Sunday, May 25, 2025

Economics and Corruption and Healthcare and Education related links 052525

 

Providers of Gender-Affirming Care Need Support, Too.  People have the right to exist without justifications and to express their genuine selves without fear. Health providers carving out such space for others also have the right to exist. – February 21, 2025

https://progressive.org/op-eds/providers-of-gender-affirming-care-need-support-too-deng-20250221/

 

Something Big JUST HAPPENED To The Economy - The DARK Truth about the Worlds Money Today... – February 22, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAc_h3Ku-D0

 

Economic Update: U.S. Policy toward China: A Failing Effort to Contain Historic Change – February 24, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1Li2JxBHE

 

‘Very alarming’: CDC halts flu vaccination campaign – February 24, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3UtN_NpnPY

 

John Oliver Set Up a Guide to Make Your Data Less Valuable to Mark Zuckerberg.  It's one time it's okay to cheapen yourself.February 24, 2025

https://gizmodo.com/john-oliver-set-up-a-guide-to-make-your-data-less-valuable-to-mark-zuckerberg-2000567790

 

U.S. Economic Growth Falls Back Below Average – February 24, 2025

https://www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-economic-growth-falls-back-below-average-02120246

 

Measles cases up to 124 in Texas as exposure hits San Antonio.  Five cases are in vaccinated patients.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/measles-texas-update-20187213.php

 

RFK Jr. Has Horrific Response to Measles Death.  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comments reveal the terrifying new normal. – February 26, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192025/robert-f-kennedy-jr-response-measles-death

 

Trump Finally Has a Plan to Solve Egg Costs, and It’s a Doozy.  Avian flu has sent the cost of eggs surging across the country. – February 26, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192034/donald-trump-plan-solve-egg-costs

 

Wolff Responds: "The Class War, Big Time" Dated February 26, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo_mjemEhLE

 

Long COVID news, measles in Texas, RSV vaccine for moms, food recalls and rural health care access – February 26, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQnKgk1oaT8

 

Dialectic At Work: Marxism, Trade Wars, and the Working Class – February 27, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQALwXLGfi4

 

Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola

 

Why I’m Not Joining the Economic Blackout Day.  There’s an “economic blackout” scheduled for Friday, February 28. This is a resistance-minded effort to give ordinary people a chance to strike a blow against—well, take your… – February 27, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/192126/not-joining-economic-blackout-day

 

Alex Karp’s War for the West.  In "The Technological Republic," the Palantir CEO exhorts Silicon Valley to embrace techno-militarism in the service of furthering American global supremacy. – February 27, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/191786/alex-karps-war-west-palantir

 

Medicaid Isn’t the Only Popular, Lifesaving Program the GOP Will Cut.  Programs projected to prevent thousands of deaths and even more illnesses are on the chopping block, while Republicans propose handing $4.5 million to millionaires and billionaires. – February 27, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/192109/jeffries-democrats-gop-budget-cuts-medicaid-ira

 

Trump Is Really Screwing Over Some of His Core Supporters.  Farming-dependent counties supported Trump at astonishing levels in November’s election. But funding freezes and Department of Agriculture firings could hit them hard. – February 28, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192030/trump-farmers-money-ira-agriculture

 

What happened to the CFPB? (ft. Rohit Chopra) – March 2, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7IJWclASvw

 

"Trump Just Betrayed The ENTIRE Republican Party!" - Richard Wolff's Frightening Message – March 2, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KteujChesDs

 

Economic Update: The Nobel Prize in Economics Exposed – March 3, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zQll9BhYKA

 

Richard Wolff: The COLLAPSE Has BEGUN, Trump Tariffs END US Empire, China Rises – March 4, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whKfGle3s9w

 

Why Trump Thinks We Should Conquer Greenland | Richard Wolff – March 5, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0npjpjVfuw

 

France’s Bold Move Stuns the U.S. – Even the EU Didn’t See It Coming! Electric Vehicles, Oil & Trade – March 5, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5cUqqMq9Io

 

Kennedy’s push for vitamins in response to measles outbreak worries physicians – March 5, 2025

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5178797-texas-measles-outbreak-kennedy-vaccines/

 

LIVE: Restoring Worker Power with the PRO Act – March 5, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlfi1S47dG4

 

Rep. Doggett Debunks Donald Trump's Social Security Lies – March 5, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvvpfkoP23I

 

Wolff Responds: "A Response to Trump" Dated March 5, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgykcb1aLnI

 

Social Security Chief Privately Admits Musk’s DOGE Will Wreck Things.  The acting head of the Social Security Administration told his staff that Elon Musk’s DOGE is bound to make mistakes soon. – March 6, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192412/social-security-chief-warn-doge-mistakes

 

Rick Scott Reveals Republicans Are Absolutely Cutting Medicare.  Republicans are starting to admit that cuts are on the horizon. – March 6, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192447/rick-scott-brandon-gill-republicans-cutting-medicare

 

Capitalism Hits Home: What’s In Store For Women Under Trump? – March 6, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfY8nvF2Q9Q

 

Trump wants to control the US Federal Reserve. But will he? – March 6, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLrY9BFZpys

 

Social Security’s Death Warrant Was Just Signed — Are You Ready?  America’s safety net is their next profit scheme — and you’re the target… – March 6, 2025

https://hartmannreport.com/p/social-securitys-death-warrant-was-45f

 

In response to the Atlanta Fed’s forecast that inflation-adjusted GDP is on track to decline this quarter, Elon Musk recently wrote on X that the U.S. should change the way it measures GDP – March 6, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/192452/gdp-elon-musk-lutnik-economy

 

RFK Jr.’s CDC Launches Study on Vaccines and Autism Conspiracy.  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vax views have officially taken hold at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. – March 7, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192488/rfk-jr-cdc-study-vaccines-autism

 

Transcript: Musk’s Attack on Social Security Exposed in Shocking Leak.  An interview with Tracey Gronniger, a leading advocate for social insurance, who argues that Musk’s ransacking of Social Security is getting worse—and will prompt a major political backlash. – March 7, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/192459/transcript-musks-attack-social-security-exposed

 

Million-dollar wage earners have already stopped paying into Social Security for 2025 – March 7, 2025

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/07/million-dollar-wage-earners-have-stopped-paying-into-social-security-for-2025.html

 

Sen Whitehouse Issues Final Warning to Deputy Treasury Secretary of Economic Risks of Climate Change – March 7, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHR0DGyMKcc

 

Overpaid CEOs Hurt the Rest of Us.  At Wells Fargo, I saw firsthand how excessive CEO pay harms workers and customers. Congress should use tax policy to rein it in. – March 8, 2025

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/overpaid-ceos

 

‘A disruptive effect’: How slashing staff at the Social Security Administration is sparking fears the system could collapse – March 8, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/politics/social-security-administration-staff-cuts/index.html

 

Social Security Benefit Interruption Just Happened – March 8, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/live/STaA0XvBNL0

 

Whistleblower Alleges Meta Was Ready to Censor Content for Chinese Government.  It's a pretty far cry from Zuck's claims of "free expression." – March 9, 2025

https://gizmodo.com/whistleblower-alleges-meta-was-ready-to-censor-content-for-chinese-government-2000573582

 

Why Trump Won the Longshoremen's Union: Because the Left Failed Them | Richard Wolff – March 9, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF8KKk_uBOM

 

Red States DESCEND Into MORE CHAOS as Disease Spreads – March 9, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO76jSqnCB4

 

Economic Update: Federal Employees Fight Back – March 10, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B_hLnxR56Y

 

Why Don’t Plutocrats Care That Trump Is Tanking the Economy?  Beware the false consciousness of the one percent. – March 10, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/192574/plutocrats-trump-tanking-economy-taxes

 

Bobby Kennedy's Sham Plan for Curing Childhood Cancer.  Slashing health agency staff and budgets will not “make America healthy again” – March 10, 2025

https://www.laprogressive.com/healthcare/curing-childhood-cancer 

 

Elon Loses Billions as Tesla Protests Rise Nationwide.  By targeting Tesla, protesters are sending Musk a financial shockwave to erode his wealth along with that of his stockholders by placing intense pressure on the company’s finances and reputation. – March 10, 2025

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/tesla-protests-rise-nationwide

 

Lawrence: Trump is gleefully taking billions from you and everyone in the United States – March 10, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ZQ6ioTT6I

 

Is Trump Crashing the Stock Market on Purpose? – March 10, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0diA8ral_34

 

Trump’s Sticker Shocks Are About to Hit the Produce Aisle.  The president’s policies regarding trade and immigration, as well as bone-deep cuts to government spending, have brought chaos to the nation’s agriculture industry. – March 10, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/192476/farmers-consumers-trump-tariffs-deportation

 

Trump Was Asked About a Recession Twice. His Answer Was Ominous.  Donald Trump refused to answer a question about recession two times. – March 10, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192515/trump-refuses-answer-recession 

 

Trump Can’t Hide the Real Killers of the American Dream—Or the Homeless People Left Behind

Wall Street landlords, foreign buyers, and the GOP’s war on affordable housing... – March 10, 2025

https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-cant-hide-the-real-killers-337

 

How Much Trump’s Billionaire Buddies Have Lost Since Inauguration.  Turns out, Donald Trump hasn’t actually been good for business. – March 11, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192591/donald-trump-billionaires-lost-money-inauguration

 

Elon Musk Finally Admits Social Security Is on the Chopping Block.  The DOGE chief has revealed his true goals in a Fox News interview. – March 11, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192579/elon-musk-social-security-medicare-entitlements

 

Bad News for Trump as Brutal New Stock Market Plunge Wakes Up Dems.  As Trump runs into trouble, former Congressman Tom Malinowski explains why it’s urgent for Democrats to use the government shutdown fight to dig in against his and Elon Musk’s lawbreaking. – March 11, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/192563/bad-news-trump-brutal-new-stock-market-plunge-wakes-dems

 

I Regret to Inform You That Donald Trump Does Not Understand the Economy.  Egging on a recession is the opposite of what presidents usually do. – March 11, 2025

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/11/i-regret-to-inform-you-that-donald-trump-does-not-understand-the-economy/

 

RFK Jr. Slammed for Latest Garbage Response to Measles Death.  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to push dangerous solutions to the outbreak. – March 11, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192611/robert-f-kennedy-jr-latest-response-measles-death

 

Trump Signs Death Warrant For Social Security! – March 11, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy4p3T5bCRo

 

‘Weak weenies wreck economies’: Nicolle Wallace reacts to stocks tanking after Trump’s comments – March 11, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9QEOwULG_0

 

Trump slump! MAGA billionaires lose $200B, banks pin crash on 'extreme' Trumpism – March 11, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYU0n9F7pHk

 

Fowl Play: How Chicken Genetics Barons Created the Egg Crisis.  In part two of "Hatching a Conspiracy," BIG delves into the obscure world of chicken genetics. Two secretive firms control the global supply of layer hens. And yes, private equity is involved. – March 12, 2025

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/fowl-play-how-chicken-genetics-barons

 

What’s Driving High Egg Prices: Bird Flu or Corporate Greed?  Some lawmakers think it might be both. The Department of Justice is now investigating. – March 12, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/192431/egg-prices-bird-flu-profit

 

RFK Jr. Makes Unhinged Claim About Measles Vaccine as Cases Rise.  According to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the vaccine is as bad as the disease itself. – March 12, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192641/robert-f-kennedy-jr-claim-measles-vaccine

 

Stock Market Meltdown? The Morbidly Rich Call It "Happy Hour"!  While working families struggle, Trump and his billionaire cronies are cashing in big time… – March 12, 2025

https://hartmannreport.com/p/stock-market-meltdown-the-morbidly-06a

 

DOGE Is Pressuring Social Security to Make Another Massive Cut.  Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to make it harder for people to access their Social Security benefits. – March 12, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192667/doge-pressures-social-security-cut-phones

 

Global Capitalism: The Old Cold War Fades, A New One Expands – March 12, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAjLHyMI_O8

 

Wolff Responds: "The Trump Slump" Dated March 12, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juaf-9tc8ls

 

Judge finds Trump unlawfully fired head of federal employee labor board – March 12, 2025

https://thehill.com/homenews/5192090-judge-finds-trump-unlawfully-fired-head-of-federal-employee-labor-board/

 

Elon Musk Might Not Be Able to Salvage Tesla’s Value After All.  Elon Musk’s rightward turn has led to a downward spiral for Tesla, and no amount of photo ops with Donald Trump will be able to save it, – March 13, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192701/elon-musk-donald-trump-tesla-value

 

Dr. Oz Refuses to Answer One Very Easy Question on Medicaid.  Dr. Oz is about to take over Medicaid. But he couldn’t answer one crucial question in his Senate confirmation hearing. – March 14, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192775/dr-oz-refuses-answer-question-medicaid-cuts

 

U.S. seeks eggs from Denmark after Trump demands Greenland takeover – March 14, 2025

https://fortune.com/2025/03/14/egg-supply-denmark-exports-usda-trump-adminstration-greenland-annex-threats/

 

Social Security Benefits Suspended Without Notice – March 14, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/live/nsXhziWDPpg

 

Legislation Introduced To Restore National Park Service Staffing March 14, 2025

https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/legislation-introduced-restore-national-park-service-staffing

 

The Rise Of Trumpvilles - Project 2025 Drives Economic Displacement March 14, 2025

https://www.forbes.com/sites/solangecharas/2025/03/14/the-rise-of-trumpvillesproject-2025-drives-economic-displacement/

 

USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks March 14, 2025

https://www.wunc.org/news/2025-03-14/usda-cancels-federal-funding-north-carolina-food-banks

 

‘We're left reeling': Arizona school districts lose $16M in critical funding amid end to DEI policies – March 14, 2025

https://www.yahoo.com/news/were-left-reeling-arizona-school-203100144.html

 

DOGE Senate Hearing LIVE | Chaos Erupts During DOGE Hearing | Elon Musk | US Senate LIVE | N18G – March 14, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuFy7fFnqcE

 

Former Yellowstone, Rushmore, Badlands superintendents say DOGE wiped out a generation of leaders – March 15, 2025

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/03/15/former-yellowstone-rushmore-badlands-superintendents-say-doge-wiped-out-a-generation-of-leaders/

 

HUD has choked funding to enforce fair-housing laws – March 15, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5325936/hud-funding-fair-housing-laws-legal-aid-groups-scott-turner

 

Trump & Musk Secret Plan to Crash Economy to Make Billions! – March 16, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1OLNnRRAC4

 

Universities in precarious position as Trump uses research funding as a wedge – March 16, 2025

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5195511-universities-colleges-research-funding-trump-doge-columbia-harvard-mit-johns-hopkins/

 

Fixing US Shipbuilding Problems Starts With Workers – March 16, 2025

https://www.businessinsider.com/fixing-us-shipbuilding-problems-starts-with-workers-2025-3

 

What It’s Like to Live in a Small Town Polluted by a Cryptomine.  Across the U.S., rural towns are engaged in bitter battles against noise and air pollution from cryptomines. These will only get more common now that President Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and other pro-crypto policies are in the works. – March 16, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/192799/cryptomine-trump-strategic-bitcoin-reserve

 

US meat exports at risk as China lets registrations lapse – March 17, 2025

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-meat-exports-risk-china-lets-registrations-lapse-2025-03-17/

 

Economic Update: Build and Fight: The Resistance Forms – March 17, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaIaSqK0XC0

 

Tariffs won’t make America great again: Export-Import Bank’s former chairman and president – March 17, 2025

https://fortune.com/2025/03/17/tariffs-trade-trump-us-economy/

 

How the Trump Team Justifies Wrecking the Economy.  Prosperity is overrated, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. – March 18, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/192846/trump-economy-scott-bessent

 

The Big, Empty Promises of the Ballooning Credit-Repair Industry.  Lexington Law tries, for a fee, to raise the credit scores of vulnerable debtors. Some of the firm’s clients tell a different story. – March 18, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/192064/big-empty-promises-ballooning-credit-repair-industry

 

Wolff Responds: "Germany Rearms: Guns Instead of Butter " Dated March 12, 2025 – March 19, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOmwcFk4JCo

 

China’s neurotechnology breakthrough challenges Elon Musk’s verdict on paralysed patients – March 19, 2025

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3301416/chinas-neurotechnology-breakthrough-challenges-elon-musks-verdict-paralysed-patients

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Nature vs Nurture: The History of The Family – March 20, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeXZMP2NzD4

 

The Republican War on Education – March 20, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFGMQ6Xn8no

 

‘Terrified’: Students, teachers, parents revolt as Trump signs order to dismantle Dept. of Ed – March 20, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnBw3XxnA9A

 

Trump Destroys Education Department in Terrifying Sign for Future.  Donald Trump has made good on a campaign promise straight out of Project 2025. – March 20, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192425/donald-trump-education-department-project-2025

 

The Trump Administration’s War on Academia is Escalating.  A Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow, who has not been charged with a crime, was detained by masked DHS agents on Wednesday. – March 20, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/192988/trump-administration-war-academia-escalating

 

The Tesla Secret That Exposes Elon Musk’s Whole Game.   In the first nine months of 2024, 43 percent of Tesla’s net income came from selling credits to other automakers that hadn’t met emissions standards. It’s not innovation that’s keeping – March 21, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/192993/tesla-elon-musk-credits-money

 

The Media Is Responding to Trump With a Huge Face-Plant.  Or consider a report of a more recent vintage from The Washington Post: “Trump has a plan to remake the economy. But he’s not explaining it very well.” – March 22, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193002/media-trump-doge-failure-economy

 

29-year-old couldn't afford a house in the U.S., so she bought in Italy – March 22, 2025

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/22/american-couldnt-buy-house-us-bought-italy-house.html

 

The SEC has charged Elon Musk, accusing him of defrauding Twitter shareholders of over $150 million – March 22, 2025

https://jasondeegan.com/the-sec-has-charged-elon-musk-accusing-him-of-defrauding-twitter-shareholders-of-over-150-million/

 

Education secretary says Columbia University's changes put it on track to recover funding – March 23, 2025

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-funding-trump-mcmahon-armstrong-a8a67b11431cb135d6595689eabf52ad

 

We’re in the Final Act of America’s Third Oligarchic Backlash.  And this one ends with either democracy renewed — or democracy erased… – March 24, 2025

https://hartmannreport.com/p/were-in-the-final-act-of-americas-931

 

Economic Update: How Marx's Class Analysis Could Solve Inequality Now – March 24, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_3SWH2fsGg

 

US Economy Crippled by $390 Billion Treasury Sell-Off: Allies Retaliate Against Trump Tariffs? – March 24, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ3HSbEzct4

 

Japan Ditches The Dollar | Trump Stunned As The US Stock Market Plunges By $1.7 Trillion – March 25, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9DQFetbxGg

 

Trump's Plan to Destroy Social Security EXPOSED! – March 25, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f_fBOuKmNU

 

Tesla sales fall by 49% in Europe even as the electric vehicle market grows.  Tesla sales for January and February slumped to 19,046 from 37,311 in the same period in 2024. That comes against the background of a 28.4% increase in sales of all battery-electric cars in Europe. – March 25, 2025

https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/25/tesla-europe-sales/

 

Burning Down Medical Science at the NIH – March 25, 2025

https://conscienhealth.org/2025/03/burning-down-medical-science-at-the-nih/

 

Wolff Responds: "U.S. Gone Rogue??? " Dated March 26, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6BEuDquU8Q

 

Trump’s Critical-Minerals Obsession Is Leading to Some Weird Places.  In pursuit of gold, lithium, and other materials, the White House wants to intervene in the private sector and expand government rather than shrink it. – March 26, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193170/trump-lithium-gold-critical-minerals-plan

 

Nearly $5 million in Washington emergency food assistance is canceled by USDA, including over $400K for Spokane – March 26, 2025

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/mar/26/nearly-5-million-in-washington-emergency-food-assi/

 

'Gonna Be Some Upset Seniors At Town Halls,' Says Mark Cuban. He Calls DOGE Social Security Actions 'A Back Door Move To Cut Payments' – March 26, 2025

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gonna-upset-seniors-town-halls-163557903.html

 

Trump’s Atrocious War on Higher Ed Demands an Aggressive Response.   Indeed, higher education is the country’s eighth-largest “export,” in the sense that these students contributed over $43 billion to the U.S. economy in foreign currency balances. – March 26, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193206/trump-war-higher-education-demands-aggressive-response

 

Gutting the Government Could Reignite the Drug Overdose Epidemic.  Cuts to the SAMHSA workforce are the most critical for people directly impacted by the overdose crisis, but as jobs are rapidly and indiscriminately eliminated across the government – March 26, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193043/doge-cuts-samhsa-overdose-crisis

 

The Inadequacy of the Abundance Agenda.  To varying degrees, all three books portray Robert Moses, who bulldozed thriving neighborhoods throughout New York City to build his expressways and thruways and parkways, as a – March 26, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193227/abundance-agenda-robert-moses-economy

 

Feds suspend shipments headed to Ventura County food bank – March 26, 2025

https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2025/03/26/feds-suspend-shipments-ventura-county-food-share/82641256007/

 

Elon Musk Axed Social Security! Checks Missing & Claims Denied! w/ Alex Lawson – March 26, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYssTv748TU

 

These Social Security Checks Won't Go Out In September – March 26, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/live/UOxn3IVhlUE

 

What Did Einstein Say About Capitalism? – Marh 26, 2025

https://www.thecollector.com/what-did-einstein-say-about-capitalism/

 

Pa. House passes bills to enshrine Affordable Care Act protections – March 26, 2025

https://www.wesa.fm/health-science-tech/2025-03-26/pennsylvania-house-bills-enshrine-affordable-care-act-protections

 

'StoryRx' initiative prescribes storytelling for older adults: 'Boosts survival odds by 50%' – March 26, 2025

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/life-story-club-storytelling-prescriptions

 

RFK Jr. Plans Chilling Mass Firing at Health Department.  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ready to slash thousands of jobs at HHS. – March 27, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193240/rfk-jr-fire-health-department

 

Dialectic at Work: Marx’s Capital: Reading and Teaching the Three Volumes – March 27, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1zWEjz9w18

 

Trump vows to retaliate if EU and Canada team up to front US tariffs – March 27, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MITFngQmIaE

 

Kari Lake Forced to Backtrack on Trump Order to Avoid Legal Fight.  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty just got a massive win. – March 27, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193234/kari-lake-radio-free-europe-liberty

 

Pennsylvania college to eliminate all NCAA sports teams at end of school year, letter says – March 27, 2025

https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/pennsylvania-bryn-athyn-college-sports-cut/

 

First State Bans Fluoride in Water as RFK Jr. Guts Health Department.  “Make America Healthy Again” is off to quite a start. – March 28, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193314/first-state-bans-fluoride-water

 

Republicans Just Made It Easier for Banks to Screw People Over.  The Senate has voted to roll back a key consumer protection. – March 28, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193279/republicans-banks-overdraft-fees-consumer-protection

 

USAID cuts devastated my small Minneapolis-based business – March 28, 2025

https://www.startribune.com/usaid-cuts-devastated-my-small-minneapolis-based-business/601262167

 

DOGE Plans to Rewrite Entire Social Security Codebase in Just 'a Few Months': Report – March 29, 2025

https://gizmodo.com/doge-plans-to-rewrite-entire-social-security-codebase-in-just-a-few-months-report-2000582062

 

Bloomberg Billionaires Index

https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/jeffrey-p-bezos/

 

This Could Spell The End for Trump's Second Term – March 30, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVbF1IpJDOQ

 

Economic Update: Mounting Economic Problems – March 31, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNKM_bUNPwI                        

 

The Plight of the Working Homeless.  Journalist Brian Goldstone's new book provides a look into the lives of families in Atlanta displaced by the nation's housing crisis. – March 31, 2025

https://progressive.org/magazine/the-plight-of-the-working-homeless-lueders-20250331/

 

Editor's Note: About the Children.  A note from Features Editor Alexandra Tempus on why this social and political moment calls on us to center youth, who bear the brunt of a society on the verge of collapse. – March 31, 2025

https://progressive.org/magazine/about-the-children-tempus-20250331/

 

Of Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do.  As the president’s "Liberation Day" nears, it’s time to liberate ourselves from the vicious cycle of Democrats having to clean up the GOP’s messes. – March 31, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193360/trump-tank-economy-liberation-tariffs

 

Trump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs Are as Extreme as It Gets.  Donald Trump is considering tariffs so high there would be a shock to the entire global economy. – April 1, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193440/trump-liberation-day-tariffs-draft-plan

 

Trump Has a New “Buyout” Offer for Select Federal Workers.  Trump is back to begging federal employees to quit their jobs. – April 1, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193417/trump-federal-workers-buyout-hud

 

Trump Finally Takes Revenge on CDC With Total Bloodbath.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just a ton of its employees—in the most chaotic way possible. – April 1, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193453/trump-revenge-cdc-layoffs

 

Can We Fix Our Rigged Tax System? – April 1, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkiO0_uSJAk

 

Things Are Bad At Tesla And They're About To Get Much Worse – April 1, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SKaBwmHq9Y

 

Social Security 'war room' announced by Dems as Booker slams DOGE cuts in marathon speech – April 1, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtEJVcBqO-k

 

Trump’s Tariffs Have Already Ripped a Gaping Hole in the ...  As I write Thursday morning, the S&P 500 is down more than 4 percent. President Donald Trump’s Liberation Day liberated the stock market from nearly $3 trillion and me from – April 1, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193576/trump-tariffs-cratering-stock-market

 

The Myth of a Safe Classroom.  As educators, we can no longer promise our students will remain unharmed. But we can fight alongside them. – April 1, 2025

https://progressive.org/magazine/the-myth-of-a-safe-classroom-barrett-20250401/

 

The Republican Party Is No Longer the Party of Tax Cuts.  Donald Trump is poised to raise taxes on imported goods without coming close to offsetting them with other cuts. – April 1, 2025

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/01/the-republican-party-is-no-longer-the-party-of-tax-cuts/

 

Tesla Suffers Biggest Sales Decline in History Thanks to Elon Musk.  Outrage at Elon Musk has sent Tesla’s first quarter sales plummeting. – April 2, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193487/tesla-sales-decline-history-first-quarter-elon-musk

 

Wolff Responds: "Trumpism: What It All Means!" dated April 2, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybn1PbzUtlc

 

Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Going to Work How He Thinks They Will.  Domestic and foreign manufacturers will be incentivized to set up plants in the United States to avoid the tariffs, revitalizing the country’s manufacturing base and making its exports – April 2, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193445/tariffs-liberation-day-domestic-manufacturing-cars

 

Goodbye to gas prices in California, Arizona and Nevada: the major change that will cause prices to skyrocket starting in October - AS USA – April 2, 2025

https://en.as.com/latest_news/goodbye-to-gas-prices-in-california-arizona-and-nevada-the-major-change-that-will-cause-prices-to-skyrocket-starting-in-october-n/

 

Student loan borrowers face more hurdles to debt forgiveness – April 2, 2025

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/student-loan-borrowers-face-more-hurdles-to-debt-forgiveness.html

 

Vietnam to host China, EU leaders in coming weeks amid US tariff risks, sources say – April 2, 2025

https://www.reuters.com/world/vietnam-host-china-eu-leaders-coming-weeks-amid-us-tariff-risks-sources-say-2025-04-02/

 

Federal funding cuts have left Vermont food banks struggling – April 2, 2025

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/vermont/2025/04/02/usda-funding-cuts-leave-vermont-food-banks-struggling-emergency-food-assistance-program/82744584007/

 

Vermont Distillery loses business in Canada due to tariffs — what small businesses can do to prepare – April 2, 2025

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vermont-distillery-loses-business-canada-093100854.html

 

The Quiet Way the NIH Is Stalling Some Research Before It Starts – April 2, 2025

https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-quiet-way-the-nih-is-stalling-some-research-before-it-starts

 

"Nutty" and "Dangerous:" Whitehouse Shreds Trump's Disastrous Tariffs on Canada – April 2, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9nU9PYhCv0

 

Only One Thing Explains Trump’s Tariff Madness.  Don’t fall for the "coherence fallacy." The president believes (mistakenly) that he’s figured out how to get rid of the progressive income tax. – April 2, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193457/trump-tariff-madness-income-tax

 

Study strengthens link between shingles vaccine and lower dementia risk – April 2, 2025

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/shingles-vaccination-dementia.html

 

Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Immigrants Discover the Ties That Bind – April 2, 2025

https://progressive.org/magazine/midwestern-dairy-farmers-and-mexican-immigrants-discover-the-ties-that-bind-conniff-20250402/

 

Live updates: Trump’s new tariffs send markets diving as countries weigh response – April 3, 2025

https://thehill.com/homenews/5229859-trump-signs-tariffs/

 

Murkowski votes to oppose Canada tariffs, Sullivan votes in support – April 3, 2025

https://alaskabeacon.com/2025/04/03/murkowski-votes-to-oppose-canada-tariffs-sullivan-votes-in-support/

 

Republicans Are in Denial About Trump’s Catastrophic Tariffs.  House Republicans insist that the tariffs that are currently destroying the economy are part of a “negotiation” the White House insists isn’t happening. – April 3, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193586/republicans-denial-trump-catastrophic-tariffs

 

Trump: The Economy Crashing Is Good, Actually.  Asked about the economic collapse that has resulted from his massive tariffs, Trump said “I think it’s going very well." – April 3, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193592/trump-economy-crashing-good-actually

 

Donald Trump Is Emptying My IRA.  This doesn't end well. – April 3, 2025

https://timothynoah.substack.com/p/donald-trump-is-emptying-my-ira

 

Canadian Prime Minister Darkly Warns U.S. Economic Dominance Is Over.  Mark Carney had a grim prediction for Donald Trump’s tariffs. – April 3, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193581/canada-prime-minister-donald-trump-tariffs-economic-dominance

 

Capitalism Hits Home: How Capitalism Breeds Sociopathic Mental Illness – April 3, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhI5tEGc7to

 

Trump Tariffs Set to Inflict "Enormous Economic Damage:" Sen. Whitehouse Joins CNN News Central – April 3, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSbYxRgJGc

 

‘I feel like a sucker’: Jim Cramer says he was wrong to have believed Trump on tariffs – April 3, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLNdq907dfI

 

"American Empire Is in Decline": Economist Richard Wolff on Trump's Trade War & Tariffs – April 3, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgdmpJiFjHA

 

Is Trump’s Tariff Tantrum Crashing the Economy? – April 3, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPUKvv5_m08

 

Why Trump's Tariffs Will Bring Unemployment and Chaos – April 3, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpM--jRTkqg

 

Tariff Tantrum: Trump Plays Yosemite Sam With the Global Economy.  A nuanced look at real trade policy vs. political cosplay with global stakes… – April 3, 2025

https://hartmannreport.com/p/tariff-tantrum-trump-plays-yosemite-736

 

Inside Trump's Plot to Destroy Social Security w/ Alex Lawson – April 3, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n34vnfjzMKc

 

My Rights, Removed.  High school teacher Kat Power and eighteen-year-old Kayde Martin traveled to the Iowa State Capitol in February to fight for trans rights. – April 3, 2025

https://progressive.org/magazine/my-rights-removed-power-martin-20250403/

 

Here’s What Trump’s Tariffs Could Do to the U.S. Auto Industry.  The United Auto Workers—while critical of Trump’s action on other fronts—has enthusiastically endorsed his auto import tariffs on those grounds. “With these tariffs, thousands – April 3, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193590/trump-tariffs-auto-industry-layoffs

 

See Trump’s economy go up in flames: Ari Melber says Trump's grade is 'whatever comes below F’ – April 3, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkWZWSFlkc

 

Unscrambling the Price of Eggs.  Yes, bird flu is a factor, but so is greedflation. – April 4, 2025

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/04/unscrambling-the-price-of-eggs/

 

Trump’s Tariff War Tanks Stock Market Even Further.  China has hit back at Donald Trump’s tariffs. – April 4, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193649/donald-trump-china-tariff-war-stock-market

 

Transcript: Trump’s Tariff Madness Can Be Stopped. Here’s How.  An interview with congressional scholar Norman Ornstein, who walks us through how Trump's tariffs can be reversed by Congress—and why Democrats must hound Republicans relentlessly to do so. – April 4, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193607/transcript-trump-tariff-madness-can-stopped-here-how

 

Top Trump Official So Freaked Out by Tariffs, He Wants to Quit.  And so the revolving door of Donald Trump’s Cabinet members begins. – April 4, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193634/donald-trump-treasury-scott-bessent-tariffs-quit

 

Trump Already Hit With Lawsuit Over Tariffs—From Unexpected Group.  It appears that literally no one is happy with Donald Trump’s tariffs. – April 4, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193612/donald-trump-lawsuit-tariffs-far-right-group

 

Trump Is Openly Bragging About Crashing the Stock Market.  The president enthusiastically posted a video claiming that all of the chaos of the last few days was intentional. Unfortunately, its sourcing was less than perfect. – April 4, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193639/trump-openly-bragging-crashing-stock-market

 

Senate Democrats EXPOSE the GOP Plan to Hurt Families, Run up $37 TRILLION in Debt – April 4, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhnSg0Xi6aM&t=19s

 

Donald Trump Just Raised Your Taxes | Robert Reich on CNN – April 4, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD4qmA0C4QU

 

Trump Is Destroying America At Record-Setting Speed – April 4, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXrJpeP1U8s&t=15s

 

RFK Jr. Reveals DOGE Fired Some People by Mistake.  According to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Elon Musk’s job cuts aren’t so efficient after all. – April 4, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193645/robert-f-kennedy-jr-doge-cuts-hhs-mistake

 

China imposes 34% reciprocal tariffs on imports of US goods in retaliation for Trump’s trade war – April 4, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/business/china-us-tariffs-retaliation-hnk-intl/index.html

 

Saturday Report 4/5/25 - Gilded Age Alert! Trump Wrecked the Economy with His Trade Wars — Then Went Golfing While America Burned! – April 5, 2025

https://hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-report-4525-gilded-age-alert

 

Trump has 'botched' his whole tariff plan with a single slip of the tongue│News podcasts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi3AuUEZabw

 

Trump’s Tariffs Have Seriously Pissed Off Elon Musk.  Elon Musk wants nothing to do with Trump’s new economic policies. – April 7, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193666/elon-musk-trump-tariffs

 

Trump Hits New Levels of Insanity With Fresh China Tariffs.  Donald Trump wants to impose tariffs of more than 100 percent on Chinese goods. – April 7, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193686/donald-trump-new-china-tariffs

 

Transcript: Trump Voters Suddenly Shocked at How Badly He Screwed Them.  As farmers start realizing they will be devastated by Trump's tariffs, the author of a book about MAGA country digs into the true nature of his rural support—and how Democrats should try to reverse it. – April 7, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193661/transcript-trump-voters-suddenly-shocked-badly-screwed

 

“Disaster”: Trump Voters Suddenly Realize How Badly He Screwed Them.  As Trump’s core voters prepare to get slammed by his trade wars, the author of a book about MAGA country explains what all this says about the dark nature of his rural support—and how Democrats can capitalize. – April 7, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193656/disaster-trump-voters-suddenly-realize-badly-screwed

 

Social Security Is Totally Collapsing Thanks to Elon Musk’s DOGE.  People are warning that the crucial agency is in a “death spiral.” – April 7, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193692/elon-musk-doge-cuts-social-security-collapsing

 

Trump Adviser Releases Insane List of Demands for Tariffed Countries.  Top White House economist Stephen Miran apparently wants free handouts from other nations. – April 7, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193700/donald-trump-economic-adviser-demands-tariffs

 

Economic Update: Unlearning Market Idolatry – April 7, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbdSybqXe5E

 

Trump Hits The Golf Course While America Hits Rock Bottom – April 7, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX8Yne0lfRg

 

Trump's Economic Pearl Harbor on America – April 7, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOtUWeSivDU

 

Grassley says Congress ‘delegated too much authority to the president’ on trade – April 8, 2025

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5238065-chuck-grassley-donald-trump-tariffs-trade-war/

 

At Hearing, Warren Grills Greer on Potential Job Losses From Trump Tariffs – April 8, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iUVdYDtt0c

 

Billionaires Driving America Off a Cliff! Is Economic Crash Coming? – April 8, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE26HZbTdSM

 

Trump's Policies Are Bringing America Into A Recession – April 8, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsS2uesqef0

 

Elon Musk Is in Panic Mode: Rival US Firm Launches 250 Satellites in One Go and Obliterates SpaceX’s Record – April 8, 2025

https://www.sustainability-times.com/in-depth/elon-musk-is-in-panic-mode-rival-us-firm-launches-250-satellites-in-one-go-and-obliterates-spacexs-record/

 

Welcome to Autocratic Backfire.  Imposing their will on the nation and the world is what matters to strongmen, but destructive policies made in an echo chamber have consequences – April 9, 2025

https://lucid.substack.com/p/welcome-to-autocratic-backfire

 

Trump’s Factory Fantasy: The Middle Class Won’t Rise Without Unions. Full stop.  Manufacturing jobs alone didn’t build postwar prosperity — organized labor did. And Trump is killing it... – April 9, 2025

https://hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-factory-fantasy-the-middle-71f

 

Trump Reveals Real Reason He’s Doubling Down on Disastrous Tariffs.  Donald Trump exposed his own desperate need for praise in a rambling speech. – April 9, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193781/donald-trump-real-reason-doubling-down-tariffs

 

Trump Backs Off Most of His Dumb Tariffs—but What’s Left Is Still Bad.  Donald Trump isn’t pausing all of his tariffs. And it’s going to hurt. – April 9, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193801/trump-tariffs-reversal

 

Wolff Responds: "RECESSION???" Dated April 9, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yGHsHQVc4o

 

The Economics of a Dying Empire (w/ Richard Wolff) | The Chris Hedges Report – April 9, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1aFnl-x_3M

 

'They don't give a damn about you': Bernie Sanders issues warning to Americans – April 9, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwqRP1SnY_g

 

Trump's Sweatshop: Is Trump's Economic Chaos Based One Surprising Lie About Jobs? – April 9, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POEyYQBhoBc

 

What Republicans Don’t Want You to Know About Private High Speed Rail.  In 2024, Brightline broke ground on Brightline West, which, if completed according to plan, would reach speeds of 200 miles per hour, making it America’s first high-speed rail. – April 9, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193766/brightline-duffy-trump-california-high-speed-rail

 

Trump Humiliated With Montage of Headlines About Caving on Tariffs.  Donald Trump abruptly paused his tariffs after insisting they were here to stay. – April 10, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193847/donald-trump-humiliated-montage-headlines-caving-tariffs

 

Trump Finally Confirms True Scope of China Tariffs—Setting Up Disaster.  The White House is clarifying the extent of tariffs on one of our biggest trading partners at last. – April 10, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193861/trump-china-tariffs

 

Trump Dealt Huge Blow in Central Park Five Defamation Lawsuit.  Donald Trump had sought to block the lawsuit from proceeding.April 10, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193863/donald-trump-central-park-five-defamation-lawsuit

 

Dialectic at Work: The Working Day and the Production of Surplus Value – April 10, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inul9SdZrpg

 

Why Trump and others are worried about the bond market – April 10, 2025

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5243337-trump-tariffs-bond-market/

 

Trump’s New Theory on Autism Will Make Your Head Explode.  Donald Trump joined Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in pushing a widely debunked conspiracy. – April 10, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193872/donald-trump-theory-autism-vaccines

 

Trump Is Dumb. Is Wall Street Even Dumber?  There’s no other explanation for the market fluctuations caused by Trump’s tariffs, which should have come as no surprise to anyone in the financial industry. – April 10, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193878/trump-tariffs-stock-market-wall-street-dumb

 

The Sick Psychology Behind Trump’s Tariff Chaos.  This isn’t trade strategy. It’s Munchausen syndrome by proxy. – April 10, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193834/trump-tariff-chaos-economy-crash

 

USDA cuts hit small farms as Trump showers billions on big farms – April 10, 2025

https://www.therepublic.com/2025/04/10/usda-cuts-hit-small-farms-as-trump-showers-billions-on-big-farms/

 

The Sick Psychology Behind Trump’s Tariff Chaos.  After Trump announced the tariff suspension on Truth Social, the S&P 500 recorded its third-biggest gain since World War II. Trump must have felt like Moses parting the Red Sea. – April 10, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/193834/trump-tariff-chaos-economy-crash

 

Trump Gives us All Whiplash With Threat of New Tariffs—Now on Mexico.  Very stable genius Donald Trump continues to go back and forth on tariffs. – April 11, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193899/donald-trump-whiplash-threat-tariffs-mexico

 

Trump’s Trade War Gets Dramatically Worse as China Hits Back.  China is retaliating against the U.S. with massive tariffs of its own. – April 11, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193894/trump-trade-war-china-retaliates-tariffs

 

Manufacturing Workers Are Pissed at Trump Over Tariffs, New Poll Says.  Donald Trump is quickly losing support of a key voter group. – April 11, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/193917/manufacturing-workers-trump-tariffs-poll

 

Donald Trump Is Raising Your Taxes, and Republicans Won’t Stop Him .  The President’s partial tariff retreat still leaves his biggest import taxes in place, and the Congressional Republican tax cut plans won’t offset them. – April 11, 2025

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/11/donald-trump-is-raising-your-taxes-and-republicans-wont-stop-him/

 

Social Security Admin Reportedly Moving All Communication to X, the Everything App.  Good luck getting your grandparents on X. – April 11, 2025

https://gizmodo.com/social-security-admin-reportedly-moving-all-communication-to-x-the-everything-app-2000588351

 

An AI-Powered Alternate Universe Where MAGA Figures Own Libs Is Thriving on YouTube.  The slop is monetized, too. – April 11, 2025

https://gizmodo.com/an-ai-powered-alternate-universe-where-maga-figures-own-libs-is-thriving-on-youtube-2000588221

 

German experiment gave people a basic monthly income – the effect on their work ethic was surprising – April 11, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/health/germany-universal-basic-income-study-intl-scli-wellness/index.html

 

Social Security ‘will be using X to communicate’ moving forward – April 11, 2025

https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/your-money/social-security-will-be-using-x-to-communicate-moving-forward/amp/

 

A Profile of the 2023 Federal Workforce

https://ourpublicservice.org/fed-figures/a-profile-of-the-2023-federal-workforce/

 

The evolution of government employment

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2024/12/the-evolution-of-government-employment/

 

Richard Wolff: Trump's Trade War BACKFIRES on US Empire, China SMASHES Tariffs as Economy Collapses – April 12, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVU1OIoLue4

 

Richard Wolff: Trump, Hitler, and the End of the American Empire – April 13, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeWiKOEkfj8

 

Trump SHOCKED as CHINA DROPS SUNDAY BOMBSHELL: "China did WHAT?!" – April 13, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l48CKTszXwc

 

Is the Second Republican Great Depression Knocking at America's Door?  History warns us: every major economic crash has led to a world war. Trump’s corruption, debt, and tariffs may be lighting the fuse… – April 14, 2025

https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-the-second-republican-great-depression-b0c

 

'Their Religion Is Greed, Greed, And More Greed': Bernie Sanders Rails Against US 'Oligarchs' – April 14, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5I9FP0ydL4

 

Losing the Game of Chicken – April 14, 2025

https://www.marytrump.org/p/losing-the-game-of-chicken

 

Economic Update: Tariffs, the Working Class, and Resistance – April 14, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4E_RRYayiI

 

Yellen sees ‘very worrisome’ pattern in Treasurys sell-off – April 14, 2025

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yellen-sees-very-worrisome-pattern-160811765.html

 

Richard Wolff on The Red Scare Then & Now – April 15, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNlLG5oCqWs

 

Elon Musk’s DOGE “Savings” Aren’t New. Here’s Where They Come From.  DOGE’s receipts are even faker than you could have guessed. – April 16, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/194061/elon-musk-doge-savings-biden

 

Fed Chair Issues Grim Warning About Consequences of Trump’s Tariffs.  Jerome Powell didn’t hold back when discussing Donald Trump’s tariffs. – April 16, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/194072/federal-reserve-jerome-powell-warning-consequences-donald-trump-tariffs

 

Wolff Responds: "Which Way Harvard??" Dated April 16, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9iza8MODXc

 

Trump administration cuts off funding for Kutztown University’s NASA program – April 16, 2025

https://www.mcall.com/2025/04/16/trump-administration-kutztown-university-nasa-program-cuts/

 

'Jaw-dropping conflict of interest': Trump accused of new scheme to benefit from trade war – April 16, 2025

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-media-and-technology-group/

 

Trump Has Eyewateringly Corrupt Scheme to Get Rich Off Tariffs.  Donald Trump has found a way to cash in on his tariffs. – April 17, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/194107/donald-trump-corrupt-scheme-rich-tariffs-truth-social

 

Trump Pins Tariff ‘Mess’ on Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Calls for His Firing – April 17, 2025

https://dailyboulder.com/trump-pins-tariff-mess-on-fed-chair-jerome-powell-calls-for-his-firing/

 

How Tariffs Will Affect Grocery Prices, According to an Agro-Economics Professor.  Amid a pause before a possible trade war, an expert weighs in on what consumers may see and pay in the near future. – April 17, 2025

https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/how-tariffs-will-affect-grocery-prices-according-to-an-agro-economics-professor/

 

Capitalism Hits Home: The Love Lost by the Left – April 17, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Csst7AOm4

 

Elon Musk Suffers Embarrassing Blow as His IRS Chief Forced Out.  Gary Shapley lasted just three days. – April 18, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/194163/elon-musk-handpicked-irs-chief-forced-out

 

Trump Kicks Citizen Off Social Security in Anti-Immigrant Purge.  Donald Trump has sought to punish immigrants by booting them off Social Security. – April 18, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/194155/donald-trump-kicks-citizen-off-social-security-immigration-purge

 

Trump’s New Medicaid Chief Has Boneheaded Idea to Lower Drug Costs.  Dr. Oz made the comments right after being sworn in. – April 18, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/194158/donald-trump-medicaid-chief-dr-oz-idea-lower-drug-costs

 

Transcript: Trump’s Rage at Harvard Darkens With “Alarming” New Attack.  As Trump’s unhinged bullying of Harvard University escalates, a sharp observer of MAGA explains the authoritarian right’s larger intentions—and how civil society can resist them. – April 18, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/194132/transcript-trump-rage-harvard-darkens-alarming-new-attack

 

Big Ten schools creating a ‘mutual defense compact’ against Trump actions – April 18, 2025

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5255943-big-10-universities-trump-rutgers-nebraska-michigan-state/

 

Autism community sounds alarms over ‘harmful’ RFK Jr. comments – April 19, 2025

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5256614-autism-community-pushes-back-robert-f-kennedy-jr/

 

The five people shaping Trump’s economic agenda – April 19, 2025

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5256332-trump-economic-advisers/

 

Trump Suffers Two Major Legal Blows Back-to-Back.  Donald Trump’s favorite pet projects just had a terrible day in court. – April 19, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/194160/trump-two-legal-blows-back-back-deportation-cfpb

 

#1 Best Food to Unclog Arteries – April 19, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELokmLIus-Q

 

Busted: Report paints vivid picture of Trump corruption – April 19, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1eABg1ORl4

 

Trump Sends the Economy Tanking Over Fight With Fed Chair.  Donald Trump has made it clear he wants to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. – April 21, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/194214/donald-trump-economy-tanking-fight-federal-reserve-jerome-powell

 

Economic Update: Solidarity Cities as Alternatives to Capitalism – April 21, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XSawkwdH9M

 

Can Trump's Ignorance Crash the World's Economy? w/ Ali Velshi – April 22, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbVHHu7lW7U

 

House Speaker's Dark Plan CRUMBLES As Republicans Turn on Medicaid Cuts – April 22, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4x_l7TBq34

 

Trump’s Tariffs Tax Hike Not So Coincidentally Spares the Rich.  Here’s where Trump’s tariffs will hit the hardest. – April 23, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/194326/trump-tariffs-tax-hike-rich-poor

 

Wolff Responds: "Imposing Tariffs, Firing Fed Workers" Dated April 23, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEPJvQ8Puew

 

China cancels 12,000 metric tons of US pork shipments – April 24, 2025

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5266321-china-cancels-us-pork-ships/

 

USDA withdraws a Biden-era effort to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry – April 25, 2025

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/usda-withdraws-rule-salmonella-levels-raw-poultry/

 

Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts – April 26, 2025

https://www.yahoo.com/news/website-maga-friendly-businesses-backfires-100029564.html

 

Trump’s New MAGA Slogan: Kids Will Get Two Dolls and Not 30.  Donald Trump gave an outrageous lecture to Americans to just buy fewer toys for their kids as his tariffs take effect. – April 30, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/194638/trump-buy-less-toys-kids

 

Trump Fumbles When Asked Why He Blamed Biden for Bad Economy.  And yet Donald Trump took credit for the economy while Joe Biden was still in office. – April 30, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/194631/donald-trump-fumbles-asked-joe-biden-economy

 

Wolff Responds: "Winners & 'Likely' Losers: China vs USA Trade War" Dated April 30, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzrVf-Yule0

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Why Some Americans Still Support Trump – May 1, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-UaeS1L0HU

 

Medical Bills, Student Loans, Broken Lives: Reparations for a Rigged Economy?  Forty-four years of plunder, and now Trump wants to garnish your wages to finish the job… – May 1, 2025

https://hartmannreport.com/p/medical-bills-student-loans-broken-c47

 

Trump’s Recession Has Begun.  A recession occurs when there are two consecutive quarters of negative growth. The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that gross domestic product shrank 0.3 percent in the – May 1, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/194655/trump-recession-begun-shipping-tariffs

 

Under Trump, National Science Foundation Cuts Off All Funding to Scientists – May 2, 2025

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/under-trump-national-science-foundation-cuts-off-all-funding-to-scientists/

 

Michael Lewis’s Paean to Federal Workers Hits Differently ... Edited by long-form megastar journalist Michael Lewis, the book draws together seven portraits of heroic individual federal bureaucrats—along with one essay about a particularly – May 3, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/194690/michael-lewis-government-essays-federal-workers-musk-doge

 

TSA Says Passengers Without Real ID Should Get to the Airport 3 Hours Early – May 3, 2025

https://gizmodo.com/tsa-says-passengers-without-real-id-should-get-to-the-airport-3-hours-early-2000597639

 

How Tesla Could Skirt Trump’s Tariffs While Everyone Else Pays Up.  Trump’s tariffs are set to “blow a hole in U.S. industry,” according to Ford’s CEO, but some automakers like Tesla might not feel the pain. – May 3, 2025

https://gizmodo.com/how-tesla-could-skirt-trumps-tariffs-while-everyone-else-pays-up-2000597589

 

Chapter 3: What it takes to build a middle class.  Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of the American Dream" – May 4, 2025

https://hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-3-what-it-takes-to-build

 

CEO Makes Shocking Admission About Why He’s Buying Trump’s Meme Coin.  It looks like $TRUMP is working exactly as the president intended. – May 5, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/194873/trump-memecoin-business-influence-tariffs

 

Economic Update: Twin Crises of Housing and Homelessness – May 5, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRDfarIE3wA

 

Trump Scam Forces American Workers Back to Sweatshops – May 5, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ9Ke5KEj1Y

 

The Great MAGA Job Scam: How Trump is Plotting the New American Sweatshops.  They say they’re “bringing back jobs,” but what they really want is a desperate, powerless workforce with no healthcare, no unions, and no future — just the way Wall Street likes it… – May 5, 2025

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-great-maga-job-scam-how-trump-e24

 

The Shingles Vaccine Could Be a Secret Weapon Against Heart Attacks – May 5, 2025

https://gizmodo.com/the-shingles-vaccine-could-be-a-secret-weapon-against-heart-attacks-2000598150

 

Trump Accidentally Admits He Hasn’t Made Any Trade Deals.  Donald Trump has continually insisted that deals over his tariffs are coming. – May 6, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/194920/donald-trump-admits-no-trade-deals

 

Tariffs Aren’t the Only Thing Jacking up Food Prices – May 6, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGICoVtZDzQ

 

Did Trump CUT YOUR WAGES? – May 6, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY2ObMzyjbM

 

Secretary Rollins Requires States to Provide Records on SNAP Benefits, Ensure Lawful Use of Federal Funds – May 6, 2025

https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/05/06/secretary-rollins-requires-states-provide-records-snap-benefits-ensure-lawful-use-federal-funds

 

Wolff Responds: "Its the Capitalist system Stupid!" Dated May 7, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i9_j_mDPnA

 

Global Capitalism: On This May DayMay 7, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5RoMEsYEyw

 

USDA is recruiting for key jobs after paying 15,000 to leave – May 7, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5389922/usda-deferred-resignation-federal-workers-brooke-rollins

 

Trump Exposes Own Idiocy With Comment About Looming Shortages.  Donald Trump had a mind-blowing defense for the pending supply shortages. – May 8, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/195015/donald-trump-comment-looming-supply-shortages

 

Trump pivots, says GOP should ‘probably not’ raise taxes on rich – May 9, 2025

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5291877-trump-tax-increase-rich/

 

Cognitive Decline? Try to Decipher Trump’s Rant on Taxing the Rich.  Donald Trump rambled on about raising taxes (or not?) on the wealthy. – May 9, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/195073/donald-trump-rant-taxing-rich

 

US automakers rip Trump trade deal with UK – May 9, 2025

https://thehill.com/business/5292037-auto-industry-critics-trump-uk-deal/

 

BREAKING: New York attorney general takes LEGAL ACTION against Trump – May 9, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsRjo8LIoos

 

Today's Top News with Mary Trump.  On today's Mary Trump Live: Donald blinks on China tariffs, Newark Airport outage, the ordered release of Rumeysa Ozturk, and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka arrested. – May 9, 2025

https://www.marytrump.org/p/todays-top-news-with-mary-trump

 

Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true. – May 10, 2025

https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/10/iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-in-2019-nearly-6-years-later-all-the-predictions-made-have-come-true/

 

In Late-Night Move, GOP Quietly Slashes Medicaid for Millions to Fund Tax Breaks for the Rich – May 12, 2025

https://dailyboulder.com/in-late-night-move-gop-quietly-slashes-medicaid-for-millions-to-fund-tax-breaks-for-the-rich/

 

Economic Update: Reform vs. Revolution – May 12, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77BBlVjkLbI

 

Republican tax bill would add $3.7 trillion to the national deficit: JCT – May 13, 2025

https://thehill.com/business/budget/5297588-republicans-tax-bill-jct/

 

House Republicans Want to Punish Single Parents.  House Republicans have introduced a new rule that would make it harder for single parents to feed their kids. – May 13, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/195206/house-republicans-snap-food-single-parents

 

Public-Sector Workers Are Heroes, and Democrats Should Say So.  The public sector contributes to the economy by preventing bad things from happening. The most obvious example here is the Federal Aviation Administration. – May 12, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/195106/public-sector-workers-heroes-democrats

 

The single stupidest statement about Trump ever made.  RFK Jr. doesn’t just kiss Trump’s derriere. He lies through his teeth. – May 13, 2025

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-single-stupidest-statement-about

 

More unusual trading before Trump's China tariff pause, IT HAPPENED AGAIN.  A breakdown of second round of unusual trading before Trump market news – May 13, 2025

https://unusualwhales.substack.com/p/more-unusual-trading-before-trumps

 

Wolff Responds: "The Lesson of Mexico !" Dated May 14, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o_7nn1cVe0

 

Red State Hell: The GOP Plan to Keep You Desperate, Sick, and Too Damn Tired to Fight Back.  Why Republicans love to create poverty, pain, and desperation — it keeps wages low and the billionaires happy… – May 15, 2025

https://hartmannreport.com/p/red-state-hell-the-gop-plan-to-keep-ad7

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Can The Left Deal With America's Mental Health Crisis? – May 15, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6N2M0JG8HM

 

It’s Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System.  Thanks to a new breed of chatbots, American stupidity is escalating at an advanced pace. – May 16, 2025

https://gizmodo.com/its-breathtaking-how-fast-ai-is-screwing-up-the-education-system-2000603100

 

Economic Update: The Corporatization of Universities and Trump's Attacks – May 19, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c678RnTKNgg

 

Secretary Rollins Visits Nebraska, Signs Historic SNAP Waiver, Rolls Out Policy Plan to Put Farmers First – May 19, 2025

https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/05/19/secretary-rollins-visits-nebraska-signs-historic-snap-waiver-rolls-out-policy-plan-put-farmers-first

 

Transcript: Trump’s Angry Tirade at Walmart Wrecks His Own Tariff Scam.  As Trump erupts at Walmart for telling the truth about his tariffs, an economist explains how this undermines his sham rationale for them—and why it’s further weakening his political position. – May 20, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/195466/transcript-trump-angry-tirade-walmart-wrecks-tariff-scam

 

Fake Fiscal Conservatism.  Why the four Freedom Caucus members who want more Medicaid cuts can't reasonably be called deficit hawks. – May 20, 2025

https://timothynoah.substack.com/p/fake-fiscal-conservatism

 

Gemini and Other AI are Searching Our Security Videos: Here's What You Should Know.  Gemini AI and others now have the ability to scour the video footage we keep in our apps: Here's why, what it's learning and how it may be able to help you. – May 20, 2025

https://www.cnet.com/home/security/gemini-and-other-ai-are-searching-our-security-videos-heres-what-you-should-know/

 

Trump Is Slowly but Surely Killing U.S. Economy, Experts Warn.  Deutsche Bank analysts are ringing warning bells for the U.S. – May 21, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/195520/donald-trump-tariffs-killing-us-economy-experts-warn

 

Top Democrat Reveals the Sick Math of Republicans’ Budget Bill.  Representative Jim McGovern tore into Republicans for all the cuts in the Trump-backed bill. – May 21, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/195548/donald-trump-budget-bill-top-democrat-reveals-cuts

 

Trump Wants a New Gilded Age – May 22, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fusV6pkf-_c

 

Dialectic at Work: But Marx Didn't Account For... – May 22, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KTjRWnLd0s

 

Economic Stockholm Syndrome? Do Americans Still Worship "Job Creators”?  The billionaires robbed us blind for 44 years — and we thanked them for it... Will it still work for the GOP? – May 23, 2025

https://hartmannreport.com/p/economic-stockholm-syndrome-do-americans-9de

 

Cognitive Decline? Trump Makes Bonkers Claim About Drug Prices.  Donald Trump exposed his own cluelessness about how drug pricing works. – May 23, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/post/195662/donald-trump-bonkers-claim-drug-prices

 

Rep. AOC Breaks Down Medicare Advantage – May 23, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRiLXPlCTw

 

Trump Isn’t the Godsend That Fishermen Had Hoped For.  Many in the fishing industry were eager to put Trump back in the White House. But the president and Elon Musk’s DOGE have unleashed havoc and confusion. – May 23, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/195646/trump-musk-noaa-cuts-fishing-industry-chaos

 

Key Pennsylvania Lawmakers Are 'Optimistic' A Compromise Marijuana Legalization Bill Can Pass 'In The Next Few Weeks' – May 23, 2025

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/key-pennsylvania-lawmakers-are-optimistic-a-compromise-marijuana-legalization-bill-can-pass-in-the-next-few-weeks/

 

Oklahoma healthcare leaders warn rural hospitals could shut down under proposed federal Medicaid cuts – May 24, 2025

https://kfor.com/news/local/oklahoma-healthcare-leaders-warn-rural-hospitals-could-shut-down-under-proposed-federal-medicaid-cuts/

 

Local Agriculture Market Program

https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/grants/lamp

 

Chapter 6: The Right To Work For Less.  Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of the American Dream" – May 25, 2025

https://hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-6-the-right-to-work-for-less

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