A short post on Trump's new illegal tariffs on Canadian goods - based on the notorious - and long-defunct - Section 338 of the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff act: reason.com/volokh/2026/...

Trump Imposes New Illegal Tariffs on Canada

The 50% tariffs on many Canadian imports are based on the long-defunct Section 338 of the notorious Smoot-Hawley tariff act.

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This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

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You believe Trump won in 2016 when Obama was President because Democrats steal elections. You believe Trump lost in 2020 when Trump was President because Democrats steal elections. You believe Trump won in 2024 when Biden was President because Democrats steal elections. You are not very smart.

Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u... He’s not even trying to hide his corruption anymore I’ve gifted this to bribe you to read it

Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation (Gift Article)

The payment illustrates the minefield Mr. Trump has created by maintaining personal financial ties with foreign businesses while he is in office.

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Susan Collins gave ICE a bunch more money for its death squads, but now she’s deeply concerned that the death squads are getting too death-squady before an election.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3w ago

New statement from Sen. Susan Collins on the Maine ICE shooting: "While the investigation of the Biddeford shooting is not yet complete, it raises sufficient critical questions that I spoke with DHS Secretary Mullin last night and urged him to cease all non-urgent vehicle stops."

What’s sad to me… is that Lindsay Graham probably thought he could outlast Trump and then reconcile his morality after that. There is no after that now. It’s a good reminder… always do what you know to be right, right NOW. And when you recognize you crossed a line, that’s ok, but come back.

Heck, nobody stopped him from taking a half a billion dollar airplane, what's a few diamonds between cronies?

Jesse Eisinger@jeisinger.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy 250th to this country, whose constitution literally says no “presents” from foreigners!

GOP hits on Talarico are mostly just theological disagreements. I've seen churches split over carpet color. The "we're not electing a pastor" crowd is ONCE AGAIN using theology as their chief persuasion FOR electing a criminal & serial adulterer. That is a pattern voters cannot afford to ignore.

Good afternoon Gestapo. I look forward to the day all of you are brought to justice.

So just to check the till: Works in Nevada Works in Missouri But from Arkansas Sure, Jan.

More children have been molested by members of the #Duggar family than the total number of illegal aliens who've ever voted in #Arkansas. Just sayin'.

In AR we hold back students who can't read at grade level in 3rd grade. Sadly, this was not the law about 35 years ago. That's how we got a Governor who can't read. This is obviously the case since there's no way Sarah Sanders is an entitled mean girl who'd cyberbully a restaurant to get attention.

27% of the entire US national debt was borrowed under the only POTUS to personally file bankruptcy multiple times. He's been POTUS for just over 5 of our almost 250 years but is responsible for more than 1/4 of our debt. This doesn't end well and it is NOT conservatism.

The U.S. has LOST jobs in 5 of the last 9 months according to BLS. 6/2025: 20K jobs LOST 7/2025: 64K jobs added 8/2025: 70K jobs LOST 9/2025: 76K jobs added 10/2025: 140K jobs LOST 11/2025: 41K jobs added 12/2025: 17K jobs LOST 1/2026: 126K jobs added 2/2026: 92K jobs LOST

Shhhhh! Nobody tell MAGA Silent Night was written in German. On 2nd thought, they're probably OK with THAT language. I wonder if they know many of the hymns they celebrate were first written in "foreign" languages? BTW, the BIBLE was written by brown skinned people & not one word was in English.

#Arkansas students planning to participate in today's walkouts should know: The #FirstAmendment protects your right to #protest. (1/5)

“Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny." John Hancock

Right wingers are straight up lying about how Minnesota elections work now in order to argue that the Dems are corrupt. We have open primaries. There's no such thing as a Dem primary because it doesn't exist.

?? that DESERVE answers: 1. Why did Jonathan Ross switch hands with cell phone when stepping in front of Ms Good's car? 2. Why did Trump's SS detail allow him to stand up & put his fist in the air w/an active shooter in the area? 3. Why won't Justice Department comply w/law & release #Epstein files?

Greenland has voted to rename itself Epstein Island so Trump and the Republicans will claim they’ve never heard of it, never visited, and have no interest in acquiring it.

And it was Mitch McConnell who made it possible by letting Trump off the hook on impeachment, and Kevin McCarthy who proactively brought Trump back into the GOP fold. Let their shame never be forgotten.

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

it's hard to remember now but five years ago people really thought the GOP was done with Trump and now election denial is a core plank in the party platform

“The federal law that says we had to release the entire Epstein Files by 12/19/2025? Yeah, thanks for the suggestion but I’m gonna give you 100 pages a day until the end of time. Minus redactions. You’re welcome!!”

CNN@cnn.com · 7mo ago

The Justice Department said it has released 12,285 documents – less than 1% – of its Jeffrey Epstein-related files, with more than 2 million documents still being reviewed. https://cnn.it/4qIiAMV

Cassidy should have thought about that before he voted to confirm the deadly menace known as RFK Jr.

Happy New Year!

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 7mo ago

Happy New Year!

Direct threat to our most basic 1A liberties. He ought to be impeached for this alone.

Tero Kuittinen@teroterotero.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Peaceful and blessed Christmas for American journalists.

Didn't get what they wanted.

"We'll save you from those scary brown people, any knowledge that challenges your biases, science and technology." Republican platform 2026

Gee, I wonder what it means when someone who LOVES to share videos of boats being blown up suddenly won't even show one such video to lawmakers behind closed doors? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Hegseth Declines to Show Lawmakers Boat Strike Video

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