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Please consider adding your name to this letter, and repost. The EO and its fact sheet are worth studying in detail.

absolutely insanity on Fox Business. this would be a bit much even in Pyongyang.

It appears this is the fourth worst back to back day for the DJIA in American history with a two day combined -8.65% loss, only trailing the 1929 crash, 1987 Black Monday, and the 2008 crisis.

I am a 60+ white woman who regularly rides the trains..at night..in Minneapolis. The only time I was afraid was when I saw ICE board the train (note: this was years ago..they were there because they were assisting mpls police during superbowl)

Trump headlining $1 million a person super PAC dinner as stocks sink over tariffs Donors attending the Mar-a-Lago candlelight fundraising dinner Friday are being charged $1 million a plate.

At least Nero could play an instrument

Pussy Riot warns America to ‘wake up!’ at Washington Square Park protest in NYC Pussy Riot, the provocative, political Russian punk band, came to Washington Square Park Wednesday to deliver a stern warning about rising authoritarianism.

Pussy Riot came from Russia to NYC today to deliver a powerful warning: “Wake up, America!” they shouted

www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/02/p...

5 things Trump did this week:

1. Skipped ceremony for 4 dead soldiers

2. Repeatedly tanked the stock market

3. Tariffed an island of penguins

4. Fired thousands from the Centers of Disease Control

5. Left the White House early on Thursday for a long golf tournament weekend

Costa Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like "a Roman emperor."

The government is now not only kicking out pro-Palestinian students because they’re “terrorists” but also kicking out octogenarian Nobel laureates who criticize Trump himself

www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc.

Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
scienceimpacts.org
H/T to Prathima !

Exclusive | FDA’s Top Vaccine Official Forced Out In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited ‘misinformation and lies’ from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.

JUST IN: The FDA’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, has been pushed out. In his resignation letter, he slams RFK Jr. for rejecting “truth and transparency” and pushing “misinformation and lies.” Marks warns of an “unprecedented assault on scientific truth.”

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Here's a list we can get behind! 👇

A rare statement from Justice Roberts in response to Trump's post this morning:

“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

Women's History Month: Grace Hopper Meet the inventor of COBOL

Meet Grace Hopper, the inventor of the first English Language based programming language.

Women's History Month: Grace Hopper open.substack.com/pub/sonsofli...

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Claudia Scheinbaum, President of Mexico, in the centre of the image in a purple dress on International Women’s Day, 2025. A search around on google fails to turn up an image credit unfortunately, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/s/MGhF9O80FL

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.

(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

What a different world we could have.

Is this what they meant by a Red Wave?

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

The FBI’s new headquarters