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News: Germany now funding European satellite internet alternative to Starlink for Ukraine.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/germany-funds-eutelsat-internet-ukraine-musk-tensions-rise-2025-04-04/

News: Sen. Blumenthal to place holds on all future nominees

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/germany-funds-eutelsat-internet-ukraine-musk-tensions-rise-2025-04-04/

AXIOS Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-
Conn.) told us today he plans to
place holds on all Trump nominees
going forward. Blumenthal sits on
four committees — Judiciary,
Homeland Security, Armed
Services and Veterans' Affairs —
which oversee a wide range of
administration officials.

Did you know there were massive protests across the nation this weekend?

Not if you rely on AG Sulzberger's New York Times and Jeff Bezos' Washington Post for your news.

@wdlindsy has a great thread up today on how mainstream media is minimizing the story:

Starts here >>> https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/114297466170272607

Video Clip: And more on the Trump Tariffs from economist Justin Wolfers

"These tariffs are going to change your life in fundamental ways...Every part of our lives is profoundly integrated with the global economy... We are going to have to shift what we buy... shift what we can afford."

Video Clip: More on the Trump Tariffs From economist Justin Wolfers

"The risks of this tariff war are incredibly asymmetric. If we "win" perhaps we can convince Vietnam to eliminate its tariffs, but that only reduces them from 1.1% to 0%. While we wait, China is retaliating with a 34% tariff... We stand to win very little, but lose a lot."

Video Clip: Economist Justin Wolfers on the Trump Tariffs

"This is Wall Street screaming at the White House: If this is help, we don't want your help. Please stop now."

[These #MP4 videos clips can be downloaded and shared to other social media platforms]

UPDATE: HANDS OFF CROWD SIZE NOW ESTIMATED AT...

🔥 OVER 5 MILLION 🔥

"West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it."

News: Hands Off Crowd Estimated At 2.3 Million By Alt National Parks

"Wow! Updated estimates now put turnout at 2.3 million — and we're still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you're free, come out and join us. Over 1,400 events are planned across the country. People often ask what a coalition of 200,000 can do. The answer's simple — with all our free time (since a lot of us got fired), we're out here causing a lot of good trouble."

Video Clip: Sen Chris Murphy on Tariffs

"It's not economic policy. It's not trade policy. It's a political weapon designed to collapse our democracy."

"The tariffs are another tool for President Trump to try to compel pledges of political loyalty..."

@Daojoan

☝️ Leave it to one of the best writers on social media JA Westenberg to sum things up...

"If you had told me a decade ago that a former president would waltz back into the White House, torch the global economy, slap double-digit tariffs on damn near everything, spook the markets into evaporating over three trillion dollars in a single day, and call it a "booming economy" with a straight face—I would've thought it a particularly cruel and poorly conceived joke

But here we are."

Congress Has Complete Power To Stop These Tariffs

☝️ The most important point being made by any pundit today is by Josh Marshall:

"Presidents have no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever... The Republican Congress could bring this absurd gambit to a halt tonight. So it’s all on them, every one of them individually."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/two-thoughts-on-trumps-inferno-tariffs

This is on every one of them individually.

Video Clip: Sen. Cory Booker Filibuster Concludes - Let's Get In Good Trouble

Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏

h/t Aaron Rupar on Threads

[Note: These #MP4 video clips can be downloaded and shared on other social media platforms.]

LIVE VIDEO: SEN. CORY BOOKER FILIBUSTER - RIGHT NOW!

"As long as I am physically able. Because our nation is in crisis."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE

"Cory Booker (D-NJ) has taken the Senate floor and is speaking as long as he is physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the administration have shown a complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, and the needs of the American people."

Video: Tim Walz Holds a Town Hall in Houston Texas 3/30/2025

Beto O’Rourke joins Walz in wide ranging town hall and calls for Chuck Schumer to step down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZck0HxFsGI

O'Rourke 1:06:16: [Schumer] told us he was going to fight this thing and stick with Democrats. Every single Democrat in the house except for one stood together... Chuck Schumer said he was going to stick with them and then for for some reason he capitulates he caves and and he surrenders...

WELKER: Do you believe that Ratcliffe and Gabbard were truthful when they testified before your committee?

BENNET: No. I think they lied repeatedly to our committee and to the House committee... This is why the American people... are so deeply concerned, not just by what happened, but about the lies they were told about what happened.

h/t Aaron Rupar via Theads

Conservative Republican congressman Mike Flood of Columbus Nebraska held a town hall. It did not go well. Rep. Flood was heckled consistently after every answer. In one case a constituent standing up and saying "shame" and attendees raining down boos.

https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/rep-mike-flood-holds-town-hall-meeting/657332

Question on:

Social Security: 12:40
Canada 32:20
DOGE 57:56
Rural Hospitals Closing: 1:05:55
Supporting Sexual Harasser 1:21:00

Video Clip: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

“The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperations is over."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgjybooP-pA

Video: Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) HRC Dinner 3/22

"I've always embraced the norms and rules of decorum... even when the other side of the aisle was periodically tossing those norms... I hoped that some part of Donald Trump's cruel nature would bow to two and a half centuries of tradition for 10 years ever since Donald Trump descended that ridiculous gold escalator... [but] the response to authoritarianism isn't acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing and one thing only. A punch in the face"

Video: Fighting Oligarchy - Tucson AZ with AOC, Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar 3/22

"If there was ever a time in the modern history of this country where people have got to stand up and fight back, this is the moment."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeLI1YI6ghQ

Offset links:
Casar 22:40 https://www.youtube.com/live/zeLI1YI6ghQ?si=nVZeQcKM2v_Julvb&t=1360
AOC 35:54 https://www.youtube.com/live/zeLI1YI6ghQ?si=jaTT76tsG7QEot_x&t=2154
Sanders 1:06:16 https://www.youtube.com/live/zeLI1YI6ghQ?si=tR-X5n-b2TVD80N4&t=3976

Crowd total reported to be 23,000!

#FightingOligarchy