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4·7 hours agoI’d say stick with it. It’s meant to be read as one big book, so the strange pacing in the first book is a consequence of that, like how it just sorta ends
No, Neil Armstrong is back towards the beginning. The painting of the knight
5·21 hours agofunilly enough the current SG looks like not a fuck up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Hinton
he’s already at his term limit
took their sweet time coming to that conclusion huh
211·24 hours agosomething something broken clock something something
more likely than you think, scan now
“if only the tsar knew!”
Not leader, but still
chose the wrong day to stop sniffing glue
The ‘harm’ Denver is putting on students sounds better than the bathrooms I have at work
https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2019/us-china-trade-war-tariffs-date-chart
Average US tariffs on Chinese exports now stand at 57.6 percent and cover 100 percent of all goods.
As a result of numerous Trump administration actions, the average US tariff on all goods imports from the rest of the world increased from 3.0 percent to 20.8 percent between January 20, 2025, and August 27. This includes the 10 percent tariff imposed on April 5 that did not simply increase the average tariff by 10 percentage points due to sectoral carveouts. (Notes: On March 4, 2025, the United States imposed new tariffs on certain imports from Canada and Mexico that ultimately did not “claim and qualify for” preferences under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). That tariff change is not reflected here. Furthermore, the US tariff on all goods imports from the rest of the world temporarily increased to 16.2 percent for one day—on April 9—before President Trump, on that same day, reversed some of his tariffs and paused their increase for 90 days. The current average tariff on imports from the rest of the world is now higher than that April 9 peak.
The first Trump administration-imposed tariffs on thousands of products valued at approximately $380 billion in 2018 and 2019, affecting approximately 15 percent of US goods imports. The second Trump administration tariffs threaten all United States goods imports excluding a few categories, mainly USMCA trade (valued at $405 billion of imports in 2024) and certain energy-related and other imports under the April 2 tariffs (valued at $644 billion of imports in 2024, or $459 billion excluding Canada and Mexico).
Sidestepping how incompetent it is to be changing tariff policy daily, yes I would say America imports “hundreds of thousands” of products containing steel/aluminum
Altogether, Trump’s imposed tariffs would raise $2.3 trillion in revenue over the next decade on a conventional basis ($1.5 trillion on a dynamic basis) and reduce US GDP by 0.9 percent, all before foreign retaliation. However, if the IEEPA tariffs are permanently enjoined, it would reduce the total revenue raised by Trump’s tariffs on a conventional basis by $1.8 trillion to $574 billion over 10 years and reduce the negative GDP effect to 0.2 percent.
which is probably where Bloomberg pulled .15% from, and again this doesn’t factor in the foreign retaliation to this idiocy,
As of April 4, China, Canada, and the European Union have announced or imposed retaliatory tariffs altogether affecting $330 billion of US exports. Imposed and threatened retaliation as of April 10 will reduce US GDP by another 0.2 percent and 10-year revenue by $132 billion on a dynamic basis.
but also
The US Court of International Trade ruled in May 2025 that the IEEPA tariffs are illegal, but they have been allowed to continue while the case is in appeal.
so a linchpin of this economic ‘plan’ will be tossed if/when the appeal is up
Trump’s imposed and scheduled tariffs will increase federal tax revenues by $172.1 billion, or 0.57 percent of GDP, making the tariffs the largest tax hike since 1993. The tariffs are larger than the tax increases enacted under President Barack Obama and President George H.W. Bush.
so with all imports being taxed a minimum 10% (from direct consumer to those foreign raw materials those Nucor and Cleveland-Cliffs plants need) I don’t see who would defend this money-losing system, unless you’re really excited for the federal government to have a larger operating budget for some reason, or you own a Nucor/Cleveland-Cliffs plant where you can push increased costs onto the consumer and ride the stock price up alongside it.
Context:
The scuffle followed a tense debate during which the governing Morena party and its allies accused the opposition Pri and Pan parties of calling for US military intervention in Mexico, a claim that both parties denied.
Earlier this week, a senator from the Pan party had gone on Fox News and said that “help from the United States to fight the cartels in Mexico is absolutely welcome”.
The issue has become particularly contentious in Mexico after Donald Trump reportedly authorized the use of military force targeting drug cartels deemed terrorist organizations in Latin American countries.
The senate leader said he would call an emergency session on Friday and propose expelling Moreno and three other Pri lawmakers as a result of the scuffle. Fernández Noroña also posted on X that he had filed a criminal complaint against Moreno.
no ‘equivalent’
yeah it’s not taking over congress, but it was another step towards eliminating checks and balances, one that should never had been taken and hasn’t led to anything positive
breaking news, add fucking mexico to the list
Serbia but that was a good thing
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I know I shouldn’t go there, but the /r/worldnews thread on this is a cesspool
hundreds of cis people have committed mass shootings for decades, vs 2 trans people.
Remember, conservatives don’t believe the words they say. They just say whatever words create the desired effect.
The AG knows she’s lying about gender affirming care. Fascists do not care about the truth. They say whatever it takes to get the desired effect.