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Tariffs will pay for tax cuts?
-- The White House can’t be serious.
After passing tax cuts that will likely cost $5.5 trillion over the coming decade, the Trump administration is under increasing pressure to rein in soaring budget deficits. So what’s the plan? Tariffs, tariffs and more tariffs.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently claimed on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that tariff revenue “is going to pay off our deficit.”
Administration estimates of 10-year tari…

Tariffs will pay for tax cuts? The White House can’t be serious.
Trump officials say trillions of dollars in tariff revenue will pay for their tax cuts. Don’t hold your breath.

iPhone exports to the US from India are currently exempt from Trump's latest 25% tariffs on India; India now accounts for 20% of global iPhone production (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
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Apple’s India Exports to Emerge Unscathed From Trump Tariffs
Apple Inc.’s iPhone exports to the US from India will remain untouched by President Donald Trump’s latest 25% tariffs on the South Asian nation, for now.

Global warming is altering storms lightning, impacting tropical forests https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/global-warming-is-altering-storms-lightning-impacting-tropical-forests/

Global warming is altering storms lightning, impacting tropical forests
A climate change-induced surge in brief but intense thunderstorms poses a growing but underrecognized threat to trees in tropical forests, a finding that could have major implications for carbon storage and tropical biodiversity under future global warming scenarios. That’s according to a recently published paper, which determines that short-lived but powerful convective storms — combining […]

Trump announces 25% tariffs on India, lambasts Russian energy and defense ties: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/trump-announces-tariffs-on-india.html

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

"Worldwide #search #traffic has fallen by 15 percent in the past year [...] The culprit: AI search. Now that #AI-generated summaries are being integrated into search results, anyone looking for informati…

"Animals boost tropical forests' carbon absorption by aiding seed dispersal"
#Animals #Trees #Forests

Animals boost tropical forests' carbon absorption by aiding seed dispersal
A lot of attention has been paid to how climate change can drive biodiversity loss. Now, MIT researchers have shown that the reverse is also true: Reductions in biodiversity can jeopardize one of Earth's most powerful levers for mitigating climate change.

Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauš-Mirim! https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1305/brazil-protect-the-mangroves-and-tropical-forests-of-taua-mirim

#petition Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauá-Mirim!
The people of the Tauá-Mirim region in the Amazon are urgently calling on the Brazilian government to protect their land. The rivers, mangroves and tropical forests south of São Luís in the state of Maranhão are threatened by infrastructure, industrial, and agricultural projects. Please support our petition.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,020,980 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html