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Good news: "FEMA must "immediately comply" with an order to disburse federal funding to 22 states and Washington, D.C., a federal judge ruled.
Judge McConnell finds the agency's "manual review" of grant payments violates his injunction."
-A Klasfeld
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The penguins of the Heard and McDonald Islands thank you for this @TomWellborn
#USPol
#Tariffs
#HeardAndMcDonaldIslands
#Tesla
#FederalReserve Chair #JeromePowell is speaking
Says #Trump #tariffs were far higher than expected & that larger than expected tariffs mean higher #inflation, slower growth.
"We face a highly uncertain outlook with elevated risks of both higher #unemployment & higher inflation," undermining both of the #Fed's mandates of 2% inflation & maximum employment, Powell said in prepared remarks for a business journalists' conference.
#Cancer, #Covid, & #Alzheimers #Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before #RFKJr announced that 10,000 #HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on #NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
#Trump #health #science #medicine #AntiIntellectualism #idiocracy #USpol
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Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."Samantha Cole (404 Media)
Is there a game for like, guessing new Wikipedia pages?
Cause I'm feeling pretty good about Black Friday (disambiguation) and Black Friday (2025) existing in a couple hours
@lgbtqia
If you can help us, now is a very good time to do it. We need to extract some folks very, very quickly. We need to raise 2000 we don't have in order to do it. We are under attack.
Please spread this, we don't have much reach.
transrescue.org/donations/dona…
Interview: "Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil"
The students demanded the school release information related to the targeting and ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a former SIPA student.
democracynow.org/2025/4/3/ice_…
#columbia #studentprotests #autocracy #trump #uspol #ice #resistfascism #islamophobia #racism .
Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil
Jewish students at Columbia University chained themselves to a campus gate across from the graduate School of International and Public Affairs Wednesday, braving rain and cold to demand the school release information related to the targeting and ICE …Democracy Now!
The US Senate is happy to keep helping Trump destroy America.
Now they've approved 34 felonies' appointment of known snake oil promoter "dr" Oz.
bbc.com/news/articles/c1k4em2y…
side note: so the GOP spent many many years frothing at the mouth about Obama's middle name being Hussein, but don't care one iota about Mehmet Oz' first name?
They are always hypocrites.
#USpolitics #USpol #Medicare #Medicaid
Dr Mehmet Oz confirmed to lead Medicare and Medicaid
Oz, who has never held public office, is best known for hosting US daytime TV show The Dr Oz Show.Amy Walker (BBC News)
I didn't expect this to be the means through which #AI would take over the world.
theverge.com/news/642620/trump…
Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s
ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude all recommend the same, simple tariff calculation that the White House appears to have used.Dominic Preston (The Verge)
Hey all of you Trump voters…
Are you better off now than you were before he took office?…..about 71 days ago?
Wondering if maybe you made a mistake?
Thinking to yourselves….if only there could have been some “clues” that this guy might not have been the best for our country?
#uspolitics #USA #uspol #trump #trumptariffs #WorldEconomy #economy #republican #republicans #Worldnews #world #worldrelations #regrets
How the Trump administration calculated the "tariffs" charged by other countries:
max(0.1, ((imports - exports) / imports) * 0.5)
😱
Thanks to reddit.com/user/bablakeluke/
Good thing I wasn’t planning on retiring this year. Or this decade, apparently.
I guess it’s true that you haven’t actually lost money until you liquidate your assets, but still…
Agh, this is what came to my mind (with less details) when I thought how a petty psychopath might feel about some ragged rebels on the other side of the globe potentially making him look less royal....
"At least 6 bombers now at #DiegoGarcia in Indian Ocean, nearly a third of all nuclear-capable B-2s in #US arsenal;..."
... I very strongly hope still that the "nyclear-capable" is just a coincidence...
abcnews.go.com/International/s…
Satellite images show multiple US B-2 nuclear-capable bombers deployed to Indian Ocean
The Pentagon announced it is rapidly expanding its footprint in the Middle East.Kerem Inal (ABC News)
#USpol #DEpol #Faschismus
#BPB #SmithsonianInstitution
*👉Verfassungskrise in den USA- in absehbarer Zukunft auch in Deutschland? 👈*
(26/n)
Wow, @Jeramee, chapeau, you made it through a long thread in German!
Extra credits! 🏆
In fact, I had to think of you, when I wrote this post.
Do share your thoughts, German not required. 😉
Un-fucking-believable
Senate confirmed #MehmetOz to oversee #HealthInsurance for millions of Americans
TV’s “#DrOz” & known quack has been confirmed to lead the Centers for #Medicare & #Medicaid Services, which has a massive $1 trillion+ budget & oversees health insurance for millions of Americans.
#health #Insurance #medical #benefits #PublicHealth #law #USpol #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy
This is why the tariff rates are shockingly high. They HAVE TO be shockingly high, because the point of them is not what they do to the economy. The point is to threaten businesses worldwide with pain -- so much pain that they recoil at the prospect.
And then Don can step in and say, you know I can make that pain go away for you, right? I can give you an exception to the tariffs. All I ask in return is that you do me this one favor...
So the more extortionate the tariffs are, the better they are for Don. They give him personal power; leverage. The rest of us suffer, but who cares about that? He certainly doesn't.
"I’ve really only seen Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) understand this, that this is just a loyalty test for virtually every business in the nation, a universal attempt to gather protection money. It’s no different than using the leverage of government funding to force universities and law firms into submission. These economic sanctions force businesses to supplicate. It could come in the form of campaign support, corporate governance changes, or just raw cash. Anything is possible."
prospect.org/economy/2025-04-0…
They’re Not Tariffs, They’re Sanctions
Stop trying to place coherence on a policy that’s really just a mob boss breaking legs and asking for protection money.David Dayen (The American Prospect)
Protests are not as effective as strikes.. But what would be best is general strikes from essential industries - transport, alimentation, cleaners, people who take care of bins...
Violent protests are not useful either IMO, they'll just give Trump an excuse to install martial law, this is how 1933 Germany turned into a dictatorship.
#UsPol
#UsPol
Following the man-baby’s Tariff announcement, I think the rest of the world should immediately:
* start a consumer boycott of anything American;
* move their exports from America to other nations (with Government assistance);
* start making new trade agreements in Euro rather than $US;
* uninvite the man-baby and his various toadies from all future international meetings; and
* stop passing all forms of intelligence to the USA.
This is the moment to cross our arms and turn our backs on the USA - show them there is a real cost to voting a man-baby into office and sit back and watch them tear themselves apart.
Hall of Fame of the resistance.
Yep, only 4 out of 260 (213+47) elected officials of the opposition, including Democrats and independents, have done something noticeable in the face of Trumps fascistic regime, something that's not business as usual. That's a whopping 𝟏.𝟓% (#sarcasm)
If we consider the total of 535 elected officials in US Congress, noticeable resistance to fascism / authoritarianism / oligarchy (pick one) has been a shameful 𝟎.𝟕%.
American exceptionalism at its worst.
C'est pas encore confirmé mais Politico en parle aujourd'hui :
"Elon Musk devrait quitter ses fonctions auprès du président américain dans les prochaines semaines. Donald Trump l’a fait savoir à sa garde rapprochée, dont plusieurs membres de son cabinet. Bien que le chef de l’Etat continue d’apprécier son travail, le multimilliardaire, à la tête du “département de l’efficacité gouvernementale”, est de plus en plus vu comme un allié encombrant par l’administration américaine et les deux hommes ont convenu que l’homme d’affaires devait retourner à ses affaires."
politico.eu/newsletter/playboo…
Trump le taxico
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Analysis: "Musk has a simple diagnosis of what’s ailing America: It’s being destroyed by empathy."
"Musk has argued that empathy is a suicidal trait that is a driving force behind civilizational extinction".
The west should get tough: "bar its doors to immigrants of a certain type & endure temporary hardship so... the woke mind virus will die.”
motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
Psychopathy is marked by lack of empathy &, hence, conscience.
#musk #psychopathy #fascism #racism #islamophobia #uspol .
Elon Musk can’t take the heat
The numbers say anti-Tesla protests are working. So do Musk's increasingly unhinged actions.Mother Jones
Since it will be more costly to export to the US, could all other countries agree to lower the tariffs they might already have between each other? Can that compensate for the US loss?
#Economy #UsPol
They are very obviously just avoiding the biggest guzzlers of the budget....
#uspol
Tomorrow is going to be an epic stock crash.
Trump's tariffs have been placed on every country in the world except Russia and North Korea.
The stock market dropped by like $2T in the first 2 minutes of Trump's speech.
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I'd dearly love to text my mom: "Don't check your stocks tomorrow," but I won't.
"Coup at Columbia? School’s Capitulation to Trump"
"It feels like a kind of racial and ethnic cleansing that is happening on our campuses.”
"Students from abroad, even those with green cards & U.S. citizenship, are now terrified of being swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown."
~Former Law Prof Katherine Franke
democracynow.org/2025/4/2/univ…
#uspol #trump #islamophobia #columbia #studentprotests #racism #fascism #resist .
A “Coup” at Columbia? Former Law Prof. Katherine Franke on School’s Capitulation to Trump
Princeton has become the latest university to be targeted by the Trump administration, as the federal government pauses dozens of federal grants to the school. The news comes after the Trump administration threatened to cut off more than $8.Democracy Now!
It wasn't such a big revelation to me that a DOGE staffer is an illegal hacker, so much as the fact that Elon Musk is assigning senior staff to the Deputy Attorney's office at the Department of Justice!
Senior staff, put in charge of people who have been there for umpteenth years, if they haven't already been fired by Musk.
"Stanley was assigned to the DOJ by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)."
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
DOGE staffer’s YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity
Evidence of DOGE staffer’s proud history of hacking quickly deleted, report says.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
