America feeling lucky? When power is concentrated in the hands of one person, good governance starts to depend on luck

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c...

"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..."

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The Atlantic publishes full Signal thread with Hegseth, Waltz after Trump says texts not classified The Signal thread included President Donald Trump's national security advisor Michael Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and others.

The Atlantic on Wednesday published the full text thread from the Trump administration’s Signal group that accidentally included a prominent journalist in discussions of pending U.S. military strikes.

Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.

"It’s not clear how or why Geier, who is not a physician and has an undergraduate degree from the Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore County, was chosen...

"He was disciplined by Maryland regulators over a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license...

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What??! ! Such a serious breach and this is his response, political rhetoric?! What is happening to our country?!

Sec of Defense calls his signal text thread a hoax

Greenland leaders call visit by US officials this week a ‘provocation’ that shows a ‘lack of respect’ – US politics live Outgoing PM says Greenland can no longer trust Americans before visit led by Usha Vance and Mike Waltz Danish police have sent extra personnel and sniffer dogs to Greenland as the icy island steps up security measures ahead of a planned visit this week by second lady Usha Vance, AP reports. The extra officers, deployed the day before, were part of regular steps taken during visits by dignitaries to Greenland, a self-governing, mineral-rich territory of American ally Denmark, a spokesperson said. Continue reading...

Greenland leaders call visit by US officials this week a ‘provocation’ that shows a ‘lack of respect’ – US politics live

‘Our Dreams Are Shattered’: Russian Soldiers’ Wives Learn of Infidelity on the Front - The Moscow Times “Military men are my red flag now,” writes Yevgenia, a blogger from the Black Sea resort city of Sochi on Instagram.

For some Russian military wives, their husbands' deployment to Ukraine has led to infidelity — throwing their marriages and their futures into disarray.

Marco Rubio Announces Stunning Extent of USAID Purge Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the six-week review of USAID is complete.

“You sad, shitty human,” said Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson. “You know the damage to America this will do in the world, but can’t resist the lure of power and Trump’s approval.”

This is no surprise. Of course it would come to this. How sad.

How is this even legal in the United States of America?