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Don Cooper, The Sales Heretic™ — Sales trainer, keynote speaker & coach for salespeople, business owners & professionals. Follow me for daily sales tips & more!
Denver, CO
Joined November 2008
"But a rise in the number of people DIAGNOSED with autism is not the same thing as a rise in the number of people who ARE autistic." https://t.co/TlOPtKO1zC
bbc.com
Why is the number of autism diagnoses changing? And what does it mean for autistic people?
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CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS: The Attorney General of the United States blatantly lied—not once, but four times in a matter of seconds. I’d love for MAGA to explain why they’re perfectly fine with this level of dishonesty: 1) No court has ever ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a
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"'No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,' Harvard President Alan Garber wrote. https://t.co/CavvLPdpUR
apnews.com
The federal government says it is freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and contracts to Harvard University. The institution says Monday it won’t comply with a list of demands from the Trump...
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“The fear is the U.S. is losing its standing as the safe haven,” said George Cipolloni, a fund manager at Penn Mutual Asset Management. “Our bond market is the biggest and most stable in the world, but when you add instability, bad things can happen.” https://t.co/blPpMfltEM
apnews.com
The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that rarely gets headlines: Investors are dumping U.S....
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"'As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios,' Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, wrote to a New York Times reporter." https://t.co/dDuWKey0a7
apnews.com
You know those email signatures at the end of messages? In recent years, it hasn’t been uncommon to see them include the sender’s pronouns.
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"The two-page memo does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student. Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs." https://t.co/uDkvcc5hju
apnews.com
The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.
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"A massive round of staffing cuts last week across federal agencies included elimination of the CDC’s 20-person Division of Oral Health. That office managed grants to local agencies to improve dental health and, in come cases, encourage fluoridation." https://t.co/TE9WeQzsmb
apnews.com
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention soon to stop recommending fluoridation in communities nationwide.
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The drop closed the worst week for the S&P 500 since March 2020, when the pandemic ripped through the global economy. In stock markets abroad, Germany’s DAX lost 5%, France’s CAC 40 dropped 4.3% and Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 2.8%. https://t.co/B5S56wbPji
apnews.com
Wall Street’s worst crisis since COVID slammed into a higher gear. The S&P 500 plummeted 6% Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 5.5% and the Nasdaq composite dropped 5.8%.
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“I hope they raise their prices, because if they do, people are gonna buy American-made cars,” Trump said. “I couldn’t care less because if the prices on foreign cars go up, they’re going to buy American cars.” https://t.co/waS2pa2jrK
apnews.com
President Donald Trump says “Liberation Day” is coming. On Wednesday, he plans to roll out a set of tariffs that he promises will free the United States from foreign goods.
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"Jeremy Paul, a constitutional law professor at Boston’s Northeastern University, said “there are no credible legal arguments for him to run for a third term.'” https://t.co/nZGIbiMNII
apnews.com
President Donald Trump says he's considering ways to serve a third term. “I'm not joking,” he says in an NBC News interview.
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Already, the U.S. has more measles cases this year than in all of 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said. Since February, two unvaccinated people have died from measles-related causes. https://t.co/mxn9YiAExS
apnews.com
Indiana announced a new measles outbreak Wednesday. The cases do not have a link to the Texas outbreak that surpassed 500 cases Tuesday and has led to the death of two children.
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"A spokesperson for the United Nations’ human rights commission said that the recent law 'results in arbitrary and discriminatory restrictions on the rights of LGBTIQ+ individuals to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and privacy.'" https://t.co/nLHv6C5q7H
apnews.com
Several thousand protesters have blocked numerous roads and bridges in Hungary's capital, opposing a law that effectively bans LGBTQ+ Pride events and restricts the right to assembly.
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“This ongoing tariff war doesn’t just harm importers — it weakens domestic brands, disrupts distributors, and squeezes retailers who rely on global selections,” Seidewand said. “In the end, consumers will bear the brunt of it all.” https://t.co/BnpeSpCbjV
apnews.com
President Donald Trump is threatening a 200% tariff on European wine, Champagne and spirits if the European Union goes forward with a planned tariff on American whiskey.
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“CIVICUS outlines the state of civil rights through five categories—open, narrowed, obstructed, repressed, and closed. ‘Open’ is the highest ranking and the lowest is ‘closed.’ The U.S. has been classified as ‘narrowed.’” https://t.co/9cWWWyK1WL
time.com
The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, due to declining civil liberties.
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"Ford estimated it will add about CA$100 ($69) a month to the bills of each American affected. Quebec is also considering taking similar measures with electricity exports to the U.S." https://t.co/IYZFoihZIF
apnews.com
Ontario’s premier, the leader of Canada’s most populous province, is now charging 25% more for electricity shipped to 1.5 million American homes and businesses in response to U.S.
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