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Hmmmm... 🤔 White House Official Explains Why #Russia Isn't On Donald #Trump's New Tariffs List

#Cuba, #NorthKorea and #Belarus are also absent.

By Lee Moran
Apr 3, 2025, 04:34 AM EDT
Updated Apr 3, 2025

"The absence of Russia on the president's new list of countries that he'll hit with steep tariffs did not go unnoticed on social media. Critics were quick to accuse Trump of kowtowing to Russian President Vladimir #Putin, whom Trump has for years expressed his admiration of."

huffpost.com/entry/russia-abse
#TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #USPol #WorldPol
#Magog = #MAGA ?

HuffPost · White House Official Explains Why Russia Isn't On Donald Trump's New Tariffs ListBy Lee Moran

#DWFLabs, the sketchiest and most #Russia connected crypto “market maker” that is absolutely notorious for running pump and dumps, just sent $25 million to the Trump family’s crypto grift World Liberty Financial (WLFI).

Andrei Grachev, the head of DWF Labs, was formerly the CEO of Huobi Russia. #Huobi is owned by #JustinSun, the biggest outside investor in WLFI. Huobi Russia helped #Putin launder money for the war in #Ukraine according to reporting in Bloomberg.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all to find that DWF Labs was the “market maker” that handled the launch of the #TRUMP memecoin. In fact I strongly suspect that to be the case.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio:

"The Russians know our position in terms of wanting to end the war, and we will know from their answers very soon whether they are serious about proceeding with real peace or whether this is a delay tactic.

If it's a delay tactic, the president's not interested in that. If this is dragging things out, President Trump's not going to fall into the trap of endless negotiations about negotiations."
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin

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@mullvadnet

Not just #ChatControl.

Can't wait for #Orban, and consequently #Putin, to get hold of this:

»This will enable secure #automated exchanges of #fingerprints, #DNA profiles, #vehicle registration data, #facial images, and police #records through EU routers. At national level, Member States need to implement the Information Exchange Directive enhancing information exchange channels for seamless cross-border information flow, while ensuring their integration with Union-level systems, such as SIENA«

eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten

eur-lex.europa.euEUR-Lex - 52025PC0148 - EN - EUR-Lex
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"The only legible purpose of the tariffs is for Trump to arrogate more power to himself: so that nations and corporate leaders and labor unions come begging him for relief, and so that he can shake them down."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying #stupidity #incompetence #Putin #PutinsPoodle
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offmessage.net/p/fighting-mean

Off Message · Fighting Means FightingBy Brian Beutler
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“Vladimir Putin bet his life that American voters would be weak and decadent enough to return Donald Trump to the presidency. He was right. …

We have a deeply stupid government—from our economically illiterate president to our craven and foolish secretary of state," (continued in /4)

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying #stupidity #incompetence #Putin #PutinsPoodle
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thebulwark.com/p/the-american-

The Bulwark · The American Age Is OverBy Jonathan V. Last
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@silverpill @adiz @icedquinn @m0xEE @miscbrains

> Whitelist or login wall seems a bit drastic to me,

Yeah, you look at Soapbox instances versus Pleroma; Soapbox doesn't *exactly* login-wall you, but if you don't know how to get to the timeline, it really doesn't like to show it to you. This has an effect on who actually does sign up.

> default post visibility should probably be followers only.

Eh, it gets treated as a privacy/security measure. It's not, it doesn't even sort of work that way on fedi in $current_year, it breaks threads, it incentivizes people to make socks to follow people (someone made something like six alts on FSE just to follow people that had blocked the main account). Even DM threads get misunderstood a lot, like I get tagged into them by someone saying "Have you seen this @p?" or something like that and I have to explain "I still haven't seen it: I can only see posts that I was tagged in, not the rest of the thread. What did he say?"

I don't see a real reason for post scopes beyond "public", "unlisted", and "e2ee".