Donald Trump announces he'll impose a 25% tariff on ALL products coming into the United States from Mexico and Canada on his first day in office.
This is going to be a disaster of epic proportions for the cost of goods.
We break it down here: 🧵
Trump is reportedly preparing an executive order to ban transgender Americans from serving in the military.
This would medically discharge 15,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines.
This is un-American and will make us less safe. But hey, a bunch of civilians on X love it.
My brother has worked for NASA for decades. His colleagues are some of the most patriotic and hard working people I have met. My brother worked without pay during two government shutdowns to keep our astronauts safe and essential experiments running. And now they want to shut it down?
"He's drunk at a conservative conference, at 1:30am he's screaming about how he has freedom of speech and berating a hotel staffer, then he takes a woman back to his hotel room for, what he says is, consensual sex. At the moment that that's happening, he is in between marriages." — Tim Miller on Pete Hegseth, nailing it as usual.
I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:
Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women
https://t.co/flwecfYeVJ
Have you gotten a surprisingly expensive vet bill lately?
That’s because Wall Street and corporations like Mars (yes, the candy company) know you’ll do anything for your pet, so they buy up clinics and squeeze you for every last cent.
Bailey and I are fighting back.
“RFK Jr. is the poster boy for the new Trump administration, a rich man who never has had to worry about a thing in his life, putting the lives of ordinary Americans in jeopardy because he thinks he knows better than scientists”
https://t.co/dC9lvT5ClD
Remember:
200,000 Americans needlessly perished bc they refused Covid vaccines in 2021-22
5X increase in pertussis cases from 2023 to 2024
15 measles outbreaks in 2024
Polio in NY wastewater in 2022
All from antivaccine activism in America, and now you put him charge
States that went to Trump stand to lose much more from his plan to abolish the Dept of Education. They receive more federal funds than blue states despite contributing fewer tax dollars.
Moments after Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Trump's nominee for DNI rushed to Twitter to blame the United States and NATO, not Putin, for the war.
A Russian asset
As Trump moves to end the Dept of Ed — Tennessee gets almost 40% of our budget from the federal government, one of the most federally-dependent states.
$1.6 BILLION in federal Ed funds Targeted to poor kids and children with disabilities.
Grandstanding has consequences.