Chandra

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This week is going to be stupid. Next week will be worse, and the week after that even worse..., and then we will have elections. The days after that, it'll be so bad that we will miss these days.

Trump says the US military will serve as mercenaries by taking over the Strait of Hormuz and charging everyone a fee to transit equal to 20% of their cargo.

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Good riddance, you putrid shitstain of amoeba.

“I’m trying to have CNN go on a normal path”🤔 After Tapper generously (obediently) talks to Trump ONLY about Lindsey Graham at Trump’s request, Trump casually admits his buddy Ellison is taking over the network to influence it to be more pro-Trump

THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS CLOSED

japan is making kinds of cigarettes i never imagined was possible

Black leaders across the South have expressed a visceral shock in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. But as the surprise wears off, a sense of isolation has begun to set in among some. 🔗 politi.co/4vSW46T

Under DHS’ use-of-force policy, moves that cut off a person's breathing “must not be used as a means to control non-compliant subjects or persons resisting arrest.” But videos we reviewed showed agents using these restraints to do just that. (Published January)

Trump says he will send the communists into exile

Trump traveled all the way to South Dakota to read a half-baked red scare speech straight out of 1950

Is threads down or did they ban me without telling me this time

Who’s tracking the best crash out’s? I know one of you are making a thread

Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.

All I’M saying is a lot of the people I see pissed about this article are people that I clocked with dnc/aipac talking points and unfollowed prior to publication.

Take one minute: go to bit.ly/IsraelOnNotice and send a letter to the Israeli government, UN officials, and diplomatic missions demanding that Israel abide by international law and refrain from attacking, sabotaging or otherwise interfering with the #Madleen and her mission.

May 31:

NEW: Reps. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Robert Garcia (D-CA), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), and Maxine Dexter (D-OR) arrive in El Salvador Frost says the trip is “to pressure the Trump Administration to abide by a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia”

🔥 Top Campaigns, Last 24 Hours: 1️⃣ “Demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil, Badar Khan Suri, & Rumeysa Ozturk!” (+2,060) 2️⃣ “Defend the 5th Amendment. Free illegally detained ICE targets. Stop Renditions” (+1,362) 3️⃣ “The House must vote NO on this week’s budget vote!” (+1,336)

Trump is surprised when a reporter tells him that the EU today announced tariff increases on the US

The President has chosen to intentionally crash the U.S. economy and financial system by doing things which have been ridiculed in every intro macroeconomics class for the past 80+ years. Those with the power to stop him refuse to do so because they hate minorities.

Cantwell: "You're telling us in your testimony you want a tariff on semiconductors. I'm saying that the last administration and this organization here passed the CHIPS and Science Act so we could reshore semiconductors. You're not going to win the innovation economy by tariffing semiconductors."

WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well? GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available WARNER: We have a trade surplus!

"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (April 8, 2025)

Sunrise on the reaping spoilers ahead But omg haymitch being besties with katniss’ dad is RUINING me it gives a whole new layer to everyfuckingthing AND I just now put it together (like 5 minutes ago) that the song katniss sings to rue (prim in the movie) IS THE SONG LUCY WROTE IN THE MEADOW! 😭

Remember SignalGate? (One of Trump's superpowers is being involved in so many scandals all the time that very few of them end up having staying power beyond a news cycle or two.)

AP: Preliminary figures released Tuesday show visits to the U.S. from overseas fell 11.6% last month compared w/ the prev year. Tourism was projected to rise by 9%, but is now anticipated to fall by roughly that same amount. Bookings for US travel at a top Canadian site are down 40%.

At this point, you can’t convince me they aren’t manipulating the market. As soon as the indexes started peaking today, the White House started talking about tariffs on China, and everything is in the red again.

"Like other authoritarians, Trump seeks to manipulate and define reality—of the present and of the past." Read @davidcorn.bsky.social's latest on Trump.

sure this sounds bad but remember this nation was founded on the principle of cheerfully tolerating large surtaxes on imported goods

Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true? BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime? BONDI: *leaves*

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"

You’d think when you’re claiming the richest country in the world can’t afford childhood cancer research you might wait a year before throwing yourself a 100 million dollar birthday parade. But carpe diem, suckers.

Mary Shelley: In my book I invented Frankenstein’s Monster as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created Frankenstein’s Monster from classic sci-fi novel Frankenstein

⚡️ 🎉 JUST NOW: “The lobbyists lost this one.” @rustygrills @SenJohnStevens’ bill to protect giant corporations from sick farmers DIED in House Judiciary (pushed to next year) 🫡 to FARMERS, many Republican, who showed up to testify against it. Y’all killed that bad bill.