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Every day a new crime. Every day a new scandal We are becoming inured to it, deadened by its incessant cascading of crime. It is all Project 2025 all the time. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

🚨INVESTIGATION: Trump shut down a federal price-gouging probe after large donations to his inauguration. Now some of the targets of the shuttered probe are helping corporations use Trump's tariffs to justify permanently jacking up prices on consumers. www.levernews.com/how-trump-is...

The volunteer cuts, which included young people who told WIRED they were tasked with making forests more resilient to wildfires and helping out FEMA staff at the agency’s headquarters, come just weeks before the official start of hurricane season.

🪖When Trump fires top military leaders without explanation, what does this mean for service members sworn to the Constitution? A retired Major General shares insights on the military's tradition of political neutrality being tested. Samuel C. Mahaney SPARDI Air Force Major General (retired)

JUST IN: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared Yemen strike details in a second Signal chat that included his wife and brother, three sources told CNN. cnn.it/3EpM8fP

Difference?

History always has a lesson.

Pope Francis skipped the Vatican's official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement. Pope Francis, meanwhile, according to reporter Colleen Dulle was visiting pilgrims in the Vatican.

MAGA...we AINT forgot you....

Trump's entire life has been about ripping people off. HE screwed over so many contractors, and their workers. This is the story of his life.

Mass protests across America get serious coverage in the UK, France, Germany and Scandinavia... but American newspapers and broadcast media are curiously silent about them, or seek to minimize them as "a few thousand demonstrators." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

the horrifying part is the hundreds of people just standing there

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Celebrate Easter and then get ready again to......

President Trump continues to manipulate tariffs for personal profit: this time with a “suite” of thematic “Truth Social-branded” investment portfolios organized under the laughably ironic themes of “Faith & Values,” “Liberty & Security,” “Energy Independence,” and “Made in America.”

Federal appeals court temporarily freezes multibillion-dollar Biden climate fund kentuckylantern.com/2025/04/17/r...

Oregon companies are reeling from the rapid implementation of tariffs — a move they say will hurt business for years.

Disgraceful

Donald Trump claims his tariffs are raking in a whopping $2 billion every day. 🚩 Fact check: The real number is closer to $250 million per day—which is 8 times less.

A woman shared footage of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent using a large hammer to break her car window in an attempt to arrest her husband who is a Guatemalan immigrant. The couple's lawyer said they were "within their rights" and were "met with brutality and violence"🔗 trib.al/vuoPkHt

All staff were put on leave at the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. Congress created the entity in 1987 and, among other things, it helped drive down veterans homelessness.

Gavin Newsom said Trump's tariffs are "wreaking chaos on California families, businesses, and our economy."

Nothing will ever be decided because (to put it charitably) Trump changes his mind constantly or (to put it less charitably) Trump is too ravaged by mental illness and cognitive decline to have much of a mind to change.

Government cuts therapy funding for adopted children

The Trump administration is looking at closing nearly 30 overseas embassies and consulates as it eyes significant changes to its diplomatic presence abroad, according to an internal State Department document obtained by CNN.