Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff

Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.

Good morning. It is now past 12AM EST, meaning the largest car tariff in American history has just taken affect, hitting more than $200B in vehicles, including 25% on most vehicles and 25% on the non-US content in imports from Mexico and Canada.

The Trump administration blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money.

New curse just dropped.

To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Could Slash Benefits for Poor, Working Class www.propublica.org/article/trum...

More Parents Say Allowing Child To Play Football Not Worth Risk Of Being Drafted By Jets
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if you're a tech journalist in the present climate, it's incumbent upon you to ask why big tech is pursuing dead ends like AI when they could just start using the number 2. ones and zeroes have taken us as far as they can. either chuck a few 2s in there or cede the future of tech to those who will

tapping the sign

SCOOP: One of D.C.'s leading news stations, WUSA9, quietly took down two stories about the health impact of gas stoves to allow one of their advertisers, Washington Gas, to comment.

One of the stories remained down for 6 days. The other is still down.

heated.world/p/dc-news-st...

Very funny to me that there is a Denver NIMBY group that calls itself "Denver YIMBYs for GOOD" and bought the denveryimby.org domain name

Not great

Trump Transition Live Updates: Trump Wants Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Be Health Secretary www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...

Kum & Go is being renamed, tragic www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/b...