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Terri McDonald
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Wife to the best husband. Mom to 3 wonderful adults. Grandma to the best baby ever. FSU fan no matter what #Noles. Almost officially (Sept. 2026) a breast cancer survivor. Curious person.
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Core” goods prices are at their highest annual inflation rate in about two years, evidence that the Trump administration tariff policy is feeding through to higher prices, economists said.
From the Economics community on Reddit: Here's one graphic that shows exactly where inflation is the strongest in the new government report
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August 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
April 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
What’s a tankie?
I block tankies.
April 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Is this what you voted for? Only the criminals?! Really? If you voted this administration, either you believed in a liar or you’re a liar. 🤥 Americans believe in liberty and due process. Christian believe in loving and caring for others. #Spiritof1775 #Matthew25
From the ICE_Raids community on Reddit: 4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent'
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April 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Tariff Man Is Coming for America’s Entrepreneurs - The Atlantic
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Trump’s enormous tariffs would increase consumer prices & limit the quantity & quality of goods available for 🇺🇸 households to purchase.The policies would kill off firms reliant on imported goods/parts.
The Tariff Man Is Coming for America’s Entrepreneurs — The Atlantic
One small business has paid nearly $30,000 in the past two months.
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March 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Key points:
1. Greenland 🇬🇱 isn’t huge. It’s the size of Algeria 🇩🇿 not Africa.
2. They don’t want to join the US 🇺🇸
3. Denmark 🇩🇰 is in NATO and already cooperates with US 🇺🇸 in Arctic 🐻‍❄️ defense. Or it did.
Opinion | Obsessed With Greenland? You Too May Have the Wrong Map — Bloomberg
Cartography has always shaped worldview and geopolitics, and often for the worse. So it does in the era of Donald Trump.
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March 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Representation matters. Seeing yourself positively in society helps self-esteem and pro social attitudes. www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
From the MadeMeSmile community on Reddit: Don't mind me, I've just been sobbing to this for 7 minutes.
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March 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Trumpflation - The Atlantic

By the end of 2018, Trump’s trade policies were costing Americans an additional $3.2 billion a month at grocery stores and malls, while also reducing the variety of goods American consumers could purchase.
February 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The Mood of the American Consumer is Souring - The Wall Street Journal
Tariff threats, stock market swings & rapidly reversing executive orders are causing Americans across the political spectrum to feel considerably more pessimistic about the economy than they did before Pres. Trump took office.
February 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Trump's tariffs could cause US layoffs, experts say. Here are the jobs at risk - ABC News

"It's like Trump took a grenade and threw it into the economy, and he walked away to see what happens," Rob Handfield, professor of operations and supply chain management at North Carolina State University
February 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Xi Jinping shows how he will return American fire
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from The Economist

Peterson Institute for International Economics calculates that the 10% tariffs, even without Chinese retaliation, will damage the US economy, costing more than $100bn in total from 2025 to 2040.
Xi Jinping shows how he will return American fire
China’s trade retaliation carries a warning of worse to come
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February 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
In 2019, 1st full yr after Trump imposed levies, which were more carefully targeted vs. the broad ones threatened now, the 🇺🇸 lost 43k factory jobs, industrial production contracted, business investment stalled & real median household incomesfell for 1st time in 5 yrs stocks.apple.com/AHURmJDEpSxu...
Trump’s Tariffs Hit US Growth Before, and Threaten to Again — Bloomberg
Newly released transcripts from the Federal Reserve show just how much policymakers were scrambling to keep growth intact in 2019.
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January 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez: “Threatening others to get your way isn’t leadership. It’s immaturity. The people of our state deserve better.” 🧐

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Florida’s GOP Legislature passes its own immigration bill over DeSantis objections — POLITICO
“I’m not going to take lectures from someone who a year ago didn’t think Donald Trump should be president,” said state Sen. Randy Fine.
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January 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
From the Economist.
January 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
So much snow for Florida. #SnowDay
January 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Snowy morning here in Florida. #SnowDay
January 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Yesterday as the snow began in Florida’s Panhandle. #SnowDay
January 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The Netherlands Has Published a List of 425,000 Suspected Nazi Collaborators - Smithsonian Magazine

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The Netherlands Has Published a List of 425,000 Suspected Nazi Collaborators — Smithsonian Magazine
In the past, the names could only be viewed in person. But due to expiring access restrictions, they're now available to anyone with an internet connection
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January 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
What’ll be interesting is whether actual governance changes impressions. When groceries don’t drop in price will the unfavorable numbers increase or when a tax policy benefits a voter will their ethical dislike be ameliorated.
looking at this graph, it's hard not to feel like all the quantum physicists at the beginning of Three Body Problem who started offing themselves when basic science apparently stopped working all across the universe....
January 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This photo by AP photographer Ethan Swope is amazing in its poignant impression of loss. #LAFires
January 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I’m interested in finding out scholarly information on the Jewish Apocalyptic movement circa 100 BC. It’s frequently mentioned as an influence on Jesus of Nazareth in Bart Ehrman’s podcast #MisquotingJesus, which is fabulous by the way. Any suggestions?
January 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Wonderful work in our area after Hurricane Michael #WCK
Chef José Andrés gets emotional when he is awarded with the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Biden for his work with World Central Kitchen.

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January 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Steve Rattner: The 10 charts that will help you understand 2024 - MSNBC
January 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM