US continues to go backward...

[Polds4OSU]

TEMU has started charging the Tariff Import rate to consumers. And Legit there are 1000's of stories of American's who are JUST NOW realzing they have to pay the Tariff....and TEMU was the one that opened their eyes to that fact.

US Shoppers Pay for Trump Tariffs as Temu begins adding "Import Fee" at checkout, Doubling Some Prices

Discount Chinese retail app Temu appears to be passing on nearly all of Donald Trump’s new import taxes to US consumers, more than doubling the cost of some products in a move that may add to concern about the inflationary impact of tariffs.


Previously exempted from any levies under the so-called ‘de minimis’ rule, parcels priced up to $800 now face an ad-valorem tax — of 120% of a product’s value — or a per postal item fee of at least $100 starting May 2.

PDD Holdings Inc.-owned Temu is requiring customers to pay those levies on top of the original cost of the goods.

A look at 14 shipped-from-China items on Temu’s bestsellers list showed taxes exceeded the value of the product. A $19.49 power strip, for instance, charged an additional $27.56 in import charges as of Monday, or 1.41 times the price of the product.

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MSN

 

[Polds4OSU]

TEMU has started charging the Tariff Import rate to consumers. And Legit there are 1000's of stories of American's who are JUST NOW realzing they have to pay the Tariff....and TEMU was the one that opened their eyes to that fact.

US Shoppers Pay for Trump Tariffs as Temu begins adding "Import Fee" at checkout, Doubling Some Prices

Discount Chinese retail app Temu appears to be passing on nearly all of Donald Trump’s new import taxes to US consumers, more than doubling the cost of some products in a move that may add to concern about the inflationary impact of tariffs.


Previously exempted from any levies under the so-called ‘de minimis’ rule, parcels priced up to $800 now face an ad-valorem tax — of 120% of a product’s value — or a per postal item fee of at least $100 starting May 2.

PDD Holdings Inc.-owned Temu is requiring customers to pay those levies on top of the original cost of the goods.

A look at 14 shipped-from-China items on Temu’s bestsellers list showed taxes exceeded the value of the product. A $19.49 power strip, for instance, charged an additional $27.56 in import charges as of Monday, or 1.41 times the price of the product.

link

MSN

Shein is following Temu's Lead​

Shein Slams U.S. Consumers With Massive Price Hikes​

The Chinese e-commerce giant Shein is raising prices sharply for American customers, Bloomberg reports.
Bloomberg’s review shows average prices for the 100 top-selling beauty and health items have surged by 51%.
Some products have seen even more dramatic hikes — kitchen towel prices, for example, have risen by a staggering 377%.
The massive price hikes are a direct result of the ongoing trade war. Shein and other Chinese platforms now face 120% tariffs on goods sold to the U.S.

 

[PF5]

If you aren't impressed by living in basically a five-star hotel, then bully for you. But the purpose of that tweet was to mislead and you fell for it.


How many times do I have to say that I wasn't defending Osteen?

I fell for nothing..I already stated the pic was obviously an exaggeration...I get that you are not defending joel; I never implied that you were...I merely posted the original pic to show the disgusting worldly money whores that many mega pastors are...

 

[steross]

More journalism dying due to our government and corporate money......

https://twitter.com/x/status/1916666407015915824

 

[GratefulPoke]

 

[Pokey]

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Blind Republicans leading a blind Congress, led by the chief disrupter in charge. These people are members of a cult and sadly it’s minority rule once again.

 

[steross]

https://kfor.com/news/local/were-citizens-oklahoma-city-family-traumatized-after-ice-raids-home-but-they-werent-suspects/

Disgusting.

 

[Fl_Poke]

https://kfor.com/news/local/were-citizens-oklahoma-city-family-traumatized-after-ice-raids-home-but-they-werent-suspects/

Disgusting.

"Those people are brown ,let's raid their house and see what we get"

 

[PF5]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1917273831665799463

 

[Stillwater Townie]

https://kfor.com/news/local/were-citizens-oklahoma-city-family-traumatized-after-ice-raids-home-but-they-werent-suspects/

Disgusting.

Leading Republicans, including Gov. Stitt, should speak out how that shouldn't happen again in Oklahoma and ask whatever LE was behind it to apologize and return the money and items they took.

 

[RxCowboy]

Leading Republicans, including Gov. Stitt, should speak out how that shouldn't happen again in Oklahoma again and ask whatever LE was behind it to apologize and return the money and items they took.

Good luck with that.

 

[PF5]

Trump administration discontinues $1 billion in school mental health grants

The Trump administration will not renew grants worth $1 billion that were aimed at boosting mental health services in schools, a Department of Education official said.

abcnews.go.com

 

[JTOSU]

Trump administration discontinues $1 billion in school mental health grants

The Trump administration will not renew grants worth $1 billion that were aimed at boosting mental health services in schools, a Department of Education official said.

abcnews.go.com

If Randi Weingarten thinks this is a bad thing, odds are it is a good decision. But the article basically tells the reader nothing…just a pure emotion article appealing to low information voters who care little about facts.

The WH is claiming the $1B was not being used for mental health. Have no idea if the WH claim is true or false. If the WH claim is true, then stopping $1B from being spent inefficiently and incorrectly is good. If the WH claim is false, then taking away $1B for mental health for youth is bad.

Why doesn’t the journalist who wrote this either prove or disprove the WH claims? And why did only 260 school districts in the nation (another article about this story) receive the funding?

 

[PF5]

If Randi Weingarten thinks this is a bad thing, odds are it is a good decision. But the article basically tells the reader nothing…just a pure emotion article appealing to low information voters who care little about facts.

The WH is claiming the $1B was not being used for mental health. Have no idea if the WH claim is true or false. If the WH claim is true, then stopping $1B from being spent inefficiently and incorrectly is good. If the WH claim is false, then taking away $1B for mental health for youth is bad.

Why doesn’t the journalist who wrote this either prove or disprove the WH claims? And why did only 260 school districts in the nation (another article about this story) receive the funding?

Trump admin stops grant funding for school mental health

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5382582/trump-school-mental-health

 

[Vakarian74]

Trump admin stops grant funding for school mental health

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5382582/trump-school-mental-health

who wants mental health coverage. You should just hide it like all the Magastans are doing.

 

[JTOSU]

who wants mental health coverage. You should just hide it like all the Magastans are doing.

So was it actually covering mental health — that is the question that the article doesn’t answer.

I guess the 260 school districts that received the funds may potentially be upset. The other 13K ( 98.1%) of school districts are apparently not going to see any changes.

 

[Vakarian74]

So was it actually covering mental health — that is the question that the article doesn’t answer.

I guess the 260 school districts that received the funds may potentially be upset. The other 13K ( 98.1%) of school districts are apparently not going to see any changes.

Of course you would be for not helping anyone because we can’t help everyone. Pathetic.

 

[JTOSU]

Of course you would be for not helping anyone because we can’t help everyone. Pathetic.

Tell me what help the money provided?How many other school districts will be helped with $1B? Or what else could they use taxpayer money more effectively? Use facts, not emotion.

BTW, That $1B could fund over 12K more teachers in the US.

 

[PF5]

Tell me what help the money provided?How many other school districts will be helped with $1B? Or what else could they use taxpayer money more effectively? Use facts, not emotion.

BTW, That $1B could fund over 12K more teachers in the US.

good point...screw the kids...they don´t need any mental health help...especially if it only helps some 260 districts...if itś not available to all, no one should get help...smh

from the articles:
But American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten called it a "direct attack" on the safety and well-being of children.

"They may not have agreed on everything, but Congress secured $1 billion in bipartisan mental health grants to help kids better understand themselves and the world around them," Weingarten wrote in a statement. "The benefits were obvious. Now, with the stroke of a pen, that halting progress has been wiped away, even as the president and his allies insist that improving mental health is the only way to fix the gun violence epidemic."

The grants were allocated under President Joe Biden's signature Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. The BSCA, an anti-gun violence law signed after the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022, used "historic funding" to add more mental health services to schools over five years, according to former White House officials.
...
The endgame was "to prepare and place 14,000 mental health professionals in schools," says Mary Wall, who oversaw K-12 policy and budget for the U.S. Department of Education during the Biden administration.
...
"To be able to provide those [mental health] services and then have it ripped away for something that is completely out of our control, it's horrible," Fialkiewicz says. "I feel for our students more than anything because they're not gonna get the services that they need."

An August 2024 poll from the American Psychiatric Association found that "84% of Americans believe school staff play a crucial role in identifying signs of mental health issues in students."
...
In a statement to NPR, Madi Biedermann, deputy assistant secretary for communications at the Department of Education, explained the decision to discontinue the grants:

"Recipients used the funding to implement race-based actions like recruiting quotas in ways that have nothing to do with mental health and could hurt the very students the grants are supposed to help. We owe it to American families to ensure that tax-payer dollars are supporting evidence-based practices that are truly focused on improving students' mental health."
...
The initial federal request for grant applications suggested districts prioritize "increasing the number of school-based mental health services providers in high-need [districts], increasing the number of services providers from diverse backgrounds or from the communities they serve, and ensuring that all services providers are trained in inclusive practices."

In the email Fialkiewicz received, notifying him of the grant's end, the department wrote that the efforts funded by the grant violate federal civil rights law, "conflict with the Department's policy of prioritizing merit, fairness, and excellence in education; undermine the well-being of the students these programs are intended to help; or constitute an inappropriate use of federal funds."

When asked if diversity played any role in his district's grant application, Fialkiewicz replied:

"Yes, in our application, we did state, because it was part of the requirements, that we would use equitable hiring practices. And that's exactly what we did. And to me, equitable hiring practices means you hire the best person for the job. That's equitable."

 

[steross]

Tell me what help the money provided?How many other school districts will be helped with $1B? Or what else could they use taxpayer money more effectively? Use facts, not emotion.

BTW, That $1B could fund over 12K more teachers in the US.

Since you tend to like to come defend the cuts, do you have any concerns that they are cutting programs like this but still spending more money? Do you wonder what they are doing with it? Or do you have faith in this government that there must be a good purpose the money is shifting to from the cuts we have all seen and some of us have been impacted by?