Notices by Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)

“ #Trump sued over #China tariffs

The suit was brought by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a conservative legal advocacy group, on behalf of Simplified, a Florida-based small business that sells planners and purchases products from China.

Filed in federal court in Pensacola, Fla., the suit asks a judge to declare Trump’s Chinese tariffs unlawful and block their implementation”

https://thehill.com/homenews/5231388-trump-sued-over-china-tariffs/

GAAA!

Via Anna Bower:

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen

It’s almost as if #USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world

It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

Exclusive: Republicans are debating boosting the top tax rate to as high as 40% for those earning $1 million or more
- Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/republicans-debate-hiking-top-tax-rate-to-40-for-millionaires

THUD.

Dow drops nearly 1,680 in biggest wipeout since 2020

The S&P 500 sank 4.8%, the biggest one-day drop since 2020, after Trump's tariff announcement

#TrumpCrash #TrumpTax #tariffs

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-4-3-2025#00000195-fd40-d081-a3ff-ff48f6c50000

“ #Canada slaps matching 25% tariff on U.S.-made vehicles in latest response to #Trump ’s trade war” #TrumpTax #tariffs #ElbowsUp

https://www.cbc.ca/9.6709935

Repercussions

Via Brian Tyler Cohen:

Whirlpool announces they are laying off 651 American workers in Iowa, citing the economic conditions under #Trump.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2025/04/01/whirlpool-layoffs-amana-iowa-plant-losing-one-third-of-workforce/82757127007/

If Will Bunch wrote it, you should read it.©

" #CoryBooker's naysayers - "well, actually not a filibuster," what does this do? - were long gone after 25 hours, 350 million TikTok likes, and the erasure of a segregationist

The real power of his message: Just do something! Saturday is YOUR chance"

#HandsOff

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/cory-booker-speech-democrats-protests-20250403.html

Rupar notes: “ #Trump is now making personnel decisions based on recommendations from Laura Loomer”

White House fires three NSC staffers after president meets with far-right activist Laura Loomer | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/politics/nsc-firings-trump-laura-loomer-meeting/index.html

“Roughly $1.7 trillion is set to be erased from the S&P 500 Index when trading opens Thursday amid worries that #Trump’s sweeping new round of #tariffs could plunge the economy into a recession” #TrumpTax #TrumpCrash
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/trump-tariffs-set-to-zap-nearly-2-trillion-from-us-stock-market?sref=xuVirdpv?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=business

“More than 275,000 layoffs were announced last month, reaching a level not seen since the pandemic

Biggest culprit was one particular employer: The federal govt

..plans to axe 216,215 jobs, accounting for nearly 80% of the 275,240 layoffs announcements made by US employers in March…3rd-highest monthly total behind April 2020 (671,129) and May 2020 (397,016).”

https://thereport.be/article/?app=breaking&u=https%3A%2F%2Fcnn.it%2F42fHaKe

9/ The tariffs aren’t economic policy. They are political weapons.

But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs.

The people still have the power.

8/ And once Trump has the lawyers, colleges and industry under his thumb, it becomes very hard for the opposition to have any viable space to maneuver.

Trump didn’t invent this strategy. It’s the playbook for democratically elected leaders who want to stay in power forever.

🧵via Chris Murphy, in part:

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the #tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition #Trump for relief. #TrumpTax

1/…

It won’t help🙄

“New York Mayor #EricAdams is ditching the Democratic primary and plans to run for reelection as an independent.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/03/eric-adams-reelection-independent-00267865

“Exclusive: In the early weeks of #Trump’s second term, the White House highlighted 72 people ICE had arrested.

A Post analysis reveals that at least 36, or half, were already in prison.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/interactive/2025/trump-ice-arrests-prison-immigrants/

Via Anthony Michael Kreis:

#Trump: We can’t import antibiotics because it threatens national security.

Trump Administration: We will eliminate our entire federal public health research and disease monitoring infrastructure and destroy the FDA.

The stupidity is maddening.

Via Angry Staffer:

I was thinking that none of those numbers made sense, but holy fuck this is insane

#TrumpTax #tariffs

Via News Eye:

Bad enough that #Trump dismantled #USAID & crippled the support that would have been sent to #Myanmar after its earthquake.

His administration has just slapped a 44% tariff on Myanmar.

Depraved.

2/ Via @jeffjarvis

After-hours trading new. The market knows that the Trump recession is here. It is entirely his fault. Entirely.

✔️ #AmericanExceptionalism

Via NYCSouthpaw:

So the basic proposal, if I’m following correctly, is to wrench the whole American consumer economy back to Gilded Age protectionism by means of Executive fiat, right now, tonight, while Congress tries to relieve the tax burden on some rich people but everyone else goes on paying income taxes too.

#TrumpTax #tariffs