Billionaires Score Best-Ever Day as Stocks Soar on Tariff Pause The world’s wealthiest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth on Wednesday — the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — as stock markets soared after ...

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Any traders with inside information that Trump was going to walk back his tariffs — some of them, presumably, Trump family members and cronies — just made a fortune.

It all feels like chaos until you look more closely at who is winning.

Wha happened today would be treated as crime if they didn’t now also control all the law enforcement agencies

38% of people living in Mike Johnson's district were enrolled in Medicaid last year.

Yet Johnson is pushing for devastating cuts to Medicaid — all to pay for tax cuts that will predominantly go to the rich.

Is there a better encapsulation of the Republican Party?

We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

The worst catastrophes of history are caused by men who are malevolent, ignorant, and have exceptional wills.

A Bright Spot Is Emerging Amid All This Trump Chaos The point of mass protest is not to stage a perfectly organized, fully realized one-time event.

This is well worth reading:

"Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..."

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Economists now say a dire economic slowdown has already begun “The economy is headed for a sharp downturn. Layoffs will surge,” said Carl Weinberg, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics.

"falling out of bed"

"Weinberg, chief US economist at High Frequency Economics, sees the economy falling out of bed in the second quarter, which has just started, and now predicts the economy will contract at a negative 4.5% rate in the second quarter."

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Fear has a way of being contagious.

But courage is also contagious.

SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.

While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.

Hello?

Yes!!

Yes

@maddow.msnbc.com Deb Haaland & 95 year old Dolores Huerta at the Hands Off Rally in Albuquerque, NM.

Hands Off Rally in Albuquerque, NM!

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