Below, you will find some headlines we may have missed and some interesting video clips on several subjects. Please feel free to share anything you may have run across; just make sure it’s not from a McMAGAt infested shithole.
Updates:
The Fascist Felon’s Stupid Tariffs:
Stellantis to temporarily lay off 900 US workers as tariffs bite
- Stellantis pauses production in Mexico and Canada due to tariffs
- Automakers face 25% import tax on imported autos
- UAW criticizes Stellantis for unnecessary layoffs
- Stellantis shares fall nearly 8% in New York
Senate rebukes Trump’s tariffs on Canada
The Senate voted to undo the 25 percent tariffs that President Trump imposed on Canadian goods — a bipartisan but largely symbolic rebuke, with four Republicans joining all Senate Democrats.
The action on a joint resolution came shortly after President Trump announced a 10 percent tariff on all imports coming into the United States.
The resolution is nonbinding and House Republicans are not expected to bring the policy up for a vote. The bill aims to end an emergency statute invoked by an Executive Order signed by President Trump. The order justified the new tariff by arguing that fentanyl is flowing into the U.S. from the northern border, posing a domestic national emergency.
Economy
Layoff announcements surge to the most since the pandemic as Musk’s DOGE slices federal labor force
- Furloughs in the federal government totaled 216,215 for March, part of a total 275,240 reductions overall in the labor force, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
- The monthly total was surpassed only by April and May of 2020 in the early days of the pandemic when employers announced combined reductions of more than 1 million.
March’s total is the third-highest monthly total ever recorded. The highest monthly total occurred in April 2020 when 671,129 cuts were recorded, followed by May 2020 with 397,016. It is the highest total for the month of March on record, since Challenger began reporting on job cut plans in 1989.
So far this year, employers have announced 497,052, the highest year-to-date and quarterly total since Q1 2009, when 578,510 job cuts were announced. It is up 93% from the 257,254 cuts announced during the same period in 2024 and an increase of 227% from the 152,116 cuts announced in the previous quarter. (Table 5)
Which Industries are Cutting the Most?
- Government & DOGE
- Technology
- Retail
- Consumer & Automotive
- Financial
- Media & News Cuts
Elections:
The Fascist Felon, Elmo, DOGEbags, and their Brownshirts:
President Donald Trump fired at least one National Security Council official this week after far-right activist Laura Loomer met with the president and expressed dissatisfaction with some officials on his national security team, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.
Brian Walsh, a director for intelligence on the National Security Council, was let go, the sources said. Walsh previously served as a top aide to Marco Rubio, when he was a senator, on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Loomer met with Trump in the Oval Office Wednesday afternoon in a meeting attended by Vice President JD Vance and national security adviser Mike Waltz, two sources familiar with the meeting told NBC News.
Craven Assholes:
Prosecutors drop charge against man who Rep. Nancy Mace claimed ‘physically accosted’ her
Prosecutors have dropped a charge against a man who Republican Rep. Nancy Mace claimed “physically accosted” her in December, according to recent court filings.
In December, police charged James McIntyre of Illinois with one misdemeanor charge of simple assault. He pleaded not guilty and was released at the time with a “stay away” order.
It’s unclear why the charge was dismissed.
McIntyre said he was “pleased but not surprised” the charge was dropped and called the experience “traumatic” in a statement issued through Illinois state Rep. Kelly Cassidy.
“By falsely accusing me of a violent crime and having me jailed, Congresswoman Mace demonstrated her desire to criminalize anyone who advocates for the needs of our trans youth,” his statement reads.
