Around 84% of oil passing through the Strait is destined for Asia, leaving the economies of China, India, South Korea and Japan vulnerable to an Iranian blockade. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/24/economy/asia-oil-strait-of-hormuz/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #straitofhormuz #iran #unitedarabemirates #oman #shipping #trade #middleeast #oil #asia #china #india #southkorea
Anuj Ahooja
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The woman, who did not want to be identified, told KTLA in Spanish that she knows one of the men & that he’s not a criminal.
Witnesses reported that the same group of #FederalAgents returned to the corner at around 9:30AM, though it’s unclear if anyone else was arrested.
The random #immigration ops have people in the community living in fear, acc/to reporting from KTLA’s Elina Abovian, who spoke to Fernando Banuelos, owner of Dena’s Burgers.
“I’ve lived in #LA for 35 years already & I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said, adding that more than half of his Hispanic [& Latin] clientele are afraid to leave their homes. “Our business has been down I would say 60% to 70%.”
Asked for comment, city leaders in #Pasadena said that they are aware of Wednesday’s #arrests & the officer pulling his #gun on a resident….
#immigration #law#StateSponsoredAbduction #economy#SmallBusiness#Trump#AbuseOfPower #tyranny#AmericanAutocracy
bhaugen
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"Trump voters are starting to turn on him because they took him seriously when he said he would lower costs and didn’t take him seriously when he said he’d act like a dictator. And now they are realizing the opposite is true."
~ Senator Chris Murphy
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession#StockMarket #polls #immigrants
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"Trump voters are starting to turn on him because they took him seriously when he said he would lower costs and didn’t take him seriously when he said he’d act like a dictator. And now they are realizing the opposite is true."
~ Senator Chris Murphy
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession#StockMarket #polls #immigrants
/11
"Trump’s 41% approval rating is the lowest for any newly elected president at 100 days dating back at least to Dwight Eisenhower – including Trump’s own first term."
~ Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy
If he could just find a nice church pew somewhere where he could chew gum and slumber. But we mustn't forget the business, tech, and media elites who inflicted him on us.
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession#StockMarket #polls #immigrants
/12
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/politics/approval-rating-trump-100-days/index.html
"The early reviews are in: Trump 2 is a box office disaster.
Trump has now matched his own record as the only president in modern history to post net negative approval ratings just 100 days into a term."
~ Taegan Goddard
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession#StockMarket #polls #immigrants
/9
https://politicalwire.com/2025/04/27/an-unpopular-president-is-a-weak-president/
"He then called out the NY Times, Washington Post and Fox News by name and demanding they be 'investigated for ELECTION FRAUD' for these polls. (Trump left out the other recent polls that show the same horrible approval numbers such as Pew, Reuters, CBS and The Economist.) He added for bad measure that the media is 'ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.'”
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession#StockMarket #polls #immigrants
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"All of this actually [i.e., Trump's appalling poll performance] matters. And Trump—despite his obvious cognitive slide—gets it as well. That is why Monday morning he slammed the polls on social media as 'FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS.'”
~ Dean Obeidallah
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession#StockMarket #polls #immigrants
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https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trumps-collapsing-poll-numbers-matterwhich