<p>Speaking of weak Democrats, you have no idea how much trouble I've had getting Democrats in <a href="/tags/maine/" rel="tag">#Maine</a> to introduce or otherwise advocate for gun reform legislation. I've written multiple times to the chair of the Democratic Senate Committee, the Executive Director of the Maine Democratic Party, Senate President Mattie Daughtry (my state senator), the Maine Gun Safety Coalition, and more. All of them refuse to answer me. What cowardice. <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/democrats/" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> <a href="/tags/guns/" rel="tag">#Guns</a> <a href="/tags/gunreform/" rel="tag">#GunReform</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#Democracy</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a></p>
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<p>New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Under Governor Greg Abbott's multi-billion dollar border security bonanza, Operation Lone Star, the Rio Grande no longer holds back law enforcement efforts. Today's digital border reaches across Texas and beyond. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/texas-dp</span><span class="invisible">s-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/</span></a> </p><p>This story is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. </p><p><a href="/tags/surveillance/" rel="tag">#surveillance</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/gregabbott/" rel="tag">#GregAbbott</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#police</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#border</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#security</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a></p>
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<p>Every 4th of July, I'm the event photographer for celebrations in Monterey, CA where I work promoting small business. Nicknamed locally as the "Language Capital of the World" its remarkable diversity is always on display at its annual 4th of July parade and other celebrations. </p><p>Well, that's in a normal year. Unfortunately the mood in Northern California as it has elsewhere in the United States has descended into a pall of fear and anxiety. It was shocking to see the proudly diverse city of Monterey have the whitest and straightest celebration that I never thought I'd see anywhere in my home state much less in my own backyard.</p><p>Uh wait... hold on... (Continued)</p><p>🧵 1/5</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a> <a href="/tags/resist/" rel="tag">#resist</a></p>
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<p>"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."</p><p>— Howard Zinn</p><p><a href="https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.howardzinn.org/collection/</span><span class="invisible">a-marvelous-victory/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/howardzinn/" rel="tag">#HowardZinn</a> <a href="/tags/resist/" rel="tag">#Resist</a> <a href="/tags/protest/" rel="tag">#Protest</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#Democracy</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a></p>
<p>"Power, Progress, and Patient-Led Change"</p><p>An overiew of Advocacy Week 2025 from Solve ME:</p><p><a href="https://solvecfs.org/advocacy-week-2025-power-progress-and-patient-led-change/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="solvecfs.org/advocacy-week-2025-power-progress-and-patient-led-change/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">solvecfs.org/advocacy-week-202</span><span class="invisible">5-power-progress-and-patient-led-change/</span></a></p><p>"In a single week, the Solve M.E. community took part in 187 congressional meetings—sharing powerful personal stories, urgent data, and clear policy goals with Senate and House offices."</p><p>@mecfs @longcovid </p><p>1/n</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/mecfs/" rel="tag">#MEcfs</a> <a href="/tags/longcovid/" rel="tag">#LongCovid</a> <a href="/tags/pots/" rel="tag">#POTS</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> <a href="/tags/senate/" rel="tag">#Senate</a> <a href="/tags/advocacy/" rel="tag">#Advocacy</a> <a href="/tags/solveme/" rel="tag">#SolveME</a></p>
<p>Am wondering if this will change by end of the year. Supreme Court seems to keep kicking the can down the road.</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a></p>
I think it's wild that cryptocurrencies are also crashing along with the US stock market. I mean, I feel like they're doomed to crash generally but there legitimately seemed to be enthusiasm in that industry that Trump would make the line go up.<br><br><a href="/tags/trumprecession/" rel="tag">#TrumpRecession</a> <a href="/tags/trumpcrash/" rel="tag">#TrumpCrash</a> <a href="/tags/crypto/" rel="tag">#crypto</a> <a href="/tags/cryptocurrency/" rel="tag">#cryptocurrency</a> <a href="/tags/bitcoin/" rel="tag">#bitcoin</a> <a href="/tags/useconomy/" rel="tag">#USEconomy</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a><br>
Regarding what follows, I have no standing in economics but I do know a bit about it, I can do math, and I've read the opinions of a few experts I trust. As far as I can tell this document I link below is word salad. Among many head scratchers in it, one of the considerations proposed for choosing a tariff rate is "Do the nation’s leaders grandstand against the United States in the international theater?" This is not economics, it's petty grievance disguised as policy. Words are cheap. What matters is what these nations' leaders do. The framing this document takes, that the US is somehow cheated by the current global trade arrangement and world order, is false on its face. Again, this is grievance disguised as policy. Anyway, here goes:<br><br>As an analyst at Hudson Bay Capital, Stephen Miran authored the blueprint for the tariff strategy the Trump administration is now using:<br><p>Tariffs provide revenue, and if offset by currency adjustments, present minimal inflationary or otherwise adverse side effects, consistent with the experience in 2018-2019. While currency offset can inhibit adjustments to trade flows, it suggests that tariffs are ultimately financed by the tariffed nation, whose real purchasing power and wealth decline, and that the revenue raised improves burden sharing for reserve asset provision. Tariffs will likely be implemented in a manner deeply intertwined with national security concerns, and I discuss a variety of possible implementation schemes. I also discuss optimal tariff rates in the context of the rest of the U.S. taxation system.<br></p>(emphasis mine)<br><br>From <a href="https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/research/638199_A_Users_Guide_to_Restructuring_the_Global_Trading_System.pdf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/research/638199_A_Users_Guide_to_Restructuring_the_Global_Trading_System.pdf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.hudsonbaycapital.com/docum</span><span class="invisible">ents/FG/hudsonbay/research/638199_A_Users_Guide_to_Restructuring_the_Global_Trading_System.pdf</span></a><br><br>Miran became the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, appointed by Trump, in March 2025. He seems to be a conservative think tank creature too.<br><br><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/useconomics/" rel="tag">#USEconomics</a> <a href="/tags/trumptariffs/" rel="tag">#TrumpTariffs</a> <a href="/tags/trumprecession/" rel="tag">#TrumpRecession</a> <a href="/tags/trumpcrash/" rel="tag">#TrumpCrash</a><br>
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<p>Is what's happening at home now the same as what we've been doing to others out in the world?</p><p><a href="https://drb.ie/articles/the-monad-unchained/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="drb.ie/articles/the-monad-unchained/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drb.ie/articles/the-monad-unch</span><span class="invisible">ained/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a></p>
<p>Rage, rage against the lying orange shite. <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a></p>
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I hope there are journalists digging into who sold and who bought stocks and cryptocurrencies, which ones and when, leading up to Apr 2 and in the next few weeks.<br><br>The low-effort generative AI looking tariff rates is a tell. The fact bitcoin moved the same way as US stock indices has a bad smell about it too.<br><br><a href="/tags/trumpanddump/" rel="tag">#TrumpAndDump</a> <a href="/tags/pumpanddump/" rel="tag">#PumpAndDump</a> <a href="/tags/tariff/" rel="tag">#tariff</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/useconomy/" rel="tag">#USEconomy</a> <a href="/tags/con/" rel="tag">#con</a><br>
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<p>I just saw Mark Elias' tariff theory. It is a far darker idea than tariffs as sales tax to replace income tax.</p><p>His idea is that it is just a Grand Corruption Machine. It is designed such that leaders from business, US states and other countries have to go to Trump and beg for relief from the tariffs that apply to them. The begging involves making Trump richer.</p><p>The idea that trillions of dollars are being wiped from the stock exchanges, a severe recession seems imminent, inflation is spiking and the entire world order is being upset so that Trump can play at being king of the world and get some kickbacks does seem like a very Trumpian plan.</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a></p>
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<p>I plan to keep tooting about my current situation of my SSDI check not showing up this month.</p><p>I do have people around me to help me out, potentially temporary housing, and access to food...</p><p>I might lose my internet, I never know.</p><p>My future is uncertain.</p><p>When policitcs fuck with lives, I cant just ignore the political articles.</p><p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-doge-goons-cause-major-crash-to-social-security-site/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-doge-goons-cause-major-crash-to-social-security-site/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thedailybeast.com/elon-mus</span><span class="invisible">ks-doge-goons-cause-major-crash-to-social-security-site/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <br><a href="/tags/mysscheckismissing/" rel="tag">#MySSCheckIsMissing</a></p>
In all the talk of US trade deficits forcing Trump et al. to erect tariff barriers to "rebalance trade", we've lost or ignored the fact that the US has an enormous digital trade surplus. See, for instance, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49141-z" rel="nofollow">this paper</a> Estimating digital product trade through corporate revenue data. The US's main conventional export is currently petroleum, but it exports over twice as much in digital advertising. The US's overall "digital exports" are larger than the total exports of France, which is the world's 7th leading exporter. However, these numbers are not typically included in reports about trade deficits or surpluses.<br><br><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#tariffs</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/useconomy/" rel="tag">#USEconomy</a> <a href="/tags/globaltrade/" rel="tag">#GlobalTrade</a> <a href="/tags/trade/" rel="tag">#trade</a><br>
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<p>Some local coverage for the Oregon <a href="/tags/handsoff/" rel="tag">#HandsOff</a> protests from OPB:</p><p><a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2025/04/05/hands-off-protests-oregon-washington/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.opb.org/article/2025/04/05/hands-off-protests-oregon-washington/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.opb.org/article/2025/04/05</span><span class="invisible">/hands-off-protests-oregon-washington/</span></a></p><p>“Hands Off” protests began in Tigard in Southeast Portland Saturday morning, with dozens more planned in Oregon, from Gold Beach to Astoria, to Hood River, Enterprise, Redmond and Klamath Falls.</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/resist/" rel="tag">#Resist</a> <a href="/tags/protest/" rel="tag">#Protest</a> <a href="/tags/oregon/" rel="tag">#Oregon</a> <a href="/tags/portland/" rel="tag">#Portland</a> <a href="/tags/tigard/" rel="tag">#Tigard</a></p>
<p>Remember when RFK Jr said he wanted to make lists of autistic people? </p><p>Disabled advocates warned that was just the beginning. That the violation of medical privacy would be used for nefarious purposes. </p><p>Today the regime announced it’s giving all personally identifiable information of Medicaid enrolees to ICE. </p><p>That’s right, ICE bullies will now have access to almost 80 million people’s personal info. This is an atrocious violation of privacy that will no doubt be used to target other groups as well.</p><p>It won’t stop with immigrants. It won’t stop with autistic people.</p><p>Fascists never stop and we must all fight back.</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/ableism/" rel="tag">#ableism</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#disability</a></p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://disabled.social/@ahimsa_pdx/115992177959522535" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="disabled.social/@ahimsa_pdx/115992177959522535"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">disabled.social/@ahimsa_pdx/11</span><span class="invisible">5992177959522535</span></a></p><p>Update from <a href="/tags/meaction/" rel="tag">#MEAction</a> </p><p>"Why We Launched an ICE campaign"</p><p><a href="https://www.meaction.net/post/why-we-launched-an-ice-campaign" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.meaction.net/post/why-we-launched-an-ice-campaign"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.meaction.net/post/why-we-l</span><span class="invisible">aunched-an-ice-campaign</span></a></p><p>"Congress cut $1 trillion dollars from Medicaid over 10 years, gutting healthcare access and home and community based services that tens of thousands of people in our community rely on to survive. Meanwhile, in the same bill that stripped money from Medicaid, Congress allocated $85 billion to ICE."</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/mecfs/" rel="tag">#MEcfs</a> <a href="/tags/longcovid/" rel="tag">#LongCovid</a> <a href="/tags/chronicillness/" rel="tag">#ChronicIllness</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#Disability</a> <a href="/tags/iceout/" rel="tag">#ICEout</a> <a href="/tags/abolishice/" rel="tag">#AbolishICE</a> <a href="/tags/resist/" rel="tag">#Resist</a></p>
<p>"Wait, I’m sorry, the guy smashing a car window to abduct an immigrant may not be with ICE at all, but a member of a far-right militia group?"<br>-W Stancil</p><p>"My search says this individual's name is Michael Meyer, he commonly goes by the name Lewis Arthur, and his group, Veterans on Patrol (VOP), is associated with the Oath Keepers."<br>-M Datson<br>He has a criminal record⬇️<br>🚨Update, I apologize, the ID of the man hasn't been established.<br><a href="/tags/oathkeepers/" rel="tag">#OathKeepers</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a><br><a href="https://tucson.com/news/local/man-leading-internet-claims-of-tucson-child-sex-trafficking-camp-arrested-again/article_be4184b7-fb9f-5f68-ab4c-8354814f4784.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="tucson.com/news/local/man-leading-internet-claims-of-tucson-child-sex-trafficking-camp-arrested-again/article_be4184b7-fb9f-5f68-ab4c-8354814f4784.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tucson.com/news/local/man-lead</span><span class="invisible">ing-internet-claims-of-tucson-child-sex-trafficking-camp-arrested-again/article_be4184b7-fb9f-5f68-ab4c-8354814f4784.html</span></a></p>
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<p>I think I've already posted this but it's worth re-posting:</p><p>"Trump admin's attacks on chronic disease research abandons long COVID and ME/CFS patients... Again"</p><p><a href="https://www.salon.com/2025/04/01/admins-on-chronic-disease-research-abandons-long-and-mecfs-patients-again/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.salon.com/2025/04/01/admins-on-chronic-disease-research-abandons-long-and-mecfs-patients-again/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.salon.com/2025/04/01/admin</span><span class="invisible">s-on-chronic-disease-research-abandons-long-and-mecfs-patients-again/</span></a></p><p>"Budget cuts and the dismantling of federal agencies are making it harder for patients with long COVID and ME/CFS"</p><p>@mecfs @longcovid </p><p>Edit: added hashtag</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/longcovid/" rel="tag">#LongCovid</a> <a href="/tags/mecfs/" rel="tag">#MEcfs</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a></p>
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<p>Why isn't the world going insane at Republican politicians visiting concentration camps and posing in front of people who will likely be dead within the decade.</p><p>This wasn't even normal in 1942. It's not even normal in North Korea - Fascist regimes usually keep their death camps a secret.</p><p><a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#Fascism</a> <a href="/tags/nazis/" rel="tag">#Nazis</a> <a href="/tags/concentrationcamps/" rel="tag">#concentrationcamps</a> <a href="/tags/deathcamp/" rel="tag">#deathcamp</a> <a href="/tags/cecot/" rel="tag">#CECOT</a> <a href="/tags/maga/" rel="tag">#MAGA</a> <a href="/tags/religion/" rel="tag">#Religion</a> <a href="/tags/supposed/" rel="tag">#Supposed</a> <a href="/tags/catholic/" rel="tag">#Catholic</a></p>
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<p>The wonder occasioned by the fact that the things we are at present experiencing are ‘still’ possible in the twentieth century is no philosophical wonder.<br></p>--Walter Benjamin<br><br><p>When the state of exception...becomes the rule, then the juridico-political system becomes a machine which may at any moment turn lethal.<br></p>-- Giorgio Agamben<br><br><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a><br>
<p>Just out from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://texasobserver.social/@josephinelee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>josephinelee</span></a></span> and Joelle DiPaolo: After three decades of fighting back against <a href="/tags/vouchers/" rel="tag">#vouchers</a>, the governor enlisted the help of the president to destroy the last vestiges of Republican resistance this week. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-trump-house-vouchers-pass/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/abbott-trump-house-vouchers-pass/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/abbott-t</span><span class="invisible">rump-house-vouchers-pass/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="/tags/schools/" rel="tag">#schools</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/gregabbott/" rel="tag">#GregAbbott</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/txlege/" rel="tag">#TXlege</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/republicans/" rel="tag">#Republicans</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a></p>
<p>Report: "By 6 October 2025, the number of conflict-related deaths in Gaza... likely surpassed 100,000."</p><p>“Life expectancy in Gaza fell by 44% in 2023 & by 47% in 2024 compared with what it would have been without the war"...</p><p>"... equivalent to losses of 34.4 & 36.4 years, respectively."</p><p>~Germany's Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research</p><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/more-100000-palestinians-killed-gaza-leading-german-institute-says" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.middleeasteye.net/news/more-100000-palestinians-killed-gaza-leading-german-institute-says"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.middleeasteye.net/news/mor</span><span class="invisible">e-100000-palestinians-killed-gaza-leading-german-institute-says</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/europol/" rel="tag">#Europol</a> <a href="/tags/gazagenocide/" rel="tag">#gazagenocide</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#palestine</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedibird.com/@palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> .</p>
<p>Here is a brave man speaking truth.</p><p>> How you die does not redeem how you lived.</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a></p>
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<p>Republicans in the US Congress are STRIPPING THEIR OWN POWER AWAY in acquiescence to the US president.</p><p><a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#tariffs</a><br>—</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/us/politics/republicans-house-tariffs-emergency-trump.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/us/politics/republicans-house-tariffs-emergency-trump.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/us/</span><span class="invisible">politics/republicans-house-tariffs-emergency-trump.html</span></a></p>
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