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Trump administration announces fees on Chinese ships docking at U.S. ports

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/28401341

The U.S. government began investigating China’s dominance in the shipbuilding industry, where it manufactures as much as 75%-80% of fleets, during the Biden administration.

Steep levies on Chinese-made ships arriving at U.S. ports have been proposed, up to as much as $1.5 million, as part of a plan to bring more ship manufacturing back to the U.S., a policy which has bipartisan support.

Trump administration announces fees on Chinese ships docking at U.S. ports

The Trump administration on Thursday announced fees on Chinese-built vessels.
Lori Ann LaRocco (CNBC)
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Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US
Van Hollen and Booker showing how representatives in government should be working for their constituents. I hope their aim is to be as annoying as possible until something good comes of it, but I worry Bukele will just arrest them and further erode the numbers we have in Congress.

Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US

Democrats press Trump administration to follow supreme court order to bring back Kilmar Ábrego García
Chris Stein (The Guardian)
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vvilld

They need to stop this 1 at a time thing. Get like 40 members of Congress, Senators and Representatives. Show up at CECOT with cameras live streaming and demand to be admitted. When they refuse, force your way in.

I don't believe anyone in El Salvador, including Bukele and the goons staffing the prison, want to have a live stream of them assaulting/arresting a bunch of US members of Congress. And if they do, maybe that'll help wake some Republican voters up to the fascism.

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AfricanExpansionist

When did I ever say I was superior to anybody? I simply said that I refuse to cast a vote for either of these two criminal parties. In my lifetime they haven't accomplished anything for the public good and have stopped even pretending that they will.

The only peaceful way to change these parties is for a majority of people to stop voting. We're getting closer!

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Strange sell-off in the dollar raises the specter of investors losing trust in the US under Trump

Strange sell-off in the dollar raises the specter of investors losing trust in the US under Trump

Among the threats tariffs pose to the U.S. economy, none may be as strange as the sell-off in the dollar.
Bernard Condon (AP News)
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For DOGE, And All Criminal Actors, There Must Be Consequences and Accountability
Also, a gift link to the Bloomberg article mentioned in the main Talking Points Memo article

For DOGE, And All Criminal Actors, There Must Be Consequences and Accountability

For a couple weeks, the green world has been rife with rumors that the Trump White House was preparing a series of executive orders to strip climate groups of…
Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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Is A Two State Solution Really No Longer Possible?

What can be called a “peace process” between Israel and the Palestinians ended with the failure of the Camp David summit and the onset of the Second Intifada in…
Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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The Anti-Vaccine Propaganda of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Take-home message:

  • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is one of the main activists of the modern anti-vaccination movement.
  • The movie his corporation recently produced, Medical Racism: The New Apartheid, mixes real examples of racism in healthcare and vaccine misinformation to push an anti-vaccine agenda on marginalized communities of colour.

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www.mcgill.ca
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SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary

SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary

Ocasio-Cortez, finished a close second behind only former Vice President Kamala Harris in one recent poll measuring how Democrats feel about 2028.
Isaac Schorr (Mediaite)
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kreskin

Of all the US presidents, only Obama, Harding, and FDR won the presidency from the Senate. I dont see that being in the Senate or not being in the Senate has any bearing at all beyond a bump for name recognition, and AOC doesnt need that bump. Especially so with the voters extreme low polling for approval of dems in congress.
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This professor studies dictatorships. He helped convince Harvard to stand up to Trump

How an expert in dictatorships helped push Harvard to challenge Trump

Harvard professor Steve Levitsky has spent decades studying democracies and how they fail. He's now raising alarm bells over what he sees as a slide toward autocracy under President Trump.
Kate Linthicum (Los Angeles Times)
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Trump's approval rating on the economy drops to lowest of his presidential career, CNBC Survey finds

Trump's approval rating on the economy drops to lowest of his presidential career, CNBC Survey finds

President Donald Trump is registering the worst economic approval numbers of his presidential career, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey.
Steve Liesman (CNBC)
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Protest letters from former Israeli soldiers lay bare profound rifts over the ongoing war

The growing campaign, which accuses the government of perpetuating the war for political reasons and failing to bring home the remaining hostages, has laid bare the deep division and disillusionment over Israel’s fighting in Gaza.

By spilling over into the military, it has threatened national unity and raised questions about the army’s ability to continue fighting at full force. It also resembles the bitter divisions that erupted in early 2023 over the government’s attempts to overhaul Israel’s legal system, which many say weakened the country and encouraged Hamas’ attack later that year that triggered the war.

“It’s crystal clear that the renewal of the war is for political reasons and not for security reasons,” Guy Poran, a retired pilot who was one of the initiators of the air force letter, told The Associated Press.

Protest letters from former Israeli soldiers lay bare profound rifts over the ongoing war

When nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force veterans signed an open letter last week calling for an end to the war in Gaza, the military responded immediately, saying it would dismiss any active reservist who signed the document.
Melanie Lidman (AP News)
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Senator says Bukele staged margaritas at Abrego Garcia meeting, wanted it by pool

The New York Times reported that one of Bukele’s aides planted the tropical-looking drinks on the table to make it look like Abrego Garcia was living large. Van Hollen confirmed this on Friday. “This is a lesson into the lengths that President Bukele will go to deceive people about what’s going on,” he said, “and it also shows the lengths that the Trump administration and the president will go to, because when he was asked … about this, he just went along for the ride.”

Van Hollen added that Bukele’s government wanted the meeting to take place by a pool: “They actually wanted to have the meeting [take place] by the side of the pool in the hotel,” he said. “This is a guy who’s been in CECOT. This is a guy who has been detained. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar, which, of course, is a big fat lie.”

Chris Van Hollen Describes Meeting With Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Sen. Chris Van Hollen detailed his meeting in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration wrongfully deported.
Andrew Perez (Rolling Stone)
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RFK Jr. Touted as 'Unfit' After Rant About Lack of Autism in 'Older People': 'He Cannot Be This Stupid'

RFK Jr. Touted as 'Unfit' After Rant About Lack of Autism in 'Older People': 'He Cannot Be This Stupid'

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. incited backlash after questioning why autism is "only happening in young people" during a televised news briefing.
Morgan Music (Latin Times)
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Supreme Court cases could pave way for larger role for religion in public schools

Supreme Court cases could pave way for larger role for religion in public schools

Analysis: The cases — over a district’s opt-out policy and a religious charter school — could have ramifications for school systems nationwide.
Linda K. Wertheimer (The Hechinger Report)
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d00phy

Right! You see, this will increase global manufacturing’s need for oil for all that extra shipping, thus raising the price of oil, so US oil makes us all* rich!

  • “All” meaning all the people already rich from making/selling oil including, and mostly, non-American countries/oil barons. The average person will almost certainly see their overall wealth decrease greatly.
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JohnEdwa

In theory.
And it actually probably would be pretty easy to do following US requirements, seeing how lax some of the "Made in USA" labels are:

Made in USA of Imported Parts
...the final construction is done in our country, but all or nearly all the parts have been imported from other countries
Made in USA with Global Components or Global Materials
...the final product is finished in the United States. There could also be a few or no parts of the product that are made in the US, but the majority are made and imported from foreign countries.
Assembled in the USA
...the majority or all of the product is put together in the United States or its territories. ...it’s a foreign product, with foreign-made materials that were only Assembled in the United States. -allamericanmade.com/what-does-…


But the logistics of funnelling $450 billion worth of parts through somewhere else would be basically impossible.
...or they could just lie.

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Joncash2

This is what people are missing. China already built up their logistics in Vietnam and Mexico most famously. This is transhipment. Every since Trump term one, they have been planning this day.

So while your right, in normal conditions it should be impossible. In our reality it's what's already happening. Just wait till we get "Spanish" cars. This was always the plan.

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"This is a mistake": House Democrats fume at David Hogg's plan to oust lawmakers
Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg's plan to spend $20 million to primary older Democratic incumbents in Congress has sparked intense anger from some lawmakers.

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/18/house-democrats-david-hogg-primary-dnc

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Private security guards charged in Coeur d’Alene town hall dragging
Still no charges against the sheriff Bob Norris who also assaulted her and encouraged the follow on assault by these security guards.

Private security guards charged in Coeur d’Alene town hall dragging

City prosecutors have filed criminal charges against six men involved in a chaotic legislative town hall, including the private security guards who dragged a Post Falls woman out of the Coeur d’Alene High School auditorium.
KAYE THORNBRUGH (Coeur d'Alene Press)
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Kevin McCarthy Says AOC Could Crush Old Guard Dems and ‘Become the Leader of the Democratic Party’

Kevin McCarthy Says AOC Could Crush Old Guard Dems and ‘Become the Leader of the Democratic Party’

Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is poised to raise gobs of money and potentially overthrow the old guard of the Democratic Party.
Michael Luciano (Mediaite)
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You can start ringing the new Skate's death knell, because EA says it's online only

You can start ringing the new Skate's death knell, because EA says it's online only

The upcoming Skate reboot will apparently be online only, meaning eventually, somewhere down the road, it'll become completely unplayable.
Oisin Kuhnke (Rock Paper Shotgun)
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Psythik

I'm not worried about it; EA games go offline long after I'm done with them. I've never seen them take down a game that wasn't already completely dead 5 years ago.

My major concern is with development. I don't trust them to make a great game without fucking something up somehow.

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