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Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

So, the paid liars fielded today to support the tariffs contradict each other, no one can explain anything & we again see the incompetence of an administration running solely on the whims of a 78-year-old menace bent by grievance & ignorance. If Biden had fielded even one of these dolts on TV…

From Fox Business analyst, after Howard Lutnick said this morning on the Sunday shows that the tariff exemptions on tech were only temporary.

Are the Sunday blabfests talking at all about the human trafficking of Grandpa Ranty and his defiance of the Courts?

Arson at the home of the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania on the first night of Passover. Seems like the Trump administration might be looking for anti-Semitism in all the wrong places.

Here is a bit more about the author of the law that Rubio is saying that he is using to combat antisemitism. It removes the need for the Sec of State to provide any sort of justification for deporting people he sees at odds with the foreign interests of the US. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress Via our colleagues @fahrenthold.bsky.social and @jsvine.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

How federal spending actually works. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Significant arson damage to Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro's home. Looks like what happened to civil rights leaders in the 1950s

Warren: "There is no tariff policy. It's just all chaos and corruption. That's all we have going on. And how can you believe any of these guys?

To note:

Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."

McGrath II, farmhouse

To note

At Coachella!

Trump public support is collapsing:

China framing it as Trump retreating is smart.

AOC: “Donald Trump is a criminal. Convicted on 34 felony counts of fraud. He is lying, and he is manipulating the stock market too. At his best, he enriches himself, the billionaires who back him, and the members of Congress who trade with him. Not you. Not me. Not the people.” More here:

Seems pretty clear that doge is a total scam

An analysis by The Crimson revealed that all of the canceled projects prominently featured themes of gender and sexual identity, Covid-19 and its vaccine, or health disparities. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This is disgusting. No one got fired over Signalgate, but they give a whole office a lie detector over someone going to the news anonymously. www.yahoo.com/news/dozens-...

Horst, “act Twombly in Rome,” 1966

The Frick Collection

At home

Michael Smith, at home, Holmby Hills

Britbox: excellent series

Amy Sherald-Michele Obama

Behind every Trump action you will find a potentially invalidating paperwork failure. Trump and paperwork, man. I’m tellin’ ya! #TrumpAndPaperworkMan

President Bukele, the self-styled "coolest dictator" visiting the White House this week. Surely, he can bring Mr. Antego Garcia back to America with him.

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