Tariffs are basically a sales tax. You pay it when you buy something from another country.
Trump is boasting about increasing your sales tax.
I wish journalists would point this out.
This year, I think #Republicans are setting up most US residents for a financial disaster. Consider the cumulative effects of these recent changes:
- Tariffs causing inflation and uncertainty
- Tariffs causing businesses to shrink or shut down
- Loss of international trading partnerships
- Loss of income from tourism
- Removal of healthcare from tens of millions of residents
- Unbridled AI use causing widespread job losses
- ICE raids making people too afraid to go to work
- ICE raids causing businesses to suddenly lose labor force
- ICE raids destroying the economy of countless families
- DOGE laying off massive numbers of government workers
- Shutdown of disaster warnings increasing the risk of personal tragedy and economic loss
- Shutdown of climate incentives increasing the risk of climate crisis
With these changes, what do you think is going to happen to the economy of the bulk of US residents? Not only the poorest 50%, but even the 90th percentile?
Agaric Tech Collective
boosted
When Microsoft locked an ICC prosecutor out of their email, it proved just how easily U.S. power can reach across borders and into the heart of global justice, writes Paul Budde.
THE RECENT INCIDENT involving Microsoft and the International Criminal Court (ICC) should send a chill down the spine of every democratic nation.
Following a sanctions order from White House, Microsoft locked ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan out of his enterprise-level Office 365 account.
That account wasn’t personal — it was part of the ICC’s institutional infrastructure.
And just like that, an American tech giant disabled access to a key international legal actor.
...
What’s worse is the normalisation of it all. We scroll past headlines like “Microsoft cuts #ICC access” and carry on with our day. The sociologist Alexei Yurchak coined a term for this: hypernormalisation — the idea that everyone knows the system is broken, but we all pretend things are normal because no one can imagine how to change them..."
#Tyranny#Kakistocracy#ManufacturingConsent#Office365#Censorship
When Microsoft locked an ICC prosecutor out of their email, it proved just how easily U.S. power can reach across borders and into the heart of global justice, writes Paul Budde.
THE RECENT INCIDENT involving Microsoft and the International Criminal Court (ICC) should send a chill down the spine of every democratic nation.
Following a sanctions order from White House, Microsoft locked ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan out of his enterprise-level Office 365 account.
That account wasn’t personal — it was part of the ICC’s institutional infrastructure.
And just like that, an American tech giant disabled access to a key international legal actor.
...
What’s worse is the normalisation of it all. We scroll past headlines like “Microsoft cuts #ICC access” and carry on with our day. The sociologist Alexei Yurchak coined a term for this: hypernormalisation — the idea that everyone knows the system is broken, but we all pretend things are normal because no one can imagine how to change them..."
#Tyranny#Kakistocracy#ManufacturingConsent#Office365#Censorship
Alex Akselrod
boosted
I’m sorry, what?
SORRY. WHAT?
TRUMP GAVE PERMISSION TO IRAN TO STRIKE A US AIRBASE WITH US PERSONNEL IN IT?
HOW IS THIS NUMPTY NOT CONVICTED FOR TREASON!?
I’m really beyond being flabbergasted at this point, but HOLY SHIT.
#Trump #kakistocracy #impeach #convict
PS: Fact check: TRUE.
PPS: The missiles were all shot down. But still…there were personnel on the base that could have been injured or killed if a single one of those missiles made it through.
I’m sorry, what?
SORRY. WHAT?
TRUMP GAVE PERMISSION TO IRAN TO STRIKE A US AIRBASE WITH US PERSONNEL IN IT?
HOW IS THIS NUMPTY NOT CONVICTED FOR TREASON!?
I’m really beyond being flabbergasted at this point, but HOLY SHIT.
#Trump #kakistocracy #impeach #convict
PS: Fact check: TRUE.
PPS: The missiles were all shot down. But still…there were personnel on the base that could have been injured or killed if a single one of those missiles made it through.
Cory Doctorow
boosted
Exclusive: US #CDC #vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says
A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study's author said.
#Trump#RFKJr#AI#HHS #science #medicine #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-cdc-report-shows-no-evidence-linking-thimerosal-containing-vaccines-autism-2025-06-24/
Tim Chambers
boosted
The meeting has become increasingly controversial after #Health Secretary #RFKJr just weeks ago abruptly fired all previous 17 members of the expert panel & named 8 new members, half of whom have advocated against #vaccines.
Kennedy, a long-time #AntiVaccine activist, founded the Children's Health Defense.
The meeting has become increasingly controversial after #Health Secretary #RFKJr just weeks ago abruptly fired all previous 17 members of the expert panel & named 8 new members, half of whom have advocated against #vaccines.
Kennedy, a long-time #AntiVaccine activist, founded the Children's Health Defense.
Exclusive: US #CDC #vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says
A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study's author said.
#Trump#RFKJr#AI#HHS #science #medicine #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-cdc-report-shows-no-evidence-linking-thimerosal-containing-vaccines-autism-2025-06-24/