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Trump accused of "market manipulation" after abrupt U-turn on tariffs
Days after dismissing literally all the warning signs of the needless harm his stupid tariff crusade would inflict, Donald Trump urged the world to "be cool" on Wednesday, even as the catastrophic impact of his import taxes took effect, crashing global markets and sending shockwaves through the US economy. Minutes after trading began on Wall Street, the authoritarian nincompoop declared: "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!" But hours later, the MAGA cult leader performed an extraordinary U-turn, pausing and reducing tariffs on most nations for 90 days while increasing levies on imports from China to 125 percent. Markets predictably surged, and White House officials — who spent days insisting Trump would "never" back down — claimed "this was his strategy all along" and simply "the art of the deal" at work. We'll cut straight to the chase: certain, well-connected people made BILLIONS of dollars yesterday as Donald jerked the markets to his worm-addled whims, and we need full-throated investigations immediately to find out exactly who.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Top Republican abandons Trump as support craters
Republican Sen. Rand Paul excoriated Donald Trump's absurdly stupid tariff war in a Fox Business interview yesterday, rhetorically asking, "How did we all get here? It's so fundamentally backwards and upside down. It's based on a fallacy, and the fallacy is this: that somehow, in a trade, someone must lose." Uh, firstly, how did we all get here? Pretty sure it was the entire Republican Party — Rand Paul included — going whole-hog on returning the MAGA head hog to the White House, but we digress. To Paul's second point, he's right. We know, we're agreeing with Rand Paul. We promise we won't make a habit of it. Donald's tariff crusade is so cartoonishly incoherent and needlessly destructive he's making strange bedfellows out of Hatfields and McCoys. We are truly living in the upside down.

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FBI agent resigns, exposes Trump corruption
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Veteran FBI agent John Sullivan worked to protect our country for 17 years under multiple presidents from both parties and even worked on the January 6th cases. But he has just resigned in protest of Donald Trump's outrageous attempts to wield our law enforcement to serve his own ambitions and the way he's putting our country in serious danger, and sat down with Brian Tyler Cohen to expose his corruption and abuse. Click here to follow John Sullivan on Twitter!

Fox News hosts unashamedly celebrate Trump backing down on tariffs: "This was the plan all along"
The MAGA cult leader's shameless sycophants at Fox have rolled out the most preposterous explanation for Donald's embarrassing about-face on his market-crashing tariff crusade, betraying an even greater level of disdain for their viewing audience than previously thought possible. Folks, if they think they can sell this steaming pile of bullsh*t, there really is no limit on how far they will go to prop up Dear Leader.

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Republicans in disarray as Mike Johnson postpones vote on Senate budget
Roughly a dozen far-right holdouts in GOP Speaker Johnson's clown caucus denied the House leader — and Donald Trump — a legislative victory yesterday, rejecting a key procedural vote to advance the MAGA cult leader's "big, beautiful bill" to enshrine awful tax cuts for the wealthy at the expense of literally everyone else. These far-right goons didn't suddenly see the light, mind you. They are demanding draconian cuts to the federal budget in the neighborhood of $4 trillion to make room for the massive redistribution of even more wealth to the already obscenely wealthy 1%. During a fancy dinner event with House Republicans on Tuesday, Trump told reluctant House Republicans to get over themselves, embrace the Senate budget, and forget everything they've ever said about fiscal responsibility. “You just gotta get there. Close your eyes and get there. It’s a phenomenal bill." Trump said. Uh, is this the same sales pitch he made to Melania?

US intensifies crackdown on peaceful protest under Trump
In a deeply troubling sign of even more authoritarian things to come, lawmakers have introduced 41 new anti-protest bills across 22 states since the start of the year. The Trump regime has also rolled out five federal bills targeting college students, anti-war protesters, and climate activists with harsh prison sentences and hefty fines — a crackdown that experts rightly warn will erode First Amendment rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and petition. When we call it fascism, this is what we mean.

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Trump accuses ex-DHS official of treason, orders DOJ investigation over "resistance" op-ed
Oh, hey! Look, more fascism! The wannabe dictator ordered the Department of Justice on Wednesday to investigate two former officials from his first administration, including Miles Taylor, who Trump accused of being "guilty of treason" for writing a highly critical 2018 opinion piece in The New York Times under an anonymous pseudonym. The MAGA cult leader stripped security clearances from Taylor and called on the DOJ to probe his work in the federal government with a memo stating: "His conduct could properly be characterized as treasonous and as possibly violating the Espionage Act." Taylor, who served as chief of staff to former DHS Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen, responded, "“America is headed down a dark path. Never has a man so inelegantly proved another man’s point." Uh, pump the brakes there, Miles. Donald inelegantly proves other people's points all the damn time, but we get what you're saying.

Marine veteran answers call to resist Trump
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Elon Musk’s DOGE "auditors" finally getting audited by federal Government Accountability Office
Now for a bit of not-so-awful news. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) — a non-partisan, independent agency (for now) that works for Congress — has been investigating Phony Stark's "DOGE" team since last month, according to sources and records reviewed by Wired. The audit is specifically targeting DOGE’s access to and use of sensitive government data. Congressional leaders requested the GAO audit to investigate after media reports of DOGE infiltrating federal systems, a congressional aide told Wired. "The reports of untrained people rummaging around databases changing code, scraping data — who knows what they're doing? — were pretty alarming," the aide said in the understatement of the year.

Elon Musk boosting influencer who platforms far-right Putin allies
Well now, would you look at that? An online influencer whom Elon Musk frequently boosts on nüTwitter has been conducting in-person interviews with prominent Russian figures, including key allies of Vladimir Putin. The world's most famous ketamine popper has consistently reposted and engaged with Mario Nawfal, a Dubai-based Australian influencer who Musk has given a platform to far-right figures and movements around the world. Musk shares Nawfal’s posts almost daily, including Nawfal’s promotion and praise of Tesla, DOGE, and — of course — Musk himself. In the two-week span between March 23 and April 3 alone, Elon reposted or quote-tweeted Nawfal 28 times, including numerous posts based on misinformation.

Trump signs executive order to "make America’s showers great again"
Donald took time out his incredibly busy day upending the global economy and trampling over fundamental rights yesterday to take dead aim at one of America's most pressing crises: showerhead water pressure. The MAGA cult leader signed an executive order on Wednesday lifting restrictions on water pressure so he could — we are not making this up — "take care" of his "beautiful hair." The order, which redefines the term “showerhead,” ends an Obama/Biden-era environmental regulation on water pressure. Let's be honest: there isn't a firehose on the planet with enough water pressure to wash the blood from Trump's hands or the rotten stench from his soul.