The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage — and solidarity. Be prepared.

When no less than staid, conservative columnist David Brooks is calling for a national uprising, you know things have gotten very dire, very high stakes.

Volvo to cut up to 800 US jobs as Trump's tariffs bite

Volvo to cut up to 800 US jobs as Trump's tariffs bite reut.rs/42ioA5F

A post from aaron from queens (@aaronnarraph ) on X reads: "The fact that Bukele felt the need to tweet this (after giving him back his clothes and letting him meet Van Hollen in such a scenic location) is proof that he and Trump know this is politically untenable." Below, a quote from Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele ) says: "Óscar Abrego García, miraculously risen from the 'death camps' & 'torture', now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador! ." The quote includes four images: two men shaking hands in a formal setting, two men in casual clothing interacting, and two scenes of men dining together, one outdoors with a green wall and another in a restaurant.

Per the Times, the president of El Salvador asked hotel staff to stage the salt rimmed glasses to try and troll the two men. What a fool.

Trump has pretty good instincts about when he's going to be in trouble, politically or otherwise, so him explicitly giving himself plausible deniability now in his statements should be interpreted as an acknowledgment that he sees some danger in the policy in general & re Abrego Garcia specifically

Measles cases in 25 US jurisdictions rise to 800 in 2025, CDC says

Measles cases in 25 US jurisdictions rise to 800 in 2025, CDC says reut.rs/3EB0lq8

NEWS: Mack Trucks has announced layoffs at Lehigh Valley, PA plant, due to Trump's tariffs.

It’s rare that a court opinion draws national attention, and even rarer when one does so with such eloquence and conviction. Yet that is what happened yesterday with Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson’s opinion in the Abrego García matter. I break it down, and lift it up, in today’s piece, linked below.

"I'm just giving you what they handed me."
Translation: I told my Cabinet to lie about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and they did it, and I'm happy to repeat their lies, but I take no responsibility for the lies because I'm just little old me, an innocent bystander, the president of the United States.

Donald Trump on the campaign trail:

"I'm going to lower your prices on day one."

Donald Trump in office:

"Actually, you're not paying *enough* for eggs."

🤯

And of course, for women, pregnancy tests at the border.

Bizarrely, they designed the website so it looks like Trump is the creature who leaked from the lab.

Trump team reveals lack of expertise – and patience – as it threatens to abandon Ukraine peace talks Trump said he could stop war in 24 hours, but team appears daunted by negotiation with ‘a lot of detail attached to it’

Trump team reveals lack of expertise – and patience – as it threatens to abandon Ukraine peace talks

Trump promised to end the war in 24 hours. He lied. Again.

Trump propaganda stations Fox News and Newsmax are not taking Van Hollen's news conference live

Van Hollen to the Trump administration: "Put up in court or shut up"

Idaho Gave Families $50M to Spend on Private Education. Then It Ended a $30M Program Used by Public School Families. A Republican lawmaker said ending an Idaho program that helped public school students buy laptops and other materials wasn’t linked to the creation of a private school tax credit. The state’s most pro...

Just weeks after creating a $50 million tax credit to help families pay for private school tuition and homeschooling, Idaho has shut down a program that helped public school students pay for laptops, school supplies, tutoring and other educational costs. @audreydutton.bsky.social

"They haven't told him anything about why he was sent" -- Van Hollen says Abrego Garcia doesn't know why he's being held but adds that he's there because the Trump administration is paying for it

Americans are entitled to and should demand better than this from the President of the United States.

Congrats on doing your job. For future reference send your 5 weekly accomplishments only by email to your supervisor in an effort to reduce clutter and junk mail to the American public.

How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You (Gift Article) Databases that Elon Musk’s team is trying to access include more than 300 personal details about members of the U.S. public.

Worth reading.
And....not surprisingly...worth being alarmed about.

Illegal acts from the party of Law and Order.

The simultaneous crash of the stock market and the bond market is super ominous. But also a totally foreseeable consequence of this insane tariff policy.

So is it incompetence or part of a plan to crash the economy? An increasingly important question.

Former top legal executives at large companies including Microsoft, Intel and Eli Lilly submitted a legal brief on April 8 accusing US President Donald Trump of undermining the rule of law and threatening American businesses with his executive orders targeting law firms reut.rs/4cqj0Bt 1/6

Call your Republican senators and reps and tell them their emperor is buck naked

If he was in seventh grade and was talking about another student publicly like this, somebody like me would be asked to evaluate the boy who was chronically bullying other students.

Many lawyers who argue for Trump at Supreme Court are heading for the exit At least half of the front-line attorneys in the solicitor general’s office plan to leave as Trump’s emergency requests pile up at the high court, people familiar with the situation said.

At least half of the front-line lawyers in the elite Justice Department office that represents the Trump administration at the Supreme Court are preparing to leave or have already announced their departures.

The media has not reported on Trump’s mental health. At the very least, his chronic bullying is a sign of a significant mental health issue. Other candidates were rejected (Eagleton) because they sought treatment. Untreated issues also need to be investigated.

Fascinating that under Biden the Dow went from 29,348.10 to 43,487.83 due to legislation like the Chips and Science Act and the Infrastructure law

While it’s plunged to about 37,750 in the past week because of the Trump tariffs

Yet MAGA claims it’s the Biden policies that are disastrous