{"id":387,"date":"2025-03-06T22:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T04:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/?p=387"},"modified":"2025-03-06T22:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T04:24:15","slug":"20250306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/2025\/03\/06\/20250306\/","title":{"rendered":"20250306"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5645,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/robertreich.substack.com\\\/p\\\/the-biggest-ponzi-scheme-of-all&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250306145941\\\/https:\\\/\\\/robertreich.substack.com\\\/p\\\/the-biggest-ponzi-scheme-of-all&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:03:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-13 02:21:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-02 21:45:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-17 03:25:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-01 17:12:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 07:53:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 07:53:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5646,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/hartmannreport.com\\\/p\\\/social-securitys-death-warrant-was-45f&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250920100956\\\/https:\\\/\\\/hartmannreport.com\\\/p\\\/social-securitys-death-warrant-was-45f&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:03:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:03:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5647,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/newrepublic.com\\\/article\\\/192404\\\/trump-musk-destroy-social-security-started&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250906034524\\\/https:\\\/\\\/newrepublic.com\\\/article\\\/192404\\\/trump-musk-destroy-social-security-started&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5648,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/newrepublic.com\\\/post\\\/192412\\\/social-security-chief-warn-doge-mistakes&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250827213825\\\/https:\\\/\\\/newrepublic.com\\\/post\\\/192412\\\/social-security-chief-warn-doge-mistakes&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5649,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/politics\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/06\\\/doge-is-driving-social-security-cuts-will-make-mistakes-acting-head-says-privately&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250610155551\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/politics\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/06\\\/doge-is-driving-social-security-cuts-will-make-mistakes-acting-head-says-privately\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5650,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/newrepublic.com\\\/post\\\/192409\\\/layoffs-trump-musk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250626033953\\\/https:\\\/\\\/newrepublic.com\\\/post\\\/192409\\\/layoffs-trump-musk&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5651,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com\\\/markets\\\/us\\\/us-announced-job-cuts-surge-245-february-federal-government-layoffs-2025-03-06&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250310225535\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com\\\/markets\\\/us\\\/us-announced-job-cuts-surge-245-february-federal-government-layoffs-2025-03-06\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5652,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.everythingishorrible.net\\\/p\\\/why-do-ds-and-rs-react-differently&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250922172620\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.everythingishorrible.net\\\/p\\\/why-do-ds-and-rs-react-differently&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5653,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/smotus.substack.com\\\/p\\\/two-different-approaches-to-politics&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250509052947\\\/https:\\\/\\\/smotus.substack.com\\\/p\\\/two-different-approaches-to-politics&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5654,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.forkingpaths.co\\\/p\\\/is-american-democracy-doomed&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250718005040\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.forkingpaths.co\\\/p\\\/is-american-democracy-doomed&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4924,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.systemicpeace.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251008230434\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.systemicpeace.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 01:36:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-03 19:55:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-03 19:55:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5655,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\\\/p\\\/march-5-2025&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251102052428\\\/https:\\\/\\\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\\\/p\\\/march-5-2025&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 09:56:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 09:56:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5656,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thedailybeast.com\\\/top-new-zealand-diplomat-phil-goff-fired-for-asking-if-trump-really-understands-history&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250808113002\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.thedailybeast.com\\\/top-new-zealand-diplomat-phil-goff-fired-for-asking-if-trump-really-understands-history\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5657,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.publicnotice.co\\\/p\\\/ed-martin-us-attorney-dc-cory-mills-trump&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251102052456\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.publicnotice.co\\\/p\\\/ed-martin-us-attorney-dc-cory-mills-trump&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 09:56:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 09:56:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5658,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/popular.info\\\/p\\\/trump-allies-deploy-book-banning&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250716043210\\\/https:\\\/\\\/popular.info\\\/p\\\/trump-allies-deploy-book-banning&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5659,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ed.gov\\\/about\\\/news\\\/press-release\\\/us-department-of-education-ends-bidens-book-ban-hoax&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251010203716\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.ed.gov\\\/about\\\/news\\\/press-release\\\/us-department-of-education-ends-bidens-book-ban-hoax&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5660,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=A1J2uhDFQdw&amp;t=22s&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250426051206\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=A1J2uhDFQdw&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5661,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thedailybeast.com\\\/the-awkward-truth-about-trump-musk-and-kids-with-cancer&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250807232538\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.thedailybeast.com\\\/the-awkward-truth-about-trump-musk-and-kids-with-cancer\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5662,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thedailybeast.com\\\/senior-trump-aide-peter-navarro-claims-canada-has-been-taken-over-by-mexican-cartels&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250719145039\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.thedailybeast.com\\\/senior-trump-aide-peter-navarro-claims-canada-has-been-taken-over-by-mexican-cartels\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5663,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/newrepublic.com\\\/article\\\/192391\\\/trump-press-sec-accidentally-reveals-ugly-scam-behind-tariffs&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250922142445\\\/https:\\\/\\\/newrepublic.com\\\/article\\\/192391\\\/trump-press-sec-accidentally-reveals-ugly-scam-behind-tariffs&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:04:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5664,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/atrupar\\\/status\\\/1897359652339302473&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250329231410\\\/https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/atrupar\\\/status\\\/1897359652339302473&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5665,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/contrarian.substack.com\\\/p\\\/trumps-economic-trainwreck&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250407235430\\\/https:\\\/\\\/contrarian.substack.com\\\/p\\\/trumps-economic-trainwreck&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5666,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.natesilver.net\\\/p\\\/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251025235734\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.natesilver.net\\\/p\\\/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5667,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thedailypoliticususa.com\\\/p\\\/kremlin-praises-trump-as-europe-unites&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250617162341\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.thedailypoliticususa.com\\\/p\\\/kremlin-praises-trump-as-europe-unites&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5668,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.yahoo.com\\\/news\\\/trump-pivots-russia-allies-weigh-120042878.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250306172226\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.yahoo.com\\\/news\\\/trump-pivots-russia-allies-weigh-120042878.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5669,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thefp.com\\\/p\\\/douglas-murray-how-maga-lost-its&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251003220458\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.thefp.com\\\/p\\\/douglas-murray-how-maga-lost-its&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5670,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/thedispatch.com\\\/article\\\/tulsi-gabbard-ukraine-democracy-fact-check&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250710051646\\\/https:\\\/\\\/thedispatch.com\\\/article\\\/tulsi-gabbard-ukraine-democracy-fact-check\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5671,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thehandbasket.co\\\/p\\\/fema-lawyer-on-leave-josh-stanton&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251010174447\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.thehandbasket.co\\\/p\\\/fema-lawyer-on-leave-josh-stanton&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5672,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.vox.com\\\/health\\\/402687\\\/measles-outbreak-vaccine-kids-children-history&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251006232623\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.vox.com\\\/health\\\/402687\\\/measles-outbreak-vaccine-kids-children-history&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5673,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/abovethelaw.com\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/white-house-has-absolutely-unhinged-response-to-judicial-threats&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/abovethelaw.com\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/white-house-has-absolutely-unhinged-response-to-judicial-threats\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5674,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.aljazeera.com\\\/news\\\/2025\\\/3\\\/6\\\/how-will-us-pause-on-intelligence-sharing-affect-ukraine&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250815050814\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.aljazeera.com\\\/news\\\/2025\\\/3\\\/6\\\/how-will-us-pause-on-intelligence-sharing-affect-ukraine&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5675,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.politico.com\\\/news\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/06\\\/trump-wilcox-nlrb-reinstated-00216685&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251003032209\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.politico.com\\\/news\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/06\\\/trump-wilcox-nlrb-reinstated-00216685&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5676,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.democracydocket.com\\\/news-alerts\\\/trump-funding-freeze-violated-congress-powers-judge-rules&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250717070029\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.democracydocket.com\\\/news-alerts\\\/trump-funding-freeze-violated-congress-powers-judge-rules\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5677,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.underthesun.today\\\/p\\\/why-history-matters&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5678,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.releasethekids.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250831232515\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.releasethekids.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5679,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/webview\\\/science\\\/live-news\\\/spacex-starship-flight-8-launch-03-06-25&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250409005603\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/webview\\\/science\\\/live-news\\\/spacex-starship-flight-8-launch-03-06-25&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5680,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/apnews.com\\\/article\\\/colorado-election-denier-trump-justice-department-b865cd7c73138aaabece8043fdda575b&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250928021910\\\/https:\\\/\\\/apnews.com\\\/article\\\/colorado-election-denier-trump-justice-department-b865cd7c73138aaabece8043fdda575b&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5681,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.msnbc.com\\\/deadline-white-house\\\/deadline-legal-blog\\\/elon-musk-impeach-judges-amir-ali-supreme-court-rcna194943&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250727125156\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.msnbc.com\\\/deadline-white-house\\\/deadline-legal-blog\\\/elon-musk-impeach-judges-amir-ali-supreme-court-rcna194943&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5682,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ourmidland.com\\\/news\\\/article\\\/judge-orders-trump-administration-to-pay-nearly-20207293.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5683,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/markoconnorblog.blogspot.com\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/violinist-christian-tetzlaff-boycotts-us.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250617204425\\\/https:\\\/\\\/markoconnorblog.blogspot.com\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/violinist-christian-tetzlaff-boycotts-us.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5684,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thebulwark.com\\\/p\\\/how-years-of-american-policy-bumbling-boosted-putin-alexander-vindman-review&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250930114102\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.thebulwark.com\\\/p\\\/how-years-of-american-policy-bumbling-boosted-putin-alexander-vindman-review&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5685,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/luciantruscott.substack.com\\\/p\\\/the-coup-has-already-happened&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250307060257\\\/https:\\\/\\\/luciantruscott.substack.com\\\/p\\\/the-coup-has-already-happened&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5686,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/abovethelaw.com\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/abas-diversity-requirement-suspension-not-enough-for-pam-bondi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/abovethelaw.com\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/abas-diversity-requirement-suspension-not-enough-for-pam-bondi\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5687,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/story\\\/2025\\\/3\\\/6\\\/2308416\\\/-Judges-have-2-options-Rule-in-Trump-s-favor-or-face-death-threats&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250402071141\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/story\\\/2025\\\/3\\\/6\\\/2308416\\\/-judges-have-2-options-rule-in-trump-s-favor-or-face-death-threats&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5688,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/egberto.substack.com\\\/p\\\/aoc-showed-how-dumb-musk-really-is&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250407073918\\\/https:\\\/\\\/egberto.substack.com\\\/p\\\/aoc-showed-how-dumb-musk-really-is&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:05:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5689,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.bostonglobe.com\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/06\\\/business\\\/michelle-wu-congress-washington-immigration&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250430140312\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.bostonglobe.com\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/06\\\/business\\\/michelle-wu-congress-washington-immigration\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:06:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 04:06:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5690,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/thinkbigpicture.substack.com\\\/p\\\/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251102042420\\\/https:\\\/\\\/thinkbigpicture.substack.com\\\/p\\\/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 09:56:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 09:56:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SeasonFinaleUnitedStates.jpg\" alt=\"Season Finale United States\" title=\"Season Finale United States\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1085\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SeasonFinaleUnitedStates.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SeasonFinaleUnitedStates-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SeasonFinaleUnitedStates-1019x1024.jpg 1019w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SeasonFinaleUnitedStates-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SeasonFinaleUnitedStates-768x772.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/the-biggest-ponzi-scheme-of-all\" target=\"_blank\">The biggest Ponzi scheme in history<\/a>\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>I remain optimistic about the longer term, but I still awaken each morning with a sense of dread. I\u2019m sure some of you do, too.<\/p>\n<p>Start with Elon Musk\u2019s bonkers comment that Social Security is \u201cthe biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a Ponzi scheme, a con artist lures investors into a fake investment project, pockets the cash, and then gets new \u201cinvestors\u201d to funnel their cash to the earlier investors \u2014 until there are no new recruits and the whole thing collapses. The last ones in are suckers left holding worthless bags.<\/p>\n<p>Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme. It\u2019s a high-functioning, universal, and exceptionally efficient part of the American social safety net \u2014 the opposite of a Ponzi scheme. Which is why the overwhelming majority of Americans oppose cutting it.<\/p>\n<p>Social Security is a simple \u201cpay as you go\u201d program. Current workers, via the payroll tax, fund payouts for retirees and disabled people. In 2024, about 1 in 5 U.S. residents received Social Security.<\/p>\n<p>I used to be a trustee of the Social Security trust fund. I know what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>As the Social Security Administration explains, \u201cIn 2025, when you work, about 85 cents of every Social Security tax dollar you pay goes to a trust fund. This fund pays monthly benefits to current retirees and their families and to surviving spouses and children of workers who have died. About 15 cents goes to a trust fund that pays benefits to people with disabilities and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only reason that the Social Security trust fund is slowly running out of money is the trustees never anticipated that so much of the nation\u2019s total income would be in the hands of so few people (such as Elon Musk).<\/p>\n<p>The simple way to fix this is to lift the cap on income subject to Social Security payroll taxes, which is now $176,100.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg fulfilled their 2025 Social Security payroll tax obligations a few minutes past midnight on January 1. Most Americans continue paying payroll taxes all year.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hartmannreport.com\/p\/social-securitys-death-warrant-was-45f\" target=\"_blank\">Social Security\u2019s Death Warrant Was Just Signed \u2014 Are You Ready?<\/a><br \/>\nAmerica\u2019s safety net is their next profit scheme \u2014 and you\u2019re the target\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/192404\/trump-musk-destroy-social-security-started\" target=\"_blank\">Trump and Musk\u2019s Plan to Destroy Social Security Started Tuesday Night<\/a><br \/>\nIt starts with cutting staff at the Social Security Administration. That will sow confusion. Then it builds from there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/192412\/social-security-chief-warn-doge-mistakes\" target=\"_blank\">Social Security Chief Privately Admits DOGE Will Wreck Things<\/a><br \/>\nThe acting head of the Social Security Administration warned his staff that Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE could make some costly mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s influence at the Social Security Administration is growing to be too much even for the agency\u2019s Trump-loving acting commissioner, who privately warned that Elon Musk and his team will soon make serious mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am relying on longtime career people to inform my work, but I am receiving decisions that are made without my input. I have to effectuate those decisions,\u201d acting Commissioner Leland Dudek said in a staff meeting Tuesday, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/03\/06\/doge-is-driving-social-security-cuts-will-make-mistakes-acting-head-says-privately\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He described Musk\u2019s cronies as \u201coutsiders who are unfamiliar with nuances of SSA programs,\u201d and warned that their aggressive approach could hurt the some 73 million Americans who receive Social Security benefits, according to meeting notes from the Post.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/192409\/layoffs-trump-musk\" target=\"_blank\">Layoffs Hit Unbelievable High Thanks to Trump and Musk<\/a><br \/>\nDonald Trump and Elon Musk\u2019s cuts to the federal government have caused a record-breaking surge in layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. workers are being laid off at levels not seen since the Great Recession in 2009, all thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/us\/us-announced-job-cuts-surge-245-february-federal-government-layoffs-2025-03-06\/\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> from Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, an international firm that helps laid-off workers find new jobs, said that job losses spiked a whopping 245 percent to 172,017 last month, higher than any month since the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic in July 2020, and the highest in any February since 2009.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.everythingishorrible.net\/p\/why-do-ds-and-rs-react-differently\" target=\"_blank\">Why Do Ds And Rs React Differently to Election Losses?<\/a><br \/>\nIt\u2019s because of white supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>At his newsletter, Tusk, political scientist Seth Masket has an interesting piece about the <a href=\"https:\/\/smotus.substack.com\/p\/two-different-approaches-to-politics\" target=\"_blank\">different approaches of the two parties<\/a>. Democrats, he points out, tend to try to moderate in response to political losses. Republicans in contrast double down.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMasket\u2019s certainly right that our politics have gone to a bad place. But I think the problem precedes the different party attitudes. Or to put it another way, I think I can explain why the two parties have different attitudes in two words: white supremacy.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThere are some caveats here. For example, Trump has alienated voters with more education, which has led the GOP to sacrifice a good chunk of its off year election advantage. But the combination of a system that benefits the white supremacy party and an ideological default which legitimizes the white supremacy party has created a powerful gulf in the way that the two parties see elections.<\/p>\n<p>The toxic split in party attitudes is, then, a result, not a cause, of our toxic white supremacist politics. If Democrats want to change course, they need to go against their own instinctual desire to cower and equivocate, and they need to instead focus on institutional changes which can correct the rightward leaning tilt of our politics. That could create a virtuous circle in which the white identity party no longer seems impervious and (worse) natural.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump\u2019s presidency is as bad a failure as it seems likely to be, there may be room for this kind of sweeping reset of our Democracy&#8217;s systems and presuppositions. Alternately, if Trump\u2019s presidency is as bad a failure as it seems likely to be, we may just no longer have a democracy. At that point, Democrats and everyone else will have a different, and worse, set of problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forkingpaths.co\/p\/is-american-democracy-doomed\" target=\"_blank\">Is American democracy doomed?<\/a><br \/>\nHow to understand the concept of &#8220;competitive authoritarianism&#8221; and why it&#8217;s crucial to push back now to avoid it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: Are the reports of democracy\u2019s death greatly exaggerated?<\/strong><br \/>\nA few weeks ago, as Donald Trump and Elon Musk ran roughshod over laws and the Constitution in their quest to take a literal chainsaw to the US government, a major political science democracy index was quietly updated.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.systemicpeace.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cPolity IV\u201d index<\/a>\u2014which measures levels of democracy and authoritarianism in every country\u2014decided to re-classify the United States as a non-democracy. The official notice read as follows: \u201cThe USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>II: Don\u2019t Wait for Instructions. Make Ripples Now.<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>First, it\u2019s far easier to save a democracy than to resurrect one.<\/em> &#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Second, successful pro-democracy movements are big tents that transcend traditional political divides.<\/em> &#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Third, the inverse is true: exploiting latent divisions in the ruling movement can help divide and weaken attacks on democracy.<\/em> &#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Fourth, democracy takes time to destroy, so slowing down the pace and \u201crunning out the clock\u201d can be a viable strategy.<\/em>&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Fifth, shape narratives, don\u2019t just respond to existing ones.<\/em> &#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Sixth, digital activism matters little compared to real-world protests, boycotts, and strikes.<\/em> &#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Seventh, nonviolent movements are more effective than violent ones.<\/em>&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Eighth and perhaps most crucially: Don\u2019t wait for instructions.<\/em> Ripples matter\u2014and you can make some now.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/march-5-2025\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Cox Richardson &#8211; Letters from an American &#8211; March 5, 2025<\/a><br \/>\nIn the gym of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, former and future prime minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill rose to deliver a speech.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cFrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent,\u201d Churchill declared, and his warning that Europe had been divided in two by an iron curtain defined the coming era.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/top-new-zealand-diplomat-phil-goff-fired-for-asking-if-trump-really-understands-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">Top Foreign Diplomat Fired Over Comment About Trump<\/a><br \/>\nHis position became \u201cuntenable\u201d after the remark, the nation\u2019s foreign minister said.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nDuring a Q&#038;A with the audience, New Zealand High Commissioner to the U.K. Phil Goff quoted Churchill\u2019s words to then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after Chamberlain agreed to let Adolf Hitler annex part of Czechoslovakia in the 1938 Munich Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou had the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, yet you will have war,\u201d Churchill said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Goff then asked Valtonen: \u201cPresident Trump has restored the bust of Churchill to the Oval Office, but do you think he really understands history?\u201d<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicnotice.co\/p\/ed-martin-us-attorney-dc-cory-mills-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Martin wages war on the rule of law from within<\/a><br \/>\nHe&#8217;s turning the DC US attorney&#8217;s office into a MAGA protection racket.\t<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/popular.info\/p\/trump-allies-deploy-book-banning\" target=\"_blank\">Trump allies deploy \u201cbook-banning pastor\u201d to school districts across the country<\/a><br \/>\nIn a January 24 press release from the Department of Education, the Trump administration declared that book-banning was a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/news\/press-release\/us-department-of-education-ends-bidens-book-ban-hoax\" target=\"_blank\">hoax<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But last month, President Trump invited John Amanchukwu, the self-proclaimed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A1J2uhDFQdw&#038;t=22s\" target=\"_blank\">book-banning pastor<\/a>,\u201d to the White House for a Black History Month event. Since 2023, Amanchukwu, a youth pastor from North Carolina, has travelled to at least 23 school board meetings in 18 states on a nationwide book-banning tour financed by Trump donors and allies, including Turning Point USA (TPUSA).<\/p>\n<p>On this tour, Amanchukwu demands that school districts remove books that do not align with his conservative Christian ideology<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-awkward-truth-about-trump-musk-and-kids-with-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Awkward Truth About Trump, Musk, and Kids With Cancer<\/a><br \/>\nBefore honoring a 13-year-old survivor in his address to Congress, President Trump joined Elon Musk in cutting funds for pediatric cancer research and treatment.\t<\/p>\n<p>In their heedless quest to chainsaw the federal budget, the world\u2019s most powerful person and the richest man on Earth managed to cut a program that had cost nothing at all\u2014while developing more than 60 drugs for children with cancer and rare, life-threatening diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis program has not cost taxpayers a dime,\u201d notes Nancy Goodman, who conceived and championed the Give Kids A Chance Act, which passed Congress in 2011 and now needs renewal.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/senior-trump-aide-peter-navarro-claims-canada-has-been-taken-over-by-mexican-cartels\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Criminal Trade Adviser Makes Wild New Claim About Canada<\/a><br \/>\nPeter Navarro made the bold comments while discussing the trade war triggered by his boss.\t<\/p>\n<p>Senior White House trade adviser Peter Navarro claimed that Canada has been \u201ctaken over by Mexican cartels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Navarro, Trump\u2019s senior counselor for trade and manufacturing who was jailed for contempt of Congress last year after refusing to testify about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, was speaking about U.S. tariffs on our northern neighbor with Fox News\u2019 Bret Baier on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/192391\/trump-press-sec-accidentally-reveals-ugly-scam-behind-tariffs\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Press Sec Accidentally Blurts Out Real Goal of His Tariff Scam<\/a><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThen press secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/1897359652339302473\" target=\"_blank\">told reporters directly<\/a> that if Canada wants to avoid tariffs in the future, it should become the fifty-first U.S. state.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/contrarian.substack.com\/p\/trumps-economic-trainwreck\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s Economic Trainwreck<\/a><br \/>\nForeign leaders get it, even as Trump remains clueless<\/p>\n<p>After two days of watching the markets tank, President in Name Only Donald Trump\u2019s lackeys began to talk about a \u201ccompromise\u201d on his wrongheaded, disastrous rollout of steep across-the-board tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada, and China. This is a common Trump stunt: Make a boneheaded move, watch the fierce blowback, make a meaningless deal, and declare victory.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the \u201ccompromise\u201d appears to include a one-month reprieve from tariffs for automakers. However, after the one-month pause, those tariffs apparently will go into effect. No such relief was offered for other goods.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever wiggle room Trump provides, the damage is done. Markets, businesses, and consumers are rattled.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.natesilver.net\/p\/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin\" target=\"_blank\">How popular is Donald Trump?<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailypoliticususa.com\/p\/kremlin-praises-trump-as-europe-unites\" target=\"_blank\">Kremlin Praises Trump as Europe Unites to Support Ukraine<\/a><br \/>\nTrump&#8217;s Ukraine shift is praised by the Kremlin as European leaders strategize how to go it alone without the U.S. in defense of Ukraine and the west.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-pivots-russia-allies-weigh-120042878.html\" target=\"_blank\">As Trump pivots to Russia, allies weigh sharing less intel with U.S.<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/douglas-murray-how-maga-lost-its\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Murray: How MAGA Lost Its Way on Ukraine<\/a><br \/>\nUkraine is not just a country that the Trumpian right has never visited. It is a fantasy country that they imagine they know everything about.<\/p>\n<p>How can the right be so wrong? Or at least portions of the right\u2014especially the American right\u2014when it comes to Ukraine? To begin to grapple with this, you have to go way, way back to Donald Trump\u2019s first term in office.<\/p>\n<p>In that time, Ukraine came to the public\u2019s consciousness just twice. The first occasion was when Trump and other Republicans began to make hay over the business dealings of Hunter Biden. Since 2014 the then vice president\u2019s son had been sitting on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma. He was earning around $1 million annually to advise a company in a sector about which he had zero expertise. Why might a foreign company want the son of the vice president on their board? Obviously\u2014as all the investigations have shown since\u2014so that the Biden name could bring contracts, grants, and other support to Burisma.<\/p>\n<p>The only other time Ukraine came to the attention of the American right was in 2019, when President Trump had a phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump\u2019s political opponents claimed that he had used the call to tell Zelensky that American aid to the country could be contingent on Ukraine helping to expose the Biden family\u2019s financial dealings. Trump was impeached over the call but acquitted by the Senate. But these two events started to embed the idea on the right that Ukraine was simply a corrupt country, which had enriched and cooperated with its own political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>This was all that Ukraine meant to most MAGA Republicans until Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion in February 2022.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/article\/tulsi-gabbard-ukraine-democracy-fact-check\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tulsi Gabbard\u2019s Claims Questioning the Legitimacy of Ukrainian Democracy Are Misleading<\/a><br \/>\nIn a video from June 2024, Gabbard aired false claims and elided important context.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehandbasket.co\/p\/fema-lawyer-on-leave-josh-stanton\" target=\"_blank\">FEMA\u2019s top lawyer placed on leave after less than one week in role<\/a><br \/>\n&#8230;According to people at FEMA privy to the details of Stanton\u2019s dismissal\u2014which was first reported by me via Bluesky Wednesday afternoon\u2014Stanton was asked sometime this week to write a memo stating that the mid-February seizure of $80 million from the city of New York meant for migrant shelters had legal justification; this was despite the fact that it almost certainly did not. The money that was taken back was lawfully obligated by FEMA pursuant to congressionally allocated funds. Stanton reportedly refused to write such a memo, The Handbasket has learned, and then he was put on leave. It\u2019s not clear at this point if the refusal to write the memo is the reason he was placed on leave.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/health\/402687\/measles-outbreak-vaccine-kids-children-history\" target=\"_blank\">What was childhood like before vaccines?<\/a><br \/>\nThe anti-vax movement has gone mainstream, but before these shots, grief and loss marked the lives of children.\t<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250306185408\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/06\/us\/politics\/trump-funding-freeze-states.html\" target=\"_blank\">Judge Blocks Trump\u2019s Funding Freeze, Saying White House Put Itself \u2018Above Congress\u2019<\/a><br \/>\nThe judge had already ruled that the administration was not complying with his previous order requiring the government to keep disbursing money to states.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/white-house-has-absolutely-unhinged-response-to-judicial-threats\/\" target=\"_blank\">White House Has Absolutely Unhinged Response To Judicial Threats<\/a><br \/>\nThis is not a normal reaction.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThere are also reports that several judges in the D.C. area had pizzas sent anonymously to their homes. Which is not seen as a act of tasty goodwill, but is interpreted by law enforcement as a intimidation tactic meant to demonstrate that *someone* knows exactly where the judges live.<\/p>\n<p>This is all awful, but the response from White House spokesperson Harrison Fields is simply off the hook wild.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White House condemns any threats to really any public officials, despite our feelings that a lot of these people are leftist, crazy judges that aren\u2019t following the constitution,\u201d Fields said. \u201cJust because these people are leftist, crazy, unconstitutional people doesn\u2019t mean they deserve to be harmed. That\u2019s not how you engage with disputes in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/3\/6\/how-will-us-pause-on-intelligence-sharing-affect-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\">How will US pause on intelligence sharing affect Ukraine?<\/a><br \/>\nThe US cut off intelligence sharing with Ukraine days after suspending military aid. This could blind Ukraine\u2019s military, say experts.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/06\/trump-wilcox-nlrb-reinstated-00216685\" target=\"_blank\">Labor regulator Trump fired must be reinstated, judge rules<\/a><br \/>\nGwynne Wilcox was appointed by Joe Biden to head the National Labor Relations Board. Trump tried to fire her in January.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/news-alerts\/trump-funding-freeze-violated-congress-powers-judge-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Funding Freeze Violated Separation of Powers, Judge Rules<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250306235148\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/06\/us\/politics\/trump-perkins-coie.html\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Ramps Up Attacks on Law Firms With Order Targeting Perkins Coie<\/a><br \/>\nThe order against the firm, which did work for Democrats during the 2016 campaign, represents an escalation of efforts to punish groups the president sees as aiding his enemies.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.underthesun.today\/p\/why-history-matters\" target=\"_blank\">Reaffirming the Reagan to Trump Throughline<\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s why history matters.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.releasethekids.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Since the Russian full-scale invasion, at least 19,546 Ukrainian children, out of an estimated 200,000, have been forcibly transferred or deported by Russia.<\/a><br \/>\nAt least 4,550 of those children are deprived of parental care and have no one able to go get them out of Russia. This is no secret\u2014the International Criminal Court has already issued arrest warrants to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his top deputy for children&#8217;s rights for illegally trafficking kids.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/webview\/science\/live-news\/spacex-starship-flight-8-launch-03-06-25\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX\u2019s Starship spacecraft lost during eighth test flight<\/a><br \/>\nIsland residents report seeing cloud of debris overhead<\/p>\n<p>In eerily similar fashion to Starship\u2019s seventh test launch in January, the ship appears to have exploded less than 10 minutes into flight and created a massive debris cloud near populated islands in the Caribbean and Atlantic.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/colorado-election-denier-trump-justice-department-b865cd7c73138aaabece8043fdda575b\" target=\"_blank\">Justice Department is reviewing prosecution of Colorado clerk who supported Trump\u2019s election lies<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/deadline-white-house\/deadline-legal-blog\/elon-musk-impeach-judges-amir-ali-supreme-court-rcna194943\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court\u2019s funds freeze ruling highlights absurdity of Musk-backed impeachment call<\/a><br \/>\nAmong the judges targeted by Elon Musk is Amir Ali, whose order appealed by Trump officials was effectively endorsed by a Supreme Court majority.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourmidland.com\/news\/article\/judge-orders-trump-administration-to-pay-nearly-20207293.php\" target=\"_blank\">Judge orders Trump administration to pay nearly $2 billion in USAID and State Dept. debts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A federal judge on Thursday gave the Trump administration until Monday to pay nearly $2 billion owed to partners of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department, thawing the administration\u2019s six-week funding freeze on all foreign assistance.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/markoconnorblog.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/violinist-christian-tetzlaff-boycotts-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Violinist Christian Tetzlaff Boycotts U.S.<\/a><br \/>\nA fellow violinist Christian Tetzlaff (great violinist from Germany) feels so badly about the U.S. now, a country that he&#8217;s performed in almost on an annual basis for decades, that he is canceling his spring tour as well as more dates out in the future here. He spoke to the New York Times; excerpts of the article are below.<\/p>\n<p>American musicians have boycotted performing in countries with objectionable politics such as the evil apartheid in South Africa during the &#8217;70s, and more recently in Russia since their illegal, immoral and evil invasion into the Ukraine. But the tables are being turned on the United States\u2014once considered a great leader of all free countries on the planet. This perception is changing dramatically by a lot of people including great musicians and artists from around the world who&#8217;ve loved performing in America, and now they are staring down the Trump administration. The White House official spokesperson had two words to say to the New York Times in response to the great German musician&#8217;s boycott that includes a concert at Carnegie Hall this spring. He said, &#8220;America first.&#8221; <\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/p\/how-years-of-american-policy-bumbling-boosted-putin-alexander-vindman-review\" target=\"_blank\">How Years of American Policy Bumbling Boosted Putin<\/a><br \/>\nAlexander Vindman argues that U.S. missteps and na\u00efvet\u00e9 created the conditions for Russian imperialism\u2019s return.\t<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/luciantruscott.substack.com\/p\/the-coup-has-already-happened\" target=\"_blank\">The coup has already happened<\/a><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nOkay, let&#8217;s take a moment and examine what&#8217;s going on here. First of all, the meetings Musk had yesterday were with Republicans only. The Post used the title \u201cHouse Oversight DOGE Subcommittee\u201d as if this thing had existed forever, and it is just an acceptable fact of life in the new Washington D.C. that the committee has only Republican members, or at least that only Republicans matter on Capitol Hill, and certainly only Republicans rate a meeting with the wizard behind the curtain that is running things these days.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/abas-diversity-requirement-suspension-not-enough-for-pam-bondi\/\" target=\"_blank\">ABA\u2019s Diversity Requirement Suspension Not Enough For Pam Bondi<\/a><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Bondi\u2019s letter, posted on social media site X, also warned that the ABA\u2019s authority as the government-sanctioned accreditor of U.S. law schools\u2014a position it has held since 1952\u2014can be revoked.<\/em><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2025\/3\/6\/2308416\/-Judges-have-2-options-Rule-in-Trump-s-favor-or-face-death-threats\" target=\"_blank\">Judges have 2 options: Rule in Trump\u2019s favor or face death threats<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/egberto.substack.com\/p\/aoc-showed-how-dumb-musk-really-is\" target=\"_blank\">AOC calls out her GOP colleagues and Musk<\/a><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn a scathing takedown, AOC highlighted how Musk single-handedly derailed bipartisan legislation to reform Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), which would have significantly lowered prescription drug prices for millions of Americans. Even more damning, Musk later revealed that he didn\u2019t even understand what a PBM was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Musk Myth: Genius or Just Another Billionaire Oligarch?<\/strong><br \/>\nMusk\u2019s influence over politics has become increasingly apparent in recent years, with his growing alignment with right-wing ideologues and willingness to use his platform to manipulate public discourse. However, his meddling in legislative matters has now escalated beyond merely posting inflammatory tweets\u2014he is actively using his financial and social capital to kill policies that serve the public good.<\/p>\n<p>AOC pointed out that the PBM reform bill had overwhelming bipartisan support, meaning that both Democrats and Republicans recognized the urgent need to lower prescription drug costs. The bill had been moving toward passage until, at 4:15 a.m. on December 17th, Musk took to social media to post a flurry of tweets attacking the legislation. Within hours, Republican lawmakers, seemingly in lockstep with Musk\u2019s agenda, reversed course and effectively killed the bill. Days later, Musk tweeted: \u201cWhat is a pharmacy benefit manager?\u201d\u2014admitting he had no clue what he had just helped sabotage.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/03\/06\/business\/michelle-wu-congress-washington-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\">Don\u2019t mess with Boston. In the lion\u2019s den of Congress, Michelle Wu was formidable and fearless.<\/a><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWu also reminded the committee that she is a daughter of immigrants, and that Boston has long been a city powered by immigrants from its earliest English settlers to the current waves of families from Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cape Verde, Vietnam, and beyond. More than a quarter of the city\u2019s residents were born outside the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the safest major city in America because we are safe for everyone \u2014 that will never change,\u201d she added. \u201cWe are all these things not in spite of our immigrants, but because of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wu deftly avoided the traps set by the Republicans on the committee. When Arizona Representative Paul Gosar tried to push her buttons by saying comprehensive immigration policy wouldn\u2019t help because Boston was already \u201cdefying\u201d existing policy, Wu pushed back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to make us safe, pass gun reform, stop cutting Medicaid, stop cutting cancer research, stop cutting funds for veterans,\u201d she said with just the right amount of exasperation. \u201cThat is what would make our city safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkbigpicture.substack.com\/p\/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada\" target=\"_blank\">What\u2019s Really Behind Trump\u2019s Tariffs?<\/a><br \/>\nThree theories to explain the method to Trump&#8217;s tariff madness<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThese three theories of why Trump is creating economic chaos through threatened tariffs are not mutually exclusive. He could well be seeking to finish the job his hero President McKinley started some 130 years ago. He could see tariffs as yet another way to exercise greater executive branch control over Congress. And he could well be doing this to line his own pockets, knowing how much importers and exporters would pay to receive a valuable exemption from those tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding his likely motivations is key to thwarting his objectives. The Canadians may understand the history of tariffs and efforts to annex their country as a state, but it\u2019s time for Americans to as well and to begin a public discourse about how badly this failed the last time around.<\/p>\n<p>Congress needs to wake up and understand that Trump has yanked more power for himself by stealing the power to tax away from them, and the courts need to figure out where they will draw the line on this unconstitutional delegation of congressional power.<\/p>\n<p>And for whatever tariffs that do kick in, the investigative press needs to start to track who is applying for exemptions and which of those folks are in and out of Mar-a-Lago, making it harder for Trump to set up a successful pay-to-play system.<\/p>\n<p>The public should better understand and call out what 47 is up to every time he shifts his stance on tariffs or claims fake national emergencies over fentanyl and migrants. We can all be on to his game, and in that way stay a step or two ahead of the chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of chaos, there\u2019s a fourth rather dark theory out there that I\u2019ve chosen not to explore today: that Trump and Musk hope to crash the world economy and swoop in while everything is distressed to take over. Musk has indicated that he supports a period of \u201csevere overreaction\u201d where \u201cmarkets will tumble\u201d in order to achieve long-term prosperity. The problem with this theory is that it can neither be proven nor disproven. To my mind, while this may fit the \u201cevil villain\u201d persona of Musk, it doesn\u2019t really align with Trump\u2019s M.O. While Trump appreciates chaos enough to take advantage of people and businesses in distress, he doesn\u2019t want to be swallowed up by it, if the past is any guide.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest Ponzi scheme in history Friends, I remain optimistic about the longer term, but I still awaken each morning with a sense of dread. I\u2019m sure some of you do, too. Start with Elon Musk\u2019s bonkers comment that Social Security is \u201cthe biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.\u201d In a Ponzi scheme, a con [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}