not holding my breath #pariahnation

Oil prices are down, interest rates are down (the slow moving Fed should cut rates!), food prices are down, there is NO INFLATION, and the long time abused USA is bringing in Billions of Dollars a week from the abusing countries on Tariffs that are already in place. This is despite the fact that the biggest abuser of them all, China, whose markets are crashing, just raised its Tariffs by 34%, on top of its long term ridiculously high Tariffs (Plus!), not acknowledging my warning for abusing countries not to retaliate. They’ve made enough, for decades, taking advantage of the Good OL’ USA! Our past “leaders” are to blame for allowing this, and so much else, to happen to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

The president is posting before 7 am, but not directly mentioning the cratering stock market. A lot of investors/traders are going to read this as deliberate indifference; he is just fine with wiping out retirement accounts. I've reached out to Treasury and WH and heard nothing so far this morning.

Orange Monday: The global stock market is collapsing.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong -13.6%
🇹🇼 Taiwan -9.6%
🇯🇵 Japan -9.5%
🇮🇹 Italy -8.4%
🇸🇬 Singapore -8%
🇸🇪 Sweden -7%
🇨🇳 China -7%
🇨🇭 Switzerland -7%
🇩🇪 Germany -6.8%
🇪🇸 Spain -6.4%
🇳🇱 Netherlands -6.2%
🇦🇺 Australia -6.2%
🇫🇷 France -6.1%
🇬🇧 UK -5.2%

#OrangeMonday #TrumpTariffs

A photo from Indivisible Santa Barbara on Instagram. Thousands of people stand together on the beach in a way that spells “HANDS OFF!”

We expected hundreds of thousands of people yesterday.

Instead, millions of Americans flooded the streets to demand an end to Trump’s authoritarian power grab.

Trump and Musk have spent their first 75 days in office trying to overwhelm us and make us feel powerless, but we’re not going anywhere.

Let's keep the momentum going - MAGA is actively trying to Steal North Carolina Supreme Court - this info NEEDs to be passed around so 65,000 NC voters are not stripped of their votes! More

Elons taken a chainsaw to the federal government effecting everything from food safety to bank regulation to cancer research. I hope I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure we’re about to see why it’s cheaper to have regulators rather than to have actual catastrophes.

So we’re 75 days into trumps second term, people are protesting everywhere. Markets have had two days of absolutely apocalyptic losses. There are grad students being disappeared and a man with an autism awareness tattoo was sent to a super scary prison in El Salvador. They’ve cut cancer research..

really underrated how much these rich guys know jack shit about politics

Why Measles Outbreaks May Be the New Normal Recent Trump administration actions are setting the stage for a measles resurgence, experts fear.

Literally normalization. More like a constant and unnecessary scourge caused by anti-science extremists, #BrokenTimes.
Why Measles Outbreaks May Be the New Normal www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/h...

DOJ attorneys who are going into courts and arguing that Trump's unconstitutional executive orders are constitutional are violating their oath to "support and defend the Constitution" and are abdicating their responsibility to represent the interests of the American people. Absolutely SHAMEFUL!

Bessent is a craven careerist and coward if he believes Trump is harming the economy and says nothing and goes along with this.

People on Bluesky can be so literal and earnest! My (mock) "anger" is just as a journalist who thinks these rallies are a good story and wants to cover one (but the company isn't paying me to fly to LA!). I love Bernie. Calm down, you strict textual people

people voted for Trump because they thought they could get 2019 back and got 2020 back.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

In 75 days, Donald Trump managed to tank the economy.

That must be some kind of record.

And no, MAGA, not the good kind.

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Makes ya think

“I would be lying if I said I don’t worry. I do. But as I wrote last month: “Despite that worry, I cannot stop standing up for what is right. I cannot turn a blind eye to injustice.” — @marcelias.bsky.social (4/5/25). Me too, Marc. In solidarity, LHT

How many of you are going out to protest at one of the 1000+ nationwide Hands Off! protests around the country today?

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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

Read this. Spread it. Our nation does this in our name to a tourist--and much, much worse to immigrants without power or protection.
"I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled & sent to an immigration detention centre"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing, risking inflation and trade wars President Donald Trump has announced far-reaching new tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners — including a 34% tax on imports from China and 20% on the European Union, among others.

This is not “liberating” America, this is harming America. We are going to suffer massively because of these tariffs and it’s completely unnecessary.
apnews.com/article/trum...

Michiganders across our state will suffer as a result of Donald Trump's tariffs.

There's no question about it.

I'm running for Governor because enough is enough. We need to stand tall against the Trump Administration as it raises costs on our families.

Wait until you see who the EV guy’s lawyer was. These people have turned the corruption up to 11.

Opinion | I’m a Republican Who Still Supports Ukraine. America Must Not Give In to Putin. The administration must be crystal clear that we are aligned with democracy, free markets and the rule of law.

It shouldn’t be partisan to acknowledge that Ukraine is our ally and Russia is not. And yet it is. Kudos to Don Bacon (R-NE) for reminding his own party of their roots, and trying to bring them back into the fold. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...

...the guy who paid off a porn star to swing an election, are all going to be in the same room.

Nightmare rotation.

Dana White, the guy who smacked his wife, Kid Rock, the guy who stormed off stage because people at his concert didn't clap enough, Bill Maher, the guy who pretends he's a liberal but dropped the N-word on his show, and Donald Trump...

Bonus 133: Due Process and the Rule of Law Too many Americans don't understand, at a basic level, *why* the Constitution requires due process when the government deprives anyone of their life, liberty, or property.

Excellent explainer from @SteveVladeck.Bsky.social on why immigrants, including the men deported under Alien Enemy Act, are entitled to due process.

…people to come here under the promise that they get to enjoy free speech without the power of the state slamming itself for no good reason on your skull

Trump is using the power of government to punish opponents. They’re struggling to respond | CNN Politics President Donald Trump is using the power of the federal government to intimidate or neuter potential sources of opposition to him: The legal establishment, academia and prominent cultural institution...

A lesson in right vs wrong:

Using government power to target political enemies is wrong.
Standing up for those who are targeted is right.

Bowing down is wrong.
Refusing to be deterred and stating tall is right.

Silence is wrong.
Peaceful opposition is right.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/p...

Question of the night at Rep. Victoria Spartz’s town hall.

Ben from Westfield: “I’ve been a registered Republican since 1976. Why have Republican Congress members not reined in the President’s illegal, unconstitutional acts.”

*standing ovation*

✅⚖️ #firstamendment