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Former defense/military technology executive. Interests: Politics, investing, cosmology, nature of reality, demographics and preserving democracy. Aspiring to be a middle aged white guy influencer - on the left.
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www.mediaite.com/news/the-wal... The Wall Street Journal criticizes Trump for a steady stream of bad policy decisions and for appearing to be making everything up as he goes along.

www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/e... Consumer sentiment hits the 2nd lowest level since 1952. Consumers are gloomy and expect inflation to rise significantly.

The Trump Admin missed the judge’s deadline to detail steps for a wrongly deported man’s return. Why the Administration would want an innocent man to remain in an El Salvador torture prison is horrific enough. But maybe they may know that he's been killed. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-fina... Trump can bribe people, corrupt politicians and threaten law firms and colleges but the bond market doesn't care. And it caused him to back down. The bond market is showing that investors and countries may no longer see the U.S. as a reliable place to invest.

open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... The Republicans in the House have joined the Republicans in the Senate in passing a bill to make it much harder to vote.

www.thedailybeast.com/doges-govern... The Government Accountability Office - the only remaining uncompromised watchdog - is looking into Elon Musk's DOGE over complaints into their accessing and compromising sensitive personal and government information.

www.thedailybeast.com/aoc-demands-... Alexandria Ocasio Cortez demands that Congress be barred from insider trading since Marjorie Taylor Greene and others made well timed stock buys before Trump backed off the tariffs.

www.newsweek.com/donald-trump... More bad news for Trump, the latest polls show his approval rating down to 41% and disapproval at 53%. YouGov and other polls are showing similar numbers.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... Fund managers are starting to not only question Trump's motives but his sanity.

www.axios.com/2025/04/02/j... Joe Rogan, who's podcast has the largest MAGA following has told his audience about the "horrific" Trump Administration deportation policy. He highlighted that people who were here legally and not guilty of a crime and being grabbed by ICE and deported to El Salvador.

www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh... Elon Musk's Cybertruck is the biggest automotive industry failure in decades. Sales have missed projections by a staggering 84%. There are no signs of improvement on the horizon.

www.wbur.org/news/2025/04... A judge held an ICE agent in contempt when he waited outside a courthouse and grabbed a man who was in the middle of a trial. He had not been found guilty of a crime. The judge ultimately dismissed the case against him.

finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-t... Donald Trump's tariffs barrage seems to have no rhyme or reason with some targeted lands not even being inhabited (at least by humans). The tiny African Kingdom of Lesotho gets the highest tariffs at 50%.🙄

www.nbcnews.com/news/world/f... Marie Le Pen, the far right politician who hoped to be France's President has been convicted of embezzling money from the European Union and sentenced to prison time while also being banned from serving in public office.

Today in Trumpenomics. Americans are spending less as they brace for new tariffs. Even the most affluent Americans are cutting back on spending - which is relatively unusual and an ominous sign for the Trump economy. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

www.bostonherald.com/2025/03/31/i... After a Tufts University graduate student was grabbed off the street in Somerville, MA and whisked away to a detention center in Louisiana, the Governor of Massachusetts has been unable to get any information on her status or whereabouts.

finance.yahoo.com/news/live/st... Today in Trumpenomics. Wall Street just finished it's worst quarterly performance since 2022.

newrepublic.com/post/192658/... Across the world, there are soft and hard boycotts against the U.S. in response to Trump. American suppliers reliant on sales in Canada are in panic mode as Canadian retailers remove U.S. products from their shelves.

Tax revenue could drop by 10 percent amid staffing cuts and turmoil at IRS created by Elon Musk's DOGE. This amounts to costing the government more than $500B which for reference is nearly 2/3 the entire Defense budget, the single largest budget line.

finance.yahoo.com/news/america... The Trump Slump continues. Americans expectations for the economy craters to the lowest level in 12 years as rising prices, policy uncertainty and chaos dog consumer sentiment.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... The former White House Ethics Chief under George W. Bush says this is just unprecedented - The U.S. government working to benefit the company of President Trump's biggest financial backer.

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio... Republicans, especially MAGA Republicans, were excited as Trump took on the DEI bogeyman, trans people, and deported immigrants. But as they've shifted to cutting Medicare, the VA, the FAA, and cutting Federal workers in red states, support appears to be waning.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/20/n... Never missing a chance for hypocrisy. While Trump rages about judges blocking his agenda, his top advisors used hand picked judges and courts to block President Biden's initiatives throughout Biden's term.

www.newsweek.com/tesla-recall... In another blow for Elon Musk's Tesla, all 2024 and 2025 model Cybertrucks are being recalled due to side panels that fly off when driving.

finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-ne... Top investor and analyst, Dan Ives, said Tesla CEO Elon Musk needs to refocus on the company after a brutal three-month stretch for Tesla stock and sales declines. Maybe Musk is too focused instead on cutting off the poor and disabled from their benefits?

www.axios.com/2025/03/20/t... President Trump's Commerce Secretary Lutnick shilled for Elon Musk's Tesla stock and it had the opposite effect of what was intended - as the stock continued its slide. Apparently investors could smell the desperation on Elon's behalf.

open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz... The Trump recession. So far Trump's actions have damaged the U.S. economy, crippled critical international security alliances, and stirred up damaging retaliatory tariffs. Trump's policies have backfired spectacularly.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/18/n... Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked the Trump Administration's attempt to impeach a judge just because that judge had ruled against them.

finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-s... Tesla's stock cratered again on Tuesday as CEO Elon Musk's politics are crushing sales and competitors in China disclosed a slew of updates on Tuesday, showing further technology advancement beyond Tesla.

finance.yahoo.com/news/investo... Bank of America says that Investors' bullish stance on US stocks has reversed into a "bull crash" as concerns grow over Trump's trade policies.

www.axios.com/2025/03/14/t... Trump's policies and red state abortion bans are causing Americans - especially the wealthy - to flee red states and move to blue states triggering a red state brain drain. Some wealthy Americans are even leaving the U.S. altogether.

finance.yahoo.com/news/america... Americans sour on Trump's economy as consumer inflation expectations hit the highest level since 1991. Americans and businesses are increasingly pessimistic. This growing pessimism includes Republicans and Democrats.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru... Trump's economic policies, abrupt actions, and declining economic data have put Republicans on the defensive trying to back into some rationale for what's going on. Privately many Republicans are worried it's going to all melt down on their watch.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p... Following the success Sen. Bernie Sanders is having in conducting rallies in Republican swing districts, former VP candidate Tim Walz is now launching a national Town Hall tour in Republican districts while Republicans have been too afraid to hold their own.

open.substack.com/pub/noahpini... Many Trump supporters are saying this is short term pain for long term gain. But many economists see long term pain instead.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/11/b... Actions have consequences and Canada is showing what they are. Hydro-Quebec cut off power supplies to New England states as Donald Trump rolled out his tariffs on Canada.

www.wsj.com/business/med... The Wall Street Journal acknowledges the swift growth of anti-Trump podcasts like the nation's new No. 1 podcast, Meidas Touch (pictured below) which takes on Trump, Musk and Republicans every day.

finance.yahoo.com/news/live/st... Stock markets continued to add to steep losses experienced over the last 2 weeks as recession fears grow with Trump doubling down on Canadian tariffs responding to retaliation by Ontario. Yep, this is just going great.

www.newsweek.com/donald-trump... Donald Trump would like to make it illegal to not buy Elon Musk's Tesla's.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... Trump advisor Alina Habba tells reporters that perhaps the fired military veterans were not fit to have a job at this moment. Veterans are disproportionately represented in the Federal firing campaign of Elon Musk's DOGE.

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... Sen. Bernie Sanders is holding campaign style rallies in Republican districts across the country, uniting the anti-Trump movement and drawing huge energized crowds.

finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-o... The Trump Administration is looking to try to hide the economic damage they're causing by faking the economic data.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/b... Trump's policies have shaken a previously solid perception of the economy. Since he's taken over, consumer and business confidence have plunged and some now see a recession on the horizon.

www.cnbc.com/2025/03/07/b... To restore some faith, not all billionaires are like Elon Musk or Zuckerberg or Bezos. Michael Bloomberg is giving away lots of money to real causes - he's America's top donor. And he's not advocating for tax cuts for himself.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/06/m... In defiance of court orders, the Trump Administration is terminating millions in research awards to scientists studying diseases, cures, and disease progression. Defying court orders may precipitate the Constitutional crisis many have feared.

www.wsj.com/world/europe... Actions and policies have consequences. Donald Trump's embrace of Vladimir Putin has changed Europeans' calculus. Germany is now considering nuclear weapons - something the U.S. has long sought to avoid.

www.reuters.com/world/us/dog... A FAFO story. West Virginian Jennifer Piggott proudly hung a Trump campaign flag on her house during the Presidential race. Now the Trump Administration has fired her from her job. She's done supporting Trump.

finance.yahoo.com/news/live/st... Investors tell Trump to just stop. Trump tried to arrest the market slide by caving on tariffs once again but this time the market just kept falling as investors are weary of the policy chaos.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Elon Musk tries to tell Republican lawmakers he isn't to blame for the mass firings of Federal workers - as backlash to Trump's policies and service cutbacks grows.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup... MAGA-world turns on Trump nominated Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barret because she has not approved every single unconstitutional Trump action or Executive Order.