Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit as Congress considers bill that could add to deficits Moody’s knocked the government’s credit rating down a notch as debt soars.

Moody’s Ratings downgraded the United States’ credit rating, as the country’s debt soars and interest rates remain high.

The downgrade, from the highest rating to one notch below, comes as the president’s budget bill suffered a blow in Congress.

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

Why have they not already?

Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported - The Boston Globe Immigration Judge Jamee Comans made the determination at the end of a nearly two-hour hearing. Khalil can appeal the ruling.

A Louisiana immigration judge has ruled that the US can deport Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil.

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.

So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.

So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

Marine Le Pen Found Guilty of Embezzlement, Banned From Next Elections Judges convicted the far-right leader of misusing EU funds and barred her from running in the 2027 French presidential elections.

*gazes wistfully out a window*

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 !

DOGE cancels $190M contract affecting Alabama health departments The new U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE,” has terminated a multi-million dollar Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant that benefitted the Alabama Department of Public Hea...

🚨 Alabama’s public health system is under attack! A $190M grant funding infectious disease prevention has been terminated, cutting 140 health dept. jobs. With a measles outbreak looming, who will protect our communities? #HealthJustice #Alabama

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He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

Christy Walton, Walmart heiress, takes out full page anti-trump ad
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Just love this:

Tufts PhD student and Fulbright Scholar, apprehended in my area apparently because she co-authored an OpEd in her school paper last year that was politically critical. WTF, people???

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Tufts graduate student detained by federal authorities sent to Louisiana - The Boston Globe Masked plainclothes officers arrested Rumeysa Ozturk outside a Somerville home Tuesday evening.

The Tufts graduate student detained by federal authorities in Somerville has been sent to a Louisiana detention facility, despite a federal judge’s order telling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to remove her from Massachusetts without notice.

This was our anthem at church Sunday. I pray and work for the day the whole world sings this from our hearts. Peace.

YouTube video by 60 Minutes U.S. Marine Band forced to cancel concert with students of color after Trump DEI order

Please. Everyone. Watch, listen, and HEAR all 13 minutes and 28 seconds of this! Please!!

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"Until this weekend..."

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...

If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same

When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state

www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

my old toaster did this :(

Trump turns White House lawn into car lot for megadonor Musk It’s easy to get inured to the corruption, but hawking Teslas on the South Lawn was among the most obscene events in White House history.

“Just because the corruption plays out in public doesn’t mean it’s not corruption”

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Congress is voting on a Republican-led and Trump/Musk endorsed bill to fund the federal government for the rest of the year.

Here’s 6 reasons why you should urge your Representative and Senators to REJECT this proposal:

Wikipedia ‘On this Day” for today:

Drawing huge crowds, Bernie Sanders emerges as the leader of the anti-Trump resistance At 83 years old, Sanders is not running for president again. But the stooped and silver-haired democratic socialist has emerged as a leader of the resistance to Donald Trump's second presidency.

“This is like presidential campaign rallies, isn’t it? But I’m not running for president, and this is not a campaign,” Sen. Bernie Sanders told The Associated Press. “You gotta do what you gotta do. The country’s in trouble and I want to play my role.”

Investors flee equities as Trump-driven uncertainty sparks economic worry Investor fears that trade tariffs will spark an economic downturn are driving a sell-off in equities that has wiped out trillions of dollars in value, a major reversal for Wall Street which had been fired-up by President Donald Trump's agenda.

"US stock market loses $4 trillion in value as Trump plows ahead on tariffs"
www.reuters.com/markets/us/i...

SF Symphony pauses Emerging Black Composers project SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – Federal cuts to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs are now threatening art programs in the Bay Area. A memo from the United States Department of Education forced …

Boo!!!

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This is good

Amen