The Morning Report — 4/ 4 /25

Good morning kids. And so the big story this morning are the reactions to and predictions about President Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff regime. While I am certainly no economics expert, I certainly know enough to recognize what the offshoring of quite a large chunk of our manufacturing sector overseas has done to our economy and society in general going back now to the 1960s. The regulatory and bureaucratic factors as well as big labor unions were certainly factors that led to industry seeking cheap sources of labor as well as cheaper overhead by moving overseas.

Yes the usual suspects in the propaganda press, the Dems and globalists and/or Trump averse Rinos on our own side of the aisle are raising a huge stink about it.

Somone I have followed and respected for a very long time is the brilliant economist and commentator Thomas Sowell, who has some interesting, to say the least, observations about how we got here and what Trump is attempting.

Economist Thomas Sowell suggested that President Donald Trump may be taking a “ruinous” approach to tariffs and international trade. Sowell commented on Trump’s trade policies during an interview on April 1, a day before Trump enacted sweeping tariffs on dozens of countries. The “Liberation Day” announcement, as the White House billed it, put in place a system of “reciprocity” on international trade where foreign countries are tariffed in accordance with the trade barriers they impose on the United States.

“It’s painful to see what a ruinous decision, from back in the 1920s, being repeated,” the 94-year-old Sowell said on an episode of “Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson.” “Now, insofar as he’s using these tariffs to get various strategic things settled and that he is satisfied with that.”

. . . “If this is just a set of short-run ploys for various limited objectives limited in time. Fine, maybe,” Sowell granted. “But, if this is gonna be the policy for four long years, that you’re gonna try this, you’re gonna try that, you’re gonna try something else. A lot of people are gonna wait.” Sowell noted the recent dips in the stock market that have followed many of Trump’s announcements on tariffs and said that “people are holding on to their money before they do anything because they don’t know where this is gonna lead.”

As I alluded, when Thomas Sowell speaks, people who know and respect his great intellect, listen attentively. Sowell makes reference to FDR and how his mistakes which exacerbated the '29 crash are being repeated by Trump. Yeah, everyone and their uncle are now screaming "Smoot Hawley" but the '29 crash became the Depression primarily because of the failure of the New Deal. Which, in a way DOGE is attempting to address.

And if we're going to take a look at history and tariffs:

“[W]e built a sustainable economy, we did this thing, starting with Alexander Hamilton, where we said it’s really going to matter that we make things in the United States. … Yeah, we’re going to import stuff, we [were] never not going to buy stuff from abroad, but we were going to make sure that the internal American economy was healthy, could produce a lot, provided jobs…not just for people with graduate degrees, not just for somebody who is going to work on Wall Street, but for people with less education…so that means you need an industrial base. We built that economy…behind a very high tariff wall…it built America into an economic powerhouse.”

People seem to not know or have forgotten that nations to this day protect their workers and their economies via tariffs. Also, 200 years ago there was no Federal government and bureaucracy nor a Federal reserve to screw around with our economy and interfere with the way people do business. But of course it took almost 200 years to build that economic powerhouse as well as the concomitant attitude of the people via the American work ethic, and the freedom to pursue one's dreams as well as to fail repeatedly before succeeding.

And regardless of Liberation Day, we're not going to suddenly become the great industrial powerhouse we once were overnight. It's going to take time. Sadly the one key element that is missing is anything even resembling a scintilla of national unity that we had at the time of Pearl Harbor that allowed American industry to kick into overdrive and finally get us out of the Great Depression that the New Deal created.

Now, is Trump correct in his assessment of the fundamental trade unfairness/imbalance that has been hammering us for decades? Absolutely. While the propagandists are shrieking about the Dow Jones tumbling, remember this creates an opportunity for investors to pick up stocks at bargain prices, if they are willing to hold onto them for the long term.

Moving beyond tariffs, here's an oldie but a goodie, how about significantly lowering taxes or exempting taxes altogether for an extended period of time in the interest of enticing manufacturers to either build new factories and re-shore jobs and manufacturing back to the States? That and cut the regulatory regime of the federal bureaucracy so investors and enterprises can compete and, here's a radical idea, actually make a profit.

Finally, here's a positive take:

Critics claim President Trump’s reciprocal—‘kind’—tariffs will destroy jobs. This could not be further from the truth. In reality, President Trump’s tariffs have the potential to create 15 million new jobs. Many of these jobs will be high-paying manufacturing jobs, jobs with employee benefits—the very sort of jobs that were lost over the last 50 years to offshoring and the “race to the bottom.” How?

Reciprocal tariffs are an olive branch. If foreign countries come to the table and lower their own tariffs, then Americans will benefit from freer—and most importantly, fair—trade. This will open up new markets potentially worth trillions of dollars to American businesses.

If not, then tariffs will level the playing field and protect American workers from foreign labor—who often work in slave-like conditions for next to nothing. This will reshore America’s factories, creating millions of jobs in the process. . .

. . . To begin with, we need to remember that America is not an economy. We are a nation bounded by blood and tradition. The Constitution does not give anyone a right to buy “cheap goods” from China or Bangladesh. The President is obligated to do what is in America’s best interests—even if this prevents liberals from buying imported European cars.

In 2024, America exported $3.19 trillion worth of goods and services. This is in spite of the fact that most of our trade partners impose massive tariffs—as well as other non-monetary barriers to entry such as Byzantine regulations—on American goods. This goes to show just how efficient and competitive America’s industries are. Nevertheless, the playing field is not level.

Let us assume that trading partners see the error of their ways and reduce their tariffs to reciprocal levels. This will allow American businesses to compete on even terms and will open foreign markets for American businesses like never before. If we assume that a 1% reduction in net tariffs results in a 1% increase in trade—which is a reasonable assumption based on current economic models—then America’s exports would increase by $1.6 trillion, bringing total exports up to $4.8 trillion.

Increasing America’s exports would create millions of good-paying jobs. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that every billion of GDP supports between 5,000 and 5,500 jobs. Based on this, these increased exports would support some 8.4 million new jobs. If we assume that only half of our trade partners play ball, we are still looking at over 4 million new jobs.

Elsewhere on the economic front, there is actual broad support for what Trump is trying to do, some of it bipartisan in nature, and unemployment filings plunged in March signaling a robust labor market, this with the full knowledge that Liberation Day was on the horizon. So, we shall certainly see.

And perhaps if we had not granted the Chi-Coms most-favored nation trading status, the economic and geopolitical landscape today might be much less dangerous.Just a thought.

And do give a listen to our latest podcast linked here and in the sidebar, where two outstanding guests, and friends, culture journalist Christian Toto and the estimable Jim Lakely of the Heartland Institute join CBD for a great conversation about what the absolute disaster of the Snow White remake means in terns of a sea change in both Hollywood and what its rejection means in broader terms for the culture at large.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know. 

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Hotel Washington was also evacuated.
  Treasury Building Evacuates After Suspicious Package Found Near White House
  
• "You're awash in blood and dirty money, and I hope that you are accountable for that one day."
  Hawley Unloads On Code Pink Activists: ‘You’re Awash in Blood And Dirty Money’

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
• Trump’s "Liberation Day" tariffs aim to create millions of U.S. jobs by reshoring factories and pressuring trade partners to lower barriers, prioritizing national strength over cheap imports.
  How Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs Can Create 15 Million Jobs
  
• If Trump’s approach works better than all those trade deals at bringing down other nations’ tariffs, who can complain? Certainly not free traders.
  If Trump’s Tariffs Work, It Will Be Epic
  
• One of the things President Trump is predicating his tariff war upon is the idea that trade deficits are inherently bad. . . In reality, I think the Trump administration is likely to try and leverage headlines out of various foreign nations suggesting they’re going to invest in America to the tune of some billions of dollars before lowering the tariff rates again. I do have faith that President Trump actually responds to headlines and to the news. He lives in the world of reality and won’t simply ignore that the markets hate all of this.
  Liberation Day. What’s The Plan?

• Tariffs will not cause inflation in the long term. In fact, they will likely lower the cost of goods over time.
  Trump’s Tariffs Will Not Cause Inflation
  
• "... we will see an economic BOOM in the months ahead."
  White House Urges Americans To ‘Trust In President Trump’ As Uncertainty Looms Over Tariffs
  
• “NKE was last seen 11.3% lower at $57.62, as investors digest the long-term impact of rising supply chain costs on the company’s margins,” Schaeffer’s Investment Research reports. “The stock is set to snap a three-day win streak, extending its late-March post-earnings bear gap and hitting its lowest level since November 2017. Nike stock now carries a 23.5% year-to-date deficit.”
  Nike Stock Plunges as Low-Wage Factories in China, Vietnam, Indonesia Face Trump’s Tariffs
  
• Daniel Greenfield: When the truth is on your side, you don't need to lie.
  Nike and the Dishonesty of Tariff Doomer Hype
  
• Trump's tariff on auto imports kicked in on Thursday.
  GM To Increase Truck Production In U.S. As Trump’s Auto Tariff Goes Into Effect
  
• Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) calls the plan a "good start."
  One Capitol Hill Dem Sees Promise In Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs
  
• "If you set off a worldwide trade war, that has a devastating history."
  Economist Thomas Sowell Alarmed Trump’s Tariffs May Spark ‘Worldwide Trade War’
  
• The European Union, which has been hit with tariffs twice as high as post-Brexit Britain given the bloc’s protectionist policies and tariffs on imports, is expressing its distress and even outrage at President Trump’s bid to reform the United States’ trade relationship with the world.
  ‘Attack on the Global Trade Order’ Cries German Chancellor, Warning Trump’s Tariffs ‘Fundamentally Wrong’
  
• Antoni insisted, “Trump is being attacked for being anti-free trade or for starting a trade war, but the opposite is true. For most of the last half century, the global economy has become entrenched in a pseudo-free trade that artificially disadvantages American exporters.” He added, “In this sense, other nations declared a trade war on America decades ago, and our leaders never fought back.“ Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are meant to pressure other nations that do, in fact, rely on American trade and American consumers “to reduce their trade barriers and end a trade war that already exists.”
  Economist: Trump Isn’t Starting a Trade War; He’s Fighting to Win the Decades-Long War
  
• President Donald J. Trump’s move to protect American businesses and workers from unfair trade has received widespread approval from various sectors, reflecting a significant shift in policy-making. Democratic Representative Jared Golden expressed his support, hailing the President’s tariff agenda as a necessary move to address economic challenges posed by globalization. Golden said President Trump’s tariffs align with proposals in the BUILT USA Act, underscoring the urgency of tackling trade imbalances and protecting American jobs.
  Support Swells for Trump’s America First Trade Strategy.
  
• To make America make things again, tariffs are the only option.
  Tariffs Are The Only Way To Restore America’s Long-Term Economic Health
  
• From the letter: “Under the directive, covered businesses must adhere to a set of ESG-focused compliance measures, many of which are aligned with political and ideological objectives that have not been approved by U.S. lawmakers. … Not only will many large U.S. businesses be forced under the CSDDD to adjust their internal operations to comply with these mandates, but they will also be required to ensure that their suppliers and business partners—no matter where they are based or the size of their operations—adhere to many of the same restrictive ESG standards.”
  Free-Market Coalition Urges Trump Administration, Congress to Counter Economically Ruinous European Union Law
  
• “[W]e built a sustainable economy, we did this thing, starting with Alexander Hamilton, where we said it’s really going to matter that we make things in the United States. … Yeah, we’re going to import stuff, we [were] never not going to buy stuff from abroad, but we were going to make sure that the internal American economy was healthy, could produce a lot, provided jobs…not just for people with graduate degrees, not just for somebody who is going to work on Wall Street, but for people with less education…so that means you need an industrial base. We built that economy…behind a very high tariff wall…it built America into an economic powerhouse.”
  America Became an Economic Powerhouse Behind a Big Tariff Wall
  
• In 1996, on the House floor, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) assailed a then-bipartisan plan to give Most Favored Nation (MFN) trade status to China, arguing that while the U.S. has low tariffs on China-made goods, China has high tariffs on American goods.
  Watch: Malig-Nancy Pelosi in 1996 Assails U.S. Free Trade with China: ‘Is This Reciprocal?’
  
• The American labor market continues to defy skeptics and remain robust and stable despite market analysts predicting sizable layoffs across industries. Data released by the United States Department of Labor on Thursday shows that the number of initial claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, defying analysis forecasts that expected claims to rise. The filing for jobless benefits dipped by 6,000 to a total of 219,000 for the last week of March, coming in below forecasts, which predicted 226,000 new claims.The four-week moving average for claims, which provides a more stable view by minimizing the volatility of weekly reports, showed a decrease of 1,250, bringing the average to 223,000. While this suggests the labor market continues to remain strong, the number of individuals receiving unemployment benefits did increase by a small amount. For the week ending March 22, the total rose by 56,000, reaching 1.9 million.
  Number of Americans Filing for Unemployment Benefits Drops Again, Signaling Robust Labor Market Under Trump.
  
• The Senate advanced a budget blueprint, including a permanent extension of the expiring 2017 Trump Tax Cuts, during a vote of 52 to 48 Thursday. GOP lawmakers have said that failure to extend the tax cuts would lead to roughly a $4 trillion tax increase on Americans’ pocketbooks in 2026.
  Senate GOP Poised To Deliver On Permanent Tax Relief In Trump-Backed Bill

  
  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• HE MUSK REMAIN
  Trump wants Musk to stay with admin ‘as long as possible’ — says DOGE found something ‘horrible’
  
• Intended to root out fraud, they now largely benefit well-connected former regulators and opportunistic lawyers.
  SEC Whistleblower Programs Have Become a Billion-Dollar Racket
  
• Meet the Universal Service Fund, which doles out billions on behalf of the FCC
  Private Jets, Ferraris, and False Claims: Inside An Obscure Federal Program Rife With Fraud

  "BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• The 25-hour speechifying New Jersey senator would rather no one dig up the horrific event that occurred on his watch as Newark’s newly elected mayor.
  Cory Booker and an MS-13 Massacre

• “Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem, the administration has taken bold, decisive action to restore control at the border. Border Patrol agents are empowered like never before to shut down unlawful entry and protect American lives,” said Acting Commissioner Pete Flores in a written statement on April 1. “The message is clear: the border is closed to illegal crossings, and for those still willing to test our resolve, know this — you will be prosecuted, and you will be deported.”
  TRUMP EFFECT CONTINUES: March Border Apprehensions Fall to Historic Low Level — Down 95 Percent from Last Year
  
• The federal agency says that the illegal aliens submitted fraudulent documents in order to illegally gain employment.
  ICE Captures Over Three Dozen Illegal Aliens In Workplace Raid
  
• “You may very well disagree with the enforcement of our federal immigration laws, but it is inappropriate to suggest to the public that federal officers can be criminally prosecuted by your office or any other state or local prosecutor’s office for performing their official duties.”
  Boston DA Threatened With Felony Charges After Finding ICE Agent in Contempt

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND Democrats

• Sanders has been one of the most vocal opponents of the Israeli government in Congress. Though he acknowledged the horror of the Hamas terror attack on October 7, 2023, and said Israel should be able to defend itself, he has also pushed for an arms embargo that would prevent Israel from doing so.
  Anti-Israel Bloc in Senate Declines from 19 to 15 as Sanders Arms Embargo Fails
  
• Daniel Greenfield: Scratch a journalist, find a terrorist.
  Al Jazeera is Hamas
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• Robert Zimmerman: "Alverque is however merely another symptom of the mad hatred that now permeates the left and supporters of the American Democrat Party. Facts or rational ideas no longer matter. They hate Trump. They hate Musk. They hate Republicans. And if you oppose their allies, such as Hamas, they hate you too."
  Hamas and American leftists: both driven solely by mindless hate
  
• Douglas Murray: And, as Khalil and his friends have made clear, Israel is only the first country in their sights. But it is by no means the last. These groups hate America more than anything. That is why they use this country, abuse this country, spit on this country, say they want to destroy this country and burn the American flag at any opportunity they get. This is a civilizational moment. And I believe Israel shows how we can win it.
  How did young people go so wrong they cheer killers and rapists of Hamas?
  
• The lawsuit was the first of its kind to be filed against a university in the wake of the nationwide surge in campus antisemitism following Hamas’s massacre of Israelis on October 7.
  Lawsuit Against UC Berkeley Over Campus Antisemitism To Go Forward, Court Rules
  
• In February, Trump’s Education Department warned 60 institutions, including Brown University, that it would take action if they “do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus.” Due to a previous federal civil rights investigation into the school, Brown is “currently subject to ongoing monitoring,” following an earlier agreement with the Department of Education.
  EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Freezes Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars To Another Ivy League School

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Honoring Muslim genocide of Hindus to create Pakistan.
  Texas Sets Aside Special ‘Pakistan Day’

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• Despite Supreme Court rulings, hundreds of laws still unconstitutionally bar religious groups from public funding.
  Exposing the Hidden Web of Religious Discrimination in Government Funding

  
  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

•   “This decision has been made out of an abundance of caution and to ensure the safety of all within proximity to public demonstrations planned near the White House on Saturday, April 5, 2025,” the White House said, advising that the Saturday tours will be rescheduled to Sunday. . . The rescheduling of the garden tours could impact thousands of tourists who had tickets for tours scheduled on Saturday. Meanwhile, the mass demonstration is notable as it will be the first large-scale protest against Trump since he returned to the White House.
  Far-Left Demonstration Forces White House to Reschedule Staturday’s Spring Garden Tours.
  
• During a committee meeting on Wednesday, she revealed, without even the slightest sense of shame, that she got her first legal job solely because of her race, not her experience or ability. 
  I Can't Believe Jasmine Crockett Admitted This
  
• A report released by the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department (NMPD) shows that in December 2018, the transgender-identifying individual begin formulating a plan to attack Creswell Middle School. She had attended Creswell during her middle school years and came away emotionally distressed.
  Nashville Police: Trans Shooter Chose Not to Attack the Public School Where She Was Bullied So She Wouldn’t Appear Racist
  
• As the incident was caught on tape, police were able to locate the culprit, allegedly a woman in her late 20s whose identity has not been publicized.
  Police Chief in Minnesota Refers to Tesla Vandal as ‘Victim’ of ‘Rhetoric’

  
  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• While the suspect, Narciso Fernandez, had disdain for pharmacies, police have not yet officially deemed that to be the motive for Monday’s deadly shooting spree, local station ABC 30 reported Thursday:
  Police: Man with Grudge Against Pharmacies Drove 100 Miles to Shoot Up Walgreens, Kill Employee

  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• “He probably didn’t even make the decision,” Dershowitz said about how the payments to former Trump attorney Michael Cohen were described. “The decision was made by some underling to simply list it as [a] legal expense. He didn’t deduct it. He just listed it. I think there was a chart, a fall-down thing where you can pick one or two [or] three or four, and one of them was legal experts. It was checked. It’s not a crime. That’s just not a crime. Again, Thomas Jefferson [said] for something to be a crime [that] the statute has to be so clear that a reasonable person could understand it if he reads it, while running.”
  Dershowitz Predicts Supreme Court ‘Liberals’ Will ‘Go Along’ With Halting Lawfare Against Trump

  
  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• The $500 billion corporation that was ‘instrumental in the formation’ of the GARM censorship machine has apparently reversed course.
  Mastercard Backtracks After Getting Caught Using Ad Dollars To Censor Conservatives
  
• A number of Big Tech giants are intensifying their efforts to acquire the social media app TikTok as the deadline for its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to divest itself from the company or face its banning in the United States looms. While Oracle has long been considered the most likely serious buyer to acquire TikTok, the multinational software company may now face significant competition, with Amazon showing interest in purchasing the app. President Donald J. Trump has mandated that TikTok must be sold to a non-Chinese company by April 5, or the app will be banned from being downloaded in the United States due to national security concerns.
  Amazon Enters TikTok Acquisition Fray as Sale Deadline Nears.
  
• The Chinese government is calling the shots, as it does when you’re dealing with China Inc. You have to convince the apparatchiks there to give up control — but not total ownership rights — to a majority-owned US investor group. President Xi & Co., have refused to sell TikTok’s key component, its algorithm that keeps people glued to the app by supplying an endless stream of videos based on user preferences.
  Why Trump isn’t keen on Amazon being involved in US’ TikTok deal
  
• Those who would keep the truth from U.S. citizens must be rooted out. We need a full accounting of what happened when transparency failed.
  The Fight Against The Censorship-Industrial Complex Is Not Over

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) is hammering Republicans in the state legislature over their embrace of the latest green agenda policy scam that purports to reduce the impact carbon emissions have on climate change. While DeSantis works to push his plan to eliminate Florida’s sales tax, he contends the Republican legislative supermajority is wasting time and political capital on creating a far-left state task force charged with developing a framework to implement a carbon sequestration program in the state.
  RINO Lawmakers in Florida Are Using Their Supermajority to Impose the Latest Green Agenda Scam.
  
• A push to redefine natural gas as “green energy” gains traction as lawmakers push back against renewable mandates, citing reliability and national security concerns.
  ‘Drill, baby, drill’ is a great idea. Let’s codify it into law.

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• In a slobbering Vanity Fair profile lauding Stanley’s brave and stunning decision to run away from what he characterizes as an existential threat to his own country in order to secure another lucrative, cushy teaching position in another First World country where he can continue his self-aggrandizing sophistry about fascism or whatever for money and clout, the distinguished professor repeatedly likened Trump to — you’ll be shocked to learn — Hitler.
  Yale ‘Fascism Professor’ Flees Country to Escape Trump’s Fourth Reich

  ABORTION

• It only took one week after President Donald Trump pulled taxpayer subsidies from Planned Parenthood for them to shut down three of their murder shops.
  Planned Parenthood Shuts Down 3 Abortion Shops After Trump Cuts off Taxpayer Subsidies

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act would mandate proof of citizenship during the voter registration process. Schumer threatened to filibuster the bill Wednesday evening if Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune were to bring it to the floor despite previously voting to eliminate the Senate procedural rule requiring 60 votes to advance most legislation. (RELATED: Georgia Democrats Walk Out In Support Of Taxpayer-Funded Sex Changes For Inmates)
  Chuck Schumer Threatens To Use Tactic Democrats Once Called ‘Jim Crow Relic’ To Block Bill Securing American Elections
  
• While the groups attempt to market their activism as a good-faith effort to defend so-called ‘civil and human rights,’ a deep dive into their financial backgrounds reveals their interests are far more partisan than they let on.
  Left-Wing Organizations Opposing The SAVE Act Received More Than $150 Million From Soros Groups: Analysis
  
• In the lawsuit, attorneys general from 19 states called to block provisions of Trump’s executive order, alleging the president is attempting to “seize control of elections” in an unconstitutional manner. The lawsuit was filed by Arizona, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.
  Guess How Many Democratic Party State AGs Are Now Fighting Trump’s Executive Order To Stop Voter Fraud

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• 'I've instructed all our security to just remove you and hand you over to the po-po, and I will sign the complaint myself,' says Sharpton
  Al Sharpton, Critic of 'Over-Policing,' Threatens To Jail Anyone Who Disrupts NYC Mayoral Forum
  
• Lloyd Billingsley:The intimate ties that bind.
  The Newsom-China Dance

  POLITICS

• “Democrats today hate democracy. They’re angry at the voters for re-electing Donald Trump. And they’ve engaged in lawfare to stop democracy from operating.”
  Fireworks Ensue After Cruz Calls Democrats the “Party of Murderers and Rapists (Teddy Kennedy & Bill Clinton - jjs)
  
• Kamala is a 60-year-old woman who keeps trying to talk like a millennial Oprah.
  Kamala: “I’m Not Going Anywhere.”
  
• The road to 2026 will not be won by messaging alone.
  Wisconsin proves to GOP that messaging wins don’t guarantee victory
  
• “I firmly believe that this city is better served by truly independent leadership, not leaders pulled at by the extremists on the far left or the far right…”
  NYC Mayor Eric Adams Running as Independent in Next Election
  
• Liberals won the critical Wisconsin Supreme Court race in large part because of Republicans’ failure again to remember how nasty the left is.
  Here’s A Post-Mortem On Conservatives’ Costly Loss In Wisconsin
  
• Republicans disappointed by what just happened in Wisconsin need to learn some hard lessons fast.
  The Republican Off-Cycle Election Challenge

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Victor Davis Hanson: A Ukraine-Russia ceasefire looms, with Trump pushing deals, Zelenskyy negotiating leverage, and Putin weighing risks—while the West quietly concedes it never had a real plan to win.
  All the Ukrainian Known Knowns

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• More Canadians see Carney as the leader who can effectively negotiate with Trump, not Poilievre.
  Poilievre’s dilemma: go more anti-Trump than the Liberals or hold his conservative base
  
• “Moscow and Pyongyang remain bound by significant ideological affinities.”
  Putin and Kim Hate the West—and Mistrust Beijing
  
• President Donald J. Trump has extended an invitation to El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele for a visit to the White House. The April 14 invitation was outlined in a letter, which Bukele shared on the social media platform X.The invitation acknowledges Bukele’s participation in U.S. initiatives to combat illegal immigration. It also highlights his administration’s use of the newly built prison facilities for housing criminals from notorious gangs such as Tren de Aragua. Trump praised Bukele’s handling of these security matters as a model of leadership.“Yo
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• China’s shadow isn’t shrinking, it’s just dodging a glare.
  The Dragon slips the spotlight
  
• China’s got three ways to go at Taiwan: a patient choke, a lightning grab, or full chaos.
  3 Ways China Could Strike Taiwan And What It Means For The U.S.
  
• France, Germany, and Britain, once the pillars of Western Europe, are squandering their inheritances.
  Disentangle from Europe
  
• Included among the bills is a measure to sanction Iran's supreme leader
  Congressional Republicans Prepare 10-Bill Sanctions Package To 'Gut' Iran and Punish Its Supreme Leader

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Activist Laura Loomer visited the Oval Office on Wednesday and presented Trump with research she had on staffers, pushing him to fire them, Axios first reported, citing a U.S. official. A day later, Trump fired several staffers from his National Security Council, according to Axios. The outlet could not confirm whether the firings were tied to the meeting. One of CNN’s three sources said the firings were a direct consequence of Trump’s conversation with Loomer. (RELATED: Trump Admin Intel Officials Say No Classified Information Was Leaked In Signal Messages)
  Trump Reportedly Fires Several Staffers From National Security Council
  
• Hegseth’s order acknowledges what countless military members will tell you: A unified standard is not just preferable; it’s essential. 
  Hegseth's vision of one strong standard is right for the military

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The American Cancer Society states that your risk of developing a brain tumor at all during your lifetime is less than 1%. According to Healthline, your risk of developing a brain tumor is low, though the risk increases as you age. 80% of primary brain tumors are diagnosed in people over the age of 40, with 61 years old being the average age to receive such a diagnosis. . . A nurse, who wishes to remain anonymous, from the hospital's maternity ward claims that she, along with at least nine other nurses who also work or have worked in the same ward on the fifth floor over the last few years have all been diagnosed with brain tumors. Most are reportedly benign, but she claims some are cancerous. (I should point out that others are reporting that the number might be greater than 10 nurses, as well as the fact that some of the group have developed other health concerns beyond the brain tumors.)  
  Why Do 10 Nurses at the Same Hospital Have Brain Tumors?

  
  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• SpaceX now leads the rest of the world in successful launches, 38 to 31.
  SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites
  
• This testing is set for early ’26, which makes for a very tight schedule to meet the present May ’26 launch date.
  Vast signs deal with NASA’s Glenn center to do environmental testing of its Haven-1 manned space station

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Britain is great no more.
  Killing a Kingdom
  
• Christian Toto: Comic who spent weeks trashing Elon Musk suddenly takes verbal knee
  Bill Burr Executes Perfect ‘Clown Nose On’ Backpedal

  HITHER & YON

• From May 1940 to November 1944, about 30,000 people, including disabled individuals, mental patients, prisoners, and laborers, were killed in gas chambers at Hartheim Castle and burned. (May their memories be for a blessing - jjs)
  Mass grave of Nazi victims found at Hartheim Castle in Austria

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