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Schumer was so passionate about imposing 27.5% tariffs on China for its "unfair" trade policy that in 2005 he busted out a nifty chart and partnered with Lindsey Graham, of all people, to try and get it done. What changed Chuck? Why is this a bad thing now?
This is a good time to make contact with your local dairy farmers, get some of that rich raw spring butter, dont make the transaction public though, FDA fucking hates raw dairy, but its the only way. Each year we get 30 pounds of fresh raw spring gold, freeze it up and use year long. Think of your body like its a garden bed. Rich soil, fervent microbes and well hydrated.
You're not going to find an exact 1:1 copy/ rip-off. Pretty sure Framework has a patent on the modularity of their design and China has cracked down on unauthorized copies over the past 15+ years or so.
But what you WILL find are laptops made by the same factories that make the Framework. (I have a Gen 1 I eventually want to get a newer model but my current one is working just fine.)
There's not that many fabricators and manufacturers of PCs and peripherals. 99% of the stuff you buy is just some no-name Chinese brand with Acer or MSI or whatever brand label slapped on it.
toughbooks are the poverty-tier frameworks imo. I just got a 16gb i5 for under 200 usd, almost every part is replaceable, and the community is pretty solid. way different quality for sure, but effective.
Victor Davis Hanson unpacks what Donald Trump called “Liberation Day”—a bold declaration that the era of lopsided trade deals and asymmetrical tariffs is ove...
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts indefinitely blocked a court order requiring the return of alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia by midnight tonight.
Chief Justice Roberts has halted a crucial court order concerning the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 member, prompting significant implications for the ongoing legal debate.
The Trump administration will substantially increase payment rates for Medicare insurers next year, generating more than $25 billion in additional revenue for the industry and doubling the boost proposed in January.
Roosters work hard, all day long, looking for and sharing food, running across the field to a lamenting hen, encouraging them as they lay eggs, 100% invested, would die for them (like my previous roo, my avatar, taken out by a rattlesnake), and they get no respect. They are the "Giving Tree" (that shit book by Shell Silverstein) in action. Respect the roo.
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Yes, get rid of George Soreass, er, Soros, Bill Gatis of Borg, Klaus Schwab, Larry Fink, Mark Fuckerberg, and a few others and we might actually have a chance!
I didn't know much of Vance at all before Trump, but from what I see he is direct and to the point and unapologetic for being so and that is something sorely needed in government.
Feds Took His Home, His Son And Years Of His Life— On the Fourth Anniversary of His Arrest, This J6 Warrior Is Embarking on a ‘Freedom Tour’ To Reform Prisons
Chris Quaglin, a January 6 prisoner now on a nationwide reform campaign, shares his harrowing journey from loss and legal battles to a mission aimed at preventing similar fates for others.
The Symington Amendment (22 U.S.C. §2799aa-1) and Glenn Amendment (22 U.S.C. §2799aa-2) legally prohibit U.S. foreign aid to countries developing nuclear weapons outside IAEA safeguards or detonating nuclear devices. history.state.gov/historicaldo…
how much foreign aid did israel get after they stole the enriched uranium from the usa and illegally built a nuclear bomb? will they pay it back with interest?
Netanyahu is a good leader, that is why he is so hated and lied about. Trump is the same. Trump won Bibi's trust and friendship way back in his first term and seems to have also won his admiration since.
suddenly a handful of countries, and the EU are talking about going to zero-for-zero tariff models... after screwing us for decades?
"ready to go to zero tariffs" tells me they want the revenue collectors to stop the port inspections. They're suddenly willing to cut their revenue stream to zero? ...that says something worse is going on. Like importing children? CIA drug and gun running?
Netanyahoo flew to America to try to make a deal for reciprocal zero tariff... weird times.
i flushed the clutch fluid in the RSX cause it was yucko. hope i didn't get any air in there cause the clutch already has to go to the floor to disengage
April 7 (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court set aside a court order that had blocked the government downsizing team created by U.S. President Donald Trump and led by Elon Musk from seizing sensitive data from the Treasury Department, Education Department and Office of Personnel Management.
Aux Etats-Unis, il arrive toujours un moment où l’envie de remettre le cirque en route a sonné. En apparence sans cadre théorique ni doctrinal, prenant forme en avançant, les mécanismes mis en œuvre par Donald Trump défient effectivement l’orthodoxie. Guerre commerciale avec la Chine, le Mexique et le Canada, humiliation publique de Volodimir Zelensky, razzia sur les matières premières de l’Ukraine, mépris affiché pour l’Union européenne, menaces sur le Groenland ou le Panamá, sanctions aggravées pour la République bolivarienne du Venezuela…
Rien d’autre ? Si, bien sûr ! En interne, l’annonce d’un cataclysme. Une purge politique de l’administration fédérale, jugée trop dispendieuse et inféodée aux démocrates. Des milliers de contractuels et d’agents fédéraux se retrouvent à la rue – y compris au sein du Département de la Justice ou de secteurs sensibles du Pentagone et du FBI. Voilà. L’imprévisible. Un monde s’écroule, règles à la dérive, codes annulés.
S’il est bien éduqué, le dogue allemand n’est pas plus agressif que les autres chiens. En revanche, le DOGE américain s’apparente au pit-bull : un animal dangereux représentant un péril grave et immédiat. Pour mener le carnage, Donald Trump a confié au ploutocrate Elon Musk, l’un de ses soutiens clés durant la campagne électorale, la direction du Département de l’efficacité gouvernementale, le DOGE en question. Celui-ci mord très fort : 2,3 millions de fonctionnaires sont dans un premier temps incités à démissionner en bénéficiant d’une compensation salariale jusqu’en septembre. Qu’ils refusent ce plan de départ et le pire leur arrivera.
L’Agence des Etats-Unis pour le développement international (USAID) a ouvert le bal. Supervisée par le Président, le Département d’Etat et le Conseil de sécurité nationale (NSC), elle est présente dans plus de cent pays et compte près de 10 000 employés. Dès le 26 janvier, Trump a annoncé « une réévaluation et un réalignement de l’aide étrangère étatsunienne », affirmant devant la presse qu’elle a été dirigée « par une poignée de lunatiques radicaux ». Pour Musk, qui la considère comme une organisation criminelle, « un nid de vipères radicales-marxistes détestant l’Amérique », il est temps que meure cette institution. De fait, son siège situé à Washington, le Ronald Reagan Building (RRB), a été fermé le 3 février et ses activités ont été suspendues pour 90 jours. A l’exception de 611 fonctionnaires essentiels, responsable des fonctions critiques, de la direction centrale et de programmes spécialement désignés, tous les employés ont été placés en congé administratif dans le monde entier. En attendant une réduction d’effectifs qui devrait affecter environ 2000 d’entre eux aux Etats-Unis, les agents « mis au repos » à Washington n’ont eu droit qu’à quinze minutes pour récupérer leurs affaires personnelles au RRB. Le mépris élevé à la hauteur d’un art, au pays de la liberté.
Insanité et déraison, l’affaire d’emblée fait grand bruit. Le budget de l’USAID a atteint 44 milliards de dollars en 2024. D’après le Service de suivi financier (FTS) du Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires des Nations Unies (OCHA), les Etats-Unis avaient alloué 327,4 millions de dollars au seul « financement humanitaire » dans le monde entier pour 2025. Or, dans de multiples pays, immédiatement après l’ordre exécutif signé dans le Bureau Ovale, entités internationales, gouvernements, organisations non gouvernementales (ONG), fournisseurs de biens et de services ont été avisés de la suspension du financement des programmes en cours ou prévus.
En France, dans une vertueuse chronique publiée par le quotidien Le Monde (25 février), Najat Vallaud-Belkacem et Guillaume Gonin s’insurgent – « L’USAID apporte nourriture, eau et soins aux victimes des catastrophes naturelles et de malnutrition » – rappelant, pour expliciter leur propos, « comment Ebola fut en grande partie contenu grâce à la politique de prévention et de traitement de l’Agence ». D’autres s’inquiètent publiquement de l’interruption des financements apportés aux activités de la Commission interaméricaine des droits de l’homme (CIDH), aux opérations aériennes anti-drogue de la police colombienne, à l’accueil des Vénézuéliens ayant cherché refuge au Brésil ou aux programmes de substitution de la culture de coca dans plusieurs pays d’Amérique du Sud, pour ne citer que quelques exemples édifiants.
Nommé par Trump Administrateur intérimaire de l’USAID, le secrétaire d’Etat cubano-américain Marco Rubio a immédiatement congelé 83 % l’aide à destination de l’extérieur (5 200 contrats annulés), avec deux exceptions notables, pour des démocraties exemplaires : l’Egypte et Israël. L’humanitaire a ses priorités. Toutefois, en décalage avec quelques-uns de ses comparses, Rubio ne se montre pas spécialement favorable au démembrement de l’organisme. Depuis le Salvador, lors de sa première tournée en Amérique centrale, il a ainsi déclaré à son sujet : « Certaines des choses qu’elle fait sont bonnes ; d’autres suscitent des doutes sérieux. » Assertion qu’on estimera ici raisonnable. Mais pas forcément pour les mêmes raisons que celles qui tournicotent dans la tête de Rubio.
Grosse colère. « Le gel du financement de l’aide américaine sème le chaos dans le monde entier, y compris dans le journalisme, dénonce en France l’organisation Reporters sans frontières (RSF). Les programmes qui ont été gelés apportent un soutien vital à des projets qui renforcent les médias, la transparence et la démocratie [1]. » La suite du communiqué a le mérite de la clarté : les programmes de l’USAID soutiennent les médias « indépendants » (c’est nous qui rajoutons les guillemets) dans plus de 30 pays, mais il est difficile d’évaluer l’ampleur totale de l’impact. Selon les données de l’USAID de 2023, « l’agence a financé la formation et soutenu 6 200 journalistes, aidé 707 médias non étatiques et soutenu 279 organisations de la société civile œuvrant pour le renforcement des médias indépendants ». Le budget de l’aide étrangère pour 2025 prévoyait quelque 268 millions de dollars alloués par le Congrès US pour soutenir « les médias indépendants et la libre circulation de l’information ».
Par d’autres sources médiatiques tout aussi préoccupées, on apprendra bientôt qu’en Géorgie, « la quasi-totalité des médias indépendants fonctionnent grâce aux financements étrangers », qu’en Ukraine, selon une étude publiée en mai 2024 par le Lliv Media Forum, « environ 75 % des médias restaient partiellement ou totalement dépendants des subventions étrangères, dont la majorité américaine » [2], que…
Quelques temps avant son communiqué « SOS USAID », RSF, dans son exaltante tâche de « défense de l’information » et du pluralisme, avait publié une diatribe d’un tout autre ton : « Derrière un nom trompeur, International Reporters est en réalité un nouveau site au service de Moscou. Financé par les réseaux d’influence du Kremlin, il mobilise des propagandistes internationaux, souvent basés en Russie, pour toucher un public étranger. (…) RSF dénonce cet outil de propagande qui pollue l’espace informationnel [3]. » Il y aurait de quoi s’y perdre. Mais, non. Ne pas rire, s’il vous plaît. Une source d’ « information » financée par Washington est « indépendante » ; un média appointé par Moscou pratique la « désinformation ».
Ces arguments ne tiennent pas. Tous deux sont des outils de propagande. Ils poursuivent simplement des objectifs opposés. Directrice du Centre pour le journalisme d’investigation – une organisation bosniaque soutenue par l’USAID –, Leila Bicakcic a eu l’honnêteté d’admettre que « si vous recevez un financement du gouvernement américain, il y a certains sujets que vous n’aborderez simplement pas, car le gouvernement américain a des intérêts qui passent avant tous les autres [4] ».
On retrouve dans l’entourloupe le RSF dirigé entre 1985 et 2008 par le militant d’extrême-droite Robert Ménard : une ONG « indépendante » (elle aussi !) financée entre autres, à l’époque, par le Centre pour Cuba libre – une fondation impliquée, depuis Miami, dans des actions à caractère terroriste sur le territoire cubain – et la National Endowment for Democracy (NED), créée en 1982 par Ronald Reagan pour financer publiquement ceux que la CIA arrosait en secret avant que de multiples scandales ne l’obligent à faire profil bas [5]. Avec, pour corollaire, s’agissant de RSF, une défense inconditionnelle de médias latino-américains pratiquant le mensonge, l’incitation à la violence et le soutien à la déstabilisation de leurs pays respectifs, ainsi que des attaques incessantes contre les gouvernements progressistes latinos (pour ne citer que la zone géographique dont il va être question dans cet article). Ce, bien entendu, pour la plus grande satisfaction de l’impérialisme américain.
MUSLIMS HAVE ONLY ONE PLAN AND IT IS TO TAKE OVER GOVERNMENTS THEN THOSE COUNTRIES ! A Muslim Speaking On Social Says There Plans For The USA Are Getting 60 Muslims Into Our Congress Where They Will Slowly Convert Laws To Islam Following Sharia Law ! Don’t Take This As A Joke !
I don’t ask you to believe anything. I don’t embrace or believe everything I post. Some posts are complete madness. I trust you know the difference. That’s on you. You need to see some things for yourself. Open eyes see more.
“We’ve made people addicted to instantly getting the object they want, the food they want, the information they want, the answers they want, to the point of them not being willing to do their own research or wait just a bit longer for… anything. We’re lazy about seeking answers and unhappy with having to wait for results. We can’t be bored.”
I was really happy to and tried to see it. I wanted to like it but I could not stand the female supremacy and that Ash became some kind of background figure while women and girls and black and faggots took over the show.
I think I saw a few episodes before my limit was reached.
That newswire called Benzinga which falsely reported that Trump was considering a 90-day break on tariffs, causing the stock market to dramatically jump before crashing again, blames users on X in an email to me. Didn't answer why they picked up unverified news from X 404media.co/benzinga-news-serv…
Due to the new tariffs that came into effect on April 5th, we’re temporarily pausing US sales of a few of our base Framework Laptop 13 systems (Ultra 5 125H and Ryzen 5 7640U).
For now, these models will be removed from our US site.
We will continue to provide updates as we have them.
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
I don’t ask you to believe anything. I don’t embrace or believe everything I post. Some posts are complete madness. I trust you know the difference. That’s on you. You need to see some things for yourself. Open eyes see more.
On Saturday Elon Musk sat in his personal jet and tested out Starlink’s in-air WiFI by streaming some Path of Exile 2. Less than five minutes into the stream, someone in game chat asked him to “jerk off mr trump so he dies of a heart attack!” For the next hour and 40 minutes, the world’s richest man frowned his way through a livestream while people yelled at him. 404media.co/elon-musk-is-hound…
“Elon. It’s me, Ashley St. Claire. I have no other means of contacting you so I bought PoE2 early access. Please pay your child support. Thank you Elon
ELON ARE YOU A SMART FELLA OR A FART SMELLA
YOU HAVE NO REAL FRIENDS AND WILL DIE ALONE.
At about an hour in the stream, we saw Musk’s login screen and a list of his individual characters and their names. His level 46 amazon is “AMAZON_DOT_COM_.” A level 75 invoker is “BeLessDumb.” His level 7 monk is “DOESNTMATTERANYWAY.” Another invoker he’s got at level 100 is “FatalismFTW.”
Here's the raw truth people: if manufacturing is coming back to the USA it's not going to employ many humans. Americans do not want to do factory work. It is considered dehumanizing.
When the billionaires bring back manufacturing it will be as automated as possible. So put your dollary-doos into robotics stocks, because that's where the real money is going to flow.
We'll build it in America. But still with Chinese robots.
A former law clerk to the federal judge who dismissed the classified documents case against President Donald Trump is now serving in the Justice Department directly under Trump's former defense lawyer Todd Blanche, who is now serving as the nation's number-two law enforcement official.
I feel like I need to add a disclaimer to everything I post about the Trump admin & how dangerous shit is in the US saying "I know it wasn't all good and safe before," but I also don't feel like I should have to do that.
Like border control: they are fucking cops. They are not and never have been good or safe. Nothing I say should ever be taken to mean that I think they were.
I don't really believe in borders, so no, I never have put my faith in the people whose job it is to enforce them.
I know that "the rule of law" in this country has always been somewhere between "real flexible" to "practically non-existent" for a lot of folks, but you can't deny that it is becoming even harder to use the legal process to even begin to help or protect people. They don't even have to hide or obscure the fact that they are blatantly breaking laws and stripping people of their civil liberties.
It's not new that this happens, it's just gone to a new level.
It's not just "oh, white people are in danger now too." It's also Black and brown and other marginalized people are in *even more danger*. To go from being able to wield the law to achieve *some* protections for people to what's going on now does not just mean people who didn't used to be as vulnerable are vulnerable now. It means everyone on down the line to the absolute most vulnerable are *even more vulnerable*.
I don't believe our laws are good, and I think it's a joke to speak of our "justice system", but that doesn't mean that it isn't getting worse.
If they don't even have to *pretend* to abide by laws which *theoretically* protect people, that is worse.
It's nothing to do with "it was fine before."
It wasn't. All the things they got away with before made the things they do now possible. It's not contradictory to say that and comment on how dangerous shit that happens now is.
And I guess we're seeing a lot of libs who never really cared to know how bad things are going "that happened??? In America?? What happened to the freest nation on Earth?"
So yeah, I see why it's important to qualify some things.
But trust me, I do not believe things were fine before. And had Harris won, I still think we'd be looking at increasing civil liberties violations. The capitalist class is *really desperate* to get the masses under control.
But it's not terribly relevant what would have happened, when we are dealing with what is really happening.
There are some folks who do really need to catch up on the state of the world though and realize Trump may be very extreme, but it's not like he singlehandedly created these conditions. Honestly, if more competent people hadn't prepared the way for him, he wouldn't be getting anywhere. The stage was set.
This is a unique moment in history, even if nothing about these people's wishes and methods are truly unique. It is a dangerous moment. It is a time when the hammer is really coming down hard. When opposition is being crushed. Hard.
Shit can be really, really bad right now and also have been real bad in the past.
We aren't looking to go back to how it was, but we *are* trying to figure out how to work towards a better future under these adverse conditions.
When I say shit is really bad and dangerous in the US right now, I am not saying it simply to highlight how shocked I am or whatever.
I am talking about it because what is happening is important to the conversation of how we resist it & how we keep each other safe. It's important that people know what's going on & how that impacts our struggle for liberation.
The whole reason to get so fucking worked up about the shit happening now *is* that it's not really new.
That's the point. The point is that the tactics are changing & the strategic situation is different. There isn't a new, worse enemy on the field—it's the same enemy in a different guise.
The figureheads come & go, and the in-fighting is often fierce, but the enemy isn't new. The enemy is the capitalist class & their enablers. It was before & it is now.
I think some folks who have not really thoroughly grasped the situation may feel that this all sounds rather pessimistic & doomer to say "it's the same as it ever was (just worse)", but personally I think there's room for hope there.
But one of the reasons I find it hopeful is that it means there are people who have been in this fight *a lot longer* than me and they fucking know what's up.
If you don't pay attention to Black and brown community activists, you need to start. Now.
Seriously, go find the people who were in this fight before.
And ALSO engage with art & fiction that comes from people with perspective. Andor feels so timely in part because Diego Luna knows what's up. He's been in this fight since he was a teen.
Boots Riley...he also got involved in organizing as a teenager.
Octavia Butler is the author at the top of my "to read" list.
My non-fiction reading that's giving me courage and hope right now: Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown. It's clear how much lived wisdom she has to offer.
Find people who are already in the fight and learn from them. Shit is fucking dark right now, but we aren't alone, & we don't have to start from scratch.
@violetmadder Yeah, I am really wrestling with how far people—even those who are *hypothetically* sympathetic to leftist perspectives—will go to avoid uncomfortable truths. I take the difficulty I have accepting that as yet another sign of the fact that I am pretty new to this struggle, because that is not exactly news either.
@violetmadder Though I think that highlights another problem people have breaking out of the box. To do it, you have to be able to admit that you don't know much & that you aren't breaking new ground.
But like...who fucking cares? I'm just relieved to know that the resistance *already exists*. I don't fucking care if that means I'm not special. I don't want to be special. I want to be free.
Scientists at the world-renowned Stanford University School of Medicine have confirmed that a measles vaccine caused a previously healthy baby to develop a fatal case of leukemia.
>>For over a month, no commercial or humanitarian supplies have entered Gaza.
More than 2.1 million people are trapped, bombed and starved again, while, at crossing points, food, medicine, fuel and shelter supplies are piling up, and vital equipment is stuck.
Over 1,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured in just the first week after the breakdown of the ceasefire, the highest one-week death toll among children in Gaza in the past year.<<
>>Just a few days ago, the 25 bakeries supported by the World Food Programme during the ceasefire had to close due to flour and cooking gas shortages.
The partially functional health system is overwhelmed. Essential medical and trauma supplies are rapidly running out, threatening to reverse hard-won progress in keeping the health system operational.<<
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