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This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

It is difficult to convey how monumentally idiotic Trump’s tariffs are.

Allow me to try.

Let’s begin with Adam Smith.

In the 200 years prior to Smith’s 1776 “Wealth of Nations” Mercantilism was the dominant view of trade.

Elon Musk can’t take the heat The numbers say anti-Tesla protests are working. So do Musk's increasingly unhinged actions.

"I want to state this as clearly as I can: Nearly choking up on national TV as you lament your falling stock price is weak shit." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

Opinion | Pete Hegseth, not Mike Waltz, made the biggest mistake in the Signal scandal While the national security adviser has rightfully come under fire, the defense secretary deserves the most scrutiny.

Pete Hegseth, not Mike Waltz, made the biggest mistake in the Signal scandal.

While the national security adviser has rightfully come under fire, the defense secretary deserves the most scrutiny.

That's why Trump is in a rush. Russia is in trouble. Trump wants to save Russia and his friend, Vladimir Putin, from economic and political difficulties.

Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...

Trump now faces a dilemma familiar to any autocrat: Does he let heads roll in order to project accountability, and create the precedent that public outcry can limit his power? Or does he guard his prerogative, ensuring that dysfunction will multiply?

www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

You use the officials USGovt secure channels to hide communications from bad actors. You use Signal to hide communications from the USGovt.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

JD Vance, "Denmark is not being a good ally"

"If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

New figures reveal Brexit costing UK business £37bn a year Exclusive: Billions of pounds worth of lost business with other European Union countries prompts calls to re-enter customs union and single market

To continue with this Brexit disaster is simply madness.
It’s untenable.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador had signed paperwork to go home [FREE TO READ] Families and activists say deportees signed documents to return to Venezuela but were sent to Salvadoran jail instead

Great scoop from ⁦@peter.andringa⁩.me The Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador and dumped in prison thought they were going to Venezuela. They had signed paperwork to go home. via @FT
www.ft.com/content/dbfa...

Andrius Kubilius, the European Commissioner for Defence Industry and Space:

“There are 450 million Europeans. We should not be crying out for 340 million Americans to defend us against 140 million Russians, who are not even able to defeat 38 million Ukrainians.

Mesh Protection Tunnels Help Liberty Ukraine Foundation reach their goal by donating or sharing with your friends.

Hello everyone, I am fundraising to help Ukraine build mesh net protection structures against FPV drones. The donation link below, please share and like!

These structures are essentially fishing nets installed on top of posts.
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We don't know if or what intelligence briefings these officials are even getting anymore. They might be censored, filtered or just suppressed in order not to disturb their views.

Well, I have successfully made it in (and now, thank god, out) of the United States.

Idk if/when I will be back—which is sad, because I love US folks.

Once again, they did not make it easy. I will explain.

We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.

Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points.

She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine.

“Deport Elon, Deport Elon!”

Watch to the end…

The Ceasefire That Isn't Putin rejected Trump's call for a 30-day ceasefire, but you wouldn't know that from the White House's readout.

Eens met Daalder's analyse:
The Ceasefire That Isn't open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...

Yes! And a common foreign policy.

3 years ago on this day, Russia bombed the Mariupol Drama Theater, which at that time served as a bomb shelter for civilians and had a huge sign "CHILDREN" written in russian in front of it.

Estimated casualties are over 300 people.

Why is Donald Trump crashing the US economy? Because he’s high on his own supply of fake news | Jonathan Freedland

"Donald Trump is seemingly set on destroying the US economy. And he’s doing it because he, and the American right, have lost their ability to grasp reality," writes Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland.

Buy, Borrow, Die: How Billionaires Legally Avoid Paying Taxes While the Rest of Us Can't A Step-by-Step Guide to How the Ultra-Wealthy Minimize Their Tax Burden While Their Fortunes Multiply

As markets plummet again today from Trump's chaotic economic policies, ask yourself: Why would billionaires back policies that tank their own stock values?

It’s the taxes.

I wrote a step-by-step explainer of how billionaires avoid paying taxes. People are often surprised when I explain it.🧵

Not sure what's bigger here, his ears or the vacuum between them.

Yeah, the expected bullshit everyone knew he would say.

GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "Why is a White House official, that's not even elected, why is that person belittling the Polish foreign minister? It's not appropriate. It's not right. We need more discipline in the White House."