its verging upon amazing how much the democrats want to do all they can to destroy the orange man; 

The President of the United States, representing the executive branch, takes aggressive emergency action on tariffs and trade to protect American fiscal sovereignty and solvency.  Both chambers of the U.S. congress, the house and senate representing the Legislative branch, affirm the action through legislative support.  Yet, a single court in the judicial branch intervenes on behalf of multinational corporate interests to block trade policy.

That is the framework of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s main point in a discussion with Fox News Bret Baier...........more............

 larry johnson asks if there is a deal with hamas;

Lots of confusion surrounding the issue of a possible cease-fire deal between Hamas and Israel.

According to the NY Post, Hamas has not accepted the proposal negotiated by Steve Witkoff:

The US has extended a cease-fire deal to Hamas with Israel’s approval Thursday after two previous attempts by President Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to broker agreements fell through — but the terror group said the proposal does not meet its demands.

The sides were closing in on an agreement after the envoy’s latest intense negotiations to initiate a cease-fire, a US official with knowledge of the discussions told CNN, adding that Witkoff did not directly meet with Hamas.

But Israeli media is reporting that President Trump is poised to announce the ceasefire.

Details about the structure of the deal is reported by the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz:

1. Duration: 60-day cease-fire. President Trump guarantees Israel’s adherence to the cease-fire during the agreed-upon period.

2. Release of Hostages: 10 Israeli live hostages and 18 deceased hostages, from the “list of 58” to be released on days 1 and 7 – half of the living and deceased hostages (5 living and 9 deceased) will be released on day 1 of the agreement. The remaining half of the hostages (5 living and 9 deceased) will be released on day 7............more........

 surprising, and significant if it continues to spread, but no real impact if only a few;

Two significant US campus divestment victories were hard-won by students and community activists in San Francisco, California, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

On 19 April, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate Student Union democratically adopted a resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the MIT community to cut all research and financial ties with the Israeli military.

According to the MIT Coalition for Palestine, along with BDS Boston, the Industrial Liaison Program of MIT officially cut its ties with Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.

After a sustained six-month campaign against the program, which included disrupting the liaison program’s conferences both in the US and in three countries in Asia, the coalition says that it sets the stage for future wins against Elbit and the Israeli military complex in the US and around the world.

Richard Solomon, an MIT doctoral student in political science and a member of the MIT coalition for Palestine, tells The Electronic Intifada Podcast that though the campaign against Israel’s technological relationship with MIT has been active for some time, the student and the community has accelerated their mobilization strategies.

“We don’t just send polite emails,” Solomon says.

“We show up to the office, we picket outside. We make the staff feel uncomfortable. We went to the MIT Museum, which is a public place tourists go, and we would have rallies there. We had waves of phone calls to the office. We went there several times. We know that Elbit itself has become a toxic asset globally.”

Solomon explains that though the university won’t admit it, the divestment was due to public pressure and growing revulsion at the genocide in Gaza.........more...........

 twenty six minutes with danny haiphong and mark sleboda speaking of the hypocrisy of the empire in the ukraine as well as current events there;

watch........

 

"All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable." -- Henry David Thoreau (1942). "Civil Disobedience"

california has destroyed itself and its middle class;

California has declared war on its middle class, and the special interests controlling the state are doing everything they can to impose this punitive economic model on the rest of America. It’s a quasi-feudal system, with the entire population divided into aristocrats and serfs. The means to destroy the middle class is to engineer an unaffordable cost of living for households, and a regulatory environment that only huge corporations can afford to navigate. The moral justification for this destruction is to cope with the “climate emergency” and to achieve social “equity.”

While the Trump interregnum has slowed the march of neo-feudalism in the rest of America, in California, the plan continues to move relentlessly forward. If you’re extremely wealthy, California’s abusive cost of living is not a big concern, and you stay for the scenic beauty and abundant sunshine. If you’re extremely poor, you stay because California’s taxpayer-funded assistance programs—financial aid, food assistance, healthcare, and other support services—offer a lifestyle orders of magnitude better than what you may have previously endured in the barrios of Tegucigalpa or the suburbios of Maputo.........more........

 

 caitlin makes many good points here about the zionist crimes;

Gaza’s youngest social media influencer has been killed by Israeli forces after touching tens of thousands of lives with her stories of survival in the besieged Palestinian territory. Her name was Yaqeen Hammad. She was 11 years old.

Israeli forces fired upon starving civilians in Gaza on Tuesday when they rushed inside a facility holding aid, reportedly killing three and wounding dozens more. The facility was operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the latest US-Israeli scheme to bypass normal UN aid distribution and lure Gaza’s population into specific concentrated locations.

A new report from the Associated Press confirms that Israeli forces have been using Palestinians as human shields in Gaza as a matter of policy. This is actually using human shields in the very real sense of deliberately forcing civilians between yourself and potential enemy fire, not in the fake sense of being somewhere near civilians as per the made-up “human shields” narrative that Israel uses to blame its daily massacres on Hamas...........more........