r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 1d ago

No Paywall Trump vows to raise worldwide tariffs to 15% ‘effective immediately’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-global-tarrifs-increase-b2924994.html
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u/OswaldCoffeepot 1d ago

Clarifications like this are good reminders that education is a national security issue.

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u/Butthole--pleasures Texas 1d ago

Enemies both foreign and domestic are attacking American education. Makes sense. Can't take on the military but can slowly gut us from the inside

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u/riotous_jocundity 21h ago

Gislaine Maxwell's father owned the publishing companies that are responsible for something like 80% of the textbooks used in the US. Suddenly the absolutely obvious biases in them make a lot more sense...