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But of course he didn't really reverse course. There are still massive tariffs in place, and probably more coming, because no one has stopped him and they are a useful policy tool if you want to commit extortion.

However, it looks like the administration is so incompetent that tariffs aren't being collected or enforced at this time.

"U.S. shippers tell CNBC they have not been charged higher tariff rates on their containers, some of which came in as late as yesterday"
cnbc.com/2025/04/11/customs-re

Jenifer Bunty, a recently fired Forest Service specialist said: “It’s really hard to let go of that mission, that drive that is bigger than myself,” Bunty says. When she told her daughters, ages five and seven, that she’d been fired, they didn’t understand the word. So she explained that it meant she couldn’t do her job. “They’re, like, ‘Wait, you don’t get to help the forest and the animals anymore?’ And they started to cry.”

newyorker.com/news/the-lede/th

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The New Yorker · The Felling of the U.S. Forest ServiceBy Peter Slevin
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Reading about Mahler-Werfel’s world, I see parallels to our own. Where she hosted artists in Viennese salons, we’re offered the task of scrolling through digital feeds. Her era wrestled with modernism and the human psyche; we’re beset by AI and digital consciousness. Different centuries, same human search for meaning amid profound change.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ I wonder will we sleep through our own “fin-de-siècle”?

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