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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken https://x.com/ofthebraveusa/status/1940198741849305313?s=46

Listening to his Schubert Impromptus. Sublime.

@jon-nyc said in 18 People Looking for a New Job: My best guess is they end up, after a lot of drama, with more or less the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta. Take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors. The bulk of these devastating cuts to SNAP and Medicaid could be avoided if they limited the 2017 tax cut extension to those making under $400k. Tax cuts for the wealthy are why we’re here. [image: 1751213554461-img_6059.jpeg]

U.S. President Donald Trump says he's ending all trade discussions with Canada to hit back at Ottawa for slapping a tax on web giants — and he wants it removed before negotiations can begin again. Canada and the U.S. have been locked in talks to get Trump to lift his punishing tariffs on Canadian goods, levies that have already led to major economic dislocations, job losses and a drop in southbound exports. Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed at the G7 last week to reach some agreement on the trade dispute within 30 days. Speaking in the Oval Office on Friday afternoon, Trump said the U.S. has "such power over Canada," and that he's upset the country is following a taxation strategy similar to Europe's. "It's not going to work out well for Canada. They were foolish to do it," he said of imposing the DST, which was passed into law last year with a delayed application. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-terminating-trade-discussions-canada-1.7572964

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_new_5426.pdf I think this was original about birthright citizenship, but this decision does not say anything about it - only that a federal court cannot form an injunction against the whole nation Because universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts, the Court grants the Government’s applications for a partial stay of the injunctions entered below regarding the implementation and enforcement of President Trump’s Executive Order No. 14160, but only to the extent that the injunctions are broader than necessary to provide complete relief to each plaintiff with standing to sue.

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https://seekingalpha.com/news/4462416-fannie-mae-freddie-mac-may-include-crypto-as-an-asset-in-mortgage-risk-assessment https://twitter.com/pulte/status/1937944964656152800 Feels like this should also be in the Crypto thread and the Never Ending Grift thread.