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Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.

Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com

Has New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs resigned over Mamdani yet? I hope he hasn't, so that he can instead resign over *improving Republican margins over Trump 2024 in an anti-Republican wave election*. Trump won Nassau by just 4%—now look at this bloodbath

SNAP is not perfect and we can talk about how to improve it but the reality is millions of people rely on it and when you add them to the federal workers and the weak economy food banks are about to be overwhelmed. If you can donate time, money, or food find your local food banks and help out.

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Know your rights, Chicago. Ask for a warrant. Record the goons from a safe distance. We don’t want or need them here.

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social

Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:

It's really hard to explain how stupid these tariffs are. First they aren't based on other countries tariffs but rather our trade deficits with them. Since they aren't based on actual tariffs there's no incentive for other countries to lower their tariffs, I expect most will make new tariffs.

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Sixth it is a geopolitical disaster, we just turned the whole world against us. Many companies are already halting shipments of goods to the US. China stands to gain from picking up our trade with everyone else.

Seventh you thought Inflation was bad before? It's about to get so much worse with all imports 10%-50% more expensive and many shipments to US being canceled. Trumpism is where we all end up poor in the stupidest ways possible.

It's really hard to explain how stupid these tariffs are. First they aren't based on other countries tariffs but rather our trade deficits with them. Since they aren't based on actual tariffs there's no incentive for other countries to lower their tariffs, I expect most will make new tariffs.

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Fourth they are so unpopular no one expects these Tariffs will last so who is going to move factories here when they expect the Tariffs wont be here in 4 years. Tariffs must be bipartisan to work in any way.

Fifth they are on all goods at once, I'm sorry are we supposed to grow bananas and coffee in Wisconsin now? To the extent Tariffs can help they have to be about protecting specific industries, just raising prices on stuff we can't produce is stupid.

It's really hard to explain how stupid these tariffs are. First they aren't based on other countries tariffs but rather our trade deficits with them. Since they aren't based on actual tariffs there's no incentive for other countries to lower their tariffs, I expect most will make new tariffs.

Second they set a 10% minimum arbitrarily, even on countries we run a trade surplus with so by their logic we already had a tariff advantage on those countries. This 10% minimum creates an obvious loophole, move goods to countries that we have less than a 20% trade deficit with and adding stickers

Third it completely ignores that we were basically exploiting a ton of countries through trade, we are punishing the countries whos trade most benefits the US. Now I'd like to see more fair trade but this will just be no trade.

This will forever be their legacy. The efforts to remove all of them start now.

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

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