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International students will stop coming to American universities if their visas are going to be at risk. This will make our intellectual community poorer and also make tuition more expensive for domestic students.

Congratulations!

"Conservatives and socialists believed in the power and influence of institutions and regarded them as a necessary safeguard against the chaos, injustice and cruelty caused by uncontrolled individualism." Isaiah Berlin, 1949. Could have been written yesterday.

Senate GOP approves framework for Trump's tax breaks and spending cuts after all-night session The Senate plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework.

BREAKING: Senate Republicans plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework.

NYT home page: more prominent coverage for "7 Americans React to Sweeping Tariffs" and "A Sticky Miso Salmon Bowl for Busy Weeknights" than for "Anti-Trump Protests in All 50 States"

If "protests in all 50 states" wanted above-the-fold coverage in @nytimes.com, they should have been "seven random Americans" instead

If you or someone you know has been negatively affected by NIH-funded clinical trials being paused, disrupted, cancelled etc., I have a contact with the Senate HELP Committee eager to collect stories of everyday Americans affected by the NIH closures. Please DM me.

Hakeem Jeffries threatens lawsuit over delayed Texas special election One month after Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner's death, Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott has yet to call a special election to fill his seat.

It's getting buried, but Houston will almost certainly not have representation in Congress until January 2027.

Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner died nearly a month ago and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has simply decided not to call a special election to fill the seat.

I mean, yes, this is bad, but also, like ...

Baserates matter.

For most of the market's history, a 2000 point drop would have been like it just got evaporated.

Absolute drops aren't the right metric here.

(My loyalty to baserates transcends any sort of partisan affiliation.)

Others have tried to capture the economic effects of the tariff bomb. Here’s another: Trump has destroyed US diplomacy. Forget the liberal international order. US diplomacy as we knew it is over. Thread: 1/

Republicans Plan to Skirt Senate Rules to Push Through More Tax Cuts (Gift Article) G.O.P. leaders are planning to use the “nuclear option” to steer around the Senate’s in-house referee and allow the use of a gimmick that makes trillions of dollars in tax cuts appear to be free.

In the midst of everything else, don’t miss this story. (Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

The plot thickens, maybe

Princeton, Tufts, U Mich, Georgetown - some better responses starting to circulate

Every day cabinet members and GOP leaders are missing a chance to have their great-grandchildren read their names in history books.

They could simply say that the mad emperor has no clothes and walk away from a disaster, live on air.

And yes, they can afford security.

Everyone needs to call up their Republican members of Congress today & ask them why they’re raising taxes on their own constituents. Make them own this because they do.

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Two-thirds of both houses of Congress could undo this whenever they want by passing a bill over Trump's veto taking all power to set tariff rates away from him. Tariffs are set by law. The Constitution gives the president no power over tariffs--only our current laws do that.

The dam is starting to crack.

-4 GOP Senators joined the Dems to rebuke his tariffs

-a GOP Senator wrote a WaPo op-ed decrying his attacks on research and higher ed

-Rogan & Coulter are questioning his immigration policies

-his economic approval dropped to 40%

-his right-hand man lost big in WI

What's absolutely wild about this is the way they've manufactured a global financial crisis for no reason at all. This isn't 2007-08, where it was a bubble bursting. This is taking a relatively thriving economy and deliberately destroying it in the first three months of your presidency.

A tweet by "rohit" discusses the application of AI in geopolitics, specifically focusing on tariffs, and includes a table comparing tariff rates between China and the US.

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

To put this in actionable terms: everyone with a connection to any college or university (alum, parent, student, faculty, works there) should send a letter to their president's office urging them to issue a statement calling for due process for student detentions. Do it now! #DueProcessForAll

Every single university president should be asked, in public, why they are not speaking out this way to support all the students currently detained without due process, and all those terrified that they will be next, on every campus in this country. Yes, including Columbia's acting president.

Good thinking for folks who can do it.

Costco is gonna be 🔥 🔥 🔥 this weekend

Seriously, it would be a tremendous act of service journalism for some economics reporter to write the piece on what a) everyday household items b) major purchases will spike first.

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

Her Fetus Has No Heartbeat—They Still Won't Give Her An Abortion South Carolina's ban is torturing a 31-year-old mom *right now*

I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action.

She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.

This is what bans do.

Am I right that that when COVID supply chain issues were available as an excuse to raise prices, those increases were quite sticky?

So, even if these tariffs are somehow reversed, we may be stuck with price hikes for good?

I wrote a whole thing about how I think that of all he has done the first 100 days, this will be the thing that punctures the bubble.

During COVID we got a glimpse of how cheap consumption has become a white identity. Remember how curbing that went?

tressiemcphd.medium.com/the-meltdown...