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More than five miles of protesters from Palo Alto to Sunnyvale CA

The dark, ugly subtext of the Pete Hegseth fiasco is that Trump/MAGA want Hegseth there because they seem him as their guy to carry out MAGA imperialist designs and domestic crackdowns if/when Trump orders them. @juliettekayyem.bsky.social is good on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1942...

“The facts speak for themselves, and they reek of human trafficking,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said of the report.

“Rubio’s eh-whatever statement that ‘it’s not our war’ will live in infamy next to James Baker’s unprincipled 1995 avowal... that ‘we don’t have a dog in that fight.’”

After serving 4 months in prison for defying a subpoena from Congress’s January 6 committee, Peter Navarro was given a lifeline by Trump. Now it seems Navarro is the idea man for these tariffs, having convinced the president of the plan’s (not at all) genius.

Trump has threatened to impose an additional 50 percent tariff on China—totaling a staggering 104 percent—if China does not rescind the retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports.

The Trump administration has removed a picture of Harriet Tubman from the National Park Service page on the Underground Railroad, changed the words “enslaved African Americans” to “enslaved workers” and removed a section that discussed Benjamin Franklin being a slave owner.

On Saturday, April 5, it's estimated millions of Americans took to the streets for “Hands Off!” demonstrations. Even with conservative estimates, we’re talking one of the largest mobilizations in recent American history. But you’d barely know it happened.

Without this abuse of power, Trump could not be unleashing such havoc. In short, Trump’s lawlessness and his economic destruction are the same story: The former doesn’t just enable the latter; the two are inextricably entangled with each other.

Even Trump came to our demonstration in Mountain View CA

Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Tariff Spin in Leaked Call Stunner newrepublic.com/article/1933... via @newrepublic.com

Big turn-out in Santa Cruz. Protests are gaining momentum across the country.

“They will begin” by occupying “small countries who’ve been in the U.S.S.R., in the Soviet Union.”

Trump and Elon Musk Just Pulled Off Another Purge—and It’s a Scary One newrepublic.com/article/1910... via @newrepublic.com

It's kind of nice here at 2 am. The notifications are manageable and the house is quiet. I belong in bed, but it's nice to breathe and be grateful.