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The idiocy goes right over their heads

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff regime is already reshaping global trade and spiking government customs revenue. But these historic import taxes could also push more Americans into poverty, according to new research.

An analysis published by The Budget Lab at Yale on Tuesday finds Trump’s tariff hikes will likely increase the number of Americans living in poverty by 875,000 in 2026. This increase includes an additional 375,000 children in poverty.

Pretty much everything I post are vents about being an "egg" and questioning stuff and still can't figure out.

I just went from "probably Im mtf" to "nah I can't be, just an nb feminine guy"

If anything, I don't think I can consider myself a "traditional cis man" and I start to don't feel comfortable being seen as such but I can't do anything about it rn....

The most affluent consumers account for a bigger share of total US spending, reinforcing the lopsided dynamic of unbothered consumption for the wealthy and more cautious shopping for everyone else.

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Should OS makers, like Microsoft, be legally required to provide 15 years of security updates?

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Washington (AFP) – The co-founder of Ben & Jerry's has resigned from the ice cream brand after saying his company known for its social activism has lost "the independence to pursue our values" under the ownership of British giant Unilever.

Jerry Greenfield's announcement follows the company's failure in 2022 to block Unilever from selling its ice cream in West Bank settlements, which Ben & Jerry's said would run counter to its values.

Greenfield said he could "no longer, in good conscience, and after 47 years, remain an employee" of the Vermont-based company, according to a statement published on X by co-founder Ben Cohen late on Tuesday.

The brand was founded by the two school friends in 1978 and acquired by Unilever in 2000. It is now owned by the Magnum Ice Cream Company, a Unilever subsidiary.

Greenfield said his firm "has been silenced, sidelined for fear of upsetting those in power" at a time when the current US administration is "attacking civil rights, voting rights, the rights of immigrants, women and the LGBTQ community."

"It's profoundly disappointing to come to the conclusion that that independence, the very basis of our sale to Unilever, is gone," he added.

A Magnum spokesperson said the company remains committed to Ben & Jerry's mission and legacy.

"We disagree with (Greenfield's) perspective and have sought to engage both co-founders in a constructive conversation on how to strengthen Ben & Jerry's powerful values-based position in the world," the spokesperson said.

In May, the 74-year-old Cohen was removed from a US Senate hearing after shouting "Congress pays for bombs to kill children in Gaza" and startling Health Secretary  Robert F Kennedy Jr.

A longtime critic of Israeli policy, Cohen last year joined prominent Jewish figures in an open letter opposing the pro‑Israel lobby AIPAC.

Unilever is in the process of spinning off Magnum, which is expected to begin standalone operations by mid-November.

Harriet Tubman Escapes (1849)

Mon Sep 17, 1849

On this day in 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery. She made more than dozen missions to rescue upwards of seventy enslaved people, including family and friends, using the resistance network known as the "Underground Railroad".

During the American Civil War, Tubman served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In later years, she was an activist in the struggle for women's suffrage. She was friends with both John Brown and Frederick Douglass, and enjoyed renown for her heroism while still alive.

In 1911, two years before she died, Tubman attended a meeting of the suffrage club in Geneva, New York, where a white woman asked her: "Do you really believe that women should vote?" Tubman reportedly replied, "I suffered enough to believe it."

Tubman died of pneumonia on March 10th, 1913 in Auburn, New York, at approximately 92 years old.

• Date: 1849-09-17
• Learn More: www.harriettubmanbiography.com, www.womenshistory.org, www.blackpast.org.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org