Posts by Kim Browne
China’s GAC starts auto sales in Brazil, eyes local plant by late 2026
[SAO PAULO] Chinese automaker GAC announced on Friday (May 23) its product launch in Brazil, saying it expects its line of hybrid and electric cars to garner market acceptance that would allow it to start building a factory in the country in late 2026. GAC’s move comes at a time of growing competition in the…
Read MoreTrump threatens EU, smartphones as tariff rhetoric escalates
[WASHINGTON] US President Donald Trump dug in on his threat to impose a 50 per cent tariff on the European Union and said a potential 25 per cent charge on smartphones would apply to all foreign-made devices, in the latest escalation of a trade war that is rattling markets and confusing businesses. Trump on Friday…
Read MoreUS: Stocks fall on revived Trump trade war worries
Published Sat, May 24, 2025 · 06:07 AM [NEW YORK] Wall Street stocks fell on Friday (May 23) on renewed trade war fears as US President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threats offset improvements in the US bond market. Trump threatened 25 per cent tariffs on Apple and other smartphone manufacturers whose devices are not built…
Read MoreTrump’s Crypto Dinner Guests Admit They’re Trying to Buy Him Off
“It’s kind of a fund-raiser” for Mr. Trump, Korean crypto executive Sangrok Oh and another dinner attendee, told the Times. “And he’ll always be good to his sponsors.” The dinner was held at Trump’s private golf club in northern Virginia on Thursday evening for the top 220 holders of the president’s meme coin cryptocurrency—after an…
Read MoreTrump’s Lie About Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque
As I argued recently, Trump’s “white genocide” imagery draws heavily on a kind of internationalized “great replacement theory” that’s popular among white nationalists. In this storytelling, embattled white populations around the world must come to each other’s rescue to avoid elimination. The “farmers” trope gives all this a producerist feel: The white populations are the…
Read MoreHere’s What Happened at Trump’s Shady Cryptocurrency Dinner
Crypto-investors anonymously shelled out a total $148 million to purchase access to Donald Trump, but all they got was a low-quality steak. Guests at Trump’s supposedly “intimate” gala for the 220 top buyers of the $TRUMP memecoin gathered at the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia Thursday night, hoping for a little facetime with the…
Read MoreNancy Mace Hit With Shock Accusation After Waving Nudes in Congress
“The European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of taking advantage of the United States on TRADE, has been very difficult to deal with. Their powerful Trade Barriers, Vat Taxes, ridiculous Corporate Penalties, Non-Monetary Trade Barriers, Monetary Manipulations, unfair and unjustified lawsuits against Americans Companies, and more, have led to a Trade Deficit…
Read MoreTrump’s New Attack on Harvard Fails Immediately as Judge Blocks It
A federal judge blocked Donald Trump’s administration from revoking Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students. In a brief filing Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs granted Harvard’s request for a temporary restraining order preventing the Department of Homeland Security from revoking the university’s Student Exchange Visa Program certification. Harvard had filed a lawsuit…
Read MoreElon Musk’s DOGE Is Breaking Rules to Install Grok in Government
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is letting his glitchy Grok AI chatbot sift through potentially sensitive government information, according to an exclusive report from Reuters Friday. One person familiar with the matter told Reuters that DOGE had begun using a customized version of Grok, a generative AI chatbot developed by xAI, which is owned…
Read MoreRepublican Congressman Seriously Claims Straws Are Only for Women
In a strange appeal to a right-wing conception of masculinity, Representative Tim Burchett proclaimed that he does not drink any liquid out of straws, because he is a masculine man and straws are for feminine women. “[Jesse] Watters says men should not drink out of straws in public, or at all,” a Fox News host…
Read MoreLindsey Graham Dumps Cold Water on Trump-Backed Budget Bill
While House Republicans celebrated passing the president’s “big, beautiful” spending bill by a one-vote margin Thursday, caucus members in the upper chamber remained unimpressed. Speaking with CNN’s Manu Raju later that day, South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham shot down some of the cuts as “not real,” arguing that the House had done next to nothing…
Read MoreTrump’s Week: Rob From the Poor, Give to the Rich, Steal Like Crazy
Let’s start with the sum and substance of the judges’ orders. Some 25,000 federal employees will be back at work Monday. One judge’s order covers the employees at the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs. The other covers those at Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing…
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