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It’s not just women’s health they want to control, it’s our votes.
One of the founders of Project 2025, John McEntee has said he wants the 19th amendment (granting women the right to vote) to go. Believe them.
One of the founders of Project 2025, John McEntee has said he wants the 19th amendment (granting women the right to vote) to go. Believe them.
Johnson Reaches Agreement to Kill Proxy Voting Proposal in the House
Republicans who had been poised to force a vote on changing House rules to allow new parents to vote remotely pulled back after the speaker offered a watered-down solution for a narrow set of new moth...
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It’s not just women’s health they want to control, it’s our votes.
One of the founders of Project 2025, John McEntee has said he wants the 19th amendment (granting women the right to vote) to go. Believe them.
One of the founders of Project 2025, John McEntee has said he wants the 19th amendment (granting women the right to vote) to go. Believe them.
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This cartoon is almost 20 years old, but it could have been published today. 🇵🇸🇮🇱
April 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This cartoon is almost 20 years old, but it could have been published today. 🇵🇸🇮🇱
Trevor Philips, "Is the 10% tariff on the UK a benefit of Brexit?"
Caroline Lucas, "Leaving the EU costs us 5% of GDP"
"Trump's 10% tariff has an impact of 0.3%"
"And this special relationship with the US is no better than an island with a whole load of penguins on it"
Caroline Lucas, "Leaving the EU costs us 5% of GDP"
"Trump's 10% tariff has an impact of 0.3%"
"And this special relationship with the US is no better than an island with a whole load of penguins on it"
April 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Musk wore a cheese hat & made a $20 million donation to Brad Schimel's Wisconsin Supreme Court campaign saying the result would affect “the course of Western civilization.” Brad lost!
Trump imposed a 10% tariff on the uninhabited Heard & McDonald Islands.....he started a trade war with penguins.
Trump imposed a 10% tariff on the uninhabited Heard & McDonald Islands.....he started a trade war with penguins.
April 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Musk wore a cheese hat & made a $20 million donation to Brad Schimel's Wisconsin Supreme Court campaign saying the result would affect “the course of Western civilization.” Brad lost!
Trump imposed a 10% tariff on the uninhabited Heard & McDonald Islands.....he started a trade war with penguins.
Trump imposed a 10% tariff on the uninhabited Heard & McDonald Islands.....he started a trade war with penguins.
Here she is again, Karoline Leavitt is top of the Liz Truss Bull5hit Scale twice in one day.
Trump is behind a ‘spiritual revival’ in the U.S,’ says Karoline Leavitt
Karoline Leavitt said that evidence of renewed faith, especially within younger generations was becoming more visible and that it was a ‘beautiful sight’
www.independent.co.uk
April 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Here she is again, Karoline Leavitt is top of the Liz Truss Bull5hit Scale twice in one day.
Madagascar - one of the poorest nations in the world with gross domestic product (GDP) per head of just over $500 - meanwhile faces a 47% tariff on the modest $733 million of exports of vanilla, metals and apparel that it did with the U.S. last year.
Trump's tariff formula confounds the world, punishes the poor
Ridiculed for imposing trade tariffs on frozen islands largely inhabited by penguins, Donald Trump's formula for calculating those levies has a serious side: it is also hitting some of the world's poorest nations hardest.
www.reuters.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Madagascar - one of the poorest nations in the world with gross domestic product (GDP) per head of just over $500 - meanwhile faces a 47% tariff on the modest $733 million of exports of vanilla, metals and apparel that it did with the U.S. last year.
CNBC's Steve Liesman “So I called international trade economic experts & nobody had heard of this formula. Nobody has ever used this formula. The conclusion seems to be that the president made this up as he went along. He made it up.”
CNBC host trashes Trump’s ‘made-up’ tariff rates: ‘Nobody ever heard of this formula’
‘Nobody has ever used this formula. So I’m sorry, but the conclusion seems to be that the president kind of made this up as he went along. He made it up,’ Steve Liesman said on Thursday
www.independent.co.uk
April 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
CNBC's Steve Liesman “So I called international trade economic experts & nobody had heard of this formula. Nobody has ever used this formula. The conclusion seems to be that the president made this up as he went along. He made it up.”
I've been waiting to hear what the WH press secretary would have to say about tariffs because she's No 1 on the Liz Truss scale of bull5hit. She didn't disappoint.
April 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I've been waiting to hear what the WH press secretary would have to say about tariffs because she's No 1 on the Liz Truss scale of bull5hit. She didn't disappoint.
“It is quite an extraordinary calculation" “It didn’t add much confidence on there being an in-depth strategic implementation plan.”
“This is not serious trade policy or grand strategy,” "His team of willing sycophants came up with a formula, however idiotic, that ticked the box.”
“This is not serious trade policy or grand strategy,” "His team of willing sycophants came up with a formula, however idiotic, that ticked the box.”
Trump’s ‘idiotic’ and flawed tariff calculations stun economists
‘Willing sycophants’ came up with simplistic formula that has thrown global economy into disarray
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“It is quite an extraordinary calculation" “It didn’t add much confidence on there being an in-depth strategic implementation plan.”
“This is not serious trade policy or grand strategy,” "His team of willing sycophants came up with a formula, however idiotic, that ticked the box.”
“This is not serious trade policy or grand strategy,” "His team of willing sycophants came up with a formula, however idiotic, that ticked the box.”
Trump claims the EU is "ripping US off" by charging a 39% levy on US products but the EU tariff rate is 3% & the European Commission says the average tariff is just 1% on US products to the EU. The US collected €7 billion of tariffs on EU goods in 2023 compared to the EU's €3 billion on US goods.
Fact check: Are Donald Trump's tariffs on the EU really reciprocal?
Economists tell Euronews Trump's rates are not in any way based on the tariffs imposed by the US' trading partners and therefore cannot be considered an equal measure. #EuroVerify
shorturl.at
April 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Trump claims the EU is "ripping US off" by charging a 39% levy on US products but the EU tariff rate is 3% & the European Commission says the average tariff is just 1% on US products to the EU. The US collected €7 billion of tariffs on EU goods in 2023 compared to the EU's €3 billion on US goods.
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“I’m building a wall around Antarctica and the penguins are gonna pay for it.”
April 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
“I’m building a wall around Antarctica and the penguins are gonna pay for it.”
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NEW: Full list of tariffs published by White House.
10% baseline tariff on all good from all countries.
But much HIGHER TARIFFS for many, including:
20% ON EU GOODS
34% ON CHINA GOODS
24% ON JAPAN GOODS.
25% on all CARS.
The biggest tax hike in history & suicidal economics.
10% baseline tariff on all good from all countries.
But much HIGHER TARIFFS for many, including:
20% ON EU GOODS
34% ON CHINA GOODS
24% ON JAPAN GOODS.
25% on all CARS.
The biggest tax hike in history & suicidal economics.
April 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
NEW: Full list of tariffs published by White House.
10% baseline tariff on all good from all countries.
But much HIGHER TARIFFS for many, including:
20% ON EU GOODS
34% ON CHINA GOODS
24% ON JAPAN GOODS.
25% on all CARS.
The biggest tax hike in history & suicidal economics.
10% baseline tariff on all good from all countries.
But much HIGHER TARIFFS for many, including:
20% ON EU GOODS
34% ON CHINA GOODS
24% ON JAPAN GOODS.
25% on all CARS.
The biggest tax hike in history & suicidal economics.
"House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries who had slipped into the Senate chamber to watch Booker on Tuesday afternoon, called it “an incredibly powerful moment” because he had broken the record of a segregationist and was “fighting to preserve the American way of life and our democracy.”
Cory Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech. Will it rally anti-Trump resistance?
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker has held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted all night and into the evening.
apnews.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
"House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries who had slipped into the Senate chamber to watch Booker on Tuesday afternoon, called it “an incredibly powerful moment” because he had broken the record of a segregationist and was “fighting to preserve the American way of life and our democracy.”
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In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
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Not making time to watch the actual programme everyone’s talking about but seemingly having time to absorb a twitter conspiracy about it is the most Kemi Badenoch response I ever heard
Badenoch gives credence to race-swap conspiracy theory about Adolescence (which she hasn't watched) - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
April 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Not making time to watch the actual programme everyone’s talking about but seemingly having time to absorb a twitter conspiracy about it is the most Kemi Badenoch response I ever heard
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Applicable on both sides of the Atlantic. Yes, #keirstarmer, I do mean the UK, too. Man up!
April 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Applicable on both sides of the Atlantic. Yes, #keirstarmer, I do mean the UK, too. Man up!