Steven Beschloss: The Resistance Must Be Loud and Clear
The “Hands Off!” protests on Saturday demonstrated the potential of collective action
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On Saturday, millions of Americans—including many of you—proved we are not about to let a despotic minority of self-serving oligarchs and kleptocrats, miscreants and sycophants determine our future without a fight.
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Of course, we knew the nation’s top vandal was not listening. He was fiddling around on his Florida golf course, amusing himself with Saudi financiers and other golfers, and pocketing millions at Mar-a-Lago fundraisers.
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But the coming phases of mass protest will require being more precise. Elon Musk must be removed, for example.
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Jennifer Rubin: We are All in this Together
Now we all have a responsibility to keep the momentum moving forward
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After such a successful demonstration of mass action, the question becomes: What next? For the answers, we need to look at the courts of law, the Hill, and the court of public opinion.
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Marisa Kabas: Third grader & family abducted by ICE will return home
The people of Sackets Harbor remind us that resistance can work.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 6, 2025 (Sunday)
After President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements on April 2 wiped $5 trillion dollars from the stock market, the Republican Party is scrambling.
Farmers, who were a part of Trump’s base, are “struck and shocked” by the tariffs, the president of the South Dakota Farmers Union told Lauren Scott of CBC News, saying they will have a “devastating effect.” Rob Copeland, Lauren Hirsch, and Maureen Farrell of the New York Times report that Wall Street leaders who backed Trump are now criticizing him publicly, with one calling for someone to stop him. The size of yesterday’s peaceful protests around the country, less than 100 days into Trump’s term when he should be enjoying a honeymoon, demonstrated growing fury at the administration’s actions.
Yesterday, in the midst of the economic crisis and as millions of protesters gathered across the country, the White House announced that “[t]he President won his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, FL, and advances to the Championship Round tomorrow.” This afternoon, President Donald J. Trump posted a video of himself hitting a golf ball off a tee, perhaps as a demonstration that he is unconcerned about the chaos in the markets.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)Bulwark: The Hubris Is Off the Charts
We’re in the middle of a self-inflicted financial collapse, but look at the bright side: The president won a golf tournament this weekend.
NY Times: Trump Family’s Cash Registers Ring as Financial Meltdown Plays Out
The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president’s Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.
Washington City Paper: Trump Will Get His Showy (And Likely Expensive) Military Parade in D.C.
Trump’s 2018 plans for a parade of military tanks and planes down Pennsylvania Avenue NW were scuttled. But this year no one will stop him.
President Donald Trump for years has lusted after a big military parade over which he could preside—just like he sees leaders do in other mostly authoritative countries.
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According to a D.C. source with knowledge of the plan that’s still being developed, Trump has commandeered Saturday, June 14—the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army and, as it happens, Trump’s 79th birthday—for his military parade.Noah Berlatsky: Trump’s tariffs insanity begins to fracture the MAGA cult
Republican resistance is helpful. But more of it is needed.
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Isaac Saul: The global response to Trump’s tariffs.
…- Trump is showing no signs of backing off from exactly what he said he’d do for almost two years.
- It’s very easy to project your own worldview onto Trump, but the president simply wants to reduce trade deficits.
- Trump’s reasoning is absurd and the initial market reaction has been scary, but there’s no real way of knowing what comes next.
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Conversation: The trade deficit isn’t an emergency – it’s a sign of America’s strength
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Robert Reich: The real reason we’re in a national emergency
Trump is creating national emergencies to gain more power. In the process, he’s subjecting millions to real harm.
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Adam Kinzinger: Make America Sick Again
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Although empowered by President Trump’s newly created, budget-slashing Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the driving force behind the dismantling of our public health infrastructure is Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Like his boss in the Oval Office, Kennedy seems intent on settling old scores with his former opponents.
(Adam Kinzinger more…)Daily Beast: RFK Jr. Touts Bogus Measles Treatment Hours After Burying 8-Year-Old Child
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Kennedy visited the epicenter of the measles outbreak in Texas on Sunday.Your Local Epidemiologist: Third measles death
Another child has died of measles. An 8-year-old girl. Unvaccinated. No underlying health conditions.
This is unbelievably tragic—and entirely preventable. It’s also not normal in three important ways.
- The number of deaths
- The boldness of a deceptive information campaign
- An uncoordinated federal response
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Intercept: DOGE’s Pentagon Budget Cuts Don’t Touch Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth boasts he’s nixing contracts and grants amid DOGE’s cost-cutting campaign. But those trims won’t hit SpaceX.
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Wired: ‘Wi-Fi Keeps Going Down’: Donald Trump’s Return-to-Office Mandate Is Going Terribly
Dozens of federal employees tell WIRED the return-to-office order has resulted in widespread chaos, plummeting productivity, and significantly reduced services to the public.
Since President Donald Trump mandated that remote and partially remote federal workers all must return to their offices, thousands of employees across the country have been figuring out how to navigate new commutes, seating arrangements, and a lack of supplies as basic as toilet paper and legal pads while still getting their work done.One effect of all this, many federal employees tell WIRED, is that they are traveling long distances to spend all of their time in virtual meetings.
“I don’t directly work with anyone in the office that I am going into,” one employee at the Department of Housing and Urban Development tells WIRED. “So I show up and sit on [Microsoft] Teams calls.”
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Josh Barro: Business Leaders Are Afraid to Tell Trump He’s Wrong, But Won’t Be Afraid to Cut Jobs and Raise Prices
Trump has squelched public dissent, but that won’t save him from business retrenchments that raise costs, kill jobs, and make him and his party unpopular.
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Trump’s efforts to squelch dissent have been very intentional, and on a lot of fronts, I’m sure he’s happy about the results — like with the law firms and the universities he has brought to heel. But he’s likely to regret shutting up the corporate leaders — the honest feedback that he’s discouraged them from providing is feedback that might have saved him from a political disaster.
The thing about the increasing meekness of the corporate executive class is that it reflects their singular focus on making profits for their companies — why risk offending the president if he’ll retaliate in a way that hurts the bottom line? But that same singular focus on profits also means that corporations will need to react to the tariffs in ways that will gravely hurt Trump’s political fortunes. We may not hear an outspoken CEO on television criticizing Trump for killing jobs, driving up prices, and making it difficult to do business in America. But that CEO will still react to the economic cost of the tariffs in the normal way: by cutting jobs, raising prices, and seeking business opportunities outside of America.
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Beaverton: Canada waiting for US economy to implode enough to make America 11th province
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RNS: President Trump imposes tariffs on indulgences from the Holy See
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“Why should we import indulgences from the Vatican when we have domestic producers like Paula White who offer products that are much better,” said a White House spokesperson.
