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“As coordinated protests erupt across America, whispers in D.C. are growing louder: Attorney General Pam Bondi may be preparing to investigate George Soros and his son Alexander as the alleged financiers behind domestic terror attacks — including recent violence targeting Tesla. 🧠 NGOs. 💰 Dark money. 🧱 Paid protesters sowing chaos coast to coast. The …
🚨🇨🇳CHINA TO BANKS: STOP BUYING U.S. DOLLARS Trump’s new 104% tariffs are hitting hard — and now China is scrambling to keep its currency from crashing. The Chinese central bank just ordered major state banks to stop buying U.S. dollars and start buying yuan to slow the drop.… https://t.co/Wqnvo9igBp pic.twitter.com/a3aUtrtdFV — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April …
What does a real estate agent do? Sellers think they’re less necessary than 2024 🤔 Although nearly two-thirds of home sellers (63%) believe real estate agents are inherently necessary to the sale process, that’s down 10 percentage points from 2024. For homebuyers, sellers, and those in the real estate industry, 2024 was a tumultuous year. …
Walmart said President Donald Trump’s new tariffs could affect its profits in the first quarter, though it expects sales to be stable during the period and for the full year. In a news release, the discounter said it wants to “maintain flexibility” in case it has to spend more to keep prices low. The big-box …
A single shipyard in China can, within a year, out-produce decades worth of ships in the US. That’s a huge problem. An unclassified slide released by U.S. naval intelligence last year estimated that China’s total shipbuilding capacity was now more than 632 times that of the US. https://t.co/AtWFUuA7UP — Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) April 8, …
DE-CRISIS BY DESIGN: Ending Biden’s Most Outrageous Violations of Immigration Law. Joe Biden tried to use immigration law to realize his dream of millions of new immigrants coming to the United States. He tried to use the gambit of “Temporary Protected Status” (TPS) to allow a million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans — CHNV — to …
“Are you optimistic, then, that this situation will change, and we’ll see a resurgence in big particle physics discoveries? That’s a very good question because it looks as if there’s nothing we can do. If the situation proceeds in such a way that every new breakthrough requires a 10-fold, or even larger, increase in the …
Posted that 3 hours before the 90 day tariff pause announcement 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/PUqWx3qSfF — Benjamin Cowen (@intocryptoverse) April 9, 2025 https://twitter.com/coffeebreak_YT/status/1910023238853275924 Note to future self If the 🇺🇸 President tells me its a great time to buy … something may be coming later in the day pic.twitter.com/F3pBIOVC1j — Evan (@StockMKTNewz) April 9, 2025 We just …
More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and around $790 million for Northwestern University have been frozen while the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at both schools, the White House says. It’s part of a broader push to use government funding to get major academic institutions to comply with President Donald …
Trump calls off reciprocal tariffs for 90 days. Doubles down on tariffs with China, now with a 125% tariff. Continues to impose a 10% tariff on the rest of the world. Despite the pause, the U.S. remains the highest tariff industrialized country. pic.twitter.com/Ue4g1a1gRb — Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) April 9, 2025 cant say earnings don't matter …
*TRUMP: RAISING THE TARIFFS ON CHINA TO 125 PERCENT — zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 9, 2025 BREAKING: Trump is raising tariffs on China to 125%, but pausing tariffs on reciprocal and 10% tariffs on other countries for 90 days. This is AMAZING news. — Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) April 9, 2025
Michelle Obama’s new podcast suffers dismal ratings ranking at number 34 in the Spotify podcast charts, just weeks after launch. Episodes on YouTube have received drastically low viewing numbers with one rapid receiving just over 60,000 views. pic.twitter.com/48xAW0Sexu — Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 9, 2025
Acting IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause is expected to resign, according to two administration officials, continuing turmoil in the agency’s top leadership. Krause is the third person to lead the IRS since January. Acting Commissioner Doug O’Donnell left last month. Krause’s departure comes after the agency agreed to share tax information with federal immigration agents to …
Per Breitbart, Terry Adirim, who lead the CIA’s Centers for Global Health Services, a position she held until roughly a week ago, has been fired. Her termination is linked to her role in pressuring service members to choose between taking a vaccine authorized only for emergency use or facing discharge. Adirim authored a directive instructing military …
AG Bondi warns: Foot soldiers and financiers of anti-Tesla terror will face justice. https://twitter.com/TruePatriotVox/status/1909784358610760100
China is against the ropes. With tremendous tariffs leveled against them by the Trump administration, they are doing everything in their power to try to preserve their economy while saving face. A part of their propaganda plan is to insult Americans as fat and lazy. They released several AI-generated clips showing obese Americans working in …
$MSTR not good Bob pic.twitter.com/CwzNVaJ718 — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) April 9, 2025 $MSTR Saylor’s cost basis: $66,384.56 Currently: $75,702.10 This is gonna be interesting. pic.twitter.com/UI3OEwN6dc — Heisenberg (@Mr_Derivatives) April 9, 2025
💯 https://t.co/24XeSsPwzQ — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2025 Crazy https://t.co/3GTJgtLJZB — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 8, 2025
TRUMP JUST NOW: – Stocks were up 88% in my first term, they will be up more now that I get to do what I want with tariffs – Countries are calling me and “kissing my ass” – Congress wants to take away my power to negotiate on tariffs but Congress sucks at negotiating pic.twitter.com/IZv6YgKR8e …
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: Trump has maximum negotiating leverage right here, right now. I think it would be a mistake to think otherwise. Many of our trading partners have not escalated, and they will get priority in the queue. I think it was a big mistake, this… pic.twitter.com/bxJICTGmBd — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 9, 2025 …
TRUMP: "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY" pic.twitter.com/03Mvddm0UN — Wall St Engine (@wallstengine) April 9, 2025
On the surface, it may appear that “Mr Wonderful” Kevin O’Leary is making a ludicrous suggestion. He told a CNN panel that the 104% tariffs against China are not enough and it should be 400%. That’s crazy… or is it? https://discern.tv/kevin-oleary-makes-the-case-for-400-tariffs-on-china/
According to The Harvard Crimson, Harvard will offer high-school-level math courses to its students. The remedial assistance has rekindled criticism over Harvard’s move away from standardized tests in making admissions decisions. For years, Harvard has been accused of lowering admissions standards to achieve “equity” goals in its classes. The school opposed efforts to uncover its …
CNN: "Trump is not a lame duck, if anything he's a soaring eagle." pic.twitter.com/qIcUTUkc0T — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 8, 2025
OPEN THE BOOKS — Federal agencies have spent $4.6 Billion on furniture since 2021, despite most employees working from home.pic.twitter.com/54Kla1cD97 — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 9, 2025
⚠️BREAKING: *CHINA RAISES TARIFFS ON U.S. GOODS TO 84% 🇨🇳🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/2N03lVFNIa — Investing.com (@Investingcom) April 9, 2025 What is even happening? China retaliates with more tariffs. 🩸🩸🩸 pic.twitter.com/xiYUvFNVKf — Ayesha Tariq, CFA (@AyeshaTariq) April 9, 2025
An Allentown city employee is accused of placing a noose on her desk and then falsely claiming that someone else put it there. On Jan. 10, 2025, shortly after 7 a.m., Allentown city worker LaTarsha Brown, 42, arrived at her office on the third floor of the City Hall building in Allentown, Pennsylvania. About a …
