Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Congress Is Looking at Medicaid—What to Know
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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I’ve read many “news analyses” discussing what they say is the deep thinking behind Donald Trump’s tariff policy. Now, thanks to the Wall Street Journal, we have a scoop on how Trump, having announced a radical tariff plan on April 2, replaced it with an equally radical but completely different plan on April 9:
Quote:When I read the headline I assumed that Bessent and Lutnick had pushed for a total revision of Trump’s trade policy while Navarro was out of town for a few days. But no. They rushed in to see Trump while Navarro was having a meeting elsewhere in the White House.
Trump Advisers Took Advantage of Navarro’s Absence to Push for Tariff Pause
Peter Navarro, an adviser to Trump in favor of wide-ranging tariffs, had been a fixture on the president's side after 'Liberation Day'
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tariff-pause-navarro-bessent
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Like Turkey’s Erdogan, Trump has embraced crank economic doctrines to justify his policies, in Trump’s case the ludicrous claim that tariffs won’t raise consumer prices. Does anyone doubt that when inflation rises, he’ll dismiss it as “fake news”? A few hours later:
https://bsky.app/profile/thebulwark.bsky.social/post/3ln46ymsdqe2p
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Trump Worker Reportedly Sent Harvard Letter by Mistake
Published Apr 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/sean-keveney-donald-trump-harvard-letter-2061
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Sean Keveney, the acting general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services, reportedly sent the list of demands that prompted Harvard to openly defy the Trump administration.
In response, the Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in the college's federal grants, with Trump threatening to abolish the college's tax-exempt status for supporting "political, ideological, and terrorist inspired sickness."
Harvard President Alan Garber said in an open letter on Monday: "The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."
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Trump Worker Reportedly Sent Harvard Letter by Mistake
Published Apr 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/sean-keveney-donald-trump-harvard-letter-2061
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Sean Keveney, the acting general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services, reportedly sent the list of demands that prompted Harvard to openly defy the Trump administration.
In response, the Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in the college's federal grants, with Trump threatening to abolish the college's tax-exempt status for supporting "political, ideological, and terrorist inspired sickness."
Harvard President Alan Garber said in an open letter on Monday: "The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."
I'm glad you agree that schools should be able to teach what they want to teach. That's the exact opposite of what has happened the last 50 years because of the Department of Education that no longer exists.
As for you...
You are constitutionally free to teach whatever the hell it is you want to teach and whoever it is you want to teach it to.
Just not on our dime anymore.
Good luck. You'll need it.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:Does the Department of Education control curriculum? No. Curriculum decisions are made at the state and local levels. So, where did you get the idea it did, 6ix?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm glad you agree that schools should be able to teach what they want to teach. That's the exact opposite of what has happened the last 50 years because of the Department of Education that no longer exists.
https://www.google.com/search?q=does+department+of+education+control+c
urriculum
State and Local Responsibility:
Education in the U.S. is primarily a state and local responsibility. States and local school districts are responsible for establishing schools, developing curricula, and setting requirements for enrollment and graduation.
Federal Role:
The Department of Education's role is primarily to support states and local districts in achieving their education goals. This includes providing funding, collecting and analyzing data, and identifying best practices.
No Federal Control over Curriculum:
While the federal government has a role in education, it does not dictate the specific content of what is taught in schools. States and local districts have the authority to determine what students learn.
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The Next Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After
By Timothy Snyder | Apr 19, 2025
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-terrorist-attack
As I will try to show, the present government invites a terror attack. Most of the people directing the relevant agencies are incompetent; the next few layers down have been purged in culture wars; much the remaining personnel have resigned, been fired, or are demoralized; resources have been diverted away from terror prevention; Americans has been distracted by fiction and chaos; and potential attackers have been encouraged.
And so we have to think — now — about what would follow such an attack. Musk, Trump, Vance, and the rest would try to exploit the moment to undo remaining American freedoms. Let me cite Lesson 18 of On Tyranny.
18. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it.
In just three months, the Trump people have made the unthinkable much more likely. They have created the conditions for terrorism, and thus for terror management. This is true at several levels.
Most obviously, they have debilitated the services that detect terrorist threats and prevent attacks: the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the National Security Agency (NSA). The CIA is a foreign intelligence service. The FBI is the federal police force. The NSA, which specializes in cryptography and foreign signals intelligence, is part of the Department of Defense. Homeland Security is a cabinet-level department that amalgamates a number of functions from immigration control through disaster relief and anti-terrorism.
Overall guidance over the intelligence agencies is exercised by Tulsi Gabbard, who is known as an apologist for the now-overthrown Assad regime in Syria and the Putin regime in Russia. The director of the FBI is Kash Patel, an author of children's books that promote conspiracy theories, and a recipient of payments from sources linked to Russia. Patel plans to run the agency from Las Vegas, where he resides in the home of a Republican megadonor. The deputy director of the FBI is Dan Bongino, a right-wing entertainer who has called the FBI "irredeemable corrupt" and indulged in conspiracy theories about its special agents. He now draws FBI special agents away from their usual duties to serve as a personal bodyguard. The director of Homeland Security is Kristi Noem, who lacks relevant expertise.
Noem has distinguished herself by posing in front of a cell full of prisoners in El Salvador. Homeland Security is focused on spectacular abductions at the expense of its other missions. Its programs to prevent terrorism have been defunded, and it is no longer keeping up its database on domestic terrorism. As one insider put it: “The vibe is: How to use DHS to go after migrants, immigrants. That is the vibe, that is the only vibe, there is no other vibe. It’s wild — it’s as if the rest of the department doesn’t exist.” The obsession with migrants means that local law enforcement, all across the country, is being in effect federalized in the service of an objective that is essentially irrelevant to core missions. That, too, makes life easier for aspiring terrorists.
The National Security Agency sits within the Department of Defense, which is run by Pete Hegseth, a right-wing entertainer and culture warrior. He has fired people who were qualified, and is unable to keep even his own people at work — he just lost four staffers in one day. The “meltdown” at the top of the Pentagon bodes ill.
The leadership of the NSA itself was recently changed, under bizarre and troubling circumstances. After a meeti
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Since its peak in mid-January the greenback has fallen by over 9% against a basket of major currencies. Two-fifths of that fall has happened since April 1st, even as the yield on ten-year Treasuries has crept up by 0.2 percentage points. That mix of rising yields and a falling currency is a warning sign: if investors are fleeing even though returns are up, it must be because they think America has become more risky.
A currency is only as good as the government that backs it.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/04/16/how-a-dollar-crisis-would
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Rumours are rife that big foreign asset managers are dumping greenbacks.
For decades investors have counted on the stability of American assets, making them the keystones of global finance. The depth of a $27trn market helps make Treasuries a haven; the dollar dominates trade in everything from goods and commodities to derivatives. The system is buttressed by the Federal Reserve, which promises low inflation, and by America’s sturdy governance, under which foreigners and their money have been welcome and secure. In just a few weeks President Donald Trump has replaced these ironclad assumptions with stomach-churning doubts.
This crisis-in-the-making was created in the White House. Mr Trump’s reckless trade war has raised tariffs by roughly a factor of ten and created economic uncertainty. Once the envy of the world, America’s economy is now courting recession, as tariffs rupture supply chains, boost inflation and punish consumers.
What makes this economic downturn and the loss of fiscal discipline so explosive is the fact that markets are starting to doubt whether Mr Trump can govern America competently or consistently. The shambolic, incoherent way the tariffs were calculated, unveiled and delayed was a mockery of policymaking. On-again, off-again exemptions and sectoral tariffs promote lobbying. For decades America has carefully signalled its dedication to a strong dollar. Today some White House advisers are talking about the reserve currency as if it were a burden to be shared—using coercion if necessary.
As America dithered, the shock could spread from Treasuries to the rest of the financial system, bringing defaults and hedge-fund blow-ups. That is the sort of behaviour you would expect in an emerging market.
A currency is only as good as the government that backs it. The longer America’s political system fails to grapple with its deficits or flirts with chaotic or discriminatory rules, the more likely will be a once-in-a-generation upheaval that pushes the global financial system into the unknown. Wherever things settled, the greenback’s diminished role would be a tragedy for America.
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/04/18/the-risk-of-a-dollar-crisi
s-a-currency-is-only-as-good-as-the-government-that-backs-it/
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The Supreme Court’s Late-Night Rebuke to Trump Is Extraordinary in More Ways Than One
The court didn’t even wait to let Alito write his dissent.
By Mark Joseph Stern | April 19, 2025 2:07 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/supreme-court-blocks-depor
tations-donald-trump-alito-dissent.html
Shortly before 1 AM on Saturday, the Supreme Court issued an emergency order halting the Trump administration’s reported efforts to fly Venezuelan migrants to an El Salvador prison before they could challenge their deportation.
A majority of justices signaled that they no longer trust the administration to comply with the law, including the court’s own rulings. We are likely careening toward a head-on conflict between the president and the court, with foundational principles of constitutional democracy hanging in the balance.
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