Breaking: US-EU Trade Deal!
Reminder: When Trump says he made a great deal, check your receipt.
EU deal =
✔ 15% hike on wine
✔ 50% steel tax (hi, pricier appliances)
✔ No savings, hurts small biz
Helps Big Energy
Tariffs don’t hit Europe — they hit you.

"Pause" is certainly a curious bit of political rhetoric for confirming you'll maintain 55% statutory tariffs on one of your largest trading partners for another 3 months.

Prescription drug denials by private insurers in the U.S. jumped 25% from 2016 to 2023, according to a new analysis of more than four billion claims, a practice that has contributed to rising public outrage about the country’s private health insurance system. https://trib.al/ZcMrZu5

Who did this? 😂

TACO

Trump Always Chickens Out

This expression really riles up the President so anyone who interacts with him should use it as often as possible.

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

Congratulationz to all my friends at Ted Lasso,,, I think we all need something to BELIEVE in right now ,,, and if y’all need Flavor Flav to step up and sponsor your women’s soccer team,,, I gots you. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

@jasonsudeikis.bsky.social

Bully - noun
: a blustering, browbeating person
especially : one who is habitually cruel, insulting, or threatening to others who are weaker, smaller, or in some way vulnerable

The #EU has ~500 million citizens, versus #Russia's ~140 million and the #USA's ~300 million. The #EU's economy is ~8 times bigger than #Russia's (~17 trillion versus ~2.2 trillion). It's time the #EU became as much a military and foreign policy power as it is an economic one. #TheEUisBigger

I cancelled Lex Fridman.

Definition of fascism by Jason Stanley:

[A] cult of the leader who promises national restoration in the face of humiliation brought on by supposed communists, Marxists and minorities and immigrants who are supposedly posing a threat to the character and the history of a nation ... (continues)

Community Fibre / CommunityFibre / #communityfibre down for seemingly most of London and rest of the UK. Phone lines jammed, sales line too. Website not working. Live chat not working