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"By conventional thinking, Donald Trump’s tariff strategy is a failure: he sidestepped Congress, chose a dubious legal rationale to do it, and now the tariffs have been struck down by the Supreme Court, putting his entire trade agenda at risk. But that’s only one way to look at it.

Looked at another way, Trump’s tariffs were a bold and creative way to kick-start his agenda in an ongoing era of congressional gridlock. Because of the arcane workings of the US legal system, it has taken an entire year for the Supreme Court to get around to striking them down. In that year, as they wound through court after appeal after oral argument, the tariffs have been in place, and they have been arguably one of the most transformational policies of Trump’s entire presidency.

To be clear, they have not been transformational in anything approaching the way that Trump actually intended them to be. The tariffs have not revived US manufacturing; in fact, all evidence suggests they have been the latest major blow to that ailing sector, which has shed thousands of jobs every month for nearly the entire past year.

Likewise, they may have reshaped the global economic order, but not in ways that have benefited the United States. Outrage over the tariffs — their confusing and arbitrary nature, their indiscriminate punishment of both allies and foes, their use as a tool of political meddling, and their igniting of a trade war with China that Trump had to swiftly and embarrassingly back down from — has, in no particular order: weakened US global standing and pushed key security partners away; hastened efforts at de-dollarization; frayed the global alliances that have helped underwrite US power
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Why, then, would progressive elected officials ever emulate what Trump has done here, given how counterproductive it has been to both his domestic agenda and his foreign policy? Let us count the ways."

jacobin.com/2026/03/trump-tari…

#USA #Trump #Tariffs #TradeWar #TradePolicy




A Network of Mutual Interests: Iran and the Revival of the Julfa–Nakhichevan Railway in the South Caucasus russiancouncil.ru/en/analytics…



Allerta sicurezza, in Italia 28mila possibili obiettivi. La premier: Teheran deve fermarsi
https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2026/03/03/news/allerta_sicurezza_italia_28mila_obiettivi-425196216/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Politica - la Repubblica @politica-la-repubblica-repubblica



Un Samp-T per il Medio Oriente, governo pronto a inviare l’arma
https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2026/03/03/news/italia_invio_samp-t_medio_oriente-425196195/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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No nerf herder slurs, even if it’s different because you’re all friends and don’t mean it that way obviously

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When listening to Shakespeare in the original Klingon, it is impolite to point out the speaker got the accent wrong.

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EU, Anthropic is up for grabs thanks to Captain Hag Seth's hard-on for autocracy. Throw 'em a life line and you'll own the goods to go after autocrats without being authoritarian. Just make sure you're building out your own DataCenters.

youtu.be/MPTNHrq_4LU

#Anthropic #LLM #DarioAmodei #GeoPolitics #Claude #GenAI #BigTech #EU #DataCenters



Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death has triggered competing narratives in Iran. Some view him as a martyr, in the ancient Shi’ite tradition of refusing to capitulate to pressure. Others celebrate the end of an authoritarian ruler who ordered mass killings of protesters.

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Parents of nursery abuse victims to meet minister
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg35lxp32no?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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You really can’t tell if they’re a secret Cylon. Proceed with caution.

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Daily Beast:
Little Marco Goes Full Tin Foil Hat Over Reason for Iran War

Rubio has offered what appears to be a bizarre conspiracy theory as a reason why...Trump launched his war on Iran.
thedailybeast.com/little-marco…

#News #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #Trump #Iran



Please allow passengers to disembark before approaching transporter pads.

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in reply to sezduck

Blue barrels filled with tribbles are what caused the destruction of Praxis. 🤫

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Reuters reports that an object struck an AWS data center in the UAE, causing a fire and shutting it down. Assuming this was an Iranian drone strike, it is the first time a commercial data center was physically targeted in a conflict. It won’t be the last.

reuters.com/world/middle-east/…



The Worm Moon rising behind the EdgeNYC observation deck at Hudson Yards in ahead of a total lunar eclipse in New York City, Monday evening.


Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Western elites of being driven by so-called “Epstein instincts” as he raised the specter of a nuclear confrontation over the war in Ukraine.

themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/02/…

#Ukraine #Russia #US #Lavrov #Epstein

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in reply to Hanse Mina

This is part of a hybrid war: watch how they are always attacking the "elites" to alienate the voters from their leaders.







If they have blue-within-blue eyes and they’re acting a little loopy, let them be. Spice Trance can be challenging.

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"2.298 e subindo! A meta agora é bater 2.3k (faltam 2!). Se você ainda não está por aqui, vem fazer parte dessa timeline. 🧵✨"


President Emmanuel Macron on Monday broke several decades of French nuclear taboos — promising to increase the number of warheads and making explicit France's role in European security.

politico.eu/article/macron-ann…

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #France #Macron

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in reply to Hanse Mina

Aren't Nukes like a paradox of sorts ? Nobody will ever use them, but nobody wants to be without them, just in case...

in reply to sezduck

I'm certain he turned into malevolent static electricity and just jumped from space-cape to space-cloak, like in that Denzel movie abut the serial killer demon.


#gazetadobrasil #jornalismo #noticias #politics CPMI do INSS ouve ex-secretária do “Careca do INSS” e advogado investigado gazetabrasil.com.br/politica/2…


Ucraina, da inizio guerra oltre 56mila vittime civili tra morti e feriti eunews.it/2026/03/02/ucraina-d…


in reply to Shannon Prickett

A malicious attachment, not in the sense of it being an exploit, but in the sense that I composed it with evil in my heart.


There is actual verification on #mastodon , and you do it all yourself with no assistance from anyone. Your profile gets little checks by your verified sites, like in my profile:
frontrange.co/@raineer

This is a decent write-up on how to do it:
fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-a…



Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is seizing on fears of an energy price shock from the Iran war to try to claw back ground against his challenger Péter Magyar ahead of an April 12 election.

politico.eu/article/hungary-vi…

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #Hungary

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Pull out the chair for your dinner date before swinging your leg over the back of your own chair.

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