The CDC's cruise ship inspectors have been laid off, as well as agency's head epidemiologist for investigating cruise ship outbreaks That baffled health officials since this program is paid for by cruise ship fees, not taxpayer dollars www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

BREAKING: China raises its retaliatory tariff on goods coming from the US to 84%, up from 34%, hours after Trump's sweeping new tariffs kicked in. Follow AP's live updates.

While your average driver might like the idea of paying less fuel tax, you know who NEVER pays fuel tax? Gina. Clive. BHP. The rest of the mining industry @rodcampbell.bsky.social explains #auspol #ausvotes live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/04/aust...

If business groups had their way, the lowest-paid workers would now be paid $160 a week less. The FWC should ignore the fears of business groups and give those on awards and the minimum wage a decent pay rise. @grogsgamut.bsky.social #OffTheCharts australiainstitute.org.au/post/if-busi...

Australia is selling its gas to Japan so cheaply, that Japan is selling it again to other countries! But Big Gas wants us to think we have a shortage problem, not an export problem. 🎤 Yuki Tanabe at the Australia Institute's #ClimateIntegrity Summit 2025 #auspol

re-quoting this cause lots of people keep talking about internet domains as a basis for tariffs, which makes no sense and is likely just a coincidence due to the overlap with ISO 3166 country/territory codes and top level domains.

We've solved the mystery on why all those remote and uninhabited islands were targeted for tariffs by Trump - they show up in US trade data due to mislabelled shipments. eg mixing up Norfolk, Virginia or Norfolk UK with Norfolk Island! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This morning, Peter Dutton made a shock appearance on the Today Program to do a complete 180 on his working from home position. Amazing stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hRP...

5:50 pm PST: Japan’s banking sector in free fall. Complete meltdown across all major financial institutions with 14-17% drops not seen since 2008 financial crisis.

Trump on his way to play golf today.

You can't see it in the clip, but if you turn the sound up and listen carefully you can actually hear the thunk of Trump's ball bouncing off the caskets of our fallen servicemen.

Report: Iran pulling forces out of Yemen amid intensive US airstrikes on Houthis https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-iran-pulling-forces-out-of-yemen-amid-intensive-us-airstrikes-on-houthis/

can’t make this stuff up

every Republican TV hit today

I wonder how many people realize the tariff on auto parts causes car insurance premiums to go up?

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

To put it in real terms: This press conference cost the U.S. stock market somewhere in the realm of $1-2 trillion dollars.

Closely inspecting the list of tariffs/countries posted by the White House, Trump did not put tariffs on Russia. Ukraine's tariff is 10%, the EU's is 20%, and every American ally is on the list. But not Russia.

Trump is following through on his promise to lower prices!

BREAKING: Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, NBC News projects, defying Elon Musk after he spent millions against her. nbcnews.to/4hU1reg

The world's richest Nazi chode is cutting the Veterans Crisis Line because he does not care if Vets commit suicide. He does not believe that they deserve specialized care by people trained to de-escalate situations involving Vets suffering PTSD and other disorders developed in the line of duty.

A level of corruption beyond our wildest imaginings a few years back. This image could easily have been in Idiocracy and no-one would have batted an eyelid.

The guy who campaigned on lowering prices on day one now says he hopes prices go up Congrats, America www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

BREAKING The FDA’s top vaccine official has resigned. Dr. Peter Marks wrote this in his resignation letter about Robert Kennedy Jr.: "It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

so uh a lot of threads on the ATC subreddit about air traffic controllers not getting paid

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect. I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.

One of the biggest corporate donors to the populist Reform UK party has sold almost $2 million worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier of Moscow’s blacklisted state weapons agency, documents show.

Yeah…Why does Pete Hegseth have a Russian email address?

I may well die from the schadenfreude I’m experiencing right now

hahahahahaha oh shit

The MAGA pro-worker movement continues to make its presence felt! Actually Republicans are now the party of the Common Man who loves paying seventy bucks for overdrafting his bank account

Bucking Hamas intimidation, Gazans hold 3rd straight day of rallies against terror group https://www.timesofisrael.com/bucking-hamas-intimidation-gazans-hold-3rd-straight-day-of-rallies-against-terror-group/

The incompetence of this administration is staggering.

"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..." www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.

NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/

Trump will consider this far worse than any security breach. Because this is borderline treason in Dear Leader’s world. Waltz is now officially in trouble.

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Breaking: Read the Signal messages. theatln.tc/XISUWloF

‘We used an app that a journalist was able to hack into while we discussed war plans’ doesn’t seem like the greatest defense to me.

As bad as the Houthi PC Group Chat is, and as bad as the DOGE stories leaking by the minute are...what's happening under the radar is so, so much worse.

Obviously, Jeffrey Goldberg has the texts that Hegseth claims that he doesn’t have. The Senate or House Armed Services Chairs can easily and quickly verify who is lying about this. If Hegseth blatant lied about this on camera tonight, how in the world can he continue in this job?

What you have to understand about Pete Hegseth copying and pasting war plans into Signal is that it almost certainly means he’s got classified documents on his personal UNSECURE devices. Signal isn't on a secure device...are our war plans on his personal devices? @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social

How many Scotches do you think it would take to get Pete Hegseth to text Trump's tax returns to The Atlantic?

When we say “operational security is clean” we mean that we have just unwittingly and illegally texted war plans to a reporter over an unauthorized platform. by Pete Hegseth and Michael Waltz

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

The Trump regime's national security leadership accidentally included the editor of The Atlantic in their communications about military strikes in Yemen. Really. Just because they're cruel, criminal and fascist doesn't mean they're competent.