Liveblog - ICYMI: April 18, 2025

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 MAGAt infested shithole.


Updates:

US Senator Van Hollen has been able to successfully meet with Kilmer Abrego Garcia.

Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) 2025-04-18T01:32:11.078Z

Class vs. Ass:

The way they are exploiting this woman’s suffering to try to justify sending a random guy to an El Salvadoran gulag is truly sick

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-04-18T05:26:16.684Z

Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador: “Now that he's been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador's custody.”

Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) 2025-04-18T01:27:52.621Z

Gun violence is not inevitable. It’s a policy choice. We’ve passed real reform in MI. Legislation that would require firearms be safely secured so kids can’t get a hold of their parent’s guns.We can do it on the federal level. We just need the will.

Mallory McMorrow (@mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social) 2025-04-17T22:02:55.950Z

Economy:

NEWS: Mack Trucks has announced layoffs at Lehigh Valley, PA plant, due to Trump's tariffs.

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-04-18T18:40:31.711Z

The Fascist Felon, Elmo, DOGEbags, and their Brownshirts:

Asylum-seeker sent to Salvadoran mega-prison over autism awareness tattoo, family says

The tattoo is a rainbow-colored ribbon made up of puzzle pieces, along with the name of the man’s autistic brother, according to NBC Dallas Fort-Worth.

Family and friends of a Venezuelan migrant living in Texas say officials sent him to an El Salvador mega-prison because he had an autism awareness tattoo.

Neri Jose Alvarado Borges was one of the hundreds of men deported by immigration authorities on March 15 to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, one of the most dangerous prisons in the world, his friends and family told NBC Dallas Fort Worth on Monday.

Borges has a tattoo that features a rainbow-colored ribbon composed of puzzle pieces, a symbol for autism awareness, along with the name of Borges’s autistic brother, according to the local outlet.

The Trump regime has declared that Human Rights are void and that you are not entitled to them. www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n…

Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) 2025-04-18T18:02:53.984Z

Even Mussolina Meroni Finds TFF Repulsive:

When you have to spend a day with Trump

Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) 2025-04-18T16:35:33.729Z

“I’ll end the war on Day One!”

Marco Rubio pre announcing US defeat on the Ukraine and Russia war

Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) 2025-04-18T16:26:47.890Z

Giving up and losing seems to be one thing that he had lots of experience with and is good at.

(@scorpio1945.bsky.social) 2025-04-18T17:50:58.927Z

Fact check: Trump falsely claims grocery prices are down

President Donald Trump has falsely claimed this week that grocery prices are “going down” and “are down.” In fact, grocery prices have continued to rise under Trump – and they were up even before he imposed near-global 10% tariffs earlier this month.

Trump made the latest version of the false claim while denouncing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday. Powell had warned in Wednesday public remarks that Trump’s tariff policies are likely to lead to slower economic growth and higher inflation.

Trump wrote on social media Thursday that Powell should have lowered interest rates “long ago” and should do so now, as the European Central Bank did again on Thursday.
Trump’s argument: “Oil prices are down, groceries (even eggs!) are down, and the USA is getting RICH ON TARIFFS.” He had similarly claimed on social media on Tuesday that the US is taking in hefty tariff revenue “with the cost of almost all products going down, including gasoline, groceries, and just about everything else.”

The Worst Garbage in the World:

Did you do this, Joe?

The people who want to shutdown the Department of Education. 👇

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) 2025-04-18T13:24:54.370Z
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