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Name one dictator over the last 300 years that left office/lost power via an election.

California has been invaded by the United States government.

All the vaccine experts who became war experts then aviation experts then international trade experts are now oncology experts.

Besides T, the person benefitting the most right now is Elon. Regulators gone. Investigations gone. He received an increase in government contracts and if this budget passes…no regulations on AI for a decade. Oh…and I guess Starlink expands with each tariff negotiation. Mission accomplished.

Listening to T chastise Tim Cook for building factories in India while T himself is building resorts all over the Middle East is 🤦🏽‍♀️

Justice Kagan points out that if an executive order is allowed to change the constitution on birthright citizenship, then a future president could decide to remove the second amendment.

The U.S. is experiencing a national “dark night of the soul” moment.

If you’d like to write a letter to the Supreme Court justices demanding that they hold the administration accountable to the rule of law, you can send it to:

Supreme Court of the U.S.
1 First Street, NE
Washington. DC 20543

Imagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed

Are there any states offering support for their businesses ?

Honor plays a large role in Chinese culture. They will not just fold.

Elon Musk congratulated himself for the feat of saving $150 billion this year in government spending—an order of magnitude less than the $2T he originally purported. And now—they wanna raise the defense budget by $200 billion. 🤷🏼‍♀️

It doesn’t feel like a trade war with China. It feels like a war on American businesses.

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.

So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.

So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:

Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000

There’s a lesson there.

Prediction:

Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

When HE was a kid autism was wildly unrecognized. So we’re just ignoring the decades of research we already have?

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Guantanamo Barbie in all her glory.

No way China will cave, not when they can smell blood in the water.

4/19 is the next nationwide protest…check in with your community! We can beat the 5.2 million turnout in this next one. #handsoff

In other news, Mercury retrograde ends today. 👍🏼

Trump is bragging about the tens of billions of dollars in “beautiful tariffs” that Americans are paying.

@maddow.msnbc.com

Best case he turns off Apr 2nd tariffs Monday. Leaves the 10pct tariffs (not great, but realistic). Elon leaves Doge, which decides to stagger the cuts over 3 yrs, accounting for local impact.
That slows the economy, reducing interest rates, reducing payments on debt to affordable levels.

The US stock market has lost $10 TRILLION of value since January 20th. Enact the 25th amendment and remove him, before it gets worse.

From one of the most measured voices in international journalism:

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

I keep hearing “what if he’s right?” and I’m struck by how under-calculated this risk seems to have been. We should know within a certain margin of error what our outcomes look like.