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WHAT HAPPENED TODAY THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW - #58
Saturday, March 29, 2025
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1. Trump says U.S. will acquire Greenland, refuses to rule out military force despite international pushback.
2. Trump says he won’t fire officials over Yemen strike leak that included journalist in secret group chat.
3. Trump administration fires most U.S. Institute of Peace staff by email on a Friday night after court allows federal takeover.
4. Appeals court panel rejects AG Kaul's bid to block Musk from offering million-dollar checks tied to Wisconsin election petition.
5. Wash Post exclusive: Secret Pentagon memo about China copies sections from Heritage report by Project 2025 report writers.
6. Trump says he "couldn't care less" if foreign automakers hike prices after permanent 25% tariffs.
7. White House Correspondents Association cancels comedian Amber Ruffin after post-inauguration booking, following backlash from Trump's deputy chief of staff.
8. GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz faced boos, protests, and chaos over Signal leak, deportations, and Musk-led service cuts while defying party leadership's call to skip town halls.
9. Protesters swarmed Tesla dealerships across U.S. and Europe over Musk's federal purge, with Reps. Crockett and Jayapal joining demonstrations.
10. Saturday court filings reveal Marko Elez, fired over racist posts, was rehired by Musk's DOGE team with Trump's approval to access Medicare and child support systems.
11. Trump White House posts Al meme of ICE arrest in Studio Ghibli anime style, using viral trend to mock deportations.
12. For the second time this month, Pentagon targets Jackie Robinson—after scrubbing a story on his Army court-martial, DoD now flags his biography for removal under Hegseth's anti-DEI order.
1. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/29/trump-greenlan
d-military-force-denmark/82722287007/
2. https://apnews.com/article/attack-plans-trump-signal-hegseth-waltz-759
a404c89ee45468fb54a2be800c32a
3. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-institute-of-peace-staff-termination-n
otices/
4. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/03/29/wisc
onsin-court-rejects-effort-to-block-elon-musk-voter-payments/82721261007/
5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/29/secret-pen
tagon-memo-hegseth-heritage-foundation-china/
6. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-couldnt-care-
less-automakers-raise-prices-tariffs-rcna198731
7. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5344487/white-house-correspondent
s-dinner-amber-ruffin
8. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/politics/victoria-spartz-republi
can-town-hall-doge.html
9. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/29/protesters-elon-musk-tesla-00
259304
10. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/29/doge-marco-elez-software-engi
neer-us-payroll-00259303
11. https://www.axios.com/2025/03/29/trump-memes-immigration-policies
12. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-administration-reportedly-m
oves-to-ban-jackie-robinson-biography-from-naval-academy-library/ar-AA1BURCM
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Prayer for Donald Trump (Psalm 109)
7 When his case is called for judgment, let him be pronounced guilty. Count his prayers as sins. 8 Let his years be few and brief; let others step forward to replace him. 9-10 May his children become fatherless and his wife a widow; may they be evicted from the ruins of their home. 11 May creditors seize his entire estate and strangers take all he has earned. 12-13 Let no one be kind to him; let no one pity his fatherless children. May they die. May his family name be blotted out in a single generation. 14 Punish the sins of his father and mother. Don’t overlook them. 15 Think constantly about the evil things he has done, and cut off his name from the memory of man.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20109&version=T
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Trump Administration
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
By Patricia Callahan | March 28, 2025, 4:35 p.m. EDT
https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report
The cancellation was “not normal at all,” said a CDC staff member who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal with layoffs looming. “I’ve never seen a rollout plan that was canceled at that far along in the process.”
Anxiety among CDC staff has been building over whether the agency will bend its public health messages to match those of Kennedy, a lawyer who founded an anti-vaccine group and referred clients to a law firm suing a vaccine manufacturer.
During Kennedy’s first week on the job, HHS halted the CDC campaign that encouraged people to get flu shots during a ferocious flu season. On the night that the Trump administration began firing probationary employees across the federal government, some key CDC flu webpages were taken down.
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The cancellation was “not normal at all,” said a CDC staff member who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal with layoffs looming.
Then it didn't happen. Fuck your anon sources.
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Prayer for Donald Trump (Psalm 109)
7 When his case is called for judgment, let him be pronounced guilty. Count his prayers as sins. 8 Let his years be few and brief; let others step forward to replace him. 9-10 May his children become fatherless and his wife a widow; may they be evicted from the ruins of their home. 11 May creditors seize his entire estate and strangers take all he has earned. 12-13 Let no one be kind to him; let no one pity his fatherless children. May they die. May his family name be blotted out in a single generation. 14 Punish the sins of his father and mother. Don’t overlook them. 15 Think constantly about the evil things he has done, and cut off his name from the memory of man.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20109&version=T
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7. White House Correspondents Association cancels comedian Amber Ruffin after post-inauguration booking, following backlash from Trump's deputy chief of staff.
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Amber Mildred Ruffin (born January 9, 1979)[1] is an American comedian, writer and actress.[2] She hosted her own late-night talk show titled The Amber Ruffin Show on Peacock. She has been a writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers since 2014. When she joined the show she became the first Black woman to write for a late-night network talk show in the United States.[3]
In January 2021, she co-authored a book with her sister Lacey Lamar titled You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism, which made the New York Times Best Seller list.[4][5][6] They released a second book, The World Record Book of Racist Stories, in 2022. In 2022, Ruffin and her writing partner Jenny Hagel co-founded their production company Straight to Cards under their overall deal with Universal Television.[7]
Wow. A DEI hire who wrote two books about muh racism.
I'll bet she's a laugh per minute.
You didn't even know who she was until this got lefty headlines today. Nobody knew who she was. She's was a writer for the least successful late night show during the entire time the late night shows started crashing and burning, and now Gutfield on cable news gets more viewers than any of the rest combined.
I guess you'll have to watch her wildly successful streaming show on peacock.
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Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if foreign automakers raise prices due to tariffs
By Kristen Welker and Alexandra Marquez | March 29, 2025, 7:29 PM CDT
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-couldnt-care-
less-automakers-raise-prices-tariffs-rcna198731
When pressed if he told CEOs not to raise prices, as reported in the The Wall Street Journal, Trump added, “No, I never said that.” (He did say it.)
Everything is on the table to obtain Greenland
The president on Saturday also said he has “absolutely” had real conversations about annexing Greenland, which is currently a semiautonomous Danish territory.
“We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%,” Trump said.
He added that there’s a “good possibility that we could do it without military force” but that “I don’t take anything off the table.”
This comes one day after Vice President JD Vance visited Greenland with his wife, Usha, and spoke to service members at Pituffik Space Base, a U.S. Space Force base on the northwestern coast of Greenland.
While there, Vance said, “Our message to Denmark is very simple — you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland.”
Asked what message acquiring Greenland would send to Russia and the rest of the world, Trump said, “I don’t really think about that. I don’t really care. Greenland’s a very separate subject, very different. It’s international peace. It’s international security and strength.”
“You have ships sailing outside Greenland from Russia, from China and from many other places. And we’re not going to allow things to happen that are going to be — that are going to hurt the world or the United States,” he added.
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Quote:The CDC staff member should have hit RFK Jr in the face with a shotgun blast. When no one comes forward to take the blame for the dead Kennedy, Then it didn't happen. RFK Jr. committed suicide is the only conclusion.
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The cancellation was “not normal at all,” said a CDC staff member who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal with layoffs looming.
Then it didn't happen. Fuck your anon sources.
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March 30, 2025, 11:10 AM CDT
President Donald Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying in an exclusive interview with NBC News that there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was “not joking.”
“A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call with NBC News, referring to his allies. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.”
NBC News asked about a possible scenario in which Vice President JD Vance would run for office and then pass the role to Trump. Trump responded that “that’s one” method.
“But there are others too,” Trump added.
Asked to share another method, Trump simply responded “no.” Military coup d'état?
Amending the Constitution to abolish the two-term limit would be exceedingly difficult, requiring either a two-thirds vote of Congress or two-thirds of the states agreeing to call a constitutional convention to propose changes. Either route would then require ratification from three-quarters of the states.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-third-term-white-h
ouse-methods-rcna198752
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DOGE and the Deficit
By Jonathan Chait | March 28, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/doge-deficit-trump-e
lon/682227/
Elon Musk has promised he would eliminate the nearly $2 trillion budget deficit in year one. Last night on Fox, he predicted he would get halfway there by the end of May. His critics have insisted that his goal is unrealistic, and that he won’t accomplish nearly as much deficit reduction as he claims.
The critics are understating the case. DOGE won’t just fall short of Musk’s deficit-reduction goals. It will, in all probability, increase the deficit. Probably by a lot.
Begin on the savings side. Despite wreaking massive havoc, Musk has accomplished little in terms of saving money for the government. Many of the impressive-sounding budget savings DOGE has posted, in a gesture of putative transparency, have turned out to be fake. And when the people in charge of the enterprise are relying on comical errors, such as taking credit for programs eliminated years ago and confusing million with billion, one should rightly question their basic competence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/upshot/doge-spending-cuts-changed.h
tml
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/us/politics/doge-musk-contracts-wal
l.html
Budget experts have had trouble verifying the actual savings, but they appear to be below the level of a rounding error. Jessica Riedl, a budget expert at the Manhattan Institute, recently estimated the savings so far at about $2 billion, or one-tenth of 1 percent of Musk’s original goal. Prediction markets, which less than two months ago expected DOGE to cut $300 billion in spending in the first year, are even more pessimistic than Riedl: They now expect a grand total of $1 billion in savings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/upshot/doge-musk-trump-errors.html
https://kalshi.com/markets/kxgovtcuts/government-budget-cuts
But those are just gross savings. Some of Musk’s haphazard cuts will produce tiny savings in terms of salary while forfeiting much larger ones down the road, costing the government money. One small example: Musk fired the technician who had been servicing the HVAC systems at a Veterans Affairs complex in Illinois. You can save money on upkeep in the short run, but eventually, the systems will break, and replacing them will cost a lot more money (unless DOGE is willing to let the government’s physical assets deteriorate to worthlessness).
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/mar/23/they-were-fired-in-the-n
ame-of-efficiency-based-on/
The largest cost, by far, will come from Musk’s meddling with the IRS. DOGE has moved to fire nearly 20,000 employees in the agency, kneecapping the government’s ability to collect taxes. Worse, by advertising the change, it has alerted tax cheats that they face precious little chance of an audit. The IRS released a preliminary survey showing that it expects revenue to fall 10 percent, or $500 billion, short of expected levels. That would obviously be many, many times larger than the projected savings.
https://archive.ph/nMSAC#selection-509.0-513.81
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/22/irs-tax-revenue-los
s-federal-budget/
It’s certainly possible that the revenue shortfall will be less than $500 billion, or that the ultimate budget savings will be higher than $1 billion to $2 billion. But the prospect that the effect will net out a savings for the government is almost nil. Critics have been quibbling with the level of alleged fiscal savings when they should have been questioning the sign—whether it is a plus or a minus for the size of the deficit. “Unequivocally, they have the sign wrong,” Natasha Sarin, of the Budget Lab at Yale, told me. “The question is, how badly off are they?”
The failure of the enterprise was preordained. There isn’t anything close to $1 trillion in waste, fraud, and abuse in the budget, despite Musk’s repeated statements to the contrary. (“The government is not efficient, and there is a lot of waste and fraud, so we feel confident that a 15 percent
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