One to swing at.
WASHINGTON — White House adviser Alina Habba said Tuesday that military veterans affected by the DOGE-led layoffs of federal workers may not be "fit to have a job at this moment."
Speaking to reporters on the White House lawn, Habba was asked about fired workers whom Democrats have invited to President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress on Tuesday night. Habba defended the cuts and said she had no sympathy for the thousands of people who have lost their jobs.
As a cold war kid, Reagan was a senile monster who did crimes and killed a generation of gay men.
Increasingly convinced this is a motive, if not the only one.
Everybody in the know gets rich on every swing . Easy.
The leader of Ontario - Canada's most populous province - has said that American companies will be banned from provincial government contracts until the US ends the tariffs President Donald Trump imposed on Canada.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford also emphasised that his government would be "ripping up" its C$100m ($68m; £55.1) contract with Elon Musk's satellite internet company Starlink.
Governments refusing to pay people they'd contracted with? Unprecedented.
I admit that I do. Not because I wish for broad economic catastrophe, but because the stonk line going down is one of the few things that might get the attention of Trump (and rich people who he listens to).
The stonk line can always go up again if everything hasn't been destroyed yet, so it is better that they crash earlier instead of later. It is harder to put Humpty Dumpty (everything else) back together again.
I always get a bit amused when centrist dudes (Tom Edsall, here) start freaking out.
Assuming that the past six weeks are predictive of what’s coming next, expect an age of anxiety, expect the elimination of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of jobs, expect the decimation of liberal institutions to go on for all four years of Trump’s second term, expect government services to deteriorate, expect reduced funding of the safety net, expect more homelessness, hunger and disease. Expect poverty, expect the financial starvation of universities and of nongovernmental organizations, expect unannounced raids, unreliable data, an America increasingly aligned with authoritarians worldwide, expect a pervasive climate of suspicion and a preoccupation with revenge. Expect more suffering, more fear, less security and less happiness
In other words, expect the worst.
I'm not a mindreader, so perhaps this is unfair to Tom, but I suspect if, I dunno, Chris Hayes had made that prediction 2 months ago, Tom would have thought it was ridiculous hysteria.
China’s Ministry of Finance put tariffs of 15 percent on imports of American chicken, wheat, corn and cotton and 10 percent tariffs on other foods, ranging from soybeans to dairy products. In addition, the Ministry of Commerce said 15 U.S. companies would no longer be allowed to buy products from China except with special permission, including Skydio, which is the largest American maker of drones and a supplier to the U.S. military and emergency services.
Lou Qinjian, a spokesman for China’s National People’s Congress, chastised the United States for violating the World Trade Organization’s free trade rules. “By imposing unilateral tariffs, the U.S. has violated W.T.O. rules and disrupted the security and stability of the global industrial and supply chains,” he said.
Declarations issued last week show that the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Russ Vought, had a clear plan to break up the agency, and reduce it to as little as “five men in a room.” The revelation of this plan in federal court highlighted its clear illegality. So Vought and his team are now reverse engineering their plan to gaslight employees and the courts that it was always legal to begin with.
