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New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency President Donald Trump and his family have made a staggering $3.4 billion off the presidency, according to an analysis b

Between his crypto ventures, real estate deals, and licensing agreements, Trump and his family have profited off the presidency to the tune of $3.4 billion.

The grifter-in-chief knows no bounds.

We must not become numb to this.

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

Klobuchar dined with Minnesota lawmaker just hours before she was killed The Minnesota senator remembers Hortman, a friend of decades, as a "skilled legislator," she told POLITICO.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar dined with Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker and decades-long friend, just hours before she and her husband were shot and killed in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing.

“I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.

9News confirmed Tomasi and her crew are safe, calling the incident a reminder of the risks journalists face on the frontlines of protests.

Protests erupted over President Trump’s immigration crackdown. Trump has deployed the National Guard, despite opposition from California governor Gavin Newsom.

An Australian journalist was shot with what’s been reported as a rubber bullet while covering immigration protests in LA.

9News US correspondent Lauren Tomasi was hit in the leg by a non-lethal round fired by an officer in riot gear. Footage shows the officer turn toward the cameras before firing.

Trump is invoking emergency powers at a record rate. Here's what that means Trump invoked emergency powers more times in his first 100 days than any other modern president has in that time. Experts worry it could lead to an upending of the constitutional balance of power.

Trump invoked emergency powers more times in his first 100 days than any other modern president has in that time. Experts worry it could lead to an upending of the constitutional balance of power.

Springsteen T-Shirts will be our version of “Let’s Go Brandon.” Can’t wait to hear what Bruce says tonight and the Set List. Rise Up all Musicians and the Entertainment Industry!

Immigrant Legal Resource Center has laminated red cards “to know your rights if confronted by ICE Agents”. These cards are recommended for EVERYONE. Read and please share. This is only the beginning.

www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...

DOGE Was Bad. Schedule F Will Be Worse. An executive order will convert 50,000 government employees into de facto political appointees who serve only at the president’s pleasure.

An executive order will convert 50,000 government employees into de facto political appointees who serve only at the president’s pleasure, Robert P. Beschel Jr. writes:

Full suite of projections seen:

Instead of letting Musk and Trump attack Social Security, we need to strengthen it. I’m pushing for a temporary increase in benefits right now. And I support a bill to permanently expand benefits by lifting the cap on how much millionaires and billionaires pay into the program.

The Comic-Book Artist Who Mastered Space and Time Jules Feiffer, who died in January, taught me many things, but one comic strip mattered most of all.

Jules Feiffer, the comic-book artist who died in January, taught Art Spiegelman many things. But one particular strip of his mastered the art of space and time:

Tariffs? Out of control. Prices? Skyrocketing.
Emergency powers? He’s abusing them.
And yet… not a single question about whether he’s even fit to serve.

The math ain’t mathing.

‘The most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history’: How the SAVE Act upends over a century and a half of protecting voting Read more here.

“Congress has never passed a voter-suppression law like this before,” @seanmorales-doyle.bsky.social , director of the @brennancenter.bsky.social voting-rights program, told Democracy Docket.

The Supreme Court Finally Rules Late this afternoon, the Supreme Court issued a 9-0 response to the government’s application to vacate federal District Judge Paula Xinis’ order that the Trump administration return Kilmar Abrego Garc...

"The President would look feckless if the administration tells a federal judge it can’t get its prisoner back, especially since the United States is reportedly footing the $6 million bill for the incarceration of the deportees." joycevance.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

In Cabinet Meeting, Musk Seems to Drastically Lower DOGE’s Savings Goal Musk said his group was on pace to cut $150 billion from the federal budget in one budget year. That would be a sharp drop from his previous stated goal of $1 trillion.

Overpromising and underdelivering www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Headline reads: "Supreme Court Sides With Wrongly Deported Migrant." Summary reads: "A trial judge had ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a notorious prison in El Salvador."

Breaking News: The Supreme Court instructed the government to take steps to return a Salvadoran migrant it had wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador. nyti.ms/42j7cxP

The Confidence Game: How Trump’s Con Threatens More Than the Truth The confidence game doesn’t begin with a lie.

Trump’s rise wasn’t just political—it was a classic con. From the Big Lie to the financial chaos of tariff wars, this essay exposes the deeper scam: how identity, crisis, and misinformation created a theater of loyalty while quietly enabling wealth extraction and institutional decay.

Print Media to Mass Protests: Here’s how newspapers across America minimized one of the largest demonstrations since Trump’s return to power.

When I saw the Washington Post’s coverage of the April 5th Hands Off protests across the country I realized how low Mainstream Media has fallen. apple.news/A4-cn2fAfTPe...

OK, let’s see the best signs that you saw today.

Tonight, Democrats forced a vote on a simple amendment.

To remove new tariffs that are increasing the cost of groceries, gas and housing.

Republicans rejected it.

Most of the employees at the CDC who worked to research and prevent gun deaths have been fired.

That means the data, research, and violence prevention programs they oversaw may be at great risk. This move threatens our safety from gun violence.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

Tree Sap Could Hold Key To Plant-Based Gelatin Alternative, Say Scientists A certain type of tree sap shows promise as a plant-based replacement for traditional gelatin, which is a byproduct of animal agriculture

Animal-based gelatin is widely used in sweets and sauces, but there is a plant-based alternative 

I kind of want to go

I’m a big man who rides the subway every night because I’m not a terrified hysterical neurotic

UK: Brexit is the biggest act of economic self harm any country will ever perform
USA: Hold my beer...

YouTube video by MSNBC Canadian citizen describes her ‘nightmare’ 12 day ICE detention that came without warning

🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 This is an interview with the Canadian, Jasmine Mooney, about her detention by ICE for 12 days.
She is sharing her story, as well as those of many other women.
💪🏻🇨🇦💕

#usapoli
#ICE
#resistTrump
#usaimmigration
#CanadaSky
#CanadaStrong
#CanadaPride
#elbowsup

youtu.be/0niuiBzK5Vw?...

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

Jasmine Mooney spent two weeks held by ICE in miserable conditions - and she was comparitively lucky.

A few minutes read and well worth it.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...