A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

Is that bad? Seems bad

Suspect dead after 8 children killed, 2 women wounded in Louisiana shooting The suspect, who was the father of seven of the children, was killed after a vehicle chase, police said. The slain children were 3 to 11 years old, authorities said.

This "president" has said nothing-- NOTHING-- about eight kids killed in a mass shooting in Louisiana today. Ages range from 1 year to 14 years. Children.

And they rate not a single comment.

I detest that bucket of filth and the way he's lowered the bar for all.

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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

Trump has destroyed federal guardrails meant to ensure secure and fair elections.

Some fear his actions are aimed at making sure the upcoming midterms go his way.

Someone really ought to write a book about the significance of #SCOTUS doing so many major things through unsigned and unexplained rulings, and how so much of it really is a recent phenomenon.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

👀 Eye-popping reporting on the "'shadow docket,' the secretive track that the Supreme Court has since used to make many major decisions, including granting President Trump more than 20 key victories on issues from immigration to agency power"

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Voting on spy powers at 2am will definitely help with trust in the government!

Congressional Democrats say Trump tariffs will cost US households more than $2,500 this year The Trump administration is scrambling to replace the revenue the federal government lost when the Supreme Court struck down his biggest and boldest tariffs last month.

Congressional Democrats say Trump’s tariffs will cost U.S. households more than $2,500 this year — SIX TIMES MORE than their average expected tax refund increase.

Rick Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud' in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says First, Gov. Rick Scott scared the bejesus out of seniors with an online ad claiming that Medicare rate cuts would lead t

Oh, look.

Rick Scott, one of if not the biggest Medicare fraudster of all time, has an opinion.

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Trump officials thought USAID 'just did abortions' before gutting it: whistleblower A bombshell new whistleblower book reveals that Trump administration officials tasked with dismantling USAID had no idea what the agency actually did, with one official admitting he assumed it only di...

Trump officials thought USAID 'just did abortions' before gutting it: whistleblower

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He’s just doing wars so he can stay in office.

I'm going to point out that we spent a shit ton of taxpayer money on moderna and he's stealing it from us.

Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago.

@politico.com
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This sums up the situation pretty well.

NYT Page One:

“.. some are asking whether this is a ‘Suez’ moment for the United States, marking the waning of American power and credibility in the world.”

@nytimes.com

I’m Team Pope Leo.

And you don’t have to be a practicing Catholic to think — what the hell is wrong with the Pentagon’s mouthpiece?

This is repugnant.

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad

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JUST IN: Judge Friedman has rejected the Pentagon’s revised press policy, saying it flouted his earlier order and represents a bid by Hegseth and the Trump admin to “dictate” coverage, what he calls “the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy.” ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Reminder

The Presidential Records Act isn’t complicated. It was passed after Watergate for a reason & it’s very clear about what belongs to the public & what doesn’t.

That’s what makes the new position DOJ is taking so disturbing. I explain here: joycevance.substack.com/p/killing-hi...

The more I think about the 70,000 ICE incarcerated without due process the more I think we are underreacting. People are literally trapped inside for profit prisons. We need to do something.

These people are OUT of their minds.

Trump Made a Deal That Gives Him Nothing He Wanted U.S. declarations of victory ring hollow.

"Among the president’s initial war goals—preventing Iran from having a nuclear weapon; eliminating its ballistic-missile capabilities; ...overthrow of the regime; and eradicating Iranian proxies in the Persian Gulf—none have been met."
from Nancy Yousseff

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$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.

@nytimes.com
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MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell with white text over his shoulder: Trump retreats. Again.

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social: Trump's threat to destroy 'a whole civilization' leaves a permanent stain on our history youtu.be/R817Jb7mLM4?...

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.

This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

This is simply genocidal language and is a horror in itself.

The president speaks genocide The words, the law, the future

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
These are the words of the president of the United States, today.
The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.
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Donald Trump is threatening to bomb an entire civilization and JD Vance is in Hungary with the audacity to say this:

“We have a sacred duty to protect life.”

Today's press conference: We pulled of a risky rescue and we're going to tell the world exactly how we did it. Our administration leaked about the second airman, endangering his life. We're super good at endangering more lives to clean up messes of our own making.