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Walmart just leveled with Americans: China won’t be paying for Trump’s tariffs, in all likelihood you will

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They said this the last time it happened... During his last presidency.

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/walmart-says-higher-china-tariffs-will-increase-prices-for-us-shoppers-idUSKCN1SM18X/

Walmart Chief Financial Officer Brett Biggs said in an interview that higher tariffs will result in increased prices for consumers.

If only someone else said something about how bad these tariffs would be...

https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2024/trumps-proposed-blanket-tariffs-would-risk-global-trade-war

https://amp.miamiherald.com/opinion/article292867514.html

https://apnews.com/article/harris-economy-ceos-trump-rule-of-law-tariffs-2dd224c63fb4dae47438b6599cc5a968

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/09/09/economist-calls-trumps-threat-to-tariff-countries-that-shun-the-dollar-a-lose-lose.html

https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/11/04/how-much-could-trumps-tariffs-damage-europes-economy

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Business/would-trumps-tariffs-trigger-global-trade-war-experts/story?id=114887448

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4938752-trump-economic-policies-impact/amp/

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/10/16/politics/trump-fact-check-john-deere-economy

https://www.semafor.com/article/10/18/2024/what-are-the-consequences-of-trumps-tariffs

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tariff-threat-john-deere-economists-baffled-2024-9

https://fortune.com/2024/08/16/trump-tariffs-trade-war-inflation-economic-policies-joachim-klement/

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/yellen-speech-tariffs-will-increase-inflation-risk-trump/

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States’ Abortion Rights Wins May Be Short-Lived Under a Second Trump Term

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But don't you see how Democrats were taught a lesson for not putting forth a candidate better than Trump? /s

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/politics/2020-2016-exit-polls-2024-dg/

In 2020, about half of Americans said abortion should be legal in all or most cases. In 2024, it’s about two-thirds of Americans who say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. But they didn’t necessarily tie that support to their vote for president. Nearly half of people who say abortion should be legal in most cases supported Trump.

The median voter is a tangled mess of contradictions.

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Trump is running his transition team on secret money

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/muslims-who-voted-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks-2024-11-15/

Hassan Abdel Salam, a former professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and co-founder of the Abandon Harris campaign, which endorsed Green Party candidate Jill Stein, said Trump's staffing plans were not surprising, but had proven even more extreme that he had feared.

"It's like he's going on Zionist overdrive," he said. "We were always extremely skeptical ... Obviously we're still waiting to see where the administration will go, but it does look like our community has been played."

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Tipping is a racist relic and a modern tool of economic oppression in the South: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Spotlight

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https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/american-institute-for-economic-research/

Anything below mostly factual gets a no from me dawg.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/12/16/fact-check-tipping-kept-wages-low-formerly-enslaved-black-workers/3896620001/

Our ruling: True

Based on our research, the claim that tipping became popularized by restaurant owners who didn't want to pay Black workers after the passage of the 15th Amendment is generally TRUE, though more context is helpful.

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More Than 1 Million Pounds of Aid Moved Into Gaza Via DOD's Temporary Pier

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/23/politics/aid-gaza-us-pier/index.html

Aid groups have begun distributing the humanitarian assistance offloaded at the US pier in Gaza to Palestinians, after encountering significant obstacles on distribution routes including Hamas drones and looting that delayed the deliveries.

More than 500 metric tons of food and other humanitarian aid offloaded at the pier has now been handed off to humanitarian partners, and two-thirds of that aid has distributed to or is in the process of reaching those in need, a top US Agency for International Development (USAID) official told reporters on a call Thursday.

The distribution comes several days after the US military’s pier operation launched and got off to a rocky start.

Aid deliveries from the pier to warehouses inside Gaza were initially hindered by a Hamas drone attack on the IDF “several miles away” from the pier that led to a freeze on convoy movements, and some trucks were looted along one of the distribution paths earlier this week, Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, the deputy commander of United States Central Command, said in a call with reporters on Thursday.

As a result, the US military had to help USAID come up with alternative, safer routes for trucks leaving the marshaling area on the beach near the pier and traveling to the warehouses.

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Congress could try barring Trump from office under 14th Amendment, but it likely won’t

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https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-the-supreme-court-got-wrong-in-the-trump-section-3-case

Under the Court’s approach, only Congress has the power to determine which people are to be disqualified and under what procedures—at least when it comes to candidates for federal office and officials holding those offices. The majority claims that Congress’s Section 5 power to enact “appropriate” legislation enforcing the 14th Amendment is the exclusive mode of enforcing Section 3.

There are several flaws in the Court’s analysis. The most basic is that there is no good reason to believe that Section 5 is the exclusive mode of enforcing Section 3. As the Colorado Supreme Court emphasized in its ruling, Section 5 empowers Congress to enforce not just Section 3 but also every other part of the 14th Amendment, including its protections against racial and ethnic discrimination, the Due Process Clause, and more. These other provisions are considered to be self-executing, under long-standing federal Supreme Court precedent. Section 5 legislation is not the exclusive mode of enforcement for these other parts of the amendment.

Thus, state governments and federal courts can enforce these provisions even in the absence of congressional Section 5 enforcement legislation. Otherwise, as the Colorado Supreme Court notes, “Congress could nullify them by simply not passing enacting legislation.” Why should Section 3 be any different? Monday’s Supreme Court decision doesn’t give us any good answer to that question.

As the Supreme Court ruling notes, following its landmark precedent in City of Boerne v. Flores (1997), Congress’s Section 5 power is “remedial” in nature: It must be “congruent and proportional” to violations of the amendment it is intended to remedy. If Section 5 legislation is remedial in nature, including when it comes to enforcing Section 3, that implies some other entity—state governments and federal courts—has the initial responsibility for ensuring compliance with Section 3. The role of Section 5 is to remedy violations of that duty, not to be the exclusive enforcement mechanism.