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These tariffs mean less money in your pocket.
Buying a six-pack of Colorado beer? More expensive.
Filling up your truck? That’ll cost you more.
Replacing a part on your car? Be ready to pay a surcharge.
Building a new home? Expect building costs to rise.
'Liberation Day' or recession day? Colorado legislators react to Trump's tariffs kdvr.com/news/politics/color…
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Without fail every single time I talk about not passing, people respond with “you do”
No, I don’t. This is me without makeup.
I don’t say I don’t pass because I want compliments, I say it as a reminder that trans women are worthy of love and respect whether or not we pass
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i would like to move out of my parents house and live on my own in the city but unfortunately we’re about to enter the second great depression so it seems like a bad time to do that
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ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES
U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses.
It's the third highest monthly total on record.
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You literally can't trust the products on the shelves under this administration. These people are the worst combination of evil and incompetent.
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Trump just said that in 1913, for reasons unknown, they established the income tax. The reason is well known to almost everyone but the Trump administration. The income tax was imposed to tax the super rich, to replace the tariffs that were paid by the middle class and the poor.
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Professor @zilbo told the @AP that decreased public funding for agricultural research in the US could reverberate across the globe. "I really worry that if we don’t really look at the global food situation, we will have a disaster." apnews.com/article/farming-r…
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Is there a more popular, modern name for groceries that we don't know about?
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As a reminder, Congress could repeal all these tariffs tomorrow and take back the complete authority over tariffs and trade that the Constitution gives it. Every congressman who does not vote to do that is effectively choosing to support this massive tax on US consumers.
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This is, and I am not being hyperbolic, some of the most evil shit this country has done in the last decade
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Donald Trump just imposed the largest tax hike in our lifetime.
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Over 140,000 jobs in Colorado are tied to our trade with Canada alone.
Mexico is Colorado’s largest export partner.
Tariffs will cost us jobs and make everyday life more expensive for working families.
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BREAKING: The Department of Health and Human Services has fired every single worker in its program that helps low-income Americans pay their energy bills.
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An admissions officer at Penn told me once that they could replace all of the admitted students in a class with the best ones who were rejected, and their stats would look nearly identical.
The reality is that the majority of students applying to elite schools all have perfect GPAs, test scores, and extracurriculars. The admissions officer needs to read your essay and understand why you, of all of these seemingly perfect applicants, deserve to attend their school over everyone else. Yes, this can be subjective. Yes, this might come down to luck. Yes, this may feel unfair. This is what you sign up for when you apply to a school with a 3-5% acceptance rate. You may think you deserve to get in, but so do the rest of the 95%. That's why they all applied.
I had a 4.0 + valedictorian + class president + multiple national awards + excellent recommend letters. I wrote my essay about getting emancipated from an abusive family and moving out at 17, because I desperately wanted to finish school. I did not expect to get into Penn, and I sobbed when I did.
I have no idea if I deserved to go to Penn over anyone else, and to this day I still feel extremely grateful to have gotten in. A different year, a different admissions officer, maybe even a different meal they had for breakfast, and it might not have been me. I recognize that there are other amazing kids with 4.0 GPAs and 35 ACTs, like you, who should have gotten in too.
If I'd been rejected, I would have been extremely grateful to attend my safety choices, like UT. All I wanted was to further my education. I'd go to community college if that's what it took.
I know being rejected from an elite school sucks, but I really wish students didn't act as if it's the end of the world to have to attend a university that isn't an Ivy League. If you are the amazing student that you say you are (ambitious, resourceful, eager to learn), then those things should stay with you regardless of the institution you're at. Most people don't attend an Ivy League, and many of them are incredibly smart, hardworking, and successful.
At the end of the day, 4 years of your life will never define the rest of it. In my life, one thing I've learned about success is that failure is going to be a part of it.
You are all going to be okay.
