Rennie

This is Rennie's wife. He passed away recently and I know he had a number of friends here and I wanted to let everyone know. He was a great guy and I very much miss him.

They defunded schools at the same time they rolled back child labor laws…

The trouble with tarrifs

SpaceX gets up to $5.9 billion in new DOD launch contracts...more than it's competitors, United Launch alliance and Blue Origin.

JD Vance claims that 40% of the people calling the Social Security system are “actually committing fraud.”

This is a preposterous and baseless lie.

THIS IS TERRIFYING‼️

Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines.

He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted.

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

I went table to table in a Vero Beach Waffle House asking retirees how the market crash has impacted them. Most laughed with satisfaction, explaining that they’d long ago sold their stocks to invest in $TRUMP coin, $MELANIA coin, and limited edition MyPillows.

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

Full text April 3, 2025 Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders, including but not limited to: E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025), Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy; E.O. 14151 (Jan. 20, 2025), Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing; E.O. 14168 (Jan. 20, 2025), Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government; and E.O. 14190 (Jan. 29, 2025), Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling. The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration, and due to exceptional circumstances, adherence to the traditional notification process is not possible. Therefore, the NEH hereby terminates your grant in its entirety effective April 3, 2025.

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30.

“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”

They are so afraid of us.

PUT THIS ON BLAST:

Trump’s tariffs just pushed the risk of a U.S. and global recession this year up to 60%—up from 40%, according to J.P. Morgan.

THATS NOT ALL:

The White House made up the numbers—Trump Math 🤡

These greedy individuals went for wool and came out shorn. Karma works in strange ways...

Kamala Harris warned us many times that we would have a recession by the middle of the year…

Trump circumvented Congress on tariffs by declaring a Fentanyl emergency. A handful of Republicans in Congress can stop the tariffs by joining with Democrats. Call your electeds and tell them.

Trump Extends TikTok Deadline by 75 Days: Live Updates (Gift Article)

“A federal judge gave the Trump administration until the end of Monday to return to the United States a Maryland man who was inadvertently deported to El Salvador last month despite a court order allowing him stay in the country.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Trump says he’ll use revenue from tariffs to “offset” more big tax cuts.

Those tax cuts will disproportionately benefit wealthy Americans and big corporations.

But revenue raised from tariffs will be coming disproportionately from average working people.

See how this works?

Stay away from whatever this man is taking

Newsom: The world we’ve come to know—and some of us revere and love. The country. All of that is now at risk because of the recklessness—and there’s no other way to describe it—of one individual: the President of the United States.

U.S. stocks see biggest 2-day wipeout in history in wake of Trump’s tariffs Stocks erased a combined $6.6 trillion in value on Thursday and Friday.

U.S. stocks see biggest 2-day wipeout in history as market loses $11 trillion since Inauguration Day
www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-st...

Regressive tax hike on everything you buy plus tax cuts weighted toward the wealthy plus increased deficits plus slashing cuts to all public services and the social safety net... this is a very bad combination.

BILL BURR: “You journalists need to get your balls back.”

@wutangforchildren.bsky.social

#TrumpCrash hit a historic mark.

It is only the fourth time in history that the DOW has lost 2,000 points in a single day - and that follows a huge drop yesterday, too.

The DOW is down nearly 4,000 since the #TrumpTariffs were announced on Weds night. #Trumponomics

a woman is sitting in a living room talking to someone and says " i mean it 's one banana " ALT: a woman is sitting in a living room talking to someone and says " i mean it 's one banana "

This was supposed to be a joke.

Dive into These YA Books on the Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment Here are some new and classic books on Japanese American incarceration during WWII for young adult readers.

While doing some research, I stumbled across this great listing of YA books on Japanese internment in WWII, which feels like good reading for today's kids, so, I'm sharing. densho.org/catalyst/you...

Screenshot of CNBC showing the Dow down 2265 points. The ticket says the 4th largest drop un Dow history

HOLY SHIT.

DOW CLOSES WITH 4TH WORST DAY IN ITS HISTORY.

4000 PTS DROP IN TWO DAYS.

$6 TRILLION GONE IN 48 HOURS

Texas measles outbreak update today, up 14% since Tuesday (actual cases likely 4-5X reported)
And further spreading in New Mexico and multiple other states throughout the US.

* NASDAQ 100 SET TO ENTER BEAR MARKET AFTER FALLING 20% FROM PEAK

@reuters.com

The Insurrection Act Can Trump shut down protests using the military under the Insurrection Act? What would it take? The answer is complicated, but as more and more protests take place, understanding that legal terrain ha...

The Insurrection Act gives the president an exception to the prohibtion against using the military to enforce laws (& arrest protesting citizens). Learn more here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-insurr...

Allison Riggs: 'This is a fight for the very soul of democracy' Read more here.

NEW: A North Carolina appeals court effectively disenfranchised over 60k voters in ruling against Justice Allison Riggs' (D) victory in the state Supreme Court race.

Riggs, who plans to appeal, calls the battle “a fight for the very soul of democracy.”

From: @jaknutson.bsky.social