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I sent out this piece yesterday. Trump's final plan is basically Russia's plan, which would legitimize Russian conquests and provide Russia the best possible situation in which to rebuild its military--while giving Ukraine nothing. Europe needs to stand with Ukraine now.

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"I think we made the right decision" -- Tom Homan on the deportation of a Maryland dad to a gulag in El Salvador that the administration has already admitted was a mistake

This is big: House Republicans tucked language into the budget res “rule” that bans the House from voting to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration used to impose tariffs. TL;DR lawmakers who vote for this are officially giving up their power to revoke his tariffs until October.

Tomorrow he’ll do the exact opposite.

The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke.

It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.

I know this is woke DEI, but could we have a national economic policy that's something other than the minute-by-minute whims of a deranged and malevolent old man?

The Art of the Retreat Trump’s abrupt pivot from his planned global trade war was touted by allies as grand strategy. The president’s own words suggested otherwise.

Many Donald Trump supporters “claimed that this was the plan all along, suggesting that dropping the tariffs against the rest of the world would only further isolate Beijing,” but Trump himself gave away the game, @jonlemire.bsky.social and @russellberman.bsky.social write:

Justice Department Lawyers Are Struggling to Defend Trump’s Policies in Court Inside the department’s civil division, litigators are squeezed between judges demanding answers and bosses’ instructions to protect the Trump agenda at all costs.

Firing a DOJ lawyer for admitting a government error when the lawyer’s duty to the court requires exactly that admission is about as wrong as anything can be.

Only in the lawless, topsy-turvy world of Trump and Vance is such absurdity imaginable.

Yet here we are!

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

Every person working at UPenn just had their security clearance suspended, apparently.

Mad king behavior.

Susman Godfrey, Chris Krebs, Miles Taylor, the president is openly targeting his political enemies with what his party once projected and called ‘lawfare’. It’s openly authoritarian. And we can’t say we weren’t warned. This is what fascism looks like.

EOs targeting 2 former Trump officials aren’t getting enough attention. In invoking treason, Trump puts death penalty on table for Miles Taylor. In revoking security clearances for Penn because Taylor taught there, he gives Penn a choice: suffer or join the punishment by banning Taylor.

“Never has a man so inelegantly proved another man's point”
~ Miles Taylor

If you are not furious at what our government did to these people, there’s something wrong with you.

“I just figured out why @howardlutnick is indifferent to the stock market and the economy crashing. He and Cantor are long bonds. He profits when our economy implodes. It’s a bad idea to pick a Secretary of Commerce whose firm is levered long fixed income. It’s an irreconcilable conflict of interest.”

I don’t even know what to say here. We’re talking about a generational posting crashout. Lmfao NOW you’re concerned about conflicts of interest.

I scanned dozens of newspapers from around the U.S. & world. On average, international newspapers cover the widespread protests against Trump/Musk and for democracy much more prominently on their covers than those in the U.S.
This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff

If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.

I didn’t want this to happen.

I voted for the smart black lady.

10 of the 11 worse crashes were associated with the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression.

Stock markets have nowhere near bottomed out yet.

ORDER Upon consideration of the submissions relative to Appellants' motion for stay pending appeal and immediate administrative stay, the court denies the motion. Entered at the direction of Judge Thacker with the concurrence of Judge Wilkinson and Judge King. For the Court Is/ Nwamaka Anowi, Clerk

NEW: The Fourth Circuit UPHOLDS Judge Xinis’s order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US by midnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff The worsening problems come as Elon Musk’s DOGE team pushes for more cuts at the agency, including in the department that oversees the website.

The Social Security website "has crashed repeatedly in recent weeks, with outages lasting anywhere from 20 minutes to almost a day...Even when the site is back online, many customers have not been able to sign in to their accounts" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Bill Ackman @BillAckman The formula used by the administration to calculate tariffs made other nations’ tariffs appear four times larger than they actually are. President @realDonaldTrump is not an economist and therefore relies on his advisors to do these calculations so he can determine policy. The global economy is being taken down because of bad math. This short piece by @AEI explains it succinctly. A must read. The President’s advisors need to acknowledge their error before April 9th and make a course correction before the President makes a big mistake based on bad math.

Ackman: It's not Trump's fault! It's his stupid advisors who were appointed by ...

It really is no longer comprehensible within a reality-based framework.

Judge Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, says the Trump administration's position on Abrego Garcia amounts to a "path of perfect lawlessness." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

while the markets anticipate (pray for) a pause, trump threatens 50% additional tariffs on china by tomorrow.

I think I have been on record in support of this suggestion for almost seven years.

I’m old enough to remember when I took out a full-page ad in the New York Times last fall to publish a letter signed by 225 mental-health professionals saying that Trump’s severe personality disorders made him destructive and dangerous.

RFK Jr. Says Stock Market Crash Could be Reversed if Investors Drink Cod Liver Oil "Investors are in a bad mood is because they are not getting enough Omega-3 fatty acids,” he said.

“Stocks are crashing because investors are in a bad mood, and the reason they are in a bad mood is because they are not getting enough Omega-3 fatty acids,” he said.