Demand Trump restore aid to Ukraine ASAP!

Global stocks sink further as Trump declares trade war

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Top Republican goes into full panic at his OWN town hall
Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas could not find the exit fast enough when constituents voiced their very legitimate concerns about veterans suddenly losing their jobs thanks to Donald and Elon's myopic, hatchet-wielding crusade to cripple the federal government. Rather than attempting to provide even the most basic of answers or express boilerplate concerns about the tens of thousands of needless layoffs taking place across the country, Marshall stammered incoherently, stood up, and simply walked away as the stunned crowd began to jeer. Real "storming-the-beaches-of-Normandy" courage on display there, eh?

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Trump's stupid tariffs on Canada and Mexico take effect
Welp, here we go. The MAGA cult leader's incredibly stupid trade war is officially on. Trump's long-threatened tariffs against Canada and Mexico went into effect Tuesday, putting global markets on edge and setting up costly and entirely predictable retaliations by the United States’ North American allies. Starting just past midnight, imports from Canada and Mexico are now to be taxed at 25%, with Canadian energy products subject to 10% import duties. The 10% tariff that Trump placed on Chinese imports in February was also doubled to 20%. Donald's latest move prompted words of warning from CEOs, economists, stock market analysts, and even your Great Aunt Linda about the imminent rise in prices and recoiling of the US economy. It is SO good to be great again.

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BTC leads collective of progressive creators with plan to take back the internet from Joe Rogan and the right-wing machine
Chorus: This election has made it painfully clear that Democrats' messages are just not getting through the tsunami of right-wing propaganda and lies flooding through social media, and we have no real answer to a Joe Rogan or a Ben Shapiro...until now! Chorus Collective is a new collaborative founded by creators like Brian Tyler Cohen, Leigh McGowan (Politics Girl), Roland Martin, David Pakman, Elizabeth Booker Houston, and Adam Mockler, who are bringing their audience of 40 million people together to create a new infrastructure to scale their voices and build support for more creators like them. Chorus aims to not only amplify progressive voices but also uplift new creators and build a left-wing social media ecosystem that supports its voices ALL the time, not just in the months leading up to an election. Will you chip in to help Chorus get off the ground and help break the right-wing stranglehold on social media?

Former Social Security administrator warns DOGE cuts mean system could "collapse" in "next 30 to 90 days"
That sounds...really, really bad. Especially if you're one of the 72.5 MILLION retirement-age Americans who relies on monthly checks from the federal government's until-now staggeringly successful social insurance program. Let's definitely let Elon and his tech tykes at DOGE f*ck around and find out just how badly they can mess this up.

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Vance says US working on Ukraine plan "with the Russians" after Trump halts defense aid to Kyiv
The wholesale capitulation to Vladimir Putin by the Trump administration is in full effect, as Vice President Vance announced the US is working on a plan "with the Russians" to end Russia's brutal and entirely illegal invasion of Ukraine. This news comes on the heels of the MAGA cult leader's decision yesterday to halt any further defense aid to Kyiv. Lot of folks walking around with wry smiles in the Kremlin today.

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Senate confirms WWE co-founder Linda McMahon to lead Education Department as Trump pushes to shut it down
McMahon, a billionaire wrestling executive with zero education experience — save for a single year on a Connecticut school board in 2009 — was just confirmed along party lines by the Republican-controlled Senate to lead the Department of Education, which Trump has vilified and vowed to dismantle under her watch. The MAGA cult leader has gone on the record stating he wants McMahon "to put herself out of a job."

After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say
Ah, perfect! Just what oligarchs and vampires alike definitely paid for when they backed Donald and Elon over democracy, fair play, and the rule of law.

Trump agencies drop dozens of Biden-era cases against crypto, other companies
A new watchdog report warns that the Trump administration is "going soft" on corporations that break the law by moving to pause or drop investigations of companies accused of foreign bribery, safety violations, unfair labor practices and environmental crimes. In a little more than a month, the new administration has halted or tried to dismiss cases or investigations against at least 89 companies, according to a report by the nonprofit group Public Citizen obtained exclusively by NPR. That's a quarter of the prominent investigations and enforcement the group was tracking at the end of the Biden administration. "Trump is handing 'get out of jail free' cards to corporate lawbreakers," said Rick Claypool, research director at Public Citizen. "The consequences for the public when corporations face a diminished threat of enforcement are disastrous."

Ted Cruz draws red line on Ukraine war peace deal, demands "clear loss" for Russia
Yes, even Ted f*cking Cruz could not seem to accept Donald Trump's downright Orwellian rewriting of the most basic of facts in the Russia-Ukraine war and said the incredibly obvious part out loud: "Putin is not our friend," adding that the war needs to come to an end in a way that's a "clear and unequivocal loss for Russia."

Major egg companies may be using avian flu to hike US prices, new report finds
What?! Large, for-profit corporations are engaging in price-gouging schemes and using a health crisis as disingenuous cover? Where have we heard that dozens of times before? And wasn't Trump supposed to have waved his magic egg-price wand and fixed this mess by now?

Trump threatens to cut "all federal funding" to universities that allow "illegal protests"
The wannabe dictator declared on Truth Social this morning that funding for universities that allow "illegal protests" will be pulled under his administration. What constitutes an illegal protest, you ask? Whatever Donald decrees, apparently. "All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter," Donald thumb-smashed. Nope, nothing fascistic about squashing free speech on college campuses! American as a bowl of borscht and a shot of vodka!