Yahoo Finance: Warren Buffett: ‘Trade should not be a weapon’
The first question for Warren Buffett at the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting involved world trade as President Trump’s tariff policy disrupts the status quo.
“Trade should not be a weapon,” Buffett said at the end of a detailed answer about the history of the United States and how global trade developed.
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CNN: Another round of auto tariffs just went into effect. They could change the industry forever
The average car buyer doesn’t think about where the parts in their vehicle come from – but automakers do.
That’s why a new round of auto tariffs – this time on parts – coming into effect Saturday could upend the industry, even more than previous levies on imported cars.
As of 12:01 am ET on Saturday, most auto part imports will come with a 25% import tax.
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Atlantic: Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports.
…The ticker tape is just one indicator of an economy, and other signs are growing more and more ominous—including at the Port of Los Angeles, where high tariffs on China are crushing maritime traffic. “Essentially all shipments out of China for major retailers and manufacturers have ceased,” Eugene Seroka, the executive director of the port, said on April 24.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV: Why can’t Trump and his people keep our secrets?
(Lucian K. Truscott IV more…)Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 2, 2025
Yesterday I identified incorrectly the messaging app newly fired national security advisor Michael Waltz was using at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday as the unsecure Signal app. Joseph Cox of 404 Media identified the app as “an obscure and unofficial version of Signal” from “a company called TeleMessage which makes clones of popular messaging apps but adds an archiving capability to each of them.” As Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo notes, this third-party app introduces even more insecurity into those White House communications.
Today I spent time organizing the many tabs I had opened over the past six weeks. When they were grouped by topics, what emerged was the story of an administration that decided from the start to portray President Donald Trump as a king, creating an alternative social media ecosystem designed, as Drew Harwell and Sarah Ellison of the Washington Post noted in early March, “to sell the country on [Trump’s] expansionist approach to presidential power.”
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)Steven Beschloss: Did You Ever Imagine Living in a Country Like North Korea or the USSR?
Mary Geddry: Victory Day for Delusion
As the economy nosedives, Trump rewrites history, targets immigrants, and declares war on the legal system, again. But don’t worry, Shakespeare saw this coming.
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Norman Eisen: 100 Days of…Resistance!
As I traversed the coverage of 100 days of Trump this week, I realized we were asking the wrong question–or at least an incomplete one. Yes, Trump has flooded the zone with his admitted dictatorial ambitions—but he has also been met by rule of law resistance, with more than two cases for every day of his administration and over 100 court orders stopping his worst abuses. Popular protest is vigorous, Trump is plummeting in the polls, and the political opposition is waking up and speaking out, in Congress and across the states.
Given that energy—and all the successes for democracy that we have covered over the first four months of The Contrarian’s existence—why fall for framing the 100 days on Trump’s terms? Let’s give equal time to democracy’s pushback! Which is why I decided to rebut the mainstream media’s 100-day coverage and close out the week with this big new report, written along with my wonderful colleagues Tom Joscelyn, Susan Corke, and other folks over at State Democracy Defenders Action, taking account of both the push for autocracy and democracy’s response.
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Daily Mail: Major outbreak fears as world’s most contagious disease hits baseball game attended by 40,000
Texas health officials are sounding the alarm after confirming a measles case in an adult who recently attended a baseball game at Globe Life Field.
(Daily Mail more…)Al Jazeera: Why is measles spreading in Canada, Mexico and the US?
The northern Americas are at “high” risk of measles compared with a “moderate” risk globally, according to the WHO.
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ALA: Federal Court Halts Dismantling of Federal Library Agency in ALA Lawsuit
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NBC: Judge strikes down ‘unprecedented’ Trump order targeting Perkins Coie law firm
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, who called the executive order an attack on the American judicial system, said Trump’s directive “violates the Constitution and is thus null and void.”
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