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30 April 1939 | A French Jewish girl, Henriette Michele Hacker, was born in Clichy. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 September 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

As I keep telling folks in my videos and on my show, Trump is destined to lose. He is the lamest of lame ducks. It will just take time to go through the courts. Republicans are leaving us with another massive mess to clean up. They are fools and can't govern.

People can’t seem to wrap their heads around the idea that the founders were flawed men who did bad things who nonetheless had great ideas and ideals that they didn’t live up to — which then inspired future generations to make us live up to those standards.

Leavitt on Fox News's polling, which sometimes doesn't reflect well on Trump: "I know he's made some phone calls to express his displeasure with it as well."

In Trump's first 100 days, he alienated us from our allies, crashed the stock market, decimated U.S. cancer research, expelled American toddlers, lost the Canadian election by proxy, and threatened your Social Security checks. But at least he focused on the important stuff.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Kellogg: "We had 22 specific conditions that Ukraine agreed to. First of all, what they want and what they have is a very comprehensive and permanent ceasefire... for at least 30 days. Why 30 days? Because it can be the basis for a permanent peace initiative." ‼️ Ukraine wasn’t happy with it.

Worth posting again for those who may have missed this!

good social media phrasing from a local news outlet! bsky.app/profile/wfaa...

Abducting someone without due process and sending him to a foreign dictator’s forced labor camp is not “deportation”. It’s not a thing that has any legitimate basis in American law.

This guy, Dom Lucre, shared child sexual abuse material on Twitter, got banned for it, and then Musk reinstated him. Absolutely wild to see him being treated like a real journalist.

When even Rand Paul is like, “Yeah, that’s too extreme.”

JUST IN: The full bench of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals votes 9-6 to maintain a block on DOGE's access to sensitive social security records. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Probably still better than when Uday’s wedding planner was put in charge of HUD the last time.

Once we retake power....Just sayin

'You're chairman, and you're out of order!' James Comer shouted down for interrupting Dem https://twp.ai/4im7ch

Crockett: The national average price of eggs in March was $6.23. A 6% increase from the previous month. A 60% increase year to year… The national average for gas is $3.17.. nowhere near the $1.98 that Trump claimed

This is another insane person in Trumps orbit!!! share.newsbreak.com/cv4hmbvi?s=i16

on purpose!

THIS IS THE THING EVERYONE SAID WAS HAPPENING WHEN BIDEN WAS PRESIDENT, EVEN THOUGH IT WASN’T, AND WAS SUPPOSEDLY THE ONE THING THAT NO VOTER CAN TOLERATE oh my god I’m going to lose my mind

🇺🇦🇺🇸Details of the Rare Metals Agreement between Ukraine and the United States: 🚩Shares in the fund will be distributed on a 50/50 basis. The U.S. will be allowed to count new military aid as a contribution to the fund. 🚩Ukraine retains control over all mineral resources and subsoil assets 1/ ⬇️

(It's definitely Trump shrinking the economy)

Donald Trump wants to pretend that he’s succeeded in bringing grocery prices down like he promised. But new data today shows he’s shrinking the economy and raising the cost of your groceries—all in under 100 days.

'The math doesn't math': Dem scorches GOP's $7 trillion tax cuts at oversight hearing https://twp.ai/4im79s

Trump cabinet members all have red MAGA hats in front of them during today's cabinet meeting

Just incredible

Don't believe a word Republicans say — look at what they are doing. Their budget requires the biggest cuts to Medicaid in American history to partially bankroll tax cuts for billionaires. This is a smash and grab scheme for the billionaire class.

A typically excellent and chilling explainer of Trump's EO on greater cooperation between civilian law enforcement and the military from @jesspish.bsky.social. Trump Made the Law Enforcement Baronial Class His Best Friend open.substack.com/pub/sheriffs...

🛢️📉 Oil drops, poised for biggest monthly fall in three years, - Reuters Brent crude futures fell by 72 cents, or 1.12%, to $63.53 per barrel by 0404 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures dropped 70 cents, or 1.16%, to $59.71 a barrel.

Yep. Tariffs and how they're crashing the economy are beyond the regime's formidable propaganda reach. All they've got to drown the pain out are checks, so expect those.

The bill establishing the Women, Peace and Security program was co-sponsored by two Trump Cabinet officials: Kristi L. Noem and Marco Rubio — who previously served in the House and Senate, respectively — and signed into law by Trump in 2017. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

'All Of This Is Nonsense': Donald Trump Rally Boast Shredded By CNN Fact-Checker https://twp.ai/4im7ih

I keep seeing stories that are downplaying the EO on policing, suggesting they are things that are already being done. This strikes me as terribly dishonest about the goal, as I explain below. sheriffs.substack.com/p/trump-made...

The NYT has been doing phenomenal reporting on the blatant corruption of the Trump memecoin/crypto policy. Genuinely the most flagrant, bald-faced thing I’ve ever seen short of a politician getting sacks of cash.

🦋 Trump's Golden Age view of US ship building industry is deluded: “We used to make so many ships. We don’t make them anymore very much" He's right, but a port fee levied only on Chinese ships and an office of shipbuilding at the WH cannot resurrect an entire industry within months or even years 🦋

The Worst Person You Know Just Made Some Great Points

Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won’t Trump’s comments undermined previous statements by his top aides and were a blunt sign of his administration’s intention to double down and defy the courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

We've learned the Trump Administration has ILLEGALLY withheld over $430B in funds approved by Congress — gutting vital services including child care, disaster relief and more. The courts must continue to hold this lawless president accountable, even if spineless congressional Republicans won't.

Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal. Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration. See how this works?

You are either for democracy or you’re not. If you’re not, get out of my way. Thanks @joycewhitevance.bsky.social for an amazing conversation tonight. (If you’re interested in hearing more, please subscribe to my Substack: katiephang.substack.com)

Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

100 days of the Trump economy in one graph:

Either way this is not great