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Daily Beast: Trump DOJ Flips Off SCOTUS in Brazen Update on Deported Dad

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A senior department official stated that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained under the sovereign authority of El Salvador.

The Trump administration is continuing to seemingly do everything it can to avoid securing the safe return of 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month due to an “administrative error”.

After declining to provide any information on how it would facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. on Friday, senior State Department official Michael G. Kozak signed a declaration on Saturday swearing that while Abrego Garcia was “alive and secure” in the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, he is also “detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador.”

In addition, President Donald Trump posted a message to his Truth Social late Saturday that appears to confirm the U.S. is essentially wiping its hands of anyone deported to El Salvador. He wrote, “These barbarians are now in the sole custody of El Salvador, a proud and sovereign Nation, and their future is up to President B and his Government.”

Trump DOJ Flips Off SCOTUS in Brazen Update on Deported Dad
A senior department official stated that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained under the sovereign authority of El Salvador.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-doj-flips-off-scotus-in-brazen-update-on-deported-dad

UK Independent: Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane’

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Some fund managers concerned ‘that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear that this may not even be ideology’

As President Donald Trump’s back-and-forth on trade policies creates chaos in the financial markets, some fund managers are questioning the rationality of his decisions.

“In the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers,” Tom Lee, the head of research at the financial analysis firm FSInsights, wrote on Wednesday morning, before Trump backed down from most of his tariffs on U.S. trading partners.

“And their concern is that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear that this may not even be ideology,” he added. “A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”

Insane? Ideological? Or simply suffering a severe case of dementia?

You decide!

Fund managers worry about Trump’s mental state amid tariff debacle
Some fund managers concerned ‘that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear that this may not even be ideology’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-fund-managers-tariffs-b2730989.html

New York Times: U.S. Military Removes Commander of Greenland Base After Vance Visit

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Although the military did not say why the colonel had been dismissed, it said it would not tolerate any subversion of President Trump’s agenda.

The U.S. military announced on Thursday that it had removed the commander of its Pituffik base in Greenland, adding that it would not tolerate any actions that go against President Trump’s agenda.

The decision to remove Col. Susannah Meyers was announced in a statement by the U.S. Space Force that was posted on social media by Sean Parnell, the chief spokesman for the Pentagon.

While the statement didn’t cite a specific reason for her removal, Mr. Parnell said that “actions to undermine the chain of command or to subvert President Trump’s agenda will not be tolerated.”

What happened was that J.D. Dunce made insulting comments with regard to Denmark, of which Greenland is part, during his recent visit. After his departure, the commander apologized for the buffoon’s remarks.

Also noteworthy was that Dunce’s visit was limited to the military base, because not a single Greenlander wanted to be see with the Dunces.

https://archive.is/dVfEM

New York Times: Inside Trump’s Plan to ‘Get’ Greenland: Persuasion, Not Invasion

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The island’s population might not be easily convinced as the president tries to clinch one of history’s greatest real estate deals.

Mr. Trump’s advisers have already begun making their public case, arguing that Denmark has been a poor custodian of the island, that only the United States can protect it from encroachment by Russia and China, and that America will help Greenlanders “get rich,” as Mr. Trump has put it.

Given how King Donald has trashed our own economy the past 2.5 months, Greenlanders would be nuts to wish the same upon themselves.

The Trump administration is also studying financial incentives for Greenlanders, including the possibility of replacing the $600 million in subsidies that Denmark gives the island with an annual payment of about $10,000 per Greenlander.

Denmark provides them with a comprehensive health care system. Why would they trust the bozo who plans to destroy Medicaid?

Some Trump officials believe those costs could be offset by new revenue from the extraction of Greenland’s natural resources, which include rare earth minerals, copper, gold, uranium and oil.

Trump officials argue that American capital and industrial might can gain access to the island’s largely untapped mineral wealth in a way that Denmark cannot. “This is about critical minerals,” Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Waltz, told Fox News in January. “This is about natural resources.”

Those natural resource belong to the people of Greenland, not to Trump and his billionaire cronies. Only the people of Greenland can decide their future and how to share the wealth, if they even choose to share it.

Trump is drooling over a land that isn’t his and never will be.

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NBC News: Pete Hegseth senior adviser is pushing for Pentagon to cut ties with Scouting America

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Critics like the adviser, a former Fox News producer, say the group formerly known as the Boy Scouts is too “woke.” No decision has been made.

What an ignorant ass! Boy Scouts are a public corporation established by an act of Congress — 36 USC Ch. 309: BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA. If you don’t like it, you can either suck it up or go stick your head in the sand somewhere.

Pete Hegseth senior adviser is pushing for Pentagon to cut ties with Scouting America
Critics like the adviser, a former Fox News producer, say the group formerly known as the Boy Scouts is too “woke.” No decision has been made.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pete-hegseth-senior-adviser-pushing-pentagon-cut-ties-scouting-america-rcna200141

New York Times: Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers

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By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.

People who have been here LEGALLY may soon discover that they are “dead”.

Since taking office, the Trump administration has moved aggressively to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were allowed into the country under President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Now, the administration is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants and others who had legal status to “self-deport” by effectively canceling the Social Security numbers they had lawfully obtained, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times and interviews with six people familiar with the plans.

The goal is to cut those people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts and credit cards, along with their access to government benefits.

The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/migrants-deport-social-security-doge.html

US Mirror: Major EU nation turns to China as new plan with Beijing emerging to counter Trump tariffs

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Who needs the U.S.? If push comes to shove, the rest of the world will just pass us by.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez made his way to Asia for a diplomatic trip in a recent push considering options away from the United States after President Donald Trump’s tariffs on the European Union went into effect.

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Sánchez landed in Hanoi, Vietnam on Wednesday, where he will meet To Lam. On Thursday, he will meet top business leaders to replenish commercial ties between Vietnam and Spain.

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Sánchez is then scheduled to head over to China on Friday to meet President Xi Jinping and other Chinese investors, marking his third visit in two years.

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Sánchez is the first EU leader to strengthen ties with China in a move that could encourage the rest of Europe to follow suit.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/major-eu-nation-turns-to-china-as-new-plan-with-beijing-emerging-to-counter-trump-tariffs/ar-AA1CAEnW

Newsweek: JP Morgan CEO Warns Businesses Are Going to Default on Loans

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As financial markets reel from a new round of tariffs and bond sell-offs, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon issued a stark warning that credit problems are mounting and corporate loan defaults may soon follow.

In an interview with Fox Business on Wednesday, Dimon said rising interest rates, sticky inflation, and widening credit spreads are setting the stage for a wave of financial strain among U.S. companies.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/jp-morgan-ceo-warns-businesses-are-going-to-default-on-loans/ar-AA1CChvT

Raw Story: ‘Blatantly lying’: Economists whack Trump official’s attempt to blame Biden for turmoil

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Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan, took a far less measured approach to objecting to Bessent’s statement and simply said, “Transparently lying won’t calm markets, businesses, or consumers.”

Non-economists also piled on Bessent’s attempts to blame Biden.

“Lying in such a cartoonishly obvious way comes across as extremely stupid hard to believe he’s this bad at public advocacy for the administration he serves,” observed journalist John Harwood.

“Scott Bessent essentially resorting to ‘I know you are but what am I?'” wrote progressive commentator Matthew Sheffield. “This guy is a total clown.”

Writing on BlueSky, the Daily Kos’s Oliver Willis posted a simple chart showing a boom in manufacturing construction that occurred during Biden’s presidency and said sarcatically, “Look at how hard manufacturing was hit under socialist Sleepy Joe.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/after-tariffs-french-business-lobby-says-it-got-it-wrong-on-trump/ar-AA1CAaFT