Trump Administration Live Updates: President Linked Greenland Push to Nobel Prize Snub in Text Message

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US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.

www.reuters.com/business/hea.... If Trump’s method of dealing with reports of illnesses and deaths resembles what he did for COVID, get ready for him to tell HHS to stop gathering the data. Problem solved. And people re-elected this madman.

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Harvard. Graduate Economic Theory Exam. November 1960 - Economics in the Rear-View Mirror Questions for the graduate written examination in economic theory at Harvard from November 1960

#EconSky There was a question about "the so-called Cobb-Douglas production function". You also had to know something about Ricardo, Malthus, and Marx. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-grad...

The European Union should not water down bank capital standards The EU should resist the pressure for banking-sector deregulation that is likely to follow from the deregulatory push in the United States

🏦 Bank capital standards: simplify without watering down

🔑 Long-term stability rather than short-term gain must guide financial regulation.
🖊️ First Glance by Jesper Berg @nicolas-boivin.bsky.social and @hansgeeroms.bsky.social

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Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity

Bidding is set to end on Monday in an auction for leading buyers of the Trump family crypto coin that offers a private dinner and a tour of the White House for the very top bidders. Announced by Trump last month, the auction has drawn bipartisan criticism.

Vaguely recalling how we spent many years with the biggest scandal in the world being that *false* claim that Biden had accepted a few million in bribes. oversight.house.gov/the-bidens-i...

I'm terrified

Gold Mother's Cross Image Use: Use of images owned by the National Holocaust Centre and Museum is governed by our Terms and Conditions. Accession Number: NEKHC:2009.2.1-2 Object: Medal Physical Description:&nbs...

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FEMA will stop 100% cost-share in Helene recovery • NC Newsline "I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider FEMA’s bad decision, even for 90 days," Gov. Josh Stein said.

Trump, who (falsely) claimed during his election campaign that Biden wasn't doing ENOUGH to assist with NC's hurricane recovery....wait for it....just revoked Biden's Dec 2024 hurricane clean-up reimbursement agreement.

#ncpol

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Plane Carrying 6 Members of Congress Is Clipped at Reagan Airport Two American Airlines jets clipped wings on a taxiway, officials said. Representative Grace Meng said that, in 10 years of flying to and from Washington, “This has never happened to me.”

Two American Airlines jets, including one carrying at least six members of Congress from New York and New Jersey, clipped wings on a taxiway at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington on Thursday, officials said.

Bill to abolish discrimination watchdog agency advances in Tennessee Legislature • Tennessee Lookout Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday voted in favor of abolishing the Tennessee Human Rights Commission, a 60-year-old independent agency responsible for enforcing civil righ...

Bill to abolish discrimination watchdog agency advances in Tennessee Legislature tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/25/b...

'Uncertainty': Green Country home builders worried about potential tariffs 2 News Oklahoam's Clifton Haskin took the questions of a local home builder to the federal government for answers.

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Office for Civil Rights Initiates Title VI Investigations into Institutions of Higher Education Office for Civil Rights Initiates Title VI Investigations into Institutions of Higher Education

This week in stupid:
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Former U.S. attorney for Virginia found dead at 43 Jessica Aber, who was the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia for three years until resigning in January, was found dead in Alexandria on Saturday.

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ALA statement on White House assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services An executive order issued by the Trump administration on Friday night, March 14, calls for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the nation’s only federal agency for America...

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Not a doubt in my mind!
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Under authoritarianism anything is possible. Now elderly Green Card holders (who live with their children) are being harassed and threatened at U.S. airports.
Please read.

💥 Dems have finally figured out that they need to take advantage of the vacuum GOP Reps left because they’re too damn cowardly to hold Town Halls!

If you have questions or know folks who are disallusioned w/ their GOP Rep, share these upcoming DEM Town Halls!
More dates to be added.
Link below…

A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

Like he signed 1600+ pardons for insurrectionist by hand. 🙄

Trump signs order to dismantle seven federal agencies focused on media, libraries, homelessness President Trump on Friday signed an executive order that aims to eliminate seven federal agencies, including ones that focus on media, libraries, museums and ending homelessness. The president dire…

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When are March Madness brackets released? Here's what to know about Selection Sunday The 68-team fields for the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments will be unveiled Sunday night, and the games begin next week.

The 68-team fields for the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments will be unveiled Sunday night, and the games begin next week.

We must ban all politicians from trading effective immediately!

This is outrageous. Thank you to @unusualwhales.bsky.social for raising awareness!

Every politician is doing this. The longer we turn a blind eye, the more they’ll abuse their power.

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A deep dive into athletes and moments to celebrate Women’s History Month | The GIST And happy first Sunday of Women’s History Month — a month to highlight women’s contributions in history and contemporary society. Like we needed an excuse.

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There may not be many (way too big) US cars driving in Europe, but everybody uses Microsoft Office.

Insightful blog by Jesper Rangvid on US-EU trade in goods and *services*. blog.rangvid.com/2025/03/02/m...

#EconSky #FinSky #trade

82% of voters oppose cutting Medicaid, including 71% of Trump voters — Hart Research poll.
This is going to hammer lower-end consumers.
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