Ray Hoffman

Why didn't Todd Blanche talk to the victims to get the names of the perpetrators?

YouTube video by The Atlantic Douglas Irwin and How Trump Weaponized World Trade | The David Frum Show

Why the Trump tariffs are failing www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv-U...

Post by Beach on X which reads: The totally groundless firing of Dr. Erika McEntarfer, my successor as Commissioner of Labor Statistics at BLS, sets a dangerous precedent and undermines the statistical mission of the Bureau. For a full statement opposing this move, read:

Important intervention from the previous BLS Commissioner, William Beach.

Important because he was a Trump appointee (in Trump’s first term).

He tears into him for firing Erika McEntarfer:

What Happened When Hitler Took On Germany’s Central Banker Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.

Hans Luther was the principled and independent president of Germany’s central bank, Timothy W. Ryback writes. “But when Luther wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands, he feared for his life and had to leave”:

I don't understand why the administration keeps saying that other countries pay our tariffs. This is simply not true even in the most optimistic scenario (e.g., a US importer negotiates something with their foreign partner). If the policy is good, why lie about it?

“They are amazing patriots,” says the chair of the Vernon County GOP, referring to a local pastor who is a proudly white nationalist antisemite who has historical ties to the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho.

Ghislaine Maxwell is 63 and scheduled to be released from prison when she’s 80. Trump appears to be offering her the chance to walk out of jail this summer for a life on the French Riviera in exchange for exonerating him on Jeff Epstein. Any guesses?

OBAMA SHOULD NOW FINISH OFF TRUMP'S PRESIDENCY: called "paralyzed," notified he's in The Trumpstein Files, he's on the ropes

The speech Obama should make, the lawsuit he should file, the convention he should host

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COCO IS MISSING IN THE BRONX: last seen on Cambreleng Ave between E 189th St and Fordham Rd. He's 13 pounds and chipped: 991001000653889. If you've seen or found him please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT COCO!

The Message Is ‘We Can Take Your Children’ More systematically than in his first term, Trump is rolling back protections for undocumented minors.

Monstrous. "More and more, children are being picked up on family vacations, at traffic stops, and at worksites, and winding up in detention."
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For MAGA, Ignorance is Strength Research cuts aren’t about shrinking government, they’re about killing science

"two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses."

If today’s New York Times editors had been working in London in 1888, they would’ve said Jack the Ripper was “testing societal norms“ and “straining the bounds of propriety.”

YouTube video by GZERO Media US-Brazil relations in crisis | Ian Bremmer's Quick Take

thought experiment: would americans be ok with china using direct economic pressure to influence a domestic supreme court ruling?

(exactly what trump is doing to lula in brazil right now)

"Our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor" "Let Facts be submitted to a candid world"

Happy 4th all. Sharing the full Declaration of Independence for your consideration and reflection, below.

Try to spend time w/this courageous document that helped birth our remarkable nation, and let us use it to inspire us for the important work ahead 👇

www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/our-lives-...

*Republicans* did this. Republicans.

Medicaid can be funded again, food stamps and clean energy can be funded, taxes can be increased progressively. But an immigrant prison network with no resources for due process will be very hard to dislodge, and could easily be turned against the citizenry. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...

A post by JD Vance . It says: Everything else—the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.

Rarely has MAGA policy been so clearly articulated.

Denying sick Americans healthcare doesn’t matter as long as their masked, racist security force gets funding - By Order of the Vice President.

All this comes as Trump and Stephen Miller are channeling huge amounts of law enforcement resources into deportations, shifting them away from other serious crimes. And Republicans are giving Trump/Miller tens of billions for more detentions. More deaths are coming.

newrepublic.com/article/1974...

Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody? Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?

Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress.

But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway.

Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1974...

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

Vogue cover with Lauren Sanchez on tbe cover, in her wedding dress. Not to be unkind, but it's a fashion nightmare.

Ok now I understand. Anna Wintour took one look at this and quit.

Free busses...or masked police-state goons rounding up law-abiding workers and residents, separating them from their families, and sending them to gulags.

Tell me which outrages you more.

REED: How many Americans weapons are going to Mexico in a year?

BONDI: We are arresting people who have illegal firearms in our country

REED: No. You're allowing them to be purchased in the United States and driven across the border

Still can’t get over the fact that federal law enforcement officials can wear masks and have no warrants and round up US citizens in this country.

iranian foreign minister in moscow to talk with putin
putin’s opening remarks condemn the “absolutely unprovoked aggression against iran” which “has no grounds and no justification.”

and putin knows of what he speaks.

McSweeney’s continues to Do The Work.

“He will be able to replicate this militarized approach to Los Angeles across maybe dozens of American cities.”

More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Quitting my lucrative job as an international fentanyl smuggler to pursue my true passion, vacuuming the hallways of a Holiday Inn Express

Bears repeating that the SEIU California president is still in federal custody, and sitting members of Congress were illegally refused access to the facility to check on him.