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Let's not be fools
Not any single negociation concerning our future #strategic #security #independance
That what #Trump wants
#Independance has a #price
Let's pay it
The White House clarified that yes, as I posted earlier in this 🧵, the tariff numbers in the charts #Trump held up include BOTH reciprocal levies & the 10% baseline. So #Europe will face a 10% reciprocal tariff + a 10% baseline. #China will face a 24% reciprocal tariff, + the 10% baseline. Etc.
#RevengePolitics #economy #tariffs #inflation #recession #TrumpTariffs #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
#Trump says he will charge the #UK a 10% #tariff. Remarkable, since the US runs a #trade surplus w/Britain, it’s a close ally & the country has been trying to negotiate a trade deal w/Trump.
Trump says he will also establish a “universal baseline tariff” of 10% that will apply to ALL COUNTRIES, in ADDITION to the numbers he’s already announced. That means a country like China will face a 44% tariff on top of the 20% already imposed.
#RevengePolitics #economy #inflation #recession #geopolitics
That is also on top of #Trump’s other #tariffs that China will also face, including 25% tariffs on autos & 25% tariffs on metals.
Trump says to foreign countries, “If you want your tariff rate to be zero, then you build your product right here in America.”
#RevengePolitics #economy #tariffs #inflation #recession #TrumpTariffs #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
#Trump claims that experts have been wrong about #NAFTA, #China & his first-term #tariffs & that they will be wrong again about his current trade actions. 🙄
Futures on the S&P 500, which allow investors to trade when exchanges are not officially open, began to tumble after Trump started outlining the tariff rates. The index had ended the day higher, but futures are now down more than 1%.
#RevengePolitics #economy #inflation #recession #TrumpTariffs #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
#Trump touts manufacturing jobs that have been created since his 2nd term began as well as the fact that some consumer prices have eased. The issue is that neither of those very modest trends are likely to continue w/these #tariffs, economists say. A new report released this week showed that manufacturing activity contracted in March & businesses in that sector are now expecting much slower growth & higher prices.
#economy #inflation #recession #TrumpTariffs #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
#Trump said #grocery & other #prices are starting to come down, & that his policies are bringing down #inflation. In fact, inflation has picked up in the first weeks of his term, & economists almost universally expect #tariffs to further drive up prices.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #RevengePolitics #economy #recession #TrumpTariffs #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
People had been expecting #Trump to announce high #tariffs, but these numbers are stunning. In addition to a 10% tariff on ALL COUNTRIES, dozens of other countries face extra tariffs between 10 & 50%. That will force some manufacturing back into the US, but will also definitely raise costs for American #consumers & #manufacturers & incite #TradeWars on many fronts.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #RevengePolitics #economy #inflation #recession #TrumpTariffs #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
Many of these tariff rates seem much higher than some economists & policymakers had been expecting.
#Trump says the US will calculate a tariff rate for other countries based on #tariffs & “other forms of cheating” — whatever that means.
He says #China will face a 34% tariff, while the #EU will be 20%. #Japan will be 24% & #India 26%.
#RevengePolitics #economy #tariffs #inflation #recession #TrumpTariffs #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
#Trump calling the #trade deficit a “national emergency” that threatens US #security, lays out his *legal* argument for his actions.
“They rip us off,”Trump says of the #EU, announcing a 20% #tariff on the 27-nation bloc.
Trump holds a chart showing reciprocal tariff rates for US trading partners & says he will charge half of that much? There is no explanation for the calculations that he is using to justify the #tariffs. Likely because they’re arbitrary revenge tactics.
#Trump again criticizes the creation of the #IncomeTax in the US in 1913, arguing that it’s a mystery why the nation ever instituted one. American policymakers embraced the income tax for 2 reasons: to collect more taxes from the #rich & to pay for a growing federal govt.
Conversly, #tariffs disproportionately burden #LowIncome Americans, who spend more of their earnings on goods that tariffs make more expensive.
#economy #inflation #recession #TrumpTariffs #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
#Trump claims that the price #eggs have gone down under his watch after an outbreak of #BirdFlu. But economists warn that #tariffs of the kind that Trump is pursuing are likely to lead to much higher #prices for #consumers. The big question is whether that will translate to persistently higher #inflation.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #economy #inflation #recession #TrumpTariffs #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
#Trump is cherry picking a lot of high #tariffs that foreign countries charge on American products. But the US has high tariffs on certain products too, like sugar, footwear, apparel & peanuts, a legacy of efforts to protect those industries. The United States charges 350% tariffs on tobacco from many countries, 260% tariffs on Irish butter substitutes & 197% tariffs on Chinese stainless steel kitchenware, for example.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #economy #tariffs #inflation #recession #Trumpcession
#Trump talks about the #trade deficits the US has amassed w/other countries and says, “We’re really not taking it anymore.” The trade deficit is the difference between what a country #exports & what it #imports. The #US has long imported more goods than it exports.
Economists don’t agree #TrumpTariffs will really lower the US trade deficit.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #economy #tariffs #inflation #recession #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/poli…
Trump Prepares to Take On the US Trade Deficit, a Familiar Nemesis
The trade deficit has long drawn the president’s ire. Now, he’s preparing to take it on again.Ana Swanson (The New York Times)
The 25% #tariff on cars & car parts that #Trump is talking about goes into effect just after midnight. The #UAW union is a strong supporter of those #tariffs, but auto companies & economists have said they will lead to significantly higher car #prices & could even slow US auto production.
Trump said his tariffs offered an example of his admin “standing up for our great farmers & ranchers.” Reminder: in his first term, he had to bail farmers out after they were hurt by his #TradeWar w/ #China.
#Trump singled out other countries for their #tariffs on US cars, but important to remember his admin already announced 25% tariffs on cars & auto parts imported into the US. Those go into effect just after midnight Thurs.
Trump is mentioning tariffs that other countries put on American products, but not the high tariffs that the US charges on certain products from other countries. For example, he mentioned a 10% tariff that Europe puts on American vehicles.
#Trump claims that many countries have targeted the #US w/ “non-monetary barriers,” like currency manipulation, subsidies, exorbitant taxes & theft of intellectual property.
Trump specifically talked about the #EuropeanUnion’s value-added tax, which he has long despised. #VAT rates are common outside of the United States, & the U.S. is actually an outlier for not having one.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #economy #tariffs #inflation #recession #TrumpTariffs #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
#Trump called the announcement “our declaration of economic independence” & described it as one of the most important moments in American history.
Trump said his #tariff policies would generate “trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes & pay down our national debt.”
Again, the opposite is true according to most financial experts.
#economy #inflation #recession #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
#Trump just claimed other #America has for many years been “loot pillaged & raped” by other nations. More proof he has no idea what it means to be raped.
#economy #tariffs #inflation #recession #TrumpTariffs #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
Gross. #Trump is calling his new #tariffs announcement event in the Rose Garden,“Make America Wealthy Again”
They will do the exact opposite.
#economy #inflation #recession #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
nytimes.com/live/2025/04/02/bu…
Another law firm, #MilbankLLP, makes a “deal” with #Trump rather than face his wrath.
Basically the same terms as the other appeasers
$100 Million Dollars in #ProBono [#QuidProQuo] legal services during the Trump admin, & after.
+
A commitment to *Merit-Based* hiring & employment practices, & it will not engage in *illegal* #DEl *discrimination*.
#law #Milbank #appeasement #NaziState #MafiaState
🤦🏻♀️Via Jose Pagliery:
#Trump just nominated Stanley Woodward to be an associate attorney general at DOJ.
He's the lawyer who defended Trump's Diet Coke valet, Walt Nauta, during the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
He's also the guy who claimed prosecutors on Jack Smith's team tried to intimidate him.
" #Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that #Musk will soon be stepping back from his 👉🏼current role👈🏼... remains pleased with Musk & DOGE..." but 👋🏼
"It also represents a stark shift in Trump-Musk rel'ship from a month ago, when WH officials, allies were predicting Musk was “here to stay” & Trump would find a way to blow past the 130-day time limit"
"On the morning of March 25, farmworker organizer Alfredo 'Lelo' Juarez was forcibly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who stopped his car while he was driving his wife to work in Skagit County, Washington. People to whom Juarez has spoken say he requested to see a warrant, and when he attempted to get his ID after being asked, the ICE agents smashed his car window and detained him."
~ Derek Seidman
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #deportations
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truthout.org/articles/with-det…
With Detention of Beloved Farmworker Organizer, ICE Comes for the Labor Movement
“We believe he was targeted,” says the political director of the farmworker union that Alfredo Juarez helped to create.Derek Seidman (Truthout)
With #Section230 Repeal, Dems and #Media Offer #Trump New #Censorship Tools
source: fair.org/home/with-section-230…
Dissolving the provision would reassign legal responsibility to websites and third parties, empowering a Trump-helmed federal #government to force #online platforms to stifle, or promote, certain speech. While the ostensible purpose of the repeal, according to Durbin, is to “protect kids online,” it’s far more likely to give the Trump #WhiteHouse carte blanche to advance its ultra-reactionary political #agenda.
#usa #politics #freedom #freespeech #democracy #future #internet #problem #press #journalism #news
With Section 230 Repeal, Dems and Media Offer Trump New Censorship Tools
Dissolving Section 230 would empower a Trump-helmed federal government to force online platforms to stifle, or promote, certain speech.FAIR
Loser says what?
#ElonMusk is so full of crap, he claims that the #Wisconsin #VoterID requirement on the ballot “was the most important thing.”
It literally was already required of Wisconsin voters, the amendment merely codified it.
They are incapable of admitting when they lose.
#law #election #SusanCrawford #SupremeCourt #WisconsinSupremeCourt #Musk #Trump #ElectionInterference #bribery #USpol #WIpol
Brad Schimel called Judge #SusanCrawford & conceded!
Finally a Republican who respects elections & of course it’s a member of the judiciary.
#law #election #Wisconsin #SupremeCourt #WisconsinSupremeCourt #ElonMusk #Trump #ElectionInterference #bribery #USpol #WIpol
The Democratic-backed candidate for #WisconsinSupremeCourt defeated a challenger endorsed by #Trump & billionaire #ElonMusk, cementing a #liberal majority for at least 3 more years.
#SusanCrawford, a Dane County judge who led legal fights to protect #union power & #abortion rights, defeated Republican-backed Brad Schimel in a race that broke records for spending, was on pace to be the highest-turnout #Wisconsin #SupremeCourt election ever & became a proxy for #USpol battles.
#Liberal Wins #Wisconsin Court Race, Despite #Musk’s Millions
#SusanCrawford defeated Brad Schimel for a seat on the #WisconsinSupremeCourt in a race that shattered spending records & maintained a liberal majority on the court.
#law #election #SupremeCourt #ElonMusk #Trump #ElectionInterference #bribery #USpol #WIpol
apnews.com/article/wisconsin-s…
Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court seat
The Democratic-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court has won, defeating President Donald Trump’s endorsed challenger. Susan Crawford’s victory Tuesday cements a liberal majority for at least more three years.Scott Bauer (AP News)
Now 48% of votes in, Democratic
#WisconsinSupremeCourt candidate #SusanCrawford is still leading by 15 points.
NBC has already called it — projecting Crawford as the winner!
#law #election #Wisconsin #SupremeCourt #ElonMusk #Trump #ElectionInterference #bribery #USpol #WIpol
nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0…
Wisconsin Spring Election Results
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Wisconsin spring elections.The New York Times
The largest federal program helping low income households pay their energy bills no longer has any staff.
Someone working for that agency said most of their payments are to widows.
#CrueltyIsThePoint #Trump #DOGE #USPOL
Federal Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin ordered the #Trump admin to restore funds for programs that provides legal services to unaccompanied minors in #immigration proceedings.
“Terminating funding for direct #LegalRepresentation for unaccompanied #children, without any plan to ensure continuity in representation, potentially violates Congress's express directive….”
#law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Constitution #RightToCounsel #6thAmendment #CivilRights #HumanRights
storage.courtlistener.com/reca…
Ah, so that's where the request to French companies came from:
US embassies to contractors worldwide: Cancel any DEI programs or risk going unpaid | CNN Business edition.cnn.com/2025/04/01/bus…
This is going to be "interesting":
The embassy letters have already triggered public responses in Europe.The Belgian government said in a statement that it was investigating “the legal consequences” for the companies that had received the letters.
“The question is not only a matter of principle but also of legal relevance: The US Embassy must comply with Belgian law in its actions. If contracts are terminated merely because a company is committed to diversity and inclusion, this could constitute a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,” the statement said.
30 minutes away from breaking the record. Senator #CoryBooker is still speaking about the importance of the US #Constitution & standing up for the #rights of all #people, especially those who are being targeted by a savage few with the #money & #power to do so.
And he has done it. Senator #CoryBooker has broken Strom Thurmond’s 1957 anti-civil rights filibuster.
“I am not doing this because of him, I am doing this in spite of him.”
“I’m not quite ready to wrap this up yet.”
#resist #Trump #money #power #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup
#democracy #USpol #Senate #Constitution #rights
#Trump's bullying is apparently working against #India.
#Reuters: "India will scrap a tax of 6% on digital #advertisements online, easing costs for U.S. tech giants such as #Google, #Meta and #Amazon as a way of soothing U.S. trade concerns."
#Europe must not be intimidated by bullies.
Source: reuters.com/world/india/india-…
#Musk / #DOGE fires nearly all staff at US Institute of #Peace HQ
The #Trump admin summarily fired the staff of the #USIP late Friday night, <2wks after forcibly removing the congressionally funded org’s president & installing in his place an agent of #tech billionaire #ElonMusk’s DOGE….
#law #USpol #TrumpCoup #TrumpPurge #democracy #diplomacy #fascism #tyranny
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“Unless you are using #GPG, email is not end-to-end encrypted, & the contents of a message can be intercepted & read at many points, including on Google’s email servers,” said Eva Galperin, director of #cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
#NationalSecurity experts have expressed alarm over the #Trump admin’s denial that the leaked #Signal chat contained #classified information.
#Gmail #Signalgate #Signal #OpSec #InfoSec #military #idiocracy #kakistocracy
