#Trump is now badly wounded. Europe and the UK can seize an advantage - theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a… "he has killed the prospect of the rest of the world buying the avalanche of new US government debt that will follow from the huge tax cuts he plans in the autumn." #tariffs #brexit
#China Halts Critical Exports as #TradeWar Intensifies
China has suspended exports of a wide range of critical minerals & magnets, threatening to choke off supplies of components central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies & military contractors around the world.
We're looking into which cars Tesla will no longer import to China and how Audi's most popular model might be impossible to sell here because of tariffs.
Breaking news out of China, they announced that they will raise their tariffs on US imports from 85% to 125% to match the US. Meanwhile the US is raising tariffs on Chinese goods from 125% to 145%.
These tariffs are changing so fast its making my head spin trying to keep up with it 🥴
China has announced that it will raise tariffs on U.S. goods from 84% to 125%. It was the latest salvo in an escalating trade war between the world’s two largest economies that has rattled markets and raised fears of a global slowdown. While U.S.
Several democrats have also called out the Trump administration for insider trading. AOC noted that congress has mandatory stock ownership disclosures coming up on May 15th and says she's very interested to see who benefited and front ran these announcements.
There is a growing consensus among stock analysts and cryptocurrency traders that the Trump administration and their friends have been front running all of these market moves caused by Trump.
This youtuber is a self avowed capitalist & cryptocurrency influencer, but even those sorts of people are calling out Trump's obvious insider trading. None the less he spent the first few minutes of his stream talking about market manipulation.
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Just yesterday, Trump said he'd add an additional 50% to the tariffs on China if they didn't acquiesce to his non sensical demands.
So it would seem there's uncertainty to see how the two responsed today, it doesn't seem like the two are likely to reach a deal before tomorrow morning.
Greg Pearre, who oversaw a staff of hundreds of tech experts, had pushed back on the #Trump admin’s plan to move the migrants’ names into a #SocialSecurity death database, eliminating their ability to legally earn wages &, ofcls hoped, spurring them to leave the country. In particular, Pearre had clashed w/Scott Coulter, the new chief info officer installed by #ElonMusk. Pearre told Coulter that the plan was #illegal, #cruel & risked declaring the wrong people dead.…
But his objections did not go over well w/ #Trump political appointees. And so on Thurs, the security guards in Pearre’s office told him it was time to leave.
They walked Pearre out of the building, capping a momentous internal battle over the novel strategy—pushed by #Musk’s #DOGE & #DHS — to add thousands of immigrants ranging in age from teenagers to octogenarians to the agency’s Death Master File. The dataset is used by govt agencies, employers, banks & landlords…
The episode also followed earlier warnings from senior #SocialSecurity ofcls that the database was insecure & could be easily edited without proof of death—a vulnerability, staffers say, that the #Trump admin has now exploited. The warnings & Pearre’s removal have not previously been reported.
This account of how the #Trump admin pushed #SocialSecurity to wrongly declare thousands of living immigrants dead is based on interviews w/15 people, including current & former Social Security ofcls, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, as well as more than two dozen pages of records obtained by WaPo.
Experts in govt, consumer rights & #immigration #law said the #Trump admin’s action is illegal. Labeling people dead strips them of the #privacy protections granted to living individuals—& knowingly classifying living people as dead counts as falsifying govt records. This is in addition to the #harm inflicted on those declared dead,who become unable to legally earn a living wage or draw benefits… #SocialSecurity itself has acknowledged that an incorrect death declaration is a “devastating” blow.
An immigration judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration can deport Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a decision that comes a month after his arrest prompted national outrage and marked the start of the federal government…
“ #Trump admin exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal #tariffs, potentially cushioning consumers from sticker shock while benefiting electronics giants including Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.” #TrumpTax bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
#Trump admin overrode #SocialSecurity staff to list immigrants as dead A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office & put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored. Two days after the SSA purposely & falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, MD, headquarters.
“Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported for trying to stop a genocide - as well as expressing an opinion whole brown...”
by Laura and Normal Island News on Substack
“The US is keen to hand Khalil over to Al Qaida leader Al Golani who is keen to torture him to death for his previous work at the British embassy [in Syria]”
“‘The president made it very clear: When the United States is punched, he will punch back harder,’ White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters”
Judge allows Trump administration to deport Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil over pro-Palestine activism independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
America is dead. "The Constitution" is meaningless, and the rule of law is once again nothing more than a pipe dream. #uspoli #uspolitics #trump #fascism #mahmoudkhalil
L' #Union #européenne #UE rencontre l'administration #Trump ce Lundi , et espère un accord pour "éviter les #droits de #douane et toute escalade préjudiciable des deux côtés de l' #Atlantique"
#Trump administration backs off #Nvidia's '#H20' chip crackdown after $1 Million Dollar #MaraLago dinner #US has pulled back from its plan to block Nvidia's #H20HGX #GPU exports to #China, following a meeting between the U.S. President Trump and Nvidia's #CEO Jensen Huang at a $1 million-a-head dinner. npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-53564…
Despite the science (recent @theeconomist report), I am all in favor of making Daylight Saving Time permanent: in winter, it will be dark in most states anyway for most people when getting back from work. In early and late summer, one hour more gives you some weeks more to enjoy an evening swim in daylight, etc.
So, for once, I can agree with the #OrangePeril on something.
Earlier this morning, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday called on Congress to make daylight saving time permanent and end the twice yearly practice of switching clocks.
“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline —
While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak, experts warn that whooping cough and other preventable diseases could get much worse with falling vaccination rates and Trump’s slashing of public health infrastructure. propublica.org/article/whoopin…
The #Trump #ExecutiveOrders on #race remind me of a commentary for the @NPR station WMOT in Murfreesboro/#Nashville : “Chemical Eye 👁️ on the Race Factor”.
#Trump is demanding to attach conditions to congressionally approved grants for #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty before releasing the money, despite a court order blocking it from terminating the funds. Acc/to court filings, Trump wants to be able to unilaterally pause funds for the federally funded broadcaster & shut down parts of its programming, among other moves that lawyers for #RFE say are forbidden by #Congress to ensure journalistic integrity.
#Trump crosses the Rubicon on ordering investigations of foes
Trump is now expressly ordering investigations of his foes — even criminal ones. That’s something Trump’s AG, #PamBondi, downplayed as a possibility at her confirmation hearing. (When asked what role the White House would play in investigation & prosecution decisions, Bondi responded: “It is the Department of Justice’s decision.”) #law #AbuseOfPower #MilesTaylor #ChrisKrebs #RevengePolitics washingtonpost.com/politics/20…
The #SocialSecurity Admin this week entered the names & SSNs of >6,000 mostly Latino immigrants into a database it uses to track #dead people, effectively #erasing their ability to receive #benefits or #work legally in the #UnitedStates…. The move, requested by #DHS Secy [& dog killer] #KristiNoem, is aimed at putting pressure on the #undocumented immigrants to leave the country.
As a result of being added to the death database, they would be #blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make & spend money.
The initial names are limited to people the #Trump admin claims are convicted criminals & “suspected terrorists,” docs show. But ofcls said the effort could broaden to include others in the country w/o authorization.
Their “financial lives,” Leland Dudek, #SocialSecurity Admin acting commissioner, wrote in an email to staff, would be “terminated.”
The goal is to cut those people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts & credit cards, along w/their access to government benefits.
The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing #SocialSecurity’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the govt believes should be TREATED AS IF THEY ARE DEAD.
Since taking office, #Trump has moved aggressively to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of #immigrants who were allowed into the country under President #Biden.
Now, the admin is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants & others who had legal status to “self-deport” by effectively canceling the #SocialSecurity numbers they had lawfully obtained….
By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.
Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters —
Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said. propublica.org/article/trump-e…
“ #Trump 's Trade War With #China Is Now Hurting Hollywood—and US Soft Power
On Thursday, Chinese officials retaliated against Trump’s #tariffs by imposing new restrictions on US movies. That’s a big blow to America’s cultural cachet in the nation” #TrumpTax wired.com/story/trumps-trade-w…
For weeks, #Trump has repeatedly boasted that his admin had managed to bring #EggPrices down. But new data on Thurs showed that egg #prices at the #grocery store continued to climb in March.
Egg prices rose 5.9% over the month, acc/to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics [#BLS]. They climbed at a slower rate, though, after rising 10.4% in February & 15.2% in January.
Compared with a year earlier, the price of #eggs is up 60.4%.
I'm not sure what the solution is to #Trump 's #tariffs. Ideally, everyone would boycott American products, but it's hard to get everyone to buy products that may be more expensive.
Should European governments add counter import taxes for importing American products? Or would this just create a tariff war?
