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Of Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do.
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As the president’s “Liberation Day” nears, it’s time to liberate ourselves from the vicious cycle of Democrats having to clean up the GOP’s messes.
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New Jersey Sen. cory booker is on the Senate floor, saying, "I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able" to protest #Trump and #Musk.
Watch live: c-span.org/event/us-senate/us-…
U.S. Senate
The Senate will vote to advance President Trump's nomination of Matthew Whitaker to be the U.S. Ambassador to NATO. He previously served as Acting Attorney General during the first Trump Administration.C-SPAN
#Trump is plotting the biggest #tax rise in global history
source: telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/202…
#usa #politics #society #finance #problem #poverty #news
Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs will be the biggest tax rise in global history
The burden for paying the bulk of the president’s Liberation Day tariffs will fall on consumers, potentially at some $600 billion a yearMatthew Lynn (The Telegraph)
#USpol #ConstitutionalCrisis: #dRumpfTime
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No, imprisoning the #OrangePeril. Him would never have worked with #Trump.
I think it might be after Apr 20, 2025, that a lot more Americans will see the light behind these words: #TarpeianRock punishment:
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IMO, it would have saved #America (and much of the world) from the current mega-calamity.
Now, it is too late for that simple solution.
What might still be a solution for...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (@HistoPol@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image @noondlyt (3/3) ...the #TarpeianRock punishment. Since #TFG would still be allowed to campaign from behind bars and given the fact rally his huge following and the state secrets he kept, the risks for stability and national s…Mastodon
#France:
"Monday’s sentence bars #LePen from seeking public office for the next five years, thrusting her far-right party into limbo. Le Pen also received a four-year prison sentence"
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#Brazil:
"Jair #Bolsonaro faces prison
Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court panel rules the former president must stand trial for an alleged coup attempt in 2022"
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#USA:
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"Sure! #Trump can run again. What can go wrong?"
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My country is a fucking joke
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro faces prison
Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court panel rules the former president must stand trial for an alleged coup attempt in 2022.Al Jazeera
#Trump Family Pushes Further Into #Crypto, Starting Another Venture
Eric Trump & Donald Trump Jr. are investing in a #Bitcoin-mining company called American Bitcoin, created by the merger of two firms.
#law #USpol #scam #fraud #EmolumentsClause
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Trump Family Starts Bitcoin Mining Venture in Further Push Into Crypto
Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are investing in a Bitcoin-mining company called American Bitcoin, created by the merger of two firms.David Yaffe-Bellany (The New York Times)
WH Press Sec Karoline Leavitt tells Andrew Feinberg of TheIndependent, “Shame on you" after he asked her about #ICE's "#AlienEnemiesAct Validation Guide” which the #Trump admin FILED IN COURT that states for ICE to label a person a member of #TdA, they must:
1) determine they are a #Venezuelan & over 14, &
2) find 8 points on a scoring guide they made:
4 points for having alleged *gang* tattoos +
4 points for displaying gang "logos" or
"symbols"
That’s it.
#MarcoRubio posted on social media that he sent 17 people to #CECOT in #ElSalvador overnight, he claims that they are all Tren de Aragua or MS-13 members.
If they were *deported* under the questionably legal (US is not at war) #AEA, then it was in violation of the court order. Otherwise they would have to have had final orders of removal.
#law #immigration #Trump #AlienEnemiesAct #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Rendition #Abduction
I really enjoyed watching #elonmusk get mercilessly heckled at his own rally in #wisconsin and then panic, and blame it on people being paid off in the audience.
What about the millions around the world protesting him?
What about the millions of Americans who are?
Nobody has enough money.
He's just a man-child in a death spiral, and all his stocks are crashing.
#trump Whitehouse people are turning on one another, and hiding.
We are winning.
Drugmakers sink after key #FDA official ousted as #Trump plans *#health* overhaul
Shares of US drugmakers fell on Monday after reports that the FDA's top #vaccine official, Peter Marks, had been forced to resign, the most high-profile exit at the regulator as the Trump admin undertakes an overhaul of federal health agencies.
#law #science #medicine #RFKJr #HHS #PublicHealth #economy #Trumpcession
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there's nothing surprising or underhanded about this, though.
The administration tried to do unusual things, lower courts issued unusual rulings on unusual things, so of course appeals are bound to be other than usual.
That's especially understandable when #Trump promotes his actions as emergency.
Folks shouldn't let the dramatic narrative distract from the underlying correctness or incorrectness of the legal arguments.
“Three times in the past week, and six since #Trump took office a little more than two months ago, the #JusticeDepartment has asked the #conservative-majority high court to step into cases much earlier than usual.” apnews.com/article/supr... #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt
Trump increasingly asks the Su...
Trump keeps asking Supreme Court to overrule judges blocking his agenda
President Donald Trump's administration has increasingly turned to the use of emergency appeals to the Supreme Court as it faces more than 130 lawsuits over his executive orders.Mark Sherman (AP News)
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#Musk #Wisconsin #Trump #democracy #politics #corruption
Elon Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race
Musk denied he was buying votes but said the court election outcome would be critical to Trump’s agenda and ‘the future of civilization’Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Lionel Laurent recommendations for EU:
"A better starting point would be to shore up support for the #EU’s never-before-used “anti-coercion instrument,” which was devised during the first #Trump administration as a way to resist economic bullying from the likes of China or the US. This would allow for a list of counter measures broader than #tariffs on goods, such as restricting intellectual-property rights, foreign direct investment and access to public procurement."
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Trump’s US doesn’t just think Europe is obsolete – it wants to see it dead
Whether it is by declaring a trade war or by bullying Greenland, visceral hatred is driving American policy, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie TocciNathalie Tocci (The Guardian)
The Disappeared - 245 so far...
What next? Dropping human beings Donald Trump doesn't like from helicopters into the Gulf of Mexico, sorry, the Gulf of America...?
#SlavaUkrayini
#AmericanFascism #AmericanCoup
#TrumpJunta #DirtyWar 2.0
#GOP #MAGA #POTUS45 #POTUS404
#Trump #AgentOrange #Krasnov
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Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up
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Companies may avoid consequences for alleged wrongdoing as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau drops lawsuits against Capital One and Rocket Homes and pauses investigations into Meta and others — including providers of medical credit cards.
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#News #Consumer #Business #Law #Meta #Tech #Trump #DOGE #Musk
Best picture so far that describes the current situation in the White House
#Trump #Putin #musk #maga_plot #maga_faschismus
" #Wisconsin's attorney general on Sunday asked the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court to stop billionaire #Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters, an appeal that came hours before #Trump's ally planned the giveaway at an evening rally.
An appeals court on Saturday rejected the legal challenge by Democrat Josh Kaul, who argues that Musk's offer violates a state law prohibiting giving anything of value in exchange for a vote" abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wi…
Wisconsin's attorney general asks the state Supreme Court to stop Musk's $1 million payments
Wisconsin’s attorney general has asked the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two votersSCOTT BAUER Associated Press (ABC News)
#trump #fascism nytimes.com/2025/03/30/opinion…
Opinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump
If law firms won’t defend the rule of law, who will?John W. Keker (The New York Times)
Markets in Q1: #ETTTTS
Whereas the major risk back in Jan was that #Trump's 'America first' policies would push #inflation back up & prevent #US interest rate cuts, now the most important risk is #recession risk.
That has spun the $140T global bond #market 180°.
#Gold, the ultimate safe port in a storm, has had its best quarter since 1986 due to Trump's #TradeWar & the #dollar is flirting w/its worst start to a year since the 2008 global bust.
Interview: "Fire the unelected social media dictators: Cory Doctorow on tech and US politics"
"Elon Musk’s rise to power in the United States is emblematic of the expanding power of Big Tech".
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#musk #trump #oligarchy #ai #fascism #CoryDoctorow #uspol .
Fire the unelected social media dictators: Doctorow on tech and US politics
Is Big Tech out of control and AI beyond limits? Redi Tlhabi speaks with author and activist Cory Doctorow.Al Jazeera
#Trump #USpol #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #leak
Secret #Pentagon memo on #China, #HomelandSecurity has #HeritageFoundation fingerprints
An internal guidance memo from #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth focuses on deterring China’s seizure of #Taiwan & shoring up homeland defense. In some instances, the document is nearly a word-for-word facsimile of a report from the conservative think tank behind #Project2025.
#Trump #USpol #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #leak
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*** This report may not be accurate. Times of India is the only outlet reporting it. ***
Hundreds of international #students have received an email telling them their #visas have been revoked.
The ‘justification’ is campus #activism or #SocialMedia posts.
#Trump #immigration #law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #Education #Universities #Colleges #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState
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Hundreds of international students wake up to an email asking them to self deport for campus activism
US News: Hundreds of international students in the US are getting an email from the US Department of State (DOS) asking them to self-deport owing to campus act.Lubna Kably (Times Of India)
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #europe
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #usa
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #canada #russia
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
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#vance #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #arctic #climatechange
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #nato
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #nato
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #vance #usa #russia #ukraine
—Timothy Snyder
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#musk #trump #usa
Not good
The United States Court of Appeals for DC has cleared the way for #Trump to fire members of the National #Labor Relations Board #NLRB & the Merit Systems Protection Board #MSPB, essentially granting Trump authority over formerly "independent" parts of the executive branch.
Judge Millet dissented saying the decision overturned #SCOTUS precedent & disabled the boards from functioning while the case proceeds.
#law #watchdog #whistleblower #USpol
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“The White House's Barstool problem
Dave Portnoy, a #Trump supporter and the founder of Barstool Sports, went viral for his blistering critique of the administration’s group chat debacle.”
#SignalGate
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The White House's Barstool problem
Dave Portnoy, a Trump supporter and the founder of Barstool Sports, went viral for his blistering critique of the administration’s group chat debacleAllan Smith (NBC News)
